Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 2 [First Arrival at Blue Star World]

"Why are food products in this world so expensive?" Xiao Yu was shocked. At this moment, he was in a market in a small town called "Qingyang".

But this is not the Earth, but an unknown planet world called Blue Star.

Two and a half hours ago, Xiao Yu accidentally obtained a strange bracelet called the "Transmission Star Ring", which allows him to travel freely between the two worlds of Earth and Blue Star.

When Xiao Yu first arrived at Blue Star, he wandered around this small town. Blue Star also had human civilization, and even used the same writing and language. This made Xiao Yu initially judge that it might be another Earth in the multiverse, but this world was called Blue Star.

But Blue Star and Earth are not completely mirror-parallel worlds. The level of human technology in the Blue Star world is obviously more advanced than that of Earth. Xiao Yu estimates that it is at least 500 years ahead of Earth and has at least broken through the level of first-level civilization, while the current technological level of Earth is at best level 0.7.

Xiao Yu, the "alien", silently wandered around the market and observed for a while. He initially learned that the currency used here was called "Star Yuan". By comparing various products sold in the market, Xiao Yu had a preliminary assessment of the purchasing power of the Star Yuan currency. 1 Star Yuan was equivalent to about 1.5 RMB on Earth.

Xiao Yu wandered around for a long time and found that the price inversion here was very serious.

Food is very expensive, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, which are simply luxury goods. On the contrary, other daily necessities, industrial goods, etc. are very cheap.

In fact, the high cost of food is an artificially created scarcity, because hunger can bring out the most primitive fear in people.

The technological level and productivity level of the Blue Star world far exceed that of the Earth world. However, the advanced technological productivity is not used to benefit all living beings. Instead, it is used by the ruling elites of Blue Star to exploit all living beings using the advanced technological advantages. They use gene editing technology to block the reproductive capacity of fresh fruits and vegetables sold in the market, making it impossible to reproduce the next generation.

The seeds contained in the fruits and vegetables that people buy are of no avail even if they are willing to take the risk of planting them privately. Reproductive isolation blocks them from growing at all, thus achieving an absolute monopoly on various foods.

The lower-class creatures in the Blue Star world can only rely on artificially synthesized starch to barely get enough food and clothing. They can't afford to eat expensive fresh fruits, vegetables and meat even a few times a year, and can only indulge themselves on major commemorative days.

In order to prevent the lower-class people from rising up, the ruling elites of Blue Star have precisely controlled the temperature, so that the lower-class people are on the poverty line. They will not starve to death, but they will definitely not eat well. Moreover, they must work non-stop. If they stop, they will starve. Therefore, they cannot stop. If they stop, how can the elites exploit them? Who will contribute and maintain their endless wealth and splendor?

On the one hand, the ruling elites of Blue Planet create suffering to widen the material gap between the upper and lower classes, tempting the lower class to desire class crossing.

On the other hand, they open a so-called upward channel under the pretext of righteousness, and let a few obedient people who are willing to kneel and beg for mercy come up, in order to imply to all living beings that some people have really changed their destiny and achieved class transition through their own efforts. If you have not come up, it means you have not worked hard enough. It doesn’t matter, just keep working hard and don’t give up. The upward channel will always be open for you.

However, at this moment, Xiao Yu, who had just arrived at Blue Star, had a very limited understanding of this world. Seeing the seriously inverted prices, he couldn't help but secretly complain: "It's outrageous. 100 grams of watermelon sells for 300 star dollars, 100 grams of bananas sell for 280 star dollars, but a standard wearable smart holographic bracelet only sells for 299 star dollars, and a floating motorcycle only sells for 2000 star dollars..."

如果粗略的按照1比1.5换算成人民币，相当于1斤西瓜卖到2250元人民币，一斤香蕉卖到2210元人民币。

On Earth, the price of a pound of watermelon is currently less than 2 yuan, and the wholesale price at the place of production is only a few cents per pound.

In Xiao Yu's eyes, the smart holographic bracelet is a pure black technology product, but it is so cheap compared to the price of food. People in the Blue Star world each have a holographic bracelet, which is a mobile communication device, equivalent to a smart phone on Earth.

Xiao Yu couldn't understand why fruits, vegetables and meat, which were readily available on Earth, became so expensive in the Blue Star world. With food so expensive, how did the lower-class natives here survive?

However, he didn't think too much about these things. Xiao Yu was very excited because he realized that he had the ability to travel freely between the Earth and the Blue Planet and could solve the crisis his company was facing.

"If we can get some fruits, vegetables, grains and other products from Earth and sell them to Blue Star to cash in Star Dollars, and then use the Star Dollars to purchase high-tech products here and sell them back to Earth, Prism Technology will be able to easily get rid of the shackles of capital..." Xiao Yu thought to himself, feeling more and more excited.

Prism Technology is a high-tech company founded by Xiao Yu. He showed outstanding talent in technology development at a young age and founded this company at the age of 22.

