"Never count on capitalists to have a conscience. As long as there's enough profit, they're even willing to sell ropes and gallows to hang themselves."
When Seviala said something like this, Rorschach even suspected that he had returned to his junior high politics class on Earth.
However, it was obvious that both worlds had the same things. For example, capital and capital had no limits and no bottom line in the pursuit of profits. For example, the lack of regulation in the financial world was just too close to a fraud trap.
"Increase? Save the city? How's that possible? We don't have any money. "
In the end, it was all about money.
Sometimes, Rorschach even suspected that there was something wrong with his own magical world. Why was it that as his status and personal power increased, he became more and more addicted to money?
Saving the city would require a tremendous amount of money. Not only would Rorschach and the Game Church be unable to produce this amount of money, even the rich scion Seviala would be unable to produce this amount of money.
In fact, even the Mage Country wouldn't be able to produce this amount of money.
This wasn't an exaggeration at all. When more than half of the entire city's population of several hundred thousand was converted into stocks, and there was an avalanche of stocks selling off, stabilizing the situation would require an abnormally large amount of money.
Seviala did some simple calculations, and the number she obtained made Rorschach suspect that she had added three extra zeros. Even a country's annual budget wouldn't be so ridiculous.
However, if this number was compared to more than half of the entire city's population of several million, this would indeed be a huge shortfall.
Originally, Rorschach's final plan had been to ask the wood spirits and the Mage Country for help if anything went wrong. However, it was obvious that this quagmire was so large that even they wouldn't be able to easily get involved.
Not only that, this avalanche was the city's avalanche. Even if the Mage Country miraculously passed a plan to save the city in one night and transferred the money, the barrier between the two worlds made it so that the money wouldn't be able to reach here.
The only thing that could be manipulated was probably the stocks of the Griffin Church and the Oak Son, which were listed in both worlds at the same time. Their stocks were updated in real time through the God Network in both worlds. The total value of their stocks was far greater than that of other churches.
However, if it was just the Griffin Church and the Oak Children's stocks, it would be meaningless. Was he supposed to give up everything to help two outsiders recover their losses?
"Finance is nothing more than a game of money. No matter what we want to do, the first thing we need is to have enough money."
That was why Rorschach sought them out.
"The fundamental reason for all of this is because there are too many loopholes in the rules of the stock and financial markets here. Information isn't made public, and for the sake of the greatest benefits, it doesn't even involve the upper limit or lower limit. But fortunately, it's also because there are too many loopholes here. When normal legal methods are unable to save you, there are still illegal methods that can save you … Have you heard of insider trading and fake transactions?"
Rorschach didn't understand many of the names related to finance, but he was an expert when it came to identifying lies and deceptions.
Although Roxia didn't know how they were doing it, he could vaguely understand what they were doing.
It was nothing more than Griffin and Oak Son using their shares as collateral to finance and buy the other party's shares. The left hand in and the right hand out, forcibly raising the stock price.
Obviously, this was not allowed. Fraudulent transactions to forcefully rewrite the numbers was a complete scam.
Rorschach did not know how many laws they had violated, but Seviala said that it was enough to put everyone in jail.
On the other hand, Vila Nova Dônia's Divine Power Network had a "delay." The transaction between the two parties did not leave a record. The transaction numbers would be updated after a few hours of "maintenance."
In fact, due to the "delay," the stocks of the two companies had already been delisted by Aishi. Now, the stocks of the two companies were no different from the other churches. They were all traded in the city at the Seventh Exchange.
To put it bluntly, the people in power in the city had joined forces. Using administrative, technical, financial, and many other monopolistic methods, they forcefully falsified the accounts in a short period of time. Then, when the time was over, the accounts would be erased … The stocks of the two companies had been suspended. All the transactions were fake.
Such a troublesome operation that violated so many laws was for the sake of this grand occasion.
Amidst the light green, the two companies' stocks skyrocketed. This attracted the attention of all the citizens.
Now that all the citizens were paying attention and wanted to know what was going on, the fake news that I had prepared beforehand became useful.
"The Mage Country is entering the city! They're taking out a large amount of money to save the city! We're saved! "
This was a half-truth. The first half was true. Not only had the mega country of the Mage Country shown signs of entering the city, the citizens had long since received news of this. In fact, many people were hoping that the Mage Country wouldn't allow their investment land to be ruined to the point of no return.
But in reality, if this continued, the Mage Country really would give up on this city instead of jumping into a deep pit and quagmire.
The second half was pure nonsense.
First of all, this was a deep pit that no single entity would be able to fill up. Second of all, even if the Mage Country really went all out to fill it up, they wouldn't be able to obtain enough money in a short period of time. The only two companies that could change anything were their stocks. Not to mention, these two companies were already preparing to leave the city.
"The four major families don't intend to leave. Now that the Mage Country has entered the city, there's hope again. They intend to increase their investments."
Yep, that was right. This was also a lie, a complete and utter lie.
With the existence of a savior, hope would be rekindled, and they could push all the changes onto him.
Of the four major families, apart from the half-destroyed Eagle Crown, the other three families had already decided to return to the main city. This was a major strategic decision that the main city would follow. Since the main city's safety was the highest priority, how could they possibly consider the development of the other branches?
But sometimes, people would look forward to lies, and even lower their intelligence to follow a lie … Perhaps it was because reality was far too cruel.
Until the very last moment, who would believe that their entire family had been reduced to a pile of scrap paper overnight?
Rorschach and the others had only given them a straw to clutch at in name, and then … they were waiting for them to climb up this imaginary rope.
"I … I'm going to sell all my stocks and buy Griffin's griffin shares! I want to make up for my losses! "
Would it be possible to recover the market value that had already evaporated?
The answer was obvious. Even if they couldn't recover their losses, they would be able to earn back their losses from other regions. At the very least, that was what some people were thinking, and they were even saying it out loud.
Meanwhile, on the second floor, Rorschach, who was wearing a mask, was feeling rather complex as he watched the perfect performance of the "shills" below him.
Shills came out one after another, and the previously empty hallway was instantly filled with people. Soon, people who weren't shills joined in as well.
Humans would always grab onto the last straw to clutch at, even if it seemed like a scam … Well, since he was about to have nothing left, he might as well let it be a scam.
The clamor of people requesting to buy things was loud and boisterous. Rorschach felt as if he was seeing drowning people crying out for help.
"… Although my methods aren't exactly legal, I'll save you all."
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