Chapter 4: Hanging the Trading Market

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

He opened a chat channel.

First, he went to the World Channel to take a look.

“There are actually goblins outside my territory. I accidentally lost three migrant workers, and even my soldiers were seriously injured.”

“Someone save me, Mom, I want to go home!”

“I’m panicking right now. There are fierce beasts outside, I don’t dare to go out at all…”

“Do all of you have migrant workers at the start? Why don’t I have any?”

“Doesn’t the person upstairs read the territory’s mail? I really pity you…”

“Sigh, my initial soldier is a golden gnome. When he matures, he can freely travel underground, but I don’t think he knows anything other than digging.”

“F*ck, could it be that the person upstairs is a Versailles Grandmaster? My soldier is an earth giant. Right now, he’s still too small and is only three meters tall. When he grows up, he’ll probably be dozens of meters tall. Sigh, he really eats a lot!”

“F*ck, you’re the real Grandmaster of Versailles…”

“I feel like I’ve found a world that belongs to me. This is called the child of the plane!”

…

Jiang Chen looked at the speech in the World Channel.

Some of the lucky ones were speaking so arrogantly.

He ignored them.

In fact, he’d had a premonition from the start that the system would assign different locations and initial resources to each lord. This meant that everyone’s starting point wasn’t necessarily the same.

Jiang Chen didn’t know what advantages the other lords had, but he knew that his greatest advantage right now was the plant life system.

Finding the first seed was his only choice at the moment.

Jiang Chen didn’t envy or sympathize with the suffering of others, with the mention of gnomes, giants… these types of soldiers didn’t necessarily mean that they were absolutely powerful in his eyes.

At this moment, someone spoke in the World Channel again.

“Brothers, do not leave the safe zone of the territory. The outside world is too dangerous.”

“My soldiers just went out to collect stones when they were killed by a male lion!”

“There are strange birds flying above my head. Compared to them, they have their eyes on me. What should I do? They won’t be guarding me forever, right…”

“Sob sob sob sob sob, I’m a cute girl. Macho big brother, come and save me!”

“Enough, leg picker, stop pretending!”

…

Jiang Chen shrugged as he looked at these chat messages.

The chat channel was very lively. It was the same when Jiang Chen opened the regional channel.

Some people were injured, while others were lucky enough to collect good things.

There were even people in positions of self-destruction, hoping that someone could form a team.

What were the consequences of self-destructing?

They might meet good people and help each other out, but it was also possible that…

“Even if we’re both lords now, there’s a high probability that we won’t choose to help each other out in the end. Human nature is the scariest thing.”

Jiang Chen smiled and murmured softly.

He silently exited the chat channel, deep in thought. There were two things that were most important to him right now.

The first was to find the seed. The second was to explore the surrounding environment.

He flipped open the trading panel again.

Many people had already started bartering here. Most of them were trading for water, food, or weapons with the most information.

“Other than water, the most common are metal minerals.”

Jiang Chen felt relieved after thinking about it.

Comparison was a game of survival. Water was the most scarce right now!

There were also weapons that could protect oneself.

And metal minerals were the necessary materials to make weapons.

Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up. “Just because I can’t find the seeds doesn’t mean that other people don’t have them!”

Jiang Chen thought for a moment, then took out a few pieces of iron and hung them up.

Jiang Chen didn’t plan to trade water resources for the time being. After all, he also needed them very much.

But even if he were to hang up and sell the iron, it was still a scarce resource compared to the current situation. The seeds weren’t of much use to others, and if they were seen by others, they would definitely trade with him.

In the trading channel.

“Seller: Jiang Chen. Item: Iron 2x. Requirement: 50 seeds (any seed will do). Quantity, 2x.”

Jiang Chen had barely published the post about the item when the chat channel immediately exploded.

“Holy shit, someone’s trading iron.”

“Why are they trading seeds? What kind of godly operation is this? Could it be that he’s a farmer?”

“Haha, this person might be mentally ill. What can seeds do? They can’t be used as food for a short period of time, nor can they resist wild beasts.”

“Don’t talk nonsense upstairs. He might be being kind. I have to find out if there are any seeds around me and trade the iron.”

“Iron is the most important material to make weapons. I haven’t seen it in the trading market today. This person is actually willing to trade. If there isn’t a mine in the territory, then it must be a brain.”

“Don’t spout nonsense here. I still want to secretly trade with this big shot.”

Everyone was shocked. This shock was a mixture of ridicule and confusion.

The lord had only been alive for one day and Jiang Chen had already started trading iron nuggets. The most important thing was that his demand was actually a seed without any actual use.

What was this? Was this showing off?

No one could understand it at the moment, but this didn’t affect everyone’s mood to trade.

Almost everyone was discussing.

On the other side, Jiang Chen received a large number of private messages one after another.

Someone sent a private message to Jiang Chen through the trade channel.

“Brother Jiang, can I exchange ten units of stones for your iron ore?”

“Big Brother, would you like wood? I’ll exchange it all for iron ore. I want to forge a weapon for self-defense!”

“Big brother, can you give me the iron ore? It’s so dangerous for me to be alone. I beg you…”

“Brother Jiang, give me the iron. I’ll give you ten million in return when we return to the world of the willing!”

..

Not a single person had seeds.

There were countless private messages from all sorts of people.

Some of them included celebrities, the richest people, and officials that Jiang Chen was familiar with.

There were requests, promises, temptations, and so on.

But Jiang Chen didn’t care about that, nor did he care about the ridicule in the chat channel.

Everyone was equal here. Without what he needed, he could forget about exchanging for it!

Who knew if they could return to their original world, or… live!

Jiang Chen looked at the abundance of private messages. Not a single one was what he wanted, nor did he have any special resources.

Fortunately, the system’s functions were more complete and had an automatic filtering function.

Jiang Chen had set up the keywords for the seeds. Unless there was a need for them or a special resource, they wouldn’t disturb him.

He closed the chat channel and took the opportunity to rest for a while.

After about two hours, no one traded.

At this time, the sky was already approaching dusk.

“The tents are basically finished, and the union is almost done. We’ll be able to recruit special talents in a while.”

After a while.

The system notified him that the construction was complete.

Jiang Chen looked ahead and saw that a few tents were located outside the courtyard, where the migrant workers could rest.

A separate tent had also been built within the courtyard. This was of course Jiang Chen’s own.

Another flat building appeared before his eyes. This was the union.

It was finally completed!

Jiang Chen silently read out the panel.

The panel appeared at random.

“Union level: Level One. Functions: five people can be recruited per week. The type of recruitment can not be specified.”

“Conditions: five gold coins per recruitment.”

Jiang Chen pondered. “It can not be specified…”

This meant that the talents and skills that were recruited could not be controlled by Jiang Chen. It would be fine if they were able to recruit those that were useful at this stage.

If they were to recruit someone who wasn’t useful, then it would be a waste of food and shelter..