Soon, the three began to act separately. Jiang Mingze and Zhou Yiran shouted in the world channel, while Luo Xinglan first smelted the scrap iron she had into refined iron and then made a smelting furnace.
In the end, she made a total of 15 smelting furnaces, which were sold for 10 gold coins. Actually, she could still make a profit at 10 gold coins, because many players had already put scrap metal on the market, and most pieces of scrap metal were worth between 3 and 5 gold coins. However, she certainly wouldn't make as much as she would have made selling them for 100 gold coins.
But they weren't doing this to make money, so they didn't care about making less.
The 15 smelting furnaces were sold almost as soon as they were put on the market.
Jiang Mingze and Zhou Yiran also traded the scrap metal they collected directly to Luo Xinglan, which was her maximum number of transactions for the day. Moreover, she finally had some money now, 150 gold coins, not a lot, but it was still a considerable amount of start-up capital.
She searched for "scrap metal" and immediately found many scrap metal transactions, with prices almost all between 2 and 3 gold coins, which was a little cheaper than when she first saw it. Perhaps Jiang Mingze and Zhou Yiran's persuasion had worked.
Luo Xinglan glanced at it quickly and soon locked onto a transaction: 120 pieces of scrap metal for only 1 gold coin. Looking at the trader, it turned out to be someone named Qian Duoduo.
Luo Xinglan immediately bought the scrap metal.
Before long, she put the finished smelting furnace on the shelf, and unsurprisingly, it was sold out in seconds.
"Damn, what kind of speed are you guys at?! The smelting furnace was gone as soon as it was put on the shelves! At least leave one for me! I'm freezing to death!"
"I've been watching the trading interface the whole time, but I can't get any! I suspect someone bought them all at once!"
"Who's so awful?! Why buy so many smelting furnaces?"
The world channel became noisy.
A short while later, Jiang Mingze sent a message: "Sister Lan, I'm about to put the scrap metal I'm buying up on the market. Go and keep an eye on it and buy it."
Luo Xinglan immediately went and bought all the scrap metal.
As for the messages in the chat channel, she was busy making the smelting furnace and didn't see them.
At this moment, Chen Xiaodong looked at the 60 smelting furnaces he had just snatched and smiled smugly.
Jiang Mingze and Zhou Yiran encouraged others to sell scrap metal so they could profit from it, without even considering whether Chen Xiaodong would agree!
He immediately put the 60 smelting furnaces up for sale, priced at 200 gold coins each, double the price from before!
Anyway, this smelting furnace is currently in high demand but short supply. Even if the price doubles, there will still be plenty of people scrambling to buy it!
"Damn! Look, someone's selling smelting furnaces again, and they're selling them for 200 gold coins each!"
"Damn! It's Chen Xiaodong again! Did he buy the 60 smelting furnaces that Luo Xinglan just listed? Otherwise, how could he have listed exactly 60?"
"Chen Xiaodong, have you no shame? It's one thing to not help each other at a time like this, but to actually make money like this is unethical!"
"Luo Xinglan, block Chen Xiaodong! That way he won't be able to buy anymore!"
"Let's all not buy his smelting furnaces, let him lose money!"
"Damn it, who's so spineless! To actually buy Chen Xiaodong's stuff?!"
"I'm freezing to death right now, who cares about pride? The smelting furnace can save my life, I'd buy it even if Chen Xiaodong sells it for 300 gold coins!"
...
Jiang Mingze had been paying attention to the chat channel, and when he saw what everyone was saying, he immediately sent a private message to Luo Xinglan: "Sister Lan, something's happened! Chen Xiaodong bought all the smelting furnaces you just listed!"
Luo Xinglan was shocked. Chen Xiaodong had actually bought them all?
Jiang Mingze continued, "However, I saw someone say that you can block them. See if you can block them when you relist it."
Luo Xinglan then created 10 more smelting furnaces. When she put them up for sale, she took a closer look and found that they did indeed have a blacklist function. Without hesitation, she blacklisted Chen Xiaodong and then put the 10 smelting furnaces up for sale.
Chen Xiaodong was waiting in the wings, and when he saw that another smelting furnace was available, he immediately went to buy it, only to be told, "The seller has blocked you and you cannot purchase!"
They actually blocked him?
Chen Xiaodong was furious and sent a message to Luo Xinglan questioning her: "Luo Xinglan, what do you mean by blocking me? It's not like I'm not going to give you money, why did you block me?"
Luo Xinglan was busy making a smelting furnace. When she saw Chen Xiaodong's private message to her, she deleted the chat box without even glancing at it.
Unable to get an explanation from Luo Xinglan, Chen Xiaodong was so angry that he was panting heavily.
Now that he couldn't buy a ready-made smelting furnace, he had no choice but to buy scrap iron and make it himself. Although it was a bit troublesome, the opportunity to make money was fleeting. He cursed Luo Xinglan in his heart again and reluctantly went to buy scrap iron.
However, one after another, I was prompted with "The seller has blocked you and you cannot purchase!"
What's going on?
Has everyone in the district blocked him?
Chen Xiaodong immediately went to check the world chat history, and he actually found it.
Three minutes ago.
Jiang Mingze: "Everyone, please take note. Chen Xiaodong is a swindler. When you sell your scrap metal, please block him. Otherwise, he might buy scrap metal at a low price, make a smelting furnace, and then sell it at an exorbitant price, treating us like韭菜 (a metaphor for being exploited)!"
Zhou Yiran: "Yes, everyone is listing scrap metal at this critical juncture because they want to buy reasonably priced smelting furnaces. But once Chen Xiaodong buys the scrap metal, he'll just cheat everyone out of their money! So if you want to sell scrap metal to him again, just block him!"
"Yeah, I don't want him to buy my scrap metal and then I have to spend 200 gold coins to buy a smelting furnace from him. It's disgusting! I'm blocking him right away!"
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