Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 597: Chapter 255: Frenzied Fortune-Making, Dangerous Thoughts, Perfect Timing

The discussion on the details of the Solidified Fire Oil trade did not last long.

It ended in just over an hour.

”We’re going to be rich, rich at last, this time all problems are solved...”

When Xia Chuan came to the Alchemy Room to find Xia Hong, he was extremely excited, his face never ceasing to wear a smile, showing the immense impact this negotiation had on him.

Seeming to have thought of something, his expression froze, and a trace of regret appeared in his eyes, muttering: ”No, no, that was foolish, I should have quoted a higher price, they’re all waiting for Solidified Fire Oil to save their lives, if I raised it a bit more they probably would have agreed, so foolish, so foolish...”

”Tell me, how did you profit?”

Xia Hong glanced at the Jade Bone in the iron pot, estimating it would take another five or six hours to be ready, so he led Xia Chuan back to the hall, and smilingly asked about the negotiation outcome.

Xia Chuan rubbed his hands excitedly and said: ”I told them that Great Xia currently has only 5,000 blocks of Solidified Fire Oil in stock, we have to keep some for ourselves, we can sell at most 2,000 blocks, they probably didn’t believe me, but even if they didn’t there’s nothing they could do, they had to let me name the price.”

Only 5,000 blocks in total, daring to say that...

Xia Hong’s expression was extremely peculiar. From what he had previously learned from Qiu Peng, Great Xia had over 90,000 blocks of Solidified Fire Oil in stock, and this time they brought 50,000 blocks to Longyou, leaving 20,000 at the Beehive, with 30,000 at Wushuang’s side.

Last night, rescuing those 16,000 plus people, each used about a pound, and each block of Solidified Fire Oil weighs five pounds, so by calculation, at most 2,200 blocks were used, which means Wushuang has at least 27,800 blocks remaining.

”Coal stone, Iron Ore, silver, gold, Jade Bone, Cold Beast Meat, and the twelve herbs that elder brother mentioned for Boiling Jade Bone, as well as the special resources from Long Mountain and Zhaoyang that they showed me, I set a price for each category, they had no objections throughout, now thinking back, I feel regret, they were all eager to go back to save people, afraid we wouldn’t sell, how dare they haggle with us, I should have set the prices even higher!”

”What exactly were your quotes? Tell me.”

Seeing Xia Chuan’s regretful face, Xia Hong thought he had really set the prices too low, so he curiously asked.

But as Xia Chuan listed the prices, Xia Hong’s thoughts instantly changed, and the more he listened, the more shocked he became.

”Each family took 1,000 blocks of Solidified Fire Oil, I quoted straightforwardly: 100 pounds of Jade Bone, 20 million for Iron Ore, 50 million for coal stone, 100,000 for silver, 10,000 for gold, 3 million for Beast Meat, 30 drops of Cold Apple Jade Dew, 90 stalks of White Frost Grass, 90 stalks of Zhu Yinhua, 30 Red Sun Fruits, Cold Beard Grass...”

”You really dared to say that, surely they wouldn’t agree, right?”

Xia Hong couldn’t help but interrupt Xia Chuan before finishing listening.

This price was just too outrageous!

Solidified Fire Oil is indeed a divine item, but for dealing with Deceitful Monsters, it’s not the only option.

Silver can also be used to deal with Deceitful Monsters, and he could basically be certain that the Dewdrop Plague could also be treated with silver because when Li Xuandu and Hou Quan first arrived, he observed with the Eye of Truth, and neither of them had the fiery red substance from Dewdrop infection.

The people appearing in Gourd Valley were almost all infected, Li Xuandu was one of them, and when he returned to Long Mountain, he wasn’t infected anymore, which proved Long Mountain used silver to rid him of the Dewdrop.

Similarly, Hou Quan was likely the same, and after Hou Tong and others returned to Zhaoyang, they must have brought the Dewdrop Plague back, yet Hou Quan wasn’t infected, showing Zhaoyang also used silver.

During his days in Longyou, he had already found out that among Long Mountain and Zhaoyang, whether there’s a gold mine or not is unknown but they certainly have a silver mine.

Not to mention the terrifying prices Xia Chuan set, just the inclusion of silver and gold in the goods was extremely unreasonable.

”Of course, they didn’t agree!”

Xia Chuan immediately answered, chuckling: ”I just wanted to test their attitudes towards silver and gold; other items, they reacted normally to, but their biggest reaction was to silver and gold.”

Hearing this, Xia Hong was first stunned, then looked at Xia Chuan with full approval on his face.

This time he only thought of using Solidified Fire Oil to strip the two families’ resources, really overlooking this point; indeed, they could use the opportunity of Solidified Fire Oil trade to explore the issue of their silver and gold mines.

Thankfully, Xia Chuan thought of it.

”They probably also saw through my intent and immediately stated that neither of them had a gold mine and couldn’t produce gold, 100,000 pounds of silver was also impossible, they directly told me that raw silver ore would dissolve into liquid at extremely low temperatures, and this liquid could also treat the Dewdrop Plague, that’s how they cured the Dewdrop on them, if they could take out 100,000 pounds of silver, they wouldn’t have needed to come to us for Solidified Fire Oil, just using silver could have saved everyone.”

Raw silver ore dissolving into liquid at extremely low temperatures?

Xia Hong immediately developed a great interest in the uncontacted silver resource.

However, now was not the time for him to indulge in that interest.

”Two possibilities: one is that silver is too precious, both families could bring it out but are unwilling, so they fabricated this lie to deceive us; the other is, they didn’t lie, Long Mountain and Zhaoyang’s silver on hand is indeed scarce, truly unable to produce 100,000 pounds.”