[Trading Channel]
Ethan clicked open the page for purified drinking water.
He found that all the listings selling purified drinking water were gone, leaving only one or two outrageously priced ones that nobody could afford.
This puzzled Ethan.
He opened one of them: [100 Purified Drinking Water: 10 Wood].
["Comment: Boss, this is too heartless! 100 purified water is just two or three sips, right? You want to sell it for 10 pieces of wood, do you know how long it takes to chop down 10 pieces of wood!"]
["Reply: You don't have to buy it! I'm the only one selling purified water now. There was acid rain today; all the water sources are polluted. Try drinking unfiltered water if you want!"]
[Comment: "I'm dying of thirst, please sell me some water! Can I buy 10? I'll give 1 wood!"]
[Reply: "Not selling single portions, you pauper!"]
[Comment: "How do you filter purified water, anyone want to cooperate for business?"]
[Reply: "I think you just want free water, right? Buy it if you want, otherwise get lost. Right now I'm the only one selling water in the whole trading board, deal with it!"]
[Reply: "Anyone whining gets blocked, you all die of thirst."]
Seeing this, Ethan finally understood why no one on the trading board was selling purified water.
Turns out the acid rain today contaminated all the water sources.
Unless you had a dedicated water purifier like he did, even previously clean spring water was now undrinkable.
"Good opportunity!"
Ethan decided to list all 9L of his water for sale, split into small portions so most people could afford something.
[15 Purified Drinking Water: Exchange for 1 Wood (Alternative: 1 Stone). Remaining: 100]
[20 Purified Drinking Water: Exchange for 2 Mud, Remaining: 100]
[100 Purified Drinking Water: Exchange for 1 Spirit Stone (Alternative: 1 Beast Hide), Remaining: 20]
Several different options again.
Ethan planned to snatch up the excess materials players had on hand while this chance lasted.
As usual, he first shouted in the regional channel.
[Ethan: "Anyone need purified drinking water? If so, buy on the trading platform, first come, first served!"]
["Holy crap! Brother Ethan listed water, finally someone is selling water, I'm about to die of thirst!"]
["Boss, you're a delayed rain! I just drank polluted stream water and I'm dehydrated! My stomach is on fire, need medicine!"]
["Brother Ethan is the man, how did you get purified water? Awesome!]
["One wood for one sip of water, waaah, I'm going bankrupt!"]
["Brother Ethan, I have no wood, can I use bronze instead? I opened a chest and disassembled 10 bronze."]
["Heartless merchant! Profiteering again, you made so much selling medicine earlier, shouldn't you give back to people if you have purified water? How dare you sell it so expensive!"]
["Yeah! You're well supplied, so you should help everyone! One liter per wood is fair, filtering it doesn't cost you anything!"]
["Upstairs, if you're so capable then don't drink water! Shut up, you're just trying to mooch off Brother Ethan! ***!"]
["Brother Ethan, please feed me! If you give me some water, you can do anything to me!"]
Replies flooded in; the count instantly went 99+.
Ethan skimmed them, mostly begging for discounts, freebies, or people speaking up on his behalf.
One message, however, reminded Ethan of something important.
There should be plenty of treasure chests spawning these days, scattered everywhere.
Once opened, they can be disassembled into bronze and silver. Ethan didn't know what those materials were for yet, but based on how the system worked, when they were needed they'd probably be needed in bulk. Time to collect a batch while the opportunity existed!
[20 Purified Drinking Water: Exchange for 1 Bronze. Remaining: 100]
[50 Purified Drinking Water: Exchange for 1 Silver. Remaining: 30]
Twenty water is roughly one gulp's worth.
This pricing was obviously steep.
But exclusive, monopolized businesses are always like that, like oil, like tobacco.
To survive better, Ethan saw nothing wrong with it.
["Wow! Thanks boss! Great, I don't have much else, but I have some bronze!"]
["Brother Ethan, you're a lifesaver, thank you so much!"]
["Bronze can buy water, you're my second parent!"]
["Silver is a better deal, but I only have ten silver, 500 water should last until tomorrow, right?"]
Less than a minute after listing, the bronze option was immediately all taken. Ethan received 100 bronze in total, but only 2 liters of water were traded away.
Mud traded quickly too, Ethan got 186 mud, with 7 portions still unclaimed.
Wood and stone were also popular.
Only spirit stones and silver weren't traded much.
That made sense, few people found silver chests, and even fewer opened spirit stones.
Plus, Ethan had already harvested some when he sold medicine earlier, so people holding those valuable items were rarer.
Just as the water was nearly all exchanged, Ethan messaged the Water Source Boss he'd privately spoken to earlier this morning:
[Ethan: "Are you there? Can you send another 10L water?"]
[Water Source Boss: "Boss, the night water is poisonous, everything turned into polluted water, unusable! Crying noises~"]
[Ethan: "No problem, I'll filter it!"]
[Water Source Boss: "0-o! So you're the big seller flooding the trading channel with water!"]
[Ethan: "You're the one producing the water! I'm the one selling it in bulk, okay!"]
[Water Source Boss: "Boss, uh, can we make a deal?"]
[Ethan: ???]
[Water Source Boss: "I can give you 10L, even 20L. Can you give me 1000 purified drinking water in exchange? I promise I'll drink it all myself and won't resell."]
[Ethan: "How about this, 20L water for 1000 purified drinking water, but you have to give me one more piece of wood. Deal?"]
[Water Source Boss: "No problem! No problem! Thank you boss, thank you boss! I'm grateful to tears, love you muah muah!"]
[Ethan: "Say "love you muah muah" one more time and I'll block you, got it?"]
[Water Source Boss: "I dare not, I dare not!"]
[Purified Water -1000, Poisonous Water +20L]
Exchange successful.
This business was basically zero-cost.
He used 1000 units of water to get back 20L water plus one wood, this saved him purification costs and even earned him an extra 19L of water.
Indeed: technology controls destiny, and technology controls the wallet.
"But wait, previously it was just "impure water," and now it straight-up became "poisonous water"? The acid rain's effect is really severe."
[Poisonous Water: River water contaminated by acid rain. Drinking it causes diarrhea and dehydration. In severe cases it can cause serious gastroenteritis and death. Strongly not recommended to drink.]
[PS: If you must drink it, please filter it. Boiling doesn't help, the acidic components remain in boiled water. Be careful.]
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