Lin Xu's eyes lit up when he heard Huang Meng's words.
Is Huang Meng planning to invest in him?
As expected of a businessman, even knowing that he was a newcomer with no background and had offended the Chen family, he still dared to place such a bet.
However, the benefits Huang Meng offered were exactly what Lin Xu desperately needed, so he was happy to accept them.
It seems that there is potential for further cooperation with Huang Meng's shop in the future.
If we could work closely with this beautiful woman, there might be even more benefits.
With that in mind, Lin Xu didn't stand on ceremony and followed Huang Meng into the shop, where he began to select the supplies he needed.
First and foremost, a water source is essential.
This resource also has similar water-source seeds, which can provide a fixed amount of water.
But like mineral seeds, there are also top-quality ones. The best seeds can create an infinite water source, providing clean and fresh water continuously.
However, Lin Xu naturally wouldn't buy top-tier seeds directly. Instead, he bought a lot of water source seed fragments, planning to stack them up again when he returned to the island.
In addition, there are basic amenities such as living quarters, kitchen, and bathroom.
These structures are encapsulated using mechanical folding technology, and can be opened at a chosen location once placed in the island world.
Once opened, it will form a suitable house. After connecting the water pipes and the electrical sensor, it can be used normally with water and electricity.
These facilities even contain enormous mansions worth hundreds of millions of Alliance Coins, far more luxurious than mansions in the main world.
But Lin Xu certainly can't afford a mansion right now, and he has a good talent for machinery. As long as he studies the relevant technology, he can build one himself in the future without having to buy one.
Now, buying basic housing facilities is enough.
Besides housing facilities, there are also defensive weapons.
Once a new island owner officially begins their beginner adventure, they will leave the beginner's sanctuary and ascend to the real island world.
There, besides other contenders for island ownership, are also dark creatures.
Those creatures harbor great hostility towards the island's owner, and a battle will almost always erupt upon encountering them.
Besides this threat, Lin Xu also remembered Chen Shaojie's group.
Once the beginner phase begins and the new island owner can develop freely, that group of people will definitely try to cause trouble.
Those guys will definitely prepare aircraft, or at least turbine propellers to propel the island.
So he'll run into those guys sooner or later.
Lin Xu had a plan to counter these threats, and he acted accordingly, purchasing one hundred rotary machine guns.
He was very curious about what kind of monstrous weapon would be created if this type of firearm were multiplied a hundredfold.
There is a limit to the amount of supplies that beginners can bring into the island.
Even the descendants of the most powerful island lords cannot carry more than 10 million worth of supplies and weapons.
Of course, if the production takes place on the island, then there are no restrictions whatsoever.
With an initial investment of 10 million, plus other necessary facilities, the nobles could only spend a maximum of 5 million on weaponry.
Five million is enough to equip high-end machine guns, and even reconnaissance aircraft and a bellows to propel the island.
But if Lin Xu stacked a hundred rotary machine guns together, he felt it would be enough to crush billions of standard weapons.
After all, by layering fertile soil and rocks, he created similar value.
At today's market price, one hundred rotary machine guns would cost approximately 1.5 million Alliance coins, which is incredibly cheap.
Lin Xu also brought plenty of ammunition boxes.
These ammunition boxes are special models with an extra space that can be used to create a certain number of additional ammunition using materials.
Whether for nobles or commoners, this ability to manufacture extra bullets is practically useless.
After all, even if bullets can be synthesized from minerals, it takes time, so it's better to buy more bullets directly than to buy boxes that can make bullets.
But if this thing gets into Lin Xu's hands, it might become different.
Because if he stacks enough bullet boxes together, it's possible to create a box that can produce an unlimited number of bullets.
Once he has an unlimited ammo box, coupled with a machine gun with a hundredfold multiplier, his firepower will definitely reach an extremely terrifying level.
In addition to these, Lin Xu also bought a high-quality earth vein ore.
This kind of ore is actually a bit of a waste for him. If he used this money to buy ley line fragments, he could definitely upgrade the ley line blocks even more.
However, Lin Xu had his own reasons for buying this item.
Because his potential for enlightenment is extremely high, the more precious the item, the greater the value of enlightenment he can bring.
The ley line gem he chose has a unique characteristic: the higher the level of the ley line block it's placed on, the better its quality becomes.
