Chapter 316: A Bet to Prove Strength
Chapter 316: A Bet to Prove Strength
A Lan didn't care at all about Ye Ming's furious departure.
If we choose to give in on matters of principle, the Mingwu Clan will inevitably become more aggressive.
There are no moral constraints in this world, and fists have always been used to speak.
In the eyes of outsiders, the essence of your concession is that you consider yourself to be the weaker party after weighing the pros and cons, so you choose to make concessions and compromise.
Instead of making the foreigners restrain themselves, this behavior will make them feel that they have the upper hand.
Under the law of survival of the fittest, acts of compromise are like the smell of blood in a torn wound, which will only attract more greedy sucking.
Only by being positive and unyielding can we gain more room for cooperation.
This fearless display is far more real than any previous verbal covenant.
As for Ye Ming's anger, A Lan didn't think it would really be angry.
After the first two contacts, he felt that Ye Ming was a very good leader, and all his seemingly angry expressions were ultimately for the purpose of gaining benefits.
Including the extreme pressure mentioned above, even anger is a bargaining chip for it to calculate its interests.
Even the moment he stood up angrily and scanned the entire audience was just a performance for profit.
How could this veteran who had been through hundreds of battles and had single-handedly turned the tide for the Mingwu Clan, which was supposed to have withdrawn from the stage of history, be a reckless man who was easily influenced by his emotions?
As for the invitation to this auction, the general was not mentioned in advance that there were rule fragments.
It is also a plan to gain more benefits from the Mingwu Clan.
Giving advance notice can indeed allow the general to prepare resources in advance, and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce can make more profits from this auction.
But what he wanted was for the Mingwu Clan to take the initiative to come to every auction in the future.
You also need to go to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce in advance to store a large amount of resources.
Not making the items of each auction public means that outsiders will not be able to know whether the rule fragments will appear in the next round of auctions.
If you want to seize the opportunity in advance, you must prepare the resources in advance and store them here at the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
This will allow the interests of each race to be highly tied to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
Secondly, resource storage requires a handling fee, which is also a continuous source of resource income.
After this incident, I believe Ye Ming will plan every auction activity in advance in the future, and will call on clansmen to participate in every auction.
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the other side.
Ye Ming's figure was like a black lightning, speeding along the sea.
His body swept across the surging waves, and wherever he passed, the sea water silently parted and a cloud of mist rose up.
Suddenly, its five fingers clenched forward, and the space was torn apart like a fragile brocade, revealing a twisted void crack.
The next second, it had passed through the space rift and appeared above Mingwu Island.
Faced with the sudden cross-space jump, the Mingwu tribe army below looked up and found that the person coming was the general, and their nervous expressions immediately dissipated.
"Prepare three Sky Soul Stones, three thousand Blood Crystal Ore, and two hundred Ghost Soul Grasses for me."
Its voice was as cold and hard as iron, causing the Mingwu tribe warriors below to kneel down one after another.
The three elders rose from the air below the island and hurried over. Before they could speak, they were pinned in the air by Ye Ming's cold gaze:
"I asked you to prepare resources, not to come and ask me what happened."
Upon hearing this, the three elders decisively flew to the resource storage area and took the resources according to Ye Ming's idea.
The auction at Dream Island gave Ye Ming a new understanding of the strength of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
It found that it could not figure out the details of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
It is certain that the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce must have an investigative organization stationed in various areas of the sea, which collects information from major sea areas like a ghost.
This is also the reason why the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s intelligence is so detailed and even knows Mingwu’s past.
Secondly, the fact that the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce can produce such a treasure as the "Rule Fragments" proves that the power behind them does not care about the potential value of the Rule Fragments.
The power behind this might be far stronger than he had previously imagined.
Even the act of engaging in trade with various ethnic groups may be supported by "rule logic".
Otherwise, on the basis of having strength far stronger than that of the Mingwu Clan, the behavior of cooperation and mutual benefit is itself a stupid behavior.
Even taking weaker tribes as slaves is more in line with the survival rules of this world than mutually beneficial trade.
Without thinking about these issues carefully, it is now more concerned about the fragment of rules.
