077: To Get Rich, Build More Roads, Have Fewer Children, Raise More Pigs
After Li Aoz implanted his Aoneng into the remaining 47 players, he turned and flew off the ground.
Even as Li Aoz's figure rose to the horizon and gradually disappeared from view, the players were still quite moved.
"Li Aoz is such a good person."
While flying high in the sky, Li Aoz took stock and found that 47 players had been implanted with Aoneng, and they had also purchased 20 of his Mutation Inducing Agent at a time. Li Aoz had given them a group purchase discount price of 10,000 Derby.
Total: 94,000 experience points, 200,000 derbies.
He earned 90,000 experience points and 200,000 derbies in one go, which was much faster than him grinding monsters and doing quests on his own.
"Player, you're such a good person."
In fact, Li Aoz will not suffer any negative effects from being loaned to Aoneng.
Li Aoz has always followed a path of low profit margins and high sales volume, prioritizing convenience and affordability. As the pioneer of the path, Li Aoz is carefully nurtured by players like a precious treasure.
Ideally, we could also set up an arena to foster internal competition and select the best talents.
Although cutting leeks is highly profitable, it will affect everyone's sense of belonging to Li Aozi.
Raising pigs is different. Pigs receive meticulous care throughout their lives. There are people who specially pair them up, adjust the humidity and temperature, and the sanitary environment is almost comparable to a laboratory. They even play music to make the pigs grow happily. The feed carefully developed by experts is delicious and filling. They eat and sleep well, and when they get sick, they receive free veterinary care with the utmost attention. Sometimes, to improve the pigs' health, they are even given a certain amount of exercise. In terms of body fat percentage, pigs are even healthier than most humans.
If it weren't for the possibility of being eaten in the end, Li Aoz probably wouldn't have lived as comfortably as a pig.
Li Aoz thought about the operating model carefully and concluded that it was basically pig farming.
Leek trading is just a quick and easy way to make money, but pork trading is about long-term operation. Pigs raised for 6 months weigh about 250 to 300 pounds when they are slaughtered.
Based on the market price of 20 derbies per kilogram on Azure Planet, a live pig can be sold for about 6,000 derbies. If there are 10 pigs, they can be sold for at least 55,000 derbies.
Excluding piglets, the cost is at least: 1,1000 Derby + feed cost 14,000 Derby + medicine cost 1,000 Derby + water and electricity cost 1,200 Derby = 27,200 Derby.
Most importantly, no one can eat chives all the time, but pork is a food that people eagerly anticipate.
They raise their own pigs until they are plump, strong, and individualistic, then hook them up, bleed them, boil them in hot water, scrape off their hair, slaughter them, and send them to the market for sale.
This system offers a level of enjoyment and satisfaction that simply exploiting others can't provide.
The nature of the path dictates that cultivating players into simple-minded, powerful, and overpowered individuals is the most cost-effective approach.
The stronger the players become, the stronger their own path becomes, the faster the development of Aoneng energy becomes, and the stronger Li Aoz becomes. As Li Aoz's strength increases, he can expand the pig farm, raise more fat pigs, and the more pigs he raises, the stronger he becomes, which allows him to continue expanding... It almost forms a positive cycle of expansion.
The cohesion that comes from following a path is far more reliable than things like religion or ethnicity.
After all, companions may betray you, and the gods you believe in may not always work, but power is power. The levels on the path you climb are earned through your own hard work, and they will not betray you.
In the process of raising pigs—no, I mean, raising players— Li Aoz can basically provide methods like 'debt repayment with work' and 'work relief' to motivate players and turn them into a super mercenary force that can fight wherever it's called.
Li Aoz's model was actually how Narrative-level Civilization dealt with powerful individuals in their previous lives.
After all, you can't stop the extraordinary people who yearn to ascend to godhood from going forward one after another, but we can definitely form a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship.
No matter how strong you are individually, you are still just one person. But I control a path, and given enough time and a massive population, someone stronger than you will always emerge.
You have to satisfy your own desires and needs, and Narrative-level Civilization can provide those things.
You need to advance further, reaching higher levels of the path, learning more advanced technologies, and broadening your horizons. Can an individual's intelligence and creativity compare to the rich and complex possibilities of an entire Cosmic Civilization? For those powerful individuals who have been abandoned by everyone, it doesn't matter; they can simply descend into the Star Abyss. But the Star Abyss has six levels; if you're abandoned by everyone on every level, isn't that a bit...
Moreover, there has long been a misconception that if an individual is powerful, civilization must bow down to them.
This conclusion does not hold true in Star Abyss, because individuals can never defeat society.
Society itself is a monster called society, formed by the transformation of all citizens, institutions, characteristics, and supreme leaders of a civilization under the influence of some extraordinary force from an abstract 'civilization'.
In other words, no matter how strong you are as an individual, there may be hundreds of thousands or even billions of strong individuals in a society of the same level.
In addition to society as a whole, it also has at least one extraordinary individual strongman, the 'Speaker'.
The reality is that when individual strong individuals of the same level encounter society, what you might think is a one-on-one battle between men is actually a battle of one against one plus one plus (the total number of citizens in society)...
The group of 'society' is simply a cosmic calamity.
Narrative-level Civilization are adept at this. They cannot concentrate all their power and consciousness like a society, but they choose to use the allure of the path as a ladder to ascend and win people's hearts.
The [Destruction] path is the most popular choice, followed by the [Craftsmanship] path, and then the [Redemption] path.
The Path Sovereign of the [Strange] and [Plunder] categories are still around, and what everyone is fighting for is only the position of the main god's apostle.
Li Aoz's actions have always revolved around the 'Path of the Starcaller,' which he is very familiar with.
The main god of the [Dominator] lineage, Morphedria, has been confirmed to have perished. The competition among the three paths of [Conqueror], [Radiant Torchbearer], and [Ender] is fierce. Many who covet the end of these paths are old monsters who have accumulated countless years of experience. The result of the popular paths is that they are extremely competitive.
Li Aoz said, "What's the point of rolling it up? I can just get it smooth directly, why would I need to roll it up?"
Increasing the number of players who can become [Starcaller] is much easier than fighting tooth and nail with these old monsters and scroll kings.
The [Destruction] system is the most outrageous. Although the [Destruction] system has countless schools and can almost infinitely generate various paths, it is so popular that whoever masters a path in the [Destruction] system will basically attract countless powerful people to gather together.
Nobody's stupid. Fighting to the death will only lead to a bad end. With the right path available, why waste so much effort vying for that main god position? In comparison, the path of the Starcaller is a blue ocean, a new world full of profits and temptations, free from vicious competition.
Just as Li Aoz was calculating and flying towards the Sky Ring, a slight change occurred in the world.
Sky Ring, Nura City, Ward 12.
In a dark street corner, a young man who had been knocked unconscious in a fight suddenly tilted his head.