Yue Xingwen and the others returned to the base with the protective equipment bought for their teammates, and everyone had a simple lunch together to discuss the next plan.
Xu Yishen had already investigated the channels to buy water buckets. He went to the community this morning and asked a few residents to buy water from the Water Resources Management Bureau, the buckets were provided by the Bureau, or was the buyer preparing it themselves? The answer was that there were places to buy buckets near the Bureau, and it was very convenient to take your ID card and buy them.
The ‘very convenient’ way to buy for the residents of this world, but a hassle for them.
—— ID card.
As examinees who came to this world temporarily, 12 of them had no ID cards at all.
Xu Yishen thought of an idea and said, “Let’s give the money to the residents here, let them buy an empty bucket with their ID cards, and then give them some labor fees. There should be people willing to help.”
Yue Xingwen asked, “Senior brother, have you inquired about how much the empty bucket cost?”
Xu Yishen said, “3 yuan for a plastic bucket, it’s said to be recyclable, and it’s no problem to use it for half a year.”
Ke Shaobin said curiously, “What about the price of water? How much is a bucket?”
Xu Yishen said, “50 yuan for a bucket.”
Ke Shaobin quickly calculated. “The cost price of the bucket is 3 yuan. We can make unlimited water resources, that is, selling a bucket of water makes a net profit of 47 yuan. How many liters of distilled water did we make in this batch?”
Xin Yan said calmly, “100 cubic meters, excluding the loss in the production process, and finally got 80,000 liters.”
Teammates: “……”
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80,000 liters!
The net income of 10 liters of water was 47 yuan, how much did that make for 80,000 liters ah?
Jiang Pingce immediately calculated the results. “If all this batch of water is sold, the net profit will be 376,000 yuan.”
The teammates were beaming with joy. No wonder the proportion of reverse exchange points in the library was so high. It seemed that the library was right to set the proportion higher, otherwise, they could really make a fortune by selling water.
Ke Shaobin smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits. “370,000 yuan, how should we spend it?”
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Xin Yan frowned and said, “There are no desserts and hot pots that you love to eat in this world, the money can’t be spent.”
Ke Shaobin’s smile froze, and he sighed lightly, “Xin Yan, why do you always love to hit me ah?”
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They made 985 yuan selling oranges in the morning, and spent some of them on protective equipment. They didn’t have much cash left.
Xu Yishen also agreed with this proposal and said, “100 buckets is enough. The profit will be more than 4,000 yuan if it is sold out. We have limited manpower, and we can’t transport so many buckets. Take your time, you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry.”
Yue Xingwen suggested, “It’s better to do it like this. Senior brother Xu, you go and buy empty buckets first, and bring empty buckets back to fill the water. At dinner time, we will sell another batch of oranges, and after selling the oranges, you’ll sell the water.”
Lin Manluo said, “Water is a regulated resource in this world. We can’t openly set up stalls and sell them. At that time, just pretend that you bought it back from the Resource Management Bureau and accidentally bought too much, so you just passed it on to someone else. We go to the entrance of different communities, each carrying a bucket, and sell them separately, bucket by bucket.”
Qin Lu said, “How to transport it? It’s too weird to be seen when I teleported so many buckets directly.”
Zhang Xiaonian raised his hand and said, “I can drive the roller as a means of transport. Senior brother Liu covered the bucket with gauze. Even if people see, they don’t know what I’m transporting. At that time, I will park the roller in an unoccupied corner, and everyone will come to me to get it after selling a bucket of water.”
This method was good, Yue Xingwen nodded approvingly.
Qin Miao said calmly, “The Water Resources Management Bureau sells a bucket of water for 50 yuan, which is the official price. If we also sell 50, will the residents buy ours? Do you want to make a discount, for example, sell 45 yuan, 5 yuan cheaper.”
“No need. The water is different from oranges, they have never seen oranges, so we use small profits and try it for free. Water is very common, and the water they get from official sources is no different from the water we make. We use the official buckets, fill them up with water and resell them at the original price for sure someone wants them.” Yue Xingwen explained, “After all, they go all the way to the Bureau and have to stand in line, and they can buy ready-made ones directly from us.”
Qin Miao nodded. “It makes sense. Is the price of oranges still 1 yuan?”
Ke Shaobin made a suggestion and said, “From this morning’s sales, finding a few trustees, oranges are still very easy to sell. We can raise the price to 3 yuan, which is about the same price as compressed biscuits, and residents can afford it.”
“It’s possible.” Yue Xingwen said, “3 yuan for one orange is very cheap. Everyone will not hesitate too much to buy a few casually to taste it.”
Everyone discussed the price. Xu Yishen led the team to buy empty buckets, while the other six rested at the base.
Senior brother Xu returned in the evening. They only bought 30 empty buckets, much less than the expected 100.
Xu Yishen rubbed the corners of his forehead helplessly, “In the Water Resources Management Bureau, there are not many people who buy buckets. It’s difficult to meet a few people who wanted to buy it, and they were not willing to help.”
Without empty buckets, it would be inconvenient for them to sell this batch of water outside.
The shape of the distillation flask was too strange and difficult to carry. If they took a large number of distillation flasks filled with water to sell, it was estimated that it would attract the attention of the official. Only when filling the water with the water holding tools of this world and going to the entrance of the community to resell, could someone be willing to buy it.
