Chapter 8: Quality Is More Important

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“As long as you trade in items forged from iron, you can receive bread or water…Is this fake?”

Not long after Lu Ming sent out the message, many people in the chat square expressed their doubts about the current situation.

“That’s right. Clean water and food that hasn’t gone bad are very scarce now. Why would he be willing to trade them? Moreover, he took out so much at once!”

“Besides, even if everyone here pooled their supplies, they wouldn’t have enough for twenty grilled bread and three bottles of water!”

“Could the news that this guy sent be fake?”

“While it can be fake, what if it’s true?”

At the thought of this, everyone’s gazes became heated almost instantly.

“Yeah, what if it’s true?”

Furthermore, even if he did offer extremely ordinary muddy water, so what?

Thinking of this, everyone subconsciously licked their lips.

Even muddy water was much better than dying of thirst!

“Boss, boss!”

Just as Lu Ming was waiting, someone directly sent a trade request to Lu Ming in the public channel.

“I have ten pieces of rusty iron. Can we trade?”

“Sure.”

Upon hearing the other party’s trade request, Lu Ming was almost immediately happy.

Lu Ming had thought that it would be difficult to obtain such resources, but he was surprised at how easy it was.

“Let me see the quality of the iron first. If the quality is suitable, I’ll send you six breads and half a bottle of water. What do you think?”

“Enough, enough! Definitely enough!”

Upon hearing that Lu Ming had agreed, the person opposite him nodded quickly. He agreed to the transaction as if he was afraid that Lu Ming would reject him.

“Thud!”

In an instant, ten palm-sized, rusty iron blocks fell onto Lu Ming’s passenger seat.

And on each of the rusted iron blocks appeared the words “amplification”.

Lu Ming rubbed his hands excitedly as he looked at the rusted iron blocks.

Although the quality did not seem great, after being amplified, he should be able to get a lot out of them.

At the thought of this, Lu Ming became excited almost immediately.

“Amplify!”

After giving the order, the ten palm-sized pieces of rusty iron were instantly covered with a layer of dazzling golden light.

The dark red rust on the iron blocks was continuously scraped off, and replaced by a smooth surface.

As impurities were removed, the size of the blocks kept shrinking. After a while, six small refined iron blocks, each with a layer of golden light on their surface, appeared in front of Lu Ming.

“System, what’s going on?”

Lu Ming subconsciously frowned at the six pieces of refined iron on the table.

“After amplification, why did the quantity decrease instead of increasing?”

Logically, ten pieces of rusty iron should be able to produce more iron after amplification.

“Host, the system’s enhancement mainly focuses on the quality of such useful resources.”

“Furthermore, the materials on your blueprint require the highest quality refined iron for crafting, so I chose this conversion method in the end.”

“I see.”

Lu Ming nodded with some understanding and thought carefully while stroking his chin.

If ten pieces of rusty iron could only produce six pieces of refined iron…

To obtain enough material, he would need to collect at least ninety more sets of rusty iron!

Upon getting this result, Lu Ming silently furrowed his brows.

This was more troublesome than he had thought.

However, rusty iron was a relatively low-level iron material.

If he could obtain better iron materials, he could collect them more quickly.

“How about it? Are you satisfied, big boss?”

The seller who sent the rusty iron asked with some urgency. If Lu Ming was not satisfied, he would be in trouble.

He had no water to drink, and he would die of thirst!

“Of course, I am satisfied.”

Lu Ming nodded casually and sent over six steamed breads and half a bottle of water through the chat square.

Upon seeing the supplies, the seller breathed a sigh of relief.

“Thank you, thank you so much!”

He hugged the supplies ecstatically, quickly unscrewed the bottle cap, and started drinking.

“Don’t be in a hurry to eat. I still have a question to ask you.”

“Boss! What is it?”

Lu Ming lowered his head and thought for a moment.

“Do you have any other types of iron resources available? If you do, I can offer you more food and water.”

“Of course, I do have some, but… would you be willing to accept non-rusty iron?”

At this point, the seller’s voice became quieter and he seemed a bit hesitant.

“As long as it’s iron, I’ll take it. Send it over!”

“Okay!”

The seller nodded excitedly.

“Just wait a moment, I’ll sort it out and send it to you!”

In just a minute or two, dozens of iron pieces of different types and shapes of iron rained down on Lu Ming’s passenger seat.

The weight of these iron blocks caused the entire car to tilt to the right.

“F*ck…”

Lu Ming looked at the iron on the passenger seat in shock. He did not expect the other party to have so many different types of iron.

However, these pieces of iron were not as good as the rusty ones earlier, whether in appearance or shape.

No wonder the seller had hesitated earlier.

However, it should be able to refine quite a lot of iron blocks.

After quickly counting and converting the resources, Lu Ming gave the equivalent amount of steamed bread and water to the other party.

Looking at the thirty pieces of refined iron shimmering with a dazzling silver light in the back seat of the car, Lu Ming leaned back on the cushion with a satisfied smile.

Now, he was only missing the last thirty pieces of refined iron, and then he would be able to solve his problem completely.

The weather outside was good, and not many people passed by.

After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Lu Ming hurriedly placed the slightly moist bread in the back seat of the car neatly on the top of the car so that the sun could dry them.

Under the scorching sun, the originally full bread gradually became shriveled, and waves of water vapor emitted from the bread.

Looking at the car full of fragrant baked bread, Lu Ming wiped the sweat off his forehead contentedly.

As long as the sun dried out all the moisture in the bread, its shelf life would be extended, which would be even more advantageous for him.

With food and water in hand, he would be able to obtain a saber tomorrow or the day after once he had gathered the necessary materials.

At that time, even if he went out to collect resources and met those terrifying starving people again, he would no longer have to be afraid of them!

These days were wonderful.

He just didn’t know if anyone still had extra iron resources to trade with him.

As soon as he settled back into his car, a new chat window appeared before him.