Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System - Chapter 152: Danger
Chapter 152: Danger
Even Kashif Ali, who rarely showed up on normal days, asked him about the current number of zombies, and he answered truthfully.
[Radhika: Big Boss Vikram is amazing! We haven’t even seen zombies yet, and all the information about them has already been figured out.]
[Geetanjali: Yeah, does that mean Divya and Anjali have latched onto a big shot? Does Big Shot’s Shelter still need people? I want to latch on too.]
[Vikram: Yeah, I need more people, if you want to come, I will take care of you.]
Vikram himself didn’t react much to the teasing and envy in the group. And he even teased them back.
But then he filled, a chill beside him, he turned and saw Divya, Sophia and Anjali were staring at him.
“I was just joking, just joking, I didn’t really mean it.”
But from his hearing they were not convinced.
Even knowing it, this was the territory of Vikram. And he can keep anyone he wants.
And not only this, but they should also feel lucky that they have arrived in his territory, and are enjoying everything.
Just the fact that they were comfortably enjoying the normal temperature, showering daily, while outside it was stormy and precarious was enough to differentiate them from other Survivors.
And if he hadn’t rescued them, they would most likely be suffering greatly in the Savage Wolf Shelter at this moment.
But even knowing that, after they got married, they felt that Vikram was only there. And if they can’t keep leashes on him, he will really bring the other girl.
“So Boss Vikram, did you want to bring others,” Divya asked, looking at him, and sat beside him while putting her hands on his legs.
“No, no, I was just joking,” Vikram again tells them. But they didn’t believe it, Anjali and Sophia also sat on his legs side and held his legs.
“Boss, we should give you a beautiful massage.”
“No, no, I don’t need it,” Vikram replied back. But they didn’t hear it, and started massaging him.
But only Vikram knew, it was not a massage, but something else.
But he also didn’t care about their little torture, and looked in the trade, he found that the soaring price of metal made him unable to bring himself to buy it.
Plus, it was now basically confirmed that the Savage Wolf Shelter was behind the manipulation. If he were to exchange food for metal again, wouldn’t that be giving supplies to those beasts for free?
“Anyway, I don’t necessarily need metal to recycle Plant Essence. If they like to play this price-gouging game, then let it all sit in their hands.” He thought, a slight grin unconsciously spreading across his lips.
He didn’t believe that the metal the Savage Wolf Shelter brought out was dug by themselves. It was most likely bought at a low price, then resold, with a threat thrown in for the seller.
Probably the kind of threat that if anyone dared to list metal at a lower price than the Savage Wolf Shelter in the market, their whole family would be killed.
“Ouch, Anjali, is that a massage? Can’t you be gentler?” Just as he was thinking, a sharp pain suddenly shot through the back of his neck.
He glared at her, complaining about her extremely unprofessional technique.
He turned to browse other materials in the trading market, looking for a substitute for metal.
However, to his slight disappointment, even with such a significant price increase, metal was still the most cost-effective item for recycling.
Things like medicine, food, wood, and stone were either too expensive and unsuitable, or their recycling value was too low.
After looking around, Vikram finally returned to the metal trading area.
Looking at the prices, which had clearly been tampered with, he originally wanted to grit his teeth and accept it. After all, no matter how valuable food was, it wasn’t more valuable than Plant Essence.
Just as his finger was about to click the trade button, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him.
His finger quickly closed the trade window and instead opened the market for semi-finished and finished metal products.
Inside were all sorts of furniture made of metal.
Items such as iron doors and aluminum alloy bed frames were everywhere.
He compared prices back and forth between the finished metal products market and the raw metal materials market, eventually finding that finished products were cheaper because no one was buying them.
However, he wasn’t in a hurry. Instead, he cautiously purchased a metal bed frame first.
Because the raw material was a refined-grade item, the bed frame was naturally also of refined quality.
He tried dragging it directly from his backpack to the system’s material recycling function.
“Do you want to recycle the aluminum alloy bed frame? Recycling price: Plant Essence X20.”
“What the f*ck??” Vikram exclaimed, causing the other women to turn their gaze to him.
“What’s wrong now? Why are you making such a fuss? Don’t tell me there are more zombies outside.”
But he just kept shaking his head, casually brushing them off with, “It’s nothing, I just like to howl sometimes.”
It wasn’t that Vikram liked to scream; it was just that the feedback from the item recycling was too delightful.
A simple, empty bed frame, yet the system’s recycling price for it was 20 Plant Essence.
He seemed to have discovered a new business opportunity.
Logically, a hollow bed frame like this would absolutely only consume 3-4 units of aluminum alloy to make.
