Since you have special goods, why not just open a store to sell them
The caravan won’t bargain, so I’ll set my own price.
Let the caravan set the prices... How can you earn more than if you have the power to set the prices yourself
The rings that Cheng Shaofeng sold were his start-up capital. All he had to do next was find a way to open a store in the central city.
This is the city with the largest population in the entire human race, and it is also where evolvers gather. As long as the products are good, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell them.
Cheng Shaofeng originally planned to walk around the street to see where there were any "popular shops for sale", but then he looked at the map... The city was too big, it would be impossible to walk around it all.
"Although good wine needs no bush, we should at least find a trading area that is frequented by extraordinary people... And the store sign should be well made... Although I am in charge of pricing, it should be reasonable... The display cabinets and the placement of the goods should also be high-end, and they can't be just thrown on the stone slabs like the stores in the base... The store management in the later stage is also a problem..."
Cheng Shaofeng looked up at the sky and sighed. It was too much trouble to do it by himself.
"We need to get some players who are good at opening stores..."
The good thing about being a lord is that you can get people to do whatever you want.
Shadow Guard 1 was following the players and slacking off by killing zombies. He was in semi-standby mode and didn't need to take up much of the shared brain's CPU for the time being. Cheng Shaofeng opened his eyes and issued tasks to the players in Red City.
Mission: Scourge Grocery Store
Assist the Lord to open a shop in the central city... ..
When the task was edited to this point, Cheng Shaofeng frowned and thought of a key thing.
"If I let players help me open a shop, they will know how to sell the items in the base at a higher price outside, and then hand them over to me in exchange for more experience points and iron coins. Then, won't the shop in my base be able to receive items from players?"
Currently, the Scourge Base has a lot of stuff stored in its own warehouse, all of which are recycled from players through stores. Although they are all "store goods", the top-quality equipment and rare inlays are in the hands of the players themselves, but at least Cheng Shaofeng has a stable means of purchasing players' excess supplies.
If players find that they can sell their unwanted equipment to people in the central city in exchange for more crystals, and then take the crystals back and hand them over to him, they can get 10 times more profit than selling it to the store.
Then the base store will become a mere decoration!
By then... I'm afraid I won't even be able to receive a bottle of life potion!
The price system established at the natural disaster base is about to collapse!
Cheng Shaofeng had no intention of suppressing any player, but if all players traded with people from this world... then the price would certainly be difficult to unify. Moreover, if some players deliberately lowered the price and engaged in malicious competition, then the Scourge Base would still suffer the loss.
Currently, players are also trading with people in this world and have gained a lot of benefits, but this problem has not yet occurred because... Players currently have too few means of transportation, and transactions are limited to individual players and regions, and will not affect each other.
For example, Xufeng went to the front battlefield and quickly became a company commander. He also began to use the resources of the base to trade for some benefits.
Agent Feng used several bottles of life potions to help Inquisitor Lao Lei repair his hidden injuries, thereby gaining the Inquisitor's trust and obtaining his skills.
Forgive Hat, the crystal meat shop he opened did not use the base's special materials, but his business in the Colossus City was getting bigger and bigger, and he understood the value of various items better than other players, and he also exchanged other equipment for some benefits.
Cheng Shaofeng knew about Forgiveness Hat's business, but he gave him a portion of the money he earned, and often asked Forgiveness Hat to buy things in Colossus City and send them to the base.
Now, there are more and more means of transportation in the base, and players can gradually go out. If no measures are taken, problems will inevitably arise. He summoned the players to create value for him, not to squeeze him.
"No, we have to find a way to solve this problem... What should we do?"
"Directly banning players from trading with people in this world is too blunt. And the world is so big that it's impossible to ban it all."
"Imposing taxes? It's hard to regulate..."
"It's better to open it up than to block it. I can't earn all the crystals, but I can control the transactions in the central city first... and use it to digest the supplies."
Cheng Shaofeng decided to run the shops in the central city for the time being and not let the players interfere in the transactions. He would not regulate the transactions in other places for the time being until he found a better measure.
Moreover, there is still some time before the transportation routes that allow players to travel to other human cities are completed, which is enough time for him to find a better strategy from outside.
Cheng Shaofeng temporarily canceled the task and called Wu Jie over directly.
Wu Jie is the manager of the base's stores and warehouses, and is more familiar with the base's assets than he is.
