Chapter 2214 Gold Crisis

The Onmyojis' plan succeeded.

With the help of the Sun's Fall and the Hexagram Array, the snake was trapped in the red flame shield.

It seemed that it was time to celebrate again.

However, none of the high-level officials of the Sakura Country who saw the whole process were excited.

Even Ampe Kangfu, the dog of the Onmyoji, felt a little uncomfortable.

It was not that he thought there was anything wrong with the Onmyojis treating the hundreds of millions of lives in the entire Sakura Country as ants.

It was because he was just like those ants and only knew the Onmyojis' plan at the last moment.

And felt sad.

"Dogs are always dogs?"

Ampe Kangfu was sad in his heart, but he smiled and took the lead in clapping.

"Minister, why don't you quickly mobilize everyone to cheer for the Onmyojis to suppress the snake?"

"Cheer? Yes, yes, we should cheer, celebrate, and celebrate greatly!"

The cabinet minister was stunned for a moment, then understood and agreed again and again.

The ministers around nodded in agreement and immediately issued orders.

As long as they were not completely unlearned puppets, they would understand that at this moment, no matter how dissatisfied they were, and unwilling to be regarded as ants without any voice, they could not show it at this time.

Forbearance, they need to continue to forbear, accumulate knowledge, accumulate strength...

The top leaders of the Sakura Country made what they thought was the right choice.

And the other regional forces of the human alliance also saw it more or less, and felt a little more crisis about the mysterious forces.

No one wants to become a chip on the gambling table of those extraordinary people for some reason without knowing it.

After careful consideration, they all realized that the spiritual network is their way out.

The mysterious secret realm in the spiritual network is the way for them to no longer become ants.

As a result, various forces and families have attached more and more importance to the spiritual network.

Even the most stubborn conservatives can only restrain the people around them to keep them as a kind of fire, and acquiesce to the practice of the majority.

As a result, the average price of spiritual power points in the spiritual network soared by several dozen percentages again.

Many people with good talents made a small profit.

At the same time.

The divine body of the snake was successfully smelted by the Yin-Yang Master.

The power of the snake was divided into several parts.

One of the parts, the inscription of the snake's head, was taken out by the Yin-Yang Master Qingming and thrown to Ito Guang.

Ito Guang was stunned for a moment, and he didn't have time to refuse and said that I was the person of the goddess.

The inscription of the snake had entered Ito Guang's body and merged with him easily.

Ito Guang felt that a strange consciousness suddenly appeared in his mind.

It belonged to the consciousness of the incarnation of the snake.

Fortunately, Ito Guang could feel that the control of his body was still his own.

Moreover, that consciousness was very weak, and he fell asleep after saying a few words to you kid.

"Study the power of the snake in your body carefully."

"Then..."

"Three years later, come to the Black Mountain Onmyoji, and see who can be the true inheritor of the power of the snake with other geniuses who have obtained the power of the snake."

"The inheritor of the power of the snake?"

Ito Hikaru was stunned and said what was in his heart:

"Lord Qingming, I... I am a warrior of the Moon Goddess."

The Onmyoji Qingming transformed by Xiao Yu looked at Ito Hikaru gently.

Of course he knew the other party's background, and the other party was not a person of Onmyoji.

But it doesn't matter, no matter which extraordinary force the other party belongs to, in the final analysis, it is still his own people.

Onmyoji Qingming said calmly:

"This has nothing to do with your identity, but this power is destined to be with you."

"And, I believe that Her Majesty the Moon Goddess will be happy to see you become stronger."

"And, you inheritors are also helping us."

"Help... Lord Qingming?"

Ito Hikaru widened his eyes, a little confused about where he helped again?

"The power of the snake is slightly beyond the expectations of some of the older generation."

"Although we have refined the other party, it is difficult to turn it into a shikigami."

"Fortunately, there are you. You can just share some of the residual soul and residual power of the snake."

"So that we can successfully refine the remaining part into a shikigami!"

After hearing the explanation of Qingming Yin Yang Master, Ito Guang said, "Oh", and suddenly realized.

Accepting the gift, there is no more embarrassment and uneasiness.

