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Chapter 821 Blitz
Liu Jin acted quickly.

A few days later, they found a house in the new district of Lemieux.

It's close to the school, a bit remote, but the surrounding scenery is extremely beautiful and very quiet.

The security situation was good, and the chief of the Lemie police station was Rust, an acquaintance of Liu Jin.

Liu Jin never expected to run into Rust here again.

After all, the two had rarely seen each other since he was transferred to the space city.

He still keeps in touch with Abel and often gets news of Rust from him.

This guy did a pretty good job in the space city, got on the good side of a Toulouse councilor, and with the councilor's help, got the job of police chief of the Lemaire New District.

Upon learning that Liu Jin would be settling in Lemieux, Rust immediately stated that he would increase patrols near Liu Jin's residence.

He has indeed been promoted!
But Liu Jin is no longer the same person he used to be.

Not to mention Rust, even Pierre Cohen, the mayor of Toulouse, would treat Liu Jin with utmost respect.

This is the power of wealth.

Liu Jin then donated 200,000 euros to the Lemie police department.

It's a matter of reciprocity...

If you provide security, I will also donate money to ensure you stay in your position as director.

……

The new house is a castle-like house.

It has four floors, is a stone structure, and is a classical architectural style with a pitched roof.

Meanwhile, the castle also features an 800-square-meter green courtyard, creating an exceptionally elegant environment.

Liu Jin also brought Julie, Adrian, Fanny, Leon, and Augustine along.

Although it doesn't have the spacious beaches of Salerno, the 800-square-meter green space is enough for five large dogs to run around freely.

Eva and the bananas naturally followed.

At the same time, there are also Eva's three furry children.

Eva has given birth to two litters in the past two years, totaling eleven kittens.

However, after being divided up by Mela, AA, and others, Sophie Marceau also took two of them. Now, only three furry children remain by Liu Jin's side.

Most of the time, they stay inside the castle.

Liu Jin lives on the top floor.

The assistant, Leah, and the Jeromes lived downstairs.

There are many houses here, nearly twenty in total. Even if we moved the entire security team here, it wouldn't be a problem.

If it weren't for the cats and dogs at home, Liu Jin would even feel a bit lonely.

The house in the Saint-Étienne neighborhood was given to Verena to live in.

She is also a woman who likes to live alone. After moving in, she spent nearly 100,000 euros to buy a top-of-the-line computer.

She wasn't short of money either; Liu Jin provided her with a credit card from Industrial Bank, enough for Verena to squander.

"Why don't you move in and live with us?"

Leah was a little confused.

Verena laughed and said, "I'm not suited to be by the Boss's side. It's better for the Boss to live here."

Although I really want Verena to move in.

But since she had said that, Leah didn't press the matter further.

After moving, Liu Jin left two cars for Verena.

The Ferrari 599 GTO, the 62 Mustang GTO, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Convertible, and the Mercedes-Benz McLaren have all been delivered to their new homes.

There are more parking spaces here than in the houses in Saint-Étienne.

Liu Jin's garage has six cars parked in total, which is enough for everyone to use.

After settling into his new place, Liu Jin resumed his university life.

I drive to school during the day and go home at night.

Occasionally, he would go to the city center and get together with Abel and others for drinks.

Life was quite leisurely.

……

April is almost over.

Annabelle 1/2 and The Conjuring 2 have been successfully completed.

Liu Jin then sent the manuscript to HarperCollins and stopped following up on it.

However, there was a minor issue with the copyright of The Conjuring 1.

Lionsgate had initially intended to purchase the rights to *The Conjuring*, and Nancy Miller and Lionsgate were nearly finalized. However, Warner Bros. Pictures suddenly jumped in, expressing interest in purchasing the rights to *The Conjuring 1*, and not just *The Conjuring 1*, but all works in the Conjuring universe…

Warner Bros. Pictures has stated its willingness to purchase eight films from The Conjuring universe for $1200 million.

"Amos, what does 'The Conjuring Universe' mean?"

Nancy Miller called.

Liu Jin was also a little confused when he received the call.

The Summoning Universe was one of his ideas.

He hadn't spoken to anyone about the plan except HarperCollins Publishing.

How would Warner know?
He then called Brian Murray, the editor-in-chief of HarperCollins Publishers and also the company's CEO.

Brian admitted that he revealed the information inadvertently at a publishing industry party.

Just know it is!

Liu Jin then contacted Nancy Miller and told her to get back in touch with Lionsgate to see what they were thinking. If they weren't interested in the Conjuring Universe, then Warner Bros. Pictures could adapt it.

