In the evening, Senior Soldier called.

"Someone from Kemoko has commissioned us to try to recover the wreckage of their crashed aircraft. I’m not sure if we should take this order."

Kemoko is the company that manufactures those large bombers, and another is Lanying.

Kemoko produces various aircraft, while Lanying manufactures a range of components such as machine guns, cannons, and bombs for bombing.

These two companies bring together elites from different military industrial groups. They’ve discovered the value and benefits of aircraft, but Lynch has already stepped in, forcing them to unite and expel Lynch before considering competing for the winner among themselves.

This tactic is common among the large consortium companies. They are skilled at using similar methods to suppress or annex smaller companies.

Now that Kemoko’s aircraft has been shot down, they certainly want to know the primary cause of the crash, such as where the anti-aircraft guns hit, leading to the aircraft’s fall.

If possible, they will create protective measures with new materials in areas prone to causing aircraft crashes.

As long as the aircraft isn’t attacked in the air to explode or disintegrate, those fallen aircraft essentially stem from injuries that the collective cannot withstand.

These crashed aircraft are of great significance for continued research. They can identify the current design flaws and make improvements.

"Give them a slightly higher quote. This kind of business is like picking up money, we don’t need to avoid it."

Lynch’s words let Senior Soldier know how to negotiate this deal. For Darkstone Security, they have a decisive advantage—

The initiative on the battlefield is in their hands!

If Kemoko wants to recover the wreckage, the only unavoidable aspect is Darkstone Security, so even if Senior Soldier sets slightly outrageous conditions, they can only accept it grudgingly.

Back and forth, it’s already early April.

By early April, the weather has completely warmed up, making the previous "scare theories" by some meteorologists a thing of the past.

They predicted the impending arrival of an ice age, thinking the weather would consistently remain cold, and even in summer, temperatures would noticeably drop compared to the past.

They even speculated that it wouldn’t warm up until June.

But clearly, some of them guessed wrong.

In the first week of April, temperatures in Bupen already rose to around twenty degrees. Although it is slightly lower than historical temperatures, it is still within people’s acceptable range.

Nothing particularly cold remains, and the lingering ice and snow from the snow storms have finally completely melted away, as if the whole city breathed a sigh of relief.

Klein and several neighbors and colleagues are eating barbecue in his backyard. He is the "beneficiary" of the silver’s mad appreciation.

When it was eleven dollars, he acquired a lot of silver—about two hundred thousand dollars, which is almost all of his disposable assets.

Plus, with double financing, silver has now brought him over three hundred thousand in wealth!

It took him almost forty years to accumulate this amount, yet in the futures market, it only took one year to earn this much money.

In Bupen, it’s hard not to come into contact with those stockbrokers and various securities financial transactions. That’s just how this city is.

Besides politics, it’s all about finance, wealth, and economy.

People sitting in cafes don’t discuss how interesting the plot of a 10 PM adult TV drama is. Instead, they talk about whether this stock still has room to rise, or about particularly strong commodities in the futures market.

They are passionate about investing, and every day new legends are born around them. It’s not the kind of imaginary, unrealistic, and impossible miracle; it truly exists and is right here with us.

For example, Klein. Everyone knows he acquired silver after financing at a low price, doubling and getting a lot closer to his wealth.

If, as some economists in society say, silver will replace gold as the most important precious metal and the price will definitely exceed twenty dollars, then his personal wealth might break sixty thousand.

In Bupen, having sixty thousand at hand is quite remarkable; it can even be said that sixty thousand can do many, many things.

The bank knows about Klein’s investment, so they loosened a bit on his credit index, allowing him to get more credit loans from the bank.

That’s just how banks operate. The richer you are, the more they want to give you more money, because they’re not afraid you won’t be able to repay.

Only those who truly need money, who are less affluent, don’t receive the bank’s favor because they simply can’t repay the bank loans.

"Silver will definitely break twenty-two!", standing among the barbecue party participants, Klein spoke with a kind of miraculous confidence like an expert scholar about the future trend of silver.

