Chapter 424: Chapter 362 Signing with Kunlun and 9 Heavens
The two placed early orders, but they didn’t want potions or flying devices; they were rather keen on the Technology Cup.
Li Zheng suspected these two dirty old men might be lining their pockets through the purchase process, but he had no evidence.
"It’s not realistic to satisfy all of you. I don’t have the time to make props," Li Zheng mercilessly rejected the two orders.
Unless he researched and handed over the blueprints to Gong Yi for production one day, other than potions, don’t expect to sell anything in bulk.
"Besides, Liu Qi, don’t forget, you and I are still competitors." Li Zheng reminded, taking the time to disclose the base price of the Technology Cup, solely collecting "Biomimetic Organization" as the material.
The event hadn’t yet concluded; if not for today’s auction, Li Zheng’s team’s kill points would have already surpassed Kunlun by a large margin.
Zhan Zhouzhou and others had sent messages inquiring about the situation, knowing Li Zheng was busy, they said nothing further, just saved a few exploration opportunities each in case they had to continue fighting after Li Zheng was done.
Liu Qi felt a bit helpless and sent a private message: "Sigh, I’ve figured it out; this event is simply not for ordinary players. Kunlun has decided to give up on the next challenges. But I have an unreasonable request, would you give us priority on your Genetic Potion production in the future?"
"Don’t worry, the price won’t shortchange you; what it should be is what it will be!"
Kunlun giving up on the event was expected by Li Zheng.
But he thought Kunlun would give up tomorrow instead, not expecting Liu Qi to lay things bare today.
"Providing potions to Kunlun wouldn’t be an issue," Li Zheng thought briefly, judging from the collected intel, Kunlun members were the most patriotic youths of Dragon Country.
In past flood relief efforts, they were always at the forefront, without complaints.
If possible, Li Zheng truly wanted to offer them the best treatment.
Unfortunately, there was only one piece of equipment for producing Genetic Potions, even running at full capacity, keeping up with Kunlun’s consumption is hard.
Moreover, there were whole players of the 879 channel to "support"; production capacity really didn’t have much leeway.
"I’ll give you material plans, you’ll prepare for 500 bottles daily as required, directly list it under my name for priority production," Li Zheng gave Liu Qi the transaction baseline.
The production time for one bottle of potion is roughly thirty seconds. Calculating a full twenty-four hours a day, the total is only 2,880 bottles.
Giving Liu Qi a share for 500 bottles was truly Li Zheng’s limit.
Moreover, besides Kunlun, Nine Heavens would also occupy a portion of the production.
This made the production capacity even tighter.
Fortunately, most people in channel 879 had already risen to Bronze (typically having some blood can increase physique so others need fewer potions than Li Zheng). The variety of materials needed for Bronze Potions increased, resulting in much fewer orders from channel 879.
Otherwise, Li Zheng wouldn’t have had such a large share to supply the two organizations.
Li Zheng pondered for a moment, worried that Liu Qi’s team might waste production capacity, so he decided to send the compiled table of Bronze Level and below stages achievable to them.
By testing against the table, one can determine their current tier with deviations usually not exceeding the amount of two potions.
With Nine Heavens, Li Zheng only provided 200 bottle shares a day, significantly less than Kunlun.
It wasn’t because Nine Heavens had fewer members than Kunlun.
On the contrary, the total number of Nine Heavens members was much larger.
Just that the composition of Nine Heavens members was more complex, including some black sheep, making Li Zheng subtly more favorable towards Kunlun.
Li Zheng kept the pricing unchanged, treating them equally with 879 players.
Anyhow, these two organizations were large enough that they wouldn’t have trouble gathering the sums.
While all the auction participants were considering discussing long-term supply with Li Zheng after the event, secretly, Li Zheng had already accepted orders from the two major organizations of Dragon Country.
The bid for the Technology Cup was more intense than Li Zheng had imagined, because the starting price was relatively low, everyone was still fighting for it, and the prices kept jumping.
Liu Qi did not participate in the bidding, but sent Li Zheng another private message: "Be careful on your end, you’ve exposed too many treasures during the auction, some people appear friendly, but are probably doing all sorts of tricks behind the scenes."
"Tonight, it’s likely that several organization’s fighting teams will try to attack you. Do you want me to send a few warriors over to help?"
Human nature is greedy, Li Qi’s concerns were naturally considered.
Since the high-profile confrontation with the High Celestial Plain, Li Zheng had not made much public appearance outside of this event, nor had he shown any deterring feats.
Many people had downplayed his infamous reputation, thinking that with these days’ development, his power should have caught up.
Li Zheng didn’t take them seriously, dismissing, "Just riff-raff, if they had the ability to confront me, why didn’t I see them participate in this event?"
The first-prize team for the mutant activity received Extraordinary Level items.
This kind of reward is extraordinarily tempting for all organizations, if they had the ability, how could they pass it by?
"Not the same," Liu Qi explained, "Do you think not participating means they haven’t set their sights on the final reward of the event?"
"You mean..." Li Zheng already guessed what Liu Qi was implying.
"For those Western people, pillaging is their nature," Liu Qi said, "Recall the means white-headed eagle used against certain countries for oil."
Indeed!
Li Zheng sighed, Liu Qi thought along the same lines.
Li Zheng vaguely sensed as much yesterday, Extraordinary Level items are essentially like "nuclear weapons." As he and Kunlun compete for the final victory, the white-headed eagle would hardly stand idly by.
If Kunlun ultimately won, organizations from other countries might be intimidated by Kunlun’s enormity, publicly not daring to say much.
But Li Zheng is a "lone wolf!"
Or, Li Zheng is like an international "little country," a small country wanting to possess nuclear weapons?
It’s a disaster for the whole world.
So those Westerners would surely use certain understood shallows pretexts to trouble Li Zheng.
Yes, just trouble.
Because killing Li Zheng would rob them of all the good things and blueprints he has.
"No problem, if worst comes to worst, I’ll go on a killing spree again, make them etch my name deep in their souls, give no extra thought when mentioning me!" Li Zheng squinted, responding to Liu Qi’s private message expressionlessly.
When it comes to killing.
Li Zheng never held back!
Originally spared Banquan Longma, only because of being tired of killing.
Liu Qi showed a strange expression: "Does this kid really know what situation he is about to face?"
That might mean all the organizations from the Western countries joining forces against him!
Can he handle it alone?
No!
A real dragon has emerged among Dragon Country players, he absolutely cannot let anything happen to him!
Liu Qi thought of trying to persuade Li Zheng again, if push came to shove, just hide; provided his channel number stays hidden, most wouldn’t find him.
"Do I need to hide?" Li Zheng turned away, smirking, "They’re the ones who need to hide!"
Just feeling Bloodthirsty Saber’s need for offerings.
If someone willingly delivers themselves, wouldn’t that be perfect?