Children of the future, has the world returned to normal?
Although I will not live to see the day everything gets better, I hope you can see it for me.
There is a safe beneath the bed in the master bedroom. The combination is my birthday, which is in my diary... I put my most valuable possessions in there.
Now I leave it to you. I hope you can use it for postwar reconstruction.
This is my wish.
—Crest Ali
Perhaps persistence paid off. After turning an unknown underground complex upside down without finding anything, Feng Qing and Gui Gui finally discovered the above message in a shop converted into a private shelter.
The words were written on a card, like a letter sent to the future.
Yet when they finally found the legendary safe, went through enormous trouble to find Crest's birthday in a diary, and opened it, both of them were simultaneously blinded by the dazzling golden light.
"Holy shit! Gold—damn it! Why is it gold?!" Gui Gui was delighted at first, but quickly remembered that this was not reality but the wasteland. She immediately kicked the folding bed beside her in frustration.
Feng Qing wore an equally complicated expression.
"Emmm... Emotionally, this is hard to accept, but it actually makes sense?"
She had heard that the Human Alliance era had a total population of over ten billion. Combined with the booming aerospace and electronics industries, as well as people's need to preserve wealth in a high-growth economy, gold must have been quite valuable back then.
But now...
Every industry and the population had shrunk far too much.
Gold was naturally still more valuable than silver and copper, or the Velanders would not have used it as currency.
It was just that its scarcity was certainly nowhere near