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

I cannot meet everyone's request for a price reduction. 30 units of lumber is already at cost price. If I change it to 30 units of basic materials, I will essentially lose 60 units of basic materials.

[Please, boss, help us! So many people died today. I'm starting to dread tomorrow.]

Please, have some compassion, sir.

If you really can't lower the price, you can increase the quantity you buy. If some people offer a higher price, we can trade with them.

Zhou Wen almost laughed out of anger when he saw the last message.

"Damn it! I sold it to you at a low price, and you secretly traded it to someone else at a higher price, and you even told me that openly? Do you really think I'm a sucker?"

The world chat channel was filled with insults, with everyone calling him a fool for revealing private matters to the person in question. However, Zhou Wen could seize this opportunity.

[Originally, I was selling the wooden foundations at a low price because of the high death toll; otherwise, the price would definitely be more than 30 units of wood.]

I meant well, but you recklessly sold the wooden foundations privately, trampling on my good intentions.

[Fine, since you want to trade for 30 basic materials, let's set the price that way. However, once I've used up most of my wood, I won't sell wooden foundations anymore.]

Zhou Wen's words were full of disappointment, which aroused the indignation of those survivors who had indeed received Zhou Wen's help. They began to curse those who sold wooden foundations in private, and the world chat channel suddenly became lively.

Zhou Wen ignored the survivors and wouldn't actually do anything like that nonsense about using up all the wood he had.

Anyway, the survivors didn't know the specific materials needed to make the wooden foundation, and Zhou Wen kept emphasizing that he would sell it at cost price, so he would just take 10 pieces of wood to make do and keep 20 pieces for himself.

As for those who might speculate on the specific cost based on the gradually increasing number of wooden foundations sold in the past? That's impossible, because Jiang Haitao has been losing money by selling spiked helmets at low prices, so he would always take some wood to make up for Jiang Haitao's losses.

"Alright, it's resolved." This suspension of the sale of wooden foundations had nothing to do with Zhou Wen; it was entirely the fault of those who were selling wooden foundations privately.

Having just used the Boiling Blood Coral Powder, Zhou Wen's tendon injuries in both arms have healed. He then resumed doing push-ups to see if he could make up for the remaining 0.5 strength.

With the strength increased by two points, push-ups became very easy, and two hundred push-ups were completed in half an hour. Zhou Wen also realized that the 0.5 strength increase could not be made up for by simply doing push-ups.

After completing one hundred sit-ups, Zhou Wen had achieved his training goal for the day, and the second supply box was about to arrive. He put on his gear and hid in the rest area.

At this moment, Jiang Haitao sent another message, saying that a guild had invited him to be the vice president, so he came to ask Zhou Wen for his opinion.

Although Jiang Haitao didn't have a good reputation among the survivors at first, he still gained some goodwill by selling spiked helmets at a loss.

Moreover, Jiang Haitao was the first person to be attacked by the anchor worm and survive. Given that most survivors are currently living in fear, he is essentially a hero.

Therefore, many guilds, unable to invite Zhou Wen, will instead invite Jiang Haitao as a second choice.

Zhou Wen naturally got rejected by Jiang Haitao. Why be a vice president? He should just establish his own guild and be the head.

"I want to form my own guild and be its leader? But I don't know how, Brother Wen."

[It's okay. In the eyes of the survivors, you're someone who's unpredictable. They joined your guild prepared for that anyway. If they're unhappy, they can yell at you; if they're happy, they can praise you. If they really don't understand something, they can just come and ask me.]

Afterwards, Zhou Wen told Jiang Haitao about the basic preparations that should be made to establish a guild. In fact, these were all Chen Xin's experiences in establishing a guild. Zhou Wen simply passed them on to Jiang Haitao so that he could just follow along.

Soon the "Brother Jiang" guild was established. Joining the guild also had conditions. Like Chen Xin, joining required submitting 300 basic documents.

However, there are two perks: every member who joins the guild will receive a free wooden shield, and those who survive for ten days and contribute to the guild will receive a spiked helmet as a reward.

As soon as these two benefits were announced, a large number of survivors rushed to join the "Jiang Ge" guild.

The stone axe of the Leviathan Guild, the fishbone blade of the Survivor Guild, and the spiked dagger of the Overturning Rivers and Seas Guild are all inferior to the spiked helmet of the Jiang Ge Guild.

The spiked helmet has been proven effective by numerous survivors, proving surprisingly effective against the Anchor Worm attack.

There's a saying that goes, "You can only contribute if you're alive." Although the other three guilds had decent weapons, especially the Fishbone Blade from the Survivor guild, no matter how good the weapon was, it was useless if the anchor worm attacked it right away and bit through its head.

In a short time, the "Brother Jiang" guild became unprecedentedly powerful, with 2,000 members, all of whom were upper-middle tier with 300 sets of basic materials, making it the number one guild in the survival world.

Seeing this, Zhou Wen kept transferring the large amount of timber he had acquired from the 10,000 wooden foundation transactions to Jiang Haitao, transferring a total of 100,000 units.

Then, Jiang Haitao was instructed to use all 600,000 sets of basic materials he had collected to purchase spiked krill shells. After all, there were too many basic materials; even if all six wooden foundations were placed in storage cabinets, they wouldn't be enough. It would be better to replace them with spiked krill shells.

The price of a single spiny krill shell, which originally cost 40 basic materials, has suddenly increased to 50, and there is even a continuing upward trend.

Seeing that Jiang Haitao had acquired such a large amount of supplies by relying on the spiked helmet, Zhao Teng immediately promoted the spiked helmet blueprints he had and wanted to establish the "Soaring" guild.

However, before "Soaring" could even take off, it was suppressed by Zhou Wen and Jiang Haitao. Zhou Wen accused Zhao Teng of fraud and swindling, urging everyone not to trust him and to be careful not to be deceived.

Jiang Haitao even announced that whoever joins Zhao Teng's guild, he and Zhao Teng will work together to raise the price of spiked helmets to the price of a blueprint.

These are all precedents. Survivors who were already hesitant to join because of Zhao Teng's terrible reputation gave up immediately after Zhou Wen and Zhao Teng did this.

Even so, a hundred people still joined the "Soaring" guild. There was no other way; spiked helmets were extremely scarce, and some people would always take the risk.

It's impossible for Jiang Haitao to actually join forces with Zhao Teng and hand over the market to Zhao Teng.

Zhou Wen frowned deeply as he looked at the still successfully established "Soaring" guild.

Zhao Teng is definitely a smart man, and this is another opportunity. As long as he doesn't embezzle the supplies handed over by the guild members and actually distributes the spiked helmets, "Soaring" will really fly higher and higher.

"Let's talk about it later. At least he doesn't have many supplies at the start. I have two guilds under my control. Do you think I can't beat him?" At this moment, the sound of seawater churning came from my esophagus. The second supply box had arrived, and Zhao Teng's matter could only be put aside for the time being.