Dream Travel

Chapter 557 An Endless Collection
For Beatrice, she has become more useful now, not only in terms of combat ability but also in terms of alchemy.

The bad news is that Bai Mu has more and more useful people around him, especially those demons, each of whom has very impressive professional skills.

Her advantage is that she's prettier than a demon.

But this doesn't seem to be of much use!

Bai Mu wasn't particularly fond of her, so after sensing her physical condition for a while, the over-100-year-old female alchemist was both crying and laughing.

"Sigh, is this how it is when people get old?" Bai Mu asked the Fate Master in a low voice.

The person in question gave him a strange look: "I don't feel that way."

"You and she are not quite the same."

An older loli or a young girl can be five hundred years old, a thousand years old, or even five thousand years old, but not fifty years old or a hundred years old...

The former's age is a statistical number, a dream number for most people.

But the latter is just too realistic a number.

"Humans are always prone to sentimentality." The person in question shook their head and continued reading the book that interested them.

Before she escaped the alternate dream world, her life was quite simple. She lived in a shrine and maintained the balance between the two worlds.

I don't usually go out, and I don't have much to do. I didn't come here with any original mission, so I'm even more idle.

If the internet were more developed, she could become a homebody fox.

After letting Beatrice continue experiencing the living body for a while, White Curtain began assigning tasks.

Tell her to hurry up and prepare the alchemy table, as he's going to farm Dream Erosion Crystals in other Dreamscapes.

After adjusting her mindset, Beatrice said to the white curtain, "I'm ready, and I can leave at any time."

"Then let's go." Bai Mu gave the client some instructions: "After Chelsea returns, have her keep an eye on the Miller family's movements."

"Okay." The person in charge nodded.

Bai Mu went to the bureau to handle the matter, and this time Bo Lei was there. He immediately pulled Bai Mu into his office and took the initiative to talk about the Miller family.

"The Miller family has been exposed for many things, and they can no longer stay in Rota City."

"It's not like we're going to kill them..." Bai Mu said nonchalantly. The large-scale investigation in Rota City only required them to leave the city.

At most, they'll just put forward a few scapegoats.

"The key is Dr. Evefeya's research, and the Bureau is preparing to conduct animal experiments."

"Then you should proceed. You can't abandon something just because it's dangerous."

"Huh?" Bai Mu's attitude surprised Bo Lei.

"The technology has already been leaked; if you don't study it, someone else will."

Bolei nodded and said no more about it, mainly because he was worried that Bai Mu might say something outrageous again.

It's one thing to wipe out the entire Miller family, but what if the government gets involved? Would he say something even more outrageous?

However, even if something unexpected happens, Bai Mu won't be blamed.

"Just keep an eye on Evefeya. By the way, will she go to court?"

“Of course not.” Borre shook his head. The city of Rota had already investigated and clarified some things.

There was an agreement between Evefeya and White Curtain, and White Curtain was doing things in accordance with that agreement.

Everea had no intention of making the adaptive virus widely available; it was the Miller family who stole her research.

In other words, the Miller family essentially stole a portion of what belonged to the White Curtain.

In this matter, Evefeya is also a victim, so if something really goes wrong, the Miller family will be held responsible, and the responsibility will not be placed on any individual.

Regulating Evefeya is just a layer of protection; as for the attitude of Coal Forest City, Rota City is already aware of it.

They seemed quite happy to accept the Miller family.

However, while they may accept it, Rota City will certainly not let Eve go.

Even if Evereya isn't a victim, she can't be let go. The Miller family can leave if they want, but if they want to take her with them, then let them continue the major investigation.

Unable to withstand the massive investigation, the Miller family fled.

"That's all, I'll go now..."

"I heard you're having an affair with her?"

"Who told you that?" Bai Mu glanced at Bo Lei, who had suddenly become gossipy.

“Investigating within the industry,” Borre said matter-of-factly.

Don't underestimate the country's professional investigation team; they came and uncovered a lot of things.

Bai Mu didn't perform any virus enhancement, but the people he brought out from the alternate dream underwent virus enhancement.

The source of the customization was Evefeya, and during the investigation, Evefeya's attitude towards the White Curtain was quite subtle.

"It hasn't reached the point of being intimate yet."

Borre nodded knowingly. That was Evefeya's problem. She clearly didn't want to be used to death by the Miller family and wanted to gain some favorable conditions for herself. "Then you'll be at a disadvantage."

"...Make her pay off her debts later. I'm leaving now."

“Wait, there’s something else.” Borei stopped Bai Mu: “The method you tested works very well. Recently, the Bureau has acquired a lot of high-quality Dream Erosion Crystals, but the market for Dream Erosion items has been fluctuating. Do you have any clues?”

"You know perfectly well what I'm asking!" Bai Mu glanced at Bo Lei: "Didn't you guys create the market volatility first? I didn't tell Lily about it in the first place."

