Chapter 218: Traitors of the Resource Trade Alliance! The Downward Trend of Metal Prices!

After dealing with the second batch of military weapons, Qin Luo opened the Trading Market again to see the sales situation of the goods.

Among the listed equipment, 40,000 sets of Black Iron-grade equipment and 100,000 sets of Ordinary-grade equipment were snatched up.

For this, Qin Luo obtained 100,000 Black Iron-grade Magic Crystals and 70 million energy points.

Hiss! Although he had an estimate of the value of the goods, Qin Luo still couldn't help but gasp when he saw so many Magic Crystals and energy points.

Especially the energy points, a full 70 million! And the Silver-grade equipment sold, although many people asked about it, there were no transactions.

After all, the price is too high, and not many people can afford it, especially since many lords don't even have Bronze-grade Magic Crystals, let alone Silver-grade Magic Crystals.

There is another point: Qin Luo was busy with other things just now and did not pass the friend requests.

Even for some lords qualified to trade, he had not yet discussed with them.

As for the 300 sets of Bronze-grade equipment, 200 sets remain.

Only 100 sets of Bronze-grade equipment were sold, obtaining 1,000 Bronze-grade Magic Crystals! Qin Luo was very satisfied with this number!

After all, not every lord is like him, able to kill Bronze-grade monsters at will to obtain Bronze-grade Magic Crystals! These 1,000 Bronze-grade Magic Crystals are actually not a small amount.

There are only so many customers with ability and demand! The Bronze-grade equipment he sold was suitable for Goblins to wear, and only effective for a portion of the lords' troops.

Just this point excluded most lords.

In addition, one must have the capital to buy this equipment.

And at the current stage, most of those who have Bronze-grade Magic Crystals are Transcendental Lords or Rare Lords.

If Qin Luo changed the trading conditions from Bronze-grade Magic Crystals to Black Iron-grade Magic Crystals or energy points, they would be snatched up in minutes! "1,000 Bronze-grade Magic Crystals, I really didn't dare to dream of it!"

Qin Luo sighed.

With so many Bronze-grade Magic Crystals, he can use them to recruit Bronze-realm Undead Bone Dragons or upgrade the territory.

He can even keep some inventory for other places.

In fact, Magic Crystals have many uses, such as the large batch of military weapons just transported back, which need to use Magic Crystals to act as the energy core of the weapons.

The level of Magic Crystals arranged in the weapons will also affect the strength of the weapons.

Also, among the Metal Puppet Warriors, the energy core of the Golden-Armored Puppet Warrior is a Bronze-grade Magic Crystal, while the energy core of the Silver-Armored Puppet Warrior is only Black Iron-grade.

Qin Luo suppressed the urge to upgrade the territory immediately and continued to check the trading situation.

The sales of metal resources were not optimistic.

As of now, 500,000 units of Red Iron, 400,000 units of Bronze, 300,000 units of Mithril, and 100,000 units of Adamantite have been sold.

Less than half of the four types of metal resources have been sold, and many remain.

After Qin Luo listed the items, he naturally greeted the Resource Trade Alliance.

But unlike the previous two days, the purchasing enthusiasm of the alliance lords has dropped a lot.

After all, basically all lords have supported Qin Luo, and as the saying goes, enough is enough.

Moreover, since they are lords of the Resource Trade Alliance, they are themselves merchants selling metal resources, suppliers of metal resources, not customers with real demand for this.

Of course, if it were based on Qin Luo's prestige and reputation, it wouldn't be a problem for every merchant lord to support a little more and buy out these metal resources.

Moreover, there should also be non-alliance lords buying them; after all, some lords don't specifically look at the merchant's name when buying goods.

There is another point: Qin Luo found that there had been no transaction records for more than an hour.

In this regard, Qin Luo decided to find the problem.

He closed his shop interface, opened the Trading Market, searched for metal resource products on the market, and couldn't help but frown.

Qin Luo found that on the market, whether it was the number of merchants selling or the amount of metal ore being sold, it was much more than yesterday! And many products had been listed for a long time without being sold out.

If it were in the previous days, such a situation would be impossible; once listed, no matter the quantity, they would be sold in a while.

Now, a large amount of metal ore resources have flowed into the market, which seems to have satisfied the market supply, leading to the situation where many products cannot be sold.

