Chapter 168 The Mysterious Mastermind Firefox
At the same time, in a luxury villa in the Inner Tenth District, a man wearing a bright red silk robe and with a languid expression was reclining on a soft sofa.
He looked idly at the large floor-to-ceiling fish tank that took up an entire wall not far away. There, a ferocious mutated red devil fish, more than two meters long, was opening its mouth full of sharp teeth and biting another mutated koi.
He liked bright colors, whether it was what he wore or the fish he kept in his aquarium, all of which were these rich, blood-like colors.
The man suddenly felt an itch in his nose and couldn't help but sneeze loudly.
Who is this? Why are you talking about him so late at night instead of sleeping?
Remembering how his watch had vibrated several times before, which he had ignored, he couldn't help but wonder which clueless person was bothering him so late at night.
Once we find out who it is, we must kill them!
He tapped on his wristwatch and saw a string of messages. The one that interested him the most was: "Dear Lord Red Fox, the lucky number you drew has been registered as a member. Would you like to retrieve her personal information?"
He casually clicked "yes," and then a few lines of information appeared, not even enough to fill a screen.
"A single mother, currently living in District 48, but an orphan from District 50? Haha! Interesting! Someone with such a background is actually willing to pay a million?"
But the problem is, where did she get a million? Even if she did, how could she know that the true value of the Ninth Forum would far exceed that million?
Anyway, this kind of person is quite amusing. I'm bored lately, how about I go see some sights in District 48?
On the other side, Zuo Shan finally logged into the Ninth Forum. She didn't rush to browse the pinned posts, but instead found the inconspicuous forum rules in the upper right corner.
She's like a stranger in a strange world right now. Wandering around aimlessly is definitely more harmful than helpful. She has to figure out the rules of this world first in order to have any chance of being invincible.
After all, she had spent a whopping one million to register as a member of this mysterious forum. Well, the money had already been returned by the forum administrator, but in any case, she had felt a sharp pang of regret.
Having gone to such great lengths to enter the forum, her first priority was ensuring she wouldn't be kicked out without cause before considering opportunities to make money within it.
She believes that there are more intelligent people in the world than not, and that it's unlikely that everyone would flock to this forum just to chat or watch some erotic videos.
When she opened the forum rules, she was quite surprised to see a line of large characters that read: The rule of the Ninth Forum is—there are no rules!
Below is a short note: Here, members can hire hitmen to commit murder and purchase various rare resources, provided that you can afford to pay enough forum coins.
Below that is a line of smaller print: How to earn forum coins.
After clicking, there are three options: 1. Recharge with real silver coins. For every 10,000 silver coins recharged, you will receive one forum gold coin.
2. Sell various resources to the forum at 70% of the market price, but we absolutely guarantee the confidentiality and security of the transaction. After the transaction is completed, the forum will reward one forum gold coin for every 7,000 silver coins sold.
Third, accept various tasks posted on the forum and receive corresponding forum coins according to different task levels.
Upon seeing this, Zuo Shan couldn't help but chuckle coldly: This forum owner really knows how to make money!
They buy goods at 70% of the market price, which is equivalent to making a 30% profit. This alone allows them to make a fortune.
Members who want to post tasks but don't have enough forum coins to pay for them have to top up their accounts first.
For example, you need to deposit 1 million yuan to register in exchange for 100 forum coins.
These forum coins are equivalent to virtual coins on various online platforms on Earth. Of course, virtual coins are not entirely virtual. For example, she once withdrew 15 yuan from Tomato.com, where she reads novels.
Of course, the members here are not here to donate money to the forum. Their purpose is to hire someone to commit murder or to buy various supplies that cannot be bought on the market. Of course, most members are probably thinking about making a lot of money through this forum.
After clarifying his thoughts, Zuo Shan first opened his personal homepage and looked at his information. Sure enough, he had a balance of 100 gold coins and his level—E.
Tiered systems are common in many membership platforms, which is not surprising at all; they simply divide benefits based on different levels.
To verify her guess, she opened the task list and saw that the task titles were all marked as: "Members of level X and above can accept this task."
She casually clicked on a task available to E-level members, which read: "Looking to buy the corpses of gold-devouring ants, minimum purchase of 1,000, price 50 gold coins, this purchase information is valid indefinitely."
Zuo Shan roughly calculated that the price of each gold-devouring ant corpse was actually equivalent to 500 silver coins.
Back then, in the central square of District 50, there were more than 30,000 corpses of gold-devouring ants piled up like a mountain. She suddenly felt like she had missed out on a fortune!
Fortunately, she had secretly taken Xiaobao to absorb at least tens of thousands of them, which was a huge profit. However, what she gained was Xiaobao's superpower, and she didn't get a single penny in cash.
After browsing just this one task, Zuo Shan immediately understood the value of this forum.
It can provide you with buying and selling information, so that you won't sell your treasures as worthless or throw them away due to ignorance.
Imagine if her little one didn't have the ability to devour metal; she would probably have ended up like all the other scavengers in District 50, with those gold-devouring ant corpses in her home.
They were sent to the central square for free, where they waited for important figures like Chi Zhengyang, a fourth-tier fire-type ability user, and Pei Zhongguang, a third-tier metal-type ability user, to help them process their requests.
However, what Zuo Shan didn't know was that the corpses of the gold-devouring ants were originally worthless. It was only because her little treasure had swallowed tens of thousands of them that Pei Zhongguang mistakenly thought a powerful figure with a metal element had passed by and took them away.
After he had Chi Zhengyang burn off the rotten flesh from the remaining small portion, he took it back to a metal expert for study.
The study found that the corpses of gold-devouring ants contain a special metal with extremely high flexibility and density. Armor and firearms made from this metal have performance exceeding standards.
This is why the price of gold-devouring ant corpses skyrocketed, so the expert asked someone to help him by posting a long-term acquisition request on the Ninth Forum.
Cause and effect can be so mysterious. Zuo Shan didn't know that the cause she started had led to the current result. She only understood one thing: even if the forum owner didn't return her one million, registering for this forum was not a loss at all.
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