The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

When Shao Qingge got up early in the morning and saw this news, his heart immediately rang alarm bells. He majored in finance in college. After graduation, he started his own business and set up a fund company to trade in the stock market. Therefore, he knew very well what it meant when the stock price dropped to 50%.

He went to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth as quickly as possible, ate some breakfast casually, then took some food from the suitcase and put them in his travel backpack, and hid the rest under the bed.

At 08:30, Shao Qingge met Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou at the agreed place.

Both of them were also carrying backpacks—the bags Yu Hanjiang chose were black backpacks that were very suitable for travel, and they could hold enough biscuits, chocolate and water for 7 days in them. Walking on the street with backpacks on their backs, local residents would think they were It's a foreign tourist.

Mobile combat is Team Yu's strategy.

Even if other supplies are robbed, they can still live on the contents of their backpacks.

Yu Hanjiang said in a low voice, "We passed by the pedestrian street just now, and many locals were eating breakfast in the snack bar. Everyone's performance was not very excited, and they thought it was just a temporary price adjustment."

In a breakfast shop next door, a young man complained loudly: "Boss, what do you mean? I eat breakfast at your house every day. In the past, a bowl of soy milk and a steamed bun cost only 800 gold coins, but today it costs 1600 gold coins. Are you stealing money?" "

The boss smiled all over his face: "I don't want to, but all the nearby stores have raised their prices. I went to the supermarket this morning to buy some flour, rice, vegetables...the price has doubled. It's really evil!"

The young man put down the money cursingly, turned around and left with his bag.

There were two old ladies talking in a low voice: "I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables in the morning. Pork belly used to cost 2500 gold coins a catty, but now it has risen to 5000. Is there another outbreak of swine fever?"

Another person said: "Fruits are more expensive. An apple costs 2000 gold coins! Fortunately, I bought a box of apples a few days ago. Alas, otherwise, I really wouldn't even be able to afford apples."

There are many similar discussions.

At breakfast time, facing the sudden rise in prices, the city residents were full of complaints, but most of them believed that prices would return to normal in the next two days.Some cautious residents also began to go to the supermarket to scan goods, for fear that prices would continue to rise tomorrow.

Today happens to be Saturday, most companies do not go to work.

It stands to reason that there should not be many vehicles on the road at this time of the weekend, but today is particularly abnormal.At 08:30 in the morning, the three of them walked all the way, and found that the main road of the city was tightly blocked by private cars, and the cars could hardly move—all of them were driving in the direction of the supermarket in the central square.

Xiao Lou glanced at the long queue of motorcades: "It seems that many aborigines here have also realized that something is wrong, and are rushing to the supermarket to stock up. The supplies in the supermarket will soon be in short supply."

Shao Qingge said suddenly: "I have to go to the stock trading center again."

Yu Hanjiang turned his head and asked him, "Do you still want to speculate in stocks?"

Shao Qingge explained: "When I first entered the secret room, I saw a reminder that the stock market crashed at 8 o'clock in the morning, but I couldn't pinpoint exactly which stocks would fall, so yesterday I used fast in and fast out to make money. We have enough cash to stockpile supplies." He quickly scanned the crowd around him, and said softly: "I may be wrong, the stock market did not collapse instantly, some stocks are still very stable - for example, real estate related stocks."

Xiao Lou quickly realized: "I really didn't hear anyone talking about housing prices along the way."

Shao Qingge said: "Since this secret room is a secret room linked by spades and clubs, it must be controlled by the two gatekeepers, A of spades and A of clubs behind it - they should adopt a gradual and orderly method to slowly destroy this city The economic system. Inflation is the first step, and the collapse of house prices will be the second step.”

Xiao Lou, who bought a house with years of savings in the real world, felt the same way.

If it’s just a temporary increase in the price of daily necessities such as food and vegetables, even if it doubles, everyone has a certain amount of savings in their hands and can still afford it, and everyone in a small city has their own housing. The financial crisis is not a big problem.

