Chapter 512: Return to Blue Star
March 12, 2030, weekend!
On the streets of Mande City, Blue Star.
A tall woman in a white dress, with high beauty, is holding a phone and doing an outdoor live stream.
"Today I will take everyone to a good place, you can guess where it is and leave your guesses in the comments."
Facing the phone, Shen Xueqing spoke.
Originally, she was a horror game streamer from Hua Country, and because she always remained expressionless while playing horror games, she earned the nickname Sister Calm.
Later, because Nightmare Park developed by Jieke Group, emphasized realism, immersive and thrilling experiences, it attracted a large number of tourists.
Shen Xueqing herself, due to her outstanding performance in Nightmare Park, became the highest-ranked in points, the one who cleared Ghost House the most, and also the only person to have ever completed the Nightmare Level Ghost House, becoming a super gamer. This attracted a huge following for her, with over thirty million fans online.
Since Nightmare Park is only available in Southeast Asia, Shen Xueqing has been residing there for a long time.
Besides horror game streaming and editing videos of clearing stages in Nightmare Park, she does outdoor live streams on weekends.
The massive fan base, coupled with good streaming effects, keeps her live audience consistently above 100,000 viewers.
On the Douyin streaming platform, right after Shen Xueqing spoke, the comments refreshed rapidly.
'Are you going to visit the Kunpeng Rocket Launch Base? There's a Kunpeng Rocket launch scheduled today, I want to see the big rocket.'
'Forget the rocket, visiting Nightmare Park is more fun, I love watching those foreigners get scared out of their wits.'
'In my opinion, going to the beach is the way to go. Sand and bikini beauties are the real deal.'
There were all sorts of comments, and Shen Xueqing smiled, walking casually on the street while educating everyone about Mande City.
Pointing at a cylinder-shaped building, Shen Xueqing smiled and said, "Look at this building, this is the Mande Financial Trading Center Building, where the famous Blood Gold Trading Futures take place.
The trading volume of Blood Gold here ranks just behind forex, precious metals, and crude oil; it's one of the hottest futures products in the world today, attracting many speculators to participate."
As she spoke, Shen Xueqing walked into the Mande Financial Trading Center Building.
The hall here is spacious and bright, with staff in suits busy behind the counter windows, and the hanging LCD screens are refreshing various futures real-time information, attracting many to stop and engage in discussions.
Since the emergence of the Blood Gold Industry, every year Jieke Group spends lavishly, purchasing blood worth nearly a trillion US Dollars from around the world.
This industry is referred to as the Blood Gold Industry, with various blood donation groups, cross-border blood companies, dignitaries and gangs, transporters and intermediaries all being involved. From the developed Beautiful Country to the impoverished third world countries, the figures of Blood Gold practitioners are seen globally, with a population coverage calculated in billions.
To provide a direct comparison, the global oil production is 75.4 million barrels per day, with the per-barrel futures price fluctuating around 73 US Dollars, resulting in an annual global oil output of about two trillion US Dollars.
The annual procurement price of the Blood Gold Industry is equivalent to half the total price of annual global oil production.
Imagine how many wars and profit disputes oil has generated worldwide, now with the sudden emergence of the Blood Gold Industry, there's as much crime and profit entangled with this giant tree.
Each decimal fluctuation in Blood Gold futures here, or when Jieke Group tightens or increases blood procurement, can cause countless people around the world to go bankrupt or become wealthy overnight.
Jieke Group, due to its own needs, forcibly gave rise to a massive futures market enough to influence the world order, attracting a large influx of hot money.
'Sister Calm thinks too highly of us, we can't even qualify to participate in such big transactions like Blood Gold futures.'
'With only twenty cents in my pocket, I can't understand these high-end things at all!'
'Anyway, Jieke Group is rich and awesome, over a dollar per milliliter of fresh blood, even I want to donate blood.'
After briefly touring the Mande Financial Trading Center Building, Shen Xueqing left and continued her activities, introducing the local conditions and customs.
Along the way, you can see construction sites and roads being expanded and built everywhere in Mande City. Today's Mande City is no longer the rundown small town of a few hundred thousand people before Jieke Group took over.
The total resident population here has already exceeded the eight million mark, and the huge population gathering has increased the city's construction demands daily, turning the entire Mande City into a super construction site.
Construction companies from around the world are seen here, but the majority are still workers wearing clothes with Chinese characters from certain construction companies, working enthusiastically.
'Have you guys noticed there are so many Chinese here!'
The comments refreshed on the phone, and seeing this, Shen Xueqing explained, "That's normal, according to the official data released by Jieke Group, the number of Chinese working in Mande City has already exceeded the 600,000 mark.
After all, Mande City is the birthplace of Jieke Group, and there're many opportunities for development and entrepreneurship, attracting many young people with dreams to come to this city to develop and build.
Our Hua Country is very close to here, drawing a lot of people over to work and settle."
Shen Xueqing walked and stopped, and when she arrived at the entrance of a construction site, she suddenly noticed a platform had been erected.