Lin Xu wanted to try using the core of the earth veins on his island to cultivate this ore.
Once the ore reaches the level of the previous superpowered fruit, he will use his enlightenment ability to create new spirits.
This rare crystal belongs to the Earth Vein series and has a high probability of being able to manipulate and improve the Earth Vein.
This would help the island's ley lines function, and if this elf, like Tao Yao, also possesses top-tier skills, it would be even more valuable.
For example, the ability to manipulate airflow and propel islands is also one of the common powers of Leyline Cubes, and this elf has a high chance of awakening it.
After this large-scale shopping spree, Lin Xu had almost spent all of the millions he had just received.
At this moment, Lin Xu realized that he was still missing a crucial supply.
These supplies are extremely important, but even if he didn't spend a single penny and used all his funds to buy them, he might not have enough money.
However, although he was short of money, he had Huang Meng, a major financial backer, by his side.
This woman must have assets worth at least several billion to be able to open such a large medical equipment store in the school district's commercial street.
For her, several million dollars is about the same as pocket money.
Lin Xu then said to Huang Meng:
"Mr. Huang, I'm still missing one crucial resource to further develop my island. But I'm out of funds. I wonder if I could get an advance on the payment for the next transaction in exchange for this funding?"
Huang Meng was already shocked by Lin Xu's shopping spree.
It wasn't that Lin Xu spent too much money, but rather that the things he bought were too bizarre.
Instead of buying large quantities of river seeds, they only buy seeds for a hundred small puddles.
Instead of buying more efficient and reliable machine guns, they purchased a hundred rotary machine guns for armed defense.
This shopping approach is truly unprecedented.
Isn't Lin Xu an orphan? How come he has a hundred people to operate the rotary machine gun?
Huang Meng knew Lin Xu wasn't stupid; he must have a special reason for doing this. Therefore, she had developed an extremely strong interest in Lin Xu.
However, Huang Meng also knew her limits. These shopping requests must be quite private matters, perhaps even involving Lin Xu's secrets. Given the closeness of their current cooperation, it was far from the right time to inquire about such things.
Therefore, Huang Meng pretended not to notice anything and nodded when she heard Lin Xu's request:
"Of course, Lin, the great talent, can be considered my sugar daddy now. As long as it doesn't require me to give up all my assets, I will definitely do my best to help my sugar daddy."
Lin Xu smiled.
Even if Huang Meng wanted to give up all his assets, he couldn't bring them into the island world due to the island's rules.
"I'm not interested in all of Mr. Huang's assets right now. I just need some island land, preferably soil or rocky land suitable for placing water sources. I need 100 square meters. I wonder if Mr. Huang can provide that?"
"It turns out to be land."
Huang Meng suddenly realized.
It was only then that she remembered that Lin Xu's island was said to be only 100 meters long and wide when it was awakened, making it difficult even to grow a field.
A 100-meter-long and wide area is nothing to most island owners, especially the old island owners who can move their islands. They can absorb countless floating soils when they move their islands in the void.
However, acquiring land is not so easy for newcomers, which is why land values are inflated.
However, under the island rules, land is also considered a resource and must be included in the island's initial investment.
Few island owners would use their 10 million reserve fund to buy land.
Even when some nobles are beginners and want island land, they do so by exploiting loopholes in the island system and gambling against other island owners to acquire land.
However, the island world has a different set of rules to restrict the island owners' bets. There are no obvious loopholes, so it is almost impossible for nobles to obtain excess resources at the beginning of the game by virtue of their power.
At this moment, Huang Meng actually had some admiration for Lin Xu.
The land started with only 100 meters in length and width, but Lin Xu has made great progress in the past few days, and even signed a cooperation agreement with her.
Such abilities and methods are indeed not something that ordinary people can possess.
“I will allocate 100 square meters of rocky land to you directly. This type of land is most suitable for spring-fed seeds, and it should be helpful to you.”
Huang Meng made a promise to Lin Xu, and then contacted Island World to begin allocating land for Lin Xu.
Lin Xu quickly received a notification that he had successfully acquired the new land.
His 10 million preparation funds were completely exhausted. If he wanted to use money to acquire island resources afterward, he would need to successfully survive the novice period and gain the right to trade freely.
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