Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

"This is your microcrystalline energy converter. Would you like me to give you an instruction manual?"

Li Zhi: "It's very necessary."

The Rock Nest tribe merchant was very considerate: "This is the instruction manual. These are some other specialties of the Rock Nest tribe. You can sit here and look around. If you need anything, you can contact us directly."

"Thanks."

Li Zhi was indeed very interested in the microcrystalline energy converter that Celia cared so much about.

However, Li Zhi didn't understand the first page.

The game panel automatically translates the languages ​​of each race, but it doesn't translate their written characters.

Fortunately, although the numbers in the Tianqi Continent are not the same as those on Earth, they are still the same, and Li Zhi has become proficient in using them in his business dealings over the past few days.

Therefore, through data and diagrams, she roughly deduced the function of the microcrystalline energy converter: to recycle, purify, and convert the waste energy from broken crystals into standardized energy.

Although Li Zhi herself did not have a scientific research background, her ability to list on NASDAQ naturally stemmed from her keen sense of cutting-edge technology.

It can increase energy utilization to over 85%, and could even spark a revolution in energy efficiency.

Its enormous potential will have a profound impact on all aspects of life.

Take Apocalypse Dust and Apocalypse Crystal Fragments as examples.

Apocalypse Dust is a mixture of mixed energies, containing only a very small amount of Apocalypse Energy. Its effects are limited, and it is only one of the fuels for levitation.

Apocalypse Crystal Shards can become a fusion material for all things related to matter, and can also improve the quality of matter and strengthen its basic functions.

The two are vastly different in price and scarcity.

A mere 0.1 unit of Apocalypse Dust can be caught using cloud nets. While it's not exactly rampant, most people have a few of these in their possession.

A mere 0.1 unit of Apocalypse Crystal can fetch a high price of 92 gold coins at the auction house!

The function of the microcrystalline energy converter is to infinitely increase the potential of Apocalypse Micro Dust and reduce the gap between it and Apocalypse Fragment Crystal.

In fact, it is highly likely that in the future, we will be able to directly extract the energy from the Apocalypse Micro Dust and allow it to exert the power of Apocalypse Crystal Shards!

This will directly overturn the energy landscape of the Apocalypse Continent.

Its influence extends beyond energy, encompassing all energy-related industries.

Including but not limited to spaceships, weapons, defense facilities, strategic deployment resource points...

The centennial rating is approaching. In this century, the Forging Clan is in the sky and the Rock Nest Clan is on the ground. But with the Microcrystalline Energy Converter, it is still unknown who will be superior in the next century.

No wonder Celia was so anxious; she was determined to get it no matter what.

Li Zhi accepted the instruction manual directly, pondered for a moment, and then summoned a nearby Rock Nest Clan merchant.

Where should I order another microcrystalline energy converter if I want to buy one?

The Rock Nest Clan merchant chuckled, "Our microcrystalline energy converters are not yet ready for mass production, so we only offer them at auction, not for retail. If you really want one, you can keep an eye on the news from major auction houses."

Just as Li Zhigang was about to speak, he saw someone lift the tent flap.

—It was an unknown race that had previously helped Celia deliver money to her.

The person merely lifted a corner of the tent, as if realizing they had entered the wrong tent, apologized, and left.

Li Zhi knew that this was Celia's reminder and warning to her.

"Can I add you as a friend?" Li Zhiliang showed off his gold watch. "If the microcrystalline energy converter can be mass-produced or is available for purchase, please be sure to contact me. I really have high hopes for your microcrystalline energy converter and would be very willing to become your distributor."

After adding each other as friends, Li Zhi didn't linger and left the tent immediately.

After wandering around the market and buying some interesting little inventions, she followed the crowd toward the auction at the top of the mountain.

Passing by the raw materials area, she did not stop, but continued up the mountain until she reached the auction house, where she handed the items to Celia, whom she passed by.

After the handover was completed, Li Zhi wanted to go back.

After being threatened and accused of being a spy all night, all she wanted was to go back to her little room, take a bath, lie in bed, and get a good night's sleep.

However, as soon as he took the first step, he heard a strange, crunching sound, like bones being chewed.

Li Zhi felt a chill run down his spine; even though he hadn't seen anything, the hairs on his forehead stood on end.

"ah--"

The auction house descended into chaos the moment the screams erupted.

Merchants and customers of various races fled in all directions, but those who fled soon retreated back into the auction hall, their expressions filled with terror.

"Sea monster!"

"It's a sea monster attack!"

Only then did Li Zhi see clearly that on the crystal dome of the octagonal hall, hovered a huge, octopus-like sea creature in the same color scheme as the blue crystal.

Its tentacles hovered around the octagonal auction house. A single tentacle could sweep across and suck up four or five customers or merchants, then toss them into the giant mouth in the center, which was filled with dense, spiraling teeth. The chilling sound from before would then reappear.

Li Zhi's face turned pale instantly, and he retreated towards the center of the auction house.

She dares to say that compared to this giant octopus, all the sea monsters, freaks, and aliens in Blue Star movies are utterly weak.

What makes it so terrifying is not only its enormous size and its massive, spiral-toothed mouth, but also its mucous membranes that can change with the environment.

Li Zhi witnessed firsthand that when a tentacle hidden in the night grabbed a fleeing passerby, it would revert to its original color.

It was a dazzling yet malevolent kind of beauty.

Blue-purple ring-shaped markings intertwine on different shades of orange-green, resembling a blue-ringed octopus magnified ten thousand times with even higher color contrast.

These patterns not only send chills down your spine, but also act like a call to death, stirring up the deepest fears in your genes.

Li Zhiyue felt increasingly dizzy as he looked at it.

A wave of nausea washed over her, and she covered her mouth. Before she could even vomit, the sounds of vomiting echoed around her.

"vomit--"

Li Zhigan gagged a few times, relieved that he had only eaten a few bites of bread and barely drunk any milk at noon, so it had all been digested and he couldn't vomit anything now.

But amidst the pervasive stench of the auction house, the nausea that had just subsided was immediately brought back by the odor, causing uncontrollable bouts of dry heaving.

"Huff—"

Li Zhi felt this was the most helpless moment of her life.

Shrink into the crowd; the ground is covered in vomit.

They ran out, crunching the giant octopus one bite at a time.

All I could do was stretch my neck as far as I could, searching for a sliver of fresh air that had been left behind.

Sadly, apart from the Forging Clan and the Rock Nest Clan, all other races here are taller than her.

Not only could she not get a single breath of fresh air, but she also had to be the first to smell the sour, rotten stench of other people's vomit.

From childhood to adulthood, no matter how many hardships he experienced, Li Zhi never gave up the struggle, firmly believing that there is a way out as long as one lives.

But now, she really wants to die.