Chapter 240 - 226 Trading Goods for Goods
Chapter 240 -226 Trading Goods for Goods
The fleet has docked, and once again the entire town is in uproar.
As Radiant Wings and Whale Hunter moored at the dock, the waiting dwarves on the pier cheered and swarmed onto the ship!
Da Fei was frantic on the spot: “Hey hey! General, these are for sale, not for giveaway!”
Bato laughed heartily: “Of course! We’re just in charge of unloading the goods, you just go to the tavern and negotiate with Buckley!”
Da Fei was startled: “Negotiate at the tavern?”
Bato chuckled: “Of course, our little town doesn’t have a formal trading post, so Buckley from the tavern is in charge of the trade, just find him.”
Damn! No formal trading post? A sense of being cheated hit me in the face! How could this be? But it’s better than being robbed, that scared the daylights out of me! Well, after all, it’s a game, and the basic rights of the players are still guaranteed. If it was in the Otherworld Continent, damn, they would really rob you, what then?
The town’s dock is small, and after Da Fei’s two cargo ships docked, there’s no space left for warships. Led by small boats, Da Fei and Bato went ashore. Bato couldn’t wait to transport the goods himself, so he assigned a soldier to take Da Fei to the tavern.
Thus, Da Fei led Catherine, Selvia, Anlicia, Coltner, and Spielberg to the tavern.
Da Fei began excitedly calculating how much he could sell this batch of goods for, which cost him 50,000 Gold Coins.
First of all, this is a long-distance international trade, and as long as there are no local products of the same type, even ordinary goods should sell for double the price at the very least, which means 50,000 turns into 100,000. Then, since they were emergency supplies, doubling that amount again was the very least, making 100,000 turn into 200,000.
Then there’s the risk factor for this journey. With Sea Monsters roaming and Sea Demons lurking in the North Sea, there’s a constant risk of total loss, so the price should at least double to compensate for the potential losses, turning 200,000 into at least 400,000!
That’s right, according to the rules of the trading system, this 50,000 Gold Coin trip should sell for at least 400,000! At least! It can’t be lower than this number! This profit is like making ten times the profit of a long-haul specialty product!
Da Fei was getting increasingly excited. 400,000! In this game that has been open for just over half a month, that’s absolutely a staggering fortune, can do so much with it!
Arriving at the tavern, amidst the desolate stone houses on the island, this tavern stood out conspicuously. For dwarves, any other building could be simple, but only the tavern had to be opulent and magnificent. In fact, for dwarves, they’d rather drink and conduct business in a tavern, so replacing the trading post with a tavern also suited the dwarves’ cultural traits.
The tavern’s fireplace burned with a strangely scented lava for warmth, with only a few neutral Dwarf Heroes drinking, waiting to be hired by players. Of course, this is not something Da Fei would consider. Not interested in top-tier heroes, Da Fei only had eyes for beautiful female Vice Heroes.
The dwarf shopkeeper named Buckley took the initiative to greet: “Welcome, you must be the Warrior who brought us the goods, I’m in charge here of settling accounts! Please show me your invoice.”
Oh yeah, although it’s not formal, this attitude seems not much different from traders in big cities.
Da Fei felt somewhat relieved, handed over a thick stack of invoices, and Buckley suddenly turned wooden as he received them.
Da Fei’s heart tightened, hey, what’s going on? Why isn’t the trading page popping up? Why isn’t there a System Prompt? I can’t see the local market prices here!
Damn! Don’t tell me I’ve really been cheated? This trading process isn’t formal, and neither is my trading method, right! How can there be a thing where goods are unloaded before the sale is done, it’s no different from forceful buying and selling, or rather, robbery, right?
Da Fei was anxious: “Sir, could you please say something?”
Finally, Buckley snapped out of it, shaking his beard and stammeringly said: “W-Warrior, according to market prices, your shipment should sell for 943,434 Gold Coins!”
943,000! Twice as much as I expected! Da Fei was ecstatic: “Then pay up!”
Buckley had a mournful look on his face: “But we’re cut off from the Alliance here, we don’t have a bank, we don’t have that much money!”
Fuck! Talk about a rip-off, I can’t believe this kind of thing actually happens!
Da Fei was about to lose his mind: “But you’ve already unloaded the goods, I saw people breaking open crates and drinking on the spot, and now you, you, you say you have no money!”
