Resources.
After the farms were built and placed, James buried the shovel below the soil leaving a small distance from the wooden base and then laid down on the warm soil. This helped him to retain the heat in the body lost due to working in the pit.
While relaxing he opened the chatbox to look for the trade. He has not opened the chat since he last places the trade option. Hence, as soon as the chat was opened he was hit by a barrage of private messages. The number was showing 10,000+ in the upper corner.
Seeing this he directly blocked the messages asking for free things reducing the messaged to 5000+. Then he started to scroll down reading the messages, there were many different types of messages, some warned him to hand over the ice he had, some threatened him to find and kill him, some even used human welfare tactics blaming him for hoarding the lifeline of all humans.
Seeing the foolishness of these clowns Arther directly blocked them and they will not be allowed to PM him in the future. While scrolling they found few messages willing to trade, without thinking much he directly asked for the resources that they wanted to exchange with a and then asked a relatively good price.
In a short period of 20minutes, he had completed more than 100 transactions, gaining a lot of resources. Then he started scrolling again, while scrolling he found that those who truly meant to trade with him consisted of girls more than boys. This can be explained since his ice was special material for girls.
As he scrolled down a certain something caught his attention, it was a trade request
"Trade: Bioluminescent Fungus seeds 4x
Trade For: 1L of water equivalent of Ice."
This was the first person who directly sent him a trade request in the pm, this showed the confidence of this person. He didn't mind it though since this was what he currently needed most.
When he looked at the avatar of the trader he found that it was a female, she was really very beautiful with slim eyebrows, blue eyes, brown long hairs, and sweet cherry lips.
James looked at this beautiful portrait for some time and then directly accepted the trade. He didn't know if it was the beauty that affected his decision but he didn't bargain to lower the price.
After scrolling for a few more times he didn't find anything new so he just added another trade option.
"Trade: Yin Ice(100ml water)
For: 2xstone"
"Trade: Yin Ice(100ml water)
For: 4x wood"
"Trade: Yin Ice(200ml water)
For: 1x Iron"
"Trade: Yin Ice(200ml water)
For: 1x ordinary cloth"
"Trade: Yin Ice(100ml water)
For: 10x fern"
"Trade: Yin Ice(100ml water)
For: 5x soil"
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The moment these transactions were placed on the shelf there was an uproar in the chat column,
"Ay. Where did this guy come from? I am still swallowing my saliva for thirst and here he is selling so much water."
"Trading such a good product for cheap prices he is a good guy."
"Hahaha, what good guy, he is a fool. Selling cultivation resource for these shitty things."
"Yes, he doesn't deserve to hold those resources. Oh, I have collected some stones."
"You guys are fools, if he is selling the resources it means he has no means to take it away. We can make use of this opportunity to collect some."
"Boys, beware of the amount of water you intake. If you become greedy don't blame others for a weak little brother."
"Sigh...girls this time are truly the lucky ones. They have hit a jackpot."
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James has become the center of discussion in the entire chat. But he didn't mind this, currently, he was inside a 20-meter ice pit happily digging out big pieces of Ice while humming a song.
As he was digging out the ice there was also Ice disappearing continuously from the pile, at the same time his storage was getting filled with new materials from the trade. To avoid the continuous irritating sound he had turned off the notification function.
After a continuous hard work of a few hours, his body started to give up. There was no strength remaining in his arm to hit the shovel, his feet were almost losing the sensitivity while his legs were giving up from the knees. After looking at how deep he has reached he went out of the pit. The pit has reached a shocking 30m in length.
And there was also a huge pile of ice pieces on one side.
With this, he put the shovel in the soil and sat on the farm. The number of trades seemed to have reduced to a certain extent.
Lying on his back on the farm he opened the chat panel to finalize few trade requests.
There were many messages in his PM, after scrolling he found a sincere trade request.
"Trade: Copper 1x"
After thinking about it for some time he exchanged it for 600ml of water equivalent of Ice.
Then there was a few more small request and he also got some food. With this, his today's resource spree was over. When he checked on the time it was showing 9:00 at night. According to his guess, there must dark outside hence people have stopped the resource gathering reducing his trade.
So he also decided to stop his digging for now. Except for a small amount of ice all the other Ice was traded off.
Looking at the Ice he took a big piece of ice and placed it in a bucket he has traded previously, digging a small hole in the farm he put the shovel inside along with a unit of wood. And as expected the wood caught fire as soon as it touched the shovel and then he placed the bucket above the fire.
A bucket of water is almost 4-5L which is enough for him until tomorrow for drinking. While the Ice was melting in the bucket he opened the storage to count his today's gains. And what he saw didn't fail for his expectations.
His today's gains are, Bioluminescent Fungus seeds 4x, Copper 1x, 1000x fern, 500x ordinary soil, 100x wood, 60x stone, 30x ordinary grass seeds, 10x Iron, 20x ordinary cloth, 1x banana seeds, 2x lemon seeds, 1x watermelon, 3x cup noodles, 10x compressed biscuits, wooden spoon 1x, tissue paper 3x, sanitary pads 1x, iron bucket 1x, blunt kitchen knife 1x.
Seeing the huge amount of resources James happily took the water bucket from the fire, then let the fire burn while putting the shovel in another pit and placed the cloth on the soil, and then slept on it. Tomorrow he will have to work harder to gain even more. With a strong determination he went to sleep.