Of course, this is not the most important thing.

Qin Luo found that although most of the metal prices on the market were still marked with the prices Qin Luo set earlier.

But there were also some metal resources with relatively low prices, with some merchants marking eight or nine energy points per unit of Red Iron for sale.

In this regard, Qin Luo couldn't help but be confused; what is going on?

In fact, it all started today, or to be precise, after the dark offensive last night, when many merchant lords listed metal resources for sale at the same time.

Especially since Qin Luo himself invested two or three million units of metal resources into the market, the impact on the market was not small.

It completely satisfied the demand at that time, leading to some merchants' metal resources becoming unsalable! Although most of the buyers were friendly support from the Resource Trade Alliance lords, the metal resources they bought were not for their own consumption, but just flowed into the market in another way.

The supply of metal resources was actually noticed by some lords with ulterior motives very quickly.

Especially those lords who have always wanted to break the monopoly of metal resources, they are paying attention to the changes in the quantity and price of metal resources on the market at all times.

The number of such lords is even increasing, and through forum exchanges, they established an Anti-Monopoly Alliance opposed to the Resource Trade Alliance lords.

A few days ago, their efforts did not cause the price of metal resources to fall, but they have been looking for the right opportunity.

This time, the anti-Resource Trade Alliance lords seized this important opportunity and began to spread news in the chat channel and forum, promoting that the metal resource market was unsalable, the supply and demand relationship had begun to change, and there was an oversupply.

In fact, the supply of metal resources is at most in a stable state.

But after the lords of the Anti-Monopoly Alliance publicized it, and many lords already hated the high-priced metal resources, they quickly united to resist the Resource Trade Alliance and suppress high-priced metals! Seeing the transformation of public opinion and the subtle changes in the market, the lords who originally wanted to buy metal resources also gave up the idea.

Because they found that this was definitely the best time to topple the Resource Trade Alliance.

As long as the lords hold back from buying metal resources, they can force the merchant lords to lower prices! This is a war without smoke, and it depends on who can hold out until the end.

If it were just like this, the advantage and initiative would still be on the side of the Resource Trade Alliance! Because even if the goods cannot be sold for a while, the impact on them is not great.

The most important thing is that the supply and demand relationship is there; lords don't buy metal resources for a while, but they can't not buy them forever! As long as the Resource Trade Alliance lords hold the pressure and don't lower prices, victory will definitely be theirs.

Because if other lords don't buy metal resources, it means their development speed is stagnant.

And the Resource Trade Alliance lords are not restricted and can still develop their strength.

In another sense, this is also very beneficial to the Resource Trade Alliance.

They, the hundreds of thousands of merchant lords, can take the opportunity to develop, enhance their strength, and lead other billions of lords.

However, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest!

Among the hundreds of thousands of lords in the Resource Trade Alliance, there are always some stupid ones who are influenced by outside public opinion, fearing that the goods will not be sold. Moreover, the Anti-Monopoly Alliance not only launched public opinion to bewitch lords to suspend the purchase of metal resources but also planned to disintegrate the Resource Trade Alliance from within.

The Anti-Monopoly Alliance contacted some Resource Trade Alliance lords through some means, wanting to buy metal resources at a lower price, and promised that it would be a secret transaction, a private transaction, not a public transaction on the market.

Although a few merchant lords held the bottom line, some merchant lords were deceived, thinking that secret transactions would be fine, and the price given by the other party was actually not low, basically eight or nine energy points per unit of Red Iron.

But this price broke the standard line of ten energy points per unit of Red Iron set by Qin Luo earlier!

As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike collapses in an ant nest.

There must be many think tanks within the anti-monopoly organization to plan for them.

They know very well that if they fight against the entire Resource Trade Alliance, the chance of winning is actually not great, and it is very difficult to achieve victory.

This would instead make the hundreds of thousands of lords of the Resource Trade Alliance become more united, closely connected, and forever stand on the opposite side of them, carrying out continuous struggles.

Now, they have changed their tactics: openly crusade against the lords of the Resource Trade Alliance, while secretly starting to win over and bribe a batch of Resource Trade Alliance lords, promising them heavy rewards, and secretly acquiring all the metal resources of these merchant lords at a lower price.

