As the New York Police launched their investigation, the plane carrying Jack and his two companions landed in the Cayman Islands. After checking into a relatively cheap hotel, the three of them went straight to an agency company, rented an office there, and registered an investment firm called Ghost Investment Company!
Jack greatly admired Ghost. Even now, he had no idea who Ghost was, but the technology was undeniably impressive. Ghost could infiltrate banking systems and transportation systems. What should have been a nerve-racking operation had instead been incredibly calm, and they had not encountered the slightest problem.
What Jack did not know was that Mo Fei had been extremely worried as well. He had not relaxed until they boarded the plane, and for one reason only: someone named Tony Stark existed in this world, along with a guy from World War II who wore a skintight suit and carried a shield.
Of course, Mo Fei had not only kept an eye on Tony Stark. He had also looked up information on another famous Marvel figure, Captain America. However, Captain America's deeds had now been turned into comic books, and he even had his own exhibition hall in the World War II Memorial Museum!
As for the other superheroes, Bruce Banner was currently teaching at a university while conducting his research. The guy had not turned green yet, which was the best possible news for Mo Fei.
Nor had S.H.I.E.L.D. unexpectedly barged in or crossed paths with him. Once Mo Fei had relaxed, he began preparing to launder money through the financial markets. However, he still needed to learn about that field. It would only take a few minutes, so he returned to Tony Stark's mansion and had Jarvis help him study.
"Jarvis, I need to learn financial knowledge related to stocks, futures, currencies, and so on, starting from the basics!" Mo Fei said as soon as he saw the square-shaped Jarvis.
"Certainly, my 'friend.' Is that the right way to say it?" Jarvis seemed particularly concerned with the word "friend."
"Yes, that word works very well here, Jarvis!" Mo Fei agreed. "Get things ready first. I'll go see what Mr. Tony Stark is doing." Mo Fei was very interested in the technology Tony Stark possessed and hoped to learn it himself. However, knowledge was always dead; only human thought was alive. Tony Stark's true brilliance lay in his unconstrained way of thinking.
To Mo Fei, the surveillance system here was like his own backyard. Every camera feed appeared before his eyes. He did not see Tony Stark's assistant, Thomas. Instead, he saw Tony Stark holding a woman, pinning her down on the living room sofa and making out with her. Stark's butt was already exposed to the air, and the woman was even smacking it with her hand, giving Mo Fei a full view!
"Ugh, that's hard on the eyes!" Mo Fei covered his face just as Jarvis arrived beside him.
"Hard on the eyes?" Jarvis did not understand.
"Yes, hard on the eyes!" Mo Fei repeated, then shut off