Even if it cannot be repaired, being able to be made into a pseudo-rule item can bring strategic advantages to the Mingwu Clan.
This is a trump card on the gambling table of the monster world that will definitely take effect in the future no matter how the times change.
Perhaps technology will be eliminated, but rules will always occupy the supreme position in the power system.
Ordinary resources can be obtained through a series of means such as mining, breeding, and plundering.
But the rules are different. This is an absolute authority that overrides resources and is the supreme power that formulates the rules of war.
Value cannot be measured by ordinary resources at all, the two are not in the same dimension.
This is also the reason why it thinks that the Gold Coin Merchants' behavior of exchanging fragments of rules for resources is very stupid.
It's like exchanging a sharp blade that can cut off fate for a few bundles of firewood. It's ridiculous.
At this moment, the elder who had left came back and handed over the bracelet containing the resources.
Ye Ming took the bracelet and turned around to tear the space.
After passing through the space tunnel, it appeared above Dream Island and then flew straight to the dock of Dream Island.
Prepare to transfer resources for registration, and then obtain the universal currency on Dream Island: gold coins.
Through these few contacts, he learned that A Lan, the head of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, had a distinctive characteristic.
In A Lan's eyes, there is no room for negotiation or compromise on many issues.
For example, just now it clearly stated that it could provide additional funds, but A Lan chose to refuse.
This may be related to the logical chain of the rules. Its behavior does not conform to the rules to produce benefits, so it chose to reject it.
There could be other reasons as well.
In short, going directly to the dock to register can avoid arguing with A Lan over this small issue and wasting time.
Ye Ming's figure streaked across the sky of Dream Island like a black meteor, carrying with it the remaining chaotic aura in the space rifts, and landed heavily on the blue-gray stone slabs of the dock.
The gust of wind lifted up the anchored merchant ships, and the players who were loading and unloading cargo were also staggered back by the sudden impact.
After landing, Ye Ming stretched out his hand and sucked a player to his side.
Before the player could react, he was staring into a pair of pupils burning with dark blue soul fire.
"Register."
As he spoke, Ye Ming stretched out his hand and waved it towards the ground, and suddenly ten metal boxes appeared on the ground.
"No, buddy, it's boring if you cut in line. Can you be a little more civilized?" The player was also startled and said with an unhappy look.
"I asked you to register."
Just when the player was about to start foul language mode.
The voice from the battle group channel rang in my mind, and then said helplessly:
"Okay, I'll register you right away... Be polite in the future. This is Neverland, not your clan's land. You can act wild as you please..."
The soul fire in Ye Ming's head was beating violently. He resisted the urge to slap the player to death and continued to listen to the player chattering while counting resources.
What makes it curious is the way players count their resources.
There is no need to take out the resource atlas for comparison. Just glance at it with your eyes and then touch it with your hands to enter the imperceptible space, and you will know the properties and value of the material.
Even stranger is that the weight doesn’t even need to be measured.
For example, the pricing method for spiritual ore resources should be to determine the category first, then identify the quality, and finally weigh it.
The mining of spiritual ore is full of variables.
The raw stones chiseled out from the mine are of different sizes and shapes.
Even ore produced from the same vein may have varying qualities due to different distributions of internal impurities.
Normally, the identification process should be cumbersome.
At the very least, you have to select samples to check the quality, then convert the weight based on indicators such as energy content, and finally estimate the value of the entire batch of goods.
But this member of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce who was still chattering in front of him could know the exact value of all the goods with just a glance and then put them into the space.
Curious, Ye Ming reached out and grabbed a piece of ore. After scanning it repeatedly, he handed it to the player who was testing it.
After the player took the ore, he glanced at it and put it into the space, then entered a string of numbers on the counter.
"How much is this spiritual ore worth?"
"39292 gold coins."
Ye Ming already knew the value of the gold coins and calculated it quickly.
The final number froze in its mind: 39292.
It is exactly the same as the value given by the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce members.
But compared to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce members who could get the price at a glance, its calculation speed was far inferior, and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce calculated in batches, not one ore at a time. Although it was curious about the reason, it did not ask.
There are many races in the monster world, and it is normal to see all kinds of racial talents.
