Drawing cards can't save the weird world

November is a very difficult month for many small capitalists and small companies.

The effects of economic turmoil are intensifying and spreading to all industries.

Some very strange economic phenomena have appeared. In some places, the prices are extremely high but no one is engaged in production, and in some places the prices are extremely high but no one buys anything.

Professors of Economics at Liberty City University: I have lived so long, what have I not seen? Well, I've never seen this before!

Now people are already very vigilant in their consumption, and only when they have money in their hands can they feel at ease and only buy necessities of life.

Consumption levels have declined, bills and loans have defaulted, and more people are on the streets.

In this case, the decline in law and order is inevitable.

In the past, the streets of Liberty City at night were at least safe. Only in those small alleys would there be occasional free people who asked you to "borrow some money to spend".

Now even the streets are not safe, and even in some neighborhoods, those homeless people gather on the streets overnight, cardboard boxes and gasoline cans have become symbols. Hemp has become a necessity beyond food. Without this thing to numb the nerves, they probably would have killed themselves.

In this way, December has arrived, and colleges and universities have to take exams during this period of time at the end of the year.

From December 11th to 18th, Zhao Hao finally passed all the exams. With his high intelligence attribute, he didn't have much difficulty. It's just very cumbersome, like the mechanics he's in has to be done manually.

Of course, the worst thing is to study economics, they are already numb. Many of them are looking for a career change.

And during Zhao Hao's exam, on the 16th to be precise, the five OPEC members raised oil prices again.

Libby blew himself up and announced that he would raise the price of oil from $4 to $30 a barrel!

He just doubled it by more than 7 times!

If it is said that the previous half a year was a knife stabbed into the body and continued to bleed, then this is a fatal blow.

According to Zhao Hao's understanding, the financial collapse caused by the current oil crisis has spread from Aramco to the whole world.

In the middle of the month, the price of gold briefly exceeded $700 an ounce. It even caused turbulence in the price of currencies in the world.

In the other world, there is no demand for oil at all, but there is still demand for gold, gems, and rare metals. If the economic fluctuations are too huge, it will be difficult for the world to be alone.

This also explains from the side the attachment of the inner world to the outer world.

And Zhao Hao won again this time. A year ago, he had asked Gou Quan to hoard gold.

In the beginning, only emperor uncles and cultural shirts were sold, and the amount of funds was not large. When Pippi Shrimp's future company is on the right track, the capital flow will already be huge.

Even because Gou Quan often converts half of the company's monthly turnover into gold for storage, and international trade is settled in gold, which has caused slight fluctuations in gold on the entire east coast.

Now it's done, it's harvest time.

Zhao Hao: No wonder everyone hates capitalists, and everyone wants to be a capitalist. This kind of large-scale harvesting feels so good!

But when it comes to harvesting, it's all trivial to him.

Isn't it just using financial leverage to hoard tens of millions of dollars of gold cheaply?

How big can you benefit? Two or three times overwhelmed.

Look at those big capitalists and big consortiums again!

Zhao Hao doesn't know about others, but he knows Alan Duke.

How did the Duke family play? From banks to financial companies to physical companies, from raw materials to upstream and downstream products, and terminal consumption, they have mastered everything.

Taking advantage of this special time, I don't know how many factories and companies on the verge of bankruptcy have been acquired and merged.

After this wave, I don't know how many small areas of monopoly are in my hands.

Your income of tens of millions of dollars is not good, but for me, dollars are already a number. What I want is to grasp some authority in this country!

The Duke family controlled part of the arms, mainly the manufacture of gunpowder. It was the ancestral property of the Duke family who came to this country more than a hundred years ago.

After that, there were also some large-scale machinery and equipment manufacturing and chemical industries. It has also invested in many high-end laboratories and has many high-tech patents in its hands. Such as nylon!

The patent and production of this thing are mostly in the hands of the Duke family. Let's put it this way, a quarter of the world's nylon stockings are made by them. Aramco's market share is more than 75%.

Other big families are also not giving way, oil, steel, communications, transportation, automobiles... all walks of life.

