Seeing the positive market feedback, Lan Qingyou breathed a slight sigh of relief, and the corners of her mouth curled up into a faint smile.
As expected, one had to find their own specialized niche to enjoy the industry's dividends.
While she indeed couldn't move around as freely as others...
Spending her mana recovery time reading books while others were out chopping trees seemed to lead to the same destination through a different path.
However, she wasn't interested in adding friends.
Lan Qingyou completely ignored the '99+' friend requests that had instantly flooded her notification bar.
She was highly motivated now.
She took out the ten boxes of test tubes she had acquired through trade and listed another hundred Mana Potions.
They were gone in minutes.
The materials in her storage were skyrocketing; this was much faster than going out to collect them herself.
Selling one hundred and fifty potions had instantly increased her basic materials by fifteen hundred units.
However, she soon ran into a problem.
Simply put, she had run out of test tubes.
She had plenty of potion left in the cauldron, but without containers, it was useless.
The cauldron's capacity was about twenty liters.
Taking twenty liters as a round number, that was twenty thousand milliliters. With each potion being ten milliliters, it meant one batch could produce two thousand doses.
However, due to the boiling process, her batch had been reduced by half, but that still left about a thousand doses.
She had only sold a hundred and fifty so far; she was far from finished.
There were still 9,968 people in the District 666 channel. Even if she sold everything, it wouldn't be enough to go around.
Seeing all those potential resources unable to enter her pocket made Lan Qingyou feel incredibly uncomfortable, as if she were losing out.
Bored, she started thinking of a solution while clicking through her friend requests, deleting all those who clearly just wanted freebies.
Then, she spotted an interesting message.
She clicked the avatar to view the person's profile. It was a thin-faced man with gold-rimmed glasses, slightly messy hair, and a necktie.
His bio simply read: 'Professional Merchant.'
He was likely a business elite or something similar back on Blue Star.
Shang Chuan: “I have a large supply of test tubes. If you need them, add me.”
Seeing this, Lan Qingyou immediately accepted the request.
Shang Chuan: “Boss Lan, you finally added me. I'm honored.”
Lan Qingyou: “How many test tubes do you have?”
Lan Qingyou had no intention of chatting to build rapport; she went straight to the point.
Shang Chuan: “53 boxes.”
Lan Qingyou: “Price.”
Lan Qingyou didn't ask why he had so many, nor did she need to.
In his store, she saw that he was currently buying them at a rate of 2 units of materials for every ten tubes.
Interestingly, he didn't use 'box' as a unit, but 'ten tubes.'
It seemed she had run into a middleman, and a professional one at that.
After all, he was even accounting for used test tubes, clearly planning on recycling and reusing resources.
That was professional. The man was a talent.
Lan Qingyou adjusted some settings in her own store.
Shang Chuan: “5 basic units for ten tubes.”
Lan Qingyou: “3 units for ten. I'll let you make a small profit, otherwise I'll just buy them myself.”
...
Shang Chuan: “Deal.”
After a moment's consideration, Shang Chuan agreed to Lan Qingyou's price.
He was doing this for the price difference, after all. Since she was willing to let him make a profit, it was best to quit while he was ahead.
Harmony breeds wealth; there was no need to be stubborn.
Moreover, Lan Qingyou's listing for buying test tubes had just disappeared from her store, which was a sign of her sincerity.
If he tried to push his luck now, he'd be asking for trouble.
Lan Qingyou: “You handle the procurement for these from now on. Every time you get a box, send me a trade request. We'll settle the balance daily.”
This was a point-to-point, end-to-end trading method that could be maintained long-term.
One only needed to send a trade request with the items attached and wait for the other party to respond. It was very convenient.
Even more convenient was that this trade method could be set for 12, 24, or 48 hours.
Shang Chuan: “No problem.”
The two of them ended their conversation on good terms.
Lan Qingyou got her test tubes, and Shang Chuan got his profit margin. Everyone had a bright future.
After receiving over five hundred test tubes, Lan Qingyou immediately began bottling and selling.
Business was booming; the potions sold out the moment they were listed.
Because business was so good, she discovered that the stacking limit for each slot was 999, which was good news.
This meant the warehouse was best used for stacking basic materials.
Materials like wood, stone, vines, soil, sand, magic creature cores, and so on.
However, considering she would sometimes list potions in exchange for specific items, she needed to reserve a few empty slots.
Calculated that way, her slots weren't quite enough.
Lan Qingyou closed the trade for stone.
After all, her shelter upgrade only required 100 units of stone.
Then, she changed the trade listing to 10 Crude Mana Potions for 1 E-grade magic creature core, limited to ten cores.
She also added a listing of 5 potions for 500 grams of food or mineral water, limited to 10 of each.
She was clearly aiming for the shelter upgrade.
But even knowing her intentions, those who needed to buy still bought.
With over nine thousand people in the channel, there wasn't even one potion per person. Lan Qingyou had no fear of them not selling.
She was being completely blatant about it.
“This Lan Qingyou must be making a fortune.”
“More than that. I did the math; she’s collected at least six thousand units of materials by now.”
“@Lan Qingyou, no one’s complaining about your ability to make a living, but could you consider lowering the price a bit? Everyone is struggling to survive. Aren't you just taking advantage of a crisis?”
“Shut up! Close your trap! Damn it, Xintianle, right? I’ll remember you. If Lan Qingyou stops selling potions, I’ll be the first to hunt you down.”
“Where did this internet saint come from? Please do us all a favor and beat it.”
“Are you an idiot? Don't force me to start swearing!”
“He’s not wrong, though. Since they’re selling so well, what’s wrong with a price cut? Favoring customers is favoring yourself.”
“She’s running a monopoly. Why would she need to offer favors to consumers?”
Seeing how well Lan Qingyou’s business was doing, some were jealous, some were envious, some were sarcastic, and some offered 'kind' advice.
Lan Qingyou sneered as she read these messages.
With a few taps of her finger, she added them to her store's blacklist. She didn't lack those few customers anyway.
Sarcastic, were they? Giving advice, were they? That's right, I'm running a monopoly.
If you don't like it, who the hell are you?
I'll make it so you can't even buy them.
Let's see if you still have an attitude then.
When she was done, Lan Qingyou even wrote a six-word mantra in her store's description: “Buy it or get lost.”
This made the people coming to buy potions grimace.
“Tsk tsk, this Lan Qingyou has quite a temper.”
“Is it that bad? I don't think so. It's better for everyone to get rid of those annoying pests early.”
“Is 10 potions for 100 mana points in exchange for an E-grade magic creature core a bit low?”
“Not really. I had good luck today and killed a horned rabbit. It had an E-grade magic creature core inside.”
“Trust me, brother. First of all, you don't need to stare at those damn wolves. If you broaden your horizons, you'll find plenty of E-grade magic creatures.”
“Really? I'll go try tomorrow.”
Although Lan Qingyou's prices seemed unreasonable...
The majority of people in District 666 accepted them surprisingly well.
While there were online beggars, internet saints standing on the moral high ground, and jealous people being snide, most were indifferent to it.
This was the District 666 Villain's Valley Channel.
As people who were already 'villains' back on Blue Star, they were less innocently naive and more pragmatically mature than people in other regions.
Of course.
When it came time to take action, these guys wouldn't hesitate for a second.
It was truly a chaotic place.
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