Lolo changed her mind. "Then I won't go to the blacksmith shop. I'll go to the brewery."
"Sorry, you only have one chance to move in each round. Confirm again. Do you want to end the round?"
"The fine iron has been sold out. There's no point if I don't end it …" Halfway through her sentence, Lolo suddenly had an idea. "Wait, there's more than fine iron in the blacksmith shop. What about weapons? Farming tools? "
"Very good. It seems that you've understood how this game is played." The fox-masked man nodded.
"I want sixty sets of armor and eighty farming tools," Lolo said tentatively.
"Sixty sets of armor and eighty farming tools cost a total of thirty-two gold coins. These are your goods. Thank you for your patronage." Merlin took the money and handed Lolo two cards representing the armor and farming tools. Then, he turned to Rob. "It's your turn."
Lolo did not know if it was her illusion, but she could feel that Merlin seemed to be particularly interested in someone. Seeing that the latter was deep in thought, she did not rush him.
After the white crow-man and Lolo's round ended, Rob had been thinking about a question. In order to prove his conjecture, he chose to move to his bakery. "One hundred and twenty elven biscuits."
Merlin glanced at him and chuckled. "Aiyo, you've found out so quickly? You should know your own shop best. The best elven biscuits are only sold for a hundred servings a day. The last time I went to buy one, I had to queue for a long time."
Sure enough, the number of five hundred pounds that the white crow-man said was not just for show. Rob still remembered that Merlin had introduced before the game that the map used was a replica of the real business environment of Gudilesi. Since it was real, it meant that the inventory and price of each shop was not far from reality.
On the surface, it seemed to be a simple numbers game of buying and selling goods, but the key to victory was the familiarity with the business environment of Gudilesi City. In this regard, both Rob and Lolo were obviously far inferior to the white crow-man.
The latter managed Merlin's wealth and was well aware of the various business trends in the university town.
Sure enough, on the second round, the white crow-man found a retired dwarf blacksmith in an inconspicuous little restaurant in the west of the city and asked him to forge a hundred sets of armor out of the 250 kilograms of fine iron he had bought for ten gold coins. That way, he only had to spend thirty gold coins to make a hundred sets of armor. In terms of cost, it was almost half the cost of buying from a blacksmith shop, and the quality of the armor was also better. But correspondingly, the forging process took him three rounds.
In these three rounds, Lolo had sold a total of 24 armors and 40 farming tools, earning her first bucket of gold. After deducting the cost, she had a profit of nearly 2 gold coins.
Well, the speed of making money was a little slow, but after all, it was just moving the things from the blacksmith shop to the market. If the price was set too high, no one would be interested. Lolo was now very curious about how the white crow-man was going to sell the hundred sets of armor he had forged.
In the end, she finally got the answer in the fifth round. Lolo saw that the white crow-man went directly to the garrison and sold all the armors to the Guards at the price of 1 gold coin for two, earning a net profit of 20 gold coins in one go.
"That works?" Lolo was dissatisfied. She pointed at the white crow-man and said, "Why should the garrison buy the armor he forged at a high price?"
Merlin seemed to have guessed that the girl would ask such a question. He smiled lightly and said unhurriedly, "If you know enough about Gudilesi City, you should know that at this time of year, the garrison will replenish some armors, and the price will be much higher than the market price. His batch of armor was forged by Old York, which is a grade higher than the batch you have, so I think the final price is very fair. The numbers on the list aren't absolute. They only represent the average price in the market. As I said at the beginning, this map restores the real business environment of this city. Any means of making money, as long as it's feasible, is allowed by the rules of the game."
Lolo did not speak anymore. In the fifth round, she did not choose to follow the white crow-man to the garrison but stayed in the market because she did not know how many armors the garrison replenished at this time of year. If she rashly followed them and found that they had stopped collecting armors, it would be a waste of a round.
Her top priority was to get rid of the goods in her hands first, and then consider the next investment. However, in the sixth round, when Lolo saw the price list, her heart sank – the price of the armor had dropped by 20%!
She still had 20 sets of armor in her hands that had not been sold. Considering the fluctuation of the price this time, it meant that she not only did not make money in these rounds, but also lost a lot.
However, to her relief, on the other side, Rob had begun to make a profit, but someone's choice was a little confusing to her. In the first five rounds, Rob actually bought several goods in one go, but the quantity of each was not much, as if he was testing which one could make more money.
Fortunately, in the next round of price changes, his luck was good, four of the goods increased in value, and only two went down, so by the end of the sixth round, he had made a small profit.
Rob sold all the goods in his hands, and looked at the price list thoughtfully, while the white crow-man took the 120 gold coins in his hand and began the next investment, but he also seemed to pay special attention to a certain person's every move. If his attention was divided into ten parts, at least seven of it would be on Rob, and the remaining two would be on what he was doing. As for Lolo, there was probably less than one part, and as the game progressed, this part of attention became less and less.
As the game progressed, the assets of the three people, including Lolo, began to increase steadily, but at different speeds. The white crow-man used the advantage of intelligence to find ways to make money quickly in the city, and his assets were always ahead of the other two, while Rob quickly found a stable source of income after the initial exploration, and at the same time, in order to narrow the gap between him and the white crow-man, he began to try some high-risk investments in the middle of the game, such as smuggling. After three smuggling ships were seized, and two were robbed by pirates, finally, a smuggling ship successfully returned in the 90th round, bringing back 20 times the profit, and giving the future supreme magus Your Honor hope to catch up to it.
The method that Lolo chose to make money was the crudest and simplest, and that was to resell. After a dozen rounds, she finally found the pattern of the price change.
— — The price of the next round of goods will be affected by the circulation of the previous round, the reason why the price of the armor in the sixth round would fall was because she and the white crow-man were selling it in the previous rounds, but if the circulation of the goods in the market decreased, then the price would rise. Once she grasped this pattern, she could raise the price by hoarding a lot of goods, and then sell them when the price changed, although she couldn't compete with the other two, she still made a lot of money.
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