At this time, the Amis look up to the sky, and they can faintly see those well-dressed old-fashioned gentlemen sitting on the clouds, looking down at all living beings...

The Zhao Hao at this time is not the same as when he just crossed over. At that time, he was writing a book to earn some money and eat a good meal. I don’t know how happy he was.

Now that it's over, I've been given tens of millions of knives, and I feel... very happy in my heart.

But it's all floating money, and the money will soon pass through many channels and be exchanged for a large number of mid-to-high-end extraordinary materials, intelligence, spell data, etc.

After all, power is eternal, not money. With Zhao Hao's even somewhat wasteful experiment and research methods, it is simply a waste of money!

After the exam, the school is relaxed, and the official holiday will be on December 19.

The winter vacation is quite long, like more than a month.

This holiday is like the winter vacation of the Celestial Dynasty, it is very important.

Because Christmas is in it, just like Chinese New Year.

On Christmas Eve, December 24, Zhao Hao signed in and was rewarded with an item card.

【Thick silk bandage*5】

Black iron 5-star item card

Use: Stops the bleeding, stabilizes the wound, and restores a large amount of health within an hour.

Remarks: Where is the talent for survival? I just spent all the fighting time of others on bandages.

This thing is of little use to Zhao Hao, if there is a chance to apply a bandage, Zhao Hao himself will recover almost. But recovery items are never too much.

If this thing is brought to the other world, it is possible to exchange for one or two black iron 5-star extraordinary items.

After all, life is only once, who is not afraid of death?

On Christmas Eve, Zhao Hao spent at Elena's house. The whole family enjoyed themselves.

Due to the economic turmoil, Mr. Adams' antique auction work was a bit bumpy, but with Zhao Hao's secret help, he quickly recovered.

And Ms. Sarah joined the clothing department of Pippi Shrimp and became the design supervisor of the women's clothing brand "Jiaren".

If you don't have the ability to help the world, you can still take care of those around you.

Zhao Hao also "popularized" them the "traditional custom" of eating apples on Christmas Eve with great interest.

What? Not traditional at all, and no homonyms?

You care! I just like to eat!

Besides, the custom of eating apples has been spread in just one day, and it was first spread from Pippi Shrimp Future Company.

Everyone knows that Pippi Shrimp's treatment is very good, and has already bought a local newspaper, and the TV station often has programs. According to Zhao Hao's vision, it is already a star company.

It has to be said that the power of money is indeed terrifying. Relying on the transfer of benefits and the uniform exposure of rain and dew, Pippi Shrimp insisted on gaining a firm foothold in a metropolis like Liberty City, and even created its own world.

Now Pippi Shrimp has a great influence, and Pippi Shrimp just sent apples to one thousand employees in the morning and said blessings. This "traditional custom" spread in Liberty City in the afternoon, and the price of apples increased in the evening.

On the other hand, Zhao Hao was secretly observing the reaction of the area around the Psychic Sea to the Ping An Guo incident.

Now Zhao Hao has taken a long-term view and broadened his horizons.

He has already swelled to the point of starting to study the relationship between the spiritual energy sea and the inner and outer worlds.

A transcendent at the black iron level basically stays in the realm of asking for oneself, but once they reach the bronze level, they will start to delve into the unity of man and nature...

Zhao Hao even used money to support the dwarf Wali, and set up a psychic gun laboratory and a psychic machine laboratory in the other world.

He also funded Witch Carrie to set up a potion research laboratory and a Liberty City branch of the Witch Academy.

Brother Wali recruited four or five of his own family, and seven or eight acquaintances who belonged to technical geeks in the other world. He was enthusiastically working on forging iron, making guns, and making psychic robots. I had a great time playing. Even Winston got in on it, specializing in psionic semiconductors and integrated board systems.

The witch Carrie recruited several young witches to help her cultivate herbs. With the help of Zhao Hao's influence, a school for witches was established in Liberty City.

Witches didn't have much status in Liberty City before. Although some witches would take one or two novice witches with them, it was still not enough to set up a school.

