Chapter 567: Chapter 6: A "Wealthy" Guest Delivered to the Door (Part 2)
The female student also came from the Basic Class as a newcomer. When she first arrived, she couldn’t help but buy a lot of useless items and spent all her Heaven-defying Value in her Heaven Card, leaving her with no choice but to work as a grass cutter for a few days.
Cattails are a real piece, with leaves sharper than a dull knife. One careless move, and you can end up covered in cuts and scrapes. It’s typically only the clueless newcomers who would take on such tough tasks.
There’s a saying among the veteran students: "I’d rather climb a mountain of swords than cut cattails." That really illustrates just how dangerous cattails can be.
The girl with braided hair only glanced at Xiao Xian’s face. With the blazing sun overhead, people and sand were indistinguishable—too dazzling to make out any clear features. Intermediate Students typically wouldn’t bother paying attention to ordinary newcomers.
However, several neatly tied bundles of fresh cattails on the ground made the braided girl take another look at Xiao Xian, "New here? Not bad. You managed to cut so much grass without injuring your hands. Hey, is that cushion on the ground yours?" The braided female student’s squinted eyes opened a bit wider as she focused on Xiao Xian’s cushion.
The girl with the braids walked over, picked up the cushion, patted it, and sat down without any ceremony. After she felt the toughness and unique coolness of the cattail cushion, she became interested: "Newcomer, where did you buy this cushion? Is it a new item from the supply center? Romeo One finally knows to stock goods according to the students’ requests," she mused. "I haven’t been to the supply center in C District for quite some time, and didn’t expect to find such a good item. I might have missed it."
Xiao Xian was right in her observation, the braided girl was indeed an Intermediate Student. Her study and living areas were in B District, which had its own supply center. The goods there were much better than those in C District, so students from B District rarely visited the C District to shop.
"It’s my own cushion, you can’t buy it at the supply center." Xiao Xian was still puzzled as to how the braided student recognized her as a newcomer right away.
In fact, although there were several hundred students in the North Campus, it was still easy to become familiar with faces.
"You say it’s not from the supply center, don’t lie. Isn’t this cattail material exclusive to C District? This type of cattail only grows in North Campus, it’s easy to recognize," the girl with braids seemed to know her plants. Just by looking at the cushion, she could tell what it was made of.
"I’m not lying, the grass is from here, but I wove the cushion myself, the supply center really doesn’t sell them." After hearing Xiao Xian’s explanation, the braided student examined the cushion closely and pulled on it. She was strong; despite her tugging, the cushion remained intact.
"You weren’t admitted into the Reverse Genius Class just because of your weaving skills, were you?" The braided girl could see that Xiao Xian’s cultivation was quite ordinary, a C-level student at best, just mediocre in the Basic Class, "For someone like you, it must be hard to earn Heaven-defying Value. How about this, I’ll buy this cushion from you, and then you make another one for me. 100 Heaven-defying Value for one cushion, how does that sound?"
The braided student named her price.
"100 Heaven-defying Value, 1 bucket of Master Niu’s instant noodles?" Xiao Xian wasn’t sure if this was the right conversion.
"Oh, that does sound a bit low," after Xiao Xian’s calculation, the girl with braids also thought the offered price was a bit low. She had heard that there were few people learning weaving these days, and it takes considerable time to make a cushion, "Let’s make it 200 instead. I’ll take this one now, and contact me when you finish making the other cushion."
The braided female student, carrying the cushion, had only walked a few steps when she slapped her forehead, "Look at my memory, my name is Wang Lu. Later, go to the alumni BBS to accept the Heaven-defying Value transfer," she said, then turned and left with her braids flipping in the air, disappearing shortly after.
After a whole morning of cutting cattails, Xiao Xian earned 10 Heaven-defying Value. But the cushion she had made in less than half an hour exchanged for 200 Heaven-defying Value. This was the difference between the official purchase price and the street purchase price. It was a unique lesson in finance for Xiao Xian.
Xiao Xian delivered the cut cattails to Romeo, and the dutiful robot counted the grass carefully before letting Xiao Xian insert her Heaven Card into the card reader to settle today’s wages.
Xiao Xian returned to her dormitory in high spirits. As she entered, Zhang Yiyi had already prepared the meal and was waiting for her to eat.
It must be said, Zhang Yiyi’s culinary skills certainly justified her mouth that had tasted the delicacies of Sacred Heart Middle School’s food street. With just a single egg, she could steam, boil, fry, and sizzle it into a variety of flavors.
"Yiyi, I made a fortune today," Xiao Xian told Yiyi about her encounter with Wang Lu, the latter taking the cushion away, and placing an order for another cushion.
"That’s awesome, if we sell a few more cushions, we can earn a month’s worth of basic Heaven-defying Value," the power of circumstances is scary; it turned Zhang Yiyi, who never knew frugality, into a penny-pincher who thinks about Heaven-defying Value from morning till night.
"Don’t be happy just yet. I don’t know if I was deceived or not. I’ve never been to that alumni BBS and Romeo One never mentioned that Heaven-defying Value could be transferred," Xiao Xian didn’t insist on holding Wang Lu, also because what Wang Lu took was just a cushion and given the other’s strength, any confrontation would have been troublesome, potentially attracting the attention of Juliet One.
Xiao Xian had just entered the school; having offended Xu Lan Ya already was a fact, she didn’t want to provoke other veteran students.
"Real or fake, we’ll know as soon as we enter the alumni BBS," Zhang Yiyi put her meal temporarily aside.
She had taken the time to familiarize herself with the various systems on the computer after her morning classes, including the alumni BBS.
The login for the alumni BBS was the student’s name, and the password was the student’s birthday. Xiao Xian logged in with her name and entered the alumni BBS.
"Look, as Romeo mentioned, there are ways to make money here: 1 Heaven-defying Value for laundry washing. Also, 5 Heaven-defying Value for helping with cleaning, and 5 Heaven-defying Value for cooking," on the alumni BBS, there was a myriad of help requests and ways to exchange Heaven-defying Value.
As it turned out, Heaven-defying Value could be transferred through a system called Swift, and the jobs on the alumni BBS could be managed through this system.
"Hey, Xiao Xian, check this out. Here’s a job with an amazing price," Zhang Yiyi, with Heaven-defying Value on her mind, suddenly spotted a 1000 Heaven-defying Value job pinned at the top for easy visibility.
Heaven-defying Value would be enough for two people to leave the school one way. Xiao Xian and Yiyi were both in desperate need of such a job. But who could have the means to offer such a generous reward?
(To be continued...
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