How Am I Still Alive?

"...Sure enough, don't you accept big money transactions?"

"Heh, of course, you should also vaguely know what the current situation is, and I won't hide it anymore. In many areas, big money is meaningless. The food before can be called our goodwill gift, but it is useless after that." It is a bit too much to exchange scrap iron for our hard assets."

What Lu Pingan said was all the truth, but it was also the common sense he had just added after he really came into contact with the outside of the holy city.

Holy City, the super capital of a country, is completely different from Outland.

When the official credit is still solid, the currency it issues is naturally rock solid.

But when the official financial institutions have no time to manage, and it is obvious that the market has overflowing currency liquidity (too much printing, too much issuance), the value of the currency will plummet in an instant.

Now, when the holy capital is still immersed in false prosperity, big money is still hard currency, but when the people below cannot buy food with the money, the coins will naturally depreciate on a large scale and even refuse to trade.

At the moment when the market collapses, it is not that 70% or 80% of people cannot buy food, but that as long as there is a 10% gap, it means that the price of goods will rise to the point where only 10% of people can afford to buy food.

When the gap of collapse appeared in front of the world, everything was already out of control.

"How did it collapse so quickly?"

Lu Pingan was a little surprised when he first discovered this situation. Generally speaking, feudal society has a serious lag. Even if there is no news from the central government for a few months or half a year, the following should maintain a certain inertia.

But based on the intelligence from all parties, I decided that I still took it for granted. This is not a few months or half a year. In fact, the central government rarely interfered with local governments a year or two ago, and all kinds of rumors and rumors are flying all over the sky. It is not a day or two. Yes, it would be too optimistic to calculate with the usual timetable.

"It's like on the eve of the stock market crash, large households, institutions, and banks ran away after getting the news, while retail investors and ordinary people still tried their best to get in. It's a bit too cruel."

The higher-ups of the Kingdom must have gotten the news, and the foreign visitors running all over the street can't stop them. They have multiple methods of verification, and they must know everything clearly.

And the upper echelons of the local nobles who have connections must have known the information more or less, and those unlucky people who directly conveyed the news of "the end is coming" to ordinary people have become so-called doomsday cultists. How many people are there in a region? Knowing the truth, I am afraid, can only depend on the so-called conscience and self-awareness of the local lord.

After all, the faster the social order collapses, the higher the cost of maintaining social stability, and the fewer resources to realize the retreat.

However, the local lords, landlords, and nobles of the Holy City are different. Some of them have no way to leave, and subconsciously reserve all the resources. Only a very small number of wise and well-informed people will not hesitate to give up their resources. Everything, try exchanging a boat ticket. After all, there aren't enough signs of doom right now.

"The collapse is so severe outside, and the holy city is still singing and dancing. These guys are really amazing."

The most realistic index of people's livelihood stability is the Engel coefficient (the coefficient of food accounting for the total expenditure). The price of food in the holy city is falling, and wages are rising. I am afraid that people will not be able to determine the truth until the last moment. Outside, they can no longer control it. , The price of food has risen by more than four or five times, and most people have to think about how to survive.

".It seems that the situation is a bit bad. It's a bit strange. How could the lord allow the price of food to rise to such an extent." The guide's little Mader still couldn't understand it. Everyone thought about it and thought it would be better for him to understand it slowly. .

It's one thing whether he understands it or not, but it's troublesome if he loses his mind after he understands it. I really need this local guide and translator on my side.

The lady of the Knights came up to buy food. To be honest, she didn't have enough bargaining chips.

After confirming the depreciation of the big money, it is impossible for Lu Pingan to accept it. He also knows why even in the holy city, he can't buy high-end goods with money.

".I can release a batch of obsolete weapons and equipment. Those outsiders seem to be quite interested."

The elimination munitions of the Knights? The 90% new one? Lu Ping'an was slightly moved, then shook his head firmly.

This kind of thing is very good in peacetime, but now there are warriors and knights everywhere holding swords for bread. As the social order further disintegrates, these things will soon become worthless.

So, what price does Ping An want to offer?

To be honest, Lu Pingan didn't know about it before. Even the big cat lacked the experience of "asking the price" at this time, but some people had expected it long ago.

【. I know that everyone has a lot of questions, but I won't explain it either. Let’s make a long story short, let’s talk about the Sky Mending Project, what kind of sky is being repaired, and what are you explorers going to explore.]

"Ginger is still old and hot, they have thought of it a long time ago"

After the explorer exam, during the half-hour briefing, Premier Song directly talked about "what are the most worth grabbing and trading".

Probably, the higher-ups are also worried that these new explorers who do not have a high vision really bought a pile of rubbish with their tickets, and they don't know what the real valuables are.

"Rules. No, in your words, it is a truth-level item."

In an instant, the female knight's face froze, she was frightened by the opponent's lion's big mouth.

"As long as you have truth-level items, artifacts, or similar substances, you can exchange for a boat ticket with me. You know what a boat ticket is."

This matter is a bit far away.

On the same day, Premier Song spent at least 20 minutes popularizing science with a senior secret keeper who "has never seen the market", what is the survival of the world, and what is the most valuable when traveling outside.

"The collapse of a world is actually similar to the collapse of a human body. Unable to withstand pollution, the entire world mutates and disintegrates. We use the power of professions and the rules of order to resist the erosion of pollution, and the world is the same, but , what it needs is reason, the superiority of the 'power of rules', the reason of the world belonging to the gods"

Take this collapsing world as an example. It has the sun god and the sun, and its "principle of the sun" has been poured into this world, that is, it can be used as a fighting force against pollution. Its existence itself is also stable in the world and resists pollution and erosion. Cornerstone.

The more powerful the world, the more "reasons" it has, but the principles of a natural world are destined to be effective.

"The first target is the gods. I know that you have a lot of evil thoughts about the gods. You feel that they are not reliable at all and may betray and run away at any time. And I think so too. This is simply the fact that they are not reliable at all."

The gods themselves are unreliable, but if a god is "linked" to a world, it becomes part of the world's principles, and the world's resistance to pollution is naturally stronger.

At the same time, the natural rules within the world will become more complete and diverse, and there will be a series of "professional paths" to enhance combat power, which is generally beneficial.

There are many ways to obtain the truth of the world, but the most reliable one is always to abduct mature gods. This is also the reason why four of the seven main gods have defected, which makes the human beings on the earth very anxious. They are really reluctant." The "Lord of the Seal" also ran away, and now the human rule-level powerhouses are probably trying to persuade the "Lord of the Seal" to make up their minds.

In a sense, when a god who has been connected to the world flees, it means that the "principle of the world" of this world has been taken into the new world. It is a life and death enmity.

The midnight infighting in the holy city these days may be the result of several foreign forces competing with each other.

The gods only fight against the wind. The more worlds they connect, the stronger the world will be, and they can in turn cultivate more powerful gods. The current earth is not enough to cultivate twelve pillars, but it may not be necessary in the future.

Gods are untrustworthy, but mortal races are not credible. Maybe a certain race just tricked them into the past, killed them, and then used their "theory of the world" to repair and evolve the world.

In the eyes of many people, certain foreign gods are the parasites of the world, but at the same time, they are also the nourishment of the world.

This is a two-way selection process, and it is also the battlefield where the bosses are desperately fighting. Of course, Lu Pingan has to leave the holy city, and he does not want to be involved in a battle of gods that may break out at any time.

"The first priority is always to seize the truth of the world. This is the core goal of the Sky Mending Project. What we want to mend is our sky and our world."