Published: February 6, 2025
Ye Zhongming was very clear that speaking motivational words to strangers during the apocalypse was useless. People in the apocalypse were more practical because their lives were at stake, and they wouldn’t risk their lives just because of a few words from someone. What they needed were benefits.
So, Ye Zhongming came up with a win-win solution.
Selling equipment.
In the past two days, apart from visiting some relatively powerful factions like the Copper Kettle Team, the rest of the factions were handled by Shasha and Brother Bao.
During this time, he manufactured a large amount of equipment specifically for today.
Therefore, Ye Zhongming straightforwardly proposed that anyone participating in the operation could purchase potions and equipment from him at the most favorable prices.
One-Star Evolution Elixirs for only seventy Grade 1 Magic Crystals, Immunity Potions for just sixty Grade 1 Magic Crystals, gray-grade equipment for one Grade 2 Magic Crystal each, and white-grade war knives for only thirty Grade 2 Magic Crystals! If the number of Grade 2 Magic Crystals was insufficient, they could purchase according to a ratio of twenty Grade 2 Magic Crystals plus one thousand Grade 1 Magic Crystals, or exchange for three Grade 3 Magic Crystals.
The commotion caused by this price announcement was unimaginable.
Even Brother Bao, Shasha, and the Copper Kettle Team were eager to try as soon as Ye Zhongming finished speaking.
“Of course, since the number of potions and equipment I have is limited, each faction will have a purchase limit based on their number of people, with ten as the basic unit, rounded up. For every ten people, they can purchase one bottle of One-Star Evolution Elixir, one Immunity Potion, and one piece of gray-grade equipment. For every twenty people, they can purchase one white-grade war knife.”
Ye Zhongming looked at the crowd and stated the rules of the transaction.
He had a lot of One-Star Evolution Elixirs. During the new district base operations, while clearing the area around Cloud Summit Villa, and in the zombie tide counterattack, he gained a large number of One-Star Potions and Grade 1 Magic Crystals. With his beginner exclusion technique, a skill that was incredibly powerful, he found a Grade 1 Roulette that required few magic crystals, averaging around fifty or sixty Grade 1 Magic Crystals to obtain one Evolution Elixir, which he now sold for seventy Grade 1 Magic Crystals, still making a profit.
This was also because a lot of One-Star Evolution Elixirs had been sold at the trading conference recently, plus nearly ten thousand Grade 1 Magic Crystals had been used for the Poppy Wheel. Otherwise, the quantity of these two items in Ye Zhongming's hands would be enough to scare anyone, and he could provide them without limits.
Gray-grade weaponry only needed some materials from Grade 1 mutated lifeforms and a bit of mental power; one Grade 2 Magic Crystal for each piece was quite profitable.
As for selling the white-grade Edge of the Moon, Ye Zhongming hesitated for a moment but ultimately made up his mind.
The first reason for this sale was to bind these people to him tightly with benefits, to execute the plan of turning the Poppy Wheel. Hence, he used very low prices to allow these minor factions to gain some advantages. The second reason was that Ye Zhongming would end up making money from it, which was a reflection of his personal ability. The craftsman profession was one of the most profitable occupations in the apocalypse, especially since Ye Zhongming possessed a beginner exclusion technique skill that was not exclusive but definitely very rare.
The last reason was that this would quickly enhance these people's strength, allowing them to play a greater role in the imminent battle, which also indirectly helped Ye Zhongming himself.
However, the overall strength of these people still made Ye Zhongming frown. The stronger ones like Brother Bao, his son, that elite subordinate, Shasha and a few of her followers, and the Copper Kettle Team with his wife Xiaoli, were only two-star evolvers. They needed to collaborate to deal with level 3 mutated lifeforms, let alone the top four-star powers of the three major factions. This level of disparity could not be made up for with gray-grade weapons.