Chapter 268 - 246: Sunflower
Perfect level items are sought after but not easy to come by. Just as Li Cheng input the item’s information onto the player’s forum auction page and before he could decide on the price, an auction house customer service representative proactively reached out.
Customer Service: [Hello, respected Sir/Madam/Non-binary, we’ve noticed that you’ve uploaded information about a perfect level item. The auction house suggests that you best conceal the special effects/consumption/cooling time of the item, simply marking it as a perfect level armor will suffice.]
Li Cheng: [Hm? Why?]
Customer Service: [It’s like this, for perfect level items, as per convention, the auction house will set a bidding threshold. Bidders have to deposit 10,000 game coins in advance, showing that they have the capacity to purchase, before the auction house will display the complete item information to them.]
Customer Service: [This is to protect both buyer and seller’s interests, to prevent the item’s weaknesses from becoming public knowledge.]
Li Cheng: [Are you sure? This item has some strong side effects, bidders might be deterred.]
Customer Service: [No need to worry about this point, perfect level armors are highly coveted in the auction house, so there’s definitely no worry about sales.]
To add more persuasion, the customer service recounted an old tale with a rather euphemistic tone.
Back when the Slaughter Field Game had just begun, there was a small guild that exerted a Herculean effort in the script tasks and managed to obtain a genuinely authentic Sunflower Manual.
Since ordinary people could also practice it, and the threshold was very low, this item was immediately bought by a proxy of the United States military with a one-off price of 100,000 game coins on the black market.
Afterwards, this produced the infamous comical scene—a group of elite special forces soldiers from the Seal Assault Team, Delta, Berets, Rangers, under the inspiration of the United States national anthem, walked into the operation room in a resolute line,