No strange things are allowed to evolve!

"Five times?! You haven't become a poet of lies, have you?"

"Bullshit! I could get anything but a lying poet. I advise you to start stockpiling now. It's only day one, and prices will definitely go up after this!"

"No, you said they're all sold out, where am I supposed to stock up?"

"Are you stupid? How do you get monster materials?"

"Kill the monsters."

"Right, then shouldn't adventurers and mercenaries be the ones to kill the monsters?"

"Correct."

"Normally, do they need to prepare a lot of things for each trip?"

"Let me think... medicine, weapons, armor, food, vehicles, camping supplies, these should all be necessary, right?"

"That's right, so if you can't stockpile monster materials, stockpiling these things is the same, isn't it? Although the price is definitely not as outrageous as monster materials, it's still easy to double or triple the price."

"Oh dear, I'm so stubborn."

"That's right, let's hurry up and stock up on goods, then sell them when the price peaks and make a killing. This time it's really our turn to get rich."

"I don't have enough money."

“You should learn from me. I just heard the news this morning, and I sold the house by noon.”

"Huh? That's a house in the center of Lies Town, you wouldn't sell it before, why are you selling it like this now?"

"But we didn't have these conditions before. And I have to remind you, everyone needs cash now, houses aren't easy to sell. If you want to sell, you'd better hurry."

"Your house isn't selling well?"

"Yes, I had to lower the price by one-fifth to sell it."

"My God, you're willing to sell this?"

"There's nothing I can do, I'm short of money too. But let me do the math for you. It seems like I lost one-fifth, but if I use all that money to hoard these things and wait for them to peak before selling them, I estimate I can make at least five or six times my initial investment. Then I can buy back my house at at most double that price, which means I'll make a net profit of about two houses."

"Wow, that makes perfect sense."

"Alright, I'm not talking to you anymore. If you want to sell, hurry up. If you're too late, not only will you not be able to sell the house, but all the goods will be snapped up. I also have an expert lecture scheduled for this afternoon. I'll let you know as soon as there's any news."

"You're a true brother."

"Iron!"

Similar conversations are playing out all the time in Liestown.

In fact, the price fluctuations of fourth-tier magical beast materials had already begun the day before.

Some people who frequently follow the market have keenly noticed this and buy up all the materials in the market a day in advance, then wait to sell them off.

This is the reason for the shortage in the market.

Because a small group of astute individuals snapped up the goods, others who genuinely needed these materials had to increase their budgets, thus contributing to the inflated prices of Warcraft materials.

Only when prices are artificially inflated to this level will most people, who are rather slow to react and have only a superficial understanding of the market, begin to discover this "blue ocean."

In their view, if the price has risen so much in just one day, what will happen if it rises for a few more days? Won't it go crazy?

So they started hoarding the goods like crazy, buying them back from those who had previously swept them up the market, hoping the price would continue to rise.

However, as more and more people are joining this trend, the market still presents the illusion that there is a shortage of fourth-tier monster materials, and prices will indeed continue to rise for some time.

But once no one else joins in and the market returns to normal demand, everyone will find that these things bought at great expense have no value whatsoever and will only end up stuck in their hands.

To recoup their losses, these people will sell the goods they bought at high prices at low prices, hoping to recover as much as possible.

At that time, demand was far lower than supply, so they had to sell the goods at a price even lower than the original market price.

However, this will take some time. At least for now, the market is still full of vitality and everything is thriving.

At the same time, the items needed to obtain these materials will also increase in price and eventually face the same fate, only not as dramatically.

Because adventurers and mercenaries can kill monsters and obtain materials on their own, it's a business with no cost to them.

So for a time, many adventurers and mercenaries who were idle at home couldn't sit still anymore.

They flocked to the market to purchase all the items needed for their expedition, and then went to the Adventurers' Guild and the Mercenary Guild to find suitable teams.

Objective: Slay a fourth-tier magical beast and obtain materials.

But it is almost foreseeable that, not to mention whether they can successfully find a fourth-tier magical beast, even if they bring back materials, the market will probably have changed drastically by the time they have gone back and forth.

