Chapter 54 - Financial Crisis 13: Go on Strike (1/2)
Chapter 54 – Financial Crisis 13: Go on Strike
After moving the supplies, the four people fell asleep in an empty room on the third floor.
The construction site’s rooms were rough with no beds but Yu Hanjiang had prepared sleeping bags in advance. It was much better than sleeping in the corridors in the 3 of Hearts secret room.
At seven in the morning, Xiao Lou’s biological clock naturally woke up him. Then he heard a rustling sound and looked in the next room, seeing Xie Qi eating a packet of milk and cookies.
Perhaps due to his terrible experience in the Nightmare Room but Xie Qi really cherished food. He didn’t leave the slightest bit of milk behind and he also ate all the cookies, not letting cookie crumbs drop to the ground.
The teenager sat in the corner and looked like a hungry little squirrel.
Xiao Lou remembered this person’s experience and couldn’t help softening. He turned to his materials box and grabbed a box of chocolates, bread, a pack of cream sandwiches, cracks and a bag of dried fruit, handing them to the boy with a smile. “Eat more.”
Xie Qi saw these foods and was slightly surprised. In order to save money, he had only bought the cheapest milk and cookies for breakfast. Then he ate instant noodles for lunch and dinner…
He didn’t expect Professor Xiao to prepare such abundant materials.
This was actually a very expensive bag of dried fruits which contained his favourite pine nuts and dried walnuts.
Xie Qi couldn’t help saying, “Professor Xiao, you bought such expensive things?”
Xiao Lou sat down next to him and smiled. “These are too expensive to buy a lot but I am worried that people can’t eat biscuits and instant noodles every day. Therefore, I bought some snacks to switch.”
Xie Qi asked curiously, “What other snacks?”
Xiao Lou listed them, “For example, canned fruit, pickled chicken feet, canned fish, beef jerky, dried bean curd, plums…”
Xie Qi was shocked.
He was in the 3 of Spades room to survive. Was Professor Xiao here to travel?
Xiao Lou stared at the teenager before patting him on the shoulder with a smile. “Follow us and you can eat enough. You no longer have to worry about a hungry stomach.”
Xie Qi’s eyes were hot and he suddenly had the feeling of holding a golden thigh. He immediately nodded enthusiastically. “Yes, I’ll listen to you!”
Meanwhile, Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge also came over.
Shao Qingge’s eyes were narrowed and he stretched out lazily, apparently not fully awake.
Yu Hanjiang had washed his face and he was full of energy. He glanced at Xiao Lou and said, “I still don’t feel comfortable with you staying here. Once you finish eating breakfast, use the compa.s.s to draw more metal rings. I will help you lay down a trap.”
Xiao Lou nodded. “Okay.”
The four people ate breakfast together. Then Xiao Lou followed Yu Hanjiang’s advice and drew hundreds of large and small rings.
Shao Qingge looked at the rings constantly appearing on teh ground and sighed. “This compa.s.s card is really strong. You can draw weapons any time and anywhere.”
Xiao Lou asked, “What good cards have you drawn?”
Shao Qingge openly took out a card. “I drew only one S-grade card, G.o.d of Wealth. It has one skill called Aura of Wealth. If used when gambling with gold coins, it can improve my luck but the use is restricted to one time a day. The second skill hasn’t been unlocked.”
Xie Qi’s eyes brightened. “Is the G.o.d of Wealth aura like the transfer bead in 2 of Clubs?”
Shao Qingge nodded. “Almost, although I haven’t practiced it yet.”
Xiao Lou laughed. “Previously, I heard the taxi driver say that the City of the Moon has the most professional casinos. Holding this card can improve your hand. You can always go to the City of the Moon to obtain gold.”
Shao Qingge smiled and touched his chin. “I think so as well. I will first acc.u.mulate some funds and then go to the casino to make more.”
Chief Shao was good at making money and the card he drew was G.o.d of Wealth. Xiao Lou thought they would no longer be afraid of poverty.
Xie Qi suddenly found that the team he joined… didn’t seem so bad?
