30: Financial War

Cloud Deer Garden.

He Ming sat on the sofa, scrolling through trending topics online about Verlander's bottleneck.

A cold sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"jarvis."

"Sir, I'm here."

"How much has Verlander Biotechnology's stock price risen in the past 24 hours?"

"As of this moment, the increase is 54.3%."

"Based on market sentiment models and captured institutional movements, it is estimated that the increase will peak within the next three months, ranging from approximately 185% to 200%."

"How much capital do we currently have available?"

"Your liquid funds, dispersed across various offshore markets and encrypted accounts globally, total 50 billion US dollars."

These funds were quick money He Ming earned in overseas investment markets through jarvis's precise operations.

He Ming was silent for a moment.

Fifty billion was clearly not enough to leverage Verlander, which was being fanatically sought after by the market.

While it could cause heavy damage, it wasn't enough to deliver a fatal blow.

"Not enough ammunition."

"Help me contact Bai Qianqian."

jarvis: "I have connected you."

Bai Qianqian answered the phone, a little puzzled.

"Is there something you need me for?"

"How much overseas liquid capital can you mobilize right now?"

"What are you going to do?"

Bai Qianqian raised her eyebrows, momentarily not reacting.

"Short Verlander Biotechnology."

Bai Qianqian's heart skipped a beat!

This was a large pharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of two trillion, backed by strong capital, and its stock price was skyrocketing recently because it had a stranglehold on Xinghai Group!

Trying to short it would just be giving money away to the other side, wouldn't it?

"You must be crazy!"

"Verlander's stock price has risen by over 50% recently; you're going against the trend, and no amount of money will be enough to fill that hole."

"What do you think would happen if I stole all of their core experimental data for b7 catalase?"

Bai Qianqian's breathing paused for a moment.

She was an extremely intelligent woman and instantly understood the Ghost's short-selling plan.

Stealing Verlander's core secrets would be equivalent to directly destroying Verlander's moat.

Once successful, Verlander's so-called technological monopoly would become a joke.

The stock price would plummet, perhaps even into an abyss.

He Ming's synthesized electronic voice continued.

"If you think that's not enough, I can also publish all of Verlander's core secrets on the internet."

Accompanying the enormous risk was breathtaking profit!

Bai Qianqian's heart pounded wildly, blood rushing to her head.

"How confident are you in getting the technology?"

"That's not something you need to worry about."

"You just need to tell me how much overseas capital you can mobilize right now?"

Bai Qianqian took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her turbulent emotions.

She quickly pressed her assistant's external contact number.

"Immediately have the CFO bring over all available overseas capital statements."

A few minutes later.

Bai Qianqian's voice came again.

"I can mobilize 80 billion US dollars!"

"Come back to me when you've gathered 100 billion US dollars."

Bai Qianqian gasped; this was simply too insane.

Once the plan succeeded, the returns would surely double, or even multiply several times!

Thinking of this, Bai Qianqian couldn't help but want to mortgage the entire Bais Technology to exchange for US dollars.

"How will the profits be distributed?"

"A six-four split, you take forty percent."

"If you're not interested, I'll find someone else to cooperate with."

"Wait!"

Bai Qianqian exclaimed.

She had no doubt that with the Ghost's capabilities, he could definitely contact those financial giants directly.

At that point, she might not even get a taste.

Forty percent, that was also an astronomical figure.

"Give me three days!" Bai Qianqian gritted her teeth.

"I can't wait that long, at most one day."

Bai Qianqian felt her throat go dry.

"Okay!"

One day later.

Inside Cloud Deer Garden, He Ming issued a simple command to jarvis.

"Execute."

Deep within the global internet, a silent battle quietly began.

jarvis simultaneously controlled tens of thousands of encrypted accounts dispersed across the world, these accounts, like the most loyal ghost soldiers, received a unified command at the same moment.

Vast sums of capital were broken down into smaller parts, and through these tens of thousands of nodes, in the form of various financial instruments, a gigantic short-selling trap targeting Verlander Biotechnology was silently constructed.

The entire operation was like an invisible digital army, completing strategic encirclement and ambush without the enemy's knowledge.

And this large-scale operation only caused a tiny, insignificant ripple in the financial market, which was overlooked by most people as normal fluctuation.

The capital behind Verlander noticed something, but in their eyes, this was merely a futile effort, a foolish act of giving them money for free.

They held technological hegemony and were full of complacent pride.

Cloud Deer Garden.

"Sir, all deployment nodes are in place."

jarvis's voice was calm and emotionless.

"Execute."

At this moment, the internet itself became the public execution square.

A miracle of the digital world suddenly descended.

