They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 267 Mermaid
(Chapter 266, By the way, why do I always misspell the numbers 5 and 6?)
Lia glanced at him and noticed that the man's skin was indeed red and black. The sunlight and ultraviolet rays here were particularly strong, and the air was humid and smelled fishy, ​​which did not seem to be suitable for foreign travelers to stay for a long time.

"Selling fruit here should be very profitable."

"That's true. People here eat seafood for a long time and don't supplement their diet with vegetables and fruits, which can lead to scurvy. But this place is not suitable for growing most fruits, so they can only eat a few kinds. Most of them are transported from other places, which is why the prices have gone up."

After listening, Lia looked at him and said, "Some poor people can't afford the fruit that's being transported. It's not that they can't afford it, but that they're reluctant to spend the money."

Fruit transportation also results in significant losses; many fruits spoil easily with the slightest bumps, greatly increasing costs and reducing sales.

Would you like to hear my suggestion?

"Please speak!" The farmer became excited. He felt that Ria was now like his savior. For some reason, she looked pleasing to the eye, and he even had an urge to praise her loudly.

Ria's advice was: "Abandon your meager conscience; here, conscience won't make you any more money."

You can make canned fruit from perishable fruits, and also cut off the spoiled skin of the rotten fruit and cannulate it for sale. This saves costs.

"Huh?" The man seemed to be hearing such remarks for the first time.

Lia continued, "The price of canned fruit cannot exceed that of fresh fruit. After selling for a period of time, we must periodically publicize that preservatives are added to canned fruit and that eating it is harmful to the body. Then we should do more advertising to increase the sales of fresh fruit."

"Of course, the price during this period can be adjusted appropriately according to the rise and fall of the shares on both sides. We must never let our customers think that they have lost their right to make their own choices. This is our principle."

"This is just my suggestion. If you think it's feasible, then take the suggestion and work hard to make it bigger and stronger, and open a large-scale enterprise. In exchange, let me become your shareholder."

If you don't like it, then please treat this as just the ramblings of a heartless passerby, and continue selling your watermelons and slaves here. I can understand you; after all, putting words into reality is not an easy thing.

As he spoke, Ria turned to leave, leaning on his cane. After taking a few steps, he suddenly heard someone behind him calling out to him.

"Wait, I think this method works!"

"Wise choice."

"So please guide me on what to do next."

Lia stopped and turned her head slightly: "Find a partner first. If you succeed one day, you won't need to look for me; I will come to you automatically."

After saying that, he didn't linger and disappeared into the vast crowd.

The farmer was immediately moved to tears, almost wanting to prostrate himself on the ground. Midway through, the white-masked cultist, who was bound hand and foot, woke up and was not at all surprised to see this exaggerated scene.

"That missionary really likes to do things himself. He could have just relied on us, but he just doesn't trust us."

Ugh--

The believer was somewhat disappointed, but he quickly thought of something, looked at the farmer, and said excitedly, "I can be your partner!"

The farmer raised his head, stood up from the ground, and his attitude changed completely. He picked up a whip and lashed it hard at the believer. The short whip cut through the air, creating a piercing sound, along with the believer's screams.

"What are you saying? Who gives you the right to speak here? Go plant watermelons in the watermelon field! If the watermelon yield drops by half an acre this year, you can prepare to work in the watermelon field until you die."

As he spoke, he lashed the follower several more times, but gradually, the follower became breathless and soon fell silent, seemingly beaten to death by the whip. "Damn it, what use are these people?"

……

"Young people! Young people!"

Street vendors called out, their wares dazzling the eye: "Young man, stop looking, they're calling you!"

You don't look like a local, but that's okay. Why don't you come and see our local specialties? I guarantee you'll love them.

"Specialty products?" Lia walked forward with some curiosity and saw colorful pearls. The pearls were generally white, but they reflected various colors when the light shone on them.

The largest pearl is sea blue and looks very valuable. I don't know why it appeared on a street vendor's stall.

"So many pearls..."

"You're wrong. This isn't a pearl; it's the legendary mermaid's tear. It's said that eating it can add a hundred years to your life—a whole hundred years!"

"..."

Lia has already discovered that this person is another swindler. If you go shopping as a tourist, the probability of not encountering a swindler along the way is almost zero.

He originally just wanted to investigate the general situation in North Edlin and, incidentally, consolidate his master meme, which is commonly known as "making money," but he soon discovered that these people were all trying to swindle him out of his money.

For example, even though the pearls in front of him were obviously fake, the stall owner still believed that his words were flawless and continued to promote the idea that these things could grant immortality.

Lia looked at him: "Then why don't you eat it yourself?"

“Of course I want to share good things with my friends. Everyone who comes here is my friend. I will show them the beauty of North Adeline and make them so happy that they don’t want to go home.”

"It's normal that you don't know about mermaids since you're new here, but I can tell you about them."

As he spoke, the stall owner had Ria sit down on a chair to the side, picked up the pearls and began to promote them—or rather, to tell stories.

"There is a beautiful creature in the Gotti Sea that only appears at night. Almost no one knows what it looks like, but whenever those creatures leap out of the sea, their graceful figures fascinate countless people."

These creatures have human-like upper bodies and long fish tails, so people call them mermaids. Mermaids sing every night.

They are so innocent that some of them shed tears when they sing the most touching parts. These tears float on the sea like pearls and are washed ashore by the waves.

People felt this was a gift from the mermaids, and everyone was very grateful to these beautiful creatures; we loved them very much.

"It sounds like a very beautiful story, but has no one really ever seen what a mermaid looks like?"

"No, we can't bear to disturb them, and they won't approach people on their own initiative, but there's no doubt that everyone who lives by the sea is deeply fascinated by these creatures. They love them, just as the mermaids have always loved us."

"Hearing you say that, I'm starting to feel tempted." Although Lia said she was tempted, her expression didn't actually change; she just looked at the stall owner with a bit more curiosity.

(End of this chapter)