Chapter 669: Chapter 408: Is it really possible that Starfield has not even one Monument?_2 Chapter 669: Chapter 408: Is it really possible that Starfield has not even one Monument?_2 No, it’s not.

In fact, it’s all for bragging rights, spending a few dozen or hundred bucks for a sense of participation makes watching football all the more interesting and provides a talking point with friends, whether you win or lose.

Whether you make money or lose it doesn’t really matter, what you’re buying is fun.

Similarly–
The E-Rank Random Prop Chest has also become like this.

And all of this was completely within Chen Yi’s expectations. Even Chen Yi was a bit dumbfounded when he saw the price of the E-Rank Random Prop Chest. How did the price get so high?

Will people actually buy it at such a high price?

Why is this chest so expensive?

Up to this point, besides his initial purchase, Chen Yi had not interfered at all, but the situation had developed in this way.

…

“…”

Glancing at the Star Map Platform, the lengthy list of purchase requests below the E-Rank Random Prop Chest made Chen Yi’s expression increasingly strange.

“Player Zhang**, offering 449 Points to buy 100 E-Rank Random Prop Chests.”

“Player Sun**, offering 430 Points to buy 100,000 E-Rank Random Prop Chests.”

“Player…”

Request to purchase is a feature on the Star Map Platform where players can propose to buy goods at a price lower than the market price listed under the product. When a player urgently needs to sell, they can choose to fulfill these purchase requests.

Although the price is definitely lower than the market price,
the advantage is the quick speed and short transaction time.

After a quick estimate, Chen Yi’s eyes gradually lit up and without any hesitation, he began to offload frantically, constantly clicking on the purchase requests.

…

Six hours quickly passed.

Chen Yi had sold 900 million E-Rank Random Prop Chests, making a profit of 167 billion Points, and the price of the E-Rank Random Prop Chests had hit an all-time low of 101 Points.

In less than half a day,
after dumping 900 million chests on the Star Map Platform, which lacked a circuit breaker mechanism, the E-Rank Random Prop Chests faced the largest crash in history. As Chen Yi, the cunning operator, began to frantically offload, the price of the chests began to uncontrollably plummet.

At the beginning, as Chen Yi started to offload like crazy, causing the price of the chests to drop uncontrollably,
some operators who had hoarded a decent amount of E-Rank Random Chests started to release purchase orders at higher prices, frantically.

For instance, if Chen Yi put out a purchase request at “429 Points,”
these guys would immediately issue a purchase request at “460 Points.”

Surely this means taking a loss.

But their thinking was simple; they figured someone in the same business couldn’t resist the urge to offload early for a quick profit and run, which could not be allowed. They expected the price could surge to 900 Points, so they started to shore up the market.

Shoring up the market means boosting the market price of the chests.

Even if releasing a premium purchase order means taking a loss right now, as long as they could stabilize the price, they’d make more money selling later!

But… the amount of stock they had could not possibly match what was in Chen Yi’s hands.

When Chen Yi, without even blinking, dumped hundreds of millions of chests and prepared to run, all the other operators began to turn pale. This market was definitely not going to hold; on the contrary, every piece of meat they spat out ended up in Chen Yi’s pocket.

After all, the high-price purchase orders they had released to prop up the market had been fully absorbed by Chen Yi.

If there was fatty meat, surely you’d eat that first, but lean meat would do in its absence.

When the price hit 281 Points,
basically most of the operators had collapsed. If this continued, they would be left with nothing, clearly unable to hold the market. It would be better to cut their losses and run with the rest, maybe lose a little less.

So…

As the operators who started to panic also began to offload and run, the market’s negative sentiment exploded in an instant. Almost all the players chose to sell off their holdings, fearing running slow would mean losing more.

In the end, just as Chen Yi finished offloading his 900 million Prop Chests, the lowest price had already hit 101 Points, with a continuing downward trend.

Meanwhile, Tuberculosis Rabbit sitting aside, was looking at the scene unfolding before him and murmuring in amazement.

“Yi, you bought a total of 1 billion Prop Chests, sold 900 million, opened 5 million, and now you have 95 million left,” he murmured.

“You spent 610 Points each buying them, and now you’ve sold them for 167 billion Points.”

“Does this mean, Yi, that you’ve made a profit of 106 billion Points before and after, and got 100 million Prop Chests for free?”

“Yi!”

Tuberculosis Rabbit’s voice rose in shock and disbelief, “You have a talent for business!!!”

“Is it really so easy to make 100 billion Points? We’ve collected protection fees for so long, blasted through so many clans with great fanfare, to finally save up a few hundred billion in assets, and now, Yi, you just casually buy some chests and make 100 billion Points?”

“If we knew making money was so simple, why bother with protection fees? We could have just stormed in and took over!”

“You can’t say that.”

Chen Yi said with a chuckle, “It’s mainly good luck. I never expected that buying just 1 billion Prop Chests would cause so much upheaval. This is purely good fortune; I definitely didn’t consider this at the time.”

“Also, if it weren’t for the few hundred billion in assets we’d saved earlier, we couldn’t have bought 1 billion E-Rank Random Prop Chests in one go. Without buying 1 billion E-Rank Random Prop Chests at once, we wouldn’t have seen this effect, right?”

“That’s true,”
Tuberculosis Rabbit agreed, nodding. Then he glanced at the time, “It’s 8 o’clock at night already, and February is almost here; there’s going to be another update to the version.”