Ding.
A private message notification sound came.
Chen Yu, sitting in his chair, clicked open the private message box.
Yu Pu: Benefactor, I want to buy some resources.
Not enough?
Chen Yu: What resources.
Yu Pu: All-element fragments 2000, Obsidian 500.
Ding.
You have received a gift from Yu Pu.
300 Gold Coins.
Hiss!
Seeing the required resources, Chen Yu frowned slightly.
High-level resources.
Element fragments, Obsidian, these were also resources he had a large demand for now.
Take it!
Even though Chen Yu also needed them.
His current reserves of such resources were still ample. Yu Pu rarely asked him for anything, so he absolutely couldn't refuse.
Gift.
All-element fragments 2000, Obsidian 500.
After gifting the resources.
Chen Yu received a message from Yu Pu.
Yu Pu: Received.
Chen Yu: Why do you suddenly need so many high-level resources? Camp expansion?
The message was sent.
After waiting for a long time, Chen Yu received no further reply.
"Well, looks like Old Yu is busy too," Chen Yu shrugged with a smile and sat in his chair, gazing thoughtfully. "Tsk~ How can I collect resources from others without spending resources?"
What Yu Pu had just told him had sparked an idea.
Collecting resources.
In the current situation, Chen Yu was still exchanging goods for goods.
Resource exchange.
Although he was still in a dominant position, his acquisition of resources was still limited to the premise of needing to invest his own resources externally.
How to obtain resources without investing resources.
This was what he should be thinking about!
Exchanging food for resources, the customer base was those who were struggling on the brink of starvation for survival. Although, at present, the number of such customers was huge.
There were still people who could be self-sufficient.
They had sufficient food and sufficient resources.
What Chen Yu needed to do was to milk these people as well, and make them willingly send their resources to him.
Just as Yu Pu had said earlier, store resources with him.
If he could truly achieve this, then he would be the resource bank in the underground world, and his scale would be greatly enhanced.
"This feels a bit tricky."
Chen Yu clicked his tongue.
It was unrealistic to implement this idea instantly.
"Hey~"
Suddenly, Chen Yu grinned.
In the front hall of the camp.
Chen Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, frequently performing operations.
Ding dong.
Just as Chen Yu was busy, a voice call invitation suddenly came.
Raising his eyebrows slightly.
Seeing the inviter, Chen Yu sighed.
"Why are you looking for me instead of mining?" Chen Yu muttered, "Are all your mines blown up?"
"Proceeding in an orderly fashion..."
From the watch, Jiang Yaqing's voice came. It was clear from her tone that she was happy, indicating that her mining was progressing smoothly.
The harvest was also quite substantial.
"I'm looking for you to ask, who did you provoke again?" Jiang Yaqing whispered. Chen Yu was stunned when he heard this. "Ha, who did I provoke?"
"Someone is poaching your business."
"Ah?"
"Haven't you seen the trading channel?" Jiang Yaqing whispered. "Someone is offering 8000 resource points for the Water Condenser blueprint you acquired earlier. Isn't this deliberately trying to annoy you?"
Chen Yu frowned.
A quick search revealed that someone was indeed acquiring Water Condenser blueprints.
Acquisition price: 8000.
"Xiang Qi, I've never even heard this name," Chen Yu muttered, then clicked on the leaderboard to check the top fifty people. "He's not on the list either."
"Are you stupid?"
Jiang Yaqing immediately pouted.
"If someone really wants to mess with you, do you think they would show themselves? This Xiang Qi is definitely a pawn pushed out by someone. As for the person behind him, it's likely one of the leaders from the three merged regions, or perhaps someone from our original region who already held a grudge against you."
"Makes sense."
Chen Yu nodded in a low voice and then went back to his work, as if he hadn't taken the matter to heart at all.
"Do you want me to help? I'll buy the Water Condenser blueprint for 10,000 and bid against him," Jiang Yaqing offered. "If I join, they'll definitely be confused."
"Forget it!"
Chen Yu said with a pout.
"Now everyone in this region knows we're family."
"Who... who is family with you!" Unexpectedly, Jiang Yaqing's voice suddenly rose. "Don't talk nonsense, who is family with you."
"Why are you so agitated? Aren't we allies?"
"That's not family!"
"Alright, alright, fine, it's not family. Don't bother me now, I'm busy!" Chen Yu's eyes were fixed on his trading channel page, typing in numbers.
"Done."
Grinning, Jiang Yaqing in the watch frowned.
"What new trick are you up to?"
"You'll see. Classmate Jiang, do you know why rich people get richer? Although you come from a wealthy family, you don't seem to understand this principle. Today... Teacher Chen will give you a lesson."
"Ha?"
"Watch carefully, learn well, these are all knowledge points!" Chen Yu said with a cold laugh. "Just watch, the person who is competing with me for the Water Condenser blueprint later will not have a good ending either."
As he spoke, Chen Yu opened the regional chat.
"Ahem~"
"Everyone, I have an announcement to make."
"Upon learning that many survivors are facing imbalanced resource allocation, to solve this problem, I have specially established a Resource Exchange Center."
"I will recycle all resources here, and also sell them."
"For resource sales, I provide water resources for equivalent exchange, or you can store resource points in my shop. If you store over 50,000 resource points, you get a 5% discount on resource purchases. Store 100,000, get a 10% discount. Store over 200,000, enjoy a 15% discount. Store over 1 million, you will enjoy the supreme VIP treatment of this shop."
"Fair exchange!"
"Purchasing and selling are at equivalent value!"
"I hope all brothers and sisters will no longer have to worry about insufficient resources. Welcome everyone to actively participate in exchanges. The future of the underground world is in our hands!"
"Charge!"
After sending the message, Chen Yu comfortably leaned back in the camp, watching the footprint channel on the projection.
Resource sales.
In the sales page, all basic resources, soil, lumber, stone, iron ore, copper ore, silver ore, gold ore, and element fragments were listed at 5000 units, with selling prices set at 8, 15, 20, 33, 50, 95, 190, and 375 respectively.
Afterward, he proceeded to acquire resources.
Still the same basic resources, with acquisition prices set at 5, 10, 15, 25, 40, 75, 150, and 300.
Perfect!
This was also the inspiration given to him by Yu Pu.
There were definitely many situations in the underground world where the allocation of a certain resource was uneven. For example, entering a lush jungle, encountering a stone mine.
Single resource overflow.
Other resources could not be replenished, such as these dilemmas.
Chen Yu was now making himself into a resource exchange center. Anyone with excess resources could sell them to him, and he would accept all resources.
He also sold resources to those who needed them.
Obtaining the middle value, the price difference, give it to me!
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Author's notes:
Middlemen earn the difference, awesome! Have you eaten?!