Chapter 308: The Collapse of Landick (Update 1)
"Isn't China a land of etiquette? Why are you so rude?"
Standing at the door of Fangcheng Studio, Landick looked at the studio behind him with dissatisfaction.
The automatic door has been closed, and the kitten lying at the front desk is wagging its tail indifferently, without even looking at the two people at the door.
Although he was exhausted, Landick only complained a few words and then gave up.
As he got into the taxi heading to the airport, he closed his eyes and began to think about what he should do next.
He has made sufficient preparations. If he fails to succeed here, he will activate the plan.
His short selling of his own stock has been increased to ten times the leverage. Once the news of the failed acquisition is announced, Druid Entertainment's stock will fall crazily, and he can successfully cash out a large amount from the stock market.
Of course, if Druid Entertainment's stock price will still rise, then there will be a risk of bankruptcy.
But those investors are more panicked and greedy than each other. This kind of thing is impossible to happen. It can be said to be a completely risk-free investment.
Moreover, he has already contacted major stock institutions and company executives, and everyone will short-sell Druid Entertainment's stock and cut leeks together at this time.
Of course this kind of thing is illegal, but he has some good white gloves and this kind of thing can't catch up with him in the end.
Of course, the board of directors may be a little unable to explain, but as long as he can bring back profits, then there can be a solution there.
In short, everything was within his plan and everything was fine.
Many things are both opportunities and challenges. Thanks again for the short-selling mechanism of rice stocks, but it is a pity that A-shares do not.
Calculating that time was almost up, he said to Leon on the side: "Okay, let's tell the news about the failed domestic acquisition. At the same time, let out the news that we acquired the wrong studio before, so that the negative news will come more intensely."
Leon looked at Landick in front of him and sighed again that this guy could really do anything for his own benefit.
However, he is just a small assistant and has no control over the company's senior management. He can only prepare to send various information back according to Landick's request.
But just as he was about to send, Landick suddenly raised his hand and said, "Wait!"
Leon, who was about to press the send button, stopped his finger, looked at Landick and asked, "What's wrong?"
"...It's okay, You go on."
Closing his eyes again, Landick sank into the seat.
The seats of the business car are soft and comfortable, the air-conditioning in the car is just right, the driver has excellent driving skills, and the car is still smooth and you don't feel any bumps at a speed of 80 yards.
But just now, he suddenly felt some heart palpitations, as if he was about to make a wrong decision, a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life.
After thinking about all the problems before and after, he still didn't find out where he made any mistakes. He could only attribute it to an illusion.
But this bad feeling followed him so much that he had no idea what was going on.
When he arrived at the airport, he found that his plane would not take off for another two hours.
He could have taken advantage of this time to go shopping and use the company to pay for himself, but the feeling of heart palpitations came again, making him not want to go anywhere.
Sitting in the business class lounge, he drank the free wine. The numbing effect of alcohol made him feel slightly relieved, and then he read the comments on Little Blue Bird.
Just as he expected, the company had already released the news of the failed acquisition, and the comments under Little Blue Bird were already showing signs of getting out of control.
【Randic! I'm FXXX! FXXXX! ]
[Don't let me see you! I swear if I knew where you were, you'd be dead! ]
[You should win this Nobel Peace Prize, because as soon as you come out, everyone will just shoot at you! ]
[Knock on your horse! I said knock your horse! ] (This sentence is in Chinese.)
Leon was also reading these comments. The player's anger seemed to be about to fly out from behind the screen, which made Leon feel terrified.
The superposition of multiple negative news made Randyk's previous goodwill disappear and made him the target of being reviled by a new generation.
Various strange memes began to become popular at an extremely fast speed. Photos of Landick in public places became the object of players' photos. In anonymous forums such as 4chan, Landick's various memes were used in extreme ways. insult.
Even though he was not the direct target of the Internet explosion, Leon was still a little frightened when he saw these pictures.
Imagine that if you were the protagonist of this incident, you might be directly depressed.
However, after taking a look at Landick next to him, Leon found that the other person had almost no reaction. Instead, he looked at a picture of a corpse and handed it over with a smile. He pointed at the picture and said, "Do you think this person's P picture skills are good?"
Leon's face twisted, and he looked at Landick and said, "Aren't you afraid at all? They are threatening death!" "
Don't be afraid, they are just moving their mouths anyway. Barking dogs don't bite. I never care about these guys. Ah, the stock market is about to open, and I want to see how much I can make this time."
