"A hundred kilograms?!"
Wu Ming stared at the neatly stacked metal ingots in the crate, his face full of surprise. "The country is giving me all this Blue Gold as a reward?"
He could hardly help being shocked.
Blue Gold cost one million contribution points per kilogram in the treasury. In other words, the Blue Gold the country was giving him was worth a full hundred million contribution points!
That was enough to exchange for twenty Century-old Wood Spirits.
Of course, taking Blue Gold was certainly no loss either. At this stage, the total global supply of Blue Gold was fixed, because Earth had none at all!
Until the next lunar mission returned, the metal's value would only keep rising.
Even without considering its scarcity, Blue Gold was a primary material for making SS-grade weapons. Its overall value really was no lower than that of Wood Spirits.
That was why Wu Ming was so shocked. Even if the higher-ups wanted to reward him for the rescue operation, a hundred kilograms of Blue Gold was simply too much.
"Mr. Zhao, isn't this too valuable?"
Wu Ming instinctively tried to decline. "If I remember correctly, the country doesn't have much Blue Gold in reserve, does it? Only two hundred kilograms. Giving me half the stockpile outright-isn't that a little-"
"Haha, I can tell you haven't checked the treasury lately." Zhao Minghui laughed, took out his phone, tapped the screen a few times, and handed it over.
"Take a look."
Wu Ming looked at the screen. It showed the familiar treasury page, but under the Blue Gold exchange listing, both the price and the reserves were completely different from last time.
``` [Blue Gold: An unknown metal discovered on the moon. Extremely malleable, with exceedingly scarce global reserves. Exchange price: 800,000/
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