Shocking!
The world seemed to have gone through decades of changes in a month's time. This was Ouroboros' influence.
The shift of economic structures was more and more inclined toward digital currency and the Dragon Coin was becoming more and more common in international and large cooperate transactions.
The hold that the Eagle Country held over the market was diminishing by the day and there was nothing that they could do about it.
Hell, the dollar was losing value at an alarming rate and analysts were projecting that it would become the most worthless currency if they did not return to the gold standard immediately.
The only problem was that there was insufficient gold to exchange.
This situation worsened when the news popped up on Future News with evidence of gold-plating steel blocks and placing them in vaults. Just this was enough to send the banking sector into a cash crisis.
People were rushing to withdraw money from their accounts but only 5% of the cash in the country is actual physical money, 90% of which is already in the market and banks typically rely on reserves and daily deposits for such physical transactions.
But now, everyone was rushing to withdraw whilst no one was depositing.
Banks had lines of customers going around blocks, all demanding cash. Several small banks had already petitioned for bankruptcy and closed their doors.
At least they tried.
Frustrated customers were storming several banks sending the police forces around them on wild chases and riot control drives.
It's just that these same law enforcers also had their money in these same banks.
The situation did not look good. Miserable.
It was not just the small customers that were racing to see what could be saved.
The big customers were also rushing to settle and transfer their liquid assets to Ouroboros. The amount of transactions between dollar accounts and the Dragon Bank was insane.
A pity that no other entity could make money from it.
The phenomenon did not just affect Eagle citizens.
Too many countries were reliant on the dollar and many economic systems were based on it. The sudden chaos in the economic situation caused a chain reaction and in a giant exodus, the rich and wealthy quickly transferred assets to Dragon Bank.
It was also at this time that Dragon Bank sent out its first batch of representatives.
These guys were different from the 8 Ouroboros representatives.
Nobody knew where they came from, but every customer who needed help converting and transferring assets to Ouroboros got a personal financial advisor who seemed to be fresh out of the printer.
Too handsome and beautiful. The perfect template for the human race.
Those who paid attention would have noticed that the rich men got goddesses while the women got male gods. Each to their liking.
And they did notice. It's just that they did not dare make a move.
The thing that confused them, however, is that these guys looked native enough, but there was no evidence of existence.
It is as if they grew off the ground. Well, they did.
Things were happening so fast that the rigid bureaucratic structures of government did not have enough time to react.
Just when things looked to be settling down, multiple stock options appeared on Future Investments and the AI assistants readily recommended them to the world's populace.
The most expensive was called MIA. This stock went for 100,000 DC per share. That's almost 70+ million yuan.
It directly shocked the whole world.
To prove its value, there was a 1-hour free trial experience window for prospective investors.
Of course, not everyone could try it. At the very least, your account needed to be thick enough.
Then the thing that shocked people even more happened. After an hour, almost everyone who had the qualifications bought it.
This caused waves on the internet. But nobody knew what was going on. They could only speculate.
Or go over to the Skynet Constructions option to watch the construction underway in the Northwest Xia.
The price of this stock was not as expensive to begin with, only 100 DC, but as the live stream continued, there were more and more buyers and the price spiked several times with each technology that was shown on screen.
It was already approaching the 10,000 DC mark and the numbers were getting faster. A craze.
The live stream started with a tunneling machine on a field in Magic City and at that time, there were barely any viewers, but when it burrowed and started digging at 700 km/h, the price started going up.
By the time it reached the northwest, it had already laid a maglev rail and done a few rounds, creating massive trenches hundreds of meters underground.
The commentary AI claimed it to be preparation for a foundation, but at that time, one would wonder how huge a building with such an exaggerated foundation would be.
Then came robots.
This is where things started getting crazy.
There were all kinds of robots and unmanned machines working in an absurdly orderly manner.
There was a gigantic machine that seemed to materialize all kinds of materials and the robots would convey them to specific places and 'plant' them.
After watering, these materials actually grew.
A wall hundred of meters high took 30 minutes to grow at a speed visible to the eye. Very scary.
The more they watched, the more shocking it became.
There was no such thing as architects.
These walls seemed to already have been encoded with structural information. A wall that needed a door would grow a door.
One that needed a window would grow one. Even the art and decorations seemed to grow naturally and blend seamlessly into the entire structure effortlessly.
It was magical.
As if that was not enough, there would be occasional sneak pics of what was going on underground.
Even with the AI explaining every process with science and technology, 99% of the viewers were adamant that it was magic.
It could only be magic.
Even plants can't sprout and grow to maturity in less than 3 hours. What's more a building that covers several acres of land.
As if to prove them wrong, Skynet Biotech appeared.