[Chapter 45, Financial Crisis 5-Stock Market Turmoil]

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

He went to the bathroom, washed his face and brushed his teeth as quickly as possible, ate some breakfast, then took some food from the box and put it into his travel backpack, and hid the rest under the bed.

At half past eight, Shao Qingge met Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou at the agreed place.

The two of them were also carrying backpacks - the bags Yu Hanjiang picked were black backpacks that were very suitable for traveling. They could hold enough biscuits, chocolate and water for seven days. When walking on the street with backpacks on their backs, local residents would think they were

They are tourists from out of town.

Mobile combat, this is the Yu team’s strategy.

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

Yu Hanjiang lowered his voice and said: "We just passed by the pedestrian street, and there were many locals eating breakfast in the snack bar. Everyone was not very excited, thinking it was just a temporary price control."

In a breakfast shop nearby, 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 cage of steamed buns only cost 800 gold coins. Today, it has risen to 1,600. Are you robbing money?"

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The boss smiled with a smile on his face: "I didn't want to, but all the nearby stores have increased their prices. I went to the supermarket this morning to buy flour, rice, vegetables...the prices have doubled. It's really weird!"

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

There were two old ladies nearby talking in a low voice: "I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables in the morning. Pork belly used to cost only 2,500 gold coins per pound, but now it has increased to 5,000. Is there another outbreak of swine fever somewhere?"

Another person said: "Fruit is more expensive, an apple costs 2,000 gold coins! Fortunately, I bought a box of apples a few days ago, otherwise, I really can't even afford apples."

There are many similar discussions.

At breakfast time, faced with the sudden rise in prices, urban residents were full of complaints, but most believed that prices would return to normal in the next two days. Some cautious residents also began to go to supermarkets to shop for fear that prices would continue tomorrow.

rise.

Today is Saturday and most companies are closed.

Logically speaking, there should not be many vehicles on the road at this time of the weekend, but today was particularly unusual. At 8:30 in the morning, the three of them walked all the way and found that the main road in the city was tightly blocked by private cars, and the cars were almost moving.

There is no fixed road - all heading towards the supermarket in the central square.

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

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

Yu Hanjiang turned to him and asked: "Do you still want to trade in stocks?"

Shao Qingge explained: "When I first entered the secret room, I saw a prompt saying 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 the method of fast in and fast out to make money, guaranteed

We have enough cash to stock up on supplies." He quickly scanned the crowd around him and said softly: "I may have thought wrong. The stock market did not collapse instantly. Some stocks are still very stable - for example, real estate.

Related Stocks.”

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

Shao Qingge said: "Since this secret room is a linked secret room of spades and clubs, behind it must be the ace of spades and the ace of clubs. The two gatekeepers are jointly controlling it - they should use a step-by-step approach to slowly destroy the city.

economic system. Inflation is the first step, and the collapse of house prices will be the second step."

Xiao Lou, who spent many years of savings to buy a house in the real world, feels the same way.

If the price of daily necessities such as food and vegetables is temporarily increased, even if it doubles, everyone has a certain amount of savings and can still afford it, and everyone in a small city has their own housing. At worst, they can survive by eating noodles every day.

The financial crisis is not a big problem.

But housing prices affect the lives of too many people. Even if the housing prices in this small city are not high, a house worth hundreds of thousands of yuan would cost tens of millions in gold coins. When housing prices collapse, half of one's life savings will instantly become worthless.

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People will panic, become angry, and become irritable, which will cause social problems that will become more and more serious. Coupled with the stagnation of some businesses, if there are also problems with water, electricity supply and transportation, the entire city will be completely paralyzed.

Xiao Lou felt a chill running down his spine: "Why did the 3 of Spades suddenly become an economic-related linked secret room?"

Shao Qingge frowned and said, "It's possible that level 3 of clubs is relatively gentle and does not directly eliminate people like club 2. Therefore, the elimination task of the third level is placed in the survival secret room of Spades."

The four gatekeepers knew each other, and Xiao Lou remembered the words he said at the beginning - thank you for the friendly sponsorship of Plum Blossom A.

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

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

Yu Hanjiang paused and then looked at Xiao Lou: "If you encounter robbery, remember that the supplies in the backpack can be given to others, and the most important thing is to protect yourself." He leaned into Xiao Lou's ear and told him: "I smoked it before.

