Natural God's Gift
#175 - Island Trading
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Four-Leaf stood on Yunshi's back, puzzled: "Red Tea, what's wrong?"
The Ridge Warrior curiously sized up the huge sea beast warrior beneath Four-Leaf's feet. He hadn't seen it before, but he had heard Danggui mention it. He didn't expect this sea beast warrior to be so big.
"It's nothing, I thought you weren't coming this year."
"Oh, have you been waiting for us here for a long time?"
"Not long," Red Tea said, a little embarrassed.
Four-Leaf said with some concern: "Red Tea, do the summer typhoons affect you here?"
Red Tea responded: "The typhoon brushed past the Xingsha Islands, so there was no impact here."
"That's good." Hearing Red Tea say this, Four-Leaf breathed a sigh of relief. It was really afraid that the typhoon would sweep away Red Tea and its life seed, in which case it would not only lose a customer with a God-given Seed, but also lose a friend.
"Did the typhoon reach your place?"
Four-Leaf said gloomily: "Yes, many of our life seed's fruits were blown away, resulting in heavy losses."
"Ah?" Hearing Four-Leaf say this, Red Tea suddenly worried about whether they would have primal force food to trade.
As if seeing what Red Tea was thinking, the Business Whiteboard had to know: "Red Tea, don't worry, our Flame Spider Kingdom is strong, a typhoon can't affect us."
"Oh, oh, shall we go to the island group first?" This is just the outer edge of the Xingsha Islands, and there is still some distance to Red Tea's own island.
Yunshi slowly moved towards the inner island, Four-Leaf stood on Yunshi's back, Danggui and Red Tea flew in the air, communicating with their mental power, chatting enthusiastically.
Four-Leaf: "Red Tea, you seem to be in good spirits, is your evolution going smoothly?"
Red Tea: "Boss Four-Leaf, thanks to you, with the primal force food you lent me, I successfully evolved to the first instar last year, and evolved to the first instar again this year. Now I am a fourth instar intermediate insect."
"Oh, congratulations." Evolving two instars from last year to this year, this speed is neither fast nor slow. Given that it had accumulated at the second instar for a long time, this speed can only be considered slightly slow.
Red Tea hadn't noticed before, but when it heard Four-Leaf mention instar evolution, it focused its attention on the two insects: "Four-Leaf, are you a third instar intermediate warrior now? Danggui, have you also evolved to the second instar intermediate stage?"
"Yes," Four-Leaf and Danggui responded plainly.
"But, didn't you say last year that you had just evolved to the ninth instar elementary level? A year has passed, and you have evolved three instars?"
"It's not strange, we don't lack primal force food, so the growth rate is naturally a bit faster." The two insects talked about evolving two or three instars in a year as if they were talking about eating a bowl of rice at noon, without any pride or complacency.
For them, evolving three instars in a year is because evolving three instars in a year will not affect physical growth, rather than the primal force food only supplying them to evolve three instars.
Seeing their calm reactions, Red Tea felt a little dazed. It had evolved a total of two instars from last year to this year, and it was already six years old.
How old are Four-Leaf and the others? Four years old? Not yet five years old and almost catching up with its instar, are insects so powerful now?
Or is it normal to evolve two or three instars a year?
At this moment, Red Tea felt some doubt about its insect life.
After bypassing a few small islands, Yunshi accurately brought them to the island where Red Tea's life seed was located.
After returning to its territory, Red Tea recovered some of its spirits. It took the lead in flying to the island and said happily to Four-Leaf and the others: "Boss Four-Leaf, Danggui, welcome to my territory."
"Hehe," Danggui flew to the island: "Red Tea, does your island have a name? Let's mark it."
"Name?" Red Tea was stunned: "Then let's call it Red Tea Island, it's easy to understand."
Four-Leaf:
.....
Danggui:
Indeed, it's easy to understand.
Four-Leaf: "Red Tea, did your Gyokuro tea tree keep any fruits this year?"
"Yes," Red Tea said: "This year, according to what you said, I can appropriately keep fruits for the God-given Seed, so I kept a hundred tea seeds."
"Are they ripe?"
"They're ripe."
