Free Web NovelChapter 481: Chapter 276: Harvesting Supplies, ’Thunder’ and ’Flying Lotus
One ton of alloy steel cost so little yet could be exchanged for 200 Alchemy Potions. In Fang Zhen’s world, each Alchemy Healing Potion could be sold for 500,000.
Theoretically, one ton of steel could be directly exchanged for a hundred million worth of Alchemy Potions in the Curse Seal World. ’Who wouldn’t go crazy hearing about such insane profits?’
Of course, he’d have to find distribution channels in his own world. Earning a hundred million would be a long-term, steady stream of income, not a one-time windfall. But it was still an insanely profitable venture.
Fang Zhen did the math and was shocked himself.
The alloy steel trade alone was enough for him to make a fortune.
The antibiotic trade was a similar story.
The Alchemists here could create miraculous healing salves for wounds, but they couldn’t treat bacterial infections. As a result, antibiotics—even something as common as penicillin—had an extremely powerful therapeutic effect in this world.
In fact, when penicillin was first invented during the World War I and World War II era, its price once surpassed that of an equal weight of Gold.
After some calculations, Fang Zhen decided to bring penicillin injections to this world. The price they’d settled on for now was calculated in terms of alchemy equipment.
Fang Zhen had also finalized another deal with Alexander and the others. He would commission them to manufacture a suit of armor similar to a Gundam.
He’d had an idea for a while: to build a suit of Exoskeleton Armor. He wasn’t sure how dominant it would be in single combat, but it would undoubtedly provide a massive survival advantage on the battlefield.
At first, Fang Zhen’s plan was to bring Alchemy back to the modern world to build it. But he suddenly realized there was a better way.
Modern exoskeleton technology was actually quite mature, especially in the fields of structural science, ergonomics, and mechanical engineering. As long as he found a reliable team, they could design it. The real problem was how to install the power source.
He had originally planned to build it in his own world, but that risked leaking secrets. Then it hit him: he could simply pay to have the engineering and mechanical design and fabrication done in the real world, then bring the finished product to the Curse Seal World to have the Rune Carving done.
He could forget about his previous ideas of electric or steam power; he could power it directly with Magic!
After talking with a few Alchemists here, Fang Zhen discovered that the Energy Storage Stones he had obtained previously could be used as a power source for this kind of Mechanical Armor.
In fact, the Whig Society had siege equipment that used Energy Storage Stones as a power source.
At this thought, Fang Zhen’s heart burned with excitement.
’I just won’t feel right until I build a Gundam-like suit of combat armor.’
Having settled these trade deals, Fang Zhen basically entered a long-term honeymoon period with the Whig Society.
After all, while reverence could last, a stable partnership still required mutual interests.
To put it more elegantly, they needed to have a common cause and shared long-term goals.
Fang Zhen’s negotiations with the Whig Society went exceptionally well. Both sides felt they were getting what they needed, and they entered an even closer honeymoon period. freewebnoveℓ.com
Fang Zhen had essentially landed a massive military procurement contract.
He had just completed a nightmare-difficulty dungeon. The difficulty wasn’t in the final boss fight, but in the war itself. One wrong move, and he could have been swallowed up by legions of aberrations.
If that had happened, he wouldn’t have even had time to open the Light Gate to escape.
Fortunately, he had more or less completed his mission.
At the same time, Fang Zhen also received some new information. The Whig Society didn’t specify what methods they used, but they had extracted some valuable intel from the four captured Upper Senators of the Eternal Night Council.
And with that, Fang Zhen’s three side quests were completed all at once.
According to the testimony of those Eternal Night Council members, their orders had been to completely crush and destroy the Whig Society’s Lansi City and to find a peculiar stone.
Only these Upper Senators knew of this directive, and even they only had a vague understanding. They knew the description of the stone but nothing more specific about it.
Fang Zhen, however, knew exactly what it was: the Extraterrestrial Exotic Stone that Alexander had shown him in the secret underground chamber.
Furthermore, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Eternal Night Council were searching for higher-level subjects for human experimentation.
According to the intelligence, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Eternal Night Council were conducting an extremely important experiment, one whose results pertained to the secret of eternal life.
Even the long-lived races within the Eternal Night Council only had extended lifespans; they were not truly immortal.
But their Chairman and Vice Chairman were pursuing true, unending immortality.
This kind of experiment required the finest subjects to have any chance of success, which was why they were capturing high-level humans.
As for the "Filth Language," the intel suggested it wasn’t an inheritance that every member of the Eternal Night Council received. Instead, a strange voice would sometimes appear in their minds, transmitting a certain kind of information.
Even within the Eternal Night Council, this transmission was considered extremely dangerous, and they had a strict set of methods to repel and resist it.
This information couldn’t be heard by ordinary humans; only aberrations who had reached a certain level could perceive it. It seemed to be a message laced with temptation and chaos.
In the past, some Upper Senators in the Eternal Night Council had gone mad after hearing this information. Ellick, however, was an exception.
