SEC Chapter 28 Roadside Deal: Massive Purchase of Saltpeter!
Chapter 28 Roadside Deal: Massive Purchase of Saltpeter!
Chapter 28 Roadside Deal: Massive Purchase of Saltpeter!
Although it was night, there were just as many players on the streets as during the day. They gathered in twos and threes, some talking in hushed tones, while others were enjoying the few moments of leisure they had in the game. After all, in this world, no one knows whether tomorrow or an accident will come first. Su Ran walked beside Lin Xuan, her black hair on her forehead being blown loose by the night wind. She secretly glanced at the man beside her and whispered, "This service area is bigger than I imagined."
"Um!"
Lin Xuan responded, his gaze falling on the girl beside him. "Wait—"
"What's wrong, Lin Xuan?"
Su Ran was slightly taken aback, and her steps also stopped.
Your hair is messy.
Lin Xuan looked at her, then reached out and brushed aside a few stray strands of hair from her forehead. Seeing his gesture, Su Ran froze, her heart pounding, and her once fair face instantly flushed crimson. "Th-thank you."
She lowered her head, her voice barely audible, like a mosquito's hum. Even though the other person had only tidied her hair, why was her heart beating so fast?
Lin Xuan withdrew his hand, then glanced ahead. "Let's go take a look ahead!"
"good!"
Su Ran took a deep breath, trying to calm her heartbeat. She subconsciously touched the stray strands of hair on her forehead, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily turned up, revealing a pair of shallow dimples.
Before they knew it, the two had entered a more bustling street.
This place is completely different from the accommodation area. Players are sitting densely packed on both sides of the road, and each person has a cloth spread out in front of them, covered with all sorts of things.
"This is----"
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Looking at everything in front of him, Su Ran was slightly surprised and said.
"It should be a trading market that players form spontaneously."
Lin Xuan slowed his pace, his gaze sweeping over the various stalls. "There's no designated place to buy supplies in the service area. These people who want to replenish their supplies can choose to trade with other players here!"
"So that's how it is!"
Su Nian nodded and said, Lin Xuan continued forward, his gaze sweeping over the stalls. Most of the things sold here were common items in the early stages of the game, such as firewood and refined iron. Next to them was a small sign that read "Exchange for drinking water" or "Exchange for food".
Obviously, food and water are still crucial in the early stages of the game!
As Lin Xuan walked further in, he encountered a wide variety of items, including saltpeter, which he had been searching for for a long time. However, perhaps because most people had not yet obtained the "firearms blueprints," very few people visited this material. Most would just glance at it and walk past quickly. However, although saltpeter seemed to be ignored now, its value would skyrocket once most people obtained the "firearms blueprints."
Now is the best time to buy.
"Boss, how much is your saltpeter?"
Lin Xuan squatted down, picked up a piece of saltpeter, and casually said, "Brother, you want to sell saltpeter? How about this, I think you're a good person, you can exchange ten bottles of water for one piece of saltpeter!"
"Ten bottles of water?"
Lin Xuan's lips twitched slightly. Three bottles of water for a piece of saltpeter? Anyone who buys that would be a complete sucker.
So, good people are supposed to have guns pointed at them, huh?
"Too expensive."
Lin Xuan put down the saltpeter and pretended to leave, "Hey, hey, brother, don't be in such a hurry to leave!"
Seeing this, the stall owner immediately called out to him, putting on a fawning smile, "The price is negotiable, negotiable."
"Tell me, how much do you think is appropriate?"
Lin Xuan stopped and turned to look at him. "Two bottles of water for one."
"Two bottles of water?"
The stall owner's face stiffened, then he shook his head repeatedly, "Brother, you're haggling way too much! Everyone else cuts the price in half, but yours is like hitting my main artery!"
"How about five bottles of water?"
"Two bottles of water!"
"Two and a half bottles! That's the lowest I can go, really the lowest I can go!"
"Two bottles of water!"
Seeing that the other party was persistent, the stall owner's expression changed several times. However, he hadn't made a single sale since he started selling, and besides, in his eyes, these saltpeter stones were just unusable waste, and it would be much more convenient to exchange them for water. In the end, he gritted his teeth and said with a reluctant expression, "Alright, alright, two bottles it is. You're a straightforward man, brother. Consider it making a friend."
"Friend, how many pieces do you want?"
How many pieces of clothing do you have in total?
Lin Xuan squatted down again, glanced at them, and casually asked.
The stall owner paused slightly, looked down to count the saltpeter in front of him, then glanced at his storage space. After a few seconds, he gave a precise number, "Ten pieces in total, brother, how many do you want? If you want more, I can give you a discount, like '7'."
"I want them all!"
Lin Xuan glanced at it and said calmly, "All of it??"
Upon hearing this, the stall owner's voice trembled slightly, as if he couldn't believe his ears. "Brother, you want them all? I have ten pieces of saltpeter, a full ten!"
One piece of saltpeter can be exchanged for two bottles of water, so ten pieces of saltpeter would be a full twenty bottles of water. In this world, drinking water is hard currency. He had even heard that in this service area, some women would agree to trade their bodies for a bottle of water. Twenty bottles of water would be enough for him and his wife to live comfortably for more than half a month. "Ten pieces of saltpeter, twenty bottles of water."
Lin Xuan stared at him and said calmly, "Is there a problem?"
"No problem, I'll install it for you right away!"
The stall owner took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but the smile on his lips was like an AK, impossible to suppress. Twenty bottles of water—just this one order today made him rich!
"Um!"
Lin Xuan nodded and responded. He tapped his storage space, and twenty bottles of purified water appeared in front of the stall owner. "This—this is purified water!"
Looking at the neatly arranged bottles of purified water in front of him, the stall owner felt his voice become hoarse. Purified water was far more valuable than ordinary murky water. He had been in this survival game for several days and had never drunk a drop of purified water. But now, he saw twenty bottles of it. This person in front of him was not a customer, but his second father. Otherwise, since the other person was much younger than him, he would have wanted to recognize him as his father on the spot. This scene instantly attracted the attention of many players around him, and whispers rose and fell.
"Holy crap, that's purified water, right? Twenty bottles in total?"
"Who is that kid? How can he be so generous?"
"Salt water? Why would you want to exchange that stuff? You can't eat it or drink it."
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"7
The whispers drifted into Lin Xuan's ears, but he ignored them, even feeling a slight disdain in his heart. These people didn't know the importance of saltpeter yet. When they had firearms and needed saltpeter in the future, he could sell it all and make a fortune!