What?!
When the Elite Students heard the news, they were completely stunned. One piece of news had followed another, leaving them no time to catch their breath or even think.
This was Xia Ping's scheme!
If he gave these people time to think, someone might notice something fishy. But he had planned things step by step, dropping the news all at once and leaving them no chance to think.
Xia Ping remembered that when he was still on Earth, Japan's nuclear facilities had exploded. At the time, plenty of rumors had spread along the coast, claiming that nuclear contamination had drifted ashore with the seawater and would pollute the entire salt fields.
That would cause salt prices to skyrocket! The whole country might even end up short on salt!
As a result, that one rumor drove everyone crazy. People rushed to the supermarkets and cleared out all the salt on the shelves. Some even bought enough salt to last for years.
When others saw so many people panicking, they joined the buying frenzy too.
It was worth noting that these people were all reasonably intelligent. Some were even university professors.
But the rumor had spread so quickly that countless people rushed out to buy salt, losing their reason and having no time to consider whether it was true.
One person after another headed to the supermarkets, and their herd mentality sparked a buying frenzy.
An individual could be clever, but a crowd was foolish. That showed just how powerful a rumor could be.
Whoosh!
Xia Ping immediately appeared at the management office of the Training Tower.
By then, quite a few Elite Students had also received the news and hurried over. When they saw that Xia Ping really was there, their eyes turned green with fury.
"Xia Ping!"
An Elite