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Blackstone Code - Chapter 188

Published at 15th of March 2024 07:32:13 AM


Chapter 188

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At 2:30 p.m., the train finally stopped slowly outside buppen's central railway station. Lynch took a deep breath as a few people came out of the station.

There is a smell that excites every cell in the dirty air. This is the smell of a big city!

In Saibin, after 8 p.m., the streets are dark and almost invisible. Even in better areas, the dim yellow street lights make people afraid.

With the exception of a few central blocks that will be lit all night, most areas will be as silent as water after night.

But look here. Looking around, the whole city seems to be shining. It is not ruled out that some places are also very dark, but the sky in the center of the city in the distance is like day.

"Do you want a car, sir?" asked the taxi driver waiting outside the station.

Lynch glanced at him and couldn't help laughing. Big cities are different from small cities. Even taxi drivers dress differently.

Taxi drivers in Saibin do not have any uniform clothing accessories. They only need to pay for an operation license from the taxi management company to start taxi operation.

No one gives them any rigid requirements, let alone clothes, so when taking a taxi in Saibin, you can always see a lot of oddly dressed drivers, especially in summer.

It is said that a driver was complained by passengers that she didn't wear pants and asked the driver and the management company to compensate her for mental loss. Yes, she was a female passenger. She thought she had been insulted in a sense.

Look here, taxi drivers are wearing black uniforms, a big brimmed hat and white gloves. They look reassuring.

Lynch nodded and opened the door for Vera.

Lynch didn't carry any salute. Vera did carry a suitcase. After the two got on the car, Lynch reported an address. At the bupayne Hotel, the taxi driver immediately started the car.

Buppen hotel is one of the best hotels in buppen. It is mainly used to receive some important political dignitaries and celebrities, as well as some visiting foreign guests. Many people believe that as long as people live in buppen Hotel, they must be people with status.

This stereotype continues to this day. Even the taxi driver's attitude becomes better when he hears that Lynch is going to stay at the bupayne hotel.

After about 20 minutes' drive, the whole street has changed from dark to bright. Looking at the busy street outside the window, Vera is curious, "is the security here very good?"

Lynch looked at the driver. "Maybe the driver knows something."

After hearing this, the driver cleared his hand and straightened his hat. He had held his tongue for more than ten or twenty minutes, which almost made him out of breath. Now he is finally comfortable, "Sir and madam, buppen was safe in the past, but recently..."

Through the reversing mirror, Lynch saw his face a little solemn. "There are more people wandering around in the street. During this period, many robberies will occur every day. It is said that people died a few days ago."

"If it's not necessary, I suggest you two don't go out at night."

After hearing this, Vera sighed, "I didn't expect everything to be the same!"

The driver seems to have some emotion, "life is getting harder and harder now. It's really the same everywhere, whether it's here or elsewhere!"

The taxi driver is a very talkative person. After Lynch's inquiry, he talked about some news about buppen that has not been known to the outside world recently, such as the bond victims from all over the country.

These victims gathered and demonstrated outside the city hall, the exchange and some financial companies. It looked very lively.

While talking, the car stopped outside the magnificent bupayne hotel. The doorman immediately opened the door, opened the luggage compartment and took out the salute for the passengers.

After paying the fare and a tip, Lynch said goodbye to the taxi driver and entered the hotel gate. Looking at the back of Lynch and Vera, the taxi driver couldn't help feeling that this is tolerance.

Some passengers will start to pick on the bus and want to reduce the fare. They will boast on the bus, don't respect the driver, and don't give tips. Drivers have seen a lot of such people.

But few people take the initiative to tip and say "good night" with a smile. Maybe these two are big people, and only big people can have such a bearing. Maybe this can become the topic of boasting between him and his peers.

The next morning, with the help of the hotel wake-up service, Lynch got up on time. To his surprise, Vera got up earlier than him and waited for him in the hall.

After the two met and enjoyed a breakfast with buppen's characteristics in the restaurant, Lynch talked about the main work of coming to buppen this time.