Furthermore, with a large influx of new Tier 4 magical beast materials into the market, the already low prices may drop to an unimaginable level.

Then, the adventurers and mercenaries will find that the things they brought back after spending so much money and paying such a high price have become dirt cheap.

Perhaps I won't have the motivation to go out for a long time.

But as I said before, this will take time.

At least for now, the Adventurers' Guild and the Mercenaries' Guild are still thriving and full of vitality.

......

Oasis Chamber of Commerce.

Jiang Shu is having afternoon tea with strawberry milkshake and Windsor.

"From what you're saying, it seems like everyone is losing money?" Windsor asked, somewhat puzzled.

Jiang Shu replied, "There isn't everyone. Someone always makes money, but they make money from those who come later. Whoever enters the market late loses more."

"I wonder how many people will be ruined," Strawberry Milkshake sighed with pity.

She could understand the logic behind it because something like this had happened around her before. She just hadn't expected that Jiang Shu would not only think of it, but also put it into action.

And what's strange about her is...

This kind of thing sounds simple and easy to understand, but it is incredibly difficult to do in practice. There are also many unknown details involved. How did Jiang Shu know this?

But Jiang Shu scoffed at the strawberry milkshake: "No one has ever asked them to join. It's just that most of them are arrogant and think they'll be one percent of people who can make money."

I dare say that many of them could see things more clearly, but they still clung to wishful thinking, believing they could make a fortune before the market collapsed, and resolutely stepped in anyway.

This kind of person is no different from a gambler; there's nothing to sympathize with.

"I was just saying," Strawberry Milkshake replied.

She understood all these principles, and she didn't really sympathize with these people. She was just feeling a little melancholy because the scene reminded her of some of her friends who had jumped off buildings.

“However, if it’s just about buying up goods in the market and then reselling them, although it’s a large sum for ordinary people, the Chamber of Commerce won’t make much money, right? Why would Father trust you so much and entrust you with the entire task?” Windsor still didn’t quite understand.

In just one day, his father's attitude toward Jiang Shu seemed to have changed a little too quickly.

Thinking back to her father's smug and self-satisfied demeanor before he left home at noon today, he even told her, as the lady of the house, to take good care of Jiang Shu, and hinted that if possible...

Windsor blushed and lowered her head as she thought about this.

Honestly... even though I'm getting on in years, there's no need to rush into marriage...

"This?" Jiang Shu smiled. "It's really not worth it for the Chamber of Commerce to compete with them for such a small amount. I have my eye on other things."

"Huh? What is it? Tell me."

It was at this moment.

"We made a fortune, we made a huge fortune!"

Windsor's father rushed excitedly into the drawing room.

He placed a stack of briefings in front of Jiang Shu.

"We bought a large number of houses at prices far below market value, and now we're just waiting for the bubble to burst so we can make a fortune!"

Jiang Shu looked at the shocked Windsor, her eyes seeming to say: Now you know why, right?

In fact, not only Windsor's father, but also the chamber of commerce presidents who were persuaded by him to participate, had already regarded Jiang Shu as a god-like figure, even though they had never met him.

This outcome was within Jiang Shu's expectations.

While these tricks might not seem like much back home, they are a devastating blow to Lies Town.

This is thanks to the Lie Poets. Because of their existence, the ordinary residents of Lie Town are very sensitive to lies. Even the Chamber of Commerce, which should theoretically be full of unscrupulous merchants, is full of integrity and doesn't resort to any underhanded tricks.

Therefore, this kind of operation was simply unheard of to them.

After Jiang Shu explained that this was not a scam, but rather a reasonable price adjustment, sacrificing the interests of a small group of people in exchange for market activity, mobilizing the enthusiasm of adventurers and mercenaries, promoting the development of adventurer guilds and mercenary guilds on a macro level, and fully suppressing the influence of the Temple of Lies.

Everyone naturally and tacitly participated, making a fortune.