However, what Ye Ming didn't know was that this method of rapid statistical pricing was invented by A Lan: the rapid pricing method.
It’s actually very simple to use.
It is naturally impossible to calculate the specific value of this batch of resources by just analyzing and scanning.
But players have a very accurate value measure in their hands, which is "sacrifice Brother Emperor Omen."
You just need to open the sacrifice panel and throw something in, check the sacrifice value, and you can estimate the value of the entire batch of goods.
Take a blood crystal ore as an example.
The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce only needs to calculate the market price of this spiritual ore in the trading market. Next, it only needs to put the blood crystal ore in batches into the space bag, and then sacrifice the Emperor's Omen to check the sacrifice price, and then it can get the accurate price of the goods.
That is: the actual transaction price in the external market = the internal sacrifice price × the fixed coefficient.
There are three steps in total.
The first step is to throw the goods into the sacrifice panel (Emperor Brother will automatically identify the quality and weight to get the value).
The second step is to record the sacrifice offer.
The third step is to multiply it by a fixed coefficient (the ratio in the resource category table listed by the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, each commodity has a different ratio value).
The external price of blood crystal ore is 3.3 times that of sacrificing Brother Emperor Zhao, which is the fixed coefficient.
This formula can be applied to all resources to quickly get a clear price, completely skipping complicated and tedious steps such as quality identification and weight identification.
Brother Di Zhao is the authority.
Although Brother Di Zhao always cuts the price of goods at the ankle, the sacrifice price of some goods can even be more than ten times different from the external price, but the price ratio given is absolutely fair, and there is no possibility of shortchanging.
This makes "Sacrificing to the Emperor" the most standard measure of value.
In the early days, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce also had a complicated statistical method, and it took a lot of time to count a batch of goods.
With the development of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, the early identification methods were too inefficient and could no longer keep up with the development of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
Finally, after studying his own functional system, A Lan found this shortcut for quick pricing.
Soon, all resources were counted.
"Brother, come over here and take the payment."
Ye Ming raised the bidding machine in his hand with a cold face, and saw a golden light shooting out from the counting device in the player's hand, sweeping across the surface of the bidding machine with a "ding" sound.
Suddenly, the gears in the bidding machine started turning automatically, and gold coins of equal value to the resources were credited to the account.
But the values in the bidder are essentially just value carriers.
The first generation bidding machine was too crude, and after careful study, other races were fully capable of modifying the displayed gold coin values.
Therefore, Alan uses the plug-in in the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce group chat to record the statistics. Every time a player finishes the statistics, he will record the resources in the plug-in. Even if the value of the external bidder is modified, it will be useless. Every transaction must be completed by the players.
Other races may be able to tamper with the displayed values of the bidding machine, but they will never be able to change the data information in the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce chat group.
After getting the gold coins, Ye Ming did not stop, but took off into the air.
Soon, it arrived above the auction, slowed down, and landed on its original seat.
At this time, the bidding price for the rule fragment has reached 4800 million gold coins, and there are 8 minutes left before the end of the auction.
When A Lan discovered Ye Ming had returned, he knew that he was ready to continue bidding.
As a demigod, it is no problem for him to cross the void in his physical body.
The distance between Kirigakure Island and Dream Island seems long, but for a demigod realm warrior, as long as they have clear spatial coordinates, they can go back and forth in a short time.
Ye Ming, who had just taken his seat, raised his head and turned the bidding device in his hand.
The bidding machine, which had been stuck and could not continue to rotate, started to rotate again after receiving new energy.
[No. 313, bid: 5000 million gold coins. ]
As soon as this quote was given, a new quote popped up the next second.
[No. 89, bid: 5200 million gold coins. ]
This time Ye Ming did not get angry, nor did he do anything extreme. He just dialed the bidding machine again.
[No. 313, bid 5500 million gold coins. ]
The price at this time has reached 550 million sacrifice power, and the players in the live broadcast room are dumbfounded.
The most painful one was the team player who sacrificed 80 mana to hang the rule fragment in the trading house last time.
They now have a new understanding of the concept that knowledge is wealth.
