Chapter 45: Bargaining
In the small building, Shen Yi coughed violently for a while, then stopped to catch his breath, patted his chest and said, "I'm sorry, I suffered a little cold before I came, and my chest was jammed." β
Tia Dolma spread her hands: "It's okay, if you haven't coughed enough, you can continue." β
"No need, can you show me the specific task?"
Tia Dolma pushed her hand, and a task list was pushed in front of Shen Yi's eyes, this time, she didn't use the water urn image.
Shen Yi took the task list and looked at it carefully, behind him were several of his partners, standing or sitting, distributed around the small building, intentionally or unintentionally, they had formed a vigilant situation.
The long-term cooperation has gradually formed some tacit understanding. If Shen Yi suddenly coughs loudly during some communicative actions, it means that this exchange is very important, and others must not interject, otherwise it is very likely to be bad.
Compared to before, the Broken Blades team is becoming more and more mature and cooperative. Although he didn't understand what Shen Yi wanted to do, it was obvious that the task that Tia Torma had just said had seriously touched Shen Yi's nerves, which made him react so strongly.
Shen Yi is ostensibly looking at the task, but he is actually delaying time and thinking about the problem.
After looking at it for a while, Shen Yi closed the task list.
"Lady Tia Torma, I have a question for you before I choose whether or not to accept this assignment. β
"Speak. β
"What you have in your hand can't be unlimited, right?"
"Of course not, some of them I had a hard time getting, and some of them I couldn't even have anymore. β
"And how much glory are they worth?"
Tia Torma was stunned: "What did you say?"
"I ask you, how much glory each of these goods you have is worth! I need to know the upper limit of what I can expect to be rewarded for my hard work, so that I can avoid meaningless and unnecessary work. Shen Yi replied very seriously.
"Are you crazy?" cried Tia Dolma, "you can't do even half of the work here. β
"Tell me how much glory is worth first, okay?"
Tia Dolma snorted, "10,000 points! If you have 10,000 glory points, you can trade everything I have here, but you can't get that much." β
"Not necessarily, what if I told you that I could complete all the tasks in half a month and reach this level of glory?"
Tia Domahaha laughed: "It's been more than a hundred years, I've waited for more than a hundred years, and no one has ever done it, and those fools haven't even been able to get me back a token......
She suddenly shut up and didn't say anything, but Shen Yi's eyes showed a strong sense of ridicule.
"Hell, you're cheating on me......" Tia Torma suddenly realized something and exclaimed.
"Excuse me, I just wanted to know what you need. Shen Yi patted the task list with a satisfied smile on his face: "If I guessed correctly, the Nine Pirate Kings mission is the core of all missions. As long as you complete this part, it doesn't matter if you finish everything else or not, right?"
As the sealed goddess of the sea, Tia Torma was forced to stay in the mortal body, and there was nothing more important than breaking the seal. In order to be able to break the seal, Tia Torma came up with various methods, perhaps due to the influence of the city, and finally chose the current way - to attract people to work for her by selling items.
There are always people who are willing to take risks for the sake of good things, to do things that even witches can't.
And for Shen Yi, what he wants to know is whether these tasks mean everything to the witch as they do in the plot. Of course, it is impossible for the witch to admit it easily, it means that the handle has fallen into the hands of people, so Shen Yi can only use the agitation method to test it, and it is successful.
At this moment, Tia Dolma opened her mouth and glared at Shen Yi fiercely: "So what?"
"That means the price isn't fair. Shen Yi pointed to the Nine Pirate Kings task on the task list: "Every time you get a token, there are only 150 glory points, which is unreasonable." β
"That's the most reasonable arrangement!" exclaimed Tia Dolma, glaring.
"I don't think so, maybe you don't believe it, but there is always a force in the dark that affects us and makes us lose the ability to judge. But it doesn't matter, what matters is whether you are awake enough, Lord Tia Torma. β
"What the hell do you mean?"
"I mean it very simply. All you really need is a token of the Nine Pirate Kings, don't deny it, we're all well aware of that, and everything else is just a faΓ§ade. So, how about I reprice? Each Pirate King's token in exchange for one-ninth of your items. β
"This can't be!" cried Tia Dolma, "the price is outrageous. β
It is indeed outrageous enough, according to Shen Yi's request, if he gets back a token, Shen Yi's glory value will reach more than 1,000 points. He only needs to deal with one pirate king, and he can meet all his needs.
But Shen Yi smiled and said, "Lady Tia Dorma, I want to remind you of two things. First: If you miss this village, you will lose that store. Second: the market price is not always determined by the cost of manufacturing, but usually by market needs. You need someone to do the task for you, and you've been waiting for hundreds of years for that. The other tasks are not important, and the Nine Pirate King tokens are the core meaning. Now that someone can finally do it for you, are you going to miss it yourself?"
