Chapter 51
Even if the production couldn't keep up with the demand for a while, knowing there was a steady output, everyone would naturally prioritize buying equipment from other parts, especially the players in S City. With the advantage of proximity, S City had no shortage of belts.
During those months, green gear of the same level could sell for as much as 1 gold, but green gear for the belt slot barely fetched 40 silver.
This was because the official belts were only 15 silver.
Yu Xunge bought 1,000 belts, aiming to get at least 1,000 jin of gold from the Su family.
She couldn't help but sigh; it was indeed faster to just rob them outright.
However, she had no plans to raid the Su family's underground treasure vault anytime soon. She could think of countless ways to deal with invisible players, and the Su family would have even more tricks up their sleeves. Who knew if that treasure vault was now filled with electric nets, leaving anyone who landed there paralyzed?
In truth, she knew that selling these items to the Su family a day or two after the game officially launched would yield even more profit. But by then, the Su family would surely hear about any mutations in real-world items faster than ordinary players. Who knew if they would get wind of the mutated machines from the belt processing factory? Selling a thousand pieces of equipment would take at least a few days from contact to negotiation to transaction. If she was even a little slow, those belts would slip through her fingers, and she would lose the chance to set a trap for Yu Xunhuan.
She wasn't worried about arming the enemy; by mid-March, most players engrossed in dungeon runs would have at least one belt, putting everyone on an equal starting line and not giving the Su family too much of an edge. But she could use this situation to push the Su family into trading for some gold. As long as they dared to trade, she would dare to rob them halfway.
Yu Xunge directly activated her invisibility and shadow movement to the airport, found a flight to Gangcheng, transformed into a small cat to hide inside, and took a short nap. After landing, she shadow-moved to a place where she had previously bought weapons, then used her disguise skill to transform into a two-meter-tall muscular man. She found a Hong Kong player who was mixed up in the underworld and asked him to help her sell the equipment, promising him three pieces of green gear once the deal was done.
The other party agreed immediately.
Yu Xunge handed over Yu Xunhuan's contact information: "This is the buyer I found. He has money and is a player. His wife's family can handle 1,000 pieces of green gear. I want one jin of gold for each piece, and anything over that is yours."
"Got it, leave it to me."
...
After having dinner with Yu Xunge that day, Yu Xunhuan wasn't feeling too great.
Su Yitong didn't throw tantrums with loud shouting or pick fights to yell at you. She considered herself a cultured person of high standing, and her way of making you suffer was silent and subtle.
If Yu Xunge annoyed her, she would make both Yu Xunge and Yu Xunhuan miserable.
So, in recent days, Yu Xunhuan found that a lot of his personal information had been leaked.
After marrying Su Yitong, he didn't give up his streaming career. It wasn't ambition that drove him; it was one of the few places where he could feel like he was in a position of power.
In his small streaming room, people would analyze the luxurious decor in the background, praise his looks and gaming skills. Even a water cup he casually picked up would be dissected and discussed. No one knew about his physical shortcomings, nor did they openly criticize the flaws in his so-called divine gifts.
However, recently, the winds had shifted strangely.
His previous gaming nickname had never revealed his real name, and even when Yu Xunge became a star, he never tried to ride that wave. After all, the money Yu Xunge gave them was not something he wanted to expose. He didn't want Yu Xunge to be labeled as a "brother-in-law supporter," and he knew that such accusations could wake people up to the truth.
But now, his real name had been exposed. Not only that, but the fact that he was Yu Xunge's brother and had "married" into a wealthy family had also been revealed, though no one knew which wealthy family it was.
This sudden fame was not what he wanted.
Although times had changed, and everyone was clamoring about the perks of living off a partner, those who couldn't enjoy that lifestyle would only mock those who could.
In reality, these comments didn't bother Yu Xunhuan much. He knew what he was after. He had prepared himself mentally for being a son-in-law before the marriage. What troubled him was the Su family's attitude.
They had inexplicably been nicer to him before, but recently, they had grown distant again. Sometimes, he felt like a pet for Su Yitong's amusement, with a status lower than the border collie she kept— and that was indeed the case.
Ignoring the barrage of comments in the streaming room, Yu Xunhuan finished his game and logged off with a smile.
Just as he was about to close the software, he noticed a private message in the backend.
【4259335085】: Are you buying game green gear? Do you know what game it is?
What a coincidence! He received thousands of private messages daily, but today he just happened to see this one.
