When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 163 Arrangement

Chapter 163: Chapter 163 Arrangement

Signature rights?

Su Nan’s eyes flickered slightly, and the heart she had prepared to engage Chen Qing in a deadlocked contest suddenly calmed down.

"Agreed, ten thousand hectares of Extraordinary Soil, fifty centimeters."

Su Nan gritted her teeth but still agreed.

Chen Qing’s mechanical output wasn’t limited to just one, and she wanted the signature rights to prepare for the subsequent sales of other mechanical outputs. Making appropriate concessions was the only way to secure a ticket to the next round of negotiations.

Su Nan couldn’t resist this "temptation"; only by continuously creating profits for her family could she gain more.

She needed a long-term, stable channel for profit delivery.

Thinking this, Su Nan couldn’t help but look at Chen Qing with envy. Personal strength was indeed crucial.

Those pirates, although often despised, couldn’t be denied their carefree and unrestrained lives.

Reaching the level of White Immortal and Demon Dragon, they could call the wind and summon the rain, their every move capable of causing shifts in the Deep Blue Sea.

Hearing Su Nan’s response, Chen Qing’s eyebrows raised slightly.

Su Nan’s authority was greater than she had imagined, and the wealth of the Sky Blue Stone Wood Chamber of Commerce was more abundant than she had anticipated.

Having settled the trade of Extraordinary Soil, the negotiations for Extraordinary Plants and grain seed potions proceeded even more smoothly.

The seeds of Extraordinary Plants were valuable, but not incredibly so.

The truly precious seeds would never be put up for trade by the trading houses. As for the less valuable ones, giving a bit more or less didn’t make a difference—Su Nan was quite generous.

What wasn’t hers didn’t pain her heart.

Their trade was soon formalized, with both parties conducting the transaction in the waters near Wood Island. Su Nan would immediately notify her family to start preparing the supplies.

Both sides were fairly satisfied with the deal and exchanged contact information. If the opportunity arose, they would certainly engage in further transactions.

Under the escort of Chen Qing’s Extraordinary Ship, it took just over a day for Su Nan’s merchant ship to arrive near Wood Island.

Meanwhile, Wu Liang of the seaside village stood dumbfounded upon hearing of Chen Qing’s departure. She had really just left?

Had she really just left?

Could this possibly be one of her tactics?

Harboring a faint hope, Wu Liang continued to wish for Chen Qing’s return. Unfortunately, he was doomed not to see her again.

Originally, both Chen Qing and Su Nan had come for the Special Supply Box, yet surprisingly, neither of them ended up buying it.

The merchants still at the seaside village felt some regret after receiving this news. If they had known how easy it was to communicate with Chen Qing, they would have tried their luck as well.

Setting aside everything else, Chen Qing must have acquired a lot of gemstones in the Gem Sea.

Diamond Island was besieged by White Immortal and Demon Dragon, and the main island was bombarded into a mess; their output this year was bound to decrease significantly.

Hindsight is indeed a costly thing.

While Wu Liang was ruing his missed opportunity, Chen Qing had already successfully received the traded goods, and both parties were very satisfied after inspection.

Additionally, Chen Qing also purchased some Black Space Stones from the Sky Blue Stone Wood Trading House, spending over thirty thousand goldfish.

Although this wasn’t their main business, they still had some inventory.

Chen Qing planned to produce and mass-produce the Space Distortion Bracelet.

Survivors were in great need of space items at this stage, and the natives’ space items were expensive and scarce, almost unattainable for survivors.

She needed them as well, the only space item Chen Qing had was one given to her by Lei Guang.

There was no choice; space item production was tough, with high costs and a high failure rate.

Without significant ability, one could not succeed; those with some ability were unwilling to spend all their time producing space items.

For a long time to come, survivors should be mass-producing space items.

Having some strength and time but no money, isn’t that just what a survivor is?

Of course, this refers to more than just Chen Qing. There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers among the survivors; a gemstone leaderboard can’t represent the full strength of the survivors.

There are plenty of survivors who, due to various reasons, are unable to reach their destinations, just like what happened with the Demon Dragon Pirate Group during the Daliya incident.

Having obtained all the trade goods, Chen Qing entrusted all the supplies to Mechanical Heart for arrangement. She was preparing to acquire several agricultural-related mechanical diagrams to mass-produce life-assisting mechanical creations.

The planting zone had a great need for these, and soon Mechanical Heart would only need to manage them centrally.

Not just blueprints, she also needed a lot of agricultural and Transcendent plant-related knowledge books.

With this in mind, Chen Qing was still going to be busy for a while.

Before the Extraordinary Ship was completely renovated, Chen Qing had to invest most of her time and money into this.

Leaving Wood Island, Chen Qing planned to stop by and find Ming Rang on her way, then leave the Elemental Sea.

The Treasure Sea was her true destination, where purchasing life-assisting mechanical creations would save her a lot of time and effort.

Upon returning to her studio, Chen Qing quickly contacted Ming Rang and Qing Xian, and also had the ship’s fishing team split into two squads to start salvaging Special Supply Boxes.

Special Supply Boxes could bring unexpected surprises to anyone; with the war imminent, stockpiling them could do no harm.

Qing Xian immediately replied to Chen Qing’s message.

[Qing Xian: No need to collect them, I have them on hand!]

Ever since Qing Xian got along with Chen Qing, she had shown a tendency to surpass her master. She practically never slept.

No matter when Chen Qing contacted her, she was always able to reply to Chen Qing immediately.

After replying to Chen Qing, Qing Xian immediately traded over a bunch of diagrams, White ones, Green ones, and even mixed in two blue quality ones.

Although Qing Xian was very talented, she indeed had limited power and couldn’t access better contacts.

Chen Qing wanted to give Qing Xian money, but she absolutely refused and just disappeared.

Chen Qing was quite helpless and could only wait until she reached Treasure Sea to sort it out, as she still had other matters to attend to now.

For the mechanical slot machine on the ship, Chen Qing allocated some funds to allow Mechanical Heart to try it twice a day.

Her reserve funds were not abundant enough to support more attempts.

Two tries every day, as a show of sincerity.

You never know, the mechanical slot machine might hit the jackpot any day, whether it’s Red Quality or Black Quality, even one hit would be a huge profit for Chen Qing.

Even if it doesn’t yield high-quality blueprints, even two useful mechanical diagrams would do.

Chen Qing isn’t picky.

However, she still needs to make money.

Chen Qing felt a bit of a headache; making money was both simple and troublesome.

She had many ways to earn money: mechanical creations, food, sea beasts, Transcendent plants...

But with the output of the mini-factory and her current production capacity, securing a stable source of income to fund her expenses was indeed challenging.

Chen Qing had always been earning quick profits.

A lot, but unstable, mostly one-offs.

However, Chen Qing didn’t have a better solution to this problem at the moment and could only plan to build more factories on the ship once she arrived at Treasure Sea.

The military factory needed to be constructed as soon as possible as well; the dividends of war are terrifying.

A golden quality military factory would be enough for Chen Qing to secure her footing in the upcoming new round of Deep Blue wars.