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"You should just open the mall's recycling interface and sell directly to the mall." "Oh, then why do so many people still list things on consignment?" "That's because the mall's recycling prices are too low, and some people aren't willing to accept that." "Then how much can my jewelry sell for?" "It depends on the grade color. Artworks and materials here are graded: white, blue, purple, red, orange, and gold. The higher the grade, the higher the recycling price. Equipment doesn't have grades, though it can also be recycled to the mall, but no normal person would do that, after all, equipment can circulate." "I see." Long Ming found the recycling interface in the mall after hearing this. Gold nugget (white): 300 Yiwei coins Rough necklace (white): 200 Yiwei coins Unknown ring (blue): 7,600 Yiwei coins Golden short staff (purple): 100,000 Yiwei coins Long Ming frowned at the offered recycling prices. Sure enough, they were dirt cheap—no wonder so many people weren't willing to recycle at the mall. Still, that player wasn't wrong: items like artworks were useless to players. At least nobody was buying them so far, so Long Ming decisively chose to recycle them, and his wristband immediately popped up a notification. "Notification: You have obtained 108,100 Yiwei coins." After selling his items, Long Ming turned to look around. Someone nearby must be recycling currency. Sure enough, he soon found several players holding signs offering high prices to recycle Yiwei coins. One of them, a male player with dyed yellow hair wearing a leather jacket, was recycling with Shan coins. Long Ming walked over and asked, "Excuse me, what's your rate?" The player glanced at Long Ming, yawned, and held up one finger. "100 Yiwei coins for 1 Shan coin. The rate can be slightly higher for large amounts." Long Ming's heart sank when he heard the exchange rate. "Isn't this price too low?" "Don't complain. This is the current market rate. Don't believe me? Ask around." "Fine." Long Ming didn't say anything else, but silently stepped aside. He now had 108,600 Yiwei coins, which came to 1,086 Shan coins. Not counting the equipment, that meant he had earned about a thousand in two days. To be honest, while this income looked decent, that was only for ordinary people; for Long Ming, it was still not ideal. Because income from the game was very unstable—not every time was he lucky enough to find valuable items and make a safe extraction. Also, this time Gu Yi and the others hadn't wanted the items, which was why his income was so high. But his own expenses weren't any lower. Long Ming sighed with some dejection at this thought. He had originally thought he could change his life through this game, but he hadn't expected this path to be so difficult. For a while, Long Ming lost some confidence. At that moment, an excited shout came from afar. "Haha, sold it!" "500,000 Yiwei coins in hand!" Hearing their excited shouts, Long Ming curiously walked over. He saw a group of players surrounding one player, flattering him. "As expected of Cui Ge!" "Too awesome!" "Take us along to get rich!" "Say no more!" Cui Ge replied in an extremely good mood. Long Ming curiously asked a player beside him who was full of envy, "Brother, what did Cui Ge sell? Is it worth so much?" "Pure dumb luck. He got an old submachine gun and sold it to a wealthy player," the player said with some jealousy. "An old submachine gun sold for that much?" "What's so surprising? Weapons are that expensive, and even if you want to buy one, you might not be able to." "Thanks." Long Ming thanked him excitedly upon hearing this. His previously gloomy mood vanished in an instant. An old submachine gun had sold for 500,000 Yiwei coins, so the M24 sniper rifle he had picked up must be worth at least a million, right? This game was truly insane. Thinking this, Long Ming prepared to open the mall to list the M24, but in the end he hesitated. Selling it now would certainly earn a lot, but doing so would be killing the hen for the eggs—he'd have no equipment afterward. The advantage he had painstakingly gained would vanish, and his progress in the game might fall behind others. Long Ming stood there for over ten minutes, and finally his expression became very firm. He decided to give up selling his equipment. Since the game offered opportunities for high returns, he might as well give it his all—maybe he could carve out a new life. Long Ming then opened the mall, preparing to buy some supplies for the next instance. He typed "bullets" into the search box. Swish! All consignment bullets lined up. Long Ming then looked for 12-gauge shotgun shells suitable for the double-barreled short gun. Unfortunately, he searched for a long time but couldn't find any. Although there were plenty of bullets on consignment, the models weren't complete, and there were no 12-gauge shotgun shells. However, Long Ming found 7.62mm bullets for the M24 in there, but the listed price made him gasp. Each bullet was priced at 5,000 Yiwei coins. He then checked the price of a regular axe, only to find that axes, which could be found everywhere, cost 3,000 Yiwei coins. That really proved what that player had said: only useful items like equipment were worth money. Long Ming exhaled deeply, then searched for food, water, and other supplies. Compressed biscuits: 1,000 Yiwei coins. Mineral water: 1,000 Yiwei coins. Military canned beef: 5,000 Yiwei coins. Medical kit: 50,000 Yiwei coins. After a moment, Long Ming finished checking everything he needed to buy, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. As expected, necessities were expensive—the problem was he couldn't not buy them. But just then, Long Ming noticed that some consigned items had special notes: "Accept offline currency transactions!" Seeing this, Long Ming immediately understood: in-game currency production was limited, and more people chose to pay offline with real money. But purchasing with Shan coins was useless to him; not converting his game assets into money was already good enough. Long Ming pondered for a moment, then began purchasing. Buzz buzz~ Notifications kept popping up on his wristband. "Notification: You spent 100,000 Yiwei coins to purchase 20 bullets, which have been automatically stored in the warehouse." "Notification: You spent 5,000 Yiwei coins to purchase 5 packs of compressed biscuits, which have been automatically stored in the warehouse." "Notification: You spent 3,000 Yiwei coins to purchase 3 bottles of mineral water, which have been automatically stored in the warehouse." Looking at the mere 600 Yiwei coins left, Long Ming felt the pang, but there was no helping it—these were all necessities. He raised his hand to open the warehouse and stored the double-barreled short gun inside. Since there were no matching bullets, bringing it in would be useless, and if he lost it, it would be a huge loss. So he might as well store it in the warehouse. Next, Long Ming put all the purchased items into his backpack. Soon he had organized everything, then took out the invitation letter obtained from the supply pod. Compared to the Level 1 Civilization Random Experience Scroll, this invitation letter looked more exquisite and advanced in appearance. Long Ming scanned the invitation letter with his wristband, and the corresponding information immediately appeared. Anfa Civilization Invitation Letter. Civilization Level: 1. Note: Using this civilization invitation letter allows one to travel directly to Anfa Civilization. Long Ming looked at the information and thought silently. If he wasn't wrong, although this invitation letter also led to a Level 1 civilization, it was probably better than a random one. Therefore, he planned to use this invitation letter for his second instance. At that moment, a prompt popped up on the wristband interface: "Activate the Anfa Civilization Invitation Letter?" Long Ming looked at the prompt on his wristband, about to click yes, but suddenly stopped and selected no. The reason Long Ming refused to enter was mainly that he thought of one thing. This time exploring Wabija Civilization, he had almost tripped up on time; if he made the same mistake a second time, it would be rather foolish. Moreover, this time he was using a more precious invitation letter, so the longer he stayed, the better. Therefore, he couldn't use the helmet to play the game; it would be best to switch to a game pod to maximize benefits. Long Ming was in a bit of a bind at this thought. He had gone to great trouble to get the helmet, let alone a game pod. But Long Ming quickly thought of a way that might actually work. He immediately clicked to log out of the game on his wristband. (End of chapter)