Chapter 212-2: Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, Trade Begins (2) |
In addition to couriers within the chamber, Alan planned to recruit some non-chamber-affiliated contract couriers in the future who would not enjoy profit sharing and would be paid sacrificial power according to labor.
For example, newbie players.
Many newbie players often cried on the forum that they did not have enough sacrificial power to spend.
He could provide a platform for earning extra sacrificial power.
In the future, players with free time could come to the black market trading center to do a few delivery jobs.
As long as the capacity of their personal inventory met the requirements and they paid a deposit to the chamber administrators, they could take orders and set out. The specific earnings would be paid by the chamber after the delivery service ended, with a certain profit taken as a cut.
In Alan’s view, the trading market’s prospects had extremely broad room for expansion.
A foreseeable future.
The black market trading center would become the busiest and most prosperous place among several nearby sea regions. There would be large numbers of alien caravans traveling back and forth through this sea.
It could even siphon off various commercial activities from the Colorful Mist Coast, providing ordinary players with business to contact alien races and sell homemade snacks.
But before the black market trading center was established, they still had many issues to handle.
While thinking about the future, the first wave of chamber members arrived.
There were three players in total, riding a small blue boat.
Just after landing, seeing Alan standing on the beach, the expressions of the three arriving players became quite brilliant.
They even subconsciously glanced at the player name above Alan’s head to confirm his identity.
“Guild Leader?”
“Mm, that is me.” Alan smiled, stepped forward, and nodded in greeting.
“Damn, a being of the Upper Realm. Are you not playing Version A of Monster World?” the leading man said in astonishment.
Hearing this, Alan could not help sighing inwardly, then immediately explained.
“Version A of Monster World has already ended. In the future, players of the Lunar Eclipse race will gradually enter Version B, which is the current version.”
Facts proved that the impression of the Lunar Eclipse race in previous virtual games had been too aloof, resulting in them becoming oddities in Monster World as well.
This was not a good phenomenon.
Although players called him a being of the Upper Realm, it was definitely not praise, but a mock at the Lunar Eclipse race’s formerly indifferent attitude.
When players of any race came into contact with members of the Lunar Eclipse race, there was a natural, indescribable barrier.
This was a trend Alan did not want to see.
In the future, the Lunar Eclipse race still had to integrate into the player legion, and in later development also cooperate with many forces of the player legion.
Only integration offered a future. Being unconventional, even making players of other races feel repulsion, would only affect the development of the Lunar Eclipse race.
This clearly required his effort and that of Lunar Eclipse members who would obtain game qualifications later. They needed to reverse the stereotyped impression that players of all races had of members of the Lunar Eclipse race.
At this time, Alan chose to lower his posture and take the initiative to communicate and make contact.
Before long, chamber members arrived one after another.
After landing on the island and seeing him, the first words of most chamber members were surprise at his identity as a member of the Lunar Eclipse race.
Some chamber members even joked, asking whether there was an internal modifier to tweak attribute stats for the brothers to have some fun.
It would be best if the sacrificial power value could have a few zeros added.
In response, Alan also used a joking tone, saying that if there were a plugin, he would certainly use it on himself first, as he too was troubled by the difficulty of obtaining sacrificial power.
Through self-mockery, he placed his own needs in the same position as the chamber players.
Thus he drew closer to the chamber members and reduced the barrier.
With more communication, the sense of unfamiliarity faded.
When all the chamber members had arrived, Alan stood up and looked at the lush forest inside the island.
He then summoned the map function, drew a circle in the central area of Dream Island, and shared it for the chamber members who were already in a party.
“Let us begin. Clear according to the area I have planned.” After speaking, Alan led the chamber members toward the center of the island.
The island was covered with greenery and did not yet have a site suitable for building a trading center. In the initial stage, a large number of trees needed to be felled to clear an open space.
During this time, eight routes connecting to the coast also had to be opened.
The players following beside Alan also summoned their weapons at this time and began clearing the vegetation along the way.
Force Savage axes chopped, Inkflame fireballs burned, Backwind Whips lashed. Members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce began the pioneering operation through their Inherited soul abilities.
Clearing the island was no small project, but members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce could also earn a meager profit from it.
The felled ancient trees could be dismantled into wood blocks and listed on the Trading House for sale. Players of various types would spend sacrificial power to buy them, such as those setting up stalls grilling fish on the coast, those building Guild stations, and those making sailboats.
But such ordinary resources that could be found everywhere in Monster World did not sell for much.
An ancient tree could sell for only a few tenths of a sacrificial power.
Listing them on the Trading House was more about clearing space on Dream Island and saving the processes of moving them out and destroying them, so even if given away for free, chamber players were all willing.
During this process, members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce worked incredibly hard.
Expectations for the future were already maxed out. All members felt that early effort would surely be exchanged for high returns later.
As time passed, the clearing work progressed step by step.
Under Alan’s command, chamber members cooperated tacitly. Felling, dismantling, listing. Every link was in perfect order.
The central area of Dream Island had originally been covered by luxuriant greenery. Huge ferns nearby spread feather-like fronds. Vines coiled around ancient tree branches like snakes. Dangling roots swayed gently in the wind. Layer upon layer of branches and leaves wove into an impenetrable green dome.