Qingming Yin Yang Master watched the mushroom cloud dissipate, and the six-pointed star array gradually dimmed and disappeared.

He also stepped into the void and disappeared mysteriously with the void mirror.

Only left behind the half-collapsed Mount Fuji, the altar that completely collapsed into a slope, and the deep pit that seemed to have been exploded by a large-yield nuclear bomb.

The human coalition team, with the assistance of the Sakura Country troops, waited for a long time before rushing to the aftermath and conducting scientific research.

In the outer space of the Blue Water Star, in the Heavenly Palace.

Xiao Yu lightly tapped his finger and opened the Chaos Primordial Creation Map.

In this scroll, a clear image of the snake appeared.

And as the golden light appeared, the image of the snake changed into a human form.

A handsome man with short white hair, a burly figure, and eight snake heads tattooed on his chest and back.

"The strongest shikigami of Onmyoji...Orochi!"

"From today on, he will be born!"

Xiao Yu looked at the humanoid portrait and concluded the cause and effect with his golden words.

Immediately, Xiao Yu closed his eyes and meditated for a while, and then his consciousness moved and he browsed the entire earth and moon galaxy.

Above the moon.

The First United Shipyard of Humanity has successfully built a factory area covering more than three million square meters on the moon.

More than half a million skilled workers and experts are contributing their youth here, allowing the number of spaceships in the name of human unity to continue to increase.

A rest area in the First Shipyard.

Two technical experts from Citi are taking a rest here.

To get better rest, they, who were notorious for drug abuse, took the drug Quaaludes.

This is an extremely miraculous drug that is instantly more effective than similar drugs.

But it happened that it was invented and put on public sale fifty years ago.

Just because some people who are seeking death can enter a wonderful new world after discovering that after taking it, they use various methods to insist on not falling asleep.

This powerful sleeping drug had to be banned and is almost no longer on the market.

However, these bans only target the middle and lower classes. Citigroup’s elites still have channels to get them.

Not to mention that with the emergence of extraordinary saints, the gradual rise of ancient Eastern countries has made Citigroup's position increasingly embarrassing.

It is the establishment of human union.

Citigroup is still full of a strong sense of crisis and has begun to look for various solutions.

Naturally, Citigroup will not let go of traditional arts such as drug abuse.

Many banned drugs have been revived for research.

This sleeping pill is one of the representative drugs picked up under such circumstances.

In addition, many special items were picked up, which even attracted the attention of extraordinary beings.

Biotechnology is also a technology that cannot be ignored.

After taking the medicine, the two Citizen experts chatted casually while waiting for sleepiness to come:

"I told you to buy gold last time. Did you buy it?"

The slightly bald expert took a sip of water and asked in a low voice.

The younger experts smiled honestly when they heard this:

"If you buy it, you are just timid. If you buy less, you won't make much."

"Now...do you want to sell it?"

"Sell?"

"Haha, thank you for working here with me for half a year."

"You, really can't understand?"

"Look...what can't you understand?"

The bald expert shook his head, hating that iron could never become steel:

"Didn't you notice that the spaceship we built consumes a lot of gold because of the large number of smart parts it uses?"

"I know, but...it's a little consumption."

"This amount of consumption?"

"Hahaha, do you think it's just about building ships? Do you think the technology we have in the spacecraft is not suitable for civilian use?"

"I used to build cars."

"Let me tell you, the gold consumption of the new generation of smart cars is already 1,600 times that of the older generation of cars."

"At that time, I guessed that the properties of gold were going to change drastically, from being a safe haven and an investment, to being an important industrial raw material like oil and rare earths!"

"But I also knew at the time that no one liked the excessive price increase of such new-age raw materials, and there was a lot of gold in the mantle, so I didn't buy it."

"But it's different now."

"We have now entered the interstellar age, and the era of big industry is coming."

"And the industry in this new technological era is a gold-eating beast in the true sense!"

"The output and consumption of gold are no longer directly proportional."

"Even if the human union wants to stop it, the most it can do is make it rise a little slower."

After saying this, the expert rubbed his brow, yawned somewhat sleepily and said:

"Speaking of which, haven't you noticed that physical gold has become increasingly rare in the market? Even if we want to invest, we are just playing with virtual data."