"That's good." The fruits of God-given Seeds do not necessarily ripen in one year, because they need to accumulate primal energy. Some ripen every two years, and some ripen every three years, such as the Sea Soul Fir God-given Seed of the Soul system, whose fruits ripen every five years.
The most difficult to ripen are divine-grade fruits. Some divine-grade fruits need sixty or seventy years, or even a hundred years, to ripen just one.
Of course, it is not to say that the shorter the fruit ripening period, the better. On the contrary, the longer the fruit takes to ripen, the more refined the accumulated primal energy, and the more expensive the price.
However, since Red Tea still relies on the output of this God-given Seed to evolve, if the tea tree God-given Seed really ripens once every three or five years, Red Tea will have to wait until it dies of old age. For it now, it is best for the God-given Seed to ripen once a year.
Red Tea took the lead, leading Four-Leaf to its life seed.
Red Tea said: "This year, eight of my life seeds have kept fruits. Boss Four-Leaf, you can see how many primal stones they are worth later."
Four-Leaf said readily: "Okay."
It didn't procrastinate either. The kingdom still had things to arrange, and it had to rush back after the transaction here!
Four-Leaf: "Red Tea, take out your life seed products and let me see."
"Okay," Red Tea flew back to its nest and took out the primal force fruits produced by its life seed.
Red Tea's life seed output this year is quite a lot. It also divided it into several medium-sized spider silk bags, mainly because it couldn't lift the large-sized spider silk bags. The load-bearing capacity of the bell warrior is still a bit poor.
After seeing Red Tea take out all the spider silk bags, Four-Leaf slowly stepped forward to check.
While checking, it also asked: "Is it a bumper harvest this year?"
"It's considered a bumper harvest, right?" Red Tea didn't know what level it had to reach to be considered a bumper harvest, but this year's life seed fruit output was indeed higher than last year.
Four-Leaf took out an ear of corn from the spider silk bag and complained: "Red Tea, didn't I tell you some drying methods for primal force food last year?"
"No!" Red Tea said strangely.
"Then I'll tell you now."
Four-Leaf pointed to the ear of corn and said: "For corn, you can hang it on the treetops to dry, and then peel out the seeds after it is dry, so that it can be stored longer."
"Oh, oh," Red Tea nodded, seemingly understanding.
Four-Leaf held an ear of corn: "Corn is still priced at eight primal stones per ear, how many ears do you plan to sell?" ①
Red Tea said: "Let's sell thirty ears, the yield is quite high."
It has a corn life seed, and five tillers have been separated from the main plant. Eight ears of corn are hanging on one corn plant. It sells thirty ears and keeps a dozen ears for itself to eat slowly.
The output of one life seed can clear most of its debts.
Hearing Red Tea say this, Four-Leaf didn't take it seriously. Elementary and intermediate warriors need fewer resources because of their low evolution instar. The life seed output at this stage may be a bit surplus.
When it comes to advanced warriors and mountain master-level warriors, the resources needed for evolution increase, and relying solely on the output of these ordinary life seeds becomes a bit stretched.
Corn has ordinary effects and the price is also average, so there is nothing worth mentioning. Four-Leaf asked Danggui to open a spider silk bag and put in thirty ears of corn in front of Red Tea.
"Forsythia, three for one primal stone, how many do you plan to sell?"
"Sell three hundred grains." Forsythia, as a shrub, does not have a high yield. Three hundred grains is already most of the yield.
It didn't keep much for itself.
"Blueberry seeds, twenty for one primal stone, how many to sell?"
Red Tea pondered for a moment and shook its antennae: "Blueberry seeds are too cheap, I won't sell them this year."
"Then tea seeds, one primal stone per seed, how many do you plan to sell?"
Red Tea thought for a while and didn't answer. It untied a spider silk bag that it carried with it and handed it to Four-Leaf: "See how many primal stones a God-given tea seed is worth."
Four-Leaf stretched its claws into the spider silk bag, twisted out a God-given tea seed to check. The tea seed was very full, and Red Tea should have taken good care of the God-given Seed.
The primal energy fluctuations on it are also very strong, and it is easy to detect the strengthening properties attached to it.