People gathered around him because he truly is a successful person.

Here, people don’t determine whether you’re a successful person based on what you’ve done or whether you’ve succeeded; they only look at how much money you have.

If a professional beggar can bring out a million, then he is a successful person, and quite successful indeed.

This might be the Federation’s "freedom," where people can easily weigh the person in front of them against themselves.

Those gentlemen less than Klein nodded in agreement with this viewpoint; Klein’s success also made them want to achieve success.

As long as Klein can reveal some insights, that would be enough!

Everyone knows the importance of insider and unofficial information!

While flipping the beef on the grill, he continued, "This isn’t a wild guess from me. Recently, two more countries have announced plans to replace gold with silver, something you might be unaware of."

"I heard these silver-loving countries plan to form a G9 International Silver Alliance, through which they will stabilize their exchange rates with each other using silver, causing a major impact on international trade."

"Maybe in the future, exporting our goods or buying goods from outside won’t work with just Federation Sol; we will have to hold their country’s currency or silver instead."

"This is why I say silver has a lot of potential and room for appreciation; it deserves people’s love!"

Listening to these unheard-of, widely spread pieces of information, everyone participating in this barbecue party felt it was so worth it.

Someone jokingly said, "Looks like I need to quickly go back and mortgage everything I can, this might be the last wave."

Yes, the last wave, from seventeen dollars to twenty-two dollars... no, just calculate it at twenty dollars; that’s about an over ten percent return.

It’s already far less than the returns from getting in at a few dollars or like Klein at eleven dollars, but at least there is still profit to be made.

An over ten percent return is actually not low, and if you add financing, leverage it, you can see this over ten percent return as twice, three times, or even five or ten times.

That’s close to or over a hundred percent!

In terms of futures, it’s actually never too late to enter the market; as long as you can bear the consequences.

Klein pointed at him, "I’ve already mortgaged my car to the bank."

Everyone was stunned for a moment; Klein’s car was bought less than two years ago, strictly speaking, it was still nearly new. He hasn’t driven it much, accumulating less than five thousand kilometers to date.

No one expected he would mortgage it!

Facing the puzzled looks of others, he smiled, "I mortgaged seventeen thousand dollars. I have done well in negotiating with the bank, and thanks to my precise operations in recent times, they agreed to give me five times the financing."

"That amounts to eighty-five thousand dollars, with which I can still earn a couple thousand!"

Five times the financing is actually not rare among strong independent investors with power.

Besides someone like Lynch, who has many assets and can get a higher financing ratio, ordinary people, five times is the limit.

People showed expressions of envy, jealousy, and hatred. This is a successful person; a lousy car swapped for double the money back, and perhaps he can replace it with a new car later.

Quite a few people felt tempted, thinking...

If, as people speculate, it can rise to twenty-two dollars, that’s close to a thirty percent return rate; thirty percent of eighty-five thousand is twenty-five thousand!

This... over one hundred percent return rate, such opportunities are really rare!

Don’t be fooled by the fast price fluctuations in the futures market; in big trends, abrupt crashes or soaring jumps are hard to appear.

Because market supply and demand relationships decide everything, except when there’s national intervention.

Now there’s a bit of national intervention, as many countries have decided to list silver as an important precious metal reserve and build a series of monetary ecological relations around silver.

If it doesn’t rise now, when will it rise?

After understanding these links, everyone becomes very enthusiastic; this is harvest time.

The person joking about betting his family’s fortune seems to now be seriously considering it.

They discuss when silver will bring a miracle to people, discuss whether gold will end up leaving the historical stage.

And nearby, the ladies also discuss related topics.

They wouldn’t directly discuss such complex matters; rather, they talk about the lifestyle changes brought by changes in wealth.

The hostess sits at the table, smiling as she shows off her figure, "Look, I have booked sixty classes at You’Er Mei, and have used half already."

"I have to say their coaches are really professional, always able to solve all my doubts."

"More importantly, their post-workout relaxation is really great. Even if you don’t exercise, you should still try it."