Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“What sort of business are you talking about?” Jiang Fei asked. Not that he could not spare some attention to talk to him, but Jiang Fei was just not interested in any Unknown Dungeon or undiscovered dungeon. He did not have the time nor the effort to spare on them.
Right now, the war of Shadow and Light was about to end and he was shouldering the responsibility that was given to him by the Nephilim King himself. Perhaps he could, but only after the entire war was over.
“I heard rumors that you are hunting for Treasured Cauldrons,” Smart Tomato exclaimed.
“Heh. Where did you hear such rumors?” said Jiang Fei. Although Smart Tomato was not there to see his reaction, he could guess that Jiang Fei was more than happy to hear him say those words.
“I got my own sources. So, you want in?” said Smart Tomato.
“Of course! Are you holding it now?” said Jiang Fei, excited.
“Of course not! I know a guy that is willing to sell it off!”
Jiang Fei was delighted. If there was someone willing to sell their Treasure Cauldron for money, Jiang Fei would be willing to buy it with all the gold he had. After all, it was just a mere transaction that would not take too long. He could afford to take a short break from the war.
“However… I have to warn you first. The guy is selling it at a very high price!”
“As long as it’s reasonable!” Jiang Fei immediately retorted. Money was nothing but a piece of paper for him, be it in-game currency of real life paper money, Jiang Fei did not see it as anything else but a means to purchase things.
Evil Laughter, however, was just too greedy and cunning a seller. Instead of naming a price, the man wanted 40% of Empyreal Dragon’s share. If he had instead, demanded money equal or even more than what Empyreal Dragon’s 40% share worth of money, Jiang Fei would buy make a quick withdrawal from the bank and bury the man with cold hard cash.
There was a saying in Chinese culture. Money can always be earned. Time, on the other hand, had to be spent wisely. Jiang Fei had just found a way to earn his money through the Zhang Family, the potion transaction.
“Well… how about my part?” said Smart Tomato, starting to talk about his own profits as a middleman.
“Same old. As long as the transaction makes it through, you will have a nice bonus!” said Jiang Fei. When it came to cultivating friendship, money could be thrown away like flowers during a parade.
“Thanks for your patronage! I knew that big bro Verdure Glider would not disappoint!” cried Smart Tomato. The man was smart. Not only did he demanded a 10% transaction fee from the seller, he had also planned to claim 10% transaction fee from Jiang Fei, at minimum! Hence, once the transaction goes through, the man would earn his reward without putting in any effort. He had literally just pushed a few buttons, made a call, and informed Jiang Fei about it! What effort was there?
“Alright, what Cauldron is it?” Jiang Fei asked.
“It’s the Cauldron of Vitality. The seller demands 8,000,000 RMB!” said Smart Tomato, not hiding any important information to Jiang Fei. He knew that Jiang Fei was a rich man that did not care about money. That was the reason why Jiang Fei would be willing to conduct business with Smart Tomato for so long. The richer the customer was, the lesser they would care about money, only the item and the means to acquire it.
“Eight million?” Jiang Fei pretended to gasp with horror which made Smart Tomato heart sank a little. Jiang Fei did not know how much was a Cauldron worth in the beginning hence he would not know whether that price had been marked up.
Eight million RMB was not a small number. That transaction, if conducted in real life, would trigger many flags with the banks involved. They would thoroughly investigate the origin of the money and might bring some form of trouble to the seller instead of the buyer. Most importantly, eight million RMB is sum that no professional player could earn in such a short amount of time. They could, if they participate in various PvP competitions that had a large prize pool. Much like the recent game competition with a price pool of 34 million USD! With that sum of money, the seller would just retire from gaming and live his life comfortably!
So what if his name would be tainted, he gets to live comfortably with that amount of money! That was how a man could fall to the corruption of money. Some men could resist the temptation of several million but some would break immediately for just a few thousand. The despicable would fall for mere hundreds. The truly desperate would crumble for just tens of dollars. What matters was the amount, not the man.
“What do you think, bro? Is it too much?” said Smart Tomato, carefully threading on thin ice. Eight million RMB is a huge cake for someone like Smart Tomato but for Jiang Fei, eight million was but a few coins in his pocket. He did not even need to wait for the business with the Zhang family to go through, he could just use the few hundreds of million in cash that Han Tianyu gave him a long time ago!
“I’m good with it. Bring that player here quick so that we can make this happen!” Jiang Fei replied.
In no time at all, Smart Tomato and another player came to Jiang Fei and the transaction was made. What was left to do was to kill that player since the Treasured Cauldrons were character bound items. The only way for Jiang Fei to acquire that Cauldron was to kill him.