After looking around at the luxurious furnishings and exquisite decor of the reception room, Jiang Shu said to Windsor's father, "It looks like you'll be busy renovating and expanding this place from now on."

"Hey, we'll talk about that later." Windsor's father said in a friendly tone, "Here, this is the information on the adventurer teams you requested. They are all extremely high-level adventurers. I sponsored them with equipment at prices far below market value in exchange for the captain's position. You can join any of them if you wish."

As he spoke, he handed Jiang Shu another stack of documents.

The strawberry milkshake was stunned, only realizing what was happening later.

So all that was for this?!

She already imagined that if Jiang Shu's evil deeds were ever exposed, the Temple of Lies would definitely be the scapegoat.

Who told them to give me this assessment?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow for the Temple of Lies.

"Okay, no rush." ​​Jiang Shu put down the documents without even glancing at them. "But I think you trust me now, right?"

"What are you saying?" Windsor's father gave an awkward smile, as if the person who had been so critical of Jiang Shu just a day ago was no longer him: "Who are we to each other?"

"Alright, let's talk in private. I have some questions for you."

Jiang Shu stood up:

"About the Temple of Lies."

Chapter 108 Another Fact

Jiang Shu had always found it strange.

Indeed, Windsor had a lover who was a poet of lies, and she may have told her some things about him. However, they later separated. Logically, Windsor should have taken everything he said as a lie, as can be seen from her attitude towards the poet of lies from the beginning. She did not believe a single word he said.

Even if she is impartial and keeps things separate, she shouldn't have such a comprehensive understanding.

However, the poet she described to Jiang Shu was more like a conclusion drawn from a fair and objective standpoint that contained neither goodwill nor badwill.

It is neither the subjective conjecture of a poet who lies, nor the complete ignorance of the general public.

This didn't seem like something she had gained through observation herself. After all, her status was perhaps even lower than that of the general public in Lie Town, and given her experiences, it was hard for her not to harbor ill will. Therefore, Jiang Shu felt that she must have obtained this knowledge from somewhere.

It wasn't until she learned about her father's identity that Jiang Shu finally understood the mystery.

If these perceptions of hers were inherited from her father, then it makes perfect sense, given his status and position; he should be able to judge the lying poet from that perspective.

As the president of a chamber of commerce, one must first be a businessman. And businessmen value profit. Strictly speaking, they don't have clear enemies and friends. Where there is profit, there are friends.

That's why he was able to give such a relatively fair and objective evaluation of the poet of lies, and in order to prevent Windsor from being deceived, he passed all these insights on to Windsor, and finally to Jiang Shu.

In Moore's account, the Chamber of Commerce was also one of the major forces that once resisted the Temple of Lies, so Jiang Shu wanted to hear how the Chamber of Commerce's version of the same story differed from Moore's.

After arriving at the deserted place with Windsor's father, Jiang Shu first verified whether there were any differences between Windsor's and her father's views on the Lie Poet. After finding no problem and confirming that Windsor's understanding came from her father, Jiang Shu asked about the Lie Town's resistance to the Lie Temple.

"Why would you ask about this?" Windsor's father asked, curious.

Windsor's father was unaware that Jiang Shu was a poet of lies.

"Because it just feels a little strange."

Jiang Shudao:

“I heard that registered temple poets have been restricted, but the public still seems very uneasy about them.”

Just like the hotel owner yesterday, he reminded us to always keep this in mind.

So I'm wondering if these so-called constraints are just a formality, not truly effective.

“This…” Windsor’s father clearly knew something, but he seemed to have some reservations.

Jiang Shu observed his reaction and, seeing that he was in a difficult position, pretended not to care and said, "It's okay. If it's inconvenient to say, then forget it. Anyway, I'm just a little interested. Actually, this matter has nothing to do with me, right? I believe you can tell that my ideal is to become an excellent adventurer, which is why I asked you to help me get a spot in an adventurer's team."

"Hmm...yes, I can see that."

Windsor's father nodded in deep agreement:

"That's why I feel it's a pity. Someone like you should be a born businessman. I'm absolutely certain you can pioneer a new business model."