Taking out his mobile phone, Landick looked at the stocks with interest, and the expression on his face gradually solidified.
His pupils began to dilate, his face began to distort, and his left hand holding the armrest couldn't help but begin to exert force. The veins on his pale arm were exposed, making him look particularly terrifying.
Landick, who had always been indifferent to anything, showed an expression he had never seen before at this moment, which made Leon feel a little bit happy despite being confused.
You have today too.
Landick's emotional management has always been in place. Even if someone throws paint on him in public, he can still show a harmless smile and give the other person a piece of clothing compensation with a smile.
He never seemed to lose control of his emotions, but today, he showed a rare expression of shock and anger, which made Leon more and more curious about what the other party saw.
Landick looked at the phone like a statue, suddenly came back to his senses, and started making an overseas call.
He usually communicates by email. This die-hard oil man doesn't even want to pay for extra phone calls, but today is undoubtedly an exception.
While the other party was on the phone, Leon also opened the stock trading software. After watching it for a while, he discovered the reason why the other party lost control.
Since the opening, Druid Entertainment's stock price has been affected by negative news and began to fall.
However, more than ten minutes later, the stock began to rise against the trend. The negative news not only failed to knock down its stock price, but caused it to break through yesterday's closing price and began to continue to break through.
The rising stock price is a good thing for the company's shareholders, but for Landick, it is undoubtedly a nightmare.
He is shorting Druid Entertainment's stock, which means that if the stock does not rise a little, he will lose some money.
And he is shorting this stock ten times, so once the stock rises by more than 10%, he will directly liquidate his position, and all the tens of millions of dollars invested will be wasted.
Negative news about Druid Entertainment has been reported one after another, and its own media and public relations have continued to spread scandals about their company under the orders of high-level officials. This kind of "I paid to hack myself" thing seems to be a problem even if it is not in the gaming industry. It was quite a blast, but it just happened.
Looking at the PR drafts one after another, Leon felt as if he was living in a dream.
Is the current gaming industry already so outrageous?
But no matter how the scandal broke, Druid Entertainment's stock price continued to rise.
Leon didn't know how many agencies Landick had contacted, but judging from his frantic calls, he should have contacted many agencies.
Regardless of the fact that he was in a public place, he took the phone and said loudly: "I don't know, I really don't know! I'm also shorting, and you've seen my delivery records. I'm not lying! It's just a technical adjustment now, there is no problem. !"
"Liquidated? Damn it, how many times did your family increase the leverage? Twenty times? Damn it!" "Listen to my explanation, I am also dealing with this matter now, I can definitely do it well!"
Crazy press Landick looked at the phone crazily, his red eyes like a gambler trying his best to find a chance to make a comeback.
The stock price is still rising, and every short-selling institution's liquidation will cause the stock price to rise again.
The stock price that is constantly approaching Landick's liquidation line is like the fuse of a bomb. Little by little, but slowly, Landick is driven to a dead end.
After finally making all the phone calls, Landick seemed to have aged ten years in an instant.
He sat in a chair blankly, his back was wet with sweat, and even the back of his suit showed a large stain of sweat.
At this moment, Leon handed his mobile phone to Randyk: "You have to take a look at this." He
picked up Leon's mobile phone blankly, and Randyk looked at it for a while and said: "This is... a game inn? I don't know. Understand Chinese."
"There is automatic translation here, just click here."
After the translation, Landick saw the content in the game inn, and the expression on his face became even more shocked.
Game Inn is now a global game-related website, and because of the previous incident of the real and fake "Fangcheng Studio", a large number of North American players flocked here and began to denounce the crimes of Druid Entertainment.
Not long ago, a stockbroker who was involved in shorting Druid Entertainment posted his delivery order for shorting Druid Entertainment. Although he quickly deleted the post, it was immediately saved and posted here. .
This matter should not have been noticed originally, but because the impact of the previous incident was too great, this post was dug up and it was keenly discovered that some senior executives of Druid Entertainment were also involved in short selling.
They also have their own white gloves, but the analytical skills of the players are not weak. People who are dissatisfied with Druid Entertainment immediately found clues and continued to search for evidence, and finally came to a conclusion: Druid
Entertainment , shorting yourself.
