A day quietly passed, and the plan to find a bargain in the black market fell through.
Those who can operate in the black market are all shrewd people, and it's unlikely that a high school student like him would find any good deals.
Although he was disappointed, Lu Li was mentally prepared.
"You've been wandering around the black market all day, haven't you found any Pokémon with high potential?" Yekaterina asked, frustrated.
Lu Li: "..."
"You can't tell potential from the outside, I can only analyze it based on my feeling."
Hearing this, Yekaterina rolled her eyes. 'I believe you,' she thought sarcastically. The owner of the Eye of Ideals can't see through a Pokémon's potential?
Who would believe that? At least, she, Yekaterina, didn't.
"Let's go, the auction is about to start," Yekaterina urged.
Lu Li nodded.
Holding the invitation, Lu Li successfully entered the black market auction, and the auction house even prepared a private room for him.
A private room meant safety and status, which could save him a lot of trouble in this auction.
Lu Li quietly sat in the private room waiting for the auction to begin.
The first to appear were the items made by the item masters. Lu Li found that the auction prices in the black market were much higher than those in regular auction houses.
For example, the flower incense he bought before was auctioned here for a starting price of million, and someone even bid it up to million.
"Next, we will auction the Exotic Incense made by Master Anna, with a starting price of million, and each bid must not be less than 10,000."
"Bidding starts now."
As the auctioneer announced the start, bids rang out one after another from the crowd.
" million."
Box number 3 directly bid the final price of the previous incense.
" million."
Box number 4 added another 100,000 on top of the original price.
Compared with the Exotic Incense on the market, this price was 60% higher.
"Are item creators so profitable?" Lu Li said with some envy.
Yekaterina retorted, "It's only the famous item masters who make so much money. In fact, most Pokémon item creators are relatively poor."
Hearing this, Lu Li's restless heart instantly cooled down. It's not good to be famous at his age, so he should cut off this path to wealth first.
If it was only a million or so, Lu Li would have wanted to bid for this Exotic Incense, after all, this item was quite suitable for Boboboo.
"Everyone!"
"The next auction item is a bit special. It belongs to the knowledge category. The only thing we can guarantee is the authenticity of this item. As for the consequences of buying this item, we cannot be responsible for that."
"Next, we will auction the exclusive secret recipe of the world-renowned Berry planting master, Master Yuan Cheng—the Quick Grow Fertilizer recipe that can accelerate the growth of Berry trees!"
"The starting price is 2 million, and each bid must not be less than 10,000."
"Quick Grow Fertilizer?"
Lu Li looked excitedly at the notebook on the display stand.
The recipe for Quick Grow Fertilizer is not actually precious. Every Berry planter will research their own unique fertilizer recipe, and these recipes are all similar.
The status of this thing in the Berry world is a bit similar to the Energy Cube recipe. It's precious, but also common.
But if this is a fertilizer recipe from a Berry planting master, then the value is different.
"2 million."
Lu Li called out directly.
Others didn't know, but he himself knew his own limitations.
The world thought he was a genius Berry planter, but only Lu Li himself knew that he was just cheating.
Although others thought he was an intermediate Berry planter, he himself hadn't actually researched any special fertilizers.
Now that a fertilizer recipe from a Berry planting master was in front of him, he had no reason not to seize this opportunity.
After all, this was an opportunity to localize the spiritual fertilizer from the cultivation world.
Cultivation small magic plus super fertilizer, Lu Li couldn't imagine how great it would be to grow his fruit trees.
This was double the happiness!
" million."
" million."
" million."
As soon as Lu Li called out a price, someone immediately called out a higher price.
After a period of fierce competition, the number of people participating in the bidding finally decreased, but the price was also raised to a huge 8 million.
" million!"
After the person in box number 9 shouted the price, they said loudly, "Friend in box number 2, I am the Jin family's planter, I hope you can give me some face."
"Sorry, I also really like this recipe, how about you give me some face?" Lu Li retorted directly.
After retorting, Lu Li continued to bid, " million."
Lu Li knew that this price was already close to the other party's psychological expectation, so he didn't increase the price by 100,000 each time.
" million."
The person in box number 9 said through gritted teeth.
" million."
Lu Li followed closely behind.
As Lu Li bid again, box number 9 finally fell silent.
" million for the first time!"
" million for the second time!"
" million for the third time!"
" million, sold!"
As the auctioneer announced the result, Lu Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What do you want this recipe for? If you are willing to go to the Greater Russia region with me, you can look at such recipes as much as you want, as many as you want."
Although curious about Lu Li's purpose for the recipe, Yekaterina took the opportunity to start recruiting.
Lu Li chose to ignore her.
This pie was drawn very well, at least better than Jin Fengjiao, but Lu Li said that he wouldn't fall for it.
With million spent, plus the upcoming Ditto, Lu Li knew that he would soon be facing a bankruptcy crisis.
