Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

Ordinary players focused on the gossip about Li Zhi and Celia.

Different races and factions are using different methods to investigate and assess what impact the opening of the exchange will have on the present and future of the Apocalypse Continent.

Ying's messages kept coming in.

Shadow: [Luo Hong came to the trading hall yesterday to inquire about purchasing Apocalypse Dust. He came again today and bought your meeting recording. Accompanying Luo Hong were high-ranking officials from the Demon Clan's Commerce Department. They may be suspicious of your previous large-scale sell-off and current low-price acquisition of Apocalypse Dust.]

Li Zhi: [It's alright. The other races should have realized what's happening by now. We've almost finished collecting them all. Besides us, the Forging Clan and the Rock Nest Clan are also collecting. Our people are the most discreet and have collected the least, so the impact is minimal.]

Shadow: [The council held a meeting today, which is unprecedented. Although Ming Chun is ignoring me, I'm sure it's related to your stock exchange opening tomorrow.]

Shadow: [And the Feathered Spirit Clan, the whispering elf I placed with the Feathered Spirit Emperor has secretly infiltrated Yi's side. Today, she overheard your breakup with Celia and burst into laughter at her residence. However, the Feathered Spirit Clan's Commerce Department has decided to deposit a large order at your exchange tomorrow. Was it Celia who negotiated it, or you?]

Li Zhi: [Let's count them all.]

The opening of the exchange will not be as grand as the opening of Buwangwei Grocery Store, nor will it be like Yi's exchange, where they give away things or hold events to attract customers.

An exchange is essentially a strict and regulated trading platform.

Its primary purpose is not to attract onlookers, but to ensure that customers who need the exchange's involvement trust that the exchange can provide them with a fair and transparent trading environment.

Therefore, attractive deposit certificates, the trust of superior races, and the latest inventions are the foundation of an exchange's existence.

The major shareholders of the exchange will offer a highly attractive certificate of deposit featuring the latest technology.

Celia provided the power engine for the Crystal Shuttle, the latest invention of the Forging Clan; the Lava Clan provided the Microcrystalline Energy Converter; the Feathered Spirit Clan provided the latest simplified barrier; and the Scaled Clan provided a batch of power-boosting potions with no side effects...

These are the things that the exchange's customers need.

That's the real direction the exchange should be promoting.

So, after various ethnic groups bought the short videos, someone quietly spread the word:

—Tianqi Micro Dust will surge again.

The various ethnic commerce ministries also reached the same conclusion after several meetings.

曾经2铜币0.1单位的天启微尘，最高涨到了19.71银币0.1单位，今天则是得到了最低值7.98银币0.1单位。

Tianqi Micro Dust saw a net increase of 98450% from its initial price to its highest price, while the decline from its highest point to its current price is approximately 59.51%.

If someone had initially purchased Apocalypse Dust for 2 copper coins and then spent 1 gold to buy it, and held it until now, they would have made a net profit of 38.9 gold, with an overall return rate of 3890%.

Li Zhi, when the value of Apocalypse Dust was 2 copper coins and 0.1 units, dispersedly purchased and hoarded Apocalypse Dust worth 19876 gold coins through his own and the official's fishing.

These 19876 gold coins of Apocalypse Dust were sold at a peak value of approximately 19.71 silver coins, and then bought back at a price of approximately 8.18 silver coins.

I earned 1,145,851.4 gold in the process.

This amount of 1,145,851.4 gold does not include the portion that Li Zhi acquired in small increments during the intermittent price increases of Tianqi Micro Dust.

In summary, Li Zhi earned over 2.3 million gold coins from this short selling, excluding his initial investment.

While other races did not buy at the lowest price, they all stockpiled some Apocalypse Dust raw materials. Although the net increase did not reach 984.5 times, the overall increase was basically 500 times.

Such a surge was a miracle that the entire Ministry of Commerce of the Apocalypse Continent had never seen before.

Therefore, when the price of Apocalypse Dust dropped, the various commercial departments, out of fear and uncertainty, sold off large amounts of Apocalypse Dust they had accumulated, while also keeping a close eye on the exchange's movements out of vigilance.

After all, the concept of using Apocalypse Dust as a hard currency was proposed by Li Zhi, the founder of the exchange.

But Li Zhi remained completely silent.

Despite the ever-present danger, she continues to sell Apocalypse Dust jewelry at the current price of Apocalypse Dust, and also buys Apocalypse Dust at the same price.

Very stable.

Therefore, after weighing various factors, most of the business departments of various ethnic groups entering the new business model chose to sell off some and retain others.

The portion they sold off was precisely the part that caused Li Zhi's net worth to skyrocket after he quietly acquired it.

Li Zhi's personal strength was limited; at most, he could absorb 5% of what these major clans were selling off. The rest would allow the Melting Forging Clan and the Rock Nest Clan to profit from the spoils.

The period of short selling is short and covert, just like the joy of a harvest, which cannot be revealed in the slightest before the rankings are announced.

The price of Tianqi Micro Dust has quietly risen again.

The only company trading Apocalypse Dust at a transparent price, Unforgettable Danger, closed for a day due to hotel renovations and territory expansion.

However, the price fluctuations of Tianqi Micro Dust will be sent to every trader who has ever traded on Buwangwei Trading Platform on time.

Countless traders are extremely anxious and worried.

The chat area in Dongqi finally shifted from gossip about Li Zhi and Celia to the trading of Tianqi micro-dust, which was a matter of vital interest:

[It's started to rise! And it's been rising non-stop, but the exchange, oblivious to the risks, is closed today. I wonder how much I'll lose when it reopens tomorrow!]

[Go trade in various trading zones. It's not just about collecting Apocalyptic Dust. I sold some in my local trading zone and made a small profit.]

[Huh? Does everyone still have Apocalypse Dust? I thought everyone had thrown it away like me...]

[Do people really sell everything as soon as they see prices about to drop? I thought only a complete idiot would do that...]

[I've said it countless times: buy big on big dips, buy small on small dips, and sell quickly on big rallies!]

[But who knows if it's not a one-sided bear market? Energy converters are consistently in short supply, and the forging and smelting industry doesn't have the capacity to increase production anyway, so a bearish outlook is normal, right?]

[Friend, have you forgotten the relationship between Samsung's five-cost units and the Rock Nest faction? If Apocalypse Dust drops significantly, wouldn't its exchange be completely silent?]

[Let me offer a conspiracy theory: this is a deliberate short-selling attack. The wealth rankings are about to be revealed, and Samsung's five-cost unit is definitely one of the driving forces behind it.]

[Why don't you just say Samsung Wufei is from the Apocalypse Race? She's a human, no matter how powerful she is, she's still human, not a god. Manipulating the market on the Apocalypse Continent, is she tired of living?]

[Short selling and market manipulation are different, and if you ask me, Samsung Five-Fee really has that kind of ability. She has so many powerful backers, which one isn't powerful? Do you know Lingqiu? Do you know Celia? Do you know the Dragon Clan?]

[Stop arguing. Just one sentence: if you can't interpret the market, don't trade stocks.]

[I don't have any money, and I haven't bought Apocalypse Dust regardless of its price fluctuations. I just want to know how Samsung's five-cost units manage to get so many big shots to willingly become her backers. If she publishes a book, I'll definitely buy it.]

[Stop talking! If Samsung Wufei sees this, you believe she'll put another book on the shelves of her shady shop right away?]

[This reminds me once again of how I felt when I opened the guide "How to Break Through the Racial Limit and Become the 14th Person in the 900th Year of the Apocalypse"...]

[Those damn memories are attacking me again!]