"Of course, I would be happy if they could compete with each other."

Nancy Miller immediately understood what Liu Jin meant.

"Can I bring Universal Music into this?"

"It doesn't matter, it's all up to you."

It's not appropriate for him to get involved in this kind of thing.

After all, Universal and Warner Bros. had a good working relationship before.

Let Nancy Miller handle this... Negotiations are a two-way street, and Nancy knows that very well.

Moreover, he has more important things to do.

With May arriving, the American stock market remained calm, seemingly without any problems.

But Liu Jin sensed an unusual atmosphere through newspapers and the internet.

Verena told Liu Jin that she had detected large orders for shorting US stocks on the E-mini market through Dania's monitoring.

Without a doubt, this flash crash in the US stock market was manipulated by some dark force.

Who is the key?

But Liu Jin didn't care about this issue.

There was no news from Blumenthal or George H.W. Bush.

This shows that the mastermind was very well hidden...

Liu Jin wasn't in a hurry; instead, he waited quietly.

On May 6, he sat alone in his computer room, which cost a million euros to build, silently waiting for the US stock market to open.

At 2 p.m. New York time, the previously calm stock market suddenly plummeted.

Liu Jin immediately picked up the phone and called Qiao Anpu, instructing him to begin preparing for the handover.

At 2:32 PM, the market was not only under the dual pressure of large price fluctuations and liquidity shortages, but also faced a large-scale selling plan from a major fundamental trader (mutual fund).

The F-mini market is experiencing a liquidity shortage, and large-scale selling plans have exacerbated market volatility, with high-frequency traders and intermediary traders playing a significant role in the process.

Due to a lack of sufficient buying from fundamental buyers and cross-market arbitrageurs, high-frequency traders engaged in rapid buying and selling, creating the so-called "hot potato" phenomenon, where the same position was bought and sold multiple times in quick succession.

In just five minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 998.5 points.

Starting three minutes later, Liu Jin notified Qiao Anpu about the handover.

Settlement information was transmitted through the E-mini electronic trading platform, while Verena, sitting in her house in the Saint-Étienne district, used her computer to issue commands to Dania, who was in the server room at the Château de Grüssant. Upon receiving the command, Dania activated the code that Verena had left within the bank's system years ago.

One transaction after another was completed rapidly under the operation of the system.

Normally, this kind of settlement is completed under the instructions of the bank's internal system, which has a certain delay.

However, Dania activated the code, which sped up the completion process.

Thousands of settlement orders were confirmed at lightning speed... One transaction after another was completed silently, amidst the crisis of disappearing liquidity in the individual stock market.

Soon, the risk control mechanisms of market participants were activated!

This inherent pause mechanism, designed to prevent automated trading systems from entering trades when market prices exceed preset ranges, thus giving traders and risk managers ample time to fully assess market conditions, has begun to take effect.

Within just thirty-six minutes, the mechanism determined that the risk was too high and activated the 'circuit breaker mechanism+', suspending trading of stocks that had fallen by more than 10% within five minutes. Subsequently, the market quickly rebounded.

Ultimately, most of the lost ground was recovered before the market closed.

Liu Jin, on the other hand, withdrew after the final transaction was completed.

Verena then remotely controlled the system to remove the code that was originally hidden within the bank's system, and then shut down Dania.

She called Liu Jin.

Liu Jin immediately notified the workers who were already waiting outside the server room at the Grysan Estate to dismantle the Dania supercomputer, load it onto a truck, and quickly drive away from the Grysan Estate towards Andorra. That evening, the equipment would be delivered to the server room at the Valley Ranch. Verena would also travel to Andorra overnight to reassemble Dania.

For a long time to come, Dania will no longer use all of its computing power.

Everything appeared to be legitimate and legal.

Besides the bank system code, and Dania's usage...

Even if the Federal Reserve finds out that Liu Jin was involved in this blitzkrieg operation, it will have no way to cause him any trouble.

After all, Liu Jin had the backing of the Blumenthal and George H.W. Bush families, which was enough to allow him to avoid all trouble.

Joanp was unaware of what was going on.

He was simply following Liu Jin's instructions to conduct a normal transaction.

After the transaction was completed, he immediately began to calculate the profits.

However, this will take a long time, given that thousands of trading orders were executed during this operation, and the profits from each transaction varied...

"Amos, I'm retiring early after this deal is completed."