In this secret transaction, it is beneficial to both sides.

One is that the anti-monopoly organization harvested a large amount of metal resources at a price lower than the market price.

On the other hand, it broke the high market price set by Qin Luo. As long as this trend is formed, the decline in metal resource prices is inevitable.

Also, the batch of Resource Trade Alliance lords who originally united with the anti-monopoly organization originally had metal resources that were difficult to sell, but now after uniting with them, they can easily sell them and obtain a large amount of energy points, which can be used for territory construction and strength improvement.

As for whether their behavior will lead to a price crash, they may have thought of this, but they still chose to do so.

In fact, the reason is very simple: if they support Qin Luo's policy and sell at a high price, they will fall into a vicious cycle because metal resources cannot be sold, and now, they have harvested huge benefits.

It's just that the benefits they obtained were at the expense of the entire Resource Trade Alliance.

It can be said to be "dead friend, not dead poor Dao."

This point cannot be entirely blamed on them; if it were other merchants or Qin Luo, perhaps they would also do so.

After all, in the face of huge interests, few people can hold their original intentions.

As for the so-called alliance relationship, it is not unbreakable.

The lords of the Resource Trade Alliance gathered together because of interests, and they may also separate and betray each other because of interests.

Human nature is like this! What's more, no matter which side wins this resource price war, they are the ultimate beneficiaries.

If the price war continues to be fought and remains deadlocked, these low-price merchant lords will become the only beneficiaries.

But is it really as simple as they think?

Impossible! After a secret low-price transaction was completed, the anti-monopoly alliance released numerous transaction records to the chat channel and forum, which immediately caused an uproar.

This also allowed billions of lords to see hope! Originally, the price of Red Iron was not what it was on the Trading Market, all ten energy points per unit.

There had long been merchant lords selling at prices of eight or nine energy points! Thinking about this, their psychology was instantly unbalanced.

Since you can sell to others so low, why sell to us for ten energy points?

Some lords who couldn't help but want to buy high-priced metals held back again, and even spoke on the forum, saying they would rather die than buy high-priced metals again unless the merchants collectively lowered prices.

The anti-monopoly alliance's operation won a lot of praise, and many lords scrambled to join. The anti-monopoly alliance also took this opportunity to quickly recruit lords, absorb members, and expand its power, making the alliance's power stronger.

On the side of the Resource Trade Alliance, they were confused by the anti-monopoly alliance's operation.

After they reacted, they were not panicked or worried about the decline in metal resource prices, but furious.

When the Resource Trade Alliance lords were united to resist "foreign enemies," a batch of "traitors" appeared, secretly selling low-priced metals, and they were exposed, which was simply too abominable.

In the group chat of the Resource Trade Alliance, the lords were naming and shaming these traitors with words.

In the transaction screenshots exposed by the anti-monopoly alliance, the names of the transaction objects were not hidden, so these traitors had nowhere to hide and were directly exposed, suffering the blame and abuse of hundreds of thousands of lords.

Facing the crusade of the Resource Trade Alliance lords, those "traitor" lords were also unable to refute and were ashamed.

They thought they were smart and could become the ultimate beneficiaries, or even achieve a win-win (win twice), but in the end, they found that they were sold by the lords of the anti-monopoly alliance.

Even many lords ran to their shops to leave messages, accusing them of why they treated them differently.

Now it's good, it can be said that they offended both sides.

Some merchant lords couldn't bear the pressure and simply quit the group chat.

Some merchant lords directly started to rot, openly selling low-priced metals.

The situation is developing in a direction unfavorable to the Resource Trade Alliance, but it is exactly what the anti-monopoly alliance wants!

"There are actually thousands of 'traitors' selling low-priced metals!"

Qin Luo spent a lot of time to clarify the ins and outs of the whole thing! Although the situation evolved and changed, it only took a few hours.

Qin Luo discovered the time a little late, and at this time, the progress of the event had reached an irreversible state.

In this regard, he is also very helpless, and even powerless.

After all, he is just a group owner, not the superior of these hundreds of thousands of lords; he can at most give them some suggestions, but cannot force them to do anything.

The volume of hundreds of thousands of lords is already not small, and it is difficult to avoid some "traitors"! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 219 =====