Now that Zhao Hao is mediating among them, Hongmen and the Evangelical Society have already acquiesced in the Witch School, and the Night Watch has always been neutral, and other small forces are not worth mentioning.

Zhao Hao's current network strength has also begun to develop.

The next day, many tabloids in Liberty City reported the "apple price increase" by the "director" of Pippi Shrimp. It is said that the shareholders of Pippi Shrimp created a "traditional custom".

But this kind of discussion lasted until noon, when it was directly suppressed by another piece of heavy news.

On December 24th, Big Red Brother sent 5,000 soldiers to Afghanistan!

In that imperial cemetery, more than one overlord was buried.

It can only be said that the wheels of history have already rolled.

News, newspapers, talk shows... All Ami's propaganda is criticizing the aggression of the Red Empire. Just contacting the Annan War that just ended a few years ago, I thought it was a bit funny.

In the words of the fat man, that is: the crow fell on the black pig—you can't see yourself black when you see others black.

This matter is already a very big matter for the watch world, and it is related to the international situation.

All parties do not want to see Big Red occupying the junction of Eurasia. Especially Europa, who is already frightened.

And for the other world, this is an extremely bad news.

It doesn't matter to the superhumans in the other world who the big red brother sends troops to fight. But the reason why it sent troops became the reason why all supernatural beings felt uneasy.

Although the Church of Satan is very capable of causing trouble, even now the clone of Lord of the Flies has personally gone to Europe to direct trouble, and fight against the Pope.

But in terms of its harm, the Church of Satan has to lean back and invite the four major cults out.

Among the four major cults, Zhao Hao has already seen the Sally Church in a few glimpses.

That one is the master of lust, beauty and sensual stimulation.

As long as human beings still have the concept of beauty and ugliness, the desire for sexual reproduction, and the stimulation of the five senses, they cannot escape the attention of this treacherous god.

It is said that the main force of the Sally Church is now in Eastern Europe, and they are vigorously developing the sex industry, and are working hard to make Ermao a delivery room for Europa.

However, although Sally's believers often do things that make many people ugly, they are all that kind of scabies after all.

Although this "skin disease" grows everywhere and cannot be cured, it is generally not fatal. The biggest harm is just a rapid decline in fertility, and it will pass by closing your eyes and gritting your teeth.

As long as the general trend is under control, it can always continue.

For the others, one is more terrifying than the other.

First of all, let's talk about the reason why the big red brother sent troops to invade.

Astrologers and prophets from many authoritative organizations in the world have given definite conclusions.

Big Red Brother has been influenced by the Church of Gotha, and this influence has even been serious.

Just as the Church of Sally loves the depraved and corrupted Ami, the Church of Gotha, which advocates violence, especially favors Big Brother who is a torrent of steel.

Gotha is the most brutal and bloodthirsty existence among the deceitful gods.

Crazy, violent, continuous bloodshed and killing are His domain.

His emblem is a bloody horned skull surrounded by black spikes.

His followers love and instigate war as a tribute to their god.

They believed that any life killed by violence was a sacrifice to Gotha.

Many wars, riots, regional conflicts, genocide and various war machines in the world were born out of their people.

There are legends that the AK series of rifles was invented by a soldier who was watched by Gotha. In addition, there are Maxim, Hatchkiss, Browning and so on.

People killed by the killing weapons they designed can circle the earth 500 times. The destroyed planes, cars, tanks, and ships can fill the Pacific Ocean.

In addition, even the emergence of nuclear weapons also has Gotha.

However, I heard later that Gotha was tricked by another master of all things.

Because this kind of lethality is beyond imagination, after the appearance of weapons that can kill millions of people in an instant, nuclear deterrence has been formed. Instead, the war was contained.

During that time, the members of Gotha Church were desperately looking for believers of the Lord of Change all over the world.

And there are even more wars instigated by the Gotha Church. The more chaotic the place, the faster and wider the spread of Gotha's faith.

