Chapter 441 Cross-border Selling

Faced with Dumbledore, who was somewhat out of control, Mike neither comforted nor explained, but just looked at him silently.

After about five minutes, Dumbledore took a deep breath, finally raised his head, looked at Mike with a complicated expression and said:

"I am beginning to regret handing this matter over to you."

"Why? Do you have a relationship with the Avery family?"

"It's just some insignificant little friendship." Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "I just think that your approach to handling these things is too extreme. This is not good, very bad."

"I know, I will change." Mike answered insincerely, "Then can you tell me about this pendant box now?"

Dumbledore's expression was a little helpless. He knew very well that Mike was just perfunctory to him, but in the end he still picked up the pendant box, looked at it and said:

"First of all, this is indeed the real Slytherin pendant box."

Mike's brows suddenly frowned, which was the answer he was most reluctant to hear.

"In addition, I found some residual familiar smell on it. I am sure that it is definitely the smell of Voldemort. This also shows that your guess is correct. This pendant box is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore frowned and said, "At least it used to be a Horcrux, because now the smell on it is very light, which means that someone has removed the soul of Voldemort attached to it before us, and it was done without damaging the main body of the pendant box!"

Hearing this, Mike was relieved at first, but then his expression became solemn again.

The soul on the Slytherin pendant box was removed, which is definitely good news for Mike, because it means that Harry Potter is the only Horcrux left of Voldemort.

But at the same time, Mike also smelled a conspiracy.

Who else is destroying the Horcrux besides them?

What is the purpose of that person or group of people?

...

Countless questions kept emerging in Mike's mind, which made him miserable.

Reason told him that the guy who destroyed the soul on the pendant box was most likely Chris, but Mike couldn't figure out why the other party did so.

You know, Chris is a pure-blood wizard. Voldemort's existence is good for them. So why would they do such a thing?

After thinking for a while, Mike, who was still puzzled, finally raised his eyes and looked at Dumbledore.

"Do you think that person is Chris? Why did he do this?"

Compared with Mike's solemnity, Dumbledore's expression was much more relaxed.

Facing Mike's question, he slowly spread his hands and persuaded:

"Anyway, judging from the results, we are still successful, right? Although we don't know what those people think, at least another Horcrux has been destroyed. You have done a good job. Leave the rest to me. I will take care of it. As for you, I suggest you take a good rest for a while, or review the potion. After all, when Snape was there, you didn't like this course very much, so your grades were not very ideal. But this year is different. I plan to invite a new potion professor. This new professor is different from Snape. He is very friendly and strict."

As he spoke, Dumbledore seemed to remember something happy and suddenly laughed.

But Mike, who was opposite him, was obviously not in a good mood. He just narrowed his eyes and continued to stare at Dumbledore.

Mike knew very well that what Dumbledore meant was that he should stop caring about these things.

I believe this is because Dumbledore made this decision after misunderstanding that Mike had massacred the entire Avery family.

Dumbledore would rather drag his half-dead body around than let the tragedy of the Avery family reappear!

In this regard, Mike still did not make any other excuses.

Then, Dumbledore began to talk to Mike about the precautions for the new semester at Hogwarts. He seemed to want Mike to put his attention back on school and study, and kept telling Mike about the interesting things that happened in Hogwarts.

To be honest, the events he described were very interesting and the narrative level was very high.

However, this was really not difficult for Dumbledore. After all, he had been in Hogwarts for nearly a hundred years. Mike even suspected that if necessary, he could talk endlessly and never repeat himself for a day and a night.

But this was useless to Mike.

To be honest, he had no interest in Hogwarts, because the courses in Hogwarts were no longer of any help to him. The

reason why Mike had to continue to go to school was to monitor the movements of the Harry Potter trio. Mike never relaxed his vigilance for the three protagonists of the original book.

In addition, his subordinates at Hogwarts were also an important reason.

However, most of his subordinates were about to graduate, and Voldemort was about to launch a more fierce attack. Mike was even prepared to leave Hogwarts at any time in the next school year as long as the opportunity was right!

Dumbledore naturally didn't know all this, and when Mike saw that the other party was no longer willing to reveal more information, he stood up directly, saluted Dumbledore expressionlessly, and then turned around and left the office. Before leaving, he even didn't forget to hold the Slytherin pendant box in his arms.

Mike left the forest villa at a very fast speed. When he walked out of the villa, the house elf who didn't know whether it was called a small teacup or a small teapot greeted Mike again attentively.

Of course, Mike still ignored him, and teleported away with a dark face using the portkey.

At this time, on the balcony of the forest villa, Dumbledore looked at Mike's distorted figure leaving and the somewhat lost house elf in the garden, and shook his head helplessly.

...

After leaving the forest villa, Mike was busy again.

As mentioned before, the resource mining of Avery Secret Realm is an extremely tedious and huge task. Mike is not a black-hearted capitalist. He will not let Benjamin complete such a huge workload alone.

Of course, this is only the superficial reason. In fact, it is because the efficiency of letting Benjamin handle it alone is too low.

After a few days of joint efforts by more than a dozen business elites from the Los Santos Group, Mike finally figured out the specific situation of the Avery family industry.

The production cost of Avery Magic Cloth and Avery Magic Liquid is actually very low, or even non-existent, since labor and raw materials are completely free.

And their production is also very impressive.

However, in order to maintain a stable market price and high profits, the Avery family has been controlling the amount of Avery Magic Liquid and Magic Cloth circulating in the market over the years.

