vstars Chapter 489 No More Business with the Mechanical City!
Chapter 489 No More Business with the Mechanical City!
An hour ago, in the outer city of the city, inside a spacious stone house.
A group of weary young men gathered here, seemingly discussing something.
Around them were piles of packages of all sizes, each containing various goods.
"Damn it, the Mechanical City has gone too far!" a chubby-faced young man said angrily.
"Yes! Just because they can manufacture weapons, they arbitrarily raise prices. Demanding 80% of the profits was already outrageous, and now... they're raising prices again, trying to take 90% of the profits!" The others chimed in indignantly.
These people are none other than...
It was a traveling merchant who came to the city once a month to sell serial weapons.
These weapons were all produced by the Mechanical City.
These itinerant merchants were able to establish themselves in the wilderness by selling weapons from the mechanical city.
Therefore, even though the Mechanized City made the lion's share, they had no complaints and accepted it.
The problem is, the Mechanical City is only responsible for production, while they are the ones who transport and sell the goods to various cities!
Keep in mind, this is a wasteland world, and danger lurks everywhere in the wilderness!
These itinerant merchants traveled between several cities, and often encountered attacks from ferocious beasts along the way.
In search of food and water, they also had to enter the forest and fight against ferocious beasts.
Anyway....
Every time they do business, many of their partners may die or be injured.
However, they only received a 10% or 20% profit.
If you're lucky enough to do a business deal and few of your partners die, you might even make a small profit.
However, the catastrophic event of the last century is drawing ever closer, and the ferocious beasts are becoming increasingly mad and violent.
With each business transaction, more and more of his partners died or were injured.
The subordinates demanded higher pay, otherwise no one would help transport the goods.
Now, the Mechanical City is even raising prices.
Originally, they were going to take 80% of the net profit.
This time, they actually want to take 90%.
"Damn it! If you ask me, we should just stop doing business with the Mechanical City!"
A burly man, his face dark, cursed, "This kind of thankless business involves risking your life every time, and there's no profit at all, sometimes it even results in losses."
“That’s right, they’re not giving us a way out!” the others echoed.
“But if we don’t trade with the Mechanical City… what will happen to the goods we brought here with all our might? What will our people eat and drink?” Someone looked at the various goods piled up in the room and said with a wry smile.
"Even doing business with the Mechanical City, our people still can't get enough to eat, and they don't have enough weapons..."
These people all have some ability, but their ability is not particularly strong.
As long as there is a certain profit, they are willing to be itinerant merchants.
But places like the Mechanical City directly earn 80-90% of the profits.
The itinerant merchants made no profit whatsoever; it was as if they were working for the city for free.
Who would be willing to do something so thankless and exhausting?
The problem is, if we don't do business with the Mechanical City, things will be even worse!
boom! boom! boom!
Just then, the earth trembled slightly.
Everyone stumbled and instinctively rushed out of the stone house to see what had happened.
As soon as everyone rushed out of the stone house, all they saw was...
The ground resembled waves, and everyone could only rise and fall within these waves.
"What's wrong? Has another earthquake struck?" someone exclaimed.
Upon hearing this, everyone turned pale.
Not only are they afraid of being buried alive in an earthquake, but they are also worried that prices in the government compound will rise again.
After all, why did the City of Organs suddenly raise prices and demand a larger share of the profits?
Isn't it because of the earthquake on the last full moon night?
That incident not only caused heavy losses to the city, but also heralded the end of the world.
Therefore, all major powers are preparing for war, and everyone wants to stockpile enough weapons and resources.
"It's not an earthquake!" At this moment, a pretty young girl in the crowd widened her eyes, pointed in the direction outside the mechanical city, and exclaimed, "Big brothers, look quickly, that's a giant beast even more terrifying than an earthquake..."
As she spoke, she tightly gripped the young, muscular man, Sis, beside her.
The slender finger pointed towards the direction outside the city.
Her name is Sif, and she is an Eagle Vision Awakener who can see things several kilometers away.
Because of his excellent eyesight, he was also a renowned archer in the tribe.
"A giant beast?" Upon hearing this, everyone looked in the direction the little girl was pointing.
Immediately, Sith and the others' pupils shrank.
Because all they could see was a wall that blocked out the sky.
It's impossible to tell what the monster really looks like.
What kind of monster is it that has almost turned the entire Mechanized City upside down?
"Oh no! Is this the end of the world coming early?"
The moment they saw the earth dragon turtle, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
They came to the city of government offices to do business, hoping to make more money.
Buy more weapons and equipment from the Mechanized City to prepare for the possible catastrophe of the century.
But now, before they were even ready, they encountered a terrifying monster that blotted out the sky.
If this monster were to charge straight at us, the entire mechanical city would be destroyed instantly.
Those who were still in the city of machinery didn't even have time to escape; they were all doomed.
But just then, the little girl suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Look, the giant beast has stopped!"
"It stopped?" Everyone looked puzzled upon hearing this.
However, as Sif said, the earth had gradually calmed down.
However, the ground where they were standing had already cracked open.
But everyone breathed a sigh of relief; at least they wouldn't die now.
"Brothers, look..." However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Sif shouted again, "It looks like someone is building something on the back of that giant beast! Oh, someone's coming out!"
Everyone jumped onto the rooftops and ran to the city wall to get a better look.
"Is there really someone up there? Could it be... that this monster is actually being controlled by someone?"
"Look, someone's gone up there, looks like they're from the Mechanized City..."
Some sharp-eyed people noticed that many people from the Mechanical City had entered Dragon City.
"Brother!" Sif tugged at her older brother's sleeve, her face full of anticipation. "There seems to be a city up there. Shall we go up and take a look?"
That's how little girls are; when they see something strange or unusual, they want to go and take a look.
Sith looked at the city walls that were faintly visible on the back of the giant beast, and was clearly somewhat tempted.
But he still shook his head, looking wary, and said, "These people are of unknown origin, let's take a look first."
Every force that can operate as itinerant merchants has at least one level 5 or 6 powerhouse in charge.
Sissif and her brother came from a tribe called Moon Pass.
Sith is a half-step seventh-tier powerhouse, and his sister Sith is also at the peak of the fifth tier.
Under the leadership of the brother and sister, their tribe was quite powerful.
Of all the traveling merchant forces present, the Moon Pass tribe was the strongest.
Even the Sissif siblings were watching from the sidelines, so it was even less likely that anyone else would get close to the Earth Dragon Turtle.