Chapter 27: Effort
After a while, Wen Le asked Xu Dongdong in a difficult voice, "What will happen to them after they are bought back?"
Xu Dongdong glanced at Wen Le, puzzled. After a moment's thought, he finally understood what Wen Le was asking. He replied, "Of course, we buy them back so they can make medicine and perform healing rituals." It was like having a personal nanny account in a game, except these bought-in healers had no freedom and had to work day and night. Compared to ordinary people, healers' lives were a little better, but only slightly.
After saying that, Xu Dongdong looked at Wen Le and suddenly said seriously, "On Abandoned Star, an excessive sense of justice will lead to eternal damnation. Those with too righteous values will not end well in the end."
After that, he muttered to himself, "However, I like to make friends with people who have correct values."
Wen Le didn't hear this sentence clearly, and couldn't help but tilt his head to look at him, motioning him to say it again. Xu Dongdong smiled and didn't continue the topic.
Jin Cancan heard it, but it didn't understand. Lily glanced at Wen Le thoughtfully.
Li Zhenzhen looked at Wen Le with her face in her hands like a fangirl, thinking: I think Wen Lele is a nice person too~
None of these kids are simple. I should say that none of the students in Class E are simple. It all depends on whether you are valuable enough for them to actively interact with you.
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The auction started without wasting much time. Wen Le and his friends were in a lower-level auction area, mostly selling medicinal herbs, so just like Xu Dongdong said, they could still afford the medicinal herbs alone.
After the previous rounds of auctions, Wen Le realized that although the highest bidder wins, the final price for the same grade and quantity of medicinal materials is similar, with the difference being within 100 points. No one will bid more than that.
So Wen Le was a little confused. If that was the case, why bother with the auction?
Xu Dongdong did answer this question: "These herbs aren't found on the abandoned planet. Bringing them back from other planets costs money, so drug dealers naturally have to rob them. In the past, there were even armed fights over these herbs, and the black market suffered heavy losses. So after that incident, they switched to auctioning them."
This successfully avoided unnecessary trouble. After all, as long as they didn't cause trouble on their own territory, there would be no problem. As for what happened outside, it had nothing to do with them. No matter how bad your brains turned out, it had nothing to do with the black market, and they wouldn't interfere.
And this way you can make more money than before. After setting a reserve price, these buyers can raise the price, and you can often make twice as much money as before. Why not do it?
Finally, Wen Le also managed to snatch up some herbs for a mental potion, spending 10,000 credit points. He borrowed this money from Xu Dongdong, agreeing to return it after making the potion and exchanging it for money.
However, this also made Wen Le feel astonished. Ordinary medicinal herbs outside can be sold at sky-high prices here. It is really a scam. No wonder the finished potions cost thousands of credit points. If you don’t sell them this way, you will lose money.
Because Wen Le and his team were in a low-ranking auction area, the auction house closed after selling out today's share. Those who bought something lined up backstage to pay, while those who didn't buy anything or were just there to join in the fun quickly left, not daring to linger.
As Wen Le and the others went to pay, they overheard two familiar buyers chatting about a special auction next door, where no one could enter without an invitation from the black market. The two men looked longingly as they spoke, as if they were eager to take the place of the invited guests and attend the auction.
Another person whispered, "I heard there's some good stuff this time, and the last one is a healer."
Healers, what a desirable existence. Unfortunately, these people who usually act so high and mighty outside are nothing more than valuable and sought-after commodities here.
Xu Dongdong looked at Wen Le's grim expression. He had obviously heard the conversation between the two people in front of him, and he couldn't help but clear his throat. The two people in front turned their heads to look at them, and their eyes fell on the badge on Wen Le's collar. They were immediately frightened and turned pale. They didn't dare to say anything and turned their heads away stiffly.
After leaving the auction house, Xu Dongdong looked at Wen Le and said, "You can't handle these things. I advise you to stay out of other people's business." After a pause, he added, "You don't have the ability to do that right now. When you reach a high position in the future, all you need to do is ask for help, and there will be plenty of people willing to help you."
After enduring for a long time, Wen Le couldn't help but ask, "Don't tell me the Therapist Association doesn't care?"
Xu Dongdong shrugged: "This kind of thing is simply impossible to guard against. You know, not everyone is as lucky as you to register as soon as they wake up and have official protection." There are also many wild therapists that the association does not know about. If these therapists are unlucky and are discovered by some people with bad intentions, their fate will often not be good.
Wen Le took a deep breath and said, "You're right. I'm really lucky."
It seemed that he had not suffered any major setbacks from beginning to end. Although he was hungry and almost beaten to death when he first came here, he activated the system because of this. Ovi and the others did not treat him so cruelly, and they also notified the association to register him as soon as possible.
Thinking about it this way, Wen Le felt that he had been a bit hypocritical before. He had always been a bystander here, but now he realized that he was also one of them.
Although Wen Le had never personally witnessed the auction of the so-called "valuable items," he could imagine the brutality involved. No one wanted to be sold as merchandise.
Thinking of this, Wen Le felt that he was still too weak. Only when he was strong did those people dare not target him.
Wen Le thought, "I'll train my mental strength when I get back. I've been too lax in the last two months, just going through the motions every day and still thinking I'm working hard. But there are plenty of people working harder than me, and yet I'm still gloating over it."
This incident had a profound impact on Wen Le. As someone who grew up in a peaceful environment, everything about the black market was challenging his perspective. Furthermore, what he had seen was only the tip of the iceberg; he had yet to encounter the darker things. Deep down, he didn't want to be exposed to those things; it would only make him even more uneasy.
After buying the medicinal herbs, Wen Le's worldview was shaken again, and he didn't feel like continuing shopping. Xu Dongdong and the others were very considerate and went back to school with him without saying anything.
As soon as he returned to school, Wen Le went to the logistics department to rent a quiet room. This room was specially prepared for students who wanted to level up their mental power or make medicine. It was quiet enough in here, and there was no need to worry about being disturbed. Moreover, there were patrol robots guarding the outside 24 hours a day, ensuring safety.
Before making the medicine, Wen Le used his few remaining credits in the system store to buy Jin Cancan three days' worth of pet food. He then asked Xu Dongdong to help care for the pet while he took the herbs into the meditation room. This was a last-ditch effort for him. Whether he would be begging or making money in three days depended entirely on his luck. If he was lucky, he would earn more for each potion he made. If he was unlucky, the success rate would be low and he would just have to consider himself unlucky.
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