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Chapter 1116 Dark Economics

Zhao Wuji held the first gold coin in his life and counted it over and over again in the cave ten times.

"System, at this rate, I only need to win 99998 more collection competitions before I can go home!"

[System prompt: Graol's supervisor has issued a new rule: "It is forbidden to use non-traditional methods to collect mushrooms. Violators will be fed to spiders." ]

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Zhao Wuji looked at the "Automatic Mushroom Picking Lever Version 2.0" he had just made and quietly dismantled it into firewood.

Zhizhi squatted beside him, chewing a piece of moldy bread, and said vaguely: "Don't be sad, at least you still have 1 gold coin, enough to buy half a poisonous lizard leg."

"Poisonous lizard legs?!" Zhao Wuji was shocked. "Is your currency depreciating so badly?"

Zhizhi counted on his fingers: "1 gold coin = 10 silver coins = 100 copper coins = half a lizard leg = two buckets of spider milk = the privilege of not being whipped once."

"Stop!" Zhao Wuji covered his ears, "I don't want to listen to this dark elf economics!"

He stared at the gold coins in his hand, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Wait, if I can't make money from a regular job, what about the black market?"

[System warning: The black market in Menzoberranzan is controlled by the third family, with a mortality rate of 87.3%]

"That still leaves a 12.7% survival rate!" Zhao Wuji slapped his thigh, "It's worth a try!"

Zhizhi looked at him in horror. “Are you crazy? Last week there was a guy selling fake glowing mushrooms on the black market, and now his skull is still hanging on the city gate!”

Zhao Wuji smiled mysteriously: "But what I sell is this."

He dragged a bag of something out from under the bed - underground bat droppings.

Squeak: “.”

system:【.】

"Let me explain!" Zhao Wuji said excitedly, "Bat droppings are a scarce resource in the Underdark! They can be used as fertilizer, fuel, and even made into simple gunpowder!"

Zhizhi pinched his nose and took three steps back: "Are you sure you won't be suffocated to death first?"

"This is called 'blue ocean strategy'!" Zhao Wuji said confidently, "The business that no one else is doing is a good business!"

[System Tips: The host may have a misunderstanding of the term "blue ocean"]

Zhao Wuji used 1 gold coin to bribe a patrolman and got a temporary stall permit for the black market - a piece of torn parchment with the word "approved" written on it in spider blood.

The black market is located in the darkest corner of Menzoberranzan. The air is filled with the smell of blood, mold, and some indescribable smell. The stalls are filled with all kinds of strange goods:

Dried Mind Flayer Tentacles (Tag: Drinking in water can make you smarter)
Basilisk Tears (Tag: A must-have for couples breaking up)

Second-hand spider fairy stockings (label: the same style as the goddess Rose)

Zhao Wuji quietly moved his stall to the edge.

"Take a look! Pure natural bat droppings!" he shouted, "A must-have for home travel and for silencing people!"

Ten minutes later, a group of dark elves gathered in front of his stall - all of them came to curse.

“It stinks! Get out of the black market!”

"I'm going to report you to the patrol for polluting the air!"

“This smell reminds me of my ex-wife’s cooking.”

Just when Zhao Wuji was about to be beaten up, a female dark elf wearing a gorgeous spider silk robe came over. The crowd immediately became as quiet as chickens.

"Interesting." She looked at the bag of bat droppings. "I am Shar Spider Shadow, the pharmacist of the Third Family. I want all these ingredients."

Zhao Wuji's hands were shaking with excitement: "Only 5 gold coins for one bag!"

Shar narrowed her eyes: "0.5 gold coins."

“4 gold coins!”

“0.3 gold coins.”

"Wait a minute, why is the price getting lower and lower?!" In the end, the price was 1.5 gold coins. Zhao Wuji held the money with tears in his eyes: "This is my first bucket of shit in my life."

[Asset update: 2.53 gold coins]

Having tasted the sweetness, Zhao Wuji began to expand his business:
Monday: Reselling glowing mushrooms (fined 1 gold coin for suspected smuggling)

Tuesday: Ghostwriting for Spider Academy (client discovered by teacher, and got whipped)

Wednesday: Opened a "surface food" stall (selling roasted spiders pretending to be lamb kebabs, fled after being exposed)

“Why does something go wrong every time we’re about to succeed?!” Zhao Wuji collapsed in the cave and wailed.

Zhizhi chewed on the lizard leg he bought with his share of the profit: "Maybe it's because you are a disaster star?"

[System Tips: Side Effect of Group Aura - Luck Value -50%]

"Why didn't you tell me about this important setting earlier?!"

At this time, Shar sent someone with a message: 20 pounds of bat droppings of a specific color were urgently needed, and she was willing to pay 10 gold coins.

Zhao Wuji jumped up and said, "The opportunity to make a fortune has come!"

He takes Squeaky deep into a dangerous underground bat cave, holding torches (homemade from bat guano and mushrooms) in search of special feces.

"Are you sure this thing is valuable?" Zhizhi asked, pinching his nose.

"Of course!" Zhao Wuji vowed, "Shaer said this is the key ingredient for making the 'invisibility potion' -"

Before he finished speaking, the torch ignited the methane layer on the top of the cave.

boom! ! !
The two were blown away by the blast and stuck to the wall of the cave.

Zhao Wuji, whose body was charred black, slowly slid down, still tightly grasping a pile of colorful feces in his hand.

"At least, the raw materials have been found." he said weakly.

When Zhao Wuji limped back to the black market with the "five-colored bat droppings", the entire city of Mozoberranzan was under martial law.

"What happened?" He grabbed a passerby.

"Something happened to the Do'Urden family! It is said that a kid killed the martial arts master!"

Zhao Wuji's heart was shocked - this was the first time that Trist had killed someone! He subconsciously wanted to run to the center of the incident.

[Alert! The host is trying to interfere with the main line! ]

[Penalty options:

A. Dance to "Pure Land of Bliss" in public

B. Grow a drooling tongue for three days

C. Forced to fall in love with the spider elf]

“I choose D! I’ll go back and sell shit!”

From a distance, he saw a white-haired boy being escorted away by the family warriors. At that moment, their eyes met.

Drizzt (confused): "Why does that merchant smell strange?"

Zhao Wuji (tears): "The protagonist looked at me! System! Is this considered interaction?"

[System: Not really, because he will forget you immediately because of the stench]

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That night, Zhao Wuji got 10 gold coins as he wished. He counted the money while soaking in his homemade "bathtub" (a rain puddle):

"Total assets: 12.53 gold coins, completion rate: 0.01253%"

Zhizhi shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Good news! Shar said that if you can get the earwax of the mind flayer, she is willing to pay 50 gold coins!"

Zhao Wuji sank to the bottom of the water, spitting out a string of desperate bubbles.