Moments later, Yu Hanjiang took out a piece of paper and drew the map of the entire building and the distribution of the traps. He circled the traps covering almost all the corners and pa.s.sages in the building.
Yu Hanjiang stated, “Arrange the rings according to my map, cover them with soil and tie a line to control them to your hands. If someone hastily breaks into this building and pulls the corresponding area line then you can immediately trap the other side.”
This was a technique commonly used by hunters in the forest and now it was utilized by Yu Hanjiang. The entire building was full of traps and anyone who broke into this building would be Xiao Lou’s prey.
Xiao Lou smiled and nodded. “I understand. Group Leader Yu, rest a.s.sured, Xie Qi and I will arrange it later.”
Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge left at 8 o’clock.
Xie Qi’s teleportation and eavesdropping cards were temporarily handed to Yu Hanjiang.
[Bug]. This card was an S-grade tool card with only one skill, but it was very easy to use. It could release three bugs at the same time and placed on the body of any targets within 100 metres. The length of each eavesdropping was three hours. After three hours, the eavesdropping was recovered and needed to be recharged for 60 minutes before being released again.
[Teleport] A rare S-grade special effects card. This card had two skills. The first skill ‘Come and Go Like the Wind’. Immediately after being used, they could teleport to any designated position within 50 metres. The second skill ‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way’. Any objects weighing less than 100kg could be teleported to the designated location within 100 metres. The increase in growth could increase the weight of the moved object and this increase went up to 200kg.
Yu Hanjiang looked at Shao Qingge. “How much do you weigh?”
Shao Qingge smiled. “Group Leader Yu, do you want to take me to do experiments? I’m 70kg.”
Yu Hanjiang nodded and experimented with the second skill ‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way.’ The next moment, he saw Shao Qingge appear in the designated place 50 metres away.
Sure enough, as long as the weight was less than 100kg, people could be teleported. After the card rose to the full level of 200kg, two adult males or three relatively thin women could be moved at the same time.
Yu Hanjiang used the first skill to teleport over and asked Shao Qingge, “How does it feel?”
Shao Qingge felt it was very magical. “The skill effect time is less than one second. I just felt there was a gust of wind blowing and then I appeared at the site entrance in the blink of an eye.”
Yu Hanjiang commented, “It truly is an S-grade card.”
When necessary, they could take their teammate to escape or move a close enemy 50 metres away with Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way.
Shao Qingge stated, “Xie Qi, this guy, he seemed to have perfectly cleared many secret rooms if he could draw two S-grade cards.”
“Xie Qi looks very thin and like he isn’t a threat but he is very strong and smart. Professor Xiao wants him to join the team. Go to 3 of Hearts with him and look at his performance.” Yu Hanjiang paused before added, “No, his score in Hearts is an S while yours is only a C, you shouldn’t drag his hind legs.”
Shao Qingge touched his nose. “…Group Leader Yu is too direct.”
Yu Hanjiang didn’t say anything else. “Let’s go.”
The streets of the outskirts were empty so they boldly opened the teleportation skill and quickly arrived at the city. There, they saw a terrible scene. It was the morning rush hour and the roads were blocked by cards. The car horns honking were deafening.
Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge found a roadside coffee store to log onto the Internet.
The prices were outrageous. A 2,000 gold coins cup of coffee had now become 16,000 gold coins. Fortunately, Shao Qingge had a lot of money. The Internet cafe wasn’t open today so he paid to sit here and surf the Internet.
Yu Hanjiang was worried about Shao Qingge’s safety and sat next to him as a bodyguard.
Shao Qingge quickly logged onto the stock market and his expression changed. “The real estate market has also collapsed.”
Today was Monday and most of the office workers would be rus.h.i.+ng to their company. They would soon discover the news.
Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly. “It seems that the real action, the chaos will begin on the third day.”
Shao Qingge quickly bought the real estate stocks at a low price and returned the previous stocks he borrowed. He carefully calculated it and told Yu Hanjiang in a light voice, “I earned a net profit of one million from shorting the stocks. The other stocks are continuing to fall and I can earn more but I fear that there will be power outages and disconnections today.”