Chapter 218
Chapter 218: 218?Sold for Cheap
This shophouse was made up of approximately two units, and it was narrow yet long. Who knew what the designer was thinking when he designed this shophouse.
Lu Shu followed the boss and suddenly realized that as he moved through the house, he could feel magical waves pulsating. He was stunned for a moment, was there a practitioner or metahuman in this shophouse?
He focused on the magical wave, the person inside was probably on the upper tier of class E. If whoever was emitting these waves was a daoyuan student, then he would be one of the top students outside of Yuzhou.
No wonder this shop owner dared to sell magical stones and had no fear of being robbed. Lu Shu even felt that he already knew the origins of the magical stones of this shop owner.
The shop owner knocked the door and it opened, revealing a wooden box. This box looked antique but prestigious and upon opening it, there were two small magical stones.
The diamond-shaped magical stones were distributed by the heavenly network. But the serial numbers they initially had were scraped off by some sharp object.
The integrity of the magical stones was not that strong. In fact, they couldn’t even compare to normal stones. Else, the heavenly network would have used other methods of distribution instead of splitting them into small pieces.
Initially, Lu Shu thought that it was extremely sly of them to serialize the magical stones and he wondered who came up with this idea.
Afterwards, he realized that it was quite useless. Since the heavenly network could carve millions of serial numbers on the stones, other people could come up with methods to erase these numbers.
At least for Lu Shu’s magical stones, they were all settled by corpsedog.
Lu Shu looked at the two magical stones in the box, thinking the shop owner really did put in effort into storing them. They looked extremely exquisite sitting in the wooden boxes and Lu Shu felt as if they looked better than his own…
This was one of the tactics of cunning businessmen, to use exquisite storage methods to raise the price of expensive items even more! A scam!
The boss laughed merrily, “Don’t be captivated by the loud noises from the other shops, do they have the real stuff in their possession? The stuff they have can’t even be sold as antiques! They’re just out to con customers!”
Lu Shu nodded his head, “How much for your magical stone?”
The owner looked passionate and sincere, “Everyone knows the importance of training now. A single stone could save plenty of time, and people say that time is life. How much money are you willing to trade for life?”
Tsk, Lu Shu let off a cold breath. So much philosophy for just a stone?
“Everyone in daoyuan class had a similar level of ability now and they didn’t differ much. Training methods can only be attained through important contributions. If you were to be more courageous than others and lead the line in battles, you would be able to gain recognition and wouldn’t the rewards all be yours? All these opportunities are only given to those who are prepared!” The boss continued.
Lu Shu almost showed him a thumbs-up. Wow, so much philosophy! Businesses should really be conducted like that!
He asked casually, “So how much is your magical stone?”
The owner looked quite dissatisfied, “Am I selling merely a magical stone? This is the future!”
Lu Shu was speechless, what are you high on, “Can you speak in human language.”
“180 thousand dollars!” The owner said firmly, as if he wasn’t willing to reduce the price by even a cent.
But in this line of business, they had to know how to set their price. They were susceptible to bargaining so their opening price usually differed from their transactional price.
Magical stones were definitely not worth 180 thousand dollars. Although they could save the user one small cycle of training immediately, they were easily depleted. Moreover, the effects they had for users of class E or higher were greatly diminished.
Even for the most valuable items, market forces would force its price back to market equilibrium after the initial hype dies down. Occasionally, magical stones would surface in the black market and they were worth about 110 thousand to 150 thousand generally.
With an opening price of 180 thousand, it seemed like the boss was prepared for some bargaining.
But just as he was waiting for Lu Shu to bargain, Lu Shu suddenly said righteously and in all seriousness, “This price is not right!”
The owner was frustrated, but he still looked calm on the outside, “Is your future not worth 180 thousand dollars?”
“You didn’t understand me,” Lu Shu shook his head, “I’m saying that you’re selling it at too low a price. I thought about what you said and it all made so much sense! Money is just paper and merely a number. Is it more important than time and our future? Of course not! Boss, 180 thousand dollars is really too low!”
Lu Shu’s words confused the shop owner. He tested the waters softly, “Then… 200 thousand?”
Did he encounter the son of the owner of the land here? How could there be someone who fusses over something being too cheap?!
Lu Shu nodded his head, “200 thousand dollars seems more reasonable!”
The shop owner’s eyes lit up, “So…”
Lu Shu’s face was full of sincerity, “Truth to be told, I too have with me 200 thousand dollars worth of future I want to sell to you, boss…”
Shop owner, “???”
“From Zhang Guohua’s distress, +666!”
Is this guy actually selling his own magical stones?! So all those expressions and emotions just now were for nought!
This is mental!
Zhang Guohua was so stunned he almost blacked out. How could he meet such a person, even more pretentious than himself?!
Lu Shu thought about it. As he didn’t want to reveal himself, very few people would be able to take hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a transaction with him. Moreover, some of these small shops probably did not have so much cash on hand.
So the best way was to sell them individually.
Magical stones were in short supply in the black market. The shop owners knew clearly that they couldn’t get their hands on magical items. So the only items they could sell to people who understood this sort of stuff were merely magical stones, magical food, and some magical pets.
Magical food was a rare sight currently, but its price was gradually decreasing. Because more and more people were growing this sort of plants. And as for magical pets, they were few too.
Currently, the most profitable product would be magical stones.
A need might be a need, but its price was definitely not 200 thousand. The shop owner pondered for a moment before saying, “In actual fact, time and a person’s future isn’t worth that much…”
These words were too contradictory, thinking of it made him sick… but pride was not as important as money. For the money, it was alright to put pride aside.
“From Zhang Guohua’s distress, +188!”
Lu Shu replied gleefully, “So we’ll stick to the original price of 180 thousand dollars?”
The shop owner’s face turned black, “100 thousand! It’s the price in the market now. I still have to raise the price to sell it to someone else after buying it from you. There’s a risk in this business, I can’t just do it for free, can I?”
Now that the owner was not being philosophical and haggling over Lu Shu’s future, their conversation was much more straightforward…
The final agreed price was 118000 dollars and this fulfilled Lu Shu’s expectations.
Time was of the essence in such a situation, the quicker the better.
Lu Shu really didn’t want a situation in which they had to negotiate and bargain half a day.
Lu Shu held onto his cash and left. As Zhang Guohua looked at Lu Shu’s back view as he left, he thought teenagers nowadays were really not simple!