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Chapter 187 This axe hit the aorta of Wall Street!

“Did you dig up an undersea optical cable?”

Looking at the real-time information sent back by Tie Erleng, Chen Jue showed a playful smile on his face.

You know, after he cast a wide net on the Internet forum to recruit Afu, two mining machine brokers from Huaqiangbei, he began to prepare for the subsequent mining of virtual currency.

Before setting off for Shanghai to attend the food fair, Chen Jue arranged for Afu and the other man to join the technical department of Cube Technology, responsible for the subsequent procurement of mining machines and the maintenance of the mining factory line layout.

In addition, he also dispatched a two-man iron golem team, starting from the underground experimental base of the Rui County Rubik's Cube Factory, and digging in the direction of 2 degrees north-east.

The target of the excavation is the Pacific Ocean east of Chiba Prefecture.

The reason why he dug in this direction was because Chen Jue learned about it from information he found in a forum on obscure knowledge where many great people gathered.

In 2014, the United States and the Japanese, led by six international giants represented by Google, laid a nearly 6-kilometer submarine optical cable system between Chiba Prefecture and Oregon on the west coast of the United States.

This submarine cable system is called the 'US-Japan Submarine Cable System' and is designed to have a transmission rate 1000 million times faster than traditional cable modems, with a bandwidth rate of up to 60Tbps.

What does 60Tbps mean?
That is, with an internet speed that can transfer 60TB of files per second, it only takes 130 seconds to download a 0.12GB version of "Black Myth: Wukong".

To this end, Google and other companies have invested more than $10 billion in the project, and dispatched underwater robots and professional engineering ships every year to perform regular maintenance on the submarine optical cable.

Of course, for such a large international project, there are almost no secrets when it comes to the burial route.

As soon as the project started, the longitude and latitude coordinates of the buried optical cables were spread everywhere in various forums on the Internet by experts.

Chen Jue then took the coordinates obtained from the Internet and asked the Iron Golem to dig more than 2000 kilometers.

They opened up an underground tunnel between Rui County and the Pacific Ocean east of Chiba Prefecture, and also found this submarine optical cable.

In addition, in order to facilitate the transmission of messages in the underground tunnel, Chen Jue also asked the newly recruited network engineers in the group to design and manufacture a set of WiFi transceivers suitable for ultra-long-distance transmission.

In response to this simple request from their boss, those network engineers who earned tens of thousands of yuan a month naturally came up with a plan overnight.

The shape of this device is somewhat similar to the satellite dish used to send and receive wireless television signals in rural areas in the past. It was originally created by a foreign YouTube star.

After debugging it several times within the group, Chen Jue was completely dumbfounded!
As long as two WiFi dishes are set up high enough and avoid obstructions such as tall buildings, the maximum effective transmission distance on the surface can reach an astonishing 30 kilometers.

In addition, the tunnels dug by the iron golems are straight in a regular pattern, effectively avoiding the curvature of the earth's surface.

Only less than 300 such Wi-Fi pot devices were installed, which perfectly covered the communication problems of several underground tunnels dug by Chen Jue.

To this end, Chen Jue specially sent an iron golem into the group and infiltrated the network department, and unlocked a new [Network Hardware Engineer] professional skin in the skin library at the cost of 100 million krypton gold.

The iron golem who is currently at the bottom of the western Pacific Ocean, holding up a mobile phone and broadcasting live the operation of the US-Japan submarine optical cable, is none other than Iron Seventeen, who is familiar with computer hardware.

"Boss! How do we operate this submarine optical cable?"

"Should we cut off the whole root, or graft a branch out?" Tie Shiqi asked in the video, holding an [Iron Axe] in his hand.

Next to it, there is a thick optical cable wrapped in black insulating material.

As for the location of Tie Shiqi, it is on the seabed more than 4000 meters deep at the bottom of the western Pacific Ocean.

The reason why it can avoid such terrifying and amazing water pressure and not be harmed is not only because of the MC iron golem's inherent "sinking to the bottom of the water" feature, but also because of the MC block's closed rule system. By digging and padding at the same time, the [raw stone] block was used to capture the small section of submarine optical cable above its head into the underground tunnel to facilitate subsequent construction.

Once the optical cable company comes to pull up the optical cable for inspection, all you need to do after they're done is knock down the blocks wrapped around it and restore it to its original state.

"Can we cut off a part first, split it quickly and then repair it in the shortest time possible?" Chen Jue asked curiously when he saw this.

Tie Shiqi saluted the camera and said, "No problem!"

Then I saw it holding up the [Iron Axe] and chopping at the optical cable beside it.