Four-Leaf put the tea seed into its mouth to taste, carefully feeling the primal energy power in it: "God-given Small Leaf Tea Seed, its effect is to condense and strengthen mental power, how about a price of 13 primal stones per seed?"
Hearing Si Ye's quote, Hong Cha was both surprised and delighted: "13 primal stones per seed? Is the price that high?"
"Yes, do you agree with this price?"
"13 primal stones per seed," Hong Cha carefully calculated. If it's calculated this way, wouldn't the divine tea tree life seed that she was gifted this year produce a hundred fruits, which would be worth 1,300 primal stones?
Wouldn't that mean that the output of this one life seed alone would be enough for it to pay off all its debts and still have enough surplus? And this is only the first year of production for the divine seed; it's just starting to exert its strength. If the output increases in the future, wouldn't it be able to easily sell for tens of thousands of primal stones?
In the past, she only knew that divine seeds were good, but she didn't have a clear understanding. Only today did she realize that such a divine seed is actually worth more than a dozen or twenty ordinary life seeds.
"Hong Cha, Hong Cha." Si Ye awakened the warrior who was lost in imagining the beautiful future. Originally, it wasn't planning to disturb Hong Cha's imagination of a bright future, but Hong Cha had been imagining for too long, and Si Ye had to remind it to come back to its senses.
"Ah," Hong Cha came back to her senses.
Si Ye calmly said, "Let's continue the transaction."
"Oh, oh," Hong Cha felt a little embarrassed, thinking that she had actually been distracted during the transaction, thinking about irrelevant things.
However, it immediately adjusted its mindset.
Si Ye asked, "Hong Cha, how many divine tea seeds are you planning to sell?"
Hong Cha looked at Si Ye's full carapace and hesitated slightly: "Boss Si Ye, how much primal force food did you bring this year?"
Hearing Hong Cha say this, Si Ye immediately understood that Hong Cha wanted to see the amount of primal force food on its back before considering selling its own life seed output.
Si Ye smiled easily. It took off the silk bag on its back: "Considering that you have evolved into a mid-stage warrior of the third instar, the previous package may not be very suitable. Our kingdom's elders have re-matched you with a primal force food package worth 1,000 primal stones."
Si Ye took out small silk bags from the medium-sized silk bag: "Shall I introduce the configuration of this package to you?"
When selling things to other insects, you must at least let the insects know the effects and functions of the product, otherwise it would be fraud.
"A primal force food package worth 1,000 primal stones? Then introduce it!" Hong Cha was curious about what the difference was between the primal force food package worth 1,000 primal stones and the primal force food package worth 500 primal stones? Was it more suitable for her now?
"Okay,"
Si Ye opened a small silk bag and twisted out a divine primal force food: "Divine Water Chestnut, produced in the territory of mid-stage warriors. Its effect is water affinity. Because it is relatively large, it is more expensive, 20 primal stones per one. I brought two in total. It is very suitable for insect warriors living on the island."
"Divine primal force food?" Hong Cha didn't expect Si Ye's claws to be so big, taking out divine primal force food right away.
It searched its inherited memories and found that the effect of the water chestnut was no different from what Si Ye said. It excitedly said, "This is good, I need this."
"Hehe, don't worry, there's more." Si Ye showed a smug smile.
It put the divine water chestnut back into the silk bag and placed it aside, untied another small silk bag, and twisted out the seeds inside: "Divine Wind Chime Seeds, also produced in the territory of mid-stage warriors. Its effect is wing strengthening, and wind energy perception enhancement. This is a small grain, so it is relatively cheap, three primal stones per grain, twenty grains in total."
Hong Cha hurriedly said, "I want this too."
There are often strong winds on the island, and it has wind-type talent potential. If it can eat some divine wind chime seeds, its flying ability can be accelerated a lot.
"Hong Cha, don't worry, what I brought are all primal force foods suitable for your consumption and evolution. Let me introduce them to you one by one before you decide whether you want them or not."
In any case, Si Ye had a firm grasp on the customer's psychology.
Hong Cha also realized that she was a little too excited and gradually regained her composure.
"Divine Camphor Seeds, produced in the territory of mid-stage warriors. Its effect is the life-type strengthening of the six limbs, eight primal stones per grain, five grains in total.
Dawn Redwood Seeds, one primal stone for ten grains...