Almost simultaneously, all well-known public information platforms globally, and even some core forums on the dark web.

The focal point of all pages was covered by a forcefully popped-up and unclosable window.

The window had only one option—a compressed package of core data for bioactive b7 catalase.

In the bottom right corner of the window, a cloaked ghost icon was quietly flickering.

After a brief silence, the whole world erupted in an uproar!

The academic community exploded first.

The world's top biologists, after initial shock and disbelief, frantically downloaded the data.

Then came the verification of the authenticity of this data.

As the verification deepened, exclamations rose and fell in various top laboratories.

Verlander's technological barrier, which had been strictly guarded for many years, crumbled in an instant.

The financial world experienced an earthquake of magnitude eleven overnight.

Verlander's stock price plummeted in after-hours trading, with a cliff-like decline curve that was shocking to behold.

Panic spread like a plague; institutions and individual investors holding Verlander stock frantically sold, but it was already too late, with selling orders like mountains and few buyers.

Those major pharmaceutical companies that had been suffocated by Verlander's b7 catalase, after an initial moment of bewilderment, fell into ecstasy.

This was a godsend; the Ghost's action was tantamount to putting the sharpest weapon into each of their hands and pointing at Verlander, saying: Go, take him down.

Without any coordination, a commercial encirclement targeting Verlander naturally formed.

These competitors acted with unprecedented efficiency, analyzing data, adjusting research and development directions, and preparing to pre-announce competing products.

Previously, the legend of the Ghost was mainly confined to Dragon Country.

But this time, he made the whole world remember this symbol, and everyone felt the ultimate fear of being dominated by a digital shadow.

Modu, Bais Technology Headquarters Tower, top floor office.

Bai Qianqian woke up with a start from the office sofa.

She rubbed her dark circles, tidied her clothes, and sat back down in front of the computer.

"The Ghost wouldn't have just disappeared with the money, would he?"

Although the Ghost's demonstrated ability and previous cooperation credibility made this possibility extremely low, it still involved such a vast amount of capital... She picked up the cold coffee, her fingers trembling slightly, her heart unable to calm down.

At this moment, a news item was pushed to her homepage.

Bai Qianqian clicked on it and fell into a daze, her heart felt as if it was tightly gripped by an invisible large hand, a little painful but beating more than twice as fast.

"Is this the compressed package of B7's core data?"

She immediately understood the Ghost's plan.

This was to fundamentally destroy Verlander's technological hegemony, to use the power of the entire world to completely crush this behemoth.

Bai Qianqian turned to another screen; Verlander's stock price curve was like a kite with a broken string, plummeting almost vertically to the bottom.

The gray area representing after-hours trading was already filled with huge bearish candlesticks, with the decline instantly exceeding 80% and still rapidly expanding.

"It really worked!"

Bai Qianqian felt her blood boiling, a tremendous sense of excitement rushing to her head, making her feel dizzy.

As Bai Qianqian scrolled through major headlines and the dominant pinned pages on various online platforms, her shock towards the Ghost increased by ten levels.

Isn't this a dimensionality reduction attack?

Has the Ghost become powerful enough to rewrite digital rules?

Meanwhile, the internet within Dragon Country had completely erupted into a sea of jubilation.

Soon, the news spread like wildfire to all major platforms.

Hot searches related to celebrity gossip were pushed dozens of places down.

The top ten trending search terms were completely dominated by the Ghost.

【Ghost Publicly Executes Verlander Globally】

【b7 catalase Core Technology Leaked】

【Verlander Stock Price Collapses】

【Is Xinghai Group Saved?】

【Thank You, Ghost Boss!】

At this moment, no matter which video's comment section, it was completely flooded with discussions about the Ghost.

People seemed to want to find an outlet to share this thrilling and goosebump-inducing excitement with others.

【That's so satisfying, TM, for you to bottleneck us, didn't expect this, hahaha, your home got stolen】

【What kind of sci-fi plot is this! The Ghost is fighting a trillion-level multinational giant and winning so beautifully?】

【Although the methods are a bit... I like them, this time I'm with the Ghost】

【To deal with a hooligan, you have to use even more hooligan methods】

【Hahahahaha, look at those analysts on foreign websites, their faces must be green】

【This is called a dimensionality reduction attack, Ghost is awesome!】

The internet was filled with a joyful atmosphere, a mix of triumphant nationalistic sentiment and admiration for the digital vigilante.

The last time the Ghost acted domestically, it still carried a hint of mystery and controversy.

But this time, his actions directly hit the pain point of all Dragon Country people being bottlenecked, bringing an unprecedented sense of exhilaration and earning almost unanimous support and applause.