Giant Fish Survival: I Can Hear the Giant Fish's Heart

The survivors in the world chat were still calling him "boss," hoping Zhou Wen could lower the price further, but they didn't get a response from him.

Zhou Wen, of course, did not respond. His original plan was to use the fear that the anchor worm brought to everyone today to use the spiked helmet to reap a wave of blueprints from everyone.

However, Zhou Wen will not keep the price of the spiked helmet so high indefinitely. After all, one person's strength is ultimately limited. Whether it is blueprints, basic materials, or some rare items, these all need to be obtained by people from the supply boxes.

The more people there are, the greater the chance of getting it. Zhou Wen can rely on his advantages to reap more from them. Therefore, Zhou Wen's pricing for trading spiked helmets with blueprints is only for today.

Tomorrow he will find a reason to lower the price so that most people can afford it.

[Does anyone here want to trade spiked helmets? I can waive the crafting materials for the first ten people, but after that, you'll have to pay for the materials yourself.]

In the eyes of others, Jiang Haitao was simply a stingy and evil capitalist who even paid for the materials himself when trading spiked helmets; his heart was truly black.

The world chat was filled with complaints again, with many people looking for Zhou Wen and hoping they would suppress Jiang Haitao, saying he was so ruthless and inhuman.

But Zhou Wen remained silent. They weren't cursing Jiang Haitao at all; they were clearly cursing him. Anyway, he wouldn't lower the price until he had a bunch of blueprints to collect today.

[Don't panic, everyone. Since this guy isn't willing to lower the price, you can come to me to trade for the spiked helmets.]

Just as Zhou Wen was happily preparing to receive the blueprints, a message completely disrupted his plans.

"No way, there are other people with spiked helmet blueprints?" Zhou Wen's smile instantly vanished. This was unexpected, but upon reflection, it was indeed quite normal for duplicate blueprints to appear.

With a population of 100 million, it's impossible for each type of blueprint to only have one copy. If that were the case, someone like Zhou Wen, who obtains a high-value blueprint, could use his advantage to acquire most of the blueprints in the early stages, and later become the sole dominant force, reigning supreme.

Does anyone still possess the blueprints for the spiked helmet?

[Great! I was worried about one company dominating the market and creating a monopoly. By the way, buddy, what's your price for the spiked helmet?]

[Bro, I hope the price can be a bit cheaper. It would be best if we could order 100 sets of basic materials, like the big shots do.]

"I finally got my chance! What big shot? Does he even deserve it? He's got a fortune to his name, yet he actually listened to these idiots and set the price of the algae oxygenation tank at 100 units of basic materials. How ridiculous!"

The speaker was a middle-aged man of medium height, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a suit. His name was Zhao Teng, and he was the owner of the Fortune Global 500 company, Tengfei Business Group.

However, although he was dressed properly, he had clearly not had a good time in the few days he had been in this world. He was unshaven, his hair was messy, and he looked quite disheveled.

But at this moment, looking at the spiked helmet in his hand, his smile was unusually bright.

[You're all joking. The big shot sets the price at 100 because they don't care about these basic materials. But I'm just an ordinary person like you, struggling to make ends meet. At 100, I can't even cover the cost of the materials.]

Of course, I won't be like some unscrupulous capitalist who sets an exorbitant price based solely on blueprints.

[This way, you'll need 500 basic materials, plus 10 portions of food or mineral water. If you don't have enough basic materials, you can use metal ore or some rare items as a substitute.]

Zhao Teng's price is reasonable compared to Jiang Haitao's, but it's still very high for most survivors.

[Sir, could you lower the price a bit? This price is still a bit high. Where are we going to find so many people who can come up with 500 sets of basic ingredients at once, not to mention adding 10 sets of food and water?]

【Oh dear, brother, there's really no way to lower the price. However, I understand your difficulties. Here's a good idea.】

[You can spontaneously form a small group, and then the group can pool their resources to buy a spiked helmet. Whoever encounters the anchor worm can use it.]

[This...this isn't a good method at all. If they all encounter each other at the same time, won't only one person survive?]

[That's not how it's calculated. The probability of encountering them simultaneously is very small. Think about that unscrupulous capitalist from earlier; he encountered one today, but have you seen anyone else encounter them?]

This shows that anchor worms are not something everyone encounters; it's largely a matter of luck.

[Furthermore, even if they all encountered each other simultaneously, at least one person would survive. Without forming a small group, it would have been a total wipeout. So, in the end, my method did work.]

After listening to Zhao Teng's analysis, the survivors on the world channel found that his method of forming small groups was indeed useful, so they immediately began to implement it, searching for companions willing to form groups on the world chat channel.

Zhou Wen frowned as he read Zhao Teng's words. He felt that this guy was not simple, and his idea of ​​forming a small group was indeed a good one.

Not only can it squeeze the last bit of profit from those survivors who are already struggling, it can also give them some benefits.

However, once various small groups begin to form, it will exacerbate the situation where the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker, directly dividing the world into three layers: upper, middle, and lower.

Because the group that can be formed must have members with roughly the same assets. Those with significantly less assets will definitely not be allowed to join. After all, why should someone with the least assets have the same right to use the spiked helmet?

However, Zhou Wen had no time to worry about that right now, because he was busy having Jiang Haitao frantically buy up krill shells on the World Trade Channel.

Zhou Wen directly transferred 1000 sets of basic materials to Jiang Haitao, and then asked him to purchase the shells of the spiky krill at the price of 20 sets of basic materials.

The default price for the Spiked Krill Shell is now 10 basic materials. After all, for those who didn't have the Spiked Armor blueprint before, the shell wasn't very useful except for being tied directly to their arms or calves as a simple piece of armor.

However, now that everyone knows the dangers of anchor worms and the importance of spiked helmets, the price of spiked krill shells is bound to skyrocket in the future.

Zhou Wen currently possesses the most basic materials, and he directly acquires them at double the price, thereby suppressing Zhao Teng's development.

"Even a clever cook can't cook without rice. Without any materials, let's see what you use to make a spiked helmet."

According to Zhou Wen's speculation, Zhao Teng certainly doesn't have many basic materials, so it's impossible for him to outmaneuver him. As long as materials are blocked now, it will be difficult for Zhao Teng to develop in the short term.

As Zhou Wen had predicted, Zhao Teng had just finished communicating with the survivors on the world channel and was preparing to buy Spiked Krill Shells for 10 units of basic materials on the world channel.

He's not just lacking materials, he has none at all. The chances of encountering a spiked krill are slim; in all these days, he's only encountered one.

The two remaining spiked krill shells he used to craft the spiked helmet were traded back using the remaining 20 basic materials.

He had just traded away his only spiked helmet in exchange for 500 basic supplies. He planned to use these 500 supplies as start-up capital to buy spiked krill shells, and then sell the spiked helmets while simultaneously buying spiked krill shells.

In this way, his wealth will continue to grow, making him the richest man in the world. But as soon as he opened the world trading channel, he saw Jiang Haitao buying up krill for 20 shares.

"Damn it! Where did he get so many basic materials?"