NOVEL WEB Chapter 202: Someone Selling Game Guides?
This time, Li Zheng fully learned from previous trading experiences and did not include prices in the information.
That way, he can negotiate according to the person in the subsequent transactions.
The number of players contacting Li Zheng this time easily reached eight figures and above.
Dealing with all this information is no less than a major battle.
First was Tang Qianzang, who was almost driven mad by Li Zheng. Previously, he despised Arctic Cattail as trash, but now he finds it delightful.
"That operation was brilliant, why do you want to sell Arctic Cattail if you have a Cultivation Dish yourself?"
Li Zheng replied, "Because I want to! Now I have a Cultivation Dish, do you still want it?"
Tang Qianzang said, "Yes! One Cultivation Dish and that Arctic Cattail, name your price, master?"
Li Zheng smiled slightly, "Arctic Cattail is no longer for sale, now only the Cultivation Dish is available, and I can give you a discount if you want it."
Then, Li Zheng set the price at five times the material cost of making a Cultivation Dish and sent it to him.
Scarcity makes things valuable, and Li Zheng felt his asking price was already quite reasonable.
If it weren't for the fact that most people don't have that many high-tier resources, he could have sold it for ten times the price!
Even so, players who can accept this price are rare.
Tang Qianzang immediately replied, "That's way too expensive! Could you give me a friendly price, cheaper?"
Li Zheng asked him, "How much can you accept?"
Tang Qianzang started haggling on the spot, "One Cultivation Dish and that Arctic Cattail, I can offer half the material quantity."
With that price, Li Zheng stopped responding to him and dealt with other people's trades first.
Due to the number of people contacting him, he could only randomly select some pleasing players to negotiate with.
Half an hour later, ten Cultivation Dishes were sold, eight at an average material cost of four times the production value.
During this time, Li Zheng dealt with at least a hundred players, encountering more and more weirdos, which made his head spin.
In half an hour, Li Zheng kept refreshing Extreme Isolation for himself and Sakura, and seeing that there wasn't much Genetic Force left, he had to enter the next room first.
[Behind the door, there was a supply storage tank, a Cultivation Dish, some food, and a crop.]
Opening the door and entering, Li Zheng immediately deployed his capsule residence, got inside, and started crafting Cultivation Dishes.
While crafting, he handled the trade affairs for the last two Cultivation Dishes.
Half an hour later, it was not only Li Zheng who was exhausted, but also Tang Qianzang.
This guy thought Li Zheng wasn't responding, so he wanted to wait out Li Zheng.
However, he obviously underestimated the reaction caused by the Cultivation Dish. Seeing no response from Li Zheng for a long time, he couldn't sit still himself.
He gradually began to raise his offer, from excluding Arctic Cattail to later offering full price, sending no less than twenty private messages.
Just when he thought Li Zheng was determined not to sell to him, Li Zheng finally replied.
"Deal!"
Thus, nine Cultivation Dishes were sold, and Tang Qianzang was the first full-price buyer.
Li Zheng was in a great mood and casually gifted him 300 ml of Intermediate Cultivation Liquid.
Of course, the previous eight people also received this gift.
Players who can afford Cultivation Dishes are certainly not weak, and of course, Li Zheng didn't give away the Cultivation Liquid for free.
As long as these people use the Cultivation Liquid and taste its benefits, they will undoubtedly come looking to buy more from him.
Then, by just selling Cultivation Liquid, Li Zheng could easily drain these ten people!
"Nine Cultivation Dishes, with a net profit of 300% after deducting costs. Indeed, monopolizing the market is the best way to get rich."
With two sets of materials in hand, Li Zheng crafted twenty-seven more Cultivation Dishes. Added to the previously made three, there were exactly thirty.
"With thirty Cultivation Dishes, it only takes two harvests to plant enough Flame Branches, followed by three more rounds to max out Ice and Fire Attachment effortlessly."
With a bit of calculation, Li Zheng couldn't help but grinning with joy.
In two days, he could harvest five rounds, and if lucky, an accidental mutation of a few plants could speed this up even more!
For a moment, Li Zheng thought of a certain man with the surname Feng who bankrupted himself trying to upgrade a Silver Ability.
He, on the other hand, could upgrade to a Platinum Ability without any cost, while profiting immensely!
In comparison, Li Zheng didn't envy the other's European luck at all.
So what if he's European?
Didn't he still get crushed by a cheater like me?
You have to admit, Cultivation Dish + Intermediate Cultivation Liquid, truly godly!
The Treasure Chest System that produces both is even more of a god, also known as the Supreme God!
"Sell off the remaining portion and then plant the Arctic Cattail later."
As he picked through private messages, Li Zheng had a strange feeling like an emperor selecting consorts, which inexplicably excited him.
After all this maneuvering, Li Zheng finally discovered the proper use of these gene ability development tools: use high-tier for development, low-tier for upgrading.
Despite the low success rate of Silver and Gold tools, they are perfect for enhancing ability levels without side effects.
This was also why he kept the Arctic Cattail and only sold Cultivation Dishes later.
Once Ice and Fire Attachment reached max level, he could eat an Arctic Cattail Fruit soon after, with a high chance of gaining another Ice Gene Ability.
Unfortunately, Flame Flowers can't be used to upgrade Ice Abilities, so in the next two days, he had to see if he could get more Ice crops.
No need for high-tier ones, Silver will do.
Of course, a mere Platinum Level Ice Ability is no longer impressive to Li Zheng.
But don't forget, Cultivation Liquid has a chance to upgrade crop fruits by one tier. If the Arctic Cattail, as a Platinum Level crop, mutates just once, it becomes a Diamond Level Ability!
Li Zheng, flipping through the player list in private messages, sighed, "A life with cheats is just so plain and boring..."
Perhaps because players with the ability to purchase responded faster, Li Zheng spent nearly an hour and still hadn't sold the last Cultivation Dish.
Until a player named "Bai Xiaosheng" appeared in Li Zheng's field of vision.
This person used a megaphone to claim that from the beginning of the game until now, they had collaborated with more than ten players from the top twenty of various channel leaderboards to compile a "game guide."
At the same time, this person stated that they are now "sharing" the guide with all players, requiring only a confidentiality agreement and a little token fee.
Li Zheng noticed this person, not because he was attracted by the so-called guide, but because he had seen the name in private messages before.
Back then, Li Zheng found the name displeasing and ignored it.
He went back and found the private message from that person and clicked to view the information sent.
Then he was amused.
Bai Xiaosheng: "A game guide in exchange for a Cultivation Dish."
To be honest, if Li Zheng wasn't strong enough and had seen more things, he might have been intimidated by the other party's confident tone.
Thinking about it, Li Zheng edited a message, asking for a guide plus materials worth three times the cost, then he would agree to the trade.
This was already the greatest concession Li Zheng was willing to make.
Note that none of the previous nine people received this treatment.
Soon, Bai Xiaosheng sent a message back, bargaining.
Li Zheng didn't budge. If the other party couldn't produce materials worth three times the cost, then Li Zheng had to doubt the authenticity of his "guide."
By then, Li Zheng wouldn't mind offending a few more people to get a loudspeaker from Chu Xiao and expose the other party's true colors.