But housing prices affect the lifelines of too many people. Even if the housing prices in this small city are not high, a flat of 10 RMB would cost tens of millions in gold coins.When the housing price collapsed, it was equivalent to half of my life savings instantly becoming worthless.

People will panic, get angry, and become irritable, and the resulting social problems will become more and more serious. Coupled with the stagnation of some enterprises, if there are problems with water, electricity supply, and transportation, the entire city will be completely paralyzed.

Xiao Lou only felt a chill down his spine: "Why does the 3 of Spades suddenly become an economically linked secret room?"

Shao Qingge frowned and said: "It's possible that Club 3 is a milder level, unlike Club 2 where people are eliminated directly. Therefore, the elimination task of the third level is placed in the Spade's survival secret room."

The four gatekeepers knew each other, and Xiao Lou remembered the sentence at the beginning - thank Club A for his kind sponsorship.

It seems that this secret room was specially created after discussions between Ace of Spades and A of Clubs to eliminate a large number of challengers.

Yu Hanjiang immediately said vigilantly: "We will divide into two groups. I will go to the decoration market to check. There must be no problems with the materials. Professor Xiao and Mr. Shao will go to the stock market to investigate together, and take a look at the situation in the supermarket."

Yu Hanjiang paused, then looked at Xiao Lou: "If you encounter a robbery, please remember that the supplies in your backpack can be given to others, and the most important thing is to protect yourself." He leaned into Xiao Lou's ear and told: "The ones you smoked before are the most important thing." Remember to wear that life-saving equipment card, just in case."

Xiao Lou smiled and said, "Don't worry about me. It's only the first day. There shouldn't be many people who went directly to the streets to rob. Mr. Shao and I acted together to help each other... But you, be careful."

Yu Hanjiang nodded his head, his eyes were steady: "Don't worry, we will meet at the hotel at noon."

The three immediately split up.

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stock market.

Today's trading hall was crowded with people, Shao Qingge and Xiao Lou walked into the hall, looked up and glanced at the stock situation after the market opened today.

The stocks that crashed on the first day were related to food, pharmaceuticals, daily necessities, textiles, clothing, and home appliances. The stockholders who bought these stocks were excited. The stock curve that has been falling all the way is in a daze.

At this moment, a scream came from the window: "Ah! Someone jumped off the building!"

A group of people immediately gathered around, and saw two young men on the roof of the securities center unfurl a huge banner with the words "Return my hard-earned money!!!" in big red characters, and a row of red exclamation marks was shocking.

Someone downstairs probably called the police, and the police car arrived soon.

The police acted quickly, pulling down the inflatable mattress downstairs within 3 minutes.

Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, two young men on the rooftop jumped down with banners——

With a loud "bang", the two fell onto the air cushion. Although their lives were safe, the sound struck the hearts of all investors like a heavy hammer.

The incident of jumping from the building made the atmosphere in the trading hall even more depressing. Everyone's face was filled with fear and anxiety. Everything is in the stock market..."

Looking at this messy scene, Xiao Lou felt his scalp go numb.

I remember that when the stock market plummeted one year, some people joked on the Internet that the rooftops were almost unstoppable, and stockholders had to queue up to jump off the building.Investment is risky, and people who put all their wealth in the stock market will really lose confidence in living in this situation.The two people who jumped off the building today were rescued, but what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?Will more and more shareholders choose to commit suicide?

Xiao Lou doesn't speculate in stocks, but he can understand the feelings of these people.

Seeing Shao Qingge look up at the stocks, Xiao Lou asked softly, "How about the real estate stocks you mentioned?"

Shao Qingge said: "It's still stable, let's find a computer as soon as possible, I have to hurry up."

The computers in the lobby were crowded with people, and they couldn’t find any usable computers, so the two of them had to leave the stock center and go to a nearby Internet cafe to find a computer... Usually, an hour of surfing the Internet is only 200-500 gold coins, and today it directly increases to 800 gold coins.

