Doomsday Roulette

Chapter

Li Daqian had previously sold materials for ninth-level life, creating an illusion for everyone that such transactions were the norm. However, they overlooked why Li Daqian opted for direct material trading.

Because... he couldn’t handle them.

The Ten Thousand Beast Manor excelled in their battle beast breeding and utilization. Their core strength lay in the equipment of their large beast pool, while other areas were lacking. After all, both energy and money are limited; it is impossible to excel in everything.

As a result, when they had the corpse of a ninth-level life, they considered dividing and selling it to maximize their profits.

However, Cloud Summit was different. Leaving aside Liu Zhenghong's gene life laboratory, which had a high demand for such precious experimental materials, let's talk about Ye Zhongming, a top craftsman. The potential that a ninth-level life corpse could unleash in his hands was something non-manufacturing professionals could hardly comprehend.

This situation resembled the relationship between countries before the apocalypse. For a long time, the national district served as a supplier of raw materials to the world, its vast land rich with natural and human resources. These materials were exported to developed countries at low prices, leading to meager profits based solely on volume.

However, once these materials reached those countries and were processed into finished goods, they were exported back to us at prices multiplied by who knows how many times.

There was no way around it; the technological gap ensured that the underdeveloped side would inevitably be exploited.

This situation improved somewhat only before the apocalypse, but in high-tech fields, they still found themselves at a disadvantage.

Ye Zhongming and Li Daqian were the opposite. Ye Zhongming had mastered the ‘high-tech’ side, and naturally, he would sell finished equipment with higher added value, where profits would undoubtedly surpass those from selling materials.

But now, it left Li Daqian, the water steward, and Commander Mu feeling frustrated.

They wanted to get angry at Ye Zhongming, but they had no reason to do so. If they were in his position, they would likely do the same. However, there were too many uncertainties in this trading method. What kind of equipment Ye Zhongming could manufacture, its abilities, its level, and whether it would be suitable for them were all questions.

Most importantly, what would the price be? They didn’t doubt that Ye Zhongming would deceive them by using non-ninth-level materials to create equipment masquerading as ninth-level. However, an item crafted from ninth-level materials would definitely be excellent; gold would be the starting point, and it would mostly be purple equipment. Ye Zhongming surely wouldn’t sell them cheap. So, could they afford it?

This uncontrollable situation was quite uncomfortable for these big shots.

“There will be three pieces of equipment. I can’t guarantee the level, but I can assure you of their quality. When the time comes, you can claim whichever one you want, and we’ll discuss the price based on the equipment’s quality,” Ye Zhongming summarized the situation in one sentence.

The three giants had no choice but to accept.

However, Li Daqian made another request, hoping to buy the blood and flesh of the Nine-Winged Crow.

Ye Zhongming thought for a moment and agreed.

If Li Daqian had requested the blood and flesh of the Armored King, he would have decisively refused. The Armored King was small and had little flesh; every pound was incredibly precious. But the Nine-Winged Crow was different; it was too massive. Ye Zhongming estimated its weight exceeded several tens of tons, with most of it being blood and flesh. Given this, selling some to a heavily damaged partner wasn’t out of the question.

After some bargaining, Li Daqian acquired a ton of Nine-Winged Crow flesh at the cost of three hundred fifth-level giant bears and two hundred fifth-level mutated chimpanzees, plus the responsibility of training five hundred battle beasts for Cloud Summit in the future.