Li Chen's income simply was not enough to cover his expenses.
He felt that supporting an entire Star-Level Shelter was becoming increasingly stressful.
That was why he had considered finding other ways to generate income.
However, after hearing Noah's words, he suddenly remembered that the Star-Level Shelter was practically starting from nothing.
Everything currently produced by the Star-Level Shelter—
for the most part, required the energy inside Energy Crystal Cores to undergo a series of complex conversions
before it could replace the raw materials that should have been used to manufacture goods.
In other words, the goods produced by the Star-Level Shelter had high costs.
After all, they required massive amounts of Energy Crystal Cores purchased with real money.
Using Energy Crystal Cores to earn Energy Crystal Cores?
And that was under circumstances where so many advanced Cosmic Civilizations already had mature business models of their own.
It would be a miracle if they did not lose money!
And even if Li Chen could produce goods without using Energy Crystal Cores,
they currently had not mastered particularly advanced technologies
for producing high-tech products.
Selling cheap goods would not bring much profit, and probably no one would buy them.
And if they sold low-end goods, they might not even meet market demand.
After all, if their customers were from across the universe, those people might have seen more of the world than Li Chen had.
If he sold low-end goods, they would see through them at a glance and not even spare them a look.
For example, everyone else was already using twentieth-generation Electromagnetic Energy Cannons.
If he tried to sell them a 98k, did he think they would pay a high price for it?
So... doing business was not actually that easy.
Selling Earth specialties?
That might actually be a