Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 1258

Chapter 1258: Chapter 497: Gold from the Heavens Chapter 1258: Chapter 497: Gold from the Heavens After collecting so many precious diamonds, Yan Fei immediately became interested in the various crystal formations on the ground. He began continuously storing these crystals into the mini-production workshop in the Universal Space, hoping to extract valuable chemical elements from them. However, to Yan Fei's disappointment, although the crystals still looked colorful and beautiful, they were actually not valuable at all and not worth collecting.

The ground space in this Underground Space was vast, and it was impossible for Yan Fei to survey the entire area by himself. Soon, he gave up the inefficient method of searching on his own and activated the Drone Quantum Radar hovering above his head. By consuming a large number of Energy Points, he conducted a wide-ranging and detailed scan of the underground conditions, deciding whether to collect these items based on the elemental distribution scanned.

Since there was a large amount of diamond ores here, it indicated that the Terrain was not simple, and it was very possible that other valuable minerals existed. Adhering to the principle of not wasting, Yan Fei decided to conduct a detailed exploration of the minerals here.

After consuming a substantial amount of Energy Points, the precise Quantum Radar Scan revealed the distribution of minerals 100 meters beneath the entire Underground Space in the Auxiliary Brain's Database. With just a glance at this Database, Yan Fei could know what valuable minerals were truly beneath the surface.

Originally, Yan Fei's expectations for the minerals here were not high, considering he had already obtained a thousand tons of diamonds. But as the Quantum Radar Scan concluded, something unexpected happened — he discovered an extremely large Golden Orb buried two meters deep at the exact center of the ground.

Though the Golden Orb was similar to a sphere, it was not perfectly regular but rather had the shape of an elliptical teardrop. It was buried less than two meters underground, surrounded by rocks that somewhat resembled the shape of Shock Waves produced by an explosion.

Combining the overall shape of the Underground Space with the position and state of the Golden Orb, the Auxiliary Brain quickly deduced a possibility. The Golden Orb must have come from Outer Space, falling from the sky with enormous kinetic energy, penetrating the earth's surface in one go and plunging into the fiery magma at Earth's core.

The magma, having absorbed the massive kinetic energy of the Golden Orb, was suddenly blown into a huge pit. The magma spewed out, forming a vast Enclosed Space underground. For some unknown reason, this spewing magma rapidly cooled during its descent, solidifying into hard granite, capping the pit and maintaining the Enclosed Space without closing up. Then, the magma surrounding the Golden Orb continued to flow, eventually blocking up all the gaps of this vast space. Gradually, the temperature inside the magma cooled down, turning into the Enclosed Space Yan Fei was now witnessing.

The melting point of gold is not very high, but during this collision, an amazing phenomenon that Yan Fei couldn't understand occurred: the gold in the fiery magma did not melt. Instead, it maintained its shape from when it landed and cooled along with the magma, then was buried less than two meters deep underground.

Yan Fei had previously wondered why so many precious diamonds were formed here. Diamonds require an extremely harsh environment to form, but now he understood that it must have been the collision between the Golden Orb and the fiery magma that created an extreme environment, which led to the formation of so many diamonds.

After this miraculous Enclosed Space was formed, countless tens of thousands of years passed by, and due to Crustal Movement, it was pushed up to the surface, located right beneath the entirety of the Middle East's oil reserves – and then discovered and entered by Yan Fei.

Although irregular in shape, the Auxiliary Brain instantly calculated the volume of the Golden Orb: an unprecedented 7800 Cubic meters, arguably the world's largest piece of gold. Moreover, the Quantum Radar Scan revealed that the purity of this Golden Orb was extremely high, at 99.99%. In other words, the Golden Orb was a rare pure gold that didn't require refining, making it extremely precious.

Calculating based on the gold's density, this Golden Orb, with its volume reaching 7800 Cubic meters, would weigh a terrifying total of 150 thousand tons. If calculated at the current international gold prices, its total value would reach an astounding 800 trillion US Dollars.

After figuring out the total value of the Golden Orb, Yan Fei was almost at a loss for words. Dream Island had been developing for many years, and through various monopoly technologies and products, it had earned massive profits from all over the World, plus war reparations extorted from several countries, but the total income of Dream Island had not surpassed 800 trillion US Dollars.

Since Humans began discovering and mining gold, a total of only 170 thousand tons of gold had been extracted. Of that, the gold reserves of all countries combined only amounted to around 33 thousand tons. This put into perspective just how significant this Golden Orb was because it alone was equivalent to five times the total Gold Reserves of all the countries in the World.

If Dream Island had possession of so much gold, Dream Bank, a subsidiary of Dream Island, could even issue currency directly pegged to gold. With 150 thousand tons of gold as backing, the currency issued by Dream Bank would be extremely stable and could even become the foreign exchange reserves of countries around the World.

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