The most direct result of this is that the stockpiled goods in the Avery Secret Realm have reached a staggering amount.

Since Mike wants to squeeze out all the profits in the Avery Secret Realm as soon as possible, he plans to sell all the goods at once.

However, the profit that can be gained from buying and selling is very low, because such a large amount of goods flowing into the market will inevitably saturate the market, leading to a drop in commodity prices.

This is almost an unsolvable problem for the original Avery family, because their market basically only exists in the country of Ying, and the number of wizards in the country of Ying is not too large.

But for Mike, it is much easier to solve this problem.

You know, they started planning for overseas markets several years in advance. Major wizard gathering areas such as the United States and France even have Los Santos Group stores.

Although these stores have been losing money, Mike has never given up on them, and now, Mike's investment has finally paid off.

Through the international Floo network, a large number of goods that have been renamed Los Santos Magic Cloth and Los Santos Magic Liquid have been directly transported to Los Santos stores in various wizard gathering places around the world.

These excellent materials have directly conquered all local clothing manufacturers and potion makers.

Not only that, when selling these goods, Mike also referred to the low-price zone policy of the Muggle world. When facing the black wizard shamans in Africa, the price of Los Santos Magic Liquid and Magic Cloth will be much lower. At the same time, he has continuously launched preferential activities and continuously discounted the original prices, which has brought down the prices in the high-priced areas and made the low-priced areas even lower.

In comparison, the prices in European countries such as France and the United Kingdom are more expensive. Of course, compared with the prices in the United States, they are still cheap, because Mike directly increased the prices of these two goods in the United States by nearly two times!

There is no way to do this. At this stage, the wizards in the United States are the richest in the entire wizarding world, just like the United States itself. How could Mike miss such an opportunity to make a big profit?

As for Asia, Mike did not give them much discount.

Especially the wizards or immortals in that huge ancient country, the price Mike gave was almost exactly the same as that of Yingguo.

This is because the wizards who call themselves immortals are all wealthy people, and the economic conditions of their wizarding society are not worse than those of Yingguo! Due to

the existence of the low-price zone policy, a new profession has emerged, that is, overseas purchasing agents.

They usually travel between low-price zones and high-price zones, and help wizards in high-price zones buy cheaper goods through smuggling and other means. It

is actually very simple to deal with these people. It is enough to limit the goods sold in the low-price zone.

However, Mike did not do so. He did not want to strangle all these purchasing agents. Therefore, although he also limited the sales in the low-price area, he firmly controlled the scope of this limited goods to a range where the purchasing agents could make money but not much.

The main reason for doing so was to make the name of the Los Santos Group more widely known!

Facts have proved that this policy is very effective. Under Mike's connivance, the European market, which had become somewhat gloomy due to the return of Voldemort, became lively again. A large number of purchasing agents and products made with Los Santos magic cloth and magic liquid flowed into the market.

For a time, Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth became famous, and as the manufacturer and seller of these two goods, the name of Los Santos Group also resounded throughout the wizarding world.

And all this happened in just half a month. In

this half month, Mike directly cleared all the stocks in the Avery Secret Realm!

Due to the effect of the low-price area and continuous preferential activities, although there were continuous subsidies from the high-price area, the profit from selling this batch of goods was still less than expected.

But these are just minor problems. Mike's original goal - to quickly squeeze out the profits - has been achieved.

And now the world's market has been opened, and the reputation of Los Santos Group and Magic Cloth and Magic Liquid should also be spread!

The current global market needs cannot be met by a small Avery Secret Realm.

So what Mike has to do next is to raise the price as it should be!

Those guys who are used to using Magic Cloth and Magic Liquid will slowly find that the goods they need will become more and more expensive, and eventually become more expensive than when they were originally in Ying Country.

This is Mike's backup long-term development plan. The original Avery family was too conservative and did not dare to open overseas markets, resulting in a large amount of goods being stockpiled.

In Mike's opinion, this is really a waste. Now that he is here, he can't let this happen again.

If his plan can go on smoothly, the output of Avery Secret Realm will be several times higher than before!

Of course, the reason why Mike can make so much money is also due to the hard work of the giant ants in the secret realm.

Mike originally thought that the ant queen Lilith would still pretend to obey him for a while, after all, in her eyes, his behavior might be a bit of a revenge.

But in fact, after observation, Mike found that the ants were not lazy, but worked harder!

This puzzled Mike.

However, Mike still liked the way they worked hard to make money for him, so Mike relaxed some of the resource blockades on the ant queen.

He began to allow Lilith to ask for some food and property within a certain range.

Mike swore that his original intention of doing this was to compensate and reward the ant queen Lilith, but Lilith obviously regarded this as a reward for work or something else.

So, the day after the gift was given, all the ants in the Avery Secret Realm went crazy. They began to chop down the mushrooms crazily, and even the soldier ants who didn't need to work at all in the past were sent out to carry supplies! Mike, who

was in the office in the Freemason Secret Realm, was stunned after listening to Penelope's story.

But after he realized what was going on, he laughed, and he laughed very happily.

"Hahaha, it seems that she likes my gift very much. This is good. If they can continue to maintain this enthusiasm for work, then the material rations for Lilith will be doubled next month."

"Got it."

Penelope smiled and took note of Mike's words, preparing to pass them on later.

Mike in front of him finally returned to normal and said with a smile:

"Help me gather all the Freemasons. I have to hold a small meeting later."