It started out as a precision component manufacturer in the early stages and became a precision component supplier for mobile phone manufacturers. With the development of the company, its business scope has gradually expanded to semiconductor displays, new materials, micro-nano optical devices, robots and automation equipment, etc.

In order to obtain sufficient financial support for research and development during the start-up phase, Xiao Yu, like most entrepreneurs, sought financing support everywhere.

He also successfully gained the favor of capital, but investors asked Xiao Yu to sign a bet agreement, otherwise they would not invest money. The agreement required Prism Technology to go public within the next five years after the investment. For capital, going public can maximize its benefits.

In addition, the agreement also requires that after Prism Technology successfully goes public, its market value must reach 265 billion within the next three years.

Xiao Yu signed the agreement because he had confidence in himself and the company.

Three years later, when Xiao Yu was 25 years old, Prism Technology successfully went public on the Growth Enterprise Market of the A-share market through a backdoor listing. It was rare for a person of this age to achieve such an achievement, and he was very popular for a while. But the good times didn’t last long. One and a half years after the company went public, its market value soared to 155 billion, but then plummeted. The company itself had no problems, and its performance was gradually improving, but its stock price continued to fall.

Xiao Yu initially believed that the rise and fall of stock prices were normal market fluctuations, but later gradually realized that he was being maliciously shorted.

This year, Xiao Yu finally realized that when he raised funds six years ago, the investors had already set up a trap with bad intentions. At that time, Xiao Yu was only 22 years old. On the one hand, he was too young and inexperienced. Secondly, he almost put all his thoughts on technology research and development and product polishing, and did not realize that the capital was secretly setting up a trap for him.

There are about half a year left before the deadline of the bet, but Prism Technology's current market value is only 37 billion, which is far from the target market value of 265 billion to complete the bet agreement. It will require a more than six-fold increase to achieve this, which is almost impossible to achieve.

Xiao Yu had already lost hope and was even planning for the worst.

But today he unexpectedly obtained the "Teleportation Star Ring" and came to the Blue Star World. Although he could not understand his adventure, the fact made it irrefutable for him that he was now in the Blue Star World.

The most important thing is that Xiao Yu has basically confirmed that the human technological level in the Blue Star world is hundreds of years ahead of that on Earth, and that he can also travel back and forth between the two worlds using the teleportation star ring.

It is entirely possible to bring the cutting-edge technology from Blue Star to Earth. Such an incredible advantage has allowed Xiao Yu to regain his confidence, and he is more confident than ever before.

At this moment, Xiao Yu was thinking about how to take revenge on the capital that set up the trap to trap him. If he didn't get revenge, he would not be able to swallow this humiliation. He would not be able to think straight, and even feel sorry for the incredible opportunity of obtaining the teleportation star ring.

"You relied on the trust you had in you back then, but ended up setting traps and landmines for me, hoping to take advantage of me and kick me out. This time, I'm going to make you lose a lot of money and get kicked out!" Xiao Yu had already made up his mind to set up a trap for the other party and fight with the employer.

Xiao Yu put aside these thoughts for the time being, looked around the market in front of him and said to himself: "I should find a way to get some Star Yuan first, because we can't use RMB here on Blue Star."

He had just arrived in the Blue Star World and didn't know much about the situation in this world.

The local natives spoke the same language as Xiao Yu, used the same writing system, and even had the same race and skin color. This eliminated communication barriers and greatly reduced the cost for Xiao Yu to understand and quietly integrate into this world.

Obviously, Xiao Yu also knew that his understanding of Blue Star was not even the tip of the iceberg, but he was not in a hurry. He thought he would figure it out slowly.

With an idea and a decision in mind, Xiao Yu walked straight to the luxurious and exquisite fruit shop in front of him. Seeing the clerk walking towards him, Xiao Yu asked first: "Hello, do you buy fruits here?"

"Sir, you mean you have fruit for sale?" the clerk asked.

Xiao Yu nodded, and said, "I have a batch of watermelons. If your store is interested, we can cooperate."

I plan to go back to Earth and buy some watermelons. There are plenty of them in the supermarket.

When the clerk heard this, he saw that Xiao Yu was not joking, so he replied: "Please wait a moment, I will talk to the boss. By the way, sir, what is your name?"

Xiao Yu replied politely: "No need to mention your surname."

The clerk smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Xiao, please wait a moment."

As the clerk went to invite his boss, Xiao Yu was also thinking in his mind and decided to just get twenty or thirty kilograms first, no need to get too much, just cash out a few tens of thousands of star dollars first.

Xiao Yu didn't know why the prices of fruits, vegetables and other foods on Blue Star were so expensive, but this was actually a good thing for him, because fruits, vegetables and other foods could be easily obtained in large quantities on Earth.

After waiting for a while, Xiao Yu saw a middle-aged man walking towards him, who should be the owner of this store.

The middle-aged man smiled and gestured, "Mr. Xiao, please move over and discuss in detail."

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(End of this chapter)