Under Lu Xueqing's prompting, Mu Rufeng contacted Ghost Communication saying he wanted to establish a new base station.
The other party happily agreed for 1 million yuan, no bargaining, and then sent someone directly to the headquarters of Treasure Tower.
Since they were both in Capital City, it didn't take long to arrive.
Mu Rufeng immediately began selecting items to purchase on the Treasure Tower app.
Firstly, Mu Rufeng chose a whole set of attribute fruit.
Although he had already consumed Level 1-4 attribute fruits, Mu Rufeng still bought a full ten sets.
He bought ten sets of Level 1-9 attribute fruits of three types.
At the same time, he also bought a large number of Level 1-3 attribute fruits, which were not only cheap but also in large quantities.
Although he couldn't carry them on his own, having Little Ying's "Space Storage Bag" meant there was no pressure at all.
It must be said that the variety of items at the headquarters of the Treasure Tower was quite abundant.
Then, Mu Rufeng bought two blades.
His Pig Slaughter Blade had broken, and his Rule Skills "Cut in Half" required a blade to execute.
This time, Mu Rufeng directly purchased a Level 9 Brocade Spring Saber and a Level 7 Pig Slaughter Blade.
The highest level for a Pig Slaughter Blade was only Level 7. Buying one, combined with his Pig Killing Eighteen Techniques and the title of Pig Killing Maniac, plus "You are a Pig," his killing power was still not small.
As for the Brocade Spring Saber, it was simply invincible.
Although strong, the price still made Mu Rufeng feel a bit of a pinch.
After picking and choosing for over ten minutes, Mu Rufeng paid and slowly closed the app.
"Mr. Mu, I didn't expect your ordinary purchases to cost so much? It seems I've hooked a big client, haha!"
Lu Xueqing glanced at Mu Rufeng's consumption records on her management interface and made a playful comment.
"I had no choice, once I enter an instance, I don't get many chances to come out, and finally being at Treasure Tower, I definitely had to buy more items," Mu Rufeng said with a smile.
"That makes sense," Lu Xueqing nodded.
"By the way, Miss Lu, may I presume to ask a question?"
"Of course, go ahead."
"Do you know about the Department?" Mu Rufeng inquired.
"The Department? Oh, I certainly do know. Isn't that the official department in your real world?" said Lu Xueqing.
"Yes, I'm an employee of the Department. I wanted to ask if the Department has reached a deal with you to buy a large quantity of lower-level attribute fruits?"
Regardless, Mu Rufeng still wanted to know if the Department had really purchased attribute fruits in large quantities.
"Yes, but to be honest, it's not really in large amounts. Although the transaction times aren't fixed, it sums up to around 100 sets of Level 1 attribute fruits a day," Lu Xueqing explained.
"A hundred sets a day?" Mu Rufeng was slightly stunned, and then he made some calculations in his mind.
A hundred sets meant fifteen hundred attribute fruits, with each Level 1 attribute fruit costing 1,000 soul coins.
That meant the Department was spending about 1.5 million soul banknotes daily.
The channel contract that Mu Rufeng signed brought in about two million soul banknotes in income daily, which meant the Department was spending three-quarters of this income.
As for the remaining half million, it was necessarily used elsewhere.
Indeed, over these days, contractors at Changsha's Department had all consumed attribute fruits, all distributed from headquarters.
Perhaps due to Mu Rufeng, it seemed the whole province of Hunan was a priority.
"You folks from the Department are all talented, even managed to bring prices down to seventy percent," said Lu Xueqing.
"Seventy percent? Seven hundred soul coins each?" Mu Rufeng was slightly surprised.
Good lord, the people from the Department really managed to slash the prices.
But this also indicated that even at seven hundred soul coins, Treasure Tower was still making a good profit.
"Also, your Department has also been buying a massive quantity of a rather special ore, though they can't take a lot back each time."
"They bought twenty tons in one go last month, and up to now, they've only taken about three tons," said Lu Xueqing.
"What kind of ore is it?" Mu Rufeng asked curiously.
"It's a type of ore called Life Ore. This ore isn't very expensive—just five hundred thousand per ton and it's not selling well."
"We're even planning to lay off half the miners from that mine," said Lu Xueqing.
"Life Ore?" Mu Rufeng immediately took out his phone and opened the Treasure Tower app.
He searched and found the ore.
[Life Ore]: Buried underground, this ore contains life force.
Effects: Special ore, automatically merges when mined, the maximum weight does not exceed 1000 pounds, can be used to craft special items.
"This special item crafted from it, to be honest, leaves much to be desired, but it does have some uses, so the low price and poor sales of the ore make sense."
Five hundred thousand per ton equates to 250 soul coins per pound.
Strictly speaking, the price wasn't very different from the real-world price of gold.
Converting to real-world currency, that's 250,000 per pound, five hundred grams per pound, which means five hundred RMB per gram.
And gold? Now in September, the price of gold is RMB 468 per gram, just slightly more expensive than gold.
"Indeed, not too expensive," Mu Rufeng nodded.
Mu Rufeng immediately placed an order for one ton, regardless of whether it was a material for the Login Bracelet, he felt he had to buy some anyway.