It was normal that a few skill books were left over, after all, not every player was willing to hand over one third of what they earned from killing monsters to the lord.
And there were also some people who already had other monster killing skills of their own, so naturally they did not need to rent skill books from Ethan.
Of course… among these remaining 9 copies, there were also a few white eyed wolves that Ethan had blacklisted.
For now they could only watch the trades Ethan put up, but they could not rent or buy anything, which was extremely despairing.
The white eyed wolf at this moment was staring at the trading channel on his magic book, almost about to cry.
He watched with his own eyes as materials and equipment were rented away one by one, yet not only could he not rent anything, he could not even send a single message.
This was really despairing.
[World Chat Channel]
[White eyed wolf: "Please Ethan, Boss Ethan! I really won't be foul mouthed again! Please lend me some materials too, okay? Otherwise I'm dead for sure tonight!"]
[White eyed wolf No.2: "Lord, I was wrong! I won't dare say bad things about you anymore, I already punished myself with three cups, can you let me out? I promise I can give more rent, as long as Boss lets me out!"]
[White eyed wolf: "Boss, I don't want to die! Before it was me being selfish, me being a fake saint. I shouldn't have urged you to do good deeds. I actually just wanted to take advantage of you a bit while you were doing good deeds! Boss please spare me!"]
The world channel was full of @Ethan.
But Ethan had no time to bother with these people right now. He was just calculating how much principal and interest he would get back in the end from the things he had rented out.
As for those who said things like, if you have the ability you should lend to others for free, Ethan naturally blocked them without hesitation.
'You want to be a saint, then go lend things yourself!'
'Why are you morally kidnapping me?'
'My things, I do not lend them. Is that my fault?'
'Then why not go find Papa Ma and tell him to make Alipay open for free so you can use it however you want. Wouldn't that be better?' [T/N: Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba Group and rich.]
———
And on Sunny and Jerry's side—
The two of them had already gotten double copies of everything Ethan put up.
"This is so awesome! We just free loaded 400 stone, 100 wood, 40 vines, 8 glass, and 8 earth type beast cores!"
Jerry happily took out the skill books.
And Sunny took out the Goblin backpack with a pleased face, but when she saw the wrinkled goblin skin backpack, her face turned ugly, "This bag is way too ugly! What is this wrinkled layer on the outside? It feels like old people's skin, ew!"
"Wife, don't be picky. At least this bag has 500 slots, it's way better than our 100 slot bags," Jerry hurriedly comforted her, "When we get back, I'll buy you Gucci, I'll buy you LV."
"Alright alright! Anyway it's free stuff, don't take it for nothing, right! I get it!"
Sunny knew when to stop.
Although Jerry was a bit ugly, and that thing of his was also ruined from years of training his Kirin arm.
But who told Jerry to have good luck. Every time he opened treasure chests he could get some good stuff, and he even traded back quite a lot of ingredients and all kinds of clothes from the trading channel.
That was also the reason Sunny was willing to be with him.
As for how the two of them got together, that story was actually kind of interesting.
Back then Sunny saw someone on the trading channel asking to jointly buy burn ointment.
She did not have enough money, so she went to seduce Jerry and got him to agree to buy it together. Jerry paid the bigger share, while she paid with photo scams. As for what kind of photo scams, that is hard to say clearly.
After Jerry bought the burn ointment, Sunny used the excuse that a girl's face was more important to trick the goods into her hands first.
Then she blocked Jerry.
Who would have thought, Jerry actually used some strange tracking skill to track her down to her wooden house.
Then Sunny could only beg for mercy and agree to partner up with Jerry and clear the game together as a husband and wife team, which was how the scene just now came to be.
"Honey, something doesn't seem right. Look at the trading channel," Sunny suddenly saw something in the trading channel and hurriedly called out to Jerry.
And Jerry, hearing this, hurriedly leaned his head over to Sunny's magic book and looked.
[Trading Channel]
["Holy crap! I only realized after getting the materials that this rental contract is actually forcibly enforced!"]
["What forced enforcement? I owe a pile of loan sharks in the city and they can't do anything to me. Just him, someone I can't even see, how the hell can he force anything!"]
["No, look carefully if there are a few contract scrolls in your backpack. And you can't throw them away. It says on them that if the contract signer does not follow the contract, all of the signer's possessions will be forcibly sold to repay the materials and interest!"]
["What?"]
After reading it once, Sunny looked blank, "What the hell is he talking about? Why can't I understand any of it?"
"It means we might really have been scammed by that profiteer Ethan," Jerry was a bit smarter than Sunny. He hurriedly took out several contract scrolls from his backpack.
The contents written on the contract scrolls were very simple. It was just [Jerry borrows 200 stone from Ethan, to be repaid within three days, and pay 10% of the materials as interest. If repayment is delayed, an additional 10% interest will be paid to the creditor each day.]
"Fack!"
At this moment, Jerry was truly dumbfounded. He never expected that the things he had snatched would actually have to be returned with both principal and interest.
And not returning them was not even an option, because the system would forcibly execute it for Ethan.
"On what basis! On what basis can he sign some bullshit contract?", Jerry roared angrily, "When I bought burn ointment with you before, I didn't see any damn contract being signed either!"
"I think the regional channel said it's because Ethan is the lord."
Sunny was also so angry that her hands were shaking, "This contract seems to be called something like a lord contract. It can only be a contract signed between the lord and players in the region!"
"Fack! Fack! Fack! Fack! Fack!"
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Jerry was so angry he flipped the table.
And Sunny looked at the materials filling their backpacks and the several contract scrolls in her hands, and asked tremblingly, "Then… then should we return them to him now? Anyway we can collect these materials ourselves. Why give this big profiteer interest for nothing?"
"You think I didn't try? It's too late!"
Jerry roared, "Fack your mother Ethan! Fack your mother lord! I just went to return them, and the system still said I have to pay ten percent handling fee, whether I return them now or after three days!"
"Ah!"
Now Sunny was also stunned.
The two of them originally thought that relying on their fast hands they could take some advantage, but who would have thought, the clown turned out to be themselves.
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