Chapter 147: No deals (2/2)

Explore the forests

They decided on going hunts, gathering herbs etc.

But none of them are thinking about moving to their Marquis territory, because it took a lot of time to travel from one place to another, and the fares are not low either, all of these transportation costs will be added to their investments which would lessen their profit margin.

The economy of the Southern Star city is bigger than all the nine Marquis territories combined.

The people who has are on business side of the first stage, has a lot of pressure on them, because if they don't make a proper business now, they won't have proper results in the later half of the competition when their team exchanged the places

Now, all the teams are looking for place to conduct business and most of them are targeting the already established business places.

Some of them are trying to buy out the whole business, some of them are trying to lease the place for the next sixteen months. All kinds of deals are being discussed.

But one team is having an extremely hard time.

Philip, Jack and Kelly ran around the whole city along with Watt, but they were unable to cut a single deal.

Even the newly established buildings in the inner city and the shops in the worst spot are not willing to sell them.

In fact, nobody is even willing to talk business with them. Some of them just blocked them at the entrance and some of them sent them out after learning their team number.

They are having a complete hard time. They understood that the situation is not good for them, but they still kept on trying.

Actually, all of this is within Sam's expectations, he knew that they wouldn't be able to do anything easily, so he didn't give them any ideas to test the waters.

He only gave them some recipes and asked them to start a restaurant or look for a restaurant for a possible cooperation, but they didn't even have a chance to negotiate.

By evening, they are left with complete frustration.

On their way back to Sam's estate, they encountered Nicholas. When the latter saw Watt, he greeted him with a smile.

”Hey, Watt. How are you doing? Are you helping your boss with the mission?”

”Well, I wanted to, but there seemed to be no chance.” Watt replied. Actually, Watt doesn't talk much but when he saw Nicholas, he has an idea on how to turn around the situation a bit. If Nicholas can give them a recommendation, they would at least find a place to start.

After explaining the situation, Nicholas also has some complicated expressions.

”The situation is a bit messy. It is not that I don't want to help you, but if I use my identity as Duke's son, I would be abusing my authority and I would have to put those people in a spot as they would have a hard time between me and General.

The second reason is that it wouldn't be fair for my teammates if I help you in a competition.” He paused for a bit and after some deep thinking he said.

”How about this, I have a small land in the outskirts of the inner zone which I bought from a friend. The area is a bit remote and I bought that land to help a friend, I don't have any plans on using it and it is not an ideal location for doing business either.

So, if you guys don't have any other options, you can find me again and I would sell that land to you guys, even though it is a bit bad, I guess it is better than nothing.

Please forgive me for not helping you, even though I want to help you my teammates might not feel it is fair for them and this is a competition, I don't think helping you would be an honourable deed,”

”Thanks for offering. We would meet you if we don't have any choice, as for apology, don't mention it. You are not the reason for our situation so you don't have any obligation to help us either.”

Watt answered and both of them went their separate ways after they exchanged their contact with the communication tokens.

After that brief encounter, Watt led all of them to the new estate, when Philip looked at the land full of impact crystal, he couldn't help but ask.

”Why did Sam buy a place full of impact crystals? They are not easy to get rid of and they are not that useful.”

”I don't know, but Boss said that they are actually quite useful and they can be a treasure if used properly.”

Philip didn't answer as they slowly moved towards the Mansion. They called it a day and went to rest immediately after reaching the place.