Chapter 373: Spend Money First, Then Get Rich
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Clatter!
A massive steel arm forcibly drilled through the solid rock, extracting a large chunk.
The surface of the extracted rubble revealed a bright red hue.
"Haha, found one. Not a small ruby, probably enough to cut a medium-sized and two small ones."
Kristen immediately rejoiced, happily moving closer.
He skillfully swung the small pickaxe, knocking off the rocks around the ruby, carefully extracting it.
Even though the ruby itself was harder than the rock, there was no need to be so careful.
But since it represented beautiful gold coins, naturally it was cherished.
Alice walked over, giving an order to the six-armed golem beside her:
"Crush these rocks!"
Several other mechanical arms reached over, their mithril drills easily piercing several holes into the rock.
Right afterward, the metal drill bit on the mechanical arm pierced into three aligned holes and then exerted force.
The massive rock cracked and shattered into two halves with a clattering sound.
The six-armed golem repeated the trick, breaking the split rocks into even smaller pieces.
With sharp eyes, Alice took out a faintly glowing detection rod, giving it a gentle wave over the crushed stones.
"Ding!"
The sound was crisp and pleasing.
Everyone who heard it couldn't help but smile.
Alice immediately stopped her movements, carefully sifting through the rubble until she found a hint of red on the surface of a cracked stone.
Kristen quickly moved in, happily picking it up and carefully tapping at the stone.
While he was busy, Alice decisively shouted at the adventurers, who were cheerfully watching:
"Stop daydreaming! Quickly load these stones onto the conveyor belt and send them outside for the fortress repairs."
"The rest of you, stop being lazy, grab some tools and start drilling. The more holes you make, the faster the six-armed golem digs."
The other adventurers immediately got busy, frequently glancing at the towering six-armed golem, their eyes filled with anticipation and awe.
"Hey, another small ruby, at least worth 15 gold coins. Today's rental cost for the golem is covered."
Watching the six-armed golem begin to move again, ready to dig into another huge rock, Alice stepped back, speaking in a hopeful tone:
"A six-armed golem costs around 8,000 gold coins. Our daily revenue is about 400 gold coins. At most, within a month, we could buy one."
"Renting for a month costs 800 gold coins, and it can only work 10 hours a day."
"If we were to rent two, our expenses would reach 1,600 gold coins a month..."
Kristen, understanding the implications, noticed the gazes of the others and unhesitatingly said:
"I say, before the other adventurers catch on, let's buy the maximum of five six-armed golems."
"By then, just by digging during the day, those five golems could earn us at least 2,000 gold coins a day!"
Two thousand gold coins a day?
Wouldn't that be 60,000 a month?
Even with 100 people splitting it, each could get 600 gold coins!
And that's just the minimum!
Undoubtedly, everyone in the adventurer group was tempted.
Seeing Kristen's cooperative performance, Alice smiled knowingly but chose not to continue discussing it, waiting for the idea to ferment.
Some things are better brought up by others than by her!
By evening, Alice's adventurer group had finished discussing the matter at record speed.
There was no doubt; everyone had full confidence in the plan.
The reason was simple: they'd never been wrong following Bay Territory's instructions.
Correspondingly, Bay Territory received numerous orders for six-armed golems!
343 looked at the number of orders in disbelief, his eyes showing a hint of envy as he muttered:
"One hundred six-armed golems, total value exceeding 800,000 gold coins. When did these adventurers become so wealthy?"
To get rich, isn't having a mine the key?
Though the ruby vein wasn't very large, it was at least a medium-sized one, with significant value.
If fully mined, it could yield at least hundreds of millions of gold coins.
Matthew's goal was to mine these hundreds of millions as quickly as possible to accelerate Bay Territory's growth.
However, the price of doing so was giving up nearly half the profits.
"Anyway, those gold coins would just be earned by adventurers, and they'd obediently bring them back."
Hearing this, 343 felt puzzled.
"Aren't adventurers always driven by profit? Would they really give it up?"
A slight smirk appeared on Matthew's lips, though he chose not to enlighten 343.
The reason the adventurers were so enthusiastic was because they saw even greater profits.
Compared to recovering the costs within a month and guaranteed profits every month after, this little investment was nothing.
Matthew continued, "We still need to purchase a lot of materials to complete the production and manufacture of the six-armed golems as fast as possible."
343 understood immediately, nodding and saying:
"Does Bay Territory have any difficulties?"
Ralph, who had been waiting nearby, stepped forward with a smile and said softly:
"We wish to purchase an additional production line for the six-armed golems."
"Qualified production personnel are still somewhat scarce."
"We wish to recruit a batch of suitable spellcasters or alchemists from Bloodmoon City."
"As for their compensation, we are prepared to offer 50% higher salaries than before."
Subconsciously raising his eyebrows, 343 pondered the matter, quickly realizing its benefits.
First, a golem production line alone could bring in hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
Next, for the production of one hundred six-armed golems, Bay Territory's current stock of parts wouldn't suffice, especially for some key components.
Naturally, this chunk of profit would also fall into the hands of Bloodmoon City.
Then, training hundreds, if not more, of different types of golem workers would also enhance their capabilities.
This kind of latent benefit was extremely important.
Recently, Bay Territory had secured a large military contract precisely because it had accumulated and nurtured over a thousand mid-level forging talents.
If this group could gain experience, Bloodmoon City might also be able to mass-produce different types of golems.
This could be a lucrative path!
However, 343 didn't notice that Matthew and Ralph, whose "scheme" had succeeded, exchanged a triumphant smile.
Among these adventurers, who would want to leave Bay Territory?