Chapter 508: The Guide

Chapter 508: The Guide

“The black one is the Immunity Potion, and the white one is the Buffer Potion. Using it would make you feel more comfortable. If you don’t use it, the user’s body would maintain a slight burning sensation for up to eight hours. This feeling wouldn’t be deadly, but it would cause minor harm to the body. Of course, people with sufficient recovery power could ignore it. If not, they would need to inject the Buffer Potion afterward.”

Zheng Yichen quickly explained.

“Inject?”

The person in charge keenly noticed the special term in Zheng Yichen’s words.

“Yes, inject. This kind of potion needs to enter the bloodstream to work quickly, so injection is the best method. It also helps effectively reduce costs. After all, if taken orally, it would require double the dosage to achieve sufficient effects.”

“Alright, I understand. After testing, The Church will put it into limited use… By the way, what do you use for injection?” The person in charge nodded and stored the two sample potions. Beside them was the recipe for this black-and-white Immunity Potion.

“Oh, this? Would you like to place an order? Once you have syringes, you can reuse them as long as they are cleaned thoroughly. As for the needles, you can buy a large batch and treat them as disposable consumables. Those things aren’t easy to clean anyway.” Zheng Yichen brought out several syringes of different sizes. Cleaning wasn’t just a casual remark—there were no sterilizers in the Otherworld, and sterilizers might not even work well on these things.

But they had Magic. Using Magic, they could achieve sterile disinfection.

“…” Looking at the syringes Zheng Yichen had prepared in advance, the person in charge couldn’t help but glance at him a few more times, suppressing the urge to call him a sly merchant. These things clearly had low production costs and were meant for mass production. It seemed Zheng Yichen was very good at mass-producing such delicate items. Other Alchemists could do it too, but it would be a waste of time. They couldn’t devote all their energy to such production.

Even if it took ten seconds to make one, sixty would take ten minutes! Making thousands would take almost a whole day. And the cost of these things? A few copper coins each! Smaller ones were even cheaper. This meant the price for thousands of needles would only be about one gold coin… The price couldn’t be any lower. So, why would those Alchemists bother with such things in their free time?

Spending a whole day making something better wouldn’t yield such a low price. Their time was literally worth gold coins.

So, without knowing how Zheng Yichen mass-produced these things so quickly, the competition in the relevant market was very, very low. Basically, no one competed with Zheng Yichen. This led to many low-profit, high-volume items in Zheng Yichen’s Online Store being monopolized. The stock of those items was unlimited, which caused some merchants to buy from Zheng Yichen as a supplier.

As the saying went, when others didn’t think a copper coin was worth anything, merchants valued the profit from that one copper coin. Little by little, it added up!

Zheng Yichen had a significant advantage in this regard. The current syringes were the same—with such a low price, why not just throw them away after use? As for using Magic to disinfect and restore them to a sterile state, that was overthinking it. The effort of using Magic wasn’t worth it compared to buying two new ones!

Besides these, there were also things like plastic bags. These were another hot-selling item in Zheng Yichen’s Online Store. After all, they could be used right away. Although they weren’t like Expansion Pouches, their applicability was very broad. You could use them when buying small items or when getting breakfast.

Major shops all had them prepared. Merchants loved these things. In the past, when people bought things, especially groceries, shops would usually give them a bag if they bought a lot. However, those bags weren’t cheap plastic bags but paper bags or cloth bags. Even if made from low-quality materials, the price of one paper bag could buy ten plastic bags, while cloth bags cost a dozen times more!

In comparison, shops loved these disposable plastic bags Zheng Yichen introduced. As for pollution… Well, the Otherworld didn’t care much about pollution. After all, the air had free Elemental Power, and there was Earth Element underground. When things were buried, they were affected by elemental power. Inanimate objects faced two outcomes: either they lasted much longer than on Earth, or they decayed much faster.

Plastic bags weren’t made exactly like those on Earth either; Magic was involved. Although they weren’t magical products, because of Magic, they attracted free energy more than regular inanimate objects. Therefore, their lifespan was at least ten times shorter than plastic bags on Earth. They would decay in about ten years.

