As Bai Xiaowen browsed the stalls, he watched Jin Gong fleece a newcomer.
The details hardly needed recounting. The newcomer simply fell into every trap Bai Xiaowen had avoided.
After spending more than twenty Divine Cores, the newcomer happily secured a stall and prepared to get down to business. Only then did Jin Gong leisurely pull out a G-205 individual combat communicator and raise the question of long-distance communication...
When the newcomer learned that the G-205 communicator had a whole list of upgrades, each costing more Divine Cores, he nearly came to blows with Jin Gong.
But the plaza lay within the area suppressed by the Prophecy God's statue. Unable to fight, he could only give up in frustration.
Bai Xiaowen had already written the newcomer off. With a mind like that, he had little hope of claiming the Origin Land's sole treasure.
Still, while the goblin Jin Gong was adept at squeezing money out of people, his stall-management service was thorough.
As it happened, someone took an interest in an artifact fragment listed at one of the stalls. Bai Xiaowen watched Jin Gong act as an intermediary between buyer and seller.
After asking what artifact fragments the buyer possessed and how many he wanted to exchange, Jin Gong used a G-255 switchboard to call the stallholder and relay the proposal in full.
Once he confirmed that both sides were interested, Jin Gong had them swear oaths in their respective gods' names and arranged a time for the trade. Naturally, he took a commission too, collecting Divine Cores from both parties according to the number of fragments exchanged.
After watching the process, Bai Xiaowen trusted Jin Gong a little more.
"Time to go through the gate and see what lies inside this vast Prophecy Temple."
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