Chapter Twenty-Five: Business Acumen
After Xiaoyu returned, the new guild was officially opened. However, because it is a small association, and it has not been established for a long time, it has not been famous for a long time, so there are no newcomers to join the guild, and two days after the establishment of the guild, there are still only five elders in Xiaoyu, plus Xia Chiyu and Gu Qinyan, a total of seven people.
"In terms of the fastest way to level up, the newcomer and I are each responsible for leading a team to lead the brush is naturally the fastest, and both of us can brush the same level copy of the five-person level alone, but it's just ......" Xia Chiyu said, slightly hesitating.
"This will make you a 'cripple', even if you have a high level, you don't have the corresponding skills, let alone the dungeon and the player, you can't even beat the monsters in the wild. So, I'm going to team up and brush the map by yourself, and you can ask us questions in the game. Gu Qinyan continued Xia Chiyu's words.
"Let's find a way to collect some people first, there are more guild people, and it's convenient to type." Xia Chiyu explained, "The president went to the nearby shops to greet people and asked them to send the task to us. β
The main source of income for a guild is the tasks entrusted by other players, and the player's entrustment is more of a need for certain materials, such as raw materials for making zuΓ² equipment, clothing and cooking, so it is mainly to join forces with shops.
Of course, there are also a small number of players who will issue wanted warrants for other players for certain purposes. A guild's income is very important to a guild, and if a guild receives a lot of delegated tasks, then there will naturally be a lot of players willing to join.
Money in this game is still quite useful, even if you don't use it to exchange it for huΓ n money in reality, it's not bad to buy equipment. AO's death penalty is severe, so the better the equipment before entering the capital, the lower the risk of death.
"Only when there are many tasks will new people join." Gu Qinyan also replied lightly, "Find a bigger copy and get some high-grade materials to sell on the market, and your fame will rise." β
All the institutions in the AO, from restaurants to auction houses, are organized by players, so if a guild can often get high-end materials or some extremely rare things to bring to the auction house, it can also achieve the effect of advertising.
As he spoke, Gu Qinyan sat down at the bar, flipped out a map and looked at it, and Pepe served him a glass of wine. Zhang Zhiwei, Cheng Ming and others were chatting with Liu Yiyu about something, and there were only seven of them in the huge guild, which seemed inexplicably deserted.
Xia Chiyu also sat down next to Gu Qinyan, took out the map and looked at it to see if there were any suitable copies in his memory. At this time, Xiaoyou poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Have you seen our family Liuliu?" β
"yes, that girl came all the way and ended up playing games." Xia Chiyu said with a flat face, Xiao You held his chin and smiled meaningfully: "You didn't attack her, did you?" Our family is still a chick. β
"Don't worry, no." Xia Chiyu replied absentmindedly, clicked on the map, and the 3D demo immediately emerged from the map, "But it's so beautiful, it's really rare to be twenty-four years old or a chick, are her boyfriends sexually impotent?" β
"On the contrary, her ex-boyfriend probably has too much demand in that regard, so she can't help it." Xiao You shrugged his shoulders and said, "You know, Liuliu is not the kind of person who agrees to have a boyfriend H after knowing each other for a few months. β
"I can see it." Xia Chiyu replied that with the current number and power of their guild, it is unrealistic to grab copies with other guilds, and it will only offend people again. There are two best ways to do this, one is to choose a hidden copy like the king's cloister, and the other is to go to a remote area that no one else wants to go.
Although not many people know the conditions for opening hidden dungeons, there are still people who know about it. The remote areas are to pass through the lawless area, and can be attacked by the red players of the dark guild. However, the red players who can't be brought are usually only fifty or sixty levels, and no matter how advanced the player is, he doesn't need to make money by robbing and killing other players, he and Gu Qinyan can handle it.
"Here, Haze Forest, there are a few fixed refresh dungeons, if you're lucky, you might be able to clear several dungeons in one go." At this time, Gu Qinyan suddenly pointed to the map and said.
"Haze Forest, Forty-Eight to Fifty-Six Areas...... It's a good fit for where we are now. Xia Chiyu muttered, as he had guessed, to go to the Haze Forest, he had to pass through the Impossible Zone.
"Okay, so be it." Xia Chiyu nodded and said, "Let's prepare first today, let's go tomorrow, just go and put all the Eye of Hydra in the auction to sell, just enough to be familiar with the auction house." β
If the map is more remote, you need to prepare some food and water, as well as long-distance tools such as tents, because the temporary astral teleportation point in the wild can only go back to the guild, and cannot go back to the place where the teleportation point was set up in the wild, so you have to go offline in the wild.
And in AO, if you don't go offline in a guild or an inn or something like that, when you go online the next day, the character will have a bunch of debuffs such as colds, muscle and bone pain, and so on, and at least light a bonfire, otherwise you will be attacked by wild creatures and the character will die inexplicably when you go online the next day.
