CHAPTER 95: CHAPTER 95: INTERNAL TRADING NETWORK

A hotel in Hedong City.

Chen Shouyi tapped his fingers quickly on the keyboard, finishing a line of URL, then pressed enter.

The computer swiftly jumped to a simple account login page.

There were no registration options available.

Chen Shouyi took out his Martial Artist Certificate, opened it, and glanced at it, entering his martial artist number and initial password. A second later, a webpage similar to any normal site popped up.

This is an internal trading network exclusive to martial artists.

When he registered as a martial artist, he also registered an account for this site. It was only now that he managed to log in, having been eager to return home initially.

The webpage has only two sections: an e-commerce transaction section and a martial artist forum.

He first opened the e-commerce section and discovered it had three categories.

Auxiliary drugs, poisons, weapons and armor.

Chen Shouyi clicked on the category for auxiliary drugs.

There weren’t many items, roughly a page or so, with a dozen types.

The sellers mostly used laboratory names as suffixes, like the highest priced "Divine Marrow" and "Divine Blood" coming from the Extraordinary Biological Research Institute in the Capital City, while the third-ranked "Soul Liquid" came from the Zhonghai Special Pharmaceuticals Laboratory.

Chen Shouyi had thought these items would be extremely expensive, but found them significantly cheaper than imagined.

Among them, "Divine Marrow" is priced highest, at only one million, with a volume of about twenty milliliters.

A million seems quite high, but any martial artist’s settlement fund can easily purchase a portion.

Second, the commonly heard "Divine Blood" is priced at eight hundred thousand, with a volume of around one hundred milliliters.

As for the third-ranked "Soul Liquid," its price is only six hundred thousand.

But soon, Chen Shouyi realized that purchasing these drugs comes with restrictions. For instance, with the top three ranked drugs, each martial artist can purchase a maximum of three portions, after which contribution value is needed.

Chen Shouyi thought it’s only reasonable because if a martial artist were wealthy or purchasing on behalf of others, buying dozens, even hundreds, would be simple.

Obviously, the production of these items by Great Xia Country is limited, making them scarce resources. Reselling them at several or even dozen times the price wouldn’t be unusual. It’s clear that no obvious loophole would be left in this system.

He then clicked on the most expensive Divine Marrow; inside a small glass bottle, a drop of transparent liquid emitted a gentle glow.

Reading the product description, Chen Shouyi found that it wasn’t actually derived from a god’s corpse’s marrow, just spinal fluid. The effect, according to the description, significantly strengthens a martial artist’s neural reaction ability, enhances intelligence, and improves physical condition to some extent.

Chen Shouyi’s expression shifted and he read the effect description again.

He wasn’t interested in the other effects; his twice-optimized Body Refining Thirty-Six Moves could enhance everything except intelligence, which could not be trained through those moves.

Had it not been for the Book of Knowledge causing his body to transform once, his intelligence would still be pitifully around ten points.

He felt extremely tempted,

but unfortunately, with all his current funds plus gold, he only had about fifty thousand, needing to wait for the settlement funds to make a purchase.

He then clicked on the second-ranked "Divine Blood."

This was a transparent liquid emitting a weak golden glow, derived from divine cell fluid.

Its effect, as described, is to reinforce human strength and physique, enhance self-healing ability, and potentially grant supernatural abilities.

As for "Soul Liquid," compared to the glitter of the former two, it appeared ordinary, an uncolored viscous fluid. According to the description, it’s extracted from the brain of a specific creature, greatly amplifying sensory abilities.

Aside from these three, the rest of the drugs were priced much lower, from a few hundred to tens of thousands at most.

For instance, the Enhancing Liquid for internal organs and external muscles, or training auxiliary Body Refining Oil, made from powerful extraordinary beings and various precious medicines from other worlds, even the large bottle cost around thirty thousand.

The goods on this internal network clearly aren’t aimed at profit but to strengthen the martial artist community.

At the end of the page, Chen Shouyi saw several potent stimulants, evidently used in the desperation of battlefields.

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Next, Chen Shouyi clicked on the poison category out of curiosity.

He immediately felt his eyes opened with revelations, finding biological toxins like snake venom, mineral toxins such as cyanide, and even radioactive toxins sealed in lead boxes. Most were sold by the gram, even milligram, and if smeared on a sword or arrowhead, the victim would almost instantly fall.

However, Chen Shouyi noticed that as these items were notably dangerous, with some being volatile and radioactive, purchasing required strict limitations, needing substantial contribution value and explorer status for authorization to buy.

Weapons and miscellaneous items had nothing noteworthy, mostly products from renowned cold weapon companies, with significant discounts here, generally cheaper by fifty to sixty percent than on external cold weapons e-commerce sites.

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Chen Shouyi didn’t make any purchases and closed the webpage.

He was still staying in the hotel without a fixed address, and it would be troublesome if he changed locations when deliveries arrived.

He then opened his briefcase and let the Shell Lady out.

He immediately felt her damp body, sniffing at it, wrinkling his brow to ask:

"Did you wet the bed?"

The Shell Lady angrily turned away, twisting her body forcefully. Seeing this, Chen Shouyi quickly picked up scissors to cut the ropes binding her hands and feet, then tore off the tape from her mouth.

Unexpectedly, she had a bigger temper than Chen Shouyi, standing up angrily and saying:

"Who told you to lock me up? Where else would I wet if not here?"

"Can’t you hold it a little longer?"

"Can’t hold it. If you lock me up this long, I’ll need to wet and defecate, stink you to death." The Shell Lady snorted, puffing angrily; her temper had been getting worse day by day, needing a vent every day.

Chen Shouyi’s finger trembled as he pointed at the Shell Lady, taken aback by her attitude, taking a deep breath he said:

"Humph, I was going to show you Prepared, but now there’s no need."

As soon as he spoke, the Shell Lady, previously furious, widened her eyes, her expression frozen.

She looked around at the now unfamiliar environment, then at the glowing computer. Surprise, delight, and regret flashed through her mind in quick succession, her expression shifting.

After a while, she bashfully said:

"This... well, I just couldn’t hold it."

"Earlier, you even said you wanted to defecate?"

The Shell Lady shook her head desperately, loudly replied, "I won’t!"

"Still going to throw tantrums?"

"I won’t anymore!" The Shell Lady continued shaking her head, then turned her eyes with a bright look, adding, "As long as you show me Prepared, I won’t throw tantrums."

Chen Shouyi pointed at the Shell Lady, then grabbed her with his large hand.

The Shell Lady immediately screamed, "You giant, let go of me, I want to see Prepared!"

"Go take a bath, you stink."

"Don’t want to bathe, I hate bathing!"