Cave Refuge-Chapter 829 - 535 Preparations Before Leaving_2

Having failed to snatch up the tasks issued by the Officials, Dong Tianyu had no choice but to select tasks posted by private individuals.

Because as long as one was willing to pay the task posting fee and offer an appropriate task reward (regardless of whether the reward matched the difficulty of the task), it would be allowed to be displayed in the App for three days.

Posting could definitely be done normally; whether someone would take it was another matter.

There was one most crucial difference between private tasks and official tasks.

Whenever the Officials published a task, they would assess its difficulty during the posting process and then clearly inform people of their estimated difficulty for that task.

However, private tasks did not have this assessment. The distinction of private tasks only lay in the final offered reward value—if it was Contribution Points, they could be displayed directly.

But if the reward was in kind, the App would provide an estimated price for the item.

If the reward was some kind of item whose price could not be estimated, then the App would uniformly transfer them to a specialized display page.

What Dong Tianyu lacked now was the Contribution Points that needed to be paid regularly every month; therefore, he outright filtered out tasks with physical rewards and only looked at those that rewarded Contribution Points.

Confident in his own strength, Dong Tianyu directly selected tasks sorted from high to low reward.

But when the tablet refreshed the list according to Dong Tianyu’s preferences, displaying tasks that met the requirements, the expression on Dong Tianyu’s face became much more complicated.

The top twenty ranked tasks on the display were all either invitations to certain individuals or teaching someone a lesson, with only a sparse two or three being item searches.

From the rewards offered by the tasks it’s not hard to see that the tasks’ publishers must be doing more than simply sending out invitations—they must aim to teach someone a lesson to a certain extent, while the item searches even provided the specific locations of the items.

Seeing the information about those tasks, Dong Tianyu really wondered whether these tasks could be freely distributed and furthermore, whether the Officials were truly not auditing the content of these published tasks?

While Dong Tianyu was puzzled about this situation, he suddenly thought of a rather critical issue. It seemed as though tasks could be arbitrarily posted in the App.

However, many people overlooked an important problem. Whether it was the task publishers or the task recipients, anyone wishing to log into the App would need to undergo real-name authentication.

Because of the real-name authentication, if the Officials didn’t look for trouble, it would be fine; but once a matter touched upon the bottom line of the Officials, it would be very easy for them to trace the involved parties through this authentication.

After realizing this, Dong Tianyu suddenly thought of the underworld market prior to the calamity. Initially, when people heard about this market, they believed it to be an absolutely hidden haven outside the law.

But as time went on and with the rise of the internet, when the underworld market became widely known, it had turned into a fishing ground for the world’s Officials.

Perhaps those who required the underworld market had already moved on to other locations, but the now publicly known underworld market had completely turned into the Fish Pond of various nations’ Officials.

Having thought things through, Dong Tianyu once again filtered out tasks such as hiring people, searching for items, and teaching someone a lesson. After removing these options, the remaining tasks were the ones useful to Dong Tianyu.

The top three pinned tasks were all purchase requests, but they were not for any hard-to-obtain resources, but rather some basic materials.

Based on the purchase prices listed above, Dong Tianyu roughly understood the current level of resource prices at the base.

Without a doubt, the prices listed here were the lowest for these materials; however, through these tasks, Dong Tianyu also realized something—if he didn’t aim to earn Contribution Points to increase his base permissions, but merely wanted to obtain some points to offset the monthly Contribution Point requirement, he could totally do so through buy-and-sell transactions. There was no need to rely solely on accepting tasks here.

And for transactions, Dong Tianyu didn’t need to handle them personally. As long as he was willing to give up some profit, he could actually trade with Ye Liuyun.

Doing this not only saves time and effort but also provides Ye Liuyun with some stable revenue in the early stages.

As the saying goes, everyone else is out to make money, and the money has to be earned by someone, so as long as it’s not the kind of ruthless profiteering that takes advantage of acquaintances, Dong Tianyu actually prefers trading with people he knows.

With that in mind, he closed the task App and, instead of calling, sent a direct message to Ye Liuyun asking if he was involved in the trade of Contribution Points.

Perhaps Ye Liuyun was not busy, because shortly after the message was sent, he received a reply. As a middleman, Ye Liuyun certainly wouldn’t pass up something that could potentially become the base’s new credit currency.

It might not even be a matter of potential anymore, considering that many people have already started using Contribution Points for transactions. As long as the officials manage it well and don’t recklessly issue too much, Contribution Points becoming the new credit currency just makes sense.

Since Ye Liuyun was away, the two didn’t chat much; Dong Tianyu simply asked him for an evaluation based on the previous full load in his storage equipment.

If Dong Tianyu found the terms agreeable, he would notify Ye Liuyun to prepare enough Contribution Points in advance for a direct trade at their next meeting.

Knowing Dong Tianyu’s character and guessing why he was doing this, Ye Liuyun made sure not to lose out. But because of their relationship, he would still give up some profit in his quote, earning a bit less himself.

After hearing Ye Liuyun’s quote, Dong Tianyu compared it to the purchase prices he saw on the App, and once he confirmed that Ye Liuyun wasn’t shortchanging him, set the trade for five days later at the end of the month.

When he was away from home, Dong Tianyu missed his parents greatly, but after staying home for a while, he increasingly felt like an extra person there.

Perhaps because Dong Tianyu had been away for so long, Father Dong and Mother Dong had gotten used to living just the two of them.

Thus, aside from the first few days after Dong Tianyu initially returned home, Father Dong and Mother Dong grew less and less fond of having him around, and Dong Tianyu personally experienced what they call ’distance makes the heart grow fonder; proximity breeds contempt.’

Time flew by, and when he met with Ye Liuyun again, Ye Liuyun actually brought over more than two thousand dark green Mysterious Cores.

Even though they had agreed to trade on a consignment basis, with Ye Liuyun just taking a commission, Dong Tianyu had approved of the first transaction.

Since Dong Tianyu offered the same items as the last time, Ye Liuyun kept some Mysterious Cores for himself this time, something Dong Tianyu was unaware of.

Although Dong Tianyu was a Cultivator at the Golden Core Stage, he didn’t have the power to predict the future, and since the trades were so close in time, Ye Liuyun didn’t even have to lie; simply by not mentioning it, Dong Tianyu would never know some Mysterious Cores were skimmed during the trade.

However, Ye Liuyun had always only made the money he was supposed to make, which was exactly why Dong Tianyu continued to trade with him.

Filling Ye Liuyun’s storage equipment once more, this time, the transaction wasn’t consignment of dark green Mysterious Cores but rather for exchanging Contribution Points.

The reason they didn’t continue with Ye Liuyun as the purchasing agent wasn’t due to his poor performance but because Dong Tianyu was preparing to leave and didn’t know when he would return.

Buying dark green Mysterious Cores and not using them immediately, the longer they are stored, the higher the risk of loss.

Besides, having already bought over three thousand Mysterious Cores, it was necessary to use them first to see the effects before deciding whether to continue purchasing more.

When Ye Liuyun transferred over the Contribution Points equivalent to the goods, the monthly fixed deduction of Contribution Points had become something Dong Tianyu could easily disregard.

In the evening, after Father Dong and Mother Dong returned, Dong Tianyu transferred some Contribution Points to each of them and then informed his parents of his plans to leave.

Upon hearing this, his mother immediately tried to persuade him to stay, but before Dong Tianyu could respond, Mr. Thompson interjected, "Children and grandchildren have their own good fortune; our son surely has his plans. Let’s not interfere too much.

Besides, without leaving here, how can he go to other bases to look for his cousin? Listen to me, let’s make a lavish farewell dinner for our son."