Chapter 609: Chapter 609
In this world, there are tens of thousands, millions of islands, some of which have never even been discovered by humans. They are like pearls abandoned in the dark, emitting a brilliance that strives to outshine the world of daylight.
They, therefore, call these islands Dark Islands. And those people, who occupy the Dark Islands but do not intend to make them public, refer to themselves as Black Hats. You can think of them as the dark magicians of the Western world.
Performing magic tricks is a way they are very skilled at and enjoy challenging the world. The only difference is that the venue for their tricks is not the stage under everyone’s watchful eyes but the financial markets, equally in full view of the public.
In the history of finance, every financial storm has been inseparable from the philosophy of the Black Hats. Perhaps those who triggered financial waves and crises had nothing to do with the Black Hats or had direct connections. Yet positive financiers could not deny the profound absoluteness of the Black Hats’ financial philosophy.
Capital is profit-seeking, human nature is selfish and greedy. These profit-seeking, greedy, and selfish capitals are referred to by the Black Hats as black volume funds.
The most terrifying aspect of the black volume funds is that they are omnipresent. Moreover, everyone has the secret of black volume funds, like a private treasure, buried deep within their hearts. Then, in a life-and-death situation, they would rather stand by idly as long as it’s not their own business.
Idle funds are equivalent to a part of the black volume funds, which has been confirmed in the research of positive financiers as well, as these funds are also one of the most important factors that aggravated the financial storm.
If everyone didn’t think about saving themselves in the eye of the storm first, maybe the outcome wouldn’t be as severe as everyone thinks.
There is no helping it, that’s just the way people are—labeled as selfish and greedy, yet it is also a latent biological instinct in the pursuit of survival.
All these were taught to Xiao Yebai and Zhang Sanfeng by the Black Hats.
The objective of the Black Hats is simple: to assimilate individuals like Xiao Yebai and Zhang Sanfeng into their kind.
So why do the Black Hats seek out people like Xiao Yebai and Zhang Sanfeng? Of course, the Black Hats don’t just recruit anyone; with so many people in the world, there are those who excel and those who are mediocre. The gap between the two is vast, and in fact, it’s very simple to distinguish. Official source ıs 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝓷𝓮𝓽
The environment one grows up in could alter a person’s social capabilities to some extent, but genius, something that must come from the predecessors.
Therefore, for some like Xiao Yebai and Zhang Sanfeng, born into outstanding entrepreneurial families, descendants of the world’s very famous business dynasties, it was a matter of course to become targets for the Black Hats.
The children of the wealthy are always prone to kidnapping by wrongdoers; most people only think the wrongdoers are after large ransoms. That’s why kidnappers who don’t ask for any ransom and make no contact with the hostages’ families have unclear motives. The difficulty in solving cases involving such kidnappers can be imagined by just about anyone.
Xiao Yebai was kidnapped three times in his life; actually, Zang Xiaolian did not explain this clearly to Gu Nuan. Except for the first time when Xiao Yebai was kidnapped for nearly two months, the kidnappers did not succeed in the subsequent two attempts.
Yebai’s first kidnapping was when he was nine years old.
At that time, several other children around the world were also kidnapped. However, spread across different parts of the world and considering the safety of the hostages, such news, for wealthy families, is often kept secret, especially before the investigation is clear.