So, Pepe and Xiaoyou stayed in the guild in case there were players who wanted to join the guild, Gu Qinyan went out to iQue by himself, Cheng Ming and Zhang Zhiwei went to greet the nearby store pΓΉ and the guild, and Xia Chiyu went out to buy things with Liu Yiyu, and then went to the auction to sell all the Eyes of Hydra.
The fourteenth district is indeed much more lively than the eighth district, their guild is set in the third ring area of the city, which is also crowded with people like the downtown area, Xia Chiyu and Xiaoyu are walking on the street, feeling like shopping in reality.
"The auction house, it's here." Xia Chiyu stopped in front of a building similar to a theater, and when the two came to the door, two people immediately stepped forward and asked, "Is it a buyer or a seller?" β
"Seller." Xia Chiyu replied, and one of them immediately signaled: "Okay, please come with us to the backstage." β
Immediately, the two followed the man to the backstage, and another man came up to deal with them.
"Excuse me, the two of you are selling ......" This is a middle-aged man with a goatee, his ID is Zheng Tiancheng, his face is full of shrewdness, he looked at Xia Chiyu's guild name, and he didn't seem to be very concerned, this is because he has opened an auction house here for a long time, and he has kept in mind the guild that can come up with good things, and they will not be well-known.
Xia Chiyu frowned, and then said a little casually: "Eye of the Hydra, but you don't seem to be interested, I think I'd better go to other auction houses to have a look." β
"Eyes of the hydra? How many do you have. Although the goatee tried his best to suppress his tone, Xia Chiyu still caught a greedy look in his eyes. Xia Chiyu replied as he turned to leave: "Not much, seven." I'll go see if any other auction houses are interested. β
"Hey, look at this little brother, our auction house is also a relatively famous auction house in the 14th district, why don't you go to other places and talk about it here." Zheng Tiancheng turned around deftly and stopped in front of Xia Chiyu, "Then, you know the rules, right?" We take 10 percent as a commission. Agree with that, and let's start talking. β
"No problem." Xia Chiyu nodded and took out the seven Hydra Eyes, "I'll get straight to the point, I want you to shoot one a day for this thing, and the reserve price is two thousand." I know that when you sell these rare materials, you will arrange for some of your own people to bid below to raise the price, and this thing should not be sold if it is less than 4,000, until it is above 4,000, and you can raise it as high as you can. β
Auction houses are very good at getting their own people to raise the price, and they can keep it up to the upper limit of the price that the person who needs the item in need of it can accept, so as to make more profits, even if the buyer gives up the price, anyway, the item is still in the hands of the auction house.
Seeing that Xia Chiyu was very clear about the auction process and the black hand, Zheng Tiancheng's face suddenly became stern: "But this thing is generally collected for 1,000 on the market, and it is sold for 4,000, do you think it can really be sold?" β
"How much money others receive is someone else's business, I just sell so much, does he love it." Xia Chiyu said with a smile, "If he really received it, why did he keep receiving it in the market?" β
Others may not know, but Xia Chiyu knows very well that although the Eye of the Hydra is not in high demand, it is one of the materials for making a "holy weapon". Generally speaking, blacksmiths can only make blue equipment and a small amount of epic equipment, but some bosses will drop blueprints of holy equipment, and the equipment produced by zuΓ² can only be used by themselves and cannot be traded.
The drawings of the holy artifact require a lot of materials, from low to high, it is difficult to get together, it takes a lot of time to buy or brush by yourself, usually not many people are willing to do it, but if you are willing to do it, you must have considerable financial resources and strength.
The player who received the Eye of Hydra has been collecting it for a long time, and if he has already received some of it, then he must urgently need the remaining part, so raise the price a little bit, and the other party will definitely ask for it.
According to the price of four thousand, he only needs to sell two to be worth eight thousand, even if the rest can't be sold, it is more cost-effective than one thousand, and the excess is a big deal to sell at a reduced price. Xia Chiyu did this, firstly, to sell more money, and secondly, because it allowed their guild's name to appear on the auction house many times, which could have a good advertising effect.
"What a shrewd little brother." Zheng Tiancheng said with some hesitation, "But if you can't sell it......
"What do you think of this?" Xia Chiyu said with a smile and handed over the seven Hydra Eyes in his hand, "The first two are counted as the ones I used to preserve the capital, and the last five, as long as you sell one, I will let you take 20% of the commission, 10% will go to the auction, as for the extra 10%...... You decide. β
A sophisticated and treacherous smile suddenly appeared on Zheng Tiancheng's face, and he took something from Xia Chiyu's hand, and then the two looked at each other and smiled.
"Deal!"