Ten years after the failed awakening, I became a god

Chapter 144 Trading

"I understand." Blue Baby leaned forward and calculated carefully for a moment. "So the identity you drew, the identity of a fifth-level federal citizen, can only have 100,000 federal coins in private property, correct?"

Lan Pingping nodded: "That's right."

Lan Yin still didn't understand: "Even if that's the case, there's still no way to explain the disappearance of the money from your smart bracelet? Your store doesn't even have a finance department, so where did the money go?"

Lan Pingping took a deep breath and said, "Of course it's the real owner of the gold shop."

Blue Baby: "Who is the real owner of the gold shop?"

Lan Pingping shook her head: "I don't know."

The remaining three people looked at each other, and finally sighed to each other.

It would be better for Lan Pingping to be mute. It’s too tiring to talk to him.

Lan Pingping noticed the expressions of the three people, thought for a moment, and added, "Although I don't know, Ji Chunlu should know that his bar and my gold shop belong to the same owner."

Wen Qingya understood: "Then your boss's citizenship should be quite high."

Blue Baby asked curiously, "So are we going to find Ji Chunlu and ask him who your boss is?"

Lan Yin shook her head: "Even if I find Ji Chunlu, he might not tell me."

She turned to look at Lan Pingping again: "After all this talk, you still haven't explained why the bar owner arrested you."

Lan Pingping looked a little embarrassed when he heard this. "These are just preconditions. Only after I explain them first will you understand why I was arrested."

Blue Baby said impatiently: "Then tell me quickly!"

Lan Pingping sighed softly and began to speak slowly again, "My smart bracelet was charged a sum of money and I couldn't get it back. At that time, I already felt that my identity was unusual. Then, Ji Chunlu came to me to borrow money. I didn't have any money to lend him, so he told me a way to make money. This method can make money, but it requires our cooperation."

Blue Baby: "What's the solution?"

Lan Yin: "That sounds like a common scam opening."

Wen Qingya: "I'll sell you low-quality sales liquid when you're old."

Lan Pingping lowered his eyes, not wanting to meet the three people's gazes. "Because the private property in the accounts of low-level citizens is limited, resulting in a lack of resources for cultivation, I don't know when another currency has been circulating in the black market: spirit stones."

Three people: "Spirit Stone?"

Lan Pingping nodded. "Yes, it's spirit stones. Spirit stones are a cultivation resource for spiritualists. One is that they can be used to upgrade the level of the spirit body, and the other is that they can be used as a secondary currency on the federal black market."

Lan Yin understood immediately that this was equivalent to cash in her previous life.

The only difference is that the cash in the previous life cannot be used as a resource for cultivation, but it still cannot stop ordinary people from being obsessed with the fragrance of money.

Blue Baby: "And then what?"

Lan Pingping: "The method of purchasing spirit stones on the black market is also very simple. You just use Federation Coins. Ten thousand Federation Coins can buy one spirit stone. Or you can exchange it for other valuable items."

Wen Qingya: "Spirit stones are actually a relatively scarce cultivation resource in the Empire. I didn't expect that the method of obtaining them in the Federation is more than ten times easier."

Blue Baby: "Then I will open a purchasing agency in the Federation, and every month the students from Phoenix Terrace will purchase the Federation's spiritual stones on my behalf. Can I become the richest man in the world?"

Lan Yin: "A genius in business."

Wen Qingya said calmly, "We are not the first group of Imperials to come to the Federation. So why do you think no one from the Empire has done this before?"

Blue Baby also calmed down, and suddenly wilted like an eggplant that had been hit: "Yeah, why?"

Lan Yin explained, "This is probably because spirit stones are physical objects, and their size is there. If you carry a large number of them, they will definitely be detected by the Federation. Then, anyone who sells a large number of spirit stones to the Empire will definitely be discovered."

The difference between one meal full and every meal full.

Lan Pingping nodded. "Princess, you're right. This is one reason. But there's another important reason."

Blue Baby: "Can you please finish your sentence in one breath? Why do you keep pausing?"

Lan Pingping explained, "I rarely talk so much in one breath. I'm not used to it yet."

Blue Baby was anxious: "Don't explain, tell me the other reason."

Lan Pingping continued, "Another reason is, of course, that ordinary people don't have that many spirit stones. Low-ranking citizens treat spirit stones as a secondary asset. Even if they try hard to acquire a large amount, they generally can't. The only people who truly trade spirit stones are Ji Chunlu and my immediate superiors, the owners of the gold shop and bar."

Blue Baby still asked anxiously: "And then what?"

Wen Qingya had a different opinion: "I've heard that spirit stones are natural stones produced from spirit veins. They have a dazzling appearance and contain spiritual essence that helps spiritualists cultivate. If ordinary people can't access spirit veins to mine spirit stones, and all spirit stones come from the hands of high-ranking citizens of the Federation, then their purpose in releasing spirit stones is to control the private accounts of lower-ranking citizens."

After all, if there were no Spirit Stones, others would surely find other ways to trade. Furthermore, after releasing Spirit Stones, the number of Spirit Stones available could be limited, thereby limiting the spiritual level of spiritualists. This way, the majority of resources would remain in the hands of high-ranking citizens. However, I still have a question.

The three of them looked at Wen Qingya together.

Wen Qingya didn't keep the secret: "If spirit stones come from spirit veins, then our empire also has spirit veins. But why are spirit stones so scarce in the empire?"

Blue Baby nodded: "Yes."

Lan Yin glanced at Wen Qingya and asked, "Qingya, didn't you join the Imperial Government Council? They should be able to explain this to you, right?"

Wen Qingya shook her head. "I've only been here for a short time, and I've been busy with school every day, so I only have a limited understanding of many things."

Things seem to be shrouded in mystery again.

Lan Yin stopped dwelling on this question and turned to look at Lan Pingping: "So what did you and Ji Chunlu do together?"

She found that Lan Pingping really couldn't speak. After talking for so long, she still didn't get the main point across.

What kind of deal did he make with Ji Chunlu that led to his arrest? Was it because of the spirit stone?

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