Cave Refuge

It was precisely because of Madeline's hunger marketing that the high-quality ingredients produced in Dong Tianyu's Cave had become very famous in the base.

Perhaps it was because Madeline had contracted the Plantation Area in the base that, in the beginning, many people assumed those high-quality ingredients were cultivated by her through special means. However, when they obtained mature plants from the Plantation Area by various means and tested them, they were surprised to find they were just ordinary ingredients.

Many people began searching for the source of those high-quality foods, but no matter how the others searched, they couldn't find even the slightest clue about the origin of the high-quality ingredients. These foods seemed to appear out of thin air, and in the end, those people could only give up reluctantly and once again turn to Madeline, hoping to purchase more high-quality ingredients from her.

Madeline, tightly controlling the channels for high-quality ingredients, also used this experience to expand her network in the base.

For this reason, after this natural disaster occurred, Madeline's sales channels not only didn't suffer too much damage but rather made many people realize that storing Mysterious Cores that one can't use had little utility; it was better to invest in themselves rather than Companion Spiritual Treasure.

This made many of the survivors who had originally focused on nurturing their Companion Spiritual Treasures change their minds, preparing to shift their reserved funds for nurturing Companion Spiritual Treasures towards cultivating their personal strength.

Although consuming those high-quality ingredients wouldn't immediately enhance one's personal strength, they could make Cultivation much more efficient, and regular consumption could elevate one's Cultivation Level significantly.

So despite the base just having suffered a catastrophic disaster, for those who hadn't experienced too much loss, they were now eager to convert the Mysterious Cores in their hands into personal strength.

Madeline's original thought was actually the same as Zachary: she had assumed that after the base suffered such devastating damage, high-end ingredients would not sell easily, and since she didn't have channels for ordinary materials in the base, Madeline was initially prepared to rest for a while and use this time to Cultivate and improve her own Cultivation Level.

But to her complete surprise, once the Rust Wind that pervaded the air subsided, there was a constant stream of people contacting her, wanting to purchase supplies from her.

At first, Madeline thought the other party might have lost most of their supplies due to the sudden natural disaster and might be looking to her to purchase ordinary supplies. Therefore, she was originally prepared to refuse directly because although she dealt in supplies, she dealt in high-end supplies, and she didn't have a large quantity of ordinary supplies in reserve.

If it was just enough for a single family to eat, then there was certainly more than enough to last one or two years, but if she truly started to sell to the outside, then with the amount of supplies she had stored in her warehouse, she estimated she could sell it all off to just one or two big customers.

However, when the party specified what they wanted to purchase, Madeline was momentarily taken aback; luckily, the two were communicating over the phone, so the other party didn't know Madeline's reaction, or they definitely would have tried to negotiate a lower price.

It was a pity that the two were communicating over the phone and thus did not see the astonished expression on Madeline's face when she heard what the other party wanted to purchase.

After hanging up the first purchasing call, the tablet successively received purchase orders from different customers, and when Madeline noticed that the bulk of all the purchase orders were the high-end ingredients provided by Zachary, she gradually began to speculate on the thoughts of those purchasers.

As Madeline noticed that the orders were not only increasing but also that individual customers required larger and larger quantities of high-quality ingredients, she could only temporarily switch her phone to airplane mode and then directly contact Zachary. The conversation between the two was heard clearly by everyone else in the cabin.

In response to Old Jefferson's request, Zachary did not refuse; after all, it didn't matter who he sold to. The high-quality vegetables that might be valuable outside were not worth much in the Cave, and after such a long time, Zachary's Storage Space had already stored a good amount of high-quality ingredients.

Although it was Old Jefferson who wanted to purchase the high-quality ingredients, on this ship, the only one who truly had the authority to utilize a large amount of resources was Jason Jefferson alone.

So when Jason heard that Zachary had a channel that could directly bypass the auction held by Madeline and purchase high-quality ingredients from him, Jason did not find it strange at all; instead, it was quite normal for Zachary to have such a background.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying: "Dragons don't dwell with snakes," the meaning of which is quite simple. True dragons might indeed have experienced living with other weaker creatures, but those true dragons must have left the land of their birth for various reasons when they were young. Even if they wander away in their youth, it's difficult for dragons to stay with other species for a long time.

The fact that Mr. Thompson could become close friends and drinking buddies with Jason's father indicated that the two were not much different in temperament and family environment.

After all, even in the movies, like Peter, it is virtually impossible for someone of modest means to have wealthy and powerful close friends.