As they watched the live broadcast, the pain in their hearts continued to grow as the price of the rule fragments rose.
In fact, before putting the rule fragments on consignment for trading, the members of this team had studied the value of the rule fragments in detail.
At that time, I felt that the price of 80 sacrifice power was a bit high, and planned to lower the price little by little if I couldn't sell it. However, it was bought by other players in the second it was put on the trading floor.
At that time, they also thought that this player should be an arms dealer, pharmacist, or a member of a research and development guild.
It was bought for research, but will eventually be sacrificed to Emperor Omen.
But I didn't expect that it could be sold at such a high price in the hands of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
In stark contrast to the mood of this team members was the regiment that provided the rule fragments to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
The entire regiment consists of 76 people.
I was lucky enough to get rule fragments while clearing the adventurer copy. The first thing I did was to search the forum for relevant information, and then I found Alan's post looking to buy rule fragments.
Originally, they planned to sell the rule fragments to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce for 100 million sacrificial power.
But A Lan gave them two choices in private chat.
First, the Gold Coin Merchant will spend 150 million to purchase rule fragments.
Second, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce will be responsible for the sales and will only charge a 10% handling fee.
A Lan clearly explained in private chat that the price of the rule fragments is far more than 150 million sacrifice power, and it is up to them to decide how to choose.
When faced with a huge sum of 150 million sacrificial power, a normal player would definitely choose sacrificial power without hesitation.
This price is no longer just game currency.
In the real world, he would go to the Eclipse Clan to extend his life and solve all hidden diseases in his body.
But the leader of the regiment has great trust in Alan, and he is also one of the beneficiaries of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce's past welfare projects.
Therefore, after discussing with the guild members, the leader of the regiment chose the second condition: the consignment model.
In the more than half a month that followed, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce never responded.
During this period, members of the regiment also complained that why it had not been sold for such a long time, so they might as well sell it for 150 million sacrifice power.
But the commander of the regiment still chose to wait.
Now, the early wait has turned into the ecstasy of this moment.
Every time the numbers on the screen at the auction site jumped, all the team members who were resting in the Adventurer's Copy would raise their hands and cheer, and every member's face was filled with smiles.
And the exciting finale auction continues.
At this time, A Lan looked at the still jumping numbers of gold coins and seemed very calm.
In fact, the value of the rule fragments is far more than a few million sacrificial powers.
The only thing that limits the value of the rule fragments is the current size of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
If the Ascending Clan, Shuyan, Mingwu Clan, Nichao Legion, Soul Returning Clan, Ale, and even more wealthy forces can be gathered to Dream Island to participate in this auction, the price of the rule fragments will continue to rise.
Unfortunately, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce is only an emerging platform after all, and there are still too few buyers that it can connect with.
The Mingwu tribe had the most resources at the scene, and the other races were no match for them.
In the end, the rule fragments in the finale of the auction were sold for 8700 million, or 870 million sacrificial power.
"Congratulations, General Ye Ming." A Lan stood up at this time and congratulated with a smile.
"Give me the fragments of rules directly, no need for delivery." Ye Ming said in a deep voice at this time.
Alan can fully understand this request.
Ye Ming, who was in the semi-god state, could come and go freely in the Cangxing Sea, and no one could stop him. He only plundered other tribes, and the tribes in the Cangxing Sea dared not attack him.
But Alan did not agree directly, and had a new idea in his mind:
"General Ye Ming, you have always been skeptical about the capabilities of my people. How about we play a game?"
"What game?" Ye Ming turned and looked directly at A Lan, the soul fire in his head beating.
"The rule fragments you won in the next auction will be delivered free of charge by our Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce. You can use all the means of the Mingwu Clan, including ambush, tracking, or even taking action yourself... If the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce cannot deliver the rule fragments to the Mist Island within three days, all the resources you spent in this auction will be fully refunded by our Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and the rule fragments will be regarded as free gifts."
"You're confident."
“Confidence is built on strength.”
"Then let's try it." Ye Ming agreed straightforwardly, and then continued:
"I hope the strength of your Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce is worthy of this confidence."
After saying that, it turned around and turned into a black mist, flying over the Dream Island and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.
(End of this chapter)