["The big boss is selling water again! Hurry if you want some!"]
["Why did the price go up again? Waaah! Didn't the boss sell for 1 bronze 20 this morning? Now it's doubled, I'm going broke!"]
["You don't have to buy. There are plenty of people who want water, wait a bit and you won't get a single drop!"]
["I'll snap one up first as a sign of respect! Luckily I gathered a bunch of wood today, how do you turn wood into advanced wood? I don't have any, I can only trade bronze for water, boohoo~"]
["What's seasoning? Only from treasure chests?"]
["I have a jar of pepper-salt, boss, want it?"]
The regional channel refreshed so fast it was impossible to read everything.
Ethan decided to just wait for people to PM him.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before someone messaged him.
["Boss, I have black pepper and pepper-salt, can I trade for your meat and water?"]
["Boss, I have 500g of salt, can I trade?"]
["Ethan Bro, I have soy sauce and Himalayan salt, please trade!"]
Ethan scanned the private messages.
He really wanted the black pepper and pepper-salt! After all, those two are perfect for barbecue.
But as a soy-sauce fan, he also couldn't resist soy sauce and Himalayan salt.
In the end he decided he wanted both parties' seasonings.
He traded a wild rabbit and some water for the black pepper and pepper-salt, then contacted the soy-sauce seller.
[Ethan: "You're a bit late, I already traded for some. But I'm also interested in your soy sauce and salt!"]
[Soy sauce seller: "Boss, please trade!"]
[Ethan: "I'm out of rabbit, but I have half a lightning-leopard meat left, want that?"]
[Soy sauce seller: "Want want want! I've been eating blueberries until I'm sick, I'll take any meat."]
[Ethan: "Fine, deal!"]
They completed the trade quickly.
Sure enough, once the lightning-leopard meat got the pepper-salt and black pepper, the taste improved by a hundredfold instantly.
Clearly, having seasoning versus not having seasoning made a huge difference.
To test the effect, Ethan even put the leopard meat back into his storage.
He found the name had changed.
[Delicious Roasted Leopard Meat: The meat is perfectly roasted, sprinkled with seasonings that enhance umami, one bite and your mouth will run with juice; so delicious you might bite off your tongue.]
'Not bad at all.'
If he sold this on the trading channel, Ethan guessed many greedy players would bite and give up good items to get it.
He opened the trading channel.
He saw his listings for bronze and spirit-stone exchanges had already been cleared; only advanced wood and stone had 20 units left and no takers.
"Looks like advanced materials are hard to come by."
Ethan frowned and decided to put up ten portions of roasted leopard meat for advanced wood.
[One portion of Delicious Roasted Leopard Meat: 10 Advanced Wood]
[One portion of Delicious Roasted Leopard Meat: 10 Advanced Stone]
No sooner had he listed them than messages started pouring in:
["WTF! I just saw the boss has extra water and I was already shocked, didn't expect the boss to have extra roasted meat too!"]
["And it's delicious! The point is, it's delicious! When no one can get enough to eat, the boss is already selling BBQ, so infuriatingly rich and teasing, I'm drooling!!"]
["Boss, do you want wood? I have plenty, I'll trade! Advanced wood really is rare!"]
["Can I trade one-tenth? I only have one piece of advanced wood! A little taste would be nice!"]
["You people are unbelievable! Eating meat is one thing, but now you roast and season it too, are you showing off? It's just one piece of meat! What's so great? I used to puke after eating the best wagyu in Japan, have you? Scumbag!"]
["Everyone calm down up there, getting angry over not eating, who's the scumbag now, lol!"]
["Boss, do you need pendants? I can be your shoe insole!"]
Reading the nonstop comments, Ethan nearly laughged the meat out of his mouth.
Were people really sitting and watching his trade board? Otherwise how would so many crowd in the instant one item went up for sale?
One commenter did give him a useful hint: many players probably had advanced materials but not enough to buy a whole chunk of leopard meat. So Ethan decided to cut the meat into ten small pieces to sell.
Each piece would be about one bite, if you ate carefully, two bites. But this world never lacked greedy people.
Sure enough, the 50 bite-sized portions went live.
The trade notices erupted like a viral ad, nonstop. In the blink of an eye, all 50 portions were sold.
Ethan earned 39 advanced wood and 11 advanced stone in total.
By contrast, the intact half-piece of leopard meat sold only twice and then nobody wanted it.
["Boss, do you still sell single bites of leopard meat? I ate one and my agility went up. I'm willing to blow everything I have, but my wood and stone add up to only 9, can you discount?"]
["Ethan Bro, please sell single bites, my stamina went up 1 and my legs don't hurt, I can run without gasping!"]
["Please sell me one bite, they're bragging about how good it is after eating! I missed out, boohoo~"]
["Big bro, I'm a twin-tail l0li, give me one bite and I'll make sure you eat enough!"]
Seeing all these messages, Ethan took down the remaining unsold leopard meat and sliced it into small bite pieces.
Not long after listing, they all sold out.
Fifteen portions of Delicious Roasted Leopard Meat sold for a total of 108 advanced wood and 42 advanced stone.
As for the 6L of water he'd listed earlier, he got back 50 spirit stones, 10 silver, 200 bronze, and 100 quartz sand.
Seeing he now had 108 pieces of quartz sand, Ethan decided to smelt glass. While the alchemy furnace still had some runtime left in its one-hour cycle, he tossed in all 108 quartz sand.
The smelting would take about an hour.
After eating and drinking his fill, Ethan felt a little sleepy. Work could wait, the glass would finish molten by morning and then he could make a compass.
Just then, an announcement popped up pinned to every channel:
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[GREETINGS, PLAYERS!]
[Today is your third day in this world. Tonight there will be a small, tiny test. This test is to examine what you've gained in these three days. If you've made no progress and choose to be a salted fish...]
[Then tonight will be your farewell to this world!]
[Your thousand-player region will face an elimination tonight: any grass hut that hasn't upgraded to a wooden cabin will be ELIMINATED!]
[Anyone who hasn't gathered enough wood to survive the cold tonight will be ELIMINATED!]
[Anyone without enough warmth to survive tonight and tomorrow will be ELIMINATED!]
[But if you survive these, congratulations!]
[You will then face the final round of this small test: point rankings. Anyone ranked below the top 100 will be ELIMINATED!]
[Do not doubt it, elimination equals death!]
[Tomorrow you will meet a new life: the great challenge between the survivors!]
[Details: those who are still alive at 00:00 tomorrow morning, keep an eye on my pinned message!]
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