Ding Si did not know much about Zhang Heng's situation. In fact, not many people knew the true circumstances of Simon, who had ranked first in the first round of the Proxy War.
Zhang Heng was not as mysterious as Beta, but the information known about him online was equally pitifully scarce.
By comparison, Ding Si had known Zhang Heng for quite a long time. Moreover, Zhang Heng had previously made an exchange through Fulou, trading 50 Game Points for 1.85 million. From that, it seemed Zhang Heng's financial situation was not particularly optimistic—at the very least, he did not seem like someone who could produce such an enormous sum.
Two hundred thousand Game Points, at an exchange rate of forty thousand, would amount to eight billion even without factoring in handling fees. For the vast majority of players, that was an astronomical figure. In fact, even The Three Great Guilds would find it difficult to come up with that money.
Although, at this point in the game, many players possessed one or two items, and could be worth several million if they converted them all into cash, meaning a few hundred or a thousand people could theoretically scrape together eight billion, assets and cash were completely different things.
In reality, every cash-for-Game-Points exchange business run by the various merchant associations was small to medium in scale.
Ordinary players generally took part in exchanges for only two reasons. One kind, like Li Bai, was not doing well financially and would exchange some Game Points for cash after a game to improve the lives of themselves or their families. The other kind were the game's cash warriors, people who were well-off to begin with and willing to spend money to acquire more Game Points to upgrade their equipment or purchase Game