Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After planting the vegetables, Chen Changan opened the forum out of habit, only to discover that many people had rushed into his auction post and insulted him for no reason.
“Trash capitalist, I hope you fall into the sea and drown!”
“B*stard, you killed them!”
“Shameless thing!”
Chen Changan’s face was as dark as water. It was fine if he was scolded as a pervert for asking for a mushy love letter, but these insults came out of nowhere and even affected his normal business.
“There must be something wrong!” Chen Changan was moved and immediately clicked on the trending keyword ‘trade market.’
Sure enough, the keyword ‘Market Discussion Area’ was filled with a lot of rhythmic posts.
[How Should I Evaluate the Profiteer Wastewater?]
[Fight! Denounce that scum, Wastewater! He made my friend die of thirst!]
[Stinky! I don’t care about human lives for a few wooden planks!]
[We’ve all become water donkeys! We’ve all become workers for Wastewater!]
The first post successfully set the pace, and the second post was the real culprit behind the public opinion.
The OP began with: A friend of mine. Then, he described in detail how he no longer had the resources to buy drinking water after his friend sold the round wooden barrel. All he could do was watch himself die slowly.
In the end, he pointed the conflict at Chen Changan, the water seller, and accused him of overpricing the water. A large amount of drinking water was bought by a few people.
This logic was full of loopholes, but public opinion never relied on facts but emotions. Whoever could stir the public’s emotions would become the king of public opinion.
Chen Changan was slightly angry and said coldly, “You guys are still too inexperienced if you want to sway me.”
Chen Changan was about to write a reply when he remembered the fishing experiment he had conducted yesterday with the raft family.
He smiled meaningfully. “Hur hur, let the bullet fly a little longer.”
Chen Changan turned to Orange and asked, “Orange, can you drive away some of the fish so that they can gather under that raft from yesterday?”
Orange nodded and then stealthily moved from the sea surface and rushed into the schools of fish to feast. But although the hunting seemed messy, it unknowingly drove the schools of fish to the raft.
The old man and the young man on the raft took turns getting into the water. It only took them six or seven hours to catch more than 20 fishes.
Although this sea area was rich in natural resources, coupled with Orange’s help, the old and young men of this raft family were indeed capable. Both of them were fierce men who could go into the sea to catch fish.
Chen Changan guessed that the old man was most likely a retired veteran from the way he held the wooden spear like a rifle.
If there were no old and weak involved on the raft, they would probably also have the ability to kill sharks and participate in the trading market.
As he was thinking, Orange suddenly swam back quickly and emerged from the sea.
Chen Changan stopped his daily activities of distillation and barbecuing and asked, “Have they stopped fishing?”
Orange nodded.
Chen Changan’s voice was gentle as he fed Orange a squid, rewarding it for the hard work it had done this morning. He then chuckled and said, “Yeah, okay. Pull the boat over; keep the distance between the two boats to 20 meters.”
When Orange swam normally, it could maintain The Flying Henan People at a speed of 15km per hour, which was 4.16 meters per second.
In just 20 seconds, Orange reached a safe distance of 20 meters.
Chen Changan noticed that the four members of the raft family were watching him carefully but didn’t pick up their weapons.
He roared, “Hey, have you guys started the trade?”
Communication basically depended on shouting!
The young man cleared his throat and shouted, “Thank you. We’ve already started!”
Chen Changan’s throat hurt from shouting, so he asked Orange to pull him closer by five meters before shouting, “On account of the information I provided, can you tell me how many fishes you caught before you opened the market? I need this information, please!”
Most people were afraid that strangers would express goodwill for no reason. After Chen Changan took the initiative to reveal his purpose, the four people from the raft family felt relieved.
The raft family communicated with each other in a dialect. It sounded like Japanese to outsiders, and Chen Changan could only tell that it was some kind of dialect in the Hui region.
After a long time, the family finished their discussion. The old man stepped forward and shouted in a deep voice, “I caught most of the fish on the raft. There were 19 fishes in total. After I listed all of them, the system showed that there was a total of 17.5kg of fish.”
Chen Changan smiled and waved his hand. “Thank you; we’re even now! I’ll rest in the sea area a little further away. If you need anything, you can ask me for help.”
Orange pulled The Flying Henan People back to its original position.
Chen Changan quickly opened the forum and started posting long posts using the ‘Wastewater’ account.
[17.5kg of fish will open the trade market! There will be endless food and water!]
The post wasn’t linked to the market, but ‘How to Get Food and Water,’ a top search topic.
What Chen Changan wanted to do was not to win back the favor of the few thousand people in the market but to flood the market. Everyone who saw this post would be considered to have received Chen Changan’s favor, and there was no need for any repayment.
The prerequisite for great enmity was to repay the debt, but Chen Changan didn’t need these things. All he needed was enough people to flood the market, the dike, and the negative reviews with information.
With more people in the market, it would be easier for him to sell drinking water and cooked food.
There were too many outstanding posts about how to obtain food and water on the top search rankings. Although Wastewater’s posts received the gratitude of a few people, they were quickly drowned in the sea of information.
Chen Changan chuckled. “There’s something in the world called Big V forwarding!”
Chen Changan activated his main account. Due to the continuous updates of the ‘Newbie Survival Tips’ post, this account had close to one million real fans. The quality was even higher than some Weibo celebrity accounts with more than a hundred million fans.
He merely used his main account to forward the post by ‘Wastewater’ casually. With this, the post had a chance to reach the top posts of the trending searches.
Gold only needed an opportunity to shine!
Instantly, countless humans who lacked water finally saw Chen Changan’s post.
The entire forum was in an uproar!
“There’s no need to hunt for sharks and no need to find an island. As long as we capture 17.5kg of fish, we can open the trading market!”
“Water, there’s water to drink! That’s great!”
“I want to catch fish—17.5kg of fish!”
In Chen Changan’s post, there was also a detailed introduction on the technique of catching fish with one’s bare hands, the technique of swimming, and the true expert fishing. These things would definitely stand out from it.
“The bullet is about to hit.” Chen Changan smiled and turned to focus on boiling the water.
By the time a bucket of water was filled to the brim, the number of people in the market had already exceeded 10,000. Hundreds to thousands of people thanked ‘Wastewater’ for providing them with a way to enter the market.
Those posts which insulted Chen Changan were like a drop of water that had merged into the sea, disappearing without a trace.