God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 329: Stock Exchange

The random appearance of Hollows would definitely bring huge crises, making people live in panic.

But this had to be kept within a certain limit.

Once the numbers became too high, people would instead become completely numb, or other special situations would arise.

By comparison, making the despair brought by Hollows a seasoning, then giving people some hope—when hope and despair coexisted, the overall population could keep rising.

Through these scattered pieces of information, Ren gained a general understanding of the world on the other side. "So? How likely do you think my theory is?"

"Logically it works. It’s also a relatively idealized model." After thinking briefly, the Goddess of Magic nodded to express her view. "But we don’t have enough information yet. We need to dig deeper to learn more."

"Yeah, too little information. We need to keep exploring. Plus we need to understand their power system and the strength of their powerful weapons."

If the greatest enemy of the other world was the Hollows, and they just needed to solve the Hollow problem to eliminate potential crises, then the whole thing would actually be relatively simple.

Even directly facing the Mother of Pain would be like that.

But the current situation was somewhat special. The world on the other side seemed to have a very "positive energy" system, and this system was spinning in a crazy positive feedback loop, constantly raising the upper limits of that world.

And besides the Hollows, they had other power systems too. That couldn’t be ignored!

Before confirming the basic situation on the other side, passively defending against these limited numbers of Hollows actually seemed like a pretty good idea.

The main reason those people from the Tulip Kingdom had shown insufficient defensive strength was just because they had no reinforcements—it had always been just them.

Now with the Church of Technology combat forces joining in, holding the gateway shouldn’t be a problem!

At Ren’s command, the image capture monster continued deeper.

Then it got stuck.

The fortress wasn’t as simple as it looked!

Though it seemed like there was nothing above the fortress, there was actually an invisible energy field. The energy field would block any object trying to cross the fortress, whether from inside to outside or outside to inside.

The image capture monster’s only chance was probably when the fortress opened and new Hollows were being delivered in—it could sneak through then.

"Looks like we need stronger reconnaissance units."

"Though the reconnaissance monster is the weakest of the mechanical life forms I’ve created—it just maxed out auxiliary skills like stealth and scouting—the other life forms aren’t much stronger in combat either. At most they can reach high-tier magician level. I feel like they’d also have trouble crossing this barrier, especially since the barrier is in the sky."

Ren fell silent for a moment, thinking carefully and evaluating. "I don’t think it’ll work. To cross this barrier, we probably need legendary level."

"Let’s try first. If it doesn’t work, we’ll go back and modify them." After thinking, the Goddess of Magic directly pulled out the strongest magical life form she’d temporarily created.

After all, this was just a probe. They hadn’t chosen to use the best materials, so naturally the magical life forms they created were somewhat lacking.

They couldn’t reach Betty’s level.

As their understanding of the world on the other side deepened, Ren increasingly felt it was tricky.

Half an hour later, Ren and the Goddess of Magic returned to the divine realm.

They needed to rework and strengthen these magical life forms or mechanical life forms they’d just created.

Compared to sending real life forms capable of generating faith into that crisis-filled world, these manufactured so-called life forms were more suitable.

Mortal realm.

After confirming the plans for Dragon Bank 2.0, the stock exchange, and the bond exchange, the dragons immediately contacted Viscount Roster to explain the situation.

Viscount Roster, who’d been researching the next moves with the wild mages, was completely stunned.

He never imagined there could be such operations—a whole series of operations.

Creating money when you had no money to use for development.

It was just... genius!

But it seemed like it really could work!

No! It would definitely work!

This was a plan passed down by the god.

Viscount Roster read more and more seriously. Who knows how much time passed before he finally asked Nidhogg, "I wonder what you need us to cooperate on? Converting Dragon Bank’s golden dragon coins to credit currency shouldn’t need me to do anything, right? Is it about the stock exchange?"

"When the stock exchange officially launches, we’ll list Dragon Delivery, but due to Dragon Bank’s special nature, it absolutely cannot be listed."

Nidhogg quickly replied, "Just that alone obviously isn’t enough. We need more large companies to go public."

"The Golden Merchant Guild, Dawn Southern Development Company, Roster Territory Mechanical Manufacturing Company, and so on—all of these need your cooperation to proceed."

"Besides that, after the stock exchange officially starts operating, I want you to have that ultra-high-speed maglev train project you guys have been working on go through its first stock evaporation, then launch the bond exchange."

Viscount Roster looked at this information, his face full of confusion.

The first part he understood very clearly.

Having lots of large companies go public would let people see the hope of making money—even make them feel that making money was super easy. This would stimulate more people to deposit their gold, silver, and other precious metals into Dragon Bank, thereby converting those precious metals into credit currency, then entering the stock market to invest.

Very clear and straightforward. It could push currency reform and stimulate factory expansion. Factories could also get more money to develop.

But what did the latter operation mean?

Why couldn’t the bond exchange also just open directly at the same time?

Wasn’t this also providing companies and factories with a channel to borrow money?

Why did they need that ultra-high-speed maglev train to cooperate, evaporate part of the stock market money, and then open it?

Instantly, tons of questions popped up in Viscount Roster’s head. But soon, he understood the key point. "I get it. I can cooperate with this, but I won’t sacrifice my reputation. Regarding the ultra-high-speed maglev train part, we need to discuss it carefully first."

"When will the stock exchange officially open? What do you need me to prepare? If there’s enough time, I want to integrate all companies in Roster territory except the World Economic News Agency, making it more convenient to welcome this windfall... operation."

He’d actually wanted to say windfall, but after thinking about it, it really wasn’t appropriate to be too blunt, even though both he and Nidhogg knew very clearly that this was exactly a windfall.

These initial few companies would inevitably get massive amounts of funding through this operation. Their future development would become incredibly smooth. As long as they didn’t do anything particularly outrageous, maintaining it for hundreds or even thousands of years probably wouldn’t be a problem.