Chapter 116: Bargaining

Ansain felt a surge of wild joy in his heart.

As long as he could purchase these items at a low price, he would have face when he returned.

So he picked up a pair of Petrified Frog eyes and asked, "These must be Spiritual Materials, right? Where did you get them?"

"We were all hunters originally," Luolita said quickly.

"Oh, hunters, I see," Ansain said, suddenly enlightened. "Why don't you sell these things at the market? After all, we have people going there to collect them regularly every week."

"The market? Why don't you go see for yourself? There aren't even 10 hunters left among the four of us combined, and those hunters don't really go out; they all need to nurse their injuries. The market can't open, so naturally, there is no market," Luolita said with dissatisfaction. "Are you doubting us?"

"That's not what I meant; I'm just not responsible for the acquisitions, so I didn't know why you weren't selling them at the market." Seeing a few more players peeking outside the shop door, Ansain hurriedly took back his words. He didn't want to leave behind a bad reputation for the Wealth Church, otherwise, he would be one step further from Awakening.

Ansain said with a smile, "But if you want to dispose of these materials, I can give you a good price."

"Really?" Mengmeng pointed at the pair of Petrified Frog eyes and said, "If you buy this, how much will you pay?"

"10 Silver Tana, definitely an amazing price," Ansain said with absolute certainty.

Mengmeng and Luolita immediately took the Petrified Frog eyes and put them into a box.

"For this thing, we wouldn't sell it for less than 15 Xide," Mengmeng shook her head. "How many shops now even dare to accept Tana? Who knows when your exchange rates might change, and it's not easy for us to exchange for Xide right now."

"15 Xide?" Ansain was shocked.

The acquisition price for this item a month ago was only 15 Silver Tana.

How could it be such a high price now?

Then again, even at such a high price, it might not be possible to acquire them now. If he could acquire them...

"I really don't know the specific price for this, I will go back and investigate. So, could you let me see the other materials?" Ansain looked as if he were truly ashamed, his face full of sincerity.

Mengmeng waved her hand. "I know you mean well, but for us, this kind of thing is a headache to sell. You might as well consider bringing the leader in charge of acquiring these supplies to make the purchase; otherwise, you couldn't possibly acquire so many materials yourself, could you?"

"Where else could you sell this kind of thing?" Ansain really didn't want to find people within the Wealth Church; he hoped to monopolize this channel himself so he could provide materials to the church regularly in the future.

"Oh? The Wisdom Church and the Sun Church should need them too, right? Maybe someone from the War Church would buy them as well," Mengmeng fluently listed the names of several churches. "I remember the Wealth Church should do business with them, too."

Indeed, the Wealth Church would never let go of any opportunity to do business.

Ansain had no choice but to say sheepishly, "Then I will contact the higher-ups of the church. By the way, if you have any need for loans, you can contact the chamber of commerce at any time. We provide low-interest loans here, with an annual interest rate of only 5%..."

After promoting for a while, Ansain left this grocery store and then, following the gaze of the crowd, entered another player's shop.

Ye Laoshi was reading a newspaper in the room. He looked up and saw Ansain pushing the door open, then made a "shh" gesture.

"There is someone reading in the room," Ye Laoshi whispered. His two students were translating document materials, and both of them had to memorize the content of the documents in real life first before bringing them into the game to translate.

This project was massive, and Chen Zhi didn't give them a way to get help; after all, he couldn't just have a computer screen appear in front of them for them to copy the translation.

So these two players were such that one would sleep while the other translated. Once the one who was sleeping woke up, they would start translating and then swap with the other person to go offline and memorize.

As for Ye Laoshi, once he finished reading the newspaper, he had to translate books from the game into reality; this process was also very tedious.

However, this bookstore had a good environment, and no one disturbed them.

The downside was that not many people bought books. It wasn't the start of the school term, and coupled with the recent volatility in prices, things like books that weren't necessities weren't that easy to sell.

Seeing that it was a bookstore, Ansain was even more satisfied. Such a shop should be in greater need of financial support.

He had completely forgotten how embarrassing he had been at the grocery store just now. After all, as a salesman, or rather, a missionary, he had to have a thicker skin.

"Hello, I am a missionary from the Wealth Church," Ansain said in a low voice. "Because you have made outstanding contributions to the wealth of Tana City, you have now become a Believer of the Wealth Church."

As he spoke, he handed over the Faith Certificate in his hand.

Ye Laoshi looked composed. He was neither as blank as Mengmeng nor as excited as Mengmeng, but rather said with some suspicion, "I don't think I've done anything useful; I've only translated some books."

"Translated some books?" Ansain was a bit surprised; he hadn't expected that in a small place like Tana City, there would be someone capable of translating books.

"Yes, you can take a look at the manuscript; this is the latest one." Ye Laoshi took out *The Count of Monte Cristo* that his two disciples had translated. This novel leaned more towards a European worldview; it didn't contain anything about mysterious powers, but the content was absolutely the most satisfying of satisfying stories.

Ansain opened the book, originally intending to just take a rough look.

But for some reason, the more he read, the more addicted he became. As he read, he actually sat down.

This revenge story was truly too addictive, with plot twists and turns that left Ansain unable to stop.

Ye Laoshi didn't pay him any mind. After putting away the so-called Faith Certificate, he continued reading his newspaper.

The content in the newspaper was actually quite good. It had to be said that this game was made with considerable care; the newspaper had a lot of current events every day, especially news from the Royal Capital.

As for local news, there was really too little of it.

The daily news content was just that the War Church had started new city defense reinforcements, or that products made by such-and-such factory were being sold far away to the Royal Capital.

Compared to the struggle for the crown in the Royal Capital or the marriages between nobles, these news items could be said to be quite boring.

(End of chapter)