After saying this, the expert began to frown.

Faintly, he always felt that the distribution of resources on Aqua Blue Star was a bit too coincidental.

It's like a technological tree specially prepared for humans to climb.

From coal, to oil, to natural gas, to flammable ice.

As for gold after entering the intelligent age... By coincidence, there is a super-large gold vein lying on the mantle layer, waiting for it to jump out and shine when human technology develops to a certain extent.

Taking into account the primary nuclear fusion raw materials on the moon, as well as the countless advanced nuclear fusion raw materials on the gas giant planets further away...

Tsk, tsk, tsk, it’s scary to think about it, it’s scary to think about it!

"If we develop normally, there should be enough gold in the ground."

The expert leaned on the sofa and murmured:

"But it's different now. It's different. Our pace of development is a bit faster."

"Our gold output, even if supplemented by the asteroid belt, is too small to support the current development of interstellar industry!"

"After all, gold...even in the entire star system and the entire galaxy, it is a rare metal!"

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When expert Dulu doesn't have enough gold.

The United Human Parliament is also discussing similar issues.

They have reduced private gold consumption as much as possible and controlled all gold mining sites.

Gold stocks are still declining rapidly.

As a result, many private smart devices have had to stop production due to production capacity issues.

The congressman who naively thought that he could solve the problem by capturing a pure gold asteroid in the parliament did not say a word and chose silence.

Xiao Yu's consciousness swept through the meeting and read the contents of the documents of these congressmen.

After a slight shock.

Xiao Yu woke up in the Heavenly Palace.

"Gold crisis?"

Xiao Yu did not expect that the development of science and technology would require a large amount of gold.

This was something he did not think of at the beginning.

In fact, he always knew that electronic devices needed gold.

One of the routines of exchanging washbasins for old mobile phones and old computers is to use them for alchemy, right?

However, the amount of gold used in these electronic devices is very small and has been ignored.

However, just like in the early industrial society, an annual output of 10,000 to 20,000 tons of oil was enough for the entire society to operate.

Later, 100 million to 200 million tons of oil per year was not too much.

With the upgrading of equipment.

Electronic equipment has become more sophisticated and more numerous.

In conjunction with it... the amount of gold used has also increased.

Moreover, the more high-tech equipment is, the more difficult it is to replace the role of gold.

The little gold consumption of the equipment in the old era is insignificant.

But what if this amount increases by a thousand times, two thousand times?

And not only the amount of use increases, but also the demand for the equipment itself increases by hundreds or thousands of times.

This... makes the consumption very exaggerated all of a sudden.

"I combined technology with witchcraft, which greatly promoted productivity."

"Then, I encountered the problem of raw materials?"

"Gold..."

Xiao Yu pondered for a while and looked at the Chaos Creation Map in his hand.

Well, it's not impossible to turn stone into gold by turning falsehood into truth.

It's just that I'm not Xi Ri Chonggao after all.

The gold that is turned into gold by stone may be restored in a few days.

It's a temporary solution.

So it's still just basic operation?

The solution Xiao Yu can think of is, on the one hand, to let the wizards of Lilliput join in the new topic.

See if witchcraft or other substances can be used in the production process to replace the role of gold, or reduce its consumption.

This is saving money.

Then it's open source, and the priority of finding asteroids with high gold content is slightly increased.

Take gold mining as an important task of the Star Mothership!

Then... it's the Lilliputian country itself.

Xiao Yu thought about it and went back to the City of Miracles.

In the City of Miracles, Xiao Yu started the gold acquisition plan.

Don't look at the continents of the Lilliputian country as miniaturized land.

The major forces have accumulated a large amount of gold over time.

As Xiao Yu raised the price of gold.

Soon there were many people selling gold.

Some people saw business opportunities and went to other continents to act as intermediaries based on information asymmetry.

Xiao Yu was also happy to see this happen.

Just like that, a week later.

Xiao Yu looted at least half of the existing gold reserves in the Lilliputian country and put them in his own warehouse.

So that the factories serving him do not need to purchase gold on the market.