When Vera heard that he was going to buy bonds, she couldn't help but be surprised. "Are you crazy? Those things are waste paper now. Did you make a mistake?"

Lynch smiled and said, "so this is a good time. I can buy these things at the price of waste paper and wait until he becomes valuable again."

Vera was stunned. "How much are you going to buy those bonds?"

Lynch smiled more. "How much is it? No, no, no, honey, you understand wrong. I feel the meaning of the word" acquisition "just now. I'm going to calculate the money by pound."

"Didn't you say it was almost waste paper?", Lynch swallowed the cheese ball in his mouth and clapped his hand, "then give it a price in line with its positioning!"

Vera's head can't keep up with Lynch's ideas and rhythm. She thinks it's unlikely to succeed for a simple reason.

Even if those bonds are worthless, they also have a "face value". Who knows whether they will be able to cash again one day. Even if it is one in ten thousand, people are unlikely to really throw them away as waste paper.

This is also the mainstream idea. Anyway, these bonds are worthless, so why not stay in your hand?

If this is only an isolated event, then naturally Lynch will not do so. He will recover these bonds at a very low price according to the denomination.

But now the situation is different, because the disaster has just begun. People have not realized that the two sharp falls this month are not the end, they are not even the beginning.

After avoiding this topic, Lynch wiped his hands and stood up. "In short, let's see the situation first. Maybe things may not be as smooth as I thought."

On Monday, before the three exchanges opened, many people gathered outside. The collapse last Friday made these people lose their previous smiles. They stood outside the exchange with heavy faces and whispered.

The content is nothing more than to continue to wait and see, or stop the loss in time.

Everyone was badly injured this time. In the face of the stock market disaster, both ordinary people and those rich people lost a lot.

Ordinary people may lose their savings and perhaps some loans, while the rich evaporate their value in percentage terms.

There is a kind of black fear hidden in the hearts of these people. Some people are even trembling slightly. The smallness and powerlessness of human beings are incisively and vividly displayed at this time. In the face of such an obvious man-made disaster, they have no way.

At nine o'clock, the exchange opened and the traders entered the market first, followed by all investors. Everyone's eyes focused on the bulletin board.

At 9:20, the billboard began to turn and the pre-market trading began, but everyone's face began to change dramatically.

Pre market trading refers to the trading behavior in the non opening period. This trading behavior will determine the opening price of a stock on the day, and also predict the general trend of a stock all day to a great extent.

At 9:29, the rolling billboards made the trading hall like the scene of a memorial service. In the last ten seconds, a stock was delisted, which exacerbated this pessimistic atmosphere.

At 9:30 sharp, almost all traders were frantically selling all the stocks in their agent company's account. Some time ago, no one wanted nine yuan for ten yuan a share. That's eight yuan, seven yuan

As long as someone wants, no matter how low the price is, it can not be considered. In less than 15 minutes, the federal industrial index and the three major trading indexes fell almost like a cliff.

The shock caused by the financial market was far greater than the recession of the real economy. Before 10 o'clock, everyone in the whole Federation had known what had happened in bupayne through various channels.

Disaster has come!

Countless pieces of paper waste are everywhere. These stocks have become inferior to waste paper. Angry traders and investors have completely lost their reason.

The bottomless trend makes people more and more frightened. No one knows when it will hit the bottom. Panic selling has been formed.

At 10:10, the president's cabinet issued an emergency presidential decree requiring the three exchanges to stop trading immediately in order to slow down the irrational panic concentrated selling.

In addition, the press officer of the president's cabinet held an emergency press conference and listed some wrong things to deal with, including that the federal government will use part of its reserve funds to avoid causing greater disaster.

Perhaps it was because the decisions of the president and the cabinet gave investors some confidence. There was no obvious decline after the opening of the afternoon. After a short flat, the federal industrial index and the three major trading indexes rose briefly.

The increasing turnover rate gives people an illusion that everything will really get better, and they are willing to believe it.

However, all this came to an abrupt end with a violent vibration




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