He is also the person Cheng Shaofeng trusts most in this world.
Cheng Shaofeng also made a lot of efforts to promote him to a transcendent person.
A third-level evolver teacher was invited from Colossus City to teach him how to channel the power of crystals to transform his body, but... Wu Jie's talent was too poor. After practicing for such a long time, he still hadn't become a transcendent.
Regarding this matter... Cheng Shaofeng could only sigh: people's physiques cannot be generalized.
Just like Wu Jie's lucky buff, although it is a bit mysterious, it has some inexplicable effect.
Wu Jie didn't feel anything about this, and said with a smile that he could only cling to Cheng Shaofeng for the rest of his life.
"Brother Feng, what do you need me to do?"
The first moment he entered the room, he could tell that Cheng Shaofeng had something to arrange, and the two of them had a tacit understanding.
Cheng Shaofeng didn't waste any time and directly assigned the task.
"Ajie, arrange the store affairs here at the base. Find two people you trust to take over. Then bring a few people with me to the central city. We will... open another branch."
"Okay! Since you said that last time, I have been training our own team. Five orphans with clean backgrounds have now officially joined our store. I have observed that they are quite reliable and smart. It is a good opportunity for them to go out with me this time. Let Wang Qian take over the store at the main base. He is very steady and will not go wrong if things are done step by step."
The brothers Wang Qian and Wang Wan and Wang Qian's son Wang Hao are also very trustworthy people under Cheng Shaofeng.
Now they are all on their own.
When opening stores at the Baize Lake and Snow Mountain branch bases, Cheng Shaofeng had thought that as there would be more and more branch bases in the future, the store system would have to keep pace with them, so he specifically asked Wu Jie to train his own team and be ready to take over any matters at any time.
All ordinary people were chosen, not even a single extraordinary person was chosen.
With the surveillance of Zero and the communication base station and the control of the energy transmission columns, it is almost impossible for them to betray the base.
Besides, with the work Cheng Shaofeng gave them... there was no reason for them to betray.
In Cheng Shaofeng's eyes, the evolvers in this world...are of no use to him.
He would rather take in more ordinary people. In terms of combat power, there are players who will never die, and ordinary people just need to provide logistical support for the players.
Cheng Shaofeng: "Zero, I want to build a sub-base in the central city, and I need an intelligent program to assist me in management. Can you do it?"
Zero: "No problem, I'll arrange an AI to follow you... I guess you might need some help from androids."
"Oh... Right! Some things can just be left to the androids."
In Central City, robots can be seen everywhere.
More than 90% of the people working in the large farms outside the central city are robots. This may be because the human population has declined too seriously in the wasteland era, and robot technology has become very advanced.
It wouldn't be noticeable if Cheng Shaofeng brought some androids over, and... his androids have second-level combat power, which is barely enough for guarding the house.
Cheng Shaofeng said with emotion: "After all, players are not robots. You can ask them to do whatever you want them to do. They won't complain even if they do mechanical labor for 24 hours. They still have to be driven by interest."
"By the way, Zero, can the androids left in Red City evolve further?"
Zero: "Although I have taken over the body of the fishing robot, I have not obtained its fourth-level professional ability and cannot evolve into a android. However, after you upgrade the level of the Scourge Base, you can unlock the technology related to robots."
"Oh? That's interesting..."
After some arrangements at the base, Wu Jie, along with his five men and 10 bionic robots, flew to the central city on eight Green Goblin skateboards.
Cheng Shaofeng stood in the administrative center and watched them fly away. He shook his head and said, "It's a pity that the Green Goblin's skateboard has such a poor carrying capacity. Two people have almost reached their limit. We can't even bring some supplies with us."
"We also need to find a way to make a transport-type flying device."
The anchor aircraft currently used by major cities have a slightly better carrying capacity, but the transportation of large cargo still requires special transport vehicles.
"We need to get a transport helicopter to transport goods back and forth between the base and the central city."
Cheng Shaofeng felt that the business empire of the Disaster Base would begin to unfold from today.
...
Central City.
Shadow Guard 2 had a lot of crystals on hand, so he found a good location in the suburbs outside the city and rented an abandoned factory building covering an area of 20 acres for a period of 3 months, spending 3,000 crystals.