The following auction was much smoother, and the auction price of Ditto was only one or two million more expensive than the market price.
Lu Li finally bought Ditto for million.
But even so, Lu Li had spent almost all of his money. This was even after counting the money he earned from selling Water Stones and potions later, otherwise he wouldn't have enough money.
After the auction ended, Lu Li couldn't wait to flip through the notebook.
Master Yuan Cheng's Quick Grow Fertilizer recipe was quite outrageous, and could actually reduce the growth time of Berries by 25%.
What kind of concept was this?
In the game, the effect of Quick Grow Fertilizer was also like this.
As far as Quick Grow Fertilizer is concerned, there should be no better Quick Grow Fertilizer in this world.
Quick Grow Fertilizer belongs to growth fertilizer. Although the cost is not high, a copy probably costs about 1,000 yuan, but for its efficacy, this price can be said to be a bargain.
The most important thing is that Quick Grow Fertilizer does not have any technical barriers. As long as you master the recipe, even ordinary people can mix it.
At least the fertilizer recipe is much easier to learn than the Energy Cube recipe.
Looking at Lu Li, who had been looking at the notebook since the end of the auction, Yekaterina complained speechlessly, "Are you a Berry planter?"
"Sort of," Lu Li nodded. There was nothing to hide, after all, this was something that could be known with a little inquiry.
"You're a trainer, a breeder, and a Berry planter. Where do you get so much energy!" Yekaterina complained.
But despite the complaints, Yekaterina attributed all of this to the power of the Ideal Dragon.
Just as Yekaterina was about to continue complaining, her expression suddenly changed.
After glancing coldly at the tall building not far away, Yekaterina said, "Thank you for taking me out today. Let's see you another day, remember to answer my call."
After Yekaterina finished speaking, she released Jynx.
"Jynx, teleport," Yekaterina said, and then disappeared instantly.
Lu Li, who was focused on looking at the notebook, nodded casually and was not distracted by Yekaterina's departure.
…………
"Fairy-type Elite Four Qu Suxin, a Champion-class trainer under 35 years old, you really found out," Yekaterina sighed as she looked at the beautiful woman in front of her.
Although she had guessed, Yekaterina was still depressed when she saw Qu Suxin.
The opportunity to make a fortune in silence was gone, and now she might not even have the qualifications to get a share of the pie.
The depressed Yekaterina directly revealed her cards, "Tell me, what are your conditions? If I'm not satisfied, I don't mind making this matter known to the world."
Yekaterina's purpose was very simple. If she couldn't get a share of the pie, then she would reveal this matter.
In the last battle for truth, the hero of truth was in the Western Hemisphere, and the hero of ideals was in the Eastern Hemisphere.
If this was still the cycle of fate, then the hero of ideals was destined to unify the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The share of the pie she wanted was, of course, the influence of the hero of ideals.
"Don't test me. Only you and I know about it so far, and I'm not sure if he will become the hero of ideals. After all, there are many people in history who have the Eye of Ideals, but none of them became the hero of ideals in the end," Qu Suxin also chose to reveal her cards.
This was like two fishermen who discovered the same best fishing spot one after another. At this time, the best way to deal with it was definitely to inform each other and try to hide the fishing spot as much as possible.
Hearing that only Qu Suxin knew, Yekaterina breathed a sigh of relief.
This could be considered the best result. The things to be discussed next were much simpler.
"I won't contact the little guy, but remember to tell him about the Eye of Ideals, so as not to expose his abilities rashly. If more people know about him, it will only be bad for us," Qu Suxin reminded.
Yekaterina nodded.
Qu Suxin added, "Also, don't think about abducting him to the Greater Russia region. This is my bottom line."
Yekaterina did not object. Now she no longer had the idea of abducting Lu Li. With a Champion-class trainer watching, even if she wanted to, she didn't have the ability to abduct him.
Qu Suxin: "Finally... I want a special form of Vulpix egg, with at least Elite Four-level potential."
Yekaterina: "???"
"Why?" Yekaterina sneered, amused.
Qu Suxin folded her arms across her chest and looked like she had Yekaterina cornered. "This is the condition for me not to stop you from letting that little guy help you with things."
Yekaterina: "..."
"Impossible, if you have the ability, come out and stop me, see who's afraid of who!" Yekaterina gritted her teeth.
No wonder this woman could become an Elite Four at such a young age. Her face and thick-skinnedness were simply a natural-born politician.
"Never mind then," Qu Suxin shrugged. She just wanted to see if she could take advantage of the situation.
It would be better if she bluffed the other party, but it didn't matter if she didn't, after all, it was just saying a few more words, it wouldn't cost her anything.
"Gardevoir, let's go back."
After Qu Suxin finished speaking, she disappeared from the spot.
"Damn woman! Jynx, let's go back too," Yekaterina cursed and turned to leave as well.
And Lu Li was currently studying fertilizer...
