As discussed earlier, this Level 2 technological plane is in its cosmic exploration phase, with extraterrestrial goods constantly being brought back for sale.
Therefore, the rare items that Ding Yun had prepared were inconspicuous amidst a large pile of alien products.
However, because many people genuinely liked them, everything she brought back was quickly sold after appraisal and listing.
In this regard, the holographic scanning and appraisal technology offered by various sales platforms saved Ding Yun a lot of time.
From appraisal to sale, and then to payment, it took just over half an hour.
She easily raked in over 89 million.
After all, the rare and precious goods of this world were not cheap in the ancient world either. While one thousand taels of silver could buy some, they couldn't be purchased in bulk, by the ton, like ordinary grains and rice.
After completing the relevant transactions, Ding Yun naturally proceeded with large-scale purchasing. This time, she not only bought a large amount of silver but also procured civilian-grade energy shield pendants, small personal light-speed aircraft, and security robots, among other technological products.
Previously, she had undertaken her trading solo mainly due to a lack of funds to acquire other items. Now, with over 80 million in income, she naturally had to equip herself with everything she could, prioritizing her personal safety.
Only then would she consider other matters.
Most of these items were delivered within the next forty minutes. Following this, Ding Yun, fully armed with these acquisitions, used the free interdimensional travel gate to return to her original world.
Using her consciousness chip, she copied and pasted basic knowledge, written language, and other information of the ancient world into each of the bodyguard robots, ensuring they could read and write.
This was to ensure they could integrate into this world and assist her in her work.
She didn't want these bodyguard robots to be exposed before she was, causing trouble.
Subsequently, she led these simulated bodyguard robots to start a large-scale shopping spree.
Her focus was on rare, non-renewable minerals, jade, precious stones, wild medicinal herbs, and high-end or lost top-tier handcrafted items.
Most importantly, the items had to be those that the Level 2 technological plane could not artificially produce at the time, or where artificial production was significantly more expensive than natural procurement.
After clearing out all the precious goods in the capital city,
Ding Yun first equipped each of the bodyguard robots with a personal light-speed aircraft and gave them a sum of silver. She instructed them to travel to other prosperous cities to acquire similar products, thereby reducing the time spent on buying and selling goods back and forth. Only then did she, once again, use the free interdimensional travel gate to head to the Level 2 technological plane to sell her goods.
This time, she again sold all her goods smoothly, earning another 2.7 billion. She was now only two zeros away from purchasing that cosmic exploration vessel.
Theoretically, a hundred more trips like this would probably suffice.
She just didn't know if there were a hundred cities in the ancient world as prosperous as the capital, with so many good items. However, regardless of whether it was possible to earn 270 billion this way, the trade of materials would certainly continue.
From then on, for Ding Yun, it was essentially a simple logistics operation: buying silver from the Level 2 technological plane and transporting it to the ancient world, then receiving goods from the bodyguard robots in the ancient world and transporting them to the Level 2 technological plane for sale, making a profit from the continuous back-and-forth.
The more she traded, the less she earned.
Some items were visibly decreasing in price.
But Ding Yun had no choice. She had yet to find anything in the ancient world that was more valuable and scarcer on this side, beyond what she was currently selling. Therefore, even though the prices of those items were continuously dropping, she could only keep selling them.
After all, without selling these, she had nothing else to sell. Moreover, the so-called decrease in profit was merely from a hundred-thousand-fold profit margin to seventy, eighty, or ninety-thousand-fold.
Overall, it was still acceptable.
...
Meanwhile, the jailer who had brought Ding Yun's corpse home woke up early in the morning to find that one of the corpses he had brought back was missing. He was almost scared to death.
For jailers like them,
they could distinguish between the dead and the living.
So he was very clear and certain that all the corpses he had brought back yesterday were dead, lifeless. Yet, one had suddenly disappeared overnight. Who wouldn't feel a chill down their spine and suspect a reanimation?
However, this was something he couldn't easily talk about, let alone report. "One of my corpses is missing."
So, he could only be flustered and terrified.
At the same time, he went to work with a worried expression.
That day, he quickly disposed of the remaining corpses in his possession at a low price to his peers, other jailers.
He even sold his own house and bought a new one elsewhere.
In addition, he invited a statue of Zhong Kui home, burned incense at the City God Temple, and bought some talismans for warding off evil from temples and other miscellaneous items, hoping to ward off evil spirits and ensure he wouldn't be targeted by anything bizarre.
Of course, the main reason for his extreme fear was not just the disappearance of the corpse. After all, a missing corpse could be due to reanimation or theft.
His primary reason for being so scared was...
that he had seen footprints in his home.
He had seen the footprints left behind by Ding Yun when she left.
He recognized them instantly, knowing they definitely belonged to the missing female corpse, as the size and even the shoe print matched perfectly.
As for why he was so sure?
It was mainly because the shoes the corpse had originally been wearing were quite expensive. He had specifically taken them off to sell and replaced them with a pair of very cheap "shou xie" (shoes for the deceased) that he had prepared for his mother but had not used. These shoes, worn with burial clothes, were vastly different from normal shoes.
The footprints were also clearly identifiable.
If the corpse had been stolen, it certainly wouldn't have left the imprint of "shou xie." Thus, the moment he saw the footprints, he felt a profound dread, as it could only mean that the female corpse had gotten up and walked out on her own.
Even someone who wasn't superstitious, or someone who had studied the teachings that dismissed the supernatural, would be greatly terrified. Therefore, it was understandable that the jailer later sold his house, moved, and acquired a host of items for warding off evil and protection.
Of course, despite the jailer's strange reaction, he did not publicize the news.
Therefore, Ding Yun's disappearance did not cause any significant stir.
Currently, what everyone in the capital city was most concerned about was the arrival of some wealthy merchants, from an unknown origin, who had essentially cleared out most of the precious medicinal herbs, rare plants, and even high-quality jewelry from the market.
The common folk were discussing who these wealthy merchants were.
Those with money but no established background were somewhat worried that if all the good things were bought up, they might have nothing left to purchase and would not have good medicinal herbs to save their lives if they fell ill.
Wealthy noble families, who were not lacking in good medicinal herbs and jewelry, were more curious about the identity of the buyers.