Chapter 588 - 564: No Surprises
The first thing Ben noticed wasn’t the nuclear bomb or the drones, but the sudden, frenzied influx of massive speculative funds.
The Asian financial crisis didn’t actually deal a severe blow to Ben’s financial market. Wall Street’s financial predators mainly reaped Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea. Ben suffered minimal losses during that financial crisis, far from reaching the level of structural damage.
But this time is different.
Wall Street’s main targets were financial markets, where market turbulence caused social crises. This time, however, it was reversed—Gao Yi and his team planned to execute an unprecedented attack to plunge Ben into chaos, which would then ripple back to impact the financial market.
But Ben was unaware of this. They were cautious and closely monitoring the speculative funds, but they absolutely couldn’t figure out the reason behind their frenzied influx in the short term.
Thus, Ben could only remain on high alert to guard against a sudden move from Wall Street.
It fell in line with the United States’ habits to harvest a wave every twenty years; the timing was just about right.
Ben was defending against the United States, so they wouldn’t suddenly decide to bolster their air defense systems on Mount Fuji.
Gao Yi really wanted to check how Xinfeng’s work was progressing, but he couldn’t go because he was fully exposed to San You Trading Company’s surveillance. This meant the Defense Ministry was also keeping a close eye on him. As a result, he minimized going out or moving around to avoid jeopardizing Xinfeng’s operations.
But things were different for Feng Biao and Li Jie.