This maturity and composure instantly reaped enormous rewards.
In just a few seconds, Meng Chao gained hundreds of thousands of absolutely loyal supporters throughout Dragon City.
They were the investors in Cosmos Group, the holders of Huanyu Faction stocks.
Ever since the Monster War ended in a resounding victory and Dragon City entered its "Great Construction Era," stock indexes had been soaring at a pace visible to the naked eye, charging ahead day after day.
Every day, ordinary citizens listened to financial experts from all walks of life prove from every possible angle that Dragon City's conquest of the Otherworld was inevitable, and that the Dragon City Composite Index would surge dozens or even hundreds of times during that conquest. If they did not immediately throw their entire fortunes and lives onto this lightning-fast express train of wealth, they would surely be left far behind by the ceaseless torrent of the times... and so on, all sounding perfectly reasonable.
And those who had dared to be the first to eat the crab had indeed received returns that made others green with envy.
How could ordinary citizens, their heads clouded by envy, jealousy, hatred, and every other emotion, possibly withstand such temptation?
Naturally, they smashed pots and sold iron, mortgaged their homes, even took out illegal loans, all so they could "breathe with Dragon City, share its fate, stake everything, and bind themselves tightly to it!"
As one of the Nine Super Enterprises, Cosmos Group and its affiliated companies were naturally hot investments in the Financial Market as well.
Hundreds of thousands, even millions, of ordinary citizens exchanged their life savings—and loans secured against their homes and pensions—for Huanyu Faction stocks.
True, it was said that Shen Yuanbao, the helmsman of Cosmos Group, had suffered severe injuries in his fierce battle