Chapter 4128 — Goods from the Mortal Realm
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Rare things are precious—that is an eternal truth. This thing may be a dime a dozen in the mortal realm, but here on Cloud Stair Island it is a treasure rarely seen, perhaps even the one and only of its kind. There is nothing strange at all about it fetching a sky-high price," Cai Zhongxuan said with feeling.
"Be that as it may, to the eyes of someone like me, who came up from the mortal realm, the whole affair is still too absurd. Back in the mortal realm, even the lowest-grade, most worthless pill was worth at least a thousand or ten thousand times this paltry SLR camera. Now it is the other way round entirely—truly baffling," Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile, still nursing a sense of unreality.
"Baffling is right. The very appearance of this Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce is a baffling affair. It has almost single-handedly whipped up a fever for technology across all of Central Island, and there are signs it is spreading to the other four islands as well. Every item is a windfall profit; each one sold makes its snowball roll faster and grow bigger, and there is simply no stopping it," Cai Zhongxuan said with a helpless shake of his head.
This suddenly risen Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce was so mysterious and so powerful that it had already become a target every faction in the trade had to treat with the gravest seriousness. A single careless moment, and being swallowed up by it in days to come was not out of the question.
"Since this Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce can sell high-tech goods from the mortal realm, does that not mean it has some means of traveling between the mortal realm and Cloud Stair Island?" Wei Zhao said, his eyes suddenly lighting up.
If the Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce had sold only one or two such items, then perhaps it might merely be that the power behind it had, by some special means, carried them up in a single trip—nothing more.
But its main stock in trade was now technological goods. Supplying them on such a large scale could never have come from a one-time carry. It must have its own unique method of supply, and given conditions on Cloud Stair Island, local production here was utterly impractical—the goods could only come from the mortal realm.
In other words, the people of the Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce must be able to travel freely between the mortal realm and Cloud Stair Island, or at the very least have some means of mutual passage; otherwise none of this could be explained.
This conjecture was entirely reasonable. Moreover, Wei Zhao had long since privately wondered how his so-called master, Zhang Lifeng—whom he had yet to meet—had returned to the mortal realm in the first place. That wretch Gui Dongxi had come back from a single trip in such a sorry state, yet his cheap master had gone back and returned again without anything amiss!
Now, set against his questions about the Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce, this was proof enough that returning from Cloud Stair Island to the mortal realm was not entirely impossible—no, it was very possible indeed!
At the thought, Wei Zhao's heart could not help burning. He had been on Cloud Stair Island so long; to claim he did not miss those fair companions and younger brothers of his in the mortal realm at all would be to deceive himself. If there were a way to go back and see them, it would truly fulfill one of his dearest wishes.
Of course, conjecture was conjecture. Wei Zhao knew well that with his present standing, going to the Central Nexus Chamber of Commerce to ask about such a thing was simply out of the question.
In fact, it was not just him—even if the top figures of such giants as the Five Elements Chamber of Commerce and the Hong family's chamber were to come forward, they would not be given the time of day.