TBM Machine

The chaos died down after a week, at least it no longer occupied other platforms domineeringly.

The three big families were also big enough. Just pay the necessary fines and blame everything else on managers and the deceased managers from the previous generations.

Then transfer more funds to third-party charity foundations and use Future Investments to exchange more dragon coins.

This move made Jiang Hao feel funny.

Dragon Coins had already gained a reputation for being the safest tax-free exchange currency in the market.

It was the best place to hide assets and it was mostly used to so. But Jiang Hao never expected that one day it could be used to protect others from himself.

This is a good thing.

It inadvertently assures the users that Ouroboros will not act arbitrarily and nurtures more confidence. At that time, swiss banks and other offshore options will eventually be driven out slowly.

The rates Ouroboros offered were just unfair.

Future Investment was owned by the company, and it was trading on nanoseconds. The Investment AI would literary do calculations ahead of the source computers with an advantage of microseconds. It might not look like much, but it is insane when scaled.

Stocks with high volatility are especially good for this.

Basically, make money on high-risk and volatile investments with other people's money in seconds, then use more stable stocks for other investment services offered to outsiders.

The sweet point is that once a currency enters, it cannot leave. Just obediently start using Dragon Coins.

Jiang Hao could now make a minimum of 1 trillion yuan a day. And this is just from the difference earned by forecasting and making the difference. If we start counting the fixed 1 yuan fee for conversions and 1% fee for returns on investments (ROI), the money going through Ouroboros is in the hundreds of trillions.

A pity he could not use all of it. He also had to keep track of inflation and the flow of money. If so much money suddenly disappeared before the Dragon Coin took over, it would be catastrophic.

He still had to depend on the yuan to enhance things. He could change it, but why would he?

1 dragon coin equals 100 USD equals 730 yuan.

It was impossible to let the yuan die so early.

Another thing is that it is more convenient. Dragon Coins were too valuable to be used in everyday transactions.

While it is not impossible to have 0.001 of a coin, Jiang Hao wanted to maintain the Dragon Coin's status. Much like how a dollar is today.

Do you know that if the Eagle economy collapsed, the whole world would be in trouble? Developing countries would go back to the 1700s within 24 hours.

And that is assuming they have a stable government and a mature economic system. If they have civil or military unrest…

That is the position Jiang Hao wanted to occupy. At the very least, he needed to maintain a credible medium that governments would find more reliable than the Eagle Dollar which is not even in the gold standard.

At that time, the rate of inflation or depreciation would not depend on how fast the printing machines could make the dollar.

Jiang Hao could only let the matter rest. The trouble caused was already enough.

…

At this moment, Jiang Hao was in the back gardens of the villa. I don't know if several acres could still be called a garden.

There was a large steel structure that had been set up by Yang Zhao and within, were a couple of machines that Jiang Hao would have never thought he'd come into contact with.

Something like a Shield Tunneling Machine was too far away from him, but now there were two such machines in front of him.

Enhance one +3, the other +6

*Ding*

[…]

[You have spent 20,000 yuan and your Tunneling Machine has received an overall enhancement +3. Overall performance +10, condition +10, composition +10, Durability +10. Congratulations on gaining the ability; Subterranean Hyper-Tunneling. All parameters of the tunneling machine have increased by 10 times. Accompanying abilities; Cutting, Burrowing, Splicing.]

These abilities were perfect for the project up north. The conditions there were too harsh and it was safer starting from underground. Just dig a tunnel from Magic City to the site and build a maglev.

Subterranean Hyper-Tunneling allowed the machine to dig at hypersonic speeds. At least the cutter head would spin at Mach 7. Just this speed is enough to dig through anything.

If he wanted, the machine could dig right through the core of the earth and come out the other side in over an hour.

What's more, the Cutting sub-ability enabled precision cutting. There is no need to worry about collapse due to resistance and whatnot. Just cut right through at a microscopic level. Forget about wear and tear.

Burrowing also had seemingly similar abilities, but it came with an extra ability to preserve the terrain. Meaning, the machine could tunnel through loose sand and not worry about collapse. The tunnel could be maintained even without shielding. The other advantage is the soil.

The machine could grind the debris to any level required. Split it right down to the sub-atomic level and use other means to transport it to the ground.

Better yet, splicing could use the sub-atomic particles to 'make' the shielding. Splicing is not all about the cutting, it is also about the joining. Join the particles in the desired sequence and it was possible to get a stronger and more durable shielding, saving the cost of using concrete to make them and transport them over.

The second machine was specially prepared for the bionic cat Jindou.

It could not be helped. This is the only thing that can assimilate other machines so far and Jiang Hao planned to equip it with everything.

[…]

[You have spent 20,000,000 yuan and your Tunneling Machine has received an overall enhancement +6. Overall performance +100, condition +100, composition +100, Durability +100. Congratulations on gaining the ability; Metal Eating Growth. All parameters of the tunneling machine have increased by 100 times. Accompanying abilities; Expandability, Terraportation, Mining.]

"…"

Expandability was still acceptable if you ignored the fact that it could expand to a diameter measured in light years with enough metal.

Mining was also conceivable, after all, with the right sensors, even satellites could detect minerals. The mining part and the storage part could be sorted accordingly. Splicing could handle the refining process.

But Terraportation is something that even Jiang Hao had never heard of.

He had seen it, but it was weak compared to teleportation or shadow movement. But that is in comics and other media.

The tunneling machine could now teleport anywhere as long as there is ground. As if that is not enough, it could teleport earth materials anywhere as it digs.

Jiang Hao was very tempted to try digging the ground below Eagle Country and see if their pride could keep them afloat.

As for digging speed, what is Mach 7 x 100^3?