Chapter 00097: Silly Netizens
# Silly Netizens
Chapter 97
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 97 Silly Netizens
Before Audel left, she had said she would send over a few potions as a small token of her appreciation.
Li Chengxi knew she was being humble, but he never expected she would be this humble.
What kind of family was she from, to give such a lavish gift!
He suspected he had misread it several times, counting the zeros one by one before confirming he hadn't made a mistake.
No, why? How could it be so expensive?
The posts in the Trading Zone certainly wouldn't state the reason.
If he posted a query in the Exchange Area, there was no telling when he'd get a reply.
Li Chengxi quickly switched the forum section to the Chatroom and randomly clicked to enter one.
Visitor 159534: Hello everyone, I'm a newcomer who joined today.
Since he hadn't set a nickname, Li Chengxi's posts appeared as "Visitor" plus an ID number.
PK125: Welcome, welcome.
Young Master Feixue: A lot of newcomers recently.
Dabao Laile: Isn't that the truth? I count as a newcomer myself.
PK125: You've been here for a whole damn year!
The atmosphere in the chatroom seemed alright, at least not like those QQ groups where they ask newcomers to post lewd pictures right away.
Oh, right, you can't post images in the chatroom...
But that wasn't important.
Li Chengxi quickly continued typing.
Visitor 159534: I want to ask something, why is the Potion of Remove Disease in the Trading Zone selling for several million?
PK125: A complete newbie, for real.
Young Master Feixue: Quick, let's mess with him.
Dabao Laile: You guys, stop messing around.
The newcomer is still confused.
This reaction was indeed just like that of silly netizens.
Dabao Laile: It's simple why it sells for so much—it's because its value is high.
Visitor 159534: ...
That's like saying nothing at all.
Dabao Laile: The Potion of Remove Disease can cure most illnesses, don't you get it? This means it can even cure terminal diseases.
Visitor 159534: Holy shit!
Dabao Laile: But for terminal illnesses like cancer, it's not guaranteed to work.
You can only say there's a certain chance of a cure.
Also, it has no effect on chronic diseases.
The high price is also related to the fact that the materials to make the Potion of Remove Disease are extremely rare on Earth, and the production process has a very high technical barrier.
Visitor 159534: Are the people on our forum all this rich? Isn't this a small community? Are there that many people who need it?
PK125: There are a lot of middlemen on the forum.
They buy things from people like you, then use their connections to flip it.
Guess who the real buyers are?
Visitor 159534: Section Nine allows that?
Young Master Feixue: Of course they allow it, as long as you're not selling dangerous goods.
They even take a cut.
Li Chengxi was greatly shaken.
As mentioned before, Li Chengxi's convenience store was the kind of business that wouldn't let him starve, but wouldn't make him rich either.
Despite not having much money, he was never someone who valued it too highly.
He was the type who, as long as he had enough for daily life, would never even think to check his bank balance.
The treasury in Leon Stronghold was now stuffed full of gold, silver, and gemstones.
Li Chengxi could have easily taken a few pieces without anyone noticing, but such a thought had never crossed his mind.
After all, to exchange these hard currencies for cash, he'd have to go to a gold shop and declare their origin.
He couldn't very well write that he got them from a game.
Anyway, he was the type who only needed to feed himself, with no family to worry about.
He didn't lack money, nor did he want to go through the trouble.
He played the game purely for entertainment to pass the time and had never considered making money from it.
But even so, this time Li Chengxi was thoroughly excited.
He was tempted to immediately send a divine oracle to Viola and the others, telling them to hurry up and send another eight or ten bottles.
Flip them for a sale, and he could quickly complete his primitive accumulation of capital and achieve a class upgrade.
In his excitement, Li Chengxi even started planning how to spend it.
First, he had to buy a big mansion, get a luxury car, and then add a badass, rich-guy-style computer...
Thinking of this, Li Chengxi suddenly realized a problem.
He... didn't seem to have much to spend money on.
Speaking of buying a house, he was all by himself.
Wouldn't a huge villa feel frightfully empty?
As for a car, although Li Chengxi had gotten his driver's license in college, he had never driven a car since.
He didn't really need one either.
The only useful thing would be to get a good computer with a super-large monitor.
But how much could a top-of-the-line home computer cost? It wasn't like he was trying to buy a supercomputer.
The fact that he had nothing to spend money on made Li Chengxi calm down instantly.
You can never earn enough money; having enough is all that matters.
After calming down and thinking carefully, he wondered: when Zola had pneumonia not long ago, why didn't Viola use a Potion of Remove Disease?
This meant that the item was also a rare and expensive product on Viola's side.
The fugitive princess didn't have any on hand, and it was unrealistic to ask for eight or ten bottles at once.
They say money is a poison that tempts people to fall.
It was really true.
Li Chengxi had almost lost his head and done something irrational.
He put the potions back in the box and stored them away.
Li Chengxi still had to think about what to do with them; at the very least, they had to be used for something meaningful.
After that, he chatted idly with the bros in the chatroom for a bit longer before closing the browser and reopening the game.
The time for prayer had passed, so the Chapel was long empty.
Li Chengxi moved the camera view to check the farmland at the City Gate as usual, then looked at the Tree Elves' Springlight Woodland.
As ever, nothing was happening.
So he immediately switched scripts to see how Yang Yiyi was doing.
As soon as the game screen appeared, Li Chengxi saw Yang Yiyi frantically shaking the jade tablet.
The dialogue box read:
"Brother Li! Brother Li! What's wrong with you?"
Of course, Li Chengxi couldn't answer when he wasn't online.
Yang Yiyi probably thought something had happened to him.
So he quickly picked up the microphone.
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"Stop shaking it, I'm here."
Yang Yiyi had truly thought something had happened to Li Chengxi.
After all, she spent most of her time sleeping, and every time she had woken up before, Li Chengxi had always happened to be online.
After experiencing being sold out by a master she had known for ten years and almost been used as a cultivation cauldron, Yang Yiyi did not want to lose the rare friendly face she had found.
Hearing Li Chengxi's reply, Yang Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Big Brother, why were you completely silent just now?"
"I forgot to tell you, this jade tablet isn't my true form. I'm just talking to you through it. It's just a phone. Sometimes I'm not next to my phone, so of course, there's no response."
"Phone?"
He almost forgot, how would Yang Yiyi know what a phone was?
"It's a communicator, a type of treasure that lets you talk even across vast distances."
"Then, Brother Li, where are you?"
I can't just say I'm outside the game watching you, can I?
"Er... it's a bit hard to explain. In short, I'm not in your world."
"Oh, I understand. Brother Li, you've already ascended to become an Immortal. You're in the Immortal Realm."
Audel thought Earth was the Divine Realm, and Yang Yiyi thought Earth was the Immortal Realm.
Fine, at least it's easier for them to understand.
"Anyway, it's unlikely I can talk to you through the jade tablet every single moment, but don't worry, I'll definitely be here whenever I'm free."
"Mhm!"
Yang Yiyi nodded vigorously, as if she accepted this explanation.
"How are you feeling today?"
"Much better already. I can get out of bed and move around a bit. The medicine you gave me, Brother Li, is especially effective."
Li Chengxi, however, felt that it wasn't that the medicine was good, but that Yang Yiyi's recovery ability was too fast.
He glanced at her HP bar on the character panel; a third of it had yet to refill.
"Don't push yourself. Rest for another two days. I brought you a big apple."
At this rate of recovery, in another day or two, Yang Yiyi would be able to take the jade tablet and explore the world of this Wuxia script.
(End of this chapter)