At present, the prices of otherworldly goods in the Houde Realm had remained at a very low level, which left Qu Jianlei somewhat surprised.
Qu Jianlei knew very well that when there were more supplies, prices would naturally fall. That was nothing strange; the market followed supply and demand.
However, compared with the market beside the otherworld camp, they were not much higher at all, and that was a little odd.
Never mind the saying that people were cheap away from home while goods grew dear; just bringing the harvests from the other world back to Houde took time and effort, didn't it?
With that doubt in mind, he observed for a few more days, then realized what was going on: someone was deliberately suppressing the prices.
The Cultivation World truly was not a capitalist society, but the greed in human hearts was always much the same.
Qu Jianlei did not pay too much attention to it either. He only silently noted down some of the popular resources.
After wandering around for half a year, he suddenly felt a stir of intuition. He raised his hand and calculated, then was somewhat stunned: True Venerable Bucai had been attacked!
This was the very person who, before the expedition to the other world, had offended him on the spot and had his slot canceled right then and there.
That man had still gone later, but not with the second batch; he had gone with the third.
True Venerable Bucai had been attacked after returning to Houde, while on his way home.
The key point was that more than one person suspected True Venerable Qu had done it—the two had a grudge from before, and True Venerable Qu was currently in Houde.
Qu Jianlei felt this was rather baffling, though he did not