Xiao Lou happened to have some change from the supermarket stockpiling in his hand, so he asked Shao Qingge, "How many hours?"

Shao Qingge said, "One hour is enough."

They found an idle computer, Shao Qingge opened the stock website to log in to his personal account, Xiao Lou sat by and watched, Shao Qingge explained softly to him while operating: "Have Professor Xiao ever heard of shorting stocks?"

Xiao Lou shook his head: "I've never traded in stocks."

Shao Qingge said: "Look, Tianhong Real Estate, Rongguang Real Estate, Real Estate Group... These stocks are relatively stable compared with the plummeting stocks of food, daily necessities, clothing, etc., but this is just an illusion. According to my inference , Plum Blossom A will destroy the urban economic system step by step, the first step is inflation, people will still have a fluke mentality at the beginning, after all, housing prices are still stable.”

Xiao Lou understood and said: "So, it takes two days for real estate-related stocks to plummet? Let people who are hoping to get away with it completely collapse and see no hope?"

Shao Qingge nodded solemnly: "Destroy people's psychological defense step by step, and wait until everyone falls into complete despair, and the real riot will start."

After all, this secret room requires the challenger to survive for seven days, and today is only the first day.

Many aborigines think that prices will return to normal tomorrow, but they don't know... this is just the beginning.

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Shao Qingge tapped on the keyboard at an extremely fast speed, borrowed a large amount of real estate stocks, and quickly sold them while explaining to Xiao Lou: "Shorting stocks means that when you speculate that a certain stock will plummet, you use an intermediary to sell the stocks. The method of 'borrowing' holds a large number of stocks, sells them at the current market price, and then buys them at a lower price after the stock has fallen to repay the loan."

In order to facilitate Xiao Lou's understanding, he also gave an example: "For example, the current market price of this 'Tianhong Real Estate' is 80 gold coins per share. I borrowed 1000 shares through the intermediary for a period of 3 days, and sold them at the current stock price. The capital is 8; when this stock plummets by half tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will use the market price of 40 to buy back 1000 shares to repay the loan, and only need to spend 4 gold coins - the difference between the prices is my net profit."

This is simply a white wolf with empty gloves.

Xiao Lou has never heard of this professional term for shorting stocks, but he quickly understood Shao Qingge's explanation—that is, through borrowing, sell the borrowed stocks at a high price first, and then lower the price after the stock falls. Buy the same amount and return it, and earn the difference.

Contrary to the usual "buy first, then sell", shorting stocks is "first borrow and sell at a high price, and then buy back at a low price and pay back".

Shao Qingge could think of this in an instant, relying on real estate stocks that would only plummet in two days to make money quickly, Xiao Lou had to admire this young entrepreneur's sensitivity to the stock market.

He couldn't help but said, "A professional in economics like Mr. Shao should be able to make a lot of money in this secret room, right?"

Shao Qingge nodded: "I'm in a fund company, and I'm good at making money like 'money makes money'." He pinched his brows and said thoughtfully: "But I think spades keep The gatekeepers would not be so kind as to open a secret room to make money for us, and there will definitely be a lot of incidents that threaten our survival in a few days—whether we can take the money we earn out of the secret room depends on our ability."

Xiao Lou smiled slightly, and said confidently, "It's definitely possible, after all, we still have Team Yu."

Shao Qingge raised his eyebrows: "You trust Yu Hanjiang so much?"

There was a trace of admiration in Xiao Lou's eyes: "When I met him in the real world, he was a legend in the Jiangzhou police circle. He solved a murder case in two days. It is said that many criminals would pee their pants when they heard his name. "

Shao Qingge laughed lightly: "He is so powerful? No wonder you teamed up with him directly in the secret room of Plum Blossom 2... It seems that with a strong teammate like Police Officer Yu, I need to have more confidence."

The stock market middlemen of this world have restrictions on borrowing.After Shao Qingge used up today's quota, he got off the plane and left the Internet cafe with Xiao Lou side by side.

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