Tia Torma glared at him viciously, "That's not an easy task. β
Shen Yi began to manicure his nails with the touch of a vampire in a good time, and where his fingers passed, debris flew everywhere: "All I care about is time." For me, crossing several oceans and traveling to nine seas in search of the nine pirate kings was the most troublesome problem. β
"Then don't worry, they're about to hold a pirate guild in the Shipwreck City. If you have that strength, you can kill it, but I don't have that ability anyway. Tia Dolma laughed whimsily.
"But you tried anyway, didn't you? You asked Barbossa to help you, and he sent a vanguard for that. Honestly, how much hope do you have for that? I guess not. Shen Yi said lightly.
Tia Torma was stunned: "How do you know?"
Shen Yi laughed. He looked up at Tia, "Because the pirate unit happened to run into me on the road, and they were unlucky enough to be killed by me." β
The Cyclops and his five pirate ships were the pirates Barbossa sent to help Tia Dolma. This is also the reason why Shen Yi gave him this task after eliminating this pirate force, the Black Pursuit Order gave him this task.
To put it bluntly, let him replace the Cyclops on their original mission.
The reason why Shen Yi is sure of this is because in the original plot, Barbossa was the one who helped Tia Torma break the seal. Although the plot of Pirates of the Caribbean has changed here, according to his understanding, the general direction of the plot and some of its key elements will not change unless it is related to adventurers, which is also the conclusion he came to in the first mission.
Therefore, Tia Torma ostensibly needed nine tokens of the Pirate King, but in fact only needed seven, which Barbossa had already paid for her, and Captain Jack Sparrow was also her good friend. The old witch has been mixed up for hundreds of years, but after all, she is not in vain, so she has finally won over the two pirate kings to support her.
And what Shen Yi has to do is to use Tia Torma's needs to squeeze out the maximum value as much as possible.
Otherwise, if you follow the instructions on the other party's task list, even if you take all the tokens of the nine pirate kings, it will only be exchanged for more than a thousand glory points, and the old witch will only pay one-tenth of her net worth, which is too cheap. Shen Yi doesn't like to do such a loss-making business.
As for the question of difficulty, what is negotiation for? Isn't it just a tool used to maximize the value of one's own effort and sweat? A good negotiation can exchange one's strength for ten times the reward, while a bad negotiation is the opposite.
In this negotiation, Tia Torma's biggest disadvantage is that her hole cards are all known to Shen Yi, but Shen Yi's hole cards are not known to her. If she knew that Shen Yi had to make the Eternal Night Aurora Order, with the despicable, shameless, greedy, and untrustworthy nature of this former female sea god, she would definitely immediately raise the price of this thing.
Therefore, Shen Yi has not revealed what she needs from beginning to end, as for Tia Dolma, due to the inertia of long-term management, she no longer cares about what the other party needs, but only cares about whether the other party can fulfill her true wishes, which makes her give people a handle in the negotiation and fall behind.
Even so, more than a thousand glory points are not a price she can afford. You must know that some things are not even something she can make, but part of her possessions during her time as a sea god. If she exchanges all these things, even if she returns to the identity of the sea god in the future, she will be a bankrupt god.
So at this moment, she looked at Shen Yi fiercely, and when all hope had been lost, she said helplessly: "Three hundred points of glory for each token, this is the highest price, you can't get more." β
Shen Yi shook his head regretfully: "It seems that there is no way to talk." β
At this moment, a noise suddenly sounded outside.
Hong Lang rushed to the door, glanced out, and then reported: "A few adventurers have come, probably in the same group as the one who was killed by the witch earlier. β
Shen Yi thought for a moment and said to Tia Dolma, "I think the reason why you rejected my offer is largely because we haven't really shown you our power yet. We all know that to promote a product, it is necessary to do some demonstration of the ability of the product, and this time I came to you, in fact, to sell ourselves to you. Now is the right time. β
"Those who come are my guests, just like you. β
"You are also your enemy, and you killed one of them. β
"So what?"
"Don't let people hate you, ma'am, that means there's going to be trouble. Why don't I take care of the trouble for you? It can show you the strength of the product, and it can save you from unnecessary troubles. β
"I think it's more of a reason that you don't like business competition. β
"Even so. Shen Yi smiled, turned around and ordered: "Go and kill those four." β
Gentleness and the other figures flashed out.
A man exclaimed, "What are you doing, we are not enemies!"
Then came the dull roar of the waves: "In the world of free killing, everyone is an enemy except for partners!"
Screams rang out.
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