Chapter 1303 - 783: Asthma-Plant

"My most most most esteemed White Ivy elder, is your chamber of commerce called 'White Ivy Chamber of Commerce'?"

"What else?"

"Are you guys doing the Bee King Honey business now?"

"I can't do anything else."

"The scale must be quite large, right?"

"Not really. The annual transaction is less than three hundred million, just a small business."

"Hiss~"

"Truly, you are the elder closest to me, Grass Dragon. Wherever you go, you can make it big, grow stronger, and earn big money."

"Stop it! Let me ask you, is Lupine with you?"

"Yes. Six thousand years ago, we heard the news that Melde was promoted, ascending to the Poluo Twin Star System, becoming the chairman of the Blue Flower Star business district branch. Lupine and I came over to rely on Melde."

"But Melde said that it also lacked the ability to transfer us across departments and star domains to work under it. So, Lupine and I discussed and felt that staying in the Luoli Chamber of Commerce would have no prospects for advancement, wasting our life, so we resigned."

"Melde has a high position, with insect vein connections. The shops it manages often receive some valuable Star Spider parts, even some well-preserved complete Star Spiders. So, taking advantage of Melde's insect vein connections and professional convenience, we established a small chamber of commerce and started dealing in Two-Claw Star Spiders."

White Ivy asked: "That Melde fellow isn't that capable. How did it climb up so fast?"

Grass Dragon: "It's all in the name! It's not reasonable that Melde would remain stagnant in the Luoli Chamber of Commerce. So when we arrived in the White Crystal Star System, during the assignment of duties, the spider in charge arranged for Melde a post in the Blue Flower Star commercial district that was easiest to upgrade."

"Surprisingly, in less than three hundred years, Melde smoothly moved from Level 4 to Level 5, and in less than a thousand years reached Level 6, rising steadily. When Melde reached Level 10, it coincided with the chairman of the branch being promoted and transferred, the vice president became the chairman, and Melde was promoted to interim vice president, naturally advancing to Level 11, officially entering the management circle of the chamber of commerce."

"Then in less than ten thousand years, when the old chairman of the branch was planning to break through the star realm and apply for long leave, Melde took the opportunity to advance and became chairman."

"Branch chairman!"

White Ivy corrected, disdainfully: "So what? Even if it reaches Level 100, it's just a working spider."

"Yes..."

Grass Dragon agreed dismissively.

Red Peach asked: "Isn't your business with the Two-Claw Spider capital-intensive?"

Grass Dragon: "Yes. I, Lupine, saved some Primordial Crystals, and there's Asthma-Plant, a younger generation of Blue Pea, the three of us partnered up to establish a Star Spider repair base. Melde also had savings and lent us some Primordial Crystals."

"Trading in Two-Claw Spiders requires large investments, with slow returns."

"With insufficient funds, we collaborated with other similarly capital-lacking small chambers of commerce, joining forces and exchanging information, specializing in trading the cheap Level One and Two Star Spiders."

"The competition is very fierce; when lucky, things are fine, but when unlucky, over a hundred or two hundred years, not a single sale."

"Ha~ ha~"

White Ivy was inexplicably happy and asked: "Blue Pea junior?"

"Yes."

Grass Dragon explained: "The generations are quite distant, and none of us have met. Asthma-Plant found Blue Pea, who then referred us to Melde. Coincidentally, Lupine and I ran into them, and Melde tossed them to us."

White Ivy: "You set up a Star Spider repair base?"

Grass Dragon: "We specialize in recycling the more common, old Star Spiders designed and sold by the Luoli Chamber of Commerce, disassembling, assembling, and refurbishing them."

White Ivy's eyes lit up slightly, saying: "This sounds like a technical job, doesn't it? You even learned that?"

Grass Dragon: "Asthma-Plant's work in the Luoli Chamber of Commerce was Star Spider repair, having undergone professional training. Lupine was responsible for Star Spider sales and knows a bit too."

"There's also a Red Golden Longhorn Beetle warrior named 'Fleabane', born in our leased territory. It has a tribe, but no insects want it, nowhere to go, so we reluctantly took it in."

"Fleabane was born from Star Spider remnants, exposed to all sorts of Star Spiders from a young age, inherently having Metal Talent, quite talented in repairs, and gets along with Asthma-Plant, working together."

"Lupine is responsible for acquisitions and coordinating with other small business chambers."

"Asthma-Plant and Fleabane handle disassembling, repairs, assembling, and refurbishment."

"I am responsible for frontline sales work."

"The four of us insects cooperate, barely managing operations, with unstable income, occasionally earning some, but definitely unable to get rich, can't compare to the elder White Ivy~"

White Ivy: "..."

Red Peach: "It sounds like your business is doable."

Grass Dragon reiterated: "The competition is too fierce. We have no advantages whatsoever, making it hard to sell."

White Ivy: "Then the spider responsible for sales is useless."

Grass Dragon feebly said: "Yes. It's my incompetence. I have failed the earnest teachings of the elder White Ivy."

"Glad you know!"

White Ivy waved a claw, calling: "Let's go. Take me to your Star Spider repair base."

Grass Dragon raised a claw and pointed, saying: "My Star Spider is docked over there."

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Grass Dragon's piloted Star Spider traversed the gale and snowstorm, heading south, taking one day and one night, finally docking on a plain surrounded by a semicircular mountain range.

Close to the foot of the mountain, a long, neat row of warehouses built with Earth-Stone Ability.

On the hardened black stone square, an incomplete Star Spider, stretching about twenty meters, lay paralyzed on the ground, with various metal parts scattered everywhere.

On the distant mountain top, a plump and chubby Flame Spider Warrior and a slim, long Tree Beetle Warrior lay side by side on a large rock, leisurely enjoying the winter sun.