On the battlefield, he is regarded as the god of war, and may even be believed by both the enemy and us. When the time comes, the final winner will naturally be an outstanding believer and will be rewarded.

Among them, the First World War is a typical representative of the great generosity of the Gotha Church.

Before this, there had never been such a large-scale and tragic war in human history.

But when the Second World War started, it was actually overtaken by the Ten Thousand Deaths Society.

For the Gotha Church, it felt like being confronted by a tauren.

World War II killed 200 million people directly and indirectly, and none of them were dedicated to Gotha. This is blasphemy!

So much so that when supernatural organizations all over the world were besieging and suppressing the Ten Thousand Deaths Society, the Gotha Church actually used all its strength to hunt down and kill the remnants of the Ten Thousand Deaths Society.

It can only be said that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

And those very famous anti-war people are easily attacked by Gotha believers.

According to the information collected by the Bureau of Mysteries, the great writer Hemingway was probably cursed by the followers of Gotha because of his anti-war.

In the end, this tough guy who participated in several wars committed suicide by drinking a bomb tortured by mental abnormalities. Even so, his family blood still has not escaped the curse of suicide...

Similarly, Ami is also one of Gotha's favorite countries, second only to Big Brother.

Big Brother is tough enough to dare to fight, in line with Gotha's aesthetics and creed.

On Amei's side, it is purely chaotic, with enough violence. Various large-scale shootings can occur dozens of times a year, and one death can range from five or six to twenty or thirty.

It is said that the income-generating sequelae of the war was created by the Church of Gotha. Basically, the soldiers who have experienced brutal wars have all been stamped with the emblem of Gotha, and they cannot bear peace in this life. So many shooting incidents were initiated by those retired veterans.

It's just that Gotha wasn't very satisfied with this act of massacring the weak with weapons.

It's not a sense of honor, the main thing is that what Gotha wants is that kind of violence, and a simple massacre is not satisfying at all.

This is also why Big Brother is His favorite. The various performances of Big Brother during World War II made Gotha have a soft spot for him.

In fact, because of Gotha's gaze, the atmosphere inside Big Brother is already extraordinarily weird. That mentality of struggle is not only external, but has even begun to be internal.

Struggle, fighting, violence, Gotha has already begun to influence that great red empire.

Now that Big Brother is instigated by the Gotha Church to start a war, the extraordinary people in the other world are worried that it will be the fuse of the third war.

The third of the four religions is the toad god.

The names of the deceitful gods are all created by people, and people don't know their real names. It's like ants can't know people's names.

The reason why the Toad God is called the Toad God is because his image is close to the appearance of the toad in the outer world. Of course, his followers don't call him that.

He is the most peaceful deceitful god, rarely uses violence, and any existence willing to convert, he readily accepts. Therefore, he is also called the loving father by his followers.

He is the god of viruses, plagues and parasites. The emblem is a triangle inside a circle with a yellow-green virus symbol in the center.

His believers are keen to create various viruses and spread large-scale plagues.

It is said that the Black Death, syphilis, and AIDS are all masterpieces produced by the intervention of a loving father.

The three major parasites, dracunculus guinea worm, iron nematode, and schistosomiasis, were also cultivated by the Church of Toad God.

Osteoarthritis, plague flies, Ebola, hemorrhagic fever, cholera, dysentery... His shadow is everywhere in this world.

In 1918, during World War I, a small esoteric cult in Ami concocted the Spanish flu virus.

In one year, about 500 million people were infected and 25 to 40 million died. At that time, the world population was about 1.7 billion people...

It was later proved that the small secret sect was a hidden branch of the Toad God Church.

Of course, this incident also aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Church of Gotha, because the prevalence of the Spanish flu once led to the interruption of the war. In fact, the relationship between the Church of the Deceitful God is not very good.

Because there is very little mandatory content, and the management is extremely loose, there is no need to offer sacrifices or pray to the Toad God. Therefore, there are many believers in Toad God, and most of them are difficult to distinguish.

They're all hiding.

For example, Amei mentioned earlier that he used black people for syphilis experiments.

