God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 446: Still Nobody Was Buying

The Clarkson family patriarch hesitated a bit. "This... if we buy steel futures, it goes up every day. But buying a magic-powered vehicle..."

"Back then when I told you to hurry up and join the steel futures buying crowd, you were hesitant and indecisive. Now when I tell you to buy a magic-powered vehicle, you’re conflicted again."

The Clarkson family clan elder was a bit frustrated. "How much money does buying a magic-powered vehicle even cost? The high-end version of a regular vehicle is only 1,288 gold coins."

"But this is about appearances. Think about it—after this launch ends, which family won’t use magic-powered vehicles? Forget families—I bet even bigger merchants will use them."

"Not even having one magic-powered vehicle—won’t people look down on us?"

"You’re right. We Clarksons are a family with status." The Clarkson family patriarch nodded. "Yeah, we need to keep up appearances. It’s only a bit over a thousand gold coins anyway. I’ll have someone sell a little bit of steel futures right now."

"Let’s sell 1,500 gold coins worth. We can also live a bit better day to day."

The Clarkson family clan elders were very satisfied. They couldn’t help but nod one after another. "All along, our Clarkson family has only bought steel futures, never sold. Although we’re selling this time, our situation is special after all."

"By the way, what’s the total value of our steel futures holdings right now?"

The Clarkson family patriarch smiled. "Not much—just over 32.5 million gold coins."

Over 32.5 million gold coins. Hearing this number, everyone showed satisfied smiles.

They never imagined that in just these past few days, the Clarkson family could become this wealthy.

Looking at it this way, a single magic-powered vehicle naturally wasn’t any problem at all.

Selling just a tiny bit—wasn’t that just the tip of the iceberg for the Clarkson family?

Even if prices kept rising later, it wouldn’t be any problem.

The smile on the Clarkson family patriarch’s face grew even richer. Back in the day, where would they have gotten an opportunity like this?

Under his leadership, the Clarkson family was really thriving!

His mood suddenly became cheerful.

However, his expression quickly froze.

When he opened the futures trading market, he discovered that today’s futures trading market was a little bit different from usual.

Today’s steel futures trading actually had quite a few orders.

Normally, wouldn’t these orders get cleared out the moment they appeared?

"I get it. Lots of people are like me—before, they only bought and never sold, so they don’t have much cash on hand. Now that magic-powered vehicles have officially launched, they’ve got to buy some. This led to the market suddenly having lots of steel futures."

The Clarkson family patriarch showed a look of sudden realization. "Right now people in the market don’t know there are suddenly so many steel futures available, so they haven’t reacted yet. In a bit, lots of people should come to buy them up."

Thinking about this, he directly posted an order at the standard price.

"Patriarch? May I ask what happened?"

His expression changes were naturally seen by others around him. Everyone was experienced—they instantly picked up lots of information.

"It’s just that today there are suddenly more orders on the futures trading market. I think it’s because lots of people are like us—their entire fortune is already invested in steel futures, and now they need a little money to buy magic-powered vehicles. No big deal."

The Clarkson family patriarch said with a smile.

The others also nodded one after another.

Thinking it made sense.

However, they soon realized things might not be so simple.

On the futures trading market, more and more orders were selling steel futures, but apparently nobody wanted to buy.

Those accumulated orders already had an overwhelming momentum in a short time.

The Clarkson family patriarch was momentarily dumbstruck.

Even at this point, he still didn’t think there could be any problem with steel futures!

They’d been skyrocketing for such a long, long time—how could they suddenly drop? How could there be a problem?

So many places in this world needed steel.

Never mind anything else—look at those new-style houses being built outside the city. How much steel did they use?

Plus the magic-powered vehicles that just launched, the ones they were planning to buy—how much steel did those use?

With such strong demand, how could there be a problem?

In the Magic Space, quite a few people were already discussing this.

"Maybe it’s because magic-powered vehicles just launched and lots of people need to buy them, so they haven’t paid attention to the situation here yet."

"True, after all, buying something worth thousands of gold coins definitely takes away a lot of attention."

"I bet lots of people choosing to sell steel futures now are doing it to buy magic-powered vehicles, right?"

"Steel demand has become even more robust—how could it drop?"

However, just as they were discussing like crazy, someone suddenly said, "It’s already started dropping. Someone lowered their selling price by 5 silver coins, and it still hasn’t sold!"

This sentence was like a curse. Soon people discovered that in the market, steel futures prices were steadily dropping.

Every few minutes someone would lower the price a little bit.

But still couldn’t sell.

People started looking at each other, unable to help feeling a little bit of panic in their hearts.

Soon, the Magic Net was already in an uproar.

Some people called out that the situation was just special right now. Definitely don’t lower prices—prices would recover soon. People’s attention just hasn’t turned here yet.

Others exclaimed that even after lowering prices, nobody was buying. Was Viscount Roster right all along—steel’s actual value was nowhere near steel futures prices?

Was that thing just artificially inflated all along?

Remember yesterday—once anyone said this thing was inflated, they’d instantly get cursed to death by a huge crowd.

Almost the entire Magic Net, everyone’s understanding was unified. They all thought steel futures prices would definitely keep climbing. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

No, they didn’t even need to think about yesterday.

Just a few hours ago at the launch, everyone still had the same attitude. They even thought steel futures prices could double again.

"There’s no honor among thieves! This is clearly someone wanting to spread panic among us, trying to buy a batch from us at low prices. Once they drive prices back up and our funds become abundant again, we’ll be left holding the bag at high prices."

Even looking at the current situation, the Clarkson family patriarch was still consoling himself.

How could he not be worried inside?

If he wasn’t worried, he definitely would have entered the market right away back then.

But after watching everyone around him making money the whole time, only then did he jump in.

Now, with his entire fortune already bet on this, if steel futures had problems...

He simply didn’t dare imagine what would happen next!

However, this situation wasn’t an isolated case.

Or rather, this was the prevailing mindset.