God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 432: Are We Really Doing This?

"Huh?" News Bird Megan was confused.

Originally she’d come to ask Viscount Roster’s opinion about opening a new channel specifically to explain the futures market, especially the steel futures market.

She never expected Viscount Roster to say something like this.

Directly telling her to write an article stating that steel futures prices had far exceeded actual steel prices and the risk was too high.

What surprised her even more was telling others to buy stocks, bonds, land...

Everything else was fine, but what was up with land?

These days everyone knew land prices kept dropping. Their World Economic News also frequently reported on this.

Land prices everywhere kept falling to outrageous levels.

Viscount Roster smiled unconcernedly: "Just do as I say. Besides that, it’s best to keep some cash on hand. The most important thing about investing is diversification."

"You need to tell everyone their investment direction is wrong."

"Oh right, remember to put my name on it. This article must be information you got from interviewing me."

News Bird Megan seemed to understand something, but it also felt unclear.

"Understood!"

No matter what, just follow the boss’s orders.

Presumably, Viscount Roster had his own intentions.

It’s just that once this article was published, it would definitely cause an uproar. Who knows how many people would curse Viscount Roster.

News Bird Megan knew her place and didn’t say any more. After ending the chat, she quickly recorded everything that could happen.

Then she wrote an article based on this information.

Next, she sent the article to Viscount Roster for confirmation. After confirming there were no issues, she published it directly online.

Immediately it caused a huge uproar.

"? What kind of talk is this?"

"Never thought I’d hear words like this from Viscount Roster!"

"Diversify investments? How do you invest when you diversify? Look what stocks have dropped to recently! Still buy stocks? And land? Is that stuff worth anything now? Weren’t grain prices crushed by you!"

"Probably wants to grab profits from steel himself, right?"

"Right, think about it—Roster territory and Southern Development Corporation both need massive amounts of steel, don’t they? The cost is just too high, so that’s why he’s saying this, trying to push prices down."

"Really sinister!"

"Who knows how many people will fall for it."

"I suspect it’s not just that—probably also because he didn’t get on board and really regrets it. Plus the costs for his daily purchases keep getting higher, so that’s why. He’d love for us to panic sell at a loss!"

"Anyway, this guy’s behavior is really disgusting!"

"..."

After this news was published, almost everyone was cursing, and some who analyzed carefully kept cursing afterward.

Everyone seemed to think Viscount Roster doing something like this was purely because buying steel futures—and the fact that all of Viscount Roster’s many industries needed large amounts of steel and costs were skyrocketing—had made him lose his cool.

Looking at the messages online, Viscount Roster almost couldn’t help laughing.

As expected, these people had been blinded by profit and had completely lost their ability to think.

His little test had been very successful.

And he’d already created this persona of someone in a state of panic and rage.

Just then, Nidhogg sent a message:

"Why would you think to teach those profit-obsessed people? Now look, it seems like everyone’s cursing you. Those who don’t know what’s going on will probably get swept up and curse you too."

"Doesn’t matter. Some things have to be done. As for whether they believe it or not, that’s not my problem."

Viscount Roster was quite unconcerned. "Besides, how do you know that warning them not to get involved will actually stop them? Maybe they’ll just get even crazier!"

Nidhogg clearly hadn’t expected Viscount Roster to say this.

But thinking about it carefully, it really was like that.

After Viscount Roster promoted that steel futures prices didn’t match actual value, then promoted stocks, bonds, land, and told others they needed to diversify investments, everyone online suddenly did a complete 180 in their attitude toward him.

In this atmosphere, probably even more people would join in, rushing to buy steel futures...

When steel futures prices crashed, they could probably curse anyone, but they couldn’t curse Viscount Roster.

Because he really had warned them long, long ago. It’s just that hardly anyone was willing to listen.

Can’t blame him this time.

This move killed two birds with one stone.

Not only did it stimulate more people to buy steel futures, advancing their plan, but it also completely separated him from steel futures.

Unfortunately, Nidhogg ultimately wasn’t human and didn’t understand human nature well enough.

Actually, Viscount Roster’s behavior had many other clever uses.

It wasn’t just simply killing two birds with one stone.

While they were chatting, a group of nobles who’d bet all their assets on steel futures gathered together.

"This guy really is greedy, saying things like that just to get us to hold the bag."

"Merchants are despicable by nature."

"If he just joined in too, everyone would be happy. But this guy has to sing a different tune."

"Probably this guy’s taken quite a hit. Steel prices keep skyrocketing, putting pressure on all his industries, so that’s why he’s like this. Doesn’t this prove there really is a steel shortage on the market? Shouldn’t prices go up even more?"

As soon as these words came out, they immediately won support from quite a few people.

Never thought it could be understood that way.

But thinking about it carefully, it really did seem like that.

"Haha, actually I didn’t think of it at first either. Mainly I saw an analysis from a media outlet called Futures Trading Report. The editor is the former Finance Minister of Gray Fort Empire, very professional."

Right away quite a few people followed this media outlet.

Gray Fort Empire capital.

Futures Trading Report headquarters.

The Futures Trading Report boss, Actuary Johnny, watched the suddenly skyrocketing follower count with a rich smile on his face.

"As expected, if you want to quickly boost a media outlet’s influence, the best method is finding someone to fight with. Get more and more people paying attention to this thing. Best if it involves lots of people."

He was very satisfied with his actions, feeling like he’d finally found the real opportunity.

If he could use this chance well, hyping steel futures and blasting big shot Viscount Roster, he’d definitely stand out.

Wouldn’t dare say he’d become the world’s number one media outlet, but at least top few, right?

Plus he could completely dominate the futures trading space.