Shorting a stock requires a large-scale negative news as a trigger, so they immediately think of the previous fake acquisition incident and predict that the acquisition may not really succeed, and this thunder will definitely explode today.
Once it explodes, the share price of Druid Entertainment will definitely fall, and the executives who shorted their own stocks will make a huge fortune. In the end, it will be ordinary small investors like them who foot the bill.
After clarifying the cause and effect, the anger of the North American players was finally ignited.
We buy your stocks because of our feelings, do you treat us like pigs?
At this moment, players around the world unexpectedly united.
They secretly joined forces under relevant discussions at the Game Inn, and prepared to continue buying stocks on this day. As long as they insist on pushing the stock price higher, then this time, it will not be the moths on Wall Street who will harvest them, but they will harvest Wall Street. .
This is the revenge of game players, and it is also a protest against capital by players. The crusade against Druid Entertainment has been written. Every player is a warrior at this time, and the money in their pockets is their weapon.
As long as they keep buying shares of Druid Entertainment, victory will surely belong to them.
At this point, the most interesting scene in the history of gaming and even finance was born.
After reading this post, Landick was even more confused.
He returned the phone to Leon, the confusion in his eyes was like a fog, so thick that it couldn't be dispelled.
"That's it? A bunch of rabble, can they really do it?"
Not to mention Landick, Leon himself was also a little confused.
Players are like a ball of loose sand, and they can give up their previous positions as long as there is some benefit.
They don't need to be involved in this kind of thing, not to mention that if there is even a little bit of disharmony in this matter, then they will collapse and be beyond redemption.
The money may be earned by them delivering food, driving a truck, or standing behind the checkout counter.
But for this revenge, they are willing to spend their savings, just to give retribution to major institutions and Druid Entertainment, telling them that leeks can also eat people!
Stock prices are still rising, and institutions are still liquidating their positions. These liquidations happen silently, but they are like fireworks, leading to carnival after carnival.
The posts in the game inn have become a sea of cheers. Players from North America and even the world have participated in this feast. Everyone encourages and supports each other, continues to attack under pressure, and attracts more hot money to participate in this carving up of everything. in the war.
Seeing that the stock price was approaching his liquidation point, Landick immediately called and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Disconnect the network cable! Disconnect the network cable immediately! All stock-related transactions related to Druid Entertainment are suspended! Transactions of large customers are prohibited." Stop, let the big money go first!"
At this moment, Landick finally tore off his previous mask, revealing his unscrupulous face for profit.
Looking at Landick with a distorted face, Leon turned his face away.
So ugly.
However, he also sighed for the players.
At this point of breaking up, the players have already failed.
This kind of dimensionality reduction blow is the most destructive to morale, and the players actually can't hold on for long.
As long as the large institutions represented by Landick are allowed to take a breather, the stocks will plunge again, and their savings may even be cut in half.
And Landick's advice worked.
It’s not just him, there are a huge number of people who have asked exchanges to unplug their network cables. Large institutions don’t care about the so-called spirit of the contract at this time, as long as they can protect themselves.
Druid Entertainment's stock price finally stopped rising at this time, and players unable to trade could only watch it turn from prosperity to decline and begin to slowly decline.
Seeing this scene, Landick finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could recover, the stock price actually started to rise again, and a large amount of buying began again, causing Landick's heart, which had calmed down, to beat crazily again.
He immediately dialed the phone and yelled at the top of his lungs: "Why is it open again? Can't control it? Impossible! Are you collecting money?"
His roar attracted countless people to watch, but he could no longer control himself. He could only roar helplessly.
No matter how he roared, the stock price continued to rise and soon exceeded the 10% mark.
There is no 10% limit on the rise and fall of rice stocks, but even if there were, it would be of no use to Landick.
His white gloves sent the news of liquidation, and his accumulation had disappeared. For a Youtai person, this was something more terrifying than death.
Sitting blankly on the chair, Landick felt as if he were mourning his heir, like an aging squirrel, no longer having any strength.
In Fang Cheng's apartment, Fang Cheng was reading a book and holding a thread in the air.
This thread should have been broken, but he still used magic to connect it, allowing the stock trading that should have been interrupted to resume.
Immortals should not care about such things.
But there are some things that are good to take care of.
Thanks to Mo Yuxiwen for the 100-point reward, thank you.
(End of chapter)