Chapter 785 The Nature of a Merchant
Chapter 785 The Nature of a Merchant
"Senior Mosquito, when you take down the Heavenly Palace, come and exchange water from the five lakes and four seas with me."
Wen Rui put on a poker face and was not moved at all: "I am the originator of businessmen. I am not that easy to fool. You can't get anything from me just with a business plan."
Taoist Mosquito was silent for a while, and tactfully stopped making any more futile attempts. He shook his head slowly and said, "Well, even I would not reach a comprehensive cooperation agreement with a business partner I just met for the first time. Then let's talk about it from another angle. If your water is broken down and sold separately, how would you sell it?"
When talking about business, Wen Rui's clone immediately became excited, rubbing his hands and grinning, "It is said that things are valuable because they are rare. Water is now a scarce resource in the Three Realms, especially in the mortal world. Only the Antarctic icebergs and the Arctic glaciers have some water. The Antarctic Immortal is guarding the icebergs, and the Arctic Emperor is guarding the glaciers. These two are ancient gods. Their deities are similar to mine, but their Taoism is many times higher than mine. It's not easy to snatch water from them."
"Besides, the distance between the North Pole and the South Pole is so long that even if you could grab it, you couldn't bring it back."
"Even if you want to build a base in the Arctic or Antarctic and open up a new blood pool, the temperature there is cold all year round. Not only is it not suitable for the growth of demon mosquitoes, but the blood pool will also freeze and cannot be used as a petri dish."
Without mentioning the price, Wenrui first emphasized the irreplaceable nature of its own products, laying the foundation for the subsequent price increase.
As for the fact that a righteous god in heaven should not do business with the devil from hell, there is no business that cannot be done in Wen Rui's dictionary. He would like to sell arms to both good and evil and make a fortune from the war.
"Water in the world is not scarce at all. If you hadn't used your magic weapon to collect it, how could there be such a severe drought in the mortal world?"
Taoist Mosquito exposed the truth and said, "Except for me, no one in this world would want to buy water from you. If you ask too high a price, be careful that you won't be able to sell it and end up with nothing!"
"Don't worry about whether I can sell it or not. It's a seller's market now, and I have the power to set the price."
Wen Rui raised his head, looking extremely proud: "Anyway, water is in short supply now. It is more valuable than gold, gems, spiritual stones, fairy jade, pearls, and agate. Show some sincerity first, let me see your strength, and then I will consider offering you a price."
"Except for the fairy jade that only comes from heaven, you can name your price for the rest. Even a drop of water for a grain of gold sand is fine."
A drop of water for a grain of gold sand, this is a very heroic statement.
You should know that one cubic kilometer of water weighs 1 billion tons, and the water that Wen Rui took away from all over the world weighs 1.3 billion cubic kilometers. Converted into weight, even if the unit is tons, it is an astronomical figure.
Taoist Mosquito is not an illiterate person. As a top biochemical expert, his mathematical level must be at least at the level of a university professor.
In other words, he can really come up with so much gold.
With such a huge gold reserve, if one went to Tathagata to buy Buddhist scriptures, even if the Western monks copied them until their hands smoked, they would still not be able to supply the goods.
Wen Rui didn't think that Taoist Mosquito was bragging. He had occupied this land since ancient times, so it was reasonable for him to have accumulated some wealth over the years.
What is the most abundant thing on earth?
The most mineral resources.
Taoist Mosquito has no shortage of laborers to do hard labor for him, and there are no recreational activities or serious work to do in the earth. He can assign billions of insect swarms under his command to dig mines for tens of thousands of years. Anyone can accumulate an astronomical amount of gold sand.
"I didn't realize that you are a wealthy man with a home in the mine. It's a pity. I am not Tathagata. I don't have any worldly desires for gold and treasures."
Wen Rui shrugged his shoulders and said, "These things are rare for Western monks, but they are like dirt to me. Even if they are spiritual stones that cultivators are eager to get, I can get as many as I want now."
Taoist Mosquito's tone froze, and he said unhappily: "Then what do you want?"
"I want your Witch Modulation Technology R&D Log."
Wen Rui raised his eyebrows and directly offered a price. Taoist Mosquito was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to part with it, but I don't dare to exchange it with you. If it were someone else, it would be fine, at most they could create a demon general with the strength of my Five Colors Witch. But it's different for you. If this technology falls into your hands, and you have enough time to comprehend it, the biochemical weapons you create will be a great threat to me."
"There's nothing we can do about it. It looks like this deal can't be done."
Wen Rui spread out his hands, not feeling sorry for the failed transaction. It was a business with no capital anyway, so he could extort money as much as he could, and if he couldn't, he would just give up and it wouldn't be a big loss for him.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I have some good things here, some of which are closely related to Jiejiao. Your Majesty might be interested in them."
Seeing that Wen Rui was about to disperse his clone, Taoist Mosquito quickly raised his hand to stop him. As he spoke, he rummaged through the bag hidden in the cuffs of his robe and took out several magic weapons.
These magic weapons are not big objects, they are three precious beads, a lotus petal and a lotus seed.
The three gems seemed to be a set, one emitting dazzling golden light, one emitting cold silver light, and the other emitting brilliant white light.
The lotus petals and seeds are all golden, as if they were forged from gold.
Wen Rui, who is well-versed in the classics of the Jinling Immortal Sect and the Jiejiao, can be called an expert in appraising treasures, especially in the appraisal of the Jiejiao magic weapons, and has a unique family knowledge.
After observing carefully for a while, he first confirmed the origin of the lotus petals and lotus seeds. They were exactly the fragments of the Golden Lotus of Merit, the treasure of the Western Church.
This was probably the leftovers that Taoist Mosquito had when he was gnawing on the golden lotus.
Of the three precious beads, Wen Rui was able to identify two of them as the Sun and Moon Beads, the magic weapons of the Turtle Spirit Mother.
In the past, the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother raised this treasure and defeated the Golden Immortal Ju Liusun of the Chan Sect, forcing him to flee in fear and almost die under the pearl. It was the Taoist Jie Yin who stepped in to block the pearl.
Just as Taoist Mosquito said, these treasures are really good things.
He was willing to take them out for trade, probably because several of the treasures were not compatible with his attributes, and even if he kept them with him, he would not be able to refine them for his own use.
After all, he is a demon king of the underworld. Whether it is the Sun and Moon Divine Pearls or the fragments of the Merit Golden Lotus, they are all treasures to destroy demons. To him, they are like highly toxic radioactive substances, which will cause continuous harm if they are approached.
Moreover, Wen Rui seriously suspected that the golden lotus fragments were preserved because he had indigestion after eating them and then excreted them.
The lotus seeds and petals were attached with boundless merits and vows, as if they were condensed from the merits and vows of the third-grade golden lotus that he had gnawed.
He absorbed the nutrients of the golden lotus, but he, a dark and evil demon king, was not able to enjoy these positive energies and merits.
His arsenic, my honey.
Merit is useless to Taoist Mosquito, but it is a priceless treasure to Wen Rui. The service fee he earned from selling his clone to please female believers is not even one-tenth of the merit contained in the lotus seeds and petals.
However, neither the Sun and Moon Divine Pearls nor the Golden Lotus of Merit meant more to Wen Rui than the pearl that emitted brilliant white light.
(End of this chapter)