It happened in 1932. The American Department of Public Health used 400 African-American black men as test subjects to secretly study the harm of syphilis to the human body, concealing the parties for 40 years, and causing a large number of victims and their relatives to pay the price of their health and even their lives. , known as the "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment".

It was only disclosed by relevant agencies two years ago that the incident was presided over by hidden Toad God believers, but the parties and victims were basically dead.

Also, in late September 1950, the AUS military used biochemical weapons containing Serratia marcescens to launch an attack on Francesco in order to test Francesco's "chemical defense capability."

It is also believed that someone in the military was bewitched by the followers of Toad God.

It is precisely because Ami's official circles often make such things, so Ami people are extremely disgusted with vaccinations, and they jump when they hear it. Because I really can't believe it.

Of course, this may also be one of the purposes of the Toad God Church. Vaccines are their worst enemy!

Now the main activity area of ​​the Toad God Church is in the backward areas of Africa, where the sanitation conditions are worse and more suitable for the birth of viruses and diseases.

The World Health Organization, a subsidiary body of the United Nations Security Council, was established for the Church of Toad God.

The last of the four evil gods is the Lord of Change. He is the god of intrigues, schemes, and the creation and dissemination of terrible knowledge.

He likes smart people, and only those with bright minds can be qualified to believe in Him.

Of course, most of His believers don't know that they believe in Him at the beginning. Things like knowledge and strategy have their own traps.

Believers of the Lord of Change believe that "only change is forever". So no one knows what they're doing, and they have anti-prophetic effects.

For them, calculating, flipping and overturning are the most interesting toys. Strangeness is unacceptable.

His followers are planners and subversive planners, creators and disseminators of dire news and forbidden knowledge.

There are extraordinary people who firmly believe that the current scientific system is spread through the subtle influence of the God of Change. His purpose is as yet unknown.

Those inventions and creations include gunpowder (initially reacted by Da Song and controlled its spread and application, but Nobel, who was inspired by the Lord of Change, still carried it forward), atomic bomb, nuclear energy, electronics, genetically modified engineering, still Infant artificial intelligence and other fields.

Aerospace technology is also said to be the work of the Lord of Change. This news was seen by Zhao Hao in the confidential file of the Bureau of Mystery.

That file was incomplete, only a few words were recorded.

In 1959, Aramco sent a monkey to the sky, in 1969, Armstrong landed on the moon, and in 1971, the probe arrived on Mars...

Recorder's words: Maybe He wants us to leave this planet under our feet!

It is said that the emergence of the Aramco Great Depression is directly related to him. In fact, quite a few people who play finance have been subtly changed by the Lord of Change and become his potential believers. It is also hard to say whether this oil crisis has anything to do with him.

Because of playing tricks and secrecy, the followers of the Lord of Change are numerous and secretive, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

Among them, the one most loved and supported by the Lord of Change is called Anonymous. In order to distinguish the difference, letters will be added after it.

However, over the years, some anonymous people have been caught one after another, but they have all been proved to be fake.

Or it was true before, but after being caught, he was no longer favored by the Lord of Change, and he became a fake. Soon there will be new Anonymous.

The current chief of the Church of the Lord of Change calls himself Anonymous Q...

By the way, the former scientist Thomas Midgley Jr., who invented and applied leaded gasoline and Freon, which have a huge destructive effect on the environment, was proved to have come into contact with the will of the Lord of Changes when his inspiration exploded. .

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Big Brother sent troops on the 24th to shock the world, but for civilians, life is still waiting.

Christmas on the 25th is the most important holiday of the year. The invasion of Afghanistan did not affect the Amis celebrating Christmas.

Zhao Hao was ready for the sign-in rewards, but the prizes still exceeded his expectations!

[Copypost: Study hard and make progress every day. 】

Bronze 3-star item card

Effect: Stick it on the wall of the study, greatly increasing the learning efficiency.

Thanks for the 500 rewards from the book friends "Shanglin Resentment Daoqiong" and "CHIOT"!

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