The familiar sound of rubbing blocks was heard, and dense white spider web patterns began to emerge on the submarine optical cable.

With a "biu~" sound, a 1-meter-long optical cable was chopped into pieces.

Then Tie Shiqi used his own fiber optic splitter to start network splitting from this cutoff point.

Seeing this scene, Chen Jue's mouth was wide with smile, and his heart was beating wildly. "Wuhu~Exciting!"

"This internet is stolen, but it feels more exciting than climbing over the wall to sneak into a black internet cafe to play games when I was in school!" Chen Jue rubbed his hands and became a little excited.

This fiber splitting operation is a preparation for avoiding IP address tracking after the mining factory goes online.

In addition, after capturing this US-Japan submarine optical cable, Chen Jue will have a suitable entry point if he wants to use the periphery on a large scale to do something big in the future.

However, just when Chen Jue was commanding Tie Shiqi to steal the internet of the century at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean without anyone noticing.

Far away in the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Chuo-ku district of Tokyo, the Japanese capital, several cries of "Ah?", "Huh?" and "My feet are numb!" were heard at this moment.

“Why is the index not moving?”

"Nasdaq, Dow Jones, S&P 500 are all down!"

"No! The network server has lost the signal!"

"Baga! What is the network team doing? Why don't they fix such a serious fault problem quickly?"

The trading hall exploded instantly.

Because it was about 10 o'clock at night in the Eastern Time Zone, and it was also the busiest period of market trading after the U.S. stock market opened in the morning.

There are many Japanese big speculators who come to the Tokyo Stock Exchange as night owls and stay up late to trade US stocks, US futures and foreign exchange.

The sudden physical network outage caused the real-time scrolling index boards in the hall to shut down.

It also caused a break in the data transmission between the Tokyo Metropolitan Securities Exchange and New York and Wall Street, and many of the Japanese local securities and futures trading software instantly entered a vicious loop.

As a result, many Japanese speculators became furious and wanted to kill the staff who maintained the server with knives.

After all, the U.S. stock market implements the T+0 operating rules. Unlike the domestic A-shares, after buying, you can only wait until the next day of T+1 to sell. As long as the market is open, you can buy, sell and settle at any time.

In an era when quantitative trading is prevalent, just a few seconds are enough to make a speculator's account with ultra-high leverage explode in profits or go bankrupt.

The Internet outage means interrupting the operations of a lot of speculators, and it makes many people sweat coldly!
After the signing of the Plaza Accord in 1985, the Japanese yen implemented a long-term appreciation strategy against the US dollar, which caused domestic interest rates to remain low for nearly 30 years.

Even in the past period of time, the deposit interest rate of the Japanese yen has even been negative or zero.

It is equivalent to depositing your money in a Japanese bank. Not only can you not earn any interest, but you also have to pay the bank a sum of money in return. This is unimaginable in China, which is experiencing rapid development.

Of course, it is precisely because of the ultra-low interest rate policy for Japanese yen savings that major international capital speculators have flocked to it, using the Japanese yen as a springboard for repetitive quantitative arbitrage investments.

To give a simple and easy-to-understand analogy, after the American stock god Buffett borrowed 100 yen from a Japanese bank and exchanged it for 0.65 U.S. dollars which flowed into the U.S. stock market, he could magnify this 0.65 U.S. dollars by hundreds or even thousands of times through Wall Street's various financial derivatives and then trade stocks!

Once the purchased stocks start to make a profit, the profits generated can easily cover the ultra-low interest costs incurred by borrowing 100 yen.

However, such arbitrage operations must be carried out through quantitative trading auxiliary software, which allows high-frequency buying and selling of U.S. stocks in seconds under the T+0 rules.

A sudden Internet outage like the one tonight is equivalent to suddenly unplugging the Internet cables for countless international speculators gathered in the Japanese capital market.

Under the influence of high leverage, the risk amplification, you can imagine how terrible the result will be.

……

Sure enough, after a few minutes of torment comparable to a black swan event, the Tokyo Stock Exchange's backup network began to go online urgently, and more than 100 million quantitative trading accounts were collectively liquidated.

On the other side of the ocean, the U.S. stock market was also affected by this wave of margin calls.

Duang~ The U.S. market plummeted by 2%. Many U.S. stock indexes such as NASDAQ, Dow Jones, S&P 500, etc. all plunged from high levels within just a few minutes, and more than $1.1 trillion evaporated in the city.

At this moment, countless financial media around the world exclaimed: "OMG!"

“Financial crisis!”

"The US stock market crash is coming!"

(End of this chapter)