The ground was also covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves. Stepping on it was soft and silent, and a whole person would sink into it.
Because of the long passage of time, the lower layer of fallen leaves had already decayed, and the air was filled with a damp, earthy smell.
As the clearing work advanced, the environment shrouded in green gradually revealed its true appearance.
During this period, ancient trees were felled one after another and listed on the Trading House at the minimum price of 0.01. They would quickly be snapped up by other players in need.
When the ancient trees in the central area disappeared, sunlight poured down on the newly opened clearing like sharp blades.
This area that had not seen sunlight for who knew how many years finally welcomed the first ray of brightness of a new era.
Looking at the tiny wood dust floating in the air, the players of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce had sweat on their foreheads, yet smiles on their faces.
This kind of effort whose future could be seen filled their hearts with the desire to strive.
Standing at the center of the site, Alan looked around at this time. The cleared open space formed a sharp contrast with the dense jungle around it.
He used Guide to raise his view and look down from above.
The open space was like a blank suddenly appearing on a green canvas carefully trimmed. Sunlight poured down here without obstruction, illuminating the tangled roots and mottled moss on the ground.
A fresh fragrance of grass and wood drifted in the air, completely different from the previously dull and damp smell.
“Everyone rest for a while. Continue pioneering in one hour.”
Seeing through the team list that the chamber players’ fatigue value was a bit low, Alan immediately called on the players to rest, then also put away his weapon and stopped working.
The pioneering process could not be completed in one day.
He felt there was no need to be in a hurry. There would be plenty of time to advance the construction of the trading market in the future.
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Three days later.
Relying on the attributes and abilities granted by Inherited soul traits, Alan led the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to complete the initial pioneering on Dream Island.
Then they used some of the wood left from pioneering to build simple sheds on the open ground.
This was the prototype of the black market trading center.
The simplest first step had been completed. Next, Alan began to assign the next task.
The second step was relatively difficult and was also the key step for the future development of the black market trading center.
Chamber members needed to go to alien islands in the major sea regions in the Mysterious Merchant mode and try to establish trade connections.
During this period, players would inevitably be killed.
But what players needed to do was to go repeatedly, trade on the islands, and gradually attract the various races to Dream Island.
This step would also determine the early-stage profit sharing.
Each alien client would be a share quota of a player in the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
At Alan’s request, players who had finished pioneering went to sea one after another to begin expanding the market for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
At the current stage, there were already three alien races that could clearly establish trade relations, namely the Night Sky race, the Giant Stone race, and the Rapid wing race.
These three races had all traded with players in the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce. Next, they needed to try to have them come to Dream Island to trade. In the early stage, they could give more profit to enhance Dream Island’s appeal.
For example, last time the Night Sky race spent 46 Kacrisp Fruit to purchase 693 sticks of energy paste from Zhong Yi.
This time, when going there, Zhong Yi would, according to Alan’s requirement, inform the Night Sky race that as long as they came to Dream Island to trade, they could exchange 40 Kacrisp Fruit for 700 sticks of energy paste.
From a future perspective, early profit was not important. Expanding the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s influence was the core key.
Only by establishing sufficient influence could the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce obtain future profits that would continue to grow and a stable flow of customers.
This step required the joint effort of all members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
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Leaving two provisional managers on Dream Island, Alan also turned back at this time.
Returning to the Colorful Mist Coast space, he arrived at the cavern world space through the spatial teleportation array.
Walking out of the space, a scene of a ruined mechanical wasteland unfolded before his eyes.
After regrouping with his teammates, he summoned the map.
The positions of his teammates were presented on the map as blue cursors.
Alan immediately jogged toward the area where his teammates were.
Recently, his main focus had still been on the mechanical ruins scene in the cavern world.
He wanted to witness with his own eyes whether the Tower of Eternity in the concept of the Machine-Guard race truly existed.
It was now clear that Starnet could enter the game world by snatching qualifications.
But it was not yet certain whether it would enter in the structure of an ordinary lifeform, or enter as a half-mechanical, half-biological super-AI body from the real world.
Therefore, the Tower of Eternity appeared especially important.
If Starnet came to Monster World in the form of an ordinary lifeform, it could subsequently use the Tower of Eternity to carry Starnet’s consciousness, allowing Starnet to become the master of the mechanical ruins city.
If it entered in its true body, it could also integrate with the mechanical ruins city.
Inherit the legacy left by the Machine-Guard race and take control of the vast mechanical city.
Countless armament factories could operate under Starnet’s will, mass-producing technological products and mechanical troop types.
But what could be certain was that repairing this mechanical city would require a vast expenditure of sacrificial power.
The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce was one of the funding channels for the Lunar Eclipse race to repair the mechanical ruins.
From the first-principles perspective of viewing the Lunar Eclipse race’s development in Monster World, capital sources were certainly important.
But the ultimate goal was still to convert it into power, so the importance of the mechanical city went without saying.
This might be a key aid for the Lunar Eclipse race to establish an initial armed force in Monster World.
After meeting up with his teammates, fusion mode was activated.
Alan led his teammates toward the central district of the mechanical ruins city.