Chapter 2493: Transaction (1)

Since that's the case.

Then… let's start making Fierce Woman's Grief.

It's exactly ten minutes before ten o'clock, enough time to finish one Quick-Craft Talisman.

Starting now!

Very quickly, it was done.

Another fifteen high-quality Fierce Woman's Grief obtained, stored away in the system space.

At this moment, Li Ruanyu and Shangguan Ting still hadn't finished their talk.

What was between them couldn't possibly be resolved in just a short ten-plus minutes.

It'll probably take a few hours, right?

Checking the time, it was already ten o'clock.

Then… let them have a good chat.

The two of them had probably never talked face-to-face for this long before.

Since he'd already decided to take in Shangguan Ting, she and Li Ruanyu really did need to talk more.

It would be best if it could clear the distance between them.

But of course, it was impossible that just one talk could truly clear the distance.

Even if the deepest contradiction were resolved, the way the two of them got along would probably still be like this — bickering back and forth.

But if it was just bickering, it really wasn't a big deal.

Right now Zhao Chi could obviously favor Li Ruanyu, but if he took in Shangguan Ting, in the future he'd probably have to consider her feelings too.

Why does it suddenly feel a bit of a headache?

The legendary Shura field shouldn't refer to this kind of situation, right?

Open the system.

Neither Li Ruanyu nor Shangguan Ting had sent a message; only Su Qin had.

Su Qin 【Zhao Chi, I'm back. Shall we go to the temporary trading post in Cloud's End County?】

Zhao Chi 【Sure, I'm at the pharmacy with Qiyue, we'll come find you right away】

Su Qin 【Got it】

Very quickly, he parted ways with Qiyue.

Zhao Chi and Su Qin teleported together into Cloud's End County, which belonged to Vice Leader Shen Jiyun.

The moment they arrived, he immediately felt a great crush of people.

People were everywhere around him.

From a quick observation, Zhao Chi could tell this should be Cloud's End County's training ground.

Only a training ground would have such a large open space.

It was a large training ground, much bigger than the one in Zhao Chi's territory.

All around were large numbers of weapon racks, wooden dummies, archery targets, simple tools, and so on.

In the distance there was also a three-story small building, which should be the barracks.

Soldiers could live inside the barracks, saving on housing outside.

At this moment, the training ground had been temporarily converted into a trading post.

Along the north side was a row of wooden tables, with many elves seated behind them.

They were all Shen Jiyun's residents, mostly craftsmen, drafted on the spot to serve as traders.

Beside them were quite a few elven soldiers maintaining order, loudly informing the lords of the trading rules.

Lords were everywhere around.

He could see many familiar faces.

But Zhao Chi wasn't close with them; he only knew they were all lords of the White Tiger Regiment.

Quite a few did take the initiative to greet Su Qin, and Su Qin politely responded to each one.

Zhao Chi was happy to have some peace and quiet.

Although most of the lords' gazes would slide from Su Qin to him, as long as they didn't take the initiative to speak to him, Zhao Chi paid them no attention whatsoever.

He was seriously listening to the elven staff member's announcements.

"…So!"

"Please understand!"

"Real-time updates are a bit difficult; basically we can only manage to update once per minute. If anyone's order gets canceled, please bear with us."

"All the lords of our White Tiger Regiment will be coming here through the Quandou Society, and there are quite a lot of people. Please don't make a mess, keep your voices down as much as possible, and after completing a trade you can go outside the trading post to talk."

"Lords who need to trade, head north — behind the tables over there are the people currently handling trades. Just go find them."

"Right now the goods in stock are only from our entire White Tiger Regiment, plus the supplies inventory of each main squad and squad. We haven't yet tallied the inventory submitted by individual lords."

"Please be patient a little longer, we're organizing it now."

"Please have every lord submit in the system the supplies and quantities they need, as well as the supplies and quantities they can sell, so we can coordinate and so it's easier for everyone to trade."

"Everyone's system should have received our current inventory list — please check it."

"Alright, new lords pay attention, listen to me…"

The elven staff member kept repeating and reminding.

Zhao Chi opened the system.

Sure enough, he saw a message from Cloud's End County.

【You have received a message: "Cloud's End County Temporary Trading Post Inventory List"】

【You have received a message: Please fill out the "Sales Registration Form" and "Procurement Needs Form" to register the materials you wish to sell and the materials you need to purchase.】

Although it's a temporary trading post, the most basic functions are still working fine.

Going to the exchange also requires submitting these.

Zhao Chi opened the Sales Registration Form.

The items he had the most stock of were food and basic resources.

The distribution of items from the evacuation battle had already been completed, and in the end, Zhao Chi was indeed left with basic resources worth about 20,000 gold coins, roughly 3 million units.

This was really more than the basic resources he had been stockpiling and accumulating before.

The best way to accumulate wealth really is plunder…

Although it's bullshit, this is reality.

Among those 3 million basic resources this time, the most were stone materials.

Wood was next.

Iron ore was third.

These three types are the most basic and also the most abundant resources.

There were also some processed goods and more expensive resources.

Mostly finished products like iron ingots, furs, cloth, etc., which made up a much smaller proportion.

There were also some other resources, such as copper ore, feathers, ropes, etc., which were even fewer.

But regardless, it was still worth 20,000 gold coins.

Right now, Tang Ruan was leading people in continuous transport.

Even using Zhao Chi's large wooden carts for nonstop transport, it would still take at least 2 days, or even longer.

But it didn't matter — other lords had even more spoils, and their transport times were even longer.

At least for now, they couldn't be sold.

But Zhao Chi didn't want to sell these kinds of resources either — just keeping them all would be fine, as strategic reserves.

Next was food.