Chapter 394: New Commission
After Xiao Bai's reminder, Lin Ye guessed that the Mining Area Task was likely related to money. So, he spent an entire afternoon researching the Pitch-black Faith, ultimately developing a mental energy imprinting technique.
The Pitch-black Faith is related to mental energy materialization technology. Lin Ye hasn't yet figured out its deeper principles, but simply imitating the techniques on it isn't particularly difficult for him.
Ultimately, it's just a special technique for using mental energy.
The mental energy imprinting technique involves imprinting mental energy onto spiritual energy materials. Afterward, this spiritual energy material can serve as a template to print the mental information on it.
Although the template will gradually lose effectiveness over time, it's more than sufficient for Lin Ye's money-making plan.
Lin Ye first created over a dozen templates for Severing and Protection runes. After that, those young people began using the templates to print spiritual energy items.
"Boss, how much should we sell one of these spiritual energy cards for?"
Black Dog excitedly tested the Severing rune cards, firing spiritual energy blades at a nearby table. A printed rune card could only be used once. But based on Lin Ye's understanding of Severing and Protection runes, the effects of these rune cards were quite good.
"One hundred Free Coins per card. Give the sellers a ten percent profit."
Lin Ye had already decided on the pricing. Rune cards of this strength were certainly worth more than one hundred Free Coins. But precisely because of that, he could quickly dump a large quantity of low-tier rune cards onto the market. Starting today, Free City would enter the era of low-tier rune cards. Attack and defense-type spiritual energy items would be replaced by rune cards.
"One bundle of epidermis costs one hundred Free Coins. One bundle of epidermis can print one hundred spiritual energy cards. One spiritual energy card sells for one hundred Free Coins... Oh my god..."
Black Dog was shocked by the profit margin of the rune cards. This was practically easier than printing money.
"This is just the basic model. Later, I'll launch more rune cards with different effects. As long as high-quality materials are used, I can even print mid-tier rune cards. However, the pricing for high-end products can't be too cheap. If the price isn't high enough, those wealthy people will definitely doubt the card's quality. Only when the price is appropriate does it signify a high-quality card."
As everyone knows, under normal circumstances, price and quality are directly proportional.
Lin Ye was very familiar with this principle.
"Boss, this business is so profitable. Won't there be problems entrusting it to those people?"
Little Ke asked worriedly.
"Only you guys know the real cost of the spiritual energy cards. Under normal circumstances, just the cost to produce such cards would exceed one hundred Free Coins. Moreover, mass-producing spiritual energy cards requires many creators proficient in runes, and it would consume their mental energy. So, others will only think there's a massive organization behind the spiritual energy cards."
Therefore, those weak organizations wouldn't dare to set their sights on the spiritual energy cards. What Lin Ye needed to worry about were those behemoths entrenched in Free City.
However, before he launched mid-tier or even high-tier spiritual energy cards, those large companies might not shift their attention to him. After all, the Bottomless Pit was the focal point those forces needed to pay attention to.
"What if someone tries to rob the spiritual energy cards?"
Wendy could already smell blood. In Free City, every profitable business had to undergo trials of blood and fire.
"Then of course, we eliminate them. Are the spiritual energy cards in your hands just for show? I'll make you some more powerful Life-saving Cards. The first wave of profits will be used to buy enhancement injections and more materials. Those who sell more get the injections first. I'll personally help them adjust their bodies."
Lin Ye assigned tasks suitable for each of them. Black Dog was responsible for security. Little Ke was responsible for the details of card sales and operations. Wendy was responsible for the intelligence system. Maggie was responsible for overall control and contacting Lin Ye.
A qualified leader doesn't need to control every detail of the plan;
they need to find the right people in charge.
Lin Ye discussed the details of the plan with them for a while. After confirming they had no issues, he left the warehouse.
He switched to a new Communication Device, which contained contact information for the others.
Returning to the Free Hotel, Lin Ye injected the third-tier potion. It took him an hour to adjust the various mutation organs within his body.
In terms of combat power alone, this body was now very close to his original body.
If not for his original body's physical attributes being too high, this body could completely overwhelm the original one through various powerful mutation organs.
After completing the advancement, Lin Ye went to the restaurant to eat. Upon seeing him, the attendant added a table at his previous spot.
After a while, Raymond very naturally sat down opposite him.
"Thank you for the information. I communicated with Bio-Tech, and they agreed to return my friend to me, although only a part."
Raymond was in a very good mood. He not only got part of his friend back but also exchanged this information for several favors.
Although his friend was still in Bio-Tech's hands, this outcome was already quite good.
"As long as you're happy."
Lin Ye ate the refreshing, crisp green chip-like Appetizer. It was a type of food he hadn't seen before, with ingredients sourced from the Bottomless Pit.
"You threw away my Communication Device. That made me quite sad. A friend of mine needs someone to help with something. I recommended you to her."
Raymond pushed a card with an address written on it towards Lin Ye.
"Fine. But I don't take on odd jobs. Don't come to me with jobs that yield less than one million Free Coins."
If not for gathering information, Lin Ye wouldn't need to take on jobs at all. He could just keep printing cards non-stop.
"You're clearly a Middleman, yet you take on jobs?"
Raymond asked curiously.
"It's just a label. I'll handle jobs I can handle. If I can't handle it, then I'm the Middleman."
Lin Ye had zero professional integrity. Being a Middleman was just his identity positioning. He needed to craft the image of an individual with an organization behind him.
This was related to the money-making plan.
"Then next time, I'll have to find you a job that's hard to handle."
Raymond was very interested in Lin Ye.
"We'll talk about it next time then."
Lin Ye memorized the address and quickly finished his main course and Dessert.
"Want to go to a bar tonight to have some fun? My treat."
Raymond smiled and extended the invitation.
"Forget it. I don't like drinking."
Lin Ye took out his room key, asked the attendant to charge the meal to his account, and left the restaurant.
The address Raymond gave was in the northern city's villa district. Lin Ye took a taxi to the villa district. He still had some paper money on him to pay the fare.
The villa district's security guard made a phone call to confirm before allowing the taxi to enter the interior of the villa district.
Sitting in the car, Lin Ye sensed his surroundings and discovered the security system here was extremely tight. Even for him, the only way to infiltrate would be to kill everyone.
Of course, at his current level, without using special means, he still couldn't clear this place out.