Astonished.
Looking at the goods in the transaction channel before him, Chen Yu was speechless for a long time.
Flame Fruit.
A survivor in his area had actually obtained a Flame Fruit.
Fearing he had misread, Chen Yu specifically called the little demon over to check if she had misread the product.
"Whoa~"
"You really found a treasure."
Seeing a Flame Fruit listed, the little demon also raised her eyebrows in surprise.
In the underground caves, elemental fruits were extremely rare.
Chen Yu's accidental entry into the magma area and obtaining the Flame Fruit and Magma Fruit was already considered lucky. For adventurers in the underground caves, they might not encounter such a fortunate encounter in their entire lives.
Unexpectedly, someone listed it again during this sweep.
"Your area is quite rich," the little demon clicked her tongue in amazement, shaking her head. Then she looked at Chen Yu, who was rubbing his hands together excitedly, and reminded him, "Are you sure you're still shocked? Shouldn't you quickly have the holder buy this item and then ask if they have anything else?"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
Chen Yu's fingers constantly operated on the virtual screen.
The price the seller of the Flame Fruit had marked was not low. For other survivors in the underground caves, those with strong financial backing, like him, with ample resources, considered it a great bargain.
A single Flame Fruit could be sold for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
Converted into resource points, it was tens of billions.
At this moment, let alone producing 1,000 Elemental Crystal Shards, even if he produced ten thousand or a hundred thousand, Chen Yu would absolutely make a huge profit.
It was just that he felt the money was earned a bit unconscionably.
He felt like he was bullying people.
Although no matter where it was, merchants earned more through information asymmetry, Chen Yu was fundamentally an honest person before coming to the underground caves. After arriving, he had also used information asymmetry to earn money, but never so outrageously.
1,000 Elemental Crystals, worth 300,000 Resource Points.
Ten thousand times the profit.
He felt the money he earned was a bit unstable.
Regardless, he still swept away the Flame Fruit and then attempted to add the seller as a friend. During this time, Jiang Yaqing stared at him intently, her displeased gaze completely unnoticed by Chen Yu.
Ding——
Chen Yu purchased the Flame Fruit and obtained 1000 Elemental Shards.
"Bought it!"
"Bought it!"
In a scorching hot area of the underground caves, heatwaves seemed visible in the air. Several boys who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old were gathered together.
The white-haired boy wearing a miner's hat, surrounded in the center, clenched his fists and shouted excitedly.
"Did the big shot buy that fruit?" Hearing the shouts, the surrounding boys all gathered around. A beautiful mixed-race girl with blue eyes, golden hair, and a face smudged with what looked like volcanic ash also looked delighted. "1000 Elemental Crystals, 300,000 Elemental Points, aren't we going to get rich?"
The girl excitedly clasped her fists, looking at the Flame Fruit placed in the middle of them, still steaming with heat, and rubbed her hands.
If Chen Yu saw this, he would be greatly surprised.
They were all Flame Fruits.
What was even more incredible was that there were dozens of them here.
"Oh my god, if we sell all these fruits to Big Shot Chen Yu, won't our camp be upgraded to Excellent grade? The surrounding territories can also be expanded significantly, and our Noyce Adventurer Group's strength will once again reach a new level!"
A slightly short boy, who looked honest and cute, also grinned and clenched his fists excitedly.
"Little ones, we just discovered a new path along the lava cave."
Just then, a girl with bright eyes and pearly teeth walked over from a distance. Beside her was a boy who occasionally surged with lightning, appearing somewhat solitary and dull.
"Sister Ivy, you're back just in time."
The mixed-race girl excitedly waved her small hands, and the more mature girl also smiled.
"Why are you all so excited?"
"Let me tell you, let me tell you..." the mixed-race girl pursed her lips excitedly. "Didn't Big Shot Chen Yu just say in the chat channel that he wanted to buy resources from us survivors? Noyce just wanted to try listing the Flame Fruit, and Big Shot Chen Yu bought it."
"It's not strange, it's a fruit that enhances elemental strength,"
Ivy did not show the same excitement as the others, nodding as a matter of course.
"We don't have any fire mages among us, and Noyce is only half a fire mage. He doesn't accept external enhancements, otherwise, we would have consumed it internally."
"But do you know how much it sold for?"
"How much?"
"1000!!!" The mixed-race girl held up her fair finger. "A full 1000 Elemental Shards, 300,000 Resource Points."
"That's quite a lot."
Hearing this number, Ivy also gave a slight start, then smiled at Noyce.
"Looking at it this way, leader, is our adventurer group going to get rich? Ivy and I just discovered a new path, and there are many Flame Fruit trees and Magma Fruit trees inside. The fruits are all ripe, and there are a few trees that are not yet mature. Reyel, it's up to your Overgrowth."
"Leave it to me," the mixed-race girl patted her chest confidently.
"If we harvest them and sell them all to that big shot, we'll have tens of millions more resource points. Should we celebrate?" Ivy asked with a smile.
"Yes, yes, celebrate!"
The mixed-race girl and the chubby boy cheered.
"Big Shot has a lot of delicious grilled meat besides the set meals, and that especially sweet cheese, canned fruit, ah... just thinking about it makes my mouth water." The mixed-race girl clasped her hands, tilted her head, full of anticipation, with little stars in her eyes.
"I... I'm not Mutou, I'm... Zeck," the dull boy retorted.
"Alright, alright, little Zeck, why are you still so poor at communication? How long has it been since you've been called Mutou?" Ivy gently rubbed Zeck's head with her hand, then her gaze returned to Noyce. "Leader, what do you think?"
"I actually want to buy some better equipment,"
Noyce pondered for a moment and whispered, "When we venture out, survival is more important. Our five-person adventurer group hasn't even equipped everyone properly. Reyel is still wearing a shoddy Black Iron-grade magic robe."
The mixed-race girl looked down at her tattered robe and said nothing more.
"Big Xiong doesn't even have a decent shield."
The fair and chubby boy also stared blankly at his broken wooden shield.
"Zeck's greatsword is still a rotten wood grade that he opened from a box last time. Sister Ivy, your staff is only Black Iron Exquisite grade, right?" Noyce's eyes were filled with worry. "Our adventurer group was formed from an initial 30-person team, and now there are only the five of us. The departure of our companions, the storms we've encountered in between, only we ourselves know best. The underground caves are dangerous, and we don't know when we might lose our lives."
"We've only sold one."
"No one can guarantee that the big shot bought the fruit we had on hand on a whim. 300,000 resource points might not be enough for us to celebrate with champagne."
"Being able to sell this one is luck, and finding this cave is also luck."
"But—"
"You all know, I've always... had very bad luck."