Chapter 727: 721: The Long Lost Zero
Super Spender
Chapter 727: Chapter 721: The Long Lost Zero
However, there was no other choice. With the Flame Nationâs official warning, the international gold futures market indeed fell sharply. According to the nationâs estimation, even though large scale gold deposits were not found in a short period of time and many components in the construction of ships like the Fireworks required the incorporation of expensive metals like gold, it was not challenging to find gold ore in space.
The price of gold is expected to fall by at least half, and possibly even drop to a third of what it is now. While it wonât be as cheap as common metals, a one-third drop in price might still be considered a bargain for many.
However, official warnings from banks and other institutions were effective. Upon hearing the warning, the majority promptly sold all their gold. In the following week, according to Flame Nationâs statistics, barring a few stubborn individuals, over ninety percent of the population had sold all their gold.
This ninety percent of gold added up to a total of nearly 7,000 tons. It was indeed a shocking amount and gave an insight into the scale of gold reserves in the Flame Nation, and admittedly, previous predictions which was around 30,000 tons were far from accurate.
Moreover, Flame Nation could only account for the gold purchases that were recorded. The tons of unaccounted gold inherited over history were not included. Many believed that a massive gold reserve was required to support the internationalization of the Flame Nation currency.
Now, the Flame Nationâs proclamation had directly led to nearly 10,000 tons of gold reserves pouring in, a fairly terrifying figure. This had sparked countless rumours claiming that the authorities were using this as an excuse to accumulate gold from the public to provide the last bit of support to Flame Nation currencyâs internationalization.
However, Finn Lewis didnât have the time to deal with all these issues, or more accurately, he had a more pressing matter at hand: Zero had made an appearance and handed out a task to him.
Zero had not appeared ever since Finn Lewis returned to the Solar System. Though he could exchange and purchase items, Zero didnât appear or give any instructions. For a while, Lewis thought that Zero had disappeared. However, since the item exchanges were still happening normally, it meant that Zero was still around.
However, in the nearly two years since his return, this was the first time Zero had assigned a task, and surprisingly, it turned out to be a baffling one for Lewis.
âProsperity: A noble doesnât only need to possess a noble temperament but also needs to establish a family and his own power. Youâre still lacking a spouse. Please complete a formal wedding in the next three months that is recognized by your family, friends, relatives, and the world. Punishment for task failure: Immediate forfeiture of one past reward and the difficulty of future tasks will be tripled. Task completion reward: 100 million points, one Resource Galaxy, and one long-distance fixed jump gate.â
The difficulty and the tenure reward of Zeroâs task is unbalanced. Finn was puzzled as to what it meant by rewarding a Resource Galaxy. Was it implying that it could actually award him an entire galaxy? But if it was in the Milky Way, who knew if it fell within another familyâs territory.
If it wasnât in the Milky Way, not even the Galactic Federation had the means to exit the Milky Way, let alone Finn Lewis. To travel to the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, one needed to traverse a distance of approximately 2.2 million light-years which was expansive in relation to the diameter of the Milky Way, it was merely over a hundred thousand light-years. The vast distance between the two galaxies was indeed the biggest obstacle to intergalactic travel.
Thus, Lewis had no idea about his reward. But undoubtedly, this Resource Galaxy was an extraordinary reward. Most planets in the universe contain mineral reserves. With the contemporary mining technology and the Galactic Federationâs advanced mining methods, mining wasnât a complex issue.