"That's really kind of you." Borei nodded. The market fluctuations were indeed related to the Bureau of Handling Affairs.

After initially confirming the accuracy of the intelligence provided by White Curtain, Oscar allocated a large sum of money to the processing bureau specifically for acquiring those Dream Erosion items.

However, due to the large volume of purchases and the fact that well-informed people are not fools, the previously overlooked generic Dream Erosion items have become expensive.

The processing bureau had predicted this increase, and they could still acquire at a relatively low price for at least half a month.

After all, if the information isn't leaked and the flow of intelligence is slow, it's too late for others to react.

However, the price of Dream Erosion items rose much faster than they expected, disrupting the Bureau's schedule.

"It's been so long, and you still haven't acquired enough Dream Erosion items?" Bai Mu didn't believe the Processing Bureau was so incompetent.

Borei shook his head: "We already have a lot of inventory, but who would complain about having too much? The amount of Dream Eclipse items accumulated is huge, and the early stage is the best time to acquire them."

In the market for Dream Erosion items, there's not much else, but there's a lot of Dream Erosion items that seem useless.

Originally, those Dream Erosion items weren't cheap, but as the number accumulated, the useless Dream Erosion items started to swirl up.

Dream-eroded items whose effects and carriers are perfectly matched are becoming increasingly expensive, while those that don't match are becoming increasingly expensive.

After all, Dream Erosion items themselves cannot be used as materials. If the Dream Erosion effect can be extracted and transferred to other carriers, then the price of Dream Erosion items will not be cheap.

However, this didn't work, so the market for Dream Erosion items became two extremes: the good ones became increasingly expensive, while the bad ones became increasingly cheap.

Furthermore, as the number of Dream Erosion items increases, their prices will only rise further.

However, now that the White Curtain provides a better way to utilize junk Dream Erosion items, it gives those increasingly more junk Dream Erosion items a way to be consumed, and junk Dream Erosion items have begun to break free from the vicious cycle of low prices.

It's consumable, useful, and difficult to produce manually, only obtainable through dungeons. Its price will likely increase rapidly in the near future.

As for how stable prices will be in the future, that depends on the rate of consumption and replenishment.

If the replenishment rate can't keep up with the consumption, the price of junk Dream Erosion items will increase rapidly.

Of course, the price will also be affected by the number of Dream Erosion Crystals obtained, but the impact is not significant.

If they're willing to waste Dream Erosion items like this, isn't the goal to obtain high-quality Dream Erosion Crystals?
Money can be earned again, but high-quality Dream Erosion Crystals are hard to come by. With enough high-quality Dream Erosion Crystals, you can upgrade top-quality Dream Erosion items.

Maintaining it at a high cost is acceptable.

“Domestic Dream Eclipse items have been acquired at an accelerated pace, mainly from overseas.”

"For those overseas, it's all about individual ability." Bai Mu waved his hand, remembering that Lily had mentioned this before.

Lily learned the intelligence a little too late. She could make a move in the domestic market, but the overseas market was more suitable.

Therefore, she and Chelsea went abroad to make acquisitions.

As for money, Bai Mu has no shortage of funds, and as for Lily, that girl is a very well-hidden rich woman. Since she dared to do this, it means she is not short of money either.

While she may not be able to compete with the assets of the entire country, Lily has already gained a significant head start as an individual.

"What I'm asking is, you haven't told this to many people, have you?"

"No, apart from Chelsea and Lily, no one else knows."

"That's good then." Borre was completely relieved. Since so few people knew about it, he could continue to acquire the goods at low prices for a while.

Even if new unexpected events occur, at least we can rule out that the problem lies with the white screen side.

After Borei became the director of the Bureau of Handling Cases, he also learned more about Lily, the manager of that dream experience store.

She was close to Bai Mu, so I needed to keep an eye on her. After getting to know her, I discovered that they used to be colleagues.

Borei used to think that Lily was just someone he had some connection with.

Besides all that, Lily is a very capable businesswoman; she even managed to snag some bargains in business and made huge profits that made him envious.

"Can you collect all the cheap Dream Eclipse items in the world?"

Borre shook his head: "That's impossible. It's impossible to buy up all the Dream Eclipse items in the country at a low price."

Currently in Maple Crown Kingdom, even low-quality Dream Erosion items have increased in price. Those with a keen sense of smell have already started buying low-priced Dream Erosion items from abroad and reselling them in China to make a profit.

Those with more foresight and a willingness to take risks have started stockpiling goods and refusing to sell them.

This matter couldn't be kept secret, so what the Maple Crown Republic did was to carry out a violent and rapid acquisition before everyone paid attention to it.

We'll collect as much as we can in a short time!

This method might collect one-tenth, or even more, of the world's trash and dream-eroded items, but if we proceed slowly, we might not even get one-tenth...

After acquiring so many, the Maple Crown Republic will have gained a significant head start in this area.

(End of this chapter)