Jiang Ye was shocked.
A perfectly intact fertilized egg sold for ten thousand yuan!
Making over six hundred thousand with just a few shovels?
This wasn't a fertilized egg, it was a golden egg!
Clicking sell, 601,200 yuan instantly appeared in his account, raising his personal assets to 9,813,250 yuan.
Just a little bit more, and he could reach ten million to upgrade his base to level 13.
Jiang Ye pondered for a moment, then opened the chat channel and messaged Isabelle.
Jiang Ye: Teacher Isabelle, may I ask you a question? Do you know about the Black King Octopus?
Courier Isabelle: I do, it's a very famous creature. What aspect are you interested in?
Jiang Ye: How much is this Black King Octopus worth? If I could kill one and sell it, how much would I earn?
Courier Isabelle: It depends on the size. An adult Black King Octopus can sell for around ten million, and a juvenile for three to four million.
Jiang Ye was stunned.
This creature was so valuable!
But thinking about its ferocity, spewing acid on the ship, it truly couldn't be a cheap species.
Courier Isabelle: Where did you hear about this thing? As far as I know, it's quite rare, only found on a few planets.
Jiang Ye: I just encountered one, caught it on my ship with a fishing net. It spewed acid and smashed glass, and that thing almost killed me. It laid a pile of fertilized eggs on my ship, and I sold them. They're worth more than gold.
Courier Isabelle: Holy crap! You're too brave! Do you have the guts of a leopard three times a day? You dared to catch a Black King Octopus! Last year, when I was in training at the courier company headquarters, a Black King Octopus that was used as a sample escaped from the warehouse and spewed acid, killing over forty security guards. Handguns and submachine guns were useless against it. We finally had to bring in cannons to take it down! How did you dare to do it alone?
Jiang Ye: How was I supposed to know it was so fierce? I just saw it was big and went to catch it.
Courier Isabelle: Don't catch big things anymore in the future, it's dangerous!
Jiang Ye shrugged. The moment he learned the price of the Black King Octopus, he had already decided he had to catch a few to sell. Ten million moving around, it would be a shame not to catch them.
Jiang Ye: One last question. I saw in the item description in the trading post that the Black King Octopus is a product of nuclear radiation. Does that mean my planet has nuclear radiation?
Courier Isabelle: No, it's probably the fault of the Virgo Courier Group.
Jiang Ye was confused, what?
Courier Isabelle: The Virgo Courier Group is a large and notorious cheap interstellar courier group in the galaxy, formed by thousands of courier companies within the Virgo constellation. Their service attitude is terrible, delivery times are long, and they don't handle cargo with care. The only advantage is that they are cheap.
Courier Isabelle: This Virgo Courier Group has a bad habit of losing packages randomly.
Courier Isabelle: During interstellar transport, they often encounter situations where they can't find the recipient. Legitimate courier companies will store the cargo safely until the recipient appears. But the Virgo Courier Group is very rough. Once they can't find the recipient, they just throw the cargo into space to reduce weight and save fuel. It's like opening a car window and throwing trash out. Every hour, about 2.2 million packages are thrown into space from Virgo Courier Group ships, scattering like flowers, flying randomly into the vast universe.
Jiang Ye was dumbfounded, so unethical?
Courier Isabelle: The Black King Octopuses on your planet are likely products of their discarded trash. Fifty years ago, the Virgo Courier Group was fined 12 trillion yuan because they threw away 1.2 billion fertilized egg containers of different species, with 1 billion fertilized eggs in each container. These fertilized eggs flew to many planets, causing large-scale species invasions. This includes the Black King Octopus; many Black King Octopuses on various planets were thrown out fifty years ago.
After a long detour, Jiang Ye finally understood. This was too bizarre, he never would have imagined it.
Black-hearted companies hurt people!
After chatting with Isabelle, he looked out the window; it was already dark.
Jiang Ye opened two cans of fruit and cooked a pot of white rice to eat.
While eating, he opened the chat channel.
Cao County Citizen: I have a fever, feeling very unwell. Closed for business today.
Jiang Ye: Drink more hot water.
Can't Twist the Cap: Brother Jiang, do you have any medicine there? I have a high fever today and have vomited four times, I'm about to die. But I can't buy medicine, and the sellers in the channel are too expensive.
Rifampicin capsules aren't worth much. Jiang Ye bought ten from the Galactic Mall and transmitted them over.
Can't Twist the Cap: Thank you, Brother Jiang. You saved my life again. I'll take the medicine now.
Jiang Ye: Drink more hot water.
Two acquaintances falling ill consecutively gave him a bad feeling.
He opened the public chat channel and, as expected, everyone was asking for medical help.
Miyamoto Musashi: I have many red spots on my leg, and the itching is unbearable. I've scratched it until it bled!
Ronald: Doctor! Is there a doctor! I need fever medicine! I'm about to faint!
Ding Tai Fung Baozi I Eat One by One: Help! I'm vomiting and having diarrhea today, I've almost vomited out my bile, and I've fainted once. Is there any medicine to save my life! I'm willing to pay all my money!
Yin Liu: I'm urinating blood, I'm so scared, what's going on? I also have a slight fever. Does anyone who studied medicine want to diagnose me for three thousand yuan?
Jiang Ye scrolled up through the chat history. Starting from noon, a few people claimed to be sick, more people got sick in the afternoon, and by evening it was out of control!
Tens of thousands of people were sick!
Amidst the groans of illness, some messages selling medicine were also quite prominent.
ご孤独★王者彡: Selling Rifampicin capsules, 1000 yuan per capsule!
Wu Xiang Long Hong: Anti-inflammatory drugs, 5000 yuan for three pills, 6000 yuan for five pills! Limited quantity, do you want to live?
Yamazaki Aya: Rifampicin capsules, 10,000 yuan for 10 capsules!
Jiang Ye gasped.
Medicine that cost only a few yuan to produce was being sold for four figures?
Had everyone gone mad?
Numerous drug dealers kept appearing, each raising prices more aggressively, profiting from others' illness.
Many colony officials, not having much money, haggled in the channel, hoping to get a pill at a low price.
However, the drug dealers were adamant about not lowering prices, their attitude arrogant: If you don't buy, others will. Take it or leave it!
Many colony officials were desperate and started cursing:
You are too shameless. To earn a few hundred yuan, you're willing to kill us. Can you live with yourselves!
It's medicine that costs only a few yuan, how can you sell it for over a thousand! This is going to kill me!
I really can't afford it. I'm planning to tough it out. If I survive, I live, if I don't, I die.
Despair. Tens of thousands of people, not even one person who doesn't profit from death? Not a single person selling medicine normally?
This is despicable, how can you be so low-class! We all work on the same planet, shouldn't we help each other? I don't trust anyone anymore. There isn't a good person in this world. If I can overcome this illness, I'll kill anyone I see from now on!
Wrath was boiling!
Public indignation was surging!
The people in the channel were divided into three groups: one group was the black-hearted drug dealers, another group was the patients pleading for cheap medicine, and the third group, like Jiang Ye, were bystanders who were not sick and had no shortage of medicine.
Pathetic!
Jiang Ye sighed, closed the channel, and went upstairs to sleep.
He lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.
After more than ten seconds, he suddenly opened his eyes again. As if he had thought of something.
Immediately, Jiang Ye sat up from the bed like a spring.
He threw off the covers, went downstairs, and opened the chat channel again.