The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1518: Chapter 1518: Scalper

Gu Yao let out a sigh of relief. Beside her, her deskmate suddenly said, ”Ah Yao, did you know? Lin Wei bought 100 tickets today.”

Gu Yao was taken aback: ”What?”

The deskmate spoke with a mysterious air: ”He asked all the classmates who had tickets in the class once over and collected 100 tickets.”

Gu Yao looked puzzled: ”Didn’t he say yesterday that anyone who bought tickets was a fool?” She remembered clearly how terrible Lin Wei looked at the time, as if belittling a soul artifact maker would elevate his personal character and realm. It was as ugly as it could get.

Her deskmate sighed and said, ”Exactly. Yesterday, he said the buyers were fools. Today, he himself became one.”

What a quick face-slap.

As soon as her deskmate finished speaking, she suddenly noticed Lin Wei looking over. She quickly lowered her head and whispered, ”I really want to shout out loud, that fool is him—not only foolish but extremely dumb.”

Gu Yao whispered, ”Keep your voice down.”

Deskmate: ”Shh—”

Lin Wei vaguely heard someone talking about him behind his back, but he couldn’t care less at the moment. He had to buy as many tickets as quickly as possible. As for the quantity? The more, the better. So, he ignored those people behind him. After asking all his classmates, he walked out of the classroom to the class next door.

Her deskmate pouted and said, ”I bet he won’t leave the entire grade alone until he’s bothered everyone.”

After saying this, her deskmate suddenly felt very remorseful. ”Yesterday, I bought ten tickets, but listening to Lin Wei and their nonsense, I thought they were useless, so I returned them! Ugh! If I had known...”

Gu Yao looked sympathetic: ”You... you really returned them?”

Her deskmate slammed the table in frustration: ”Of course! I returned them all! If I hadn’t returned them yesterday and sold them to Lin Wei today at a hundred times the price, I would have made a fortune.”

”Sigh!” Her deskmate slammed the table again in anger.

Gu Yao knew that her deskmate had a hot temper and a short-lived passion for everything, but she didn’t expect her deskmate to actually listen to Lin Wei’s group and return the items from the Green Glaze Master.

For a moment, Gu Yao was at a loss for words, and she could only let out a heavy sigh.

Her deskmate suddenly asked, ”By the way, Ah Yao, did you buy any?”

Gu Yao instinctively wanted to nod, but remembering Mila’s warning, the possible pestering from Lin Wei, and knowing her deskmate was a big mouth who couldn’t keep secrets, Gu Yao shook her head and said, ”I didn’t have money back then. I only bought one and used it on the spot. Later, I thought about buying more, but I need to save for college tuition and living expenses, so I didn’t buy any more.”

Her deskmate didn’t doubt Gu Yao’s words. Everyone in the class knew how poor Gu Yao was. Her deskmate thought for a moment and said, ”Even if you have tickets now, absolutely don’t say anything, or else once Lin Wei finds out, he won’t stop until you sell them to him.”

Gu Yao gently shook her head: ”I really don’t have any. I wanted to buy more this morning, but they were already gone from the shelves.”

Her deskmate puffed up with anger: ”The more I think about it, the angrier I get. If I hadn’t listened to those brainless people yesterday, it would have been so good to buy 100 at once.”

Gu Yao pressed her lips together, agreeing: ”Mm, if I had known, I would have bought 100 too. It’s only 1,000 credit points, and selling them to Lin Wei would have been 100,000 credit points. 100... 100,000...”

Hearing the number 100,000, her deskmate’s face showed a hint of temptation, but she quickly fixed her expression: ”If I had 100, I wouldn’t sell them to him. They were only 1,000 credit points each; the scalpers outside have already driven the price up to 10,000 credit points each these days. If it weren’t for everyone being pressed by Lin Wei, no one would sell to him at a low price.”

”10... 10,000?!!!” Gu Yao was truly shocked! At the same time, her eyes widened with curiosity: ”Why are Lin Wei and others collecting so many tickets?” If the spiritual power doesn’t meet the requirements for viewing, the Array Diagram placed before them is just a black screen, with nothing to see. Like herself, Gu Yao thought of the two viewing rights she used, the Array Diagram by the Green Glaze Master was still pitch black, completely unclear.

time, 2 times, so it goes. Gu Yao believed that even 100 times, as long as one’s Spiritual Level did not improve, one would only see darkness.

However...

It’s an Array Diagram. Even if you can’t see the complete structure, it’s still an Array Diagram, enough for rich kids like Lin Wei to collect it with money.

Her deskmate murmured, ”Don’t know why, maybe he wants to become a Soul Artifact Master?”

Become a Soul Artifact Master?

Could it really be that easy? Just by looking at the Array Diagram provided by the Green Glaze Master?

Gu Yao was a bit skeptical.

”Ring-ring~”

The class bell rang, and everyone sat in their seats. Lin Wei, who was in the next class, also returned immediately. He sat down and counted his collection this time carefully. He collected 57 from the next class and 100 from his class, totaling 157. 157 should be enough for his clan brother, right?

Exactly.

Lin Wei was not buying tickets for himself, but for a clan brother from his main family. This clan brother was a direct descendent of the main family and had a significant say within the family. The Lin Family from Day Star actually branched off from the main family on Nami Star. The branch family, whether in terms of connections or resources, definitely didn’t have as much as the main family. Lin Wei’s father was able to hold a minor position in the Day Star administrative center due to connections with the main family.

Lin Wei could act arrogantly in the class because he had the backing of the Lin Family. Naturally, they had to rely on, flatter, and ingratiate themselves with the main family.

Lin Wei collected these tickets intending to maintain his relationship with the main family.

Speaking of yesterday, Lin Wei was quite annoyed. He was influenced by the online atmosphere then and thought the Green Glaze Master was just using fame to scam money. So he insisted that he wouldn’t buy those tickets, stopping himself and those classmates behind him from buying.

As a result, later on, Lin Wei received a communication from his clan brother Lin Bin of the main family, asking him to help collect ’tickets.’

Lin Wei was dumbfounded.

Were these tickets some kind of rare treasures? Even his clan brother Lin Bin, who had a talent for Soul Artifact Manufacturing, albeit slightly less than his cousin Lin Feng, was still considered one of the Lin family’s most promising young members to become a soul artifact maker. Consequently, Lin Bin received nurturing from the entire family.

Lin Wei was envious and wanted to curry favor with him.

Contrarily, Clan Brother Lin Bin typically ignored the branch members like himself but now personally called and sincerely requested help in collecting more tickets.

Of course, it was a no-brainer! If done well, it might change Lin Bin’s view of him. If Lin Bin indeed became a soul artifact maker, he could also reap many benefits.

Lin Wei was busy all morning, managing to gather 157 tickets—still too few... Lin Wei believed Clan Brother had requested help from other young Lin Family members, and his few tickets would hardly stand out before Lin Bin.

Thus, he really wanted to kick himself for what he did yesterday.