He then went to the material market to purchase the materials needed to build the sub-base equipment. Since they were all ordinary materials and not valuable, he only spent 800 crystals to get everything done.
Then we started to build the basic supporting facilities of the sub-bases.
The signal coverage of the communication base station is a circular area with a radius of 20 kilometers, which can only cover half of the central city. Cheng Shaofeng plans to wait until they settle down, and then rent a piece of land in the suburbs discovered at the opposite corner to build another branch base.
It is sufficient for now.
Players in the central city just need to come to this half to back up every day.
"A group of players came out earlier. There should be a few in the central city. I wonder how they are doing now..."
The construction of communication base stations and other equipment would take a whole day, so Cheng Shaofeng went to talk to the players.
I don't know the locations of other players, but... 'Clown King' did tell him that he was going to go undercover in the Crusader headquarters.
"Let's go take a walk to the Cross."
At the same time, the joint meeting of the Christian Church and the Supernatural Association has ended.
The meeting decided to send three fourth-level professionals to lead a law enforcement team of 100 people to investigate the Yinglong Military Base.
Those who are going this time are all elites, and they have the support of blasting inheritance, and are equipped with all kinds of firepower. Some of the equipment can pose a fatal threat to fourth-level professionals!
The combat effectiveness of their team is quite high!
If you meet a fourth-level professional, you can kill him on the spot!
After the protests of Colonel Zhuang, the soldier's successor, were in vain, he had no choice but to pass the information to the Yinglong Military Base, asking them to be prepared and make sure not to conflict with the Superhuman Association's law enforcement team.
If this association is determined to eliminate a certain force, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
After a day of learning skills, the Clown King felt sore in his back and waist and felt very dull.
After seeing off teacher Zhao Huangwu, he rubbed his stiff face.
"I feel like I'm back in high school... This game is so damn hardcore! There's so much theory and practice involved in each skill."
"I usually don't feel so deep when I learn seal carving skills. Two and a half years is just a number... I didn't expect it to be so difficult to learn from scratch!"
"Are all NPC evolvers in this game so difficult?"
He touched the two printed skill stamps in his pocket and smiled with satisfaction.
"Haha~ Fortunately, I have a cheat!"
But in order not to shock the world, he didn't plan to learn it directly for the time being, but waited for a while... Otherwise, what if Zhao Huangwu found out something and stopped engraving seals for him in the future
Dong Dong Dong~
The sound of a group of people coming downstairs was heard, and the Clown King saw that all the people who had gone in for the meeting at noon were coming out.
He noticed Zhao Rulong at first sight.
Yesterday, after exchanging information with the player '天道充勤', he learned about the appearance and status of Zhao Sisi's father, Zhao Rulong, and he was the focus of his observation.
"Zhao Rulong's brows were gloomy, probably because he was in a bad mood, but it sounded like... the matter he presided over was approved."
Just as he was staring at Zhao Rulong, Zhao Rulong seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around and looked at him.
The Clown King was stunned, and almost thought that his identity as a player was exposed. It felt like he was caught trying to steal the window of a girls' dormitory...
The next moment, Zhao Rulong's gloomy brows relaxed, he smiled at him, nodded, and then left with his men.
Clown King: “?”
'What's the meaning?'
'He smiled at me? Is he... interested in me?'
'Fuck, you old gay!'
The other members of the Cross Church also noticed Zhao Rulong's gaze and looked at the Clown King. It seemed that the background of this third-level evolver from the countryside was... not simple.
The lobby attendant who tried to seduce the Clown King yesterday squeezed her legs together and became even more excited.
She decided to go and show the Clown King in person tonight what it meant to have a ventriloquist in Central City, and see if she could capture this young third-level evolver with some tricks.
Although the Clown King didn't know why Zhao Rulong greeted him specifically, at least he didn't discover his identity.
He took the opportunity to pretend to be inside and heard some of them discussing information...
"What! Sending people to investigate around Yinglong Military Base! Three fourth-level professionals! This is bad, I need to tell the lord immediately!"
Having fought against fourth-order professionals, he knew too well the strength of NPCs at this stage!
Three fourth-level professionals are simply not something that players can contend with at this stage!
He was just about to log off and communicate with the players at the base.
A voice came from outside the gate of the Cross Church.
"Hello, I'm looking for the Clown King, I'm his friend..."