Chapter 19
◎ Going to get rich, DazedFish! ◎
After studying the all-important rankings, Yu Chi’s gaze immediately fell on the player shops in the system mall.
She even wondered if the system could absorb players’ thoughts. Otherwise, how could it be that just as she thought of player shops, they appeared right after the update?
Ahem, the above was purely narcissistic.
Yu Chi touched her nose. A game update was meant to improve and supplement deficiencies. It was just a coincidence that it happened at the same time she thought of it. This was a case of reaching for the moon(1).
Without much hesitation, she immediately chose to open a player shop.
【Opening a player shop requires a payment of 2000 Purification Crystals, and 5% of the shop’s revenue will go to the system.】
【Choose to open?】
Yu Chi: “…”
So that’s why no one has opened a shop yet. For most players, the player trade section was sufficient for their buying and selling needs. Why would they spend 2000 Purification Crystals to open a player shop that wasn’t of much use?
Besides, it was hard to say how many people could even come up with 2000 Purification Crystals right now.
Yu Chi sighed in pain but still chose to pay.
She could produce a large number of bandages and adhesive bandages every day. Selling them in a player shop was the most suitable option. It was much more convenient than face-to-face trading.
Moreover, she had the [Two-Sided Mirror]. She would probably be doing a lot of business in the future. She didn’t want to waste her time every day talking to others.
【Congratulations, player, on opening a player shop!】
【Please name your shop—】
As someone who was terrible at naming things, Yu Chi continued to use the three words [DazedFish].
This was the name she had chosen when she first went online in elementary school and had never changed it since—
The above vividly proved that she was a person of deep and lasting affection.
【Congratulations, player, on being the first in the entire district to open a shop. You have received a permanent recommendation spot in District 1.】
【The tax has been permanently reduced from 5% to 1%.】
Yu Chi’s eyes lit up. Spending 2000 Purification Crystals to open a shop was indeed worth it.
The recommendation spot meant that all players would see her shop first when they entered the shop interface.
Right now, her shop was the only one on the interface, so this reward wasn’t useful yet. But in the future, when more players opened shops, the usefulness of this reward would become apparent.
Moreover, the tax had been directly reduced to the minimum. It didn’t seem like much now, but once she had large transactions in the future, the difference would be on a whole other level!
At the same time, after Yu Chi opened her player shop, many people noticed it immediately.
Many players were eager to open a shop but were hesitant because the price was too high. When they found out that someone had beaten them to it, some felt regretful, while others felt expectant.
After all, this was a sea survival game, and in a game, the first place in anything would receive a reward. They regretted missing out on the reward, but they were also looking forward to what this first shop would sell.
If Yu Chi’s shop was successful, then player shops would develop as quickly as the player trade section.
【DayDoesntKnowNightsMadness】: Could it be fish meat? Boss Dazed is most famous for selling fish meat.
【Polaris】: He’s also sold fruit before. To sell such a precious resource means he probably doesn’t lack fruit.
【SixYearsOld】: I’m quite looking forward to it. With a shop, we won’t have to refresh the player trade section every day. We can just wait here in the shop.
【Maltose】: I’ve been eating bread every day for a while now, and my mouth is so bland. I hope there will be more food for sale.
【BreadBun】: He actually has 2000 Purification Crystals! Boss Dazed is so rich.
…
The players were bored every day. Except for when contaminated creatures attacked, most of them could only drift on the sea and scroll through the channel. So, any slight disturbance would be discussed endlessly in the channel.
Yu Chi didn’t mind this. Since she was going to open a shop, the more people who knew about it, the better.
To make a name for her shop, Yu Chi directly put up the bandages and adhesive bandages she had.
Before, she had to be cautious, worried about attracting trouble by being too high-profile. But now, perhaps because her strength had increased, or perhaps because her mentality had changed, Yu Chi no longer cared about this.
Whether she would encounter them in the future was another matter. Even if she did, it wouldn’t matter. Everyone knew that DazedFish had good things, but who knew that DazedFish was her?
DazedFish is high-profile, what does that have to do with her, Yu Chi?
After the bandages and adhesive bandages were listed in the shop, everyone’s eyes widened. They had thought that DazedFish must have a lot of good things—fruit, fish meat, and even fantasized about other things. But they had never expected it to be items that increased HP!
The others were merely for satisfying one’s appetite. One could barely survive without them. But this was an item that increased HP, and it could even save one’s life at a critical moment!
Anyone who has played games knows its value.
【FruitSis】: Boss Dazed is actually a healer!
