Chapter 509
, 490 Changes
Chapter 509, Section 490: Change
The intense sense of being torn apart by the overlapping world caused Jiang Jianxin to live in pain every day.
She did consider returning to Haidu and using family ties to alleviate her pain.
But the key issue is that Jiang Jianxin himself is very strong in combat, and she is worried that she might completely lose control of her mind and hurt her brother.
So during this period of intense disorientation, she chose to wander aimlessly in the wilderness.
Even as Jiang Jianxin drifted through his aimless days, the world continued to turn.
And it was plunging into the abyss at an almost insane speed.
The most dramatic change has occurred in the world of faith.
After the financiers brought down the Vulcan Domain, the meticulously planned "short selling by divine grace" did not end with the collapse of the temple.
On the contrary, it's like a powder keg with a lit fuse, and the chain reaction is tearing apart the economic structure of the entire continent at an unprecedented speed.
The Vulcan Domain controls energy and is the industrial heart of the entire continent.
Its collapse signifies the complete disintegration of the faith-based financial system.
When the Vulcan's Grace Coupon suddenly turned into worthless paper printed with magnificent images of the god, panic spread like a plague.
People flocked to temple banks across the land, pounding on marble counters, demanding to exchange all their "divine favor certificates," "blessing bonds," and "divine blessing futures contracts" for real gold, silver, food, or anything else they could hold in their hands.
However, the reserves of the temple banking system have long been emptied by layers of leverage and virtual divine grace held across divine realms.
Bankers never imagined that one day all believers would simultaneously demand the fulfillment of their faith.
Within three days, the seven major temple banks on the mainland successively announced the suspension of cash withdrawals. The parchment notices posted on the ornate arches were torn to shreds, and the angry crowd set fire to the golden curtains that decorated the temple with torches.
Even in some divine realms, rioters stormed into the underground vaults of the Holy See, only to find that they were not filled with gold, but with fake ingots made of colored clay and coated with gold powder.
In addition to the collapse of the belief system, the real economy is also gradually collapsing.
Craftsmen, sailors, merchants, alchemists, rune carvers... tens of thousands of people lost their livelihoods overnight.
In the city square, around the bonfire where the unemployed gathered, increasingly radical whispers circulated.
Someone was showing off an expired gift certificate, the divine emblem on it still glowing faintly, but it could no longer be exchanged for even half a loaf of bread.
Food prices are soaring by the hour. In the fertile plains, it should be harvest season, but the "flame cores" that drive the harvesting machinery have all broken down.
Farmers used the most primitive methods to rush the harvest, their fingers bleeding from cuts on the wheat stalks, but they couldn't keep up with the speed at which the grain was looted by rioters in the warehouse.
Three months after the complete collapse of the Vulcan Domain, on an ordinary evening, in what was once the most prosperous trading city on the continent, the first batch of unemployed craftsmen took to the streets.
They didn't hold up any signs; they just walked silently, carrying tools they no longer needed.
Then, more people took to the streets. Dockworkers dragged rusted cables, textile workers gripped spindle handles that could no longer be turned, and bankrupt businessmen held empty ledgers.
They initially demanded a “response from the gods,” then a “responsibility from the Papacy,” and finally only the simplest, most primitive slogans echoed:
"Bread!" "Work!"
"Live!"
Heavy rain fell from the sky, the rain getting heavier and heavier, scattering the group, but it couldn't wash away the suffocating feeling burning in everyone's chest.
Several young men began to use expired divine favor coupons to set fire to the noble carriages parked by the roadside, the flames illuminating their gaunt and crazed faces.
Amidst this chaos, con artists also took the opportunity to infiltrate the Papacy.
The social chaos and the Vatican's helplessness serve as a natural shield for them.
The con artists easily infiltrated the upper echelons of the Vatican and witnessed the dark side of the faith society.
They wisely chose not to expose it directly, but waited until the financial crisis spread to their divine realm before revealing it to those who resisted through various means.
The Rose Group strongly supports the fraudsters' actions.
The religious society has been divided among various gods for hundreds of years, and it is long past the time for the era to collapse.
The new system will replace the old system, and they are the representatives of the new system. The glory of the God of Wealth will always illuminate every piece of the human world.
Because of his rising power, Jun Yunqi has been walking around the group with a smile on his face and a brisk pace these past few days. Anyone can tell that the president is in a very good mood lately.
In a very good mood, Jun Yunqi naturally valued the financier, his right-hand man, even more.
All finance department staff received a raise, and the financier was even specifically praised by the president at the company's annual meeting.
Jun Yunqi called on the heads of other subsidiaries to act like financiers, creating greater profits for the group and making Rose's future even more brilliant.
His eloquent speech was met with thunderous applause. In addition to public encouragement, Junyunqi also set up reward measures.
The reward amount is extremely generous, so generous that any normal working person who sees this amount would go crazy for it.
The next day, all the leaders of the Rose Group were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, staring at the map of the faith world with covetous eyes, wishing that the Rose Group's business empire could cover the whole world.
Driven by this passion, the Rose Group's influence expanded rapidly within the religious community at an alarming pace.
A large number of workers who lost their original industries flocked to the Rose Group, while another group went to the Divine Realm of Original Sin.
Because the realm of original sin is chaotic enough, with all sorts of black industries thriving, and behind them are all kinds of evil gods.
The only characteristic of evil gods is that faith is converted into cash quickly; people arrive in the morning, kidneys are gone in the afternoon, and money is transferred at night.
The time difference is no more than three hours, with speed as the main focus.
This is an extremely tempting way to make money for the suffering people who are desperate to get money to survive.
Therefore, the number of people entering the Realm of Original Sin reached a record high in just a few days, which can be described as a great spectacle in history.
The collapse of the era proceeded silently during this period, and no one knew where the world of faith would ultimately go.