"No problem, let's hand over the relevant business to Zhou Shouzi."

Liu Jin then hung up the phone.

……

By this time, it was getting late.

It's only five o'clock in New York right now, but it's almost midnight in Toulouse.

After leaving the computer room, Liu Jin took the elevator to the first floor.

Jerome hadn't rested yet and was patrolling outside with Augustine.

Upon seeing Liu Jin, he paused for a moment, then greeted him.

"Boss, haven't you rested yet?"

During this period, with the conclusion of "The Conjuring Universe", Liu Jin's daily routine became very regular.

By this time, he would usually be in bed...

"Just came out for some fresh air, hope there's no commotion."

"It's very quiet. The security here feels even better than in the Saint-Étienne neighborhood."

It's definitely better than the Saint-Étienne neighborhood!
That's the city center, a place with a diverse population.

Moreover, in recent years, a large number of immigrants have poured in, especially black and green immigrants, and the security situation seems to be getting worse and worse.

In 01, Liu Jin felt very safe taking a walk in the city hall square late at night.

But now, if he were to walk around there alone after midnight, he would feel uneasy.

The situation in Toulouse is already very good!
Why don't you go to Paris and take a look?

That's the real danger!
The Lemiere New District is mainly composed of Toulouse II.

The residents here are either students, faculty and staff, or mostly middle to upper-level white-collar workers.

Liu Jin's castle is located on the banks of the Garonne River, in an affluent area.

The donation of 200,000 euros was not given for nothing.

On average, police officers drive through here every one and a half hours, which greatly ensures the safety of the area.

Liu Jin sat down on the steps by the door, and Julie and Adrian ran over wagging their tails and lay down on either side of him...

In May, the night breeze in Toulouse is very gentle.

It carried the dampness from the Garonne River, and was slightly intoxicating.

Liu Jin lit a cigarette when the phone suddenly rang.

He glanced at the number; it was America's. Without hesitation, he answered the phone and said in a deep voice, "This is Amos Liu Jin."

"The China Securities Regulatory Commission just issued an announcement defining the stock market fluctuations this afternoon as a 'malicious' attack."

"so what?"

"You weren't involved, were you?"

"of course."

"Then how can you be so sure that this will happen?"

"Michael, didn't you realize that this so-called 'malicious' attack was actually caused by the volatility of the European stock market? The reason for this is that America continued to short the Greek credit crisis and hype up the Italian economic recession... The European stock market has been fluctuating since 1 p.m., and within an hour, it has fallen by more than 3 percent."

I simply sensed in advance that someone was tampering with it.

"This collapse involves 1.3 trillion US dollars."

"Don't worry, we've only taken a tiny, insignificant piece from this piece of fat."

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

A moment later, Blumenthal laughed and said, "Then, we can celebrate ahead of time, can't we?"

"Of course, I think we could open a bottle of champagne."

Laughter came from the other end of the phone.

Besides Blumenthal, there was also the voice of George H.W. Bush.

"Amos, are you interested in joining GHD?"

"What? Mr. Jeb is running for president?"

Blumenthal laughed. "Jeb is excellent, but he still needs to grow."

Jeb Bush is the current governor of Florida.

George W. Bush's brother.

George W. Bush had three brothers, but only Jeb Bush entered politics.

The other two are a banker and an investment advisor.

In the future, he would compete for the GHD nomination in 16, but later withdrew from the race for unknown reasons, and the blond man was elected.

Blumenthal certainly didn't want Liu Jin to support GHD, because he was a Maoist.

Of course, Bush didn't expect Liu Jin to actually join, since Liu Jin was Chinese, not American.

However, he could become Jeb's financial backer... providing Jeb with ample financial support for his future campaigns.

In any case, he and Blumenthal each had their own ulterior motives.

"I still prefer writing."

Moreover, this is a bit risky. If it weren't for your support, I really wouldn't have had the confidence to do it.

For the next period of time, I will continue writing and finish my work at the University of Toulouse II. There will be no further activity for the foreseeable future.

“Very good, that’s what I wanted to tell you when I called.”

Neither Blumenthal nor George H.W. Bush, nor those behind them, would want to see Liu Jin get into trouble.

After all, Liu Jin brought them a rich reward.

After chatting for a while, Liu Jin hung up the phone.

The cigarette in his hand had burned down to the end, so he lit another one, leaned back, propped himself up on his arms, took a deep drag, tilted his head back towards the starry night sky, and exhaled smoke ring after smoke ring…

(End of this chapter)