However, plastic bags were replaced quickly, so ten years was quite long. Since these cheap things were sold in large quantities, there was no need to worry about stockpiling. Shops running low could just restock from the Online Store in the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, with no need to store large amounts. Some shops even stored enough to last over ten years without running out.

There were also things like water pipes. Their materials were better than plastic bags. As long as they weren’t maliciously damaged, they could last for decades, whether as pipes or other items. Zheng Yichen had developed many daily consumables, subtly changing many details of the Otherworld’s style…

Well, the invasion of Earth’s style didn’t require heavy promotion. It just needed gradual changes in many details. These details could start with daily necessities or conveniences. Once a certain level of convenience was achieved, it could be slowly enhanced, like boiling a frog in warm water… There was no need to start with anything too shocking.

Stuff like “Wow, this thing is amazing! How was it made? Huh? Why does this thing look so different from our world?” Zheng Yichen felt he had plenty of time. A century-long plan wasn’t a problem. So, the issue of incompatible styles could be changed bit by bit. By the time more exciting things gradually appeared, no one would think the style was different.

It was like seeing a little girl three years ago and then seeing her again three years later—she would seem to have grown quickly and changed a lot. But if you saw her every day, you wouldn’t feel that way.

In short, Zheng Yichen felt he was driving steadily and definitely wouldn’t crash due to speeding at some point. After all, there were many major forces in this world. He hadn’t interacted much with the Dark Church, but he couldn’t ignore them either. The Sanctuary Church seemed more like the protagonist of the era.

“Those who stand in my way shall die” wasn’t Zheng Yichen’s intention, so he had to steadily change the style. The power of habit was strong. Take modern Earthlings, for example. If Mobile Phones suddenly stopped working completely and Computers broke down, many people would feel so uncomfortable they’d want to go Berserk.

Then, if water and electricity were cut off, and you had to fetch water yourself or pedal a generator to get electricity… Who would want to experience that kind of life for no reason?

Take now, for instance. Whether it was cheap water pipes and faucets that even commoners could afford to connect to, or convenient plastic bags—if these disappeared, people who had grown used to them would find it very inconvenient. Besides these, Zheng Yichen’s Online Store had too many other miscellaneous items, like folding chairs, school bags, shoulder bags, and so on… Well, none of them felt out of place.

After all, those things already existed, but their styles and designs weren’t very convenient. Zheng Yichen made them more Earth-like, greatly increasing their practicality. However, such things were easy to copy. Items like school bags, shoulder bags, and travel bags could be made by skilled tailors. As for folding chairs, carpenters could easily handle them. Zheng Yichen had to admit, some people made them even better than he did!

Tsk!

Whatever. He was just a guide, a pioneer, deliberately leaving traces of Earth in the Otherworld. Why not let them develop such systems themselves? As long as the path was paved, the power of inertia was there. Even if he stopped being the guide in the future, the style and model were already set, so future development wouldn’t deviate much.

Therefore, Zheng Yichen often worked bit by bit to perfect the “puzzle” from the basics. When doing certain things, whenever there was an opportunity, he would introduce something “novel” to the people of the Otherworld. These things were brought out based on needs at the time. Besides feeling novel and convenient, the biggest impression people had was Zheng Yichen’s high creativity. He always managed to create convenient products when they were needed.

Introducing syringes at this time was just right, especially starting with the Sanctuary Church. It was like obtaining a legal certificate… And based on Zheng Yichen’s past experience, he believed that once this thing spread, the people of the Otherworld would develop new uses for it.

For example, things like infusion sets. After all, plastic already existed. Zheng Yichen had guided the development of the basic components. Now, he could let others use their intelligence to piece together new pictures with these basic components.

“This thing… Alright, it looks quite useful. I’ll report it.” The person in charge of the Quarantine Camp glanced at the syringes and stored them as well, thinking to himself that the more he looked at them, the more he felt researchers in the Life Domain would like them.

They already had similar things, but they weren’t as simple and convenient as what Zheng Yichen brought out, and the cost wasn’t low either… In the future, this thing might be highly sought after by Auxiliary Profession Practitioners. After all, it didn’t just look simple and convenient—it even had markings on it. Accuracy aside, having them was better than not having them at all.