The fish was less than 1.4 meters long, round and covered in red and white scales - it was somewhat similar to the clownfish painted on the sign outside the store!
It's not that the store manager is evil.
The clown fish has become a sperm.
Lu Hongsheng did not swim directly to the store manager, but paddled through the water to look around at the items sold here.
As he had imagined before, there were a large number of precious metals, especially rare metal products, for sale in the store. Each piece of metal was cut into square gold bar shapes - not just gold, but also ordinary copper, iron, and aluminum.
The same goes for other metals. They are all sold as gold bars.
Looking at the prices on the labels, they basically start at 3 times the mainland price. Some rare and high-purity metals can even reach 8 to 10 times the price.
Because fire cannot be used in the sea, the energy of fire elements and light elements is hardly abundant, so it is difficult for intelligent marine creatures to obtain purer metals through physical or chemical methods. The lack of purer metals makes it difficult for them to evolve
Metal mage comes to refine metal...
In a vicious cycle, the intelligent creatures on the seabed are in a state of severe shortage of metals, especially metals with high purity.
Of course, intelligent creatures have replaced most metals with many other materials over thousands of years, especially some stone tools, coral tools, and carapace. However, the good ductility, conductivity and other physical properties of metal make it difficult to be replaced by other materials.
Instead, for example, the metal content in most murloc weapons is very rare.
But on the contrary, some pearls, cuttlefish bones, obsidian, deep sea salt brine, corals, heavy manganese nodules, etc. that are rare on land are relatively cheap, about half of the price in mainland China, and the cheaper ones are even less than 20%
!
Isn't this a business opportunity?
Lu Hongsheng's eyes immediately glowed with the light of a money-mad man.
Lu Hongsheng thought carefully about why no other merchants found this trade route. The most fundamental reason should be the solidification of class.
In this world, businessmen have long joined forces to block the way to make money. There is no need for them to risk shipwreck and death to beg for food in a place that has no formal diplomacy with the government.
And those who dare to take risks and earn money are unlikely to have official human channels. In addition, their knowledge and vision are not broad enough due to "happy education", coupled with problems such as the inconvenience of going to the sea, eventually leading to this trade route being ignored.
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——It will be easier for people like Lu Hongsheng, who is a member of a fake aristocratic family.
Lu Hongsheng casually picked a dozen samples and then swam to the counter. The clown fish store manager raised his head and saw him holding a pile of samples. A smile suddenly appeared on his face and he said in a slightly accented Chinese dialect: "Welcome, I
My friend! I am Karati Yuanwei, the store manager here, what do you need?"
"Bring me five of these magic silverbaits; bring me five of these magic ink fountains too."
The magic silverbait is somewhat similar to a long-range hidden weapon on land. After giving instructions, it can swim out at high speed to attack the enemy. If it is not damaged after the battle, it can be recalled; the magic ink fountain can pollute a large area of the sea and allow enemies in the sea to sense it.
Abnormal. Very useful for the team members on the ship.
"Thank you for your patronage! Two pieces, a total of 8 high-grade magic crystals!" The store manager smiled from ear to ear.
While the fish-man store manager was packing the goods for him, Lu Hongsheng asked him curiously: "Are all fish-men so intelligent? Why are they different from what I know?"
The fishman store manager had a smile on his face: "Humans on land have many misunderstandings about us fishmen. This is not surprising. In fact, there are many factions and castes within the fishman empire. Generally speaking, what humans see in the shallow sea are patrolling fishmen.
, they are indeed not very intelligent. But those stupid murlocs cannot actually be regarded as real murlocs. The real murlocs are the murloc nobles who rule them in the murloc empire. The murlocs are a people with a long culture.
Race, fishman nobles can not only practice superb martial arts, but their spells are not inferior to land civilizations at all!"
Lu Hongsheng nodded. He and Qianyo once fought a murloc mage with a snake-like tail, and almost didn't come back alive. It seems that there are quite a few such murlocs in the deep sea.
But this was just an excuse used by Lu Hongsheng to close the distance and start a conversation. Seeing the fishman shop manager talking to him, Lu Hongsheng immediately turned to slap the four stones in his hand on the table: "How much do these materials cost?
Wholesale?”
"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"
The four stones Lu Hongsheng picked are called: heavy manganese nodules, deep sea salt brine, ten thousand year ice core, and fierce fire black ice.
[Heavy manganese nodules] are somewhat similar to "manganese nodules" in the real world. They are crystals of various precious metals deposited on the seabed. However, because of the magical energy of the metaverse, the manganese nodules here are heavier, and the probability of condensed magic metal is also
On the high side, it is a very expensive ore refining material.
[Deep Sea Salt Brine] is a crystal taken from the bottom of a brine lake in the deep sea below 1,500 meters. It is also called "Dead Sea Crystal". It is a crystal formed by the condensation of magic elements deposited on the seabed and the ultra-high concentration of brine in the submarine lake. It is corrosive and toxic.
It is extremely powerful. Using it as a medium to cast water magic can greatly increase the corrosiveness and biological lethality of metals.
[Ten Thousand Years Ice Core] is a ten thousand year ice core taken from the polar regions. It needs to be stored in the refrigerator. It is an excellent material for water and ice flow spells. Using it as a medium to cast water magic can partially realize the ice flow spell.
The freezing effect.
As for [Fire Black Ice], it is the metaverse version of "combustible ice" in the real world. It looks like a piece of black ice, but it contains rich fire element energy, but its use requires the use of fire element energy to guide it.
Therefore, although it is abundant in the ocean, its utilization rate is not high.
No matter which of these four materials is brought back to the mainland, it can be sold at a good price.
The fishman store manager raised his two big eyeballs and glanced at Lu Hongsheng: "Sir, you have good taste. Many humans who come from the mainland like to bring some of these things back. But the Wannian Ice Core was brought by my relatives in the north.
Come over and ask me to help him sell it. It’s just that much every year, no more. There are three types left. If you purchase a large quantity at one time, I can give you a discount."
"How much is the quantity?" Lu Hongsheng asked.
"Each mine is different. But if you are sincere and purchase 100 kilograms of each mine, I can give you a 25% discount. Even if you have 31 high-grade magic crystals. I only have 150 kilograms of ten thousand-year ice cores in total. If you
If you want them all, I'll charge you 7 high-grade magic crystals." The old fishman shop silently calculated in his mind and said.
31 high-grade magic crystal, which is 3.1 million pearl coins.
Lu Hongsheng nodded: "Then I purchase 1 ton of each item, plus all your ice cores. How much discount will you give me?"
The fishman store manager was immediately choked.
"One ton? Are you sure? I can't supply it immediately." The fishman store manager asked in disbelief.