And the recycling price for 3-4 units of aluminum alloy is roughly between 12-16 Plant Essence.
Now, the bed frame made from these materials is worth more than that, which is enough to prove one thing.
That is, finished items have a higher price than directly recycling raw materials.
This made Vikram overjoyed.
Because currently, metal materials are somewhat overpriced due to the Savage Wolf Shelter’s malicious actions.
However, iron finished products, due to being unsellable, have not yet increased in price despite the rise in metal prices.
Vikram quickly calculated in his mind and found that directly trading finished products for recycling was even more cost-effective than when metal was at its cheapest previously.
Previously, exchanging the daily limit of Plant Essence would cost about 18-20 kg of food.
Now, he tried it and found that it only required 16 catties of food.
“Last time, I was too greedy for a bargain, always waiting for the lowest price to buy metal every day, which is how the Savage Wolf Shelter discovered my tracks.”
“This time, I’ll just sweep up all the reasonably priced items on the market.” He pondered the feasibility in his mind.
Finally, he nodded, his fingers rapidly sliding across the screen, placing orders for one transaction after another, leaving the three girlfriends stunned.
“Vikram, why are you buying so many metal products? The territory isn’t lacking these things,” Anjali, behind him, stretched her neck, staring at the flashing screen on Vikram’s left wrist, and said lightly.
Facing the question, Vikram had already prepared his response, “Metal will definitely skyrocket later. Hoarding more of these things will be very useful in the future.”
Hearing this, the two nodded thoughtfully; they were too lazy to doubt his words.
However, this was, of course, something he made up on the spot. How could he know about future metal prices? For him, the most important thing right now was to collect more metal products before the Savage Wolf Shelter snatched it.
And he will also take revenge on the Savage Wolf Shelter
Before getting the exact coordinates of the Savage Wolf Shelter from Abhishek, he currently had no good way to fight them.
The only option was to bypass them for now and let them gloat for a while.
The corner of his mouth curved slightly, revealing a hint of disdain, “Heh heh, when I raid your home, I’ll make you beasts spit out everything you earned from me, principal and interest.” His tone was calm but laced with a chilling coldness…
Another cold day passed in the Wasteland World.
In the morning, Vikram, still in bed, was not yet fully awake, only vaguely hearing someone call out.
Having lived in the Wasteland World for so many days, his nerves had long become much more sensitive than before.
This call also made him lose his sleepiness. He put on his undershirt and got out of bed.
Vikram, coming out of the bedroom, scratched his back, “What’s going on? All this chattering so early in the morning.”
Seeing Vikram awake, Divya, holding her left wrist, came to his side.
Her eyes were filled with anxiety. As she brought the chat channel screen closer to his eyes, she said with a hint of anger, “The Savage Wolf Shelter can’t find our Shelter’s location now, so they’ve started playing dirty tricks in the chat channel.”
Facing such an urgent situation, Vikram unhurriedly scrolled through the messages in the channel from top to bottom.
He found that the situation was even more serious than he had imagined. In fact, based on the Savage Wolf Shelter’s reputation in the channel.
He had long anticipated that there would be a day when the Savage Wolf Shelter would use public opinion and such to suppress his various transactions.
After all, this tactic was indeed effective. Didn’t Brijbhushan disappear for a long time because of this last time?
It was only recently that he reappeared, and he just happened to team up with the Savage Wolf Shelter.
“Eh?” Speaking of Brijbhushan, he had certainly ruined his big plan last time. Now that the two sides had joined forces, this idea might very well have come from him.
He wondered if Brijbhushan wanted to use his own methods against him, retaliating with the same trick?
Setting aside some meaningless thoughts, what the Savage Wolf Shelter was doing in the channel right now was to bite back.
They were crying wolf, accusing him of forcibly abducting two female members of the Savage Wolf Shelter.
The method was crude, but who could blame the numerous people who licked the Savage Wolf Shelter’s boots?
In the regional chat channel of forty to fifty thousand people, dozens to hundreds of people immediately started to follow suit and denounce Vikram.
At this point, Vikram still wore an indifferent expression.
These people, at most, were just talking trash; they wouldn’t actually do anything. At most, he just needed to be more careful with future transactions.
After all, most of them were ’helping’ the Savage Wolf Shelter with an attitude of speaking up but not putting in effort.
But when the Savage Wolf Shelter once again released a message from Rahul Soniwal, Vikram’s eyes slightly narrowed, his gaze as sharp as a knife.
His eyes were fixed on the screen, where a line of text suddenly appeared, making his expression instantly turn ice-cold…
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