"Jin Xinxin provided Zhu Lingyun's soul aura. As long as I specify the time, I can connect with Zhu Lingyun from 1960. But she would have been only eight years old that year. Is that reliable?
Including her nominal age, she would be at most ten.
Never mind, I'll add her first.
Soul aura doesn't last long. If I don't add her now, it will likely dissipate soon. I won't activate the sub-device for the trading system for now. I'll activate it when I figure out how to prevent the future trajectory from changing."
Considering that soul aura is not easily preserved, even though Ding Yun hadn't figured out how to communicate with the younger Zhu Lingyun, she still took out the soul aura, specified the year, sent out the sub-device for the trading system, and had it bind and merge with the youthful Zhu Lingyun of that era.
As long as she didn't activate it,
Zhu Lingyun from that year wouldn't feel anything.
After finishing this, Ding Yun began to focus on checking if there were any second-hand items in the trading system that were suitable for purchase now and could be sold in this era for some money.
This would also help improve her financial situation.
As for why she didn't go home to swallow her pride and ask for help.
The original host was too proud.
Did Ding Yun have to be?
"Second-hand dinosaur eggs, guaranteed to hatch! Only 33,000, only 33,000, you definitely won't lose money buying it!"
"Nearly new aircraft carrier, private message if interested!!"
"Company going out of business, last season's simulation humans on clearance sale, male and female available, starting at only 999, starting at only 999. Bring a humanoid robot home. Absolutely made of synthetic materials, definitely different from those merchants who claim to sell humanoids but are actually selling clones.
Specific details can be discussed privately.
Items can also be inspected holographically from all angles."
"Three hundred thousand expired Peiyuan Pills. Although they are about to expire, their medicinal effects are still well preserved. Eating them might be a bit dangerous for humans, but they are definitely fine for feeding spirit beasts. Special sale now, only 300,000, sold in bulk, no individual sales, no installments. No inquiries if not buying!"
"One hundred Jiaoren pearls per box. It is said they are quite valuable in the human world. Each pearl is over 20 millimeters, and all colors are available. One box is only 1,000. Shipping not included. Bulk discounts are available. 1,000 boxes get 20% off, 10,000 boxes get 30% off, and 1,000,000 boxes get 50% off. Don't doubt the quality of our Jiaoren pearls, and they are definitely not the inferior Jiaoren pearls that are artificially synthesized.
There are over ten billion merfolk in our world.
We don't lack these Jiaoren pearls."
"A set of jewelry, private message if interested."
"Three warehouses of birthday gifts. Every year on my birthday, a pile of people send things, and they are all things I can't use. Too much, I'm too lazy to open them. Now selling them in bulk, only 30,000 trading coins.
Don't disturb me if you have nothing else to do. Buy it or don't.
If you want to buy, just click the link..."
"One hundred Tier 1 zombie crystal cores, a specialty from our world, extracted from zombie brains. Cracking them open and consuming the transparent liquid inside can strengthen the body.
However, the outer crystal contains zombie virus.
It is recommended to burn it with fire to avoid virus transmission.
Not for sale for trading coins, only for exchange for food. Specifics can be discussed in person. Online anytime, welcome to contact."
"Ten-year ginseng, 300 per catty. Hundred-year ginseng, 3,000 per catty. Bulk orders are negotiable, please private message me!"
"Large quantities of low-grade spirit stones with only a wisp of spiritual energy remaining after use. In the mortal world, they would be the most top-tier raw gemstones. All colors are available. Bulk orders are negotiable!"
After browsing for a while, Ding Yun's gaze fell upon the users selling low-grade spirit stones with only a wisp of spiritual energy and Jiaoren pearls. She selected one of each and added them to her shopping cart, proceeding to checkout.
At the same time, she was pondering.
What currency was used for payment? What exactly were these trading coins? Could they be recharged?
These doubts were finally answered when she reached the payment step in her shopping process and saw "Insufficient Balance" displayed on the page.
"Insufficient balance, please recharge."
"1 point of Merit = 100 trading coins."
"10 points of Luck = 100 trading coins."
"Currency (Wealth) 1000 yuan = 1 trading coin."
"So it's this system again, but I didn't expect local currency to be exchangeable for trading points. It's just that the exchange rate is too low. According to this, without spending Merit and Luck, wouldn't a box of Jiaoren pearls cost a full million in currency?
Wait, shipping costs 100 trading coins.
So that means shipping costs 100,000?
Although with current technology, even spending ten billion for a cross-temporal jump would be worthwhile, but not offering free shipping and charging such high shipping fees.
I just feel so unaccustomed to it.
And the original host couldn't afford this sum either. Forget the money for the Jiaoren pearls, she couldn't even afford the 100,000 yuan for shipping. But looking around, there don't seem to be any items with particularly low prices that also offer free shipping. Oh well, I'll just spend some of my own Merit and Luck.
At worst, I'll earn it back by doing more things later!"
After some deliberation, Ding Yun finally felt that if she had to spend money, she really had to spend it. However, she didn't spend much. In the end, she only used 300 points of Luck to exchange for 3,000 trading coins. These 300 points of Luck were the reward for completing the original host's entrusted task.
Consider it an advance payment.
With trading coins in hand, Ding Yun, worried that the items she bought might not sell in this world, had a private chat with the two sellers for a while, confirming the specific appearance and size of the Jiaoren pearls, as well as the specific appearance of the spirit stones with only a wisp of spiritual energy remaining.
Only then did she officially place her order.
She spent 2,200 trading coins to purchase one hundred Jiaoren pearls and one hundred fist-sized, low-grade spirit stones with only a wisp of spiritual energy remaining. Two thousand points were for the purchase, and two hundred points were for shipping.
Purchasing from different sellers.
Shipping fees were calculated separately.
It truly pained her to spend so much.
Fortunately, the transportation speed was really fast. As soon as Ding Yun placed her order and paid, the two sellers shipped the items not long after. And less than five minutes after shipping, the items had already entered the warehouse of the second-hand trading system.
Seeing this, Ding Yun naturally hurried to press the extract button with the children. Then, two boxes, one large and one small, appeared before Ding Yun. The small box was a crystal box filled with Jiaoren pearls of various colors like gold, blue, pink, purple, and black. The pearls were large, with a visible size of at least 20 millimeters.
The large box was wooden, but Ding Yun couldn't tell what kind of wood it was. Upon opening it, it was filled with egg-sized, pebble-like spirit stones of various colors, including red, green, blue, purple, and black. They looked very translucent, almost all of glass quality.
The only drawback was their small size, making it impossible to make bracelets. They could only be used for beads, pendants, and the like.
But as long as they were indeed equivalent to the jade in this world.
Their value would definitely not be low.