Chapter 421: Seen With His Own Eyes

"See clearly?" The beastman retracted his claws and said forcefully, "It's cured, that's all there is to it. But you human, since you're infected, what are you doing coming here? We don't take in patients here!"

Xiao Li's heart pounded wildly, almost bursting through his chest!

Seen with his own eyes! Heard with his own ears!

It was real! Black Feather really did have a divine medicine! And its effects were as astonishing as the rumors!

Ecstasy instantly overwhelmed him, but what followed immediately was even deeper anxiety.

Medicine! He needed medicine! He was infected!

"I... I just want to know..." Xiao Li's voice trembled with excitement, "That medicine... can humans use that medicine? Does Black Feather... does Black Feather Safe Zone sell it? How can I buy it?"

The beastman seemed stumped by the question. He scratched his helmet and spoke in a muffled voice, "I dunno."

Another beastman couldn't stand it anymore. He shoved Xiao Li aside and shouted, "Go on, get out of here! If you want to ask, go ask humans! Your human business—what are you doing coming to Shou Ren Xiao Zhen to ask about it!"

Though these words were rude, they also awakened Xiao Li.

That's right!

This news came from Black Feather!

Since they put out this news, didn't it mean they were selling medicine?

Calling them to Shou Ren Xiao Zhen was just to let them see with their own eyes whether the medicine was real!

Xiao Li suddenly saw the light, his expression immediately turning excited. Standing right at the entrance of Shou Ren Xiao Zhen, he snapped a few photos and then opened the regional channel to start editing:

"(Image)(Image) Live scene at the entrance of Shou Ren Xiao Zhen! It's real! The plague is really cleared! I just saw it with my own eyes—the beastmen can all move around normally! It's Black Feather's medicine! Absolutely effective! Black Feather bosses, please sell medicine!"

The moment the message was sent out, it was like a stone dropped into a pot of boiling oil.

The regional channel, already bubbling over with various insider information and speculation, now completely exploded!

"Holy crap! Front row! Someone actually went to verify it?!"

"OP, give us the details! How are the beastmen's conditions? Is there any chance they're faking it?"

"@Xiao Li Fei Dao, bro, are you sure it's Black Feather's medicine? Did the beastmen admit it themselves?"

"Stop asking so many questions! The OP said he saw it with his own eyes! Black Feather is awesome! (voice cracking)"

"Wuya Dalao YYDS! I knew it! Where are all those haters from last night? Come out and take a few steps!"

Xiao Li took a deep breath, calming his racing heart, and his fingers flew as he added:

"Absolutely certain! I'm right at the entrance of Shou Ren Xiao Zhen. There are beastman guards on watch, and the beastmen in the town are all working normally, in good spirits—they even waved at me! But they don't handle anything about humans buying medicine! The news was released by Black Feather, so the medicine must be at Black Feather! Friends, what are you waiting for? Hurry to Black Feather Safe Zone or contact Black Feather's people!"

This supplementary message was like a bolt of thunder, completely shattering the last trace of doubt.

The wind in the regional channel instantly shifted from speculation and anticipation to frenzied purchasing and action!

"Received! Setting out for Black Feather Safe Zone immediately!"

"@Xin Xue Chuji! Sister Xinxue! How are you selling the medicine? Give us some terms!"

"@Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji! Wuya Dalao! Save us! My whole family is infected! We're counting on you to save our lives!"

"Trading channel! Quick, check the trading channel! Has Black Feather listed anything yet?!"

"Holy shit! Bro who's going to check the trading channel, wait for me!"

"Don't push! Nobody push! Black Feather Safe Zone is already packed with people! We need to think of something!"

"What's there to think about? Save up money! Sell things! Even if we have to go bankrupt, we've got to scrape together enough money for the medicine!"

"Damn it, if I'd known, I wouldn't have rushed to trade that batch of materials for food a few days ago..."

"What's the point of saying that now? Quick, check your warehouses for anything valuable!"

Panic was completely replaced by the frenzy to survive.

Countless survivors began frantically inventorying their possessions, listing them on the trading channel, trying to obtain any Game Coins that could be used to purchase medicine.

The refresh rate of items on the trading channel instantly surged several-fold, and the price system began to show chaos, but everyone was clear on one thing:

The hardest currency right now was the medicine that Black Feather was about to sell!

At the entrance of Shou Ren Xiao Zhen, more and more people arrived to verify like Xiao Li. They were kept outside the town by the guards, but what they saw with their own eyes was enough to turn them into the most fervent messengers, frantically spreading the facts they had witnessed in the regional channel and among their respective friends.

