"This world is even more valuable than expected."
Lu PingAn's team had already completed the first round of exploration.
During their break, they wandered all over the city. While familiarizing themselves with the local environment, they also surveyed the local society, development, needs, and market conditions.
After returning, their first task was to write "travel records," and everyone was forcibly required to propose three "development suggestions."
Though some of the suggestions were baffling things like, "The local fish tastes terrible, meow!" "But it's passable when grilled with sweet fruit, meow!" and "Can we go fishing together tomorrow, meow?", most people still completed the assignment seriously for the sake of their salaries and bonuses.
This time, Lu PingAn had brought along his secretary, Catherine, as well as a clerical work team to handle all sorts of tedious tasks.
By the time these "suggestions" and "travel journals" had been filtered and reached Lu PingAn's hands, a brief skim revealed quite a few useful proposals and plans.
"I'm planning to build a pharmaceutical factory to produce spirit-enhancing potions like Long Sleep Dragon. I need a stable supply of raw materials."
No one knew whether the prospectors would make money, but those selling tools to prospectors definitely did. Yet throughout that process, the ones who profited the most were undoubtedly the merchants who bought "gold ore" cheaply, processed it into finished goods, and sold it.
During the first round of exploration, nearly every traveler's journal mentioned one thing—they couldn't afford the local specialty potions!
It was absurd. The originally ultra-precious material known as Spirit Holy Water was actually quite cheap, yet processing it into special potions that enhanced spiritual power was nearly impossible here!
"The main ingredient is cheap, but the supplementary ingredients simply can't be bought! Especially all kinds of magical plant materials—they're