Cosmic Trading System

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: The Price of Customized Books

"I have talked too much, and gotten off track. Let's get back to the point," Star Blue laughed suddenly, after speaking continuously for a while.

"More than a thousand years have passed, and I have almost depleted all our resources. It's hard to consume what's left, given that over ten million people need to use them. Therefore, I plan to venture outside," Star Blue resumed after a pause.

"Brother Star Blue, are you leaving your civilization?" Lin Yun asked in surprise.

He was genuinely shocked. Recently, he often saw some owners of the Cosmic Trading System sharing on the platform about their adventures in the cosmic starry sky—the places they visited, what they encountered, and what they gained. He, however, had never interacted with these people and had always felt like he was hearing a story.

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He was much more acquainted with Star Blue. Today, this familiar person told him that he was planning to venture into the cosmic starry sky, which was a strange concept to Lin Yun.

Moreover, Star Blue had just mentioned how dangerous it was to head into the vast universe.

Lin Yun felt an underlying sense of worry for Star Blue.

He suddenly realized that Star Blue's words came with a hint of finality, as if he was putting his affairs in order in case something happened to him in the cosmic starry sky.

"Yes, I will have to leave sooner or later. I have prepared all that I could. There aren't enough resources to prepare further," Star Blue gradually nodded and replied.

"Don't worry. Our trades will still be conducted normally even if I leave. As long as the Cosmic Trading System exists, we can still trade with each other wherever I may be," Star Blue laughed after a brief pause.

"That's not what I mean," Lin Yun shook his head.

However, he only managed to say this much because he didn't know what else to say at that moment.

"Since I'm planning to leave, I've been learning a lot of knowledge in recent years. I have seen a lot of things with regard to what you've just said in my civilization, as well as civilizations with a greater abundance of Wisdom Life. They should be able to help you," Star Blue continued without hesitation.

"You did well by posting the video of them oppressing you on the internet. Not only could you promote your product, but you can also suppress and restrain them... You said there is a stock market system where you come from, and your rival is a listed company, aren't they?" Star Blue asked.

In fact, the languages and specific terminologies of Star Blue and Lin Yun were different. However, the Cosmic Trading System integrates countless civilizations' languages. It can understand all kinds of language scripts, and translate them into languages understandable by the owners of the Cosmic Trading System.

Therefore, Lin Yun could understand what Star Blue meant.

"Yes," Lin Yun nodded in response.

"Then it's confirmed. You should buy a book about basic stock market knowledge from the Cosmic Trading System and learn from it. After that, you can understand most of the basic things. Then you can find some stockbrokers in your place, and operate the stocks of your opponent according to the specific rules..." Star Blue explained with a slight smile.

After that, he told Lin Yun what he should do next.

During the conversation, they touched upon many professional aspects that Lin Yun struggled to understand. So, he directly bought a book from the Cosmic Trading System official store, as suggested by Star Blue.

It cost him five spirit crystals.

Luckily, Hang Lee had someone deliver 150 kilograms of gold last night, which allowed him to obtain fifteen spirit crystals. Otherwise, he would not have enough spirit crystals to buy all those power banks, decoration materials, massage bathtubs, and the current book.

Star Blue then informed Lin Yun that learning materials on the Cosmic Trading System were not cheap. This was just a very common book about basic stock market knowledge, which is why it was affordable. In the vast universe with its infinite number of civilizations and abundant knowledge, there are many books about basic stock market knowledge.

Some good ones could even cost hundreds of spirit crystals.

The more advanced the knowledge, the higher the price. The price of some high-level knowledge could even make people gasp in astonishment.

After purchasing the book, a massive amount of information flooded into Lin Yun's mind, granting him an instant understanding of many things. With this newfound knowledge, he had a flash of insight when he listened to Star Blue's advice again, and couldn't help but feel admiration for Star Blue.

Who would've imagined that a stock market could contain so much?

"By the way, if you don't mind spending spirit crystals, you can ask the official store of the Cosmic Trading System to customize a book based on the knowledge of your civilization..." While Star Blue was speaking, he suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but bring it up.

"Customize books based on the knowledge of our civilization?" Lin Yun was taken aback.

"Exactly. In fact, after the Cosmic Trading System emerged in your civilization, it started gathering information from your civilization. It collected everything, including those on the web and those not on the web. As long as you paid a certain number of Spirit Crystals, it would create custom materials for you to learn from based on that information.

But the price, it's not just any kind of expensive, it's ridiculously expensive. That's why I initially didn't tell you about it and just let you buy the official books that were already available..." Star Blue nodded.

"Not just any kind of expensive?" Lin Yun asked softly.

While speaking, he began to contact the Cosmic Trading System. The Cosmic Trading System immediately understood his intentions and quickly responded. The knowledge of the stock market on Earth could be combined into four levels of books - elementary, intermediate, advanced, and super.

Among them, the elementary level required one hundred Spirit Crystals, the intermediate level required one thousand Spirit Crystals, the advanced level required ten thousand Spirit Crystals, and the super-level required a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

Seeing this result, Lin Yun was totally speechless.

Was the stock market knowledge on Earth really worth that many Spirit Crystals?

A hundred thousand Spirit Crystals...that could buy a pretty decent battleship!

According to what Star Blue said, their civilization of fifteen million people could condense one and a half Spirit Crystals per day, which equated to just over five hundred Spirit Crystals per year, right?

Over ten years, that's over five thousand, right?

Over a hundred years, that's over fifty thousand, right?

Just relying on this method, it would take nearly two hundred years just to accumulate a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals!

For the purpose of exchanging Earth's stock market knowledge?

Lin Yun shook his head.

No wonder Star Blue said it was not just any kind of expensive, it was seriously not worth it.

There were so many types of knowledge on Earth. If one was to learn each of them this way, when would it ever end?

"See, it's really expensive, isn't it?" Star Blue laughed.

"Many people speculate that the super civilization that created the Cosmic Trading System set it up this way to filter out the essence of knowledge from all civilizations, so as not to waste resources on ordinary knowledge. Therefore, the individuals who run the Cosmic Trading System are likely reluctant to make books in such a way..." Star Blue paused, sighing.

He once tried to learn the knowledge of their civilization in the same way. Even though the knowledge on the Cosmic Trading System was good, it was always not as practical as learning from their native civilization.

Unfortunately, it was just too expensive. He could only grit his teeth and study a few types, none of which were very advanced. Much of the knowledge he had, he even had to spend a long time studying on his own.

"Yeah, it's really too expensive..." Lin Yun shook his head.

It would be alright to make an elementary level book on the stock market on Earth just to see the effects, and he could even grit his teeth and buy an intermediate level book. But an advanced one...

Lin Yun shook his head, he didn't have to think about it.

What good things could he buy with those ten thousand Spirit Crystals?

Then, Star Blue continued to explain to him how to deal with the Tianyu Group.

Lin Yun was eagerly listening, his eyes shining brightly.

There were so many things he wanted to immediately look up and test.

An elementary level stock market book allowed him to understand Star Blue's strategies. This was the charm of knowledge, it was something that many owners of the Cosmic Trading System both loved and hated. They wanted to learn a lot of knowledge, but buying knowledge this way, at the official price of the Cosmic Trading System, was simply too expensive.

PS: A big thank you to "Ah Ling" and "23456987654" for their donation of 500 coins each.