Inside Black Feather Safe Zone, a dense crowd quickly gathered.

People craned their necks in anticipation, calling out the names of Black Feather members, pleading, praying—order began to grow fragile in the face of the overwhelming will to survive.

Pressure, like a tsunami, officially crashed down upon Black Feather.

And Cheng Shuili, at this moment, was standing atop that high-rise building in Black Feather Safe Zone that was not open to the public, calmly looking down at the crowd below that was growing larger and increasingly agitated.

If this continued, a riot was almost inevitable.

A riot occurring in the safe zone, no matter how you put it, was not a glorious matter.

Moreover...

Cheng Shuili's gaze fell upon several players from other major regions in the crowd whose expressions were unusual—though they also put on anxious and pleading looks, their eyes would occasionally sweep toward each other, clearly exchanging covert glances.

The rats had already slipped in, and more than just one or two.

The timing had reached the perfect moment. If they didn't list the items now, things would backfire.

The medicine had long been prepared, and these people's choice to enter the safe zone was not wrong at all.

Because what Cheng Shuili planned was to sell the medicine inside the safe zone.

She not only wanted to earn the cost of the medicine, but also to collect an entrance fee for the safe zone along the way. Of course, the entrance fee was just incidental—the most important thing was...

Selling medicine in the safe zone meant it could be sold to players across the entire server!

If she was going to make money, she would make big money.

All the procedures had been arranged long ago. At Cheng Shuili's command, everything proceeded in an orderly manner.

Over a dozen pre-prepared temporary shops opened simultaneously. Black Feather members and wolf-clan beastmen served as shopkeepers, while more people in protective suits maintained order within the safe zone.

Cheng Shuili promptly issued an announcement.

Not an announcement for the Long Guo major region, but an announcement for Black Feather Safe Zone—anyone who entered the safe zone, whether to purchase supplies or just to look around, would be able to see it!

Cheng Shuili's finger lightly tapped the 【Confirm】 button on the panel.

Bzzt—

Before the eyes of everyone inside the safe zone, a prominent system notification automatically popped up:

【Hei Yu An Quan Qu Regional Announcement: A "Plague Medicine Trading Point" has been temporarily established. This zone is an exclusive temporary medicine sales point for 【Black Feather】. All transactions are protected by safe zone rules. Those who disrupt order will be forcibly expelled and placed on the Black Feather blacklist.】

The announcement was like cold water dropped into hot oil, instantly provoking an even more intense reaction.

"They've started selling! They really started selling!"

"Where is it? How come I can't see where this location is?"

"Just follow the crowd and you'll get there. Who's coming to Black Feather right now that isn't here to buy medicine?"

"What about the price? How many Game Coins per dose? At least put a clear price tag on it, I'm worried I can't afford it."

"Who cares about money at a time like this! As long as I can buy the medicine! I don't want to die!"

Immediately after, a second, more detailed announcement scrolled into the view of all players who had entered the 【Plague Medicine Trading Point】 area:

【Black Feather — Plague Specific Medicine Listing Announcement】

【Specifications: Single-person single-dose liquid.

Price: Long Guo region players 500 Game Coins per dose, other region players 800 Game Coins per dose!

Purchase limit: 1 dose per person.

Special reminder: To ensure order and efficiency, please have your payment ready in advance. Queue to enter. Crowding, noise-making, and cutting in line are prohibited. Violators bear the consequences.】

500 Game Coins.

Long Guo region players were charged only five hundred Game Coins.

Cheng Shuili knew this price was lower than many people's expectations.

But this number was set at a precisely calculated point.

It was enough to bring Black Feather enormous profit, yet not enough to completely crush most people's hope—and would even… fuel their desire to earn money even more frantically.

After a brief silence came ecstatic shouts that nearly blew the roof off the safe zone.

"500! Only 500!"

"Long live Black Feather! Long live Wuya Dalao!"

"I knew it! Black Feather isn't the kind to profiteer off a disaster!"

"Hurry! I have enough money! I can buy two doses! Oh wait, one per person limit… one is fine! One is enough!"

"Stop pushing me! Queue up! Didn't you see the announcement says to queue?!"

Order quickly and spontaneously formed under the weight of immense hope and clear rules.

Without needing excessive violent deterrence from the beastmen guards, people desperate to buy medicine automatically lined up in a long queue. Though still anxious, their eyes were full of light.

But right in this orderly queue, several players from other regions scattered across different lines saw the "800 Game Coins" price and the explicit distinction of "Long Guo region players," and their faces instantly turned ugly.

They exchanged glances, and all saw the anger and frustration in each other's eyes.

