Shen He's Insight, the Yu Scam!
"Gasp! They're even willing to stay behind as guarantors. This time, it must be real!"
Seeing Tang San and Great Master Yu make such guarantees, everyone began to waver. Only Shen He noticed something amiss.
First of all, the original story had never mentioned any God of Wealth. Besides, ascending from Douluo Continent was no simple matter. It involved the ocean—wouldn't the Sea God's followers do anything about it?
Or was this God of Wealth actually the Sea God?
Wasn't that ridiculous? They could even find ancient texts passed down from tens of thousands of years ago?
Shen He had originally been somewhat uncertain, but after Great Master Yu brought up the idea of salvaging things in installments, he immediately realized what was going on. Wasn't this obviously a Ponzi scheme?
It couldn't exactly be called fake. Things salvaged from the ocean could indeed be sold for a good price. There were plenty of treasures from sunken ships over the years, so Great Master Yu could genuinely keep the operation running. But one had to understand that Ponzi schemes never collapsed in their early stages.
What about later on? By cheating and deceiving people all the way, as long as some people profited in the early stages, more and more would believe in it. Once the number of investors grew and the flow of funds reached a point Great Master Yu could no longer control, that would be when this so-called Ancient God Treasure Plan collapsed.
Moreover, Great Master Yu had clearly prepared to delay matters and flee. With one-and-a-half times the returns and a one-month term, these installments would be enough to keep him deceiving people for a long time. Given those returns, it wasn't impossible to keep the operation going for more