Bowl Lotus Seeds, one primal stone for three grains..."
Si Ye placed the primal force food with the quoted prices aside. Some of these primal force foods were brought back by the Flame Spider merchants from outside transactions, and some were produced by the original Flame Spiders of its own kingdom.
Although the quantity of each primal force food is not large, the types and effects are quite good, enough for a mid-stage warrior to use for evolution.
After listening to Si Ye's quotation for the prices and effects of these primal force foods, Hong Cha couldn't help but smack her lips. As expected of the legendary merchant race, there were so many types of materials. They could easily take out twenty or thirty kinds of primal force foods suitable for it to eat, and there were even several divine primal force foods among them.
Si Ye asked:! "Hong Cha, see if there are any that need to be added, reduced, or not wanted?"
It brought primal force food worth 1,000 primal stones from the kingdom, but whether it can be sold depends on whether the insects buy it or not.
Hong Cha was a little hesitant. The primal force food quoted by Si Ye was so good. It wanted them all, but it was short of money and had to pay off its debts. After buying these primal force foods, it was estimated that there would be no primal stones in its pocket again.
After thinking about it, it painfully allocated seventy divine tea seeds from its silk bag: "Boss Si Ye, these seventy divine tea seeds, plus the previous thirty corns, plus three hundred forsythia seeds, and I'll give you two hundred ordinary tea seeds. Can you calculate how many primal stones there are in total? After deducting the debt I owe you, how many primal stones are left?"
"Wait a moment," Si Ye took out a small abacus purchased from Boss Xiao Ji, which imitated the creations of extraterrestrial civilizations.
It propped up its upper body, and four spider legs dialed on the abacus for a while, and then came up with a number: "It's a total of 1,450 primal stones. After deducting the 500 primal stones and 50 primal stones interest that you owe me, that's 900 primal stones. Hong Cha, do you want to make it 1,000 primal stones?"
Hearing the number 900, Hong Cha gritted her teeth: "Okay, I'll sell you three hundred ordinary tea seeds to make up 1,000."
"Okay," Si Ye and Dang Gui began to match the primal force food in the silk bags all over the ground.
Seeing that Hong Cha looked distressed, Si Ye said, "Hong Cha, don't worry, with these primal force foods, it's not a problem for you to evolve one or two instars a year. As long as you evolve to a high-stage warrior before the age of ten, then you will have plenty of time to prepare for evolving to the mountain lord level. High-stage warriors generally have a lifespan of more than a hundred years, and at the mountain lord level, they have a lifespan of more than two hundred years. Wouldn't that be great?"
"Yes, I want to be promoted to the mountain lord level as soon as possible." Compared to evolution, these primal force foods are not important.
Hong Cha asked: "Boss Si Ye, will you come again next year after the transaction is completed this year?"
Si Ye: "If nothing unexpected happens, I will come. By the way, Hong Cha, there are so many islands in the Star Sand Islands. Have you seen other insect warriors?"
Hong Cha swayed her antennae: "You asked this question last year. There are too many birds in the island chain. I am still only a mid-stage warrior and I don't dare to go there. When I become a high-stage warrior, I can go and explore."
"Okay!" The total area of the entire Star Sand Islands is no smaller than the Flame Spider Kingdom. They haven't even walked through one ten-thousandth of the Star Sand Islands. They have a premonition that there must be other insect warriors in the islands.
However, they are not in a hurry. At present, it is a bit difficult for them to eat the business of just one insect, Hong Cha. If there are a few more customers, they will not be able to come up with too much cost to trade.
The transaction with Hong Cha was unexpectedly smooth, and it took several hours to complete the transaction. The most time-consuming thing was the journey on the road.
It can be seen that Hong Cha, who has never had contact with the outside world, has tasted the sweetness of the transaction, otherwise it would not have been looking forward to the arrival of Si Ye and the others.
After the transaction was completed, Si Ye didn't leave immediately. It and Dang Gui also appropriately guided Hong Cha on how to fertilize the life seed, thin out the flowers and fruits, and increase the yield.
A good customer is its big customer and also its only customer. It deserves the attentive service and professional guidance of Boss Si Ye and Assistant Dang Gui.
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