Remember to put on 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 going directly to the streets to rob. Mr. Shao and I act together and look after each other...but you, please be careful."

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

The three people 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 and looked up at the stock situation after today's opening.

The stocks that crashed on the first day were all related to food, medicine, daily necessities, textiles, clothing, and home appliances. The investors who bought these stocks were very excited. Many people gathered in the hall to ask for explanations, and some looked depressed and stared.

The stock curve is in a daze as it keeps falling.

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

A group of people immediately gathered around and saw two young men unfurling a huge banner on the roof of the Securities Center. On it was written in big red letters "Give me back my hard-earned money!!!" and a row of red exclamation marks was shocking.

Probably someone downstairs called the police, and the police car arrived soon.

The police acted quickly and rolled out the inflatable mattress downstairs within 3 minutes.

Amid the exclamations of the crowd, two young men on the rooftop jumped down with banners——

There was a loud "bang" sound, and the two fell onto the air mattress. Although their lives were safe, the sound hit the hearts of all investors like a heavy hammer.

The jumping incident made the atmosphere in the trading floor even more depressing. Everyone's face was filled with panic. Some people began to cry heartbrokenly, some were full of swear words, and some clasped their hands together and prayed, "The price must rise again tomorrow, all of me."

All my wealth is in the stock market..."

Xiao Lou felt his scalp numb when he saw this messy scene.

I remember that one year when the stock market plummeted, someone on the Internet joked that the rooftop was almost no longer standing, and investors had to queue up to jump off the building. Investment is risky, and people who put all their wealth in the stock market would really lose their lives in this situation.

The two people who jumped from the building were rescued today, but what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? Will more and more stock investors choose to commit suicide?

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

Seeing Shao Qingge looking up at stocks, Xiao Lou asked softly: "What about the real estate stocks you mentioned?"

Shao Qingge said: "It's pretty 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 there was no usable computer at all. The two had to leave the stock center and go to a nearby Internet cafe to find a computer... An hour of Internet access usually only cost 200-500 gold coins, but today it went up.

to 800 gold coins.

Xiao Lou happened to have change in his hand for stocking up on goods from the supermarket, and asked Shao Qingge: "How many hours will it take?"

Shao Qingge said: "One hour is enough."

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

Xiao Lou shook his head: "I never trade in stocks."

Shao Qingge said: "Look, Tianhong Real Estate, Rongguang Real Estate, Real Estate Group... these stocks appear relatively stable compared with the plummeting food, daily necessities, clothing and other stocks, but this is just an illusion. According to my inference

, the ace of clubs will destroy the urban economic system step by step, and the first step will be inflation. People will still have a sense of luck at the beginning, after all, housing prices are still stable."

Xiao Lou understood: "So, real estate-related stocks will plummet in two days? Let people who have a fluke mentality completely collapse and lose any hope?"

Shao Qingge nodded solemnly: "Destroy people's psychological defenses step by step. Only when everyone falls into complete despair will the real violence begin."

After all, this secret room requires challengers 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 typed 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: "Short selling of stocks means using an intermediary to buy stocks after speculating that a certain stock will plummet.

The 'loan' method is to hold a large number of stocks, sell them at the current market price, and then buy them at a lower price after the stocks fall to repay the loan."

In order to facilitate Xiao Lou's understanding, he also gave an example: "For example, the current market price of 'Tianhong Real Estate' is 80 gold coins per share. I borrowed 1,000 shares through an intermediary with a term of 3 days. I sold them at the current stock price and received

The capital is 80,000; after the stock plummets by half tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will buy back 1,000 shares at the market price of 40 to repay the loan, which only costs 40,000 gold coins - the difference in price is my net profit."

This is simply a waste of time.

Xiao Lou had never heard of this professional term for shorting stocks, but he quickly understood Shao Qingge's explanation - that is, through borrowing, the borrowed stocks are first sold at a high price, and then the price is lowered when the stock falls.

Buy the same amount and return it, earning the difference.

Contrary to the usual "buy first, sell later", short selling stocks means "borrowing money first and selling it at a high price, then buying it back at a low price and paying it back."

Shao Qingge could think of this in an instant and make money quickly by relying on real estate stocks that would plummet in two days. 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?"
To be continued...