The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1525: Chapter 1525: Measures

On the screen, Ji You’s face was dark as she took a deep breath in a barely noticeable motion.

So after she’d worked herself to the bone for so long, using both brute force and brainpower, almost overexerting her Six Spiritual Threads, in the end she didn’t make any money, and all the benefits got scooped up by those scalpers?

What Ji You hadn’t expected was that even after a gap of thousands, tens of thousands of years, scalpers as a species hadn’t been drowned in the long river of history and had actually survived to this day?

100,000 per ticket, 10 tickets is 1 million, 1 million tickets is 100 billion, 5 million tickets is...

Ji You’s heart suddenly skipped a beat; she felt like she could barely breathe.

She furrowed her brows tightly, her face iron-blue, and stayed silent for a long while.

Seeing that she kept silent, saying nothing, and unable to see her expression or guess her thoughts, Cheng Yu felt a bit uneasy for a moment.

After thinking it over, Cheng Yu probed, "Master, this price is something the average crowd can accept. Otherwise, why don’t we sync our future prices with the scalpers?"

Hearing that, Ji You almost rolled her eyes at Ah Da, but thinking this was her teacher in real life and she still needed him to pass her courses and earn academic points, she held back.

"Hmph~" Ji You didn’t say anything, just let out a light snort.

The sound was very faint, to the point it could be taken as a casual nasal hum, but Cheng Yu instantly felt his heart tremble in fear!

— Was the Master angry?

Cheng Yu’s mind was a bit scrambled.

Ji You suddenly asked, "Ah Da, do you think I should be standing on the same side as scalpers?"

Ji You was a little annoyed. Of all the things she could do, why would she go be a scalper? Everyone knows how hated scalpers are. Even if you’re worlds apart, they’re still the kind of existence that makes people want to curse their ancestors up to the eighteenth generation.

When Cheng Yu heard this, he became even more terrified. He carefully looked at the face of the Green Glaze Master hidden under the mask and said, "Master, of course you wouldn’t stand with scalpers. You’re the kindest person I’ve ever seen in my life. In fact, the fact that you’re willing to share such precious Array Diagrams with the entire All Star... In corners you don’t know about, there are many, many people whose fates are changing because of your kind act."

"There are those with low talent who successfully broke through their bottlenecks."

"There are those who were struggling to feed themselves, who resold the tickets to others, temporarily resolving their survival crisis."

"There are those whose spiritual power was critically damaged, who now have a sliver of hope for recovery."

"There are those who had studied Soul Devices bitterly for years without making any progress, who suddenly broke through."

"There are..."

Cheng Yu’s voice, which had started out soft and low, gradually turned impassioned and rose in pitch. Looking at the Green Glaze Master’s face, a blatant look of reverence appeared in his eyes. "...Master, you have no idea how many people’s lives have changed because of this one move of yours, how much hope you’ve brought to people. I..."

"I don’t want Master to be grouped together with scalpers." Cheng Yu lowered his head as he said this.

Ji You suddenly smiled. "If you don’t want me to do that, just say it directly. No need to cover it up, no need to beat around the bush, and even less need to talk in circles." With how slick and quick Cheng Yu is during livestreams on the Star Network, there’s no way he doesn’t know that saying something like that could make a ’Soul Artifact Master’ angry, yet he still did. That only means that’s not what he truly believes in his heart.

Cheng Yu kept his head down, obediently listening to Ji You, and said in a small voice, "I...I was afraid Master would get angry."

Ji You sounded a bit helpless as she said, "Even if I got angry, what, I’d hit you or something?"

Cheng Yu: "Ahem... ahem, ahem..."

Of course the Master wouldn’t hit him, but was he afraid of being beaten? No. He was scared of losing his position as a shop assistant and the Master’s favor.

Ahem...

That sort of thing couldn’t be said out loud.

After thinking for a moment, Ji You said, "The scalper problem does need to be solved." No matter what, she couldn’t just gift the profits to the scalpers.

The tickets already sold couldn’t be taken back, and it was completely impossible to put a stop to the hype now. There were billions upon billions of people across the whole All Star—who knew who had bought them and to whom they were resold? Even though she could check ticket usage records on the backend, most of the tickets were already clutched in the hands of scalpers. Getting them to spit them back out was probably impossible.

So, if she wanted to put an end to the next round of wild speculation, she could only work an angle with the next batch of new products.

Thinking of this, Ji You said, "My upcoming products and the next few new ones will form a bundled set. Only those who bought the first product and used it to a certain effect will be able to trigger the condition for the second purchase. In other words, resellers and the final buyers... will have no purchasing rights for the new products."

Cheng Yu’s eyes widened. "You mean—"

Ji You nodded. "That’s right. We’ll adopt a strict purchase limit model and guide all customers to buy directly from the source—my shop."

That way, she could cut off the scalpers’ room to operate.

Only the people who initially bought the Array Diagram tickets would have the qualification to buy the second round of new products. But since they had already resold the tickets, they could no longer meet the condition for the second purchase. The Array Diagram had to be opened and watched to possibly meet the trigger condition (depending on individual talent, some people might need to watch it a few times, others a dozen times, or hundreds of times... leaving that aside, the point is if they don’t have a ticket anymore, there’s absolutely no way they can trigger the right to buy the new products)... So when Cheng Yu thought this through, he blinked and asked, "You mean those people who bought tickets and then resold them for cash will probably regret it very much later on?"

Ji You smiled faintly. "Maybe."

Cheng Yu: "!!!"

Master is so black-bellied!

But that’s exactly the kind of Master he liked. No—he liked everything about Master.

Cheng Yu said, "Th-then won’t those people have to buy the tickets back from the scalpers at a high price? In that case, wouldn’t it still be letting the scalpers profit?"

Ji You smiled slightly. "As the sales clerk of the Qingyou Shop, pass this message of mine to the outside world—I don’t welcome anyone reselling my products."

Cheng Yu: "!!!"

With a gentle smile at the corners of her lips, Ji You said, "As for what that sentence implies, feel free to use your imagination."

Cheng Yu stared, "You mean I can even take that sentence and tell everyone that you’re refusing all scalpers, that once any sign of reselling is discovered, that person will be put on a blacklist and will never again be qualified to buy anything from the shop?"

Ji You said, "Sure, you can say whatever you like. Also—"

Ji You paused slightly, then continued, "Maybe the stuff I put on the shelves in the future will all be in huge quantities, so no one will need to spend much energy to grab them?"

She phrased that last sentence as a question, but in Cheng Yu’s ears, it sounded like a statement! For example, this time with the Array Diagram product, hadn’t she put up nearly ten million copies?

And in the future there would be even more, and more?

Cheng Yu’s eyes flew wide open; Zhang Dazui: "M-Master!!! If we do this, no one will dare to resell your products anymore." In this world, Soul Artifact Masters were rare, and no one wanted to offend one as powerful as this. At least, people from the civilian class wouldn’t dare and wouldn’t want to.

Civilians had a hard time surviving. Most of them were the type who would seize any opportunity to fight for a chance—for themselves, for their families, for their children. When it came to throwing themselves and their families into utter ruin for the sake of tiny profits, they would definitely think twice.

Besides, if all of Master’s products were in the tens of billions of units, something everyone could afford and could get, what room would there be for scalpers?

The scalpers would probably be dying to just drop dead.

Cheng Yu’s heart was pounding with excitement; even his fingers were trembling. "M-Master... will that day really come?"

Ji You looked up at the sky. "I don’t know. Maybe."

—Because that’s my wish too.

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