Jake lowered his voice and said, “Mr. Laine, the rumors were not in our favor. If anything goes wrong, we’ll have to pay at least 1 billion US Dollars in deposit for this heavy stock which costs 2.5 billion.”
“Are you afraid?” Jasper laughed.
Jake forced a smile and spoke honestly, “I’m kind of nervous.”
“Don’t worry.”
Jasper who just walked into his office looked up at the clock hanging on the wall, and said, “3 hours till the market opens, and we’ll see who the winner is.”
The trading hours of US market stock opens from 9:30 AM. until 4 PM. every trading day without closing in between. However, that incident occurred at 8:40 AM, so it would happen in less than 2 hours.
It was already nighttime in Summerland.
Jasper asked his men to get him a television equipped with a satellite receiver in this office. He would be able to watch the US live broadcast in this place.
After adjusting the channel, Jasper threw a bottle of drink to Henry, sat down, and said, “Let’s wait for it.”
Henry could not hold back, and asked, “You’re still watching the news? Is there any breaking news today? One that can influence the stock market?”
Jasper stared at the news anchor who was live broadcasting, and replied calmly “Yes, there must be.”
Henry suppressed the impulse to ask for more answers and waited patiently.
“Things have come this far, just relax and wait.”
***
Far away in Harbor City, inside the chairman’s office of Law’s Corporation, Zachary spoke blandly to his assistant who was looking worried.
“But Mr. Law, a few shareholders disapprove that you’re releasing funds for Jasper.”
“Yesterday, the Dow Jones Index closed at 11650 points, if it climbs up to 11660 points and above, there’s a risk that Jasper’s stocks will be fully liquidated, it’ll be a big threat to our capital.”
Zachary looked up at him straight in the face when he heard his assistant.
“Are you Mr. Law or am I?”
One word from Zachary and the assistant was terrified, he lowered his head immediately, and said, “I’m sorry Mr. Law, I shouldn’t question your decision.”
Zachary replied with his face slightly darkened, “The Law’s Corporation belongs to the Law family, the shares that those shareholders were holding were not even 10% of it, if they have any opinions, ask them to talk to me. I’ve released 7 billion of capital, who’s objecting? Who’s eligible to object?”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Law.”
“Leave and do your work.”
“Yes, sir…”
In Harbor City, the thick and fragrant smelling cigar smoke was curling up, Fabian was laughing out loud with Morrison. “Mr. Morrison, my father, and your father, Mr. Robin were good friends for such a long time. I had dinners with Mr. Robin a few times, but I’d never thought that I’d hit it off quite well with you instead of him.”
Mr. Morrison fiddled with the cigar in his hands and smiled. “By having the same goals, we talked about the same topics. Wall Street believes in teamwork, I think Mr. Atticus and I will become good partners.”
Fabian patted Morrison’s shoulder heavily and laughed. “3 more hours till the market opens, we’ve already spread the rumors that we’ll trample Jasper to death once the market opens today. But no one knows that we had already put our funds into it, once the market opens, Jasper will be dead!”
“2.5 billion US Dollars, what a huge amount. The higher the amount, the faster Jasper will be dead. Once it opens, I wonder about Jasper’s remarkable facial expression when he comes to realize everything has been arranged last night.” Morrison was delighted.
“Too bad Mr. Welch is far away in Sunrise, he’s unable to celebrate with us.” Fabian smiled.
Morrison shrugged his shoulders and said, “Perhaps he’s waiting for the stock market to open too.”
Countless people, organization and capital, were waiting silently. The moment when the stock market index opened, it would be a moment of the earth cracking and heaven falling.
A big war was about to erupt!
