Chapter 3

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Then, he opened the [World Chat Channel] again.

The earlier discussion of beasts in the dark and the danger they were in had changed to the topic of food.

Although the lords of each castle could only send one chat message at most every day, there were just too many lords in existence—numbering a total of two billion.

The purchase requests were usually a trade for goods.

One energy stone in exchange for three units of food.

Ten units of wood in exchange for one unit of food.

Five units of stones in exchange for one unit of food.

Almost all the Lords in the [World Chat Channel] were asking to buy food.

On the other hand, the [Trading Channel] was cold and quiet.

There were almost no lords who would trade food for resources, which represented the objective reality that everyone was in.

Food was more precious than practical resources like wood!

The reason for that was simple—the wild monsters were too difficult to kill.

No lord would want to do something like killing the enemy and losing 800 of their people.

After all, the risk was huge, and a careless mistake would plunge his troops and castle into danger.

Therefore, food became the most popular buzzword in the trading channel.

Just a moment ago, the Holy Light Bugs had killed some more monsters one after another. Su Hao had collected all of them and had obtained 100 units of food.

Food was neither scarce nor precious to him, since he could have it whenever he wanted.

Gold coins were more important than anything to him right now.

He needed to accumulate gold coins to buy a new gift pack!

Almost immediately, Su Hao immediately posted the transaction information on the [Hyperspace Trading Channel] next door.

[One unit of food for 5000 gold coins.]

[Units of food available: 100 units]

Once the transaction was announced, the chat instantly became lively.

In a situation where they were surrounded by wild beasts and dark forces, any castle lord who could offer up 100 units of food was almost certainly a top-tier existence.

After all, there were many castle lords who did not even dare to leave their own castles.

Moreover, almost all of the militiamen that were sent out either died or suffered severe injury, with no result to show for.

As for the castle lords themselves, they could only collect wood and stones within a 50-meter radius of the castle at most.

As long as a monster attacked, they would immediately scuttle back home in fear!

As a result, food was extremely precious given that they were constantly under the threat of the dangerous dark forces and wild monsters!

One unit of food was already extremely precious, so it was even more surprising that a lord could have 100 units of food for sale.

The fact that he could bring so much food meant that he had a strong army or a large number of militia.

Such a lord was worthy of respect and support, perhaps even friendship, yet all the castle lords were laughing at Su Hao in the [World Chat Channel].

They thought that Su Hao was a dumb fool!

Their reasoning was simple—only an idiot would exchange food for gold coins!

To them, gold coins were just scrap metal.

Could the gold coins be used to build sword towers, or build buildings for security? Were they edible or useful to attack wild beasts?

The answer to all of that was no.

None of them expected that there were still people in such an era of survival who thought that gold coins were important and went so far as to take the risk of going hungry to exchange for gold coins.

Such a person was either stupid or wanted to die.

The value of the gold coins exchanged for food were reasonably decent too.

However, Su Hao was the only one in the entire world who knew that the world would have a business mode two months later.

Once the business mode was activated, gold coins would become the only currency in circulation!

At the same time, one catty of food would only cost 50 silver coins! By contrast, the price that Su Hao listed on the trading channel—which was one unit of food for 5000 gold coins—was more than a hundred or even a thousand times that future value!

It was like using a blunt knife to shave the meat off all the lords, and he wanted them to be grateful to him in the end too!

Many of the lords laughed and mocked him in the chat interface!

[I wouldn’t have believed this if I didn’t see this message in the Hyperspace Trading Channel with my own eyes. Only stupid people trade food for gold. I can’t believe such people still exist!]

[A lord who can offer 100 units of food must be very powerful, but it’s still quite a pity. Could he be a capable yet intellectually-challenged lord? Or does he have a hobby of collecting gold coins?}

[Who cares, my brothers and sisters! Aren’t you happy to exchange scrap metal for food? You don’t see this often, but it’s a good deal!]

[Hahahaha, I agree with the comment above! Buy as much meat as you can! Spend all your gold coins on them!]

[Perfect. I was just about to throw the gold coins away so that they wouldn’t take up space in my warehouse. Now I’m killing two birds with one stone!]

[I’m going to have some panther hotpot tonight, and nobody’s going to stop me! Fuahahaha!]

Facing the ridicule of all those castle lords, Su Hao did not mind one bit and merely smiled.

Whether they viewed him as stupid or not, it was all but certain that his food would be sold off.

After all, this was a world where survival of the fittest was difficult.

A lord only cared about their own safety.

No matter how outrageous the news of his transaction was, they would all think that his intelligence was wanting and no one would let go of the opportunity to take advantage of him.

Sure enough, the result was just as Su Hao thought.

All that food was snapped up in the three seconds after he posted the transaction on the [Trading Channel].

One unit was one pound, and now, a hundred pounds of food had all been snatched up!

Those 100 pounds of panther meat had brought Su Hao a total of 500,000 gold coins!

500,000 gold coins was even enough to purchase his castle expansion blueprint after business mode started!

Even Su Hao was surprised by how much money that group of lords had!

…

At the same time, the swarm of Holy Light Bug had already multiplied to over 40,000 in the darkness! They flew at low altitudes and were rapidly devouring everything in the darkness.

Wherever it went, not even a blade of grass grew, even the turf was completely devoured.

A large black mass of wild beasts fled in all directions after coming under attack, but alas, they were all swallowed by the Holy Light Bugs a few seconds.

Countless Holy Light Bugs devoured, then multiplied, and repeated the process yet again!

There was no end to the process, and the number was so dense that it was uncountable!