bookandnovel Chapter 19 Zhou Jie's Shock
Chapter 19 Zhou Jie's Shock
Chen Yuan noticed that the other person had spotted him immediately, guessing that they had been waiting at the door. So he said, "Sorry, I should have arrived earlier, but I suddenly encountered a group of tiger mastiffs on the way, which delayed me. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
"It's alright, it's alright, I didn't wait too long." At this moment, Zhou Jie was no longer anxious, because he noticed many materials hanging on Chen Yuan's backpack, some of which looked very familiar to him—they were all precious parts from Beast General-level monsters.
"My hunch was right, this young man is indeed a strong one." The thought flashed through Zhou Jie's mind, and his smile became even more sincere. When he heard Chen Yuan say that they had encountered a pack of beasts, he immediately asked with concern, "Encountered tigers and mastiffs? Those are notorious pack monsters. Are you alright?"
Chen Yuan shook his head: "It's nothing, it just took a little longer."
He paused for a moment, then continued, "I told you on the phone this morning that I have a batch of monster materials to sell."
"Yes, sir, the VIP room is ready for you. You can rest for a while." Zhou Jie took out the VIP room membership card and handed it to Chen Yuan, while smiling and saying, "I have prepared the equipment for examining the materials. After you have rested, we will examine them in person."
Chen Yuan nodded. Indeed, he had been living in the open for more than a month, and his body was already filthy.
He was just thinking that the other party had already waited for him all morning, and it wouldn't be good to keep them waiting any longer, so he decided to finish his business first before going to rest.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jie was quite thoughtful, having already booked a room for him in advance. Chen Yuan couldn't help but sigh, perhaps this was the reason why Zhou Jie was able to become the North District Manager.
"Then wait for me a little longer. The identification will begin in an hour," Chen Yuan said.
"No problem," Zhou Jie smiled.
So Chen Yuan carried a large bag of materials into the rest area and found the VIP room by relying on the address on the card.
Surprisingly, the so-called VIP room turned out to be a two-story detached villa.
Chen Yuan was impressed by the attentive service. He pushed open the door and went inside. He first placed his backpack full of materials on the living room floor, and then went straight to the bathroom.
A whole row of various clothes hung on the clothes rack by the bathroom door, clearly prepared with care.
Although Chen Yuan understood that this was the other party's way of winning his favor so as to profit in future transactions, he still felt a sense of comfort seeing such a thoughtful arrangement.
So Chen Yuan went into the bathroom and spent half an hour thoroughly cleaning himself. After drying himself off, he picked out a white casual outfit from the hanger and changed into it.
He then called Zhou Jie, indicating that the other party could come over to complete the transaction.
Less than a minute later, there was a knock on the door. Chen Yuan opened the door and saw Zhou Jie standing there with a black briefcase in his hand.
"You came pretty quickly," Chen Yuan said. "Come in, the things are in the living room."
"I live right next door," Zhou Jie explained with a smile.
The two entered the living room, where Chen Yuan opened his oversized backpack and took out its contents one by one, placing them on the floor.
"Shall I begin?" Zhou Jie had already opened the black briefcase and taken out a set of testing equipment.
Seeing Chen Yuan nod, Zhou Jie took out a scanner and began to carefully scan the materials on the ground. At the same time, various data about the materials began to be displayed on the screen of a device similar to a laptop next to him.
As time passed, Zhou Jie identified more and more monster materials, and his shock grew.
He discovered that among the more than one hundred materials in front of him, not a single one was of the Beast Soldier level, and there wasn't even a single one of the Elementary Beast General level.
The hundred or so materials in front of us are at least of mid-level beast generals, and many of them belong to high-level beast generals.
"Just how many monsters did this guest hunt? They were all Beast Generals, and at least intermediate level." Zhou Jie was secretly alarmed. "Could it be that he threw away all the materials below intermediate level because his backpack couldn't hold them all?"
Keep in mind that the other party had only been in the wilderness area for a month, and was traveling alone.
In a team, there is usually someone specifically responsible for finding monsters, which is much more efficient than doing it alone.
Even a fully armed squad of generals would find it difficult to hunt so many monsters in a month, because people need to rest.
"It's impossible that the other side hasn't slept and has been fighting from day to night, right?" Zhou Jie chuckled to himself, thinking, "How could that be?"
Martial artists aren't made of iron; they can't fight continuously for 24 hours. They always need to rest.
Shaking his head inwardly, Zhou Jie put aside his distracting thoughts and focused on continuing the test.
An hour later.
"Sir, apart from the ones you didn't ask us to count, all the other monster materials have been counted."
"You have a total of 178 types of materials, including 130 types of intermediate-level beast general materials and 48 types of high-level beast general materials."
Zhou Jie calculated the total amount according to the material list on the screen, then looked up and said, "After calculation, the total purchase price of this batch of medium-grade beast general materials is 30.93 billion, and the total purchase price of high-grade beast general materials is 43.76 billion, for a total of 74.69 billion."
"I'll round it up for you, making it a total of 75 billion to acquire these materials, how about that?" Zhou Jie smiled at Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan carefully examined the price list provided by the other party, silently calculated it in his mind, and suddenly said, "Isn't it a bit too little? I remember that the materials for even the lowest-grade mid-level Beast General level monster cost more than ten million."
"But there are many items on your list that cost less than that."
"Sir, it's like this." Zhou Jie's expression remained unchanged, showing no sign of panic, and he explained with a smile, "I don't know where you got this data, but it's definitely outdated."
"The minimum cost of materials for a mid-level beast general you mentioned was ten million, that was the market price twenty years ago."
Zhou Jie explained, "Nowadays, because Earthlings frequently trade with extraterrestrials, we don't actually lack many materials."
"Our HR Alliance doesn't acquire these monster materials to make equipment, but rather to sell them as a specialty of Earth to other planets."
"Therefore, the current market price for monster materials is no longer based on their quality, but on their rarity."
"The rarer the material, the higher our purchase price; conversely, for materials from common monsters, even if the quality is higher, the purchase price is actually lower."
"Of course, there's a limit to how low it can go," Zhou Jie added with a smile. "The market is the same all over the world now. Compared to the market you mentioned, the average purchase price of materials for Warrior-level monsters has dropped by about 50%."
"If it were a beast-class soldier, the drop would be even higher, exceeding 70%."
"The Commander-class is slightly rarer, and its price can still be maintained at around 70%-80% of its previous level."
"As for King-level monsters, they haven't decreased; in fact, they've become even stronger."
As he spoke, Zhou Jie sent Chen Yuan a website link that displayed the approximate purchase prices of various materials: "This is our internal purchase website. You can compare the prices to see how much of a discount I'm offering you."
Chen Yuan used his smartwatch to access the website and saw that the domain name was indeed HR Alliance. He then compared the material purchase prices listed on the website and found that Zhou Jie had not lied to him.
If the prices on the website are accurate, Chen Yuan's materials would be worth a good 70 billion.
It can only be said that Zhou Jie may have his own private sales channels, which is why he dared to make the acquisition at a price higher than the market price.
So Chen Yuan nodded: "I'm fine with it, let's do it this way."
"Okay, shall I transfer the money to you, or should I provide an anonymous bank card?" Zhou Jie asked.
"No rush." Chen Yuan pointed to the last batch of monster materials. "Let's appraise that one first and see how much it costs."
"By the way, just identify the scales and horns; ignore the other two."
"Okay." Zhou Jie nodded, then took the detector and walked over.
Actually, he was quite curious about what kind of material needed to be tested separately.
As the detector finished scanning, Zhou Jie looked at the content on the screen and immediately gasped in shock.
"Lord...Lord-level?"