Chapter 2501

Although the Speed-Work Talisman can achieve ten hours of work in ten minutes, its consumption is also great.

It will double the drain on the body's condition, and must be paired with medicine—otherwise the user can't hold up.

Moreover, it brings side effects like headaches, dizziness, nausea, and so on, which cannot be eliminated and can only be eased through complete rest.

Apart from that.

The price isn't cheap either.

Roughly fifty silver coins per talisman.

That's the equivalent of spending 5,000 yuan to temporarily buy one workday's worth of time.

Unless it's a special period—say, urgently repairing equipment before a battle, or rushing to meet a delivery deadline—only then will it be used in large quantities.

Normally, no one uses it frequently.

Especially not letting craftsmen use it on a large scale.

The cost is simply too high.

An ordinary lord would buy at most a hundred to stockpile, and at most wouldn't exceed a thousand talismans.

Unless it's a lord who specializes in production, who might use it a bit more often and stockpile a bit more.

But it's definitely nowhere near comparable to Zhao Chi.

So Zhao Chi truly isn't afraid of anyone competing with him for Speed-Work Talismans.

"Back? Everything alright?"

Su Qin asked with concern.

"I'm fine, don't worry."

"Mm, the stock is getting larger and larger now. Quite a few female captives have appeared on the sales list—do you want to buy this time?"

"Female captives? Let me take a look."

Zhao Chi was instantly interested.

He also opened the system to check.

After a battle, the number of captives enters a brief surge period.

Although this time the opponents were werewolves, the werewolves' territory contained large numbers of human, elf, beastman, and goblin slaves.

There were also some slaves of other races, but the numbers were certainly not as large as those of the four main races.

Once these werewolves were defeated, their slaves became the spoils of war for the lords.

The lords would keep those who were high-level craftsmen, high-level slave soldiers, or had decent attributes.

The rest would all be sold off.

After all, having too many slaves is really not a good thing—it takes a great deal of time and manpower to maintain them.

It also consumes quite a bit of food.

Keeping them around is a complete money-losing proposition.

One more day kept, one more day lost.

The lords all want to sell them off as quickly as possible.

And during these few days after the battle, every lord is selling captives, so the prices will be quite good.

This is also the best time to buy captives.

Zhao Chi now has plenty of food, and also has slave collars to control them.

The captives' and slaves' greatest disadvantage against him has already been greatly eased, and can even be reversed.

Then… let's buy captives in large quantities.

All of them female captives.

At this moment, Zhao Chi already had been receiving one successful-trade notification after another.

【Notification: Your wheat-grain sales order has sold 350 tons, after-tax income 230.3 gold coins, deposited into the temporary trading point】

【Notification: Your wheat-grain sales order has sold 15 tons, after-tax income 9.87 gold coins, deposited into the temporary trading point】

【Notification: Your experience-fruit sales order has sold 1,000 fruits, after-tax income 94 gold coins, deposited into the temporary trading point】

【Notification: Your……】

The messages refreshed very quickly.

Most were small orders, with amounts fluctuating around 100 gold coins.

But occasionally a large order would appear, bringing in tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of gold coins in one go.

The lords all hand the money to the traders, and the traders receive it into the temporary treasury—this money Zhao Chi can also withdraw at any time.

This point is the same as the trading house.

After about thirty minutes, the queue of over a hundred people had already advanced a small portion of the way; this speed wasn't slow—each lord probably spent only about a minute.

But quite a few lords were still anxious, constantly complaining that the speed was too slow.

But the lords at the front were all in high spirits.

They had all bought cheap supplies.

And most of them were also buying wheat grains and experience fruits at such low prices for the first time.

Naturally, they were overjoyed as if they'd stumbled on a bargain.

"Hahaha, I bought 30 tons of wheat grains and only spent 21 gold coins!"

"Since you managed to grab some, why didn't you buy more? I bought 80 gold coins' worth of wheat grains, and also 20 gold coins' worth of experience fruits—spent every last coin."

"No way, I'm just a small town-level lord, can't compare with a medium town-level lord like you."

"Damn… we're all small fry. Our group leader bought 800 gold coins' worth in one go."

"Really? Our vice squad leader seems to have bought 3,700 gold coins' worth too."

"Too strong. Hopefully wheat grains and experience fruits at this price can keep existing."

"Don't even think about it. Unless someone makes a breakthrough in technology, it's impossible."

"Yeah, a breakthrough is too hard."

"I wonder who sold this batch? You're the squad leader, can you see it?"

"Me? Damn, what kind of position do you think a squad leader is? Even our company commander can't see it. Only those at the level of deputy regimental commander or above can know, right?"

"Fair point… probably benefits handed out by Colonel Yao, right?"

"Very likely… forget it, I'm going to go grab the goods now."

"Alright, no more chatting. I'm going to hurry back, pull the cart, and bring people to pick up the goods!"

The outer perimeter of Taoyuan Town.

Three lords were already standing in the designated trading area, waiting to trade.

Behind them were several dozen horse carts of various models.

Zhao Chi only opened access for a maximum of three lords to enter, each bringing no more than one hundred subordinates. Otherwise, too many lords would easily cause chaos and might also pose risks.

Qi Yue was receiving them.

With Qi Yue present, there was no need to worry about safety.

Song Yun's transport team led the lords' subordinates to the surrounding granaries, continuously transporting cart after cart of grain and experience fruits onto the wooden carts.

Soon, one lord finished picking up his goods.

He looked delightedly at the cart full of golden grain, couldn't help grabbing a handful, and rubbed it in his hands.

The white flour particles inside were immediately revealed, plump and round. With another forceful pinch, it became white flour.

"Wow! The quality is this good?"

The two lords beside him saw it and nodded repeatedly: "Impressive. I was just worried it was damaged goods, didn't expect the quality to be this good."

"Right, look at those experience fruits too, they're all fresh fruits."

"Awesome, luckily we queued up at the front just now. Those queued at the back probably won't be able to grab any."

"Hahaha, yes!"

Qi Yue walked over with a smile: "Excuse me, who is second? You can come pick up your goods."

"Oh oh oh! It's me, it's me!"

That lord immediately called his subordinates and the transport team to haul the goods.

At this moment, the new lord picking up goods had arrived, his face beaming with joy.

Joy also spread across Zhao Chi's face.

He watched the orders in the system growing more and more numerous, feeling very good.

But suddenly, the orders stopped.