Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Earning Until They Go Bankrupt
“Oh? What’s up, got any other good ways to make money?”
“Of course, but whether you can earn it depends on your skills. So people get rich overnight, while others end up so broke they have to sell their own planet.”
“This… why does that sound so familiar?” Fang Jueyu had a few lines of frustration appearing on his forehead. “You don’t an gambling, do you? I’m a good kid from the 21st century. The most I’ve done is play Bull at New Year’s with family and friends. I don’t even know how to play Mahjong or Pai Gow, never even tried Landlord!”
“Fang, what the heck are you talking about?” Natu gave Fang Jueyu a look as if he were an idiot. Pai Gow? Bull? Mahjong? What the heck are those, he thought; they sound quite interesting.
Seeing Natu’s expression, Fang Jueyu knew he’d misunderstood. “Ahaha, those are just types of entertainnt on our planet.”
“I see,” Natu nodded. “No, Fang, the way I’m talking about making money also has a bit of gambling involved.”
“Oh? Do tell.” Fang Jueyu got a bit interested. He figured that since he wasn’t on Earth, playing around a little shouldn’t matter, right?
“Fang, do you know about Cosmic Crystals?”
“I think I’ve heard of it.” Fang Jueyu rembered Xiao Yi had told him that Cosmic Crystals were a very precious energy crystal, a form of high-level energy that had existed since the dawn of the universe, found almost everywhere in the cosmos.
Sage Crystal was also a highly precious form of high-level energy, but it was only effective for Divine Ability Users.
However, these Cosmic Crystals were of an even higher grade. Even to a Transcender, a high-purity Cosmic Crystal was a rare treasure. A peanut-sized Cosmic Crystal could sell for billions of Cosmic Coins, or even more.
The mining of Cosmic Crystals typically happened on planets with special compositions, where they were dug out like ores.
But there’s a major issue. These stones have a very peculiar texture; neither Magic, spiritual power, nor any other form of energy can penetrate them directly, so if you have a stone, you can’t tell if there’s a Cosmic Crystal inside.
Furthermore, Cosmic Crystals are extrely fragile. If you use force to break them open, it’s easy to damage the crystals within, causing their contained energy to evaporate instantly.
So far, even the most advanced civilizations haven’t developed any instrunt capable of penetrating these rocks to determine whether they contain Cosmic Crystals. Hence, a unique business evolved in the universe.
Mining companies extract these stones and then transport them to various advanced civilizations across the universe for sale, each stone with its own price tag.
So very experienced individuals can judge from subtle characteristics whether or not a stone contains Cosmic Crystals. If it does, they’ve hit the jackpot.
And Cosmic Crystals co in different colors and purities, with hugely varying prices. The top-tier Cosmic Crystals can cost up to tens of trillions of Cosmic Coins!
However, if there’s nothing, you could easily lose a few million Cosmic Coins, or even bankrupt an entire civilization overnight.
“Damn, isn’t this just like gambling on stones?” After listening for a while, Fang Jueyu finally understood what thod Natu was talking about to make money. Although Fang Jueyu hadn’t personally encountered this stuff, he’d read it in online novels from Earth to the point of exhaustion. Almost every urban-thed novel contains so story arc about stone gambling.
“Stone gambling? Hahaha, you really coined a fitting na,” Natu said. “But around here, we have a different term for it, we call it ‘Crazy Stone.'”
“Hahaha, I bet whoever invented this was soone from Earth who crossed over,” Fang Jueyu joked, thinking this cosmic civilization and humanity shared many similarities. With wealth cos leisure, and leisure leads to creating all sorts of flashy things.
“Hehehe, this ti my father gave 2.5 trillion Cosmic Coins, and I’ve saved a good 1.5 trillion, finally giving the chance to make a big profit.”
“Yeah, right. By the looks of your fortune, you could tell you’ve lost so much here you can barely keep your shorts on,” Fang Jueyu mocked. Being the son of a ruler of a level-three civilization, with an annual inco exceeding ten billion Cosmic Coins, if he had good luck, he wouldn’t need his dad to buy him a spaceship worth several hundreds of billions of Cosmic Coins.
“Hahaha, well, you need to show so flare!” Natu felt a little embarrassed.
There’s no business without risk. The greater the profit, naturally, the greater the risk. Generally, even out of a hundred stones, you might not extract a single Cosmic Crystal, which shows how difficult it is.
Natu indeed frequently went to these places. Whenever he got his tax revenue annually, he’d imdiately take the money to these gambling dens at the universe’s core mines. So far, he hasn’t ever broken even.
“You do seem pretty persistent.”
“Absolutely,” Natu said, not realizing Fang Jueyu was mocking him, “Fang, you need to know there’s not only Cosmic Crystals inside these stones!”
“Oh? Is there sothing else?”
“Of course!” Natu said, “Do you know how our universe was created?”
“Big Bang.” Since he was little, his science teachers had said it so many tis he couldn’t count.
“That’s quite a novel concept,” Natu replied, giving Fang Jueyu a surprised look. “It seems your planet’s education is a bit different from ours.”
“Host, see, this is what happens when I tell you to study cosmic history, and now you’re embarrassed,” Xiao Yi comnted.
“Huh? It wasn’t?”
“That’s just a hypothesis on your Earth, but in cosmic civilizations, there’s another belief that the universe was created from an ancient great war!”
“Is that even possible?” Fang Jueyu was shocked. Didn’t this an there was another world before the universe was born? This turned his understanding upside down!
“It’s only a hypothesis, yet to be confird,” Xiao Yi said. “The reason is simple, because we used certain techniques to test those Cosmic Crystals, and their birth ti is almost the sa as the universe’s.”
“So what?”
“But in those rocks, so artificial tal fragnts have been found! They’re made from materials never seen before in this universe, holding high research value. So fragnts in fairly good condition have powers not inferior to the fifth-stage weapons used by Transcenders!”
“Is that so?” Fang Jueyu suddenly felt he needed to brush up on his knowledge.
“Fang, during these festivals, these specific industries boom. According to my sources, there are many large raw stone workshops on nearby Ghana planets, and they’ve recently imported a big batch of Cosmic Crystal Ore!”
“How long does it take to get there?”
“The Ghana Civilization is on the edge of the Murlar Civilization. At your Silver Winged Demon’s speed, it’ll only take two days!”
“Go!” Xiao Yi declared. “We’ll profit till they’re bankrupt!”
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