Chapter 281: The Role of Money
Money is a tool used as a medium of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account, a special commodity that acts as an equivalent in the exchange of goods and services, and is the most intuitive embodiment of measuring a thing.
At the same time, it also has the characteristics of circulation, and it can be said that money is the simplest and most common means of measurement. Why do people like to make friends with local tyrants? Because he can make himself rich and more valuable!
So the question is, what was the world's first currency?
Drop Money!
As a treasure naturally produced by heaven and earth, Luobao money has extraordinary significance as the world's first currency, in the professional academic terms of Oriental Feng Shui, it is a huge merit entangled in Luobao money!
And the reason why Treasure Money can drop treasures is because it can measure the value of any treasure that does not exceed its own grade! As long as your grade does not surpass his, then it is a pity that you have to be obediently and honestly in a static state.
This mechanism is very strange, like two attributes of yin and yang that contain the same energy, and when they meet, they cancel each other out and become nothingness. Once a treasure is shot, the treasure money can measure the value of the treasure at the moment it is stained with the treasure, and at the same time, the equivalent opposite energy is conjured to offset the impact and make the treasure useless.
But the power is mutual, and the theory of relativity can also be applied here, and while the treasure money cancels out the treasure energy, it is also canceled out itself, so it will fall together instead of automatically flying back like some treasures!
In the same way, although treasure money can measure the value of all treasures, the treasures of those who belong to them are not among them, because living beings have their own consciousness, and the same thing has different meanings for different people. It is like a gift from parents to children, which is a kind of nostalgia for children and has a special meaning, and another example is the diamond ring between husband and wife. Can it also be measured simply in terms of money? Therefore, the treasure in the hands of others, the treasure and the money cannot fall, and it must be out of the hands of the master.
As for why it's not a treasure, well, probably the treasure money is also very arrogant!
There are four runes on Drop Money, one of which is the ability to fly. This one was the first to be understood by Ian, and the other three couldn't be experienced even after much effort, and even in the illusion of the real gem, it had no effect. Ian can only boil it down to the fact that the time has not come!
It's just that he never dreamed that this opportunity would appear when he was about to die!
A rune lit up, as complex as ever, made up of many elegant, mysterious yet desolate ancient lines, and it bloomed with a unique and charming golden light, as if it were the most precious thing in the world!
Ian closed his eyes, but deep down in his soul he was in a state of dumbness. Unlike when he had comprehended flight, although the rune lit up, he didn't understand what it was doing at all.
At this moment, the purple energy of the Power Gem finally surged, and the next moment was about to overwhelm Ian's entire soul. The brilliant golden light was not afraid at all, and it met fiercely, intertwined with the purple energy.
Just when Ian breathed a sigh of relief and thought that this golden light could defeat the purple energy, he was surprised to find that the purple energy passed through as if it had not touched it!
Now Ian is desperate, since it has no effect. What the hell are you flashing!
As if he had heard Ian's unwilling shout, a rune lit up on the treasure money again. Different from the previous golden light rune, this rune turned out to be vague, as if it didn't exist!
This vague light once again greeted the purple energy like golden light, but Ian didn't have high hopes, no one can do it with golden shining, you sneaky can still be useful?
But that's often how it happened. The purple energy that was like a landslide and tsunami came to an abrupt end under the light of nothingness!
Ian was stupid this time, the golden light and the void were like two layers of barriers blocking Ian's soul, and the purple energy easily passed through the golden light and collided with the nothingness, and then came and disappeared as much as it never existed.
Minutes and seconds passed. Ian just watched this farce, the two barriers could easily stop the purple energy, but it was so deadlocked. And although Ian's state at this time was completely stabilized, the purple energy in his whole body still remained at a very high intensity, and he couldn't move at all.
I don't know how long it took, Ian suddenly opened his mind, since he couldn't control the two barrier enhancements to expel the purple energy from the body, then, can he control the barrier weakening and release the energy?
At first glance, this sounds like a stupid idea, don't you think you don't have enough energy in your body? But the meaning is completely different!
First of all, Ian won't let go of most of his energy, just a little bit of experimentation. Secondly, Ian is an Asgardian who is involved in divine power and other energies, and with his physical fitness, it shouldn't take much effort to control the energy of a little power gem!
It has always been Ian's style to do it when he thinks of it, and it is not a vigorous and resolute one, but it is by no means a cowardice who sits and waits for death. Sinking his consciousness into the Falling Treasure Money, he was able to control the falling arrows of the Falling Treasure Money before, and now he can also control the weakening of the two barriers!
Sure enough, when he turned back again, the void barrier shook for a moment, and then a trace of extremely faint purple energy seeped through, only not much thicker than a hair.
At the same time, Ian also developed a realization through the control barrier that the golden light did not act as a blocker of energy, but as a measure of its value. And the void barrier behind it is the focus, its function is to transmogrify, conjuring up energy of the same intensity as the opposite nature of purple energy to counteract the attack of purple energy!
The reason why Ian couldn't comprehend these two runes was because neither measuring nor transmogrification was something that humans could master, and humans weren't money after all!
He couldn't control the golden barrier, but he could control the intensity of the transformation, so the previous scene was generated!
Well, don't be nervous now, no matter what the final outcome is, at least Ian won't die because of it. But Ian was not willing to wait like this, he knew that Ronan had activated the Power Gem, and even if he survived in the end, it was estimated that there would be nothing left on the planet Xander. He had to think of a counterattack.
The question arises again, how to fight back? Treasure Money can only conjure up the same anti-energy, but it cannot exceed the standard of the Power Gem, which means that it can be weakened but not enhanced. I'm afraid I can't turn the tables by relying on Luobao's money, so how to use the purple energy in front of me?
People are actually forced out, Dong Cunrui wouldn't have raised the explosives bag in anger if he didn't see the sacrifice of his comrades, Li Yunlong wouldn't have been robbed of his wife and wouldn't have bombed Ping'an County, if it weren't for Thanos being a ghost animal, he wouldn't have let Gomorrah and Nebra always think about betrayal!
Similarly, the fear of his companions led Ian to find a way to suddenly block the power gem and become stronger! Crazy to get stronger!
At the beginning, he gave up the ready-made thunder and lightning godhead in the illusion of the real gem and chose the law of word breaking, because it was faster and more in line with the needs. Facts also proved that Ian's choice was not wrong, and it was the attack of the Law of Broken Words that allowed him to successfully kill Malekith in the end.
But in order to become strong again, it will take a huge amount of energy accumulation, because perfecting the law rune is a slow and troublesome process. Not only do you need to have a deeper understanding of the laws, but you also need to have enough power to turn that understanding into runes. For Ian, the stage of comprehension has been dispensed with, but the power is not so easy to accumulate, and it takes water grinding.
But isn't it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? The power of the Power Gem is infinite, but it's just that it's too violent and destructive to be used. But I happen to have a way to bind this energy, so what are you waiting for?
Ian's eyes were slightly closed, his body crushed under the boulder was completely still, and a meaningful smile appeared on his cheeks, but it was a pity that Ronan didn't know all this. At this time, he was looking at the scattered Sandar people outside through the energy storm, and that panicked and desperate expression gave him great satisfaction.
Just when he was about to laugh out loud, he suddenly found that the energy of the gem had been interrupted slightly, and the energy began to drain sharply. (To be continued......)