Yue Xingwen comforted them and said, “It doesn’t matter, let’s sell as much as we can, anyway, our goal is to survive for 14 days, not to make a lot of money here.”
At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, Yue Xingwen used the ‘Torrential Rain’ to copy the second batch of oranges, and the group set off again.
They came to the entrance of another large community, Qin Lu and Liu Zhaoqing continued to work diligently as trustees. Xiao Tu played an advertisement selling oranges on a loop, and it turned out that there was not much difference between 1 yuan and 3 yuan for an orange. Those who were unwilling to buy would not come to see them at all, and those who were willing to buy, buy a dozen at a time.
This time, because they all wore headscarves, protective clothing, and dressed like the people of this world, the residents did not look at them with ‘the look of looking at a mental illness people’, and the sales of oranges were even better than in the morning, selling 1,000 in an hour.
Net profit of 3,000 yuan.
Immediately after, Yue Xingwen and the others retreated and Xu Yishen’s group went to the entrance of the community to sell water.
Since water was an officially controlled resource, it was not good for them to set up a large-scale stall. Zhang Xiaonian parked the roller in the corner, while the others each carried a bucket of water to the entrance of the community to sell.
“Just got back from the Water Resources Management Bureau, bought an extra bucket of water, does anyone want it?” Lin Manluo’s reason worked very well, and soon an old lady came up to her and said, “Transfer it to me, I just want to go buy it!”
The residents were happy to be able to buy ‘official’ water at the original price and saved the trouble of running errands. The 30 buckets of water they brought out in this batch were soon all sold, excluding the cost, they earned 1,400 yuan.
Yue Xingwen smiled as he typed in the chat channel: “We’re rich, this time made a net profit of 4,400 yuan in cash!”
Ke Shaobin said, “Let’s go to the supermarket to buy some food. I don’t want to eat that compressed biscuit again.”
Although there were few types of fresh vegetables in this world, they still looked much more friendly compared to hard and unpalatable compressed biscuits. Yue Xingwen, Jiang Pingce and Ke Shaobin went to buy food together, while the others returned to the base first.
The three of them picked through the shelves and took a serving of various vegetables.
As for the fruit…
Ke Shaobin swallowed his saliva and looked at 50 yuan for a piece of grape. In the end, he was still reluctant, it was enough to have oranges.
It cost 500 yuan at the checkout. Yue Xingwen looked at the cabbage, radish and tomatoes in the bag, and said with a bitter smile, “We don’t have a spatula, and these dishes are not easy to cook. We can only use Xin Yan’s distillation flask to make soup for drinking.”
Ke Shaobin sighed softly and said, “Last time in the Faculty of Biological Science, we ate multigrain porridge all the way. This time in the Faculty of Environment, we ate vegetable soup for 14 consecutive days… I am afraid that when I return to the real world, I will want to vomit when I see the cabbage.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Just pass the course, don’t ask too much. At least we can still eat. The future Faculty may be worse than this, and maybe there’s not even food.”
Jiang Pingce turned his head and glanced at him. “Don’t crow mouth.”
Yue Xingwen coughed lightly and didn’t say anything further.
The three quickly returned to the base with Yue Xingwen’s acceleration skill.
However, when he approached the base, Yue Xingwen was alert to find that something was not quite right.
He pricked up his ears and looked around. It was almost dark, the surroundings were quiet. The entrance to the underground base dug by Xiao Nian was in front. In order not to attract the attention of the people of this world, senior brother Liu cut a piece of wood with his chainsaw to cover the entrance, and also used sand to make a cover.
At this time, the sand was still the same as when he left in the afternoon, and the wooden lid had not been opened.
Yue Xingwen suddenly realized something, and quickly typed in the chat channel: “Is everyone back?”
No one answered in the chat channel for a while.
Ke Shaobin straightened his back nervously and whispered, “Carefully counted. After selling things and separately, no one has typed in the chat channel. They should report to us that they are safe after arriving at the base.”
Jiang Pingce typed and asked: “Is anyone there?”
No response.
Yue Xingwen’s face changed and said, “Even if they encountered special forces and were arrested, they are not powerless to not counterattack. What the hell is going on?”
Ke Shaobin said, “If they really fight, they won’t lose. Xin Yan’s distillation flask can lock up many people. Senior brother Zhuo’s electricity, senior sister Lin’s vine, senior sister Lan’s prison, Qin Lu’s Siberian Cold Current, and Qin Miao’s Wine Cup and Sweeping Liuhe, have so many skills. How can they be wiped out? Moreover, they have not sent a message on the chat channel for help? It was as if they had suddenly disappeared.”
Jiang Pingce frowned, and quickly analyzed, “Anesthetic bomb.”
Yue Xingwen looked back at him, and Jiang Pingce explained, “Our actions may have already attracted the attention of some organizations in this world. They ambushed the road in advance and suddenly attacked everyone when they passed. Our teammates might have lost consciousness before they had time to react.”
After hearing this explanation, Yue Xingwen’s face became uglier.
The library did not allow them to live easily for 14 days.
Where did everyone get caught?
Here comes trouble!
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