【CapitalCrime】: Medical skills are so rare… I’m jealous.
【FiveStarSurvivor】: Unlike other medical skills, this one is definitely a rare among rares. Ordinary medical skills can only increase a person’s HP, but they can’t create items that increase HP, which limits the skill’s development. But this one…
【Quiet】: Hiss—
Yu Chi: Hiss.
A rare among rares? Yu Chi opened her skill panel again and looked carefully. She hadn’t misread it. Her skill was clearly a common among commons. How was it a rare among rares?
Sigh. Yu Chi touched her face. Could it be that everyone now thought she had a rare-grade medical skill?
This was really…
All the more reason not to offend her. Yu Chi narrowed her eyes.
She opened the channel to see everyone’s reactions, then turned to open her shop. The result… whether it was bandages or adhesive bandages, the quantity displayed was 0.
Yu Chi: “…”
She hadn’t expected them to sell out so quickly.
She had listed a total of 30 bandages and 60 adhesive bandages. However, while people were chatting in the channel, their speed of snatching up the goods was not slow at all.
Yu Chi glanced at the channel, and sure enough, she already saw people cursing.
【YoungMarshal】: Too few! Can you list more? I’m competing with 40,000 people, boohoohoo.
【DragonFamily】: We are rich! Let us buy!
【EinsteinsBlanket】: It’s over, it’s over. With this kind of flash sale model, what are players with slow hand speed like me supposed to do?
Even more people were messaging her privately, but Yu Chi chose to block them all.
Then she saw that [GrumpyBro] had also sent her a message.
Yu Chi: “.”
Got it. It seemed this big brother hadn’t managed to get any either.
【GrumpyBro】: For the sake of an old customer…
The face of an old customer is useless, Yu Chi thought. What’s useful is your strength as the number two player on the leaderboard.
In any case, she still had a lot in stock, and she was happy to be on good terms with a top player.
【DazedFish】: Okay, how many do you want?
Yu Chi was delighted, feeling that she really had a talent for investment.
【GrumpyBro】: 20 bandages or 40 adhesive bandages, thanks.
The other party replied impolitely. It seemed his emotional intelligence was on par with hers. Congratulations, he wasn’t a man of both “literary” and martial talents.
Yu Chi currently had 42 bandages and 73 adhesive bandages left. To her, bandages were of course much more useful than adhesive bandages.
Although a bandage and two adhesive bandages restored the same amount of HP, the former took less time to use. However, she didn’t make an issue of this, so the prices she sold them at were all based on the amount of HP restored.
Yu Chi sent over 40 adhesive bandages and received 40 Purification Crystals. Including the ones sold in the shop, she had received a total of 160 Purification Crystals.
(The system mall’s tax is settled on the last day of each month based on the month’s transaction volume.)
160 Purification Crystals was still a long way from the 2000 she had spent to open the shop. Yu Chi took a deep breath and turned her attention to seeds.
The number of bandages and adhesive bandages was ultimately limited. Sometimes she would be too busy and forget to make them. She had to put something else in her shop for sale, and it had to be something other players didn’t have.
Yu Chi rubbed her chin. Looking for seeds in the player trade section was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It was time-consuming and laborious. She thought for a moment and directly opened a separate acquisition window in her shop.
【Acquiring all kinds of seeds. The buyback price will be double the system mall’s price.】
Then she set the upper limit at 500 Purification Crystals.
When the acquisition price reached 500 Purification Crystals, it would automatically stop, giving a sense of first-come, first-served.
As for… whether someone would see her acquiring seeds and raise the price or something, out of 50,000 people, she refused to believe that every single one of them was an idiot.
Only a fool wouldn’t sell something that was useless in their hands for Purification Crystals to survive.
So what if they realized the value of seeds? A player could have at most two or three flowerpots. Besides, it would take a lot of time for the seeds to sprout and mature, unless they had a Legendary grade item and an elf skill like her.
People with such items probably weren’t doing too badly. Yu Chi’s target was not this group of people.
Next to the player shop window was the system mall. Yu Chi still had a few hundred Purification Crystals. She opened the mall and searched carefully for any items she needed.
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Translator’s Notes
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Reaching for the moon (登月碰瓷, dēng yuè pèng cí): This is a humorous internet slang term. “登月” means “landing on the moon,” and “碰瓷” means “to stage an accident to extort money.” Together, it’s used to describe someone making an absurdly exaggerated or baseless claim, often to associate themselves with something far greater or more significant than they are.