Yu Xunhuan didn't find it strange; his luck was just that good. Ever since he occasionally cooked and delivered meals for a few brothers in the studio, everything he did seemed to go smoothly. He had secretly dug up quite a bit from the Su family to build his own power, and they hadn't noticed.
According to his pre-marriage plan, he intended to collaborate with Su Yitong, using his good fortune to help her develop her career and gain the Su family's trust. But since Su Yitong entered the game without ever thinking to inform him, he changed his mind. He planned to leverage the Su family's power to strengthen himself first, then gradually raise his status before collaborating with Su Yitong...
But recently, he had been struggling within the Su family, with no voice at all. Even at the dinner table today, when they discussed the game with his sister, he couldn't get a word in. If it weren't for Yu Xunge taking care of him and talking to him several times, he would have felt like a complete outsider.
Yu Xunhuan paused, his hand hovering over the software's close button.
【Chapter 55: Digging a Pit for My Good Brother】
【K God】: What game?
【4259335085】: Divine Gift, Warcraft, 10.10
【K God】: What slot for the green gear? How much?
【4259335085】: 1,000 pieces, belts. Can you handle it? Only accepting gold transactions.
Initially, Yu Xunhuan hadn't taken it seriously, just thinking it would be nice to meet another player. But now, he felt a chill run down his spine, and his tone became much more serious as he quickly considered how much profit this could bring him.
The first thought that flashed through his mind was to sell it to Yu Xunge, connecting through her to the official channels.
Currently, aside from Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiu, the person he trusted most was Yu Xunge.
But the next moment, he dismissed that idea. Connecting with the official channels would mean offending the Su family, and it wasn't worth it.
Yet he couldn't swallow such a huge profit himself; he had fewer than ten players under his wing...
【K God】: How much gold per piece? What are the attributes? I want to see the actual items.
【4259335085】: Each can add 3-4 attribute points, 2 jin of gold per piece.
2 jin of gold, around 500,000... This was clearly a sky-high price.
Although Yu Xunhuan had only participated in one internal test, he had visited the auction house. While he was forward-thinking and spent all his money on learning professional skills and buying materials, he didn't remember the specific prices of these items. But he could craft them himself.
Take jewelry processing, for example. Although he was only a beginner, he could already make earrings that added 5 attribute points. The materials were particularly rare, and even if he could find substitutes in reality, it would still cost over a million...
But this had a lot to do with the fact that jewelry processing required gems, while he could infer that skills like [Leatherworking], [Sewing], and [Engineering] could also produce gear that added attribute points, and the costs would definitely be lower—at least not as exorbitant as jewelry processing, which often required tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gems.
But therein lay the problem: not everyone was like him, able to earn hundreds of gold coins in a single game. Most people only had a few silver coins from quests, let alone buying materials; they couldn't even afford to learn skills.
【K God】: I want to see the actual items.
...
Every day, Yu Xunge stayed in her villa practicing alchemy. She brewed 1,000 bottles of basic healing potions, planning to sell them to the Su family in exchange for gold.
These potions became obsolete the fastest, but they were still quite valuable. Everyone started with 100 health points, and a potion that restored 50 health was essentially a lifeline. Ordinary people might hide and wait for automatic recovery, but for the wealthy, having health below 19% was unbearable.
Although she wasn't sure if the Su family had trained their own alchemists by now, it was worth a shot; she wouldn't lose anything.
While it seemed like she was providing the Su family with a boost in the early stages, even without her, they could still buy these potions. It wasn't like the Su family couldn't continue playing without her. Selling to anyone else was still selling, and she could take advantage of the early stage before the importance of gold became apparent, reducing the Su family's gold reserves. Otherwise, if they bought elsewhere, they would be waving around paper money.
Yu Xunge also didn't plan to show her face. After disguising herself, she found the Gun King and handed this task over to him, specifying that he could only sell to the Su family, at 100g of gold per potion, with anything extra going to him.
Basic healing potions sold for only 1 silver in the Zelan Star shop, so selling them for 100g of gold was an astronomical price, a fifty-fold increase.
But when it came to cross-border purchasing, didn't everything come with a markup?
She left the potions behind and took 200 jin of gold from the Gun King. She wasn't worried that he wouldn't follow her instructions; they were all smart people. If she could produce such good items, she certainly had her channels. Although she didn't know whether there was animosity or gratitude between her and the Su family, if the Gun King didn't sell to them, he wouldn't be sought after for such good fortune again.
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