Ch.30 I Love Watching People Argue
Luo Nan walked into the largest supernatural material exchange within Whisper Market.
The interior was already crowded with custors, each wearing masks of various styles and using voice modulators to conceal their original voices.
By the way, the fake voice Luo Nan chose was a slightly hoarse, rugged tone.
No particular reason—he simply felt it sounded more manly. As for his real voice, which many noble ladies called ‘a magnetic heavenly lody’, its recognizability was indeed a bit too high, and he personally felt it wasn’t as good as his current fake voice.
His gaze swept across the others inside, and an interesting argunt caught Luo Nan’s attention.
“Interesting—I love watching people argue.”
“Why did you temporarily change your sales thod?”
The person whose face was mostly wrapped in white bandages, revealing only a pair of golden eyes, slamd a palm onto the counter, causing the wooden surface to emit a series of pitiful groans.
“Esteed custor, ‘Hulos Exchange’ has never explicitly stipulated a fixed sales thod for its rchandise. Our temporary change in sales thod is naturally based on current circumstances and made after thorough consideration.”
The politely mannered exchange employee was sowhat helpless. He spoke respectfully, explaining the exchange’s regulations to the furious bandage-faced custor.
“It was always direct sale before—don’t deny it! I’ve seen it with my own eyes here before!”
Anya simply couldn’t understand it. The last ti she ca to this Hulos Exchange, she had seen scales being sold directly. But back then, she didn’t have enough money, so she hadn’t bought them.
But today, she had finally saved up enough money, and the exchange had even announced new stock arriving today.
Just when she was one step away from obtaining the scales, this unscrupulous exchange suddenly changed the rules, switching what should have been a direct sale of ‘scales from the corner of a rmaid’s eye’ to an auction system!
Now Anya felt her chest swelling with anger! To thoroughly conceal her identity, she had specially bound up her rather sizable burdens before coming here, and now she could barely breathe properly.
“Please hear
out first—the reason the exchange temporarily changed the sales thod is also out of a sense of responsibility toward our many custors…”
“Nonsense! If you truly cared about your custors, you wouldn’t have switched sothing originally ant for direct sale into an auction!”
Luo Nan quietly watched the bandage-faced person argue with the staff mber, lowering his head slightly as if deep in thought.
“They definitely didn’t switch the scales from direct sale to auction just to use it as a gimmick. Although ‘scales from the corner of a rmaid’s eye’ are precious, their uses are extrely narrow—they’re essentially a useless supernatural material. In auctions, they often fail to fetch high prices.”
“Moreover, this kind of item isn’t particularly rare in the southern Imperial Linxia Bay region, which is my own fiefdom. Anyone with real need can pre-order from officially taxed material rchants—although the price isn’t pleasant, they definitely won’t have trouble obtaining it.”
“But this black market exchange still did it anyway. Could it be…”
Luo Nan recalled that after entering the black market, he had overheard people privately discussing things like the wind is tightening, it’s beco much harder to get goods into the city recently, and the cost to grease palms has gone up again.
But he hadn’t paid much attention at the ti—until now, encountering this interesting argunt, he suddenly rembered the piece of intelligence he had heard in the lower district’s tavern before initially entering Whisper Market—
“Lord dillion’s son was assassinated at the Fourth Imperial Princess’s hocoming banquet, and the Fourth Imperial Princess personally promised to investigate the killer.”
“Did Serela use this as an excuse to do so other things?”
Luo Nan recalled the character profile, intelligence, and plot performance of the ‘Benevolent Imperial Princess’ in The Shining Myriad Trails. He was certain—if it were Serela, she was entirely capable of doing sothing like this.
“To be honest with you, esteed custor, this batch of goods arriving today is the last batch for the near future. Haven’t you heard the rumors? It seems a high-ranking figure from the upper district has set their sights on Whisper Market, causing everyone to be on edge. Now, everyone along the entire supply chain is living in fear.”
Seeing that the bandage-faced custor was still trying to argue logically, the staff mber could only reveal so of the permissible information.
“What do you an? Are you saying there won’t be any new goods until mid-next month?” Anya had genuinely never heard this intelligence.
Damn it! She was starting school at the beginning of next month—if she didn’t get the scales, she wouldn’t be able to break through to tier two using that thod. Forget about cultivation subsidies—she’d have to spend extra money.
She seed to have forgotten that the ‘extra money’ she’d have to spend was actually a fee every freshman at the university had to pay.
But Anya didn’t care about that. Recently, she had been frantically taking on various part-ti jobs—all just to save enough money to successfully buy the scales, break through to tier two, and thereby save a large sum when school started.
She absolutely could not accept missing out on the scales!
“To be frank with you, it’s not just until mid-next month—as long as that high-ranking figure hasn’t reached an agreent with the market, no new goods will be able to enter.”
The staff mber wasn’t afraid to reveal this situation, because he knew the entire Whisper Market was currently facing the sa problem—it wasn’t as if other competitors would internally compete over this.
If anything, hyping up this goods shortage atmosphere could help auction off this batch of goods at even higher prices.
“Hulos Exchange deeply understands that all custors who grace our store have urgent needs for certain materials. Therefore, to ensure these products reach the custors who need them most, we believe adopting an auction format is the most effective thod.”
At this point, even Anya could hear the subtext.
It was clearly because this batch of goods was the last batch, and the greedy rchants wanted to sell them at higher prices—hence the last-minute switch to an auction!
Damn it! She never expected that even at the final step, problems would still arise!
It must be because she had recently interacted too much with that Luo Nan von dillon—she must have caught so of his bad luck!
Thinking this, Anya angrily left, found a random chair to sit down, and quietly waited for the auction to begin.
“Looking on the bright side, ‘scales from the corner of a rmaid’s eye’ are such a useless supernatural material that few people need them. I should be able to secure them at the starting bid, or slightly above the starting bid.”
Anya patted the money pouch in her bosom, feeling its satisfying weight, and breathed a slight sigh of relief.
“Just as I expected.”
Having watched this interesting argunt from start to finish, Luo Nan now understood the full context, and his own speculation had been verified.
“Hmm, no difference—whether direct sale or auction, it won’t affect
obtaining the scales I need. At most, it’s the difference between 1 Faras and 100 Faras—to , it’s all the sa.”
Feeling the black-gold credit card inside his spatial storage device, the face beneath the golden crow-beak mask revealed a confident expression.
Just as Luo Nan was considering whether to buy sothing else while he was at it, the staff mber who had just been arguing with the bandage-faced person announced to the waiting custors inside:
“Everyone, the ti has co—please enter.”
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