Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

Dongqi Chat Area.

Has anyone read the guide for Strongest Heart?

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[Rich men and women, they're all spending money to send ellipses. If you're rich, transfer me a copper coin.]

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[Please don't disrupt the team, okay?]

[What's going on? Did I miss some news? Wasn't there just a streamer selling weapons on live stream?]

I only have one word to say: Absolutely amazing!

[Haha, you knew not to trust capitalists on Earth, so why are you acting like a fool on Apocalypse Continent...]

[I think there's some valuable information in this; at least the information about the high awakening rate in the Emerald Mountains is quite valuable.]

[Are you an alt account of Samsung's 5-cost account?]

What's that saying? It all looks like gibberish to me.

Why am I completely unmoved, even feeling a slight urge to laugh? Having been tricked so many times on Earth, being tricked again feels strangely familiar and nostalgic. But I wonder what those alien races who bought the guides think.

[Can't afford a travel guide? Can someone share what it contains?]

I can't say, there's a confidentiality agreement involved. I suggest you go see it for yourself.

Yes, I can see the Emerald Mountains section above, but my friend didn't buy a guide, so it looks like gibberish to him.

[The magical contracts on the Apocalypse Continent are quite magical; can they hear you when you speak?]

[That doesn't work either. When I talk to my friend face-to-face, she hears only gibberish, but another person who bought a travel guide can communicate normally.]

[I'm a casual player, and I wasn't initially interested in this guide, but after you guys did it, I really want to try it out.]

【What the heck?! This is a rip-off! Why did they raise the price of this travel guide?!!!!】

The players, who were all very idle, opened the black market.

Click on the top-selling item, which is also the first item displayed in the store's layout, to view its details:

[How to Break Through the Racial Limit and Become the 14th Person in the 900th Year of the Apocalypse: A]

[Limited Purchase Required: Membership Cards from Blacklisted Physical Stores]

Price: 18 gold

[Note: Selling fast]

It wasn't just chat room users who noticed the price increase in the strategy guides; people buying them at the general store with their membership cards also noticed.

But this discovery instantly divided the customers at the scene into two camps.

Those who bought membership cards in advance and purchased the travel guide at a pre-sale price were secretly pleased and smug.

On-site purchasing guide: Watching prices rise helplessly: regret, a bolt from the blue.

But regardless of their initial feelings, after reading the guide, everyone's sentiment became the same: Is that all?

As soon as the strategy guide went on sale, Li Zhi quietly climbed to the third-floor terrace of the general store.

While checking the chat area to control public opinion trends, he secretly observed everyone's reactions.

You can't blame her for that!

Even Shadow and Celia couldn't explain what the Heart of a Strongman was all about.

She's a newcomer who's only been in Tianqi Continent for less than a month, yet she's painstakingly summarized her own experiences into a coherent whole. Isn't that conscientious enough?

She just wanted to make some money!

What's wrong with that!

Besides, as one netizen rightly pointed out, the news that "771 people have awakened in the Emerald Mountains" is also quite valuable!

She could buy it for 10 gold in Celia.

Selling it for 10 gold was an incredibly reasonable price!

Its true value is revealed at the increased price.

These players don't understand at all!

Li Zhi turned to Hena and said, "Remember to protect me!"

Hena bared his teeth: "Anyone who dares to hurt you, I'll tear them to pieces!"

Li Zhi was extremely gratified.

"Herna, you're the best."

He Dong, who was lying behind them, was speechless.

She couldn't help but say a few words of fairness: "Boss, your travel guide is indeed a bit... expensive."

Li Zhi said seriously, "You also think there's no useful information in the guide?"

He Dong looked completely bewildered.

Li Zhidao: "Dry goods" means knowledge, specifically, whether the guide taught you anything you didn't know before.

He Dong: "They taught me... but they didn't tell me exactly how to awaken the heart of a strong person."

Li Zhi shook his head: "The key to the heart of a strong person lies in comprehension. What is comprehension? Comprehension requires experience. What does experience require? Experience requires a person to have a basic understanding and knowledge of the matter. Only after having understanding and knowledge can one have one's own thoughts. The combination of thought and experience is comprehension."

"If I don't tell you these things that you think are simple and easy to understand, where will you get this information from my guide?"

"Buy from information brokers? Are their tips reliable? Do you dare to believe them? Or ask a senior with the heart of a strong person. Forgive my bluntness, but right now, I'm the only one with the heart of a strong person who is willing to share my experience with others."

He Dong was taken aback and fell into deep thought.

Li Zhiye looked downstairs again.

Perhaps because she was there, and there were many powerful foreigners around, the people downstairs who bought the strategy guide, whether human or of another race, did not exhibit any particularly aggressive behavior.

While some people complained, others looked at the guide and seemed to understand it.

Just as Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his banquet today had achieved six goals at once, a thin human stepped forward.

"I would like to ask if any senior Samsung 5-cost user could come forward and answer a question for me."

The whispering on the first floor instantly fell silent.

Everyone looked around, wanting to see where Li Zhi was, and also to see the expressions on other people's faces.

The man looked around and said, "I've read your strategy guide, and now I have a question. If you can answer it, I won't think you're doing this to make dirty money, and I don't think a businessman with such lofty goals would do something so self-destructive."

Bai Ge frowned slightly, lowered his voice and said a few words to the official next to him, then turned and walked upstairs.

After taking only a few steps, Li Zhi got off.

She stood at the top of the stairs on the second floor, looking at the person who had just asked her the question.

The merchant's cloak still blurred her features, but her voice was clear and calm: "Speak."

The man looked up and met Li Zhi's gaze. He calmly said, "Senior, I have only one question: what is your real purpose in writing this guide?"

"Is it a money-making scheme? A publicity stunt? Or do they genuinely believe it's worth the price?"

Li Zhi was equally calm and composed.

She had already anticipated various problems when she wrote the guide.

She certainly had a plan in mind for the questions raised at this moment.

She adjusted her breathing, trying to make her voice and tone more stable and convincing. Her mouth had barely opened, and the air was still in her throat when a voice rushed down from behind her:

"Of course, it's so that those of us who have no access to such high-level information can receive the information we need all at once!"

He Dong had an expression that said, "I get it."

She jumped down hastily from the third floor, landing half a meter behind Li Zhi, her tone full of sudden realization and admiration:

"Have you heard of the information in the strategy guide before? The Emerald Mountains can increase the success rate, pressure can stimulate the generation of the Heart of the Strong, and being near strong people makes it easier to awaken the Heart of the Strong. You might seem to understand these things after a glance, but before seeing the strategy guide, do you think you can understand them all on your own?"

He Dong repeated Li Zhi's words to the crowd below, word for word, without the slightest error:

"The key to the heart of a strong person lies in comprehension. What is comprehension? Comprehension requires experience. What does experience require? Experience requires a person to have a basic understanding and knowledge of the matter. Only after having understanding and knowledge can one have their own thoughts. The combination of thought and experience is comprehension."

"She sells the 'Heart of the Strong' strategy not to those with races or parents who seek a way out or to those of higher races, nor to those with information channels and the ability to obtain this information. She sells it to us, those who struggle to survive at the bottom and have to be careful not to be deceived even when buying information."

Is 10 gold coins expensive?

"For me, it might take six months to earn that much, but if you ask me if this guide is worth it, I'd say, absolutely!"

"Without this guide, I might never have been able to obtain this information that I could understand at a glance."