But looking up at the sharp-eyed Black Feather members and wolf-tribe beastmen maintaining order around them, and looking at the Long Guo players ahead who were grateful to Black Feather for their lives, any thought of causing trouble was forcibly suppressed.

The strong call the shots.

The medicine was in their hands, and the safe zone was their territory.

They could only grit their teeth, swallow their pride, and accept the differential treatment, queuing obediently while cursing Cheng Shuili and Black Feather a thousand times over in their hearts.

A dark-skinned, muscular player from another region stood in the middle of the queue. He lowered his voice and complained to a companion from the same region beside him: "Eight… eight hundred! That's a whole three hundred Game Coins more than the Long Guo people! Wu Ya is just robbing us!"

His companion, a smaller, scrawnier-looking player, glanced nervously left and right before whispering:

"Shh! Keep it down! Do you want to get kicked out? Where else can you buy medicine right now besides here? Look at those beastmen, then look at our region… who can produce this kind of medicine?"

The muscular player was rendered speechless, his face darkening further, fists clenching with audible cracks, but he could only give a heavy snort and say no more.

Similar muttered curses and complaints circulated among the scattered few players from other regions, but stirred up no waves.

Even the slightest complaint would get fired back at them by nearby Long Guo players: "If you think it's too expensive, don't buy it! Nobody begged you to come! Our Black Feather boss worked hard to develop this medicine—she can sell it for whatever she wants! If your region's so capable, go research it yourselves!"

"Exactly! We Long Guo people can't even buy enough for ourselves! It's already generous to let you buy any at all, and you're still being picky!"

The players from other regions choked on their words, red-faced, and could only shut their mouths and lower their heads, secretly resentful yet helpless.

The surging queue rolled forward, and they could only go with the flow, swallowing the unfair price, while marveling at what a brilliant move Wu Ya had made.

With just a slight concession, she had earned the gratitude of so many players. Truly a masterful strategy.

The transactions proceeded at lightning speed.

Black Feather had clearly made thorough preparations. The clerks moved with practiced efficiency—collecting payment, handing over medicine, then giving brief instructions—the entire process taking no more than ten seconds.

Xiao Li finally reached the front of the tent. He handed over 500 Game Coins with trembling hands, and when he received the cool medicine, his eyes grew hot and he nearly burst into tears.

Without the slightest hesitation, he tilted his head back and drank the medicine down.

Almost instantly, the lingering exhaustion and faintly aching heat within his body melted away like snow and ice under sunlight.

Alive… truly alive!

Xiao Li slumped to the ground, gasping for air, tears finally streaming down uncontrollably—the ecstasy of having survived a catastrophe.

He looked up at the busy yet orderly temporary shop, at the people who, like him, were either weeping or laughing wildly after receiving their medicine, and then looked further up at the towering Black Feather core building. What surged in his heart was not only gratitude but also an indescribable awe.

At this moment, countless people like Xiao Li elevated Wu Ya and Black Feather in their hearts to a height that required looking up to.

Meanwhile, in the internal channels of Great Wall Watch, Yan Huang, and other top Long Guo factions, there was dead silence.

The regional channel messages scrolling across panels, the players' frenzied praise for Black Feather and Wu Ya, the price system in the trading channel once again distorted by medicine demand, and the reports from frontline members about the orderly conditions and steady medicine supply within Hei Yu An Quan Qu…

Every piece of information struck the core members of Great Wall Watch, Yan Huang, and other top factions like a silent sledgehammer to the heart.

Great Wall Watch internal group chat:

"Black Feather… this time really… too impressive."

"From leaking the news, using Shou Ren Xiao Zhen to verify and dispel doubts, to choosing the safe zone as the special location for sales… every step was precisely timed. Turning panic into hope, then turning hope into absolute trust and reverence for Black Feather—truly…"

Besides, there's economic harvesting. Five hundred Game Coin is a sum most players can barely scrape together by gritting their teeth. Limited to one purchase per person, it eliminates hoarding and resale, ensuring the medicine reaches the widest possible coverage and maximizes our Game Coin earnings.

The most frightening thing is the differentiated pricing, right? Long Guo players pay five hundred Game Coin, while other major regions pay eight hundred. This move… is incredibly effective. It not only makes Long Guo players grateful and devoted to Black Feather, boosting cohesion to unprecedented levels, but also indirectly warns and suppresses the forces of other major regions.

On our turf, they must follow our rules; even if they know they'll be fleeced, they have to obediently pay up. This isn't just about making money—it's about establishing authority!

The group chat fell silent again.

After a long while, War Wolf Soul Immortal finally spoke: "Do you guys think it's still possible for me to join Black Feather now?"