After sending the information to Song Yingwen, Yang Yi received a payment of thirty thousand Conch Coins.
Then he checked the World Channel.
About eight hours earlier, a player asking for help had appeared in the world chat channel. He had also encountered a Collector.
His ID number also looked very familiar. He was the player who had sold off large quantities of wood the night before last.
He had tried trading eight times, but had been rejected every time, so he posted in the chat channel to see whether anyone could help him.
But most of the people who replied were troublemakers watching for entertainment.
Some suggested giving the Collector a pile of crap, some suggested grabbing its goods and running, some suggested offering his dominant hand or his ship, and some even suggested doing a handstand and offering it the Earth... and so on.
Most of these suggestions were useless, and even less likely to be adopted.
Yang Yi scrolled up to see how the incident had begun.
He discovered that this person had also seen a Collector by the shore and had then been asked to trade, almost exactly as Yang Yi had.
With the same incident happening twice, there had to be some pattern behind it.
After comparing their experiences, Yang Yi found two things they had in common.
Both had earned a large amount of Conch Coins in a short time.
Both had encountered a Collector while retrieving wood at night.
These might be the Collector's hidden trigger conditions.
Once a player earned a large amount of Conch Coins in a short time, they would attract a Collector.
The player's gaze served as an invitation.
Once a player saw a Collector, it would board their ship directly and demand a trade.
If that was the