Buckley hastily waved his hands: “But we can discuss this, how about we pay with goods? With our special Mineral Crystal Ore!” While speaking, he took out a shiny stone: “This is it, strategic material. As long as you transport it back, it’ll be worth way more than 940,000 Gold Coins!”
Ah fuck! Da Fei spewed out a mouthful of blood!
Da Fei couldn’t help but roar: “Are you kidding me! Do you know how difficult it was for me to make this trip? Do you know how many Sea Monsters I’ve encountered along the way? Did you know I was ambushed by the Undead Fleet just to enter the port? It’s a miracle that the goods even got here! And you’re saying I didn’t make a penny, and now I have to risk dragging this load back again, and if I’m not lucky enough to escape the Sea Monsters and my ship gets sunk, then I have got nothing!”
Buckley sighed, “Warrior, this is much better than returning with an empty hold, this risk is worth taking!”
Da Fei was astonished: “Returning with an empty hold? What do you mean?”
Buckley sighed: “Warrior, your sea trading license is only level 1, which means you can only purchase 10 batches of goods per day. Using your fleet’s capacity to fully load up requires waiting here for one month, but we only have two months of ice thaw per year, and we’re nearly one month in. If you really wait a month, you won’t be able to go back, you’ll be stuck here for a year! I think, Warrior, you definitely wouldn’t want that, right?”
Da Fei was suddenly shocked! Fuck, that’s true! The reason I arrived with a full load was because I bought up all the orders from other players along the way, but who do I buy from here when I’m the only player?
Doesn’t this goods exchange solve my purchasing problem? Wait! You mean to say the damn trade method on Fire Dragon Island is bartering? If that’s the case, why am I even arguing, it’s pointless to contend with the system!
Having cooled down, Da Fei had to accept this shitty gameplay, the greater the risk, the greater the profit. Purple Crystal Stone Mine, if I haul these back, for sure it won’t compare to these leisurely goods.
Da Fei sighed: “Alright, let’s make the exchange.”
Buckley sighed: “Thank you Warrior for your cooperation.”
Da Fei said discontentedly: “What are you sighing for?”
Buckley discontentedly said: “If we hadn’t been stuck for three years, we definitely wouldn’t have made this loss-making deal!”
Fuck! Is the system consoling players, telling me this new gameplay is profitable?
Buckley pulled out a list: “This is the price trend for our Mineral Crystals here, Warrior, choose what goods you want to exchange.”
Finally, the normal trading interface, the market interface arrived, and that “940,000” Da Fei did not get was marked in the capital column, so this place indeed plays the game of bartering!
Looking at various Red Crystal Ore, Green Crystal Stone Ore, Blue Crystal Ore, Da Fei was too lazy to choose, if exchanging, then exchange the most expensive, empty the space so the ship can run faster.
Da Fei then chose the Purple Crystal Stone Mine, priced at 2,200 Gold Coins a batch: “This one!” This is well-deserved for ores, such a terrifying cost price, what small-time player could afford this?
— System Prompt: You have spent 940,000 Gold Coins to exchange for 427 units of Fire Dragon Island’s special “Purple Crystal Stone Mine”!
Oh yes! It really is a specialty! If it’s a specialty, then the international long-distance travel would make ten times, if not ten times then eight times, if not eight times then five times. 940,000 would turn into 9.4 million! At worst, also 4.7 million! Then considering the risk factor, double it, a cool 10 million is in the bag!
Fuck! No way, starting with 50,000 capital, working hard day and night for a few days in one round-trip could turn into 10 million? I can hardly believe it! Could the system be this generous? No no no, this is a once-in-a-year opportunity of buying and selling! Plus, there’s so much risk, it’s much more of a rip-off than running special items in the Chamber of Commerce during public testing, there has to be this kind of enormous profit!
Buckley sighed with a long face: “Warrior, you are really lucky, these Purple Crystal Ores were accumulated over three years we were trapped. In previous years, the Kingdom’s supply ships would have taken it directly on their way back, you wouldn’t have been able to buy it even if you wanted.”
Well, although I’m not sure if Purple Crystal Stone is the highest-end here, exchanging ores for food and drink doesn’t seem like a good deal regardless, I’m taking advantage of others’ misfortune, I should be happy, wahahaha! Wait a minute, speaking of luck, maybe I should ask if there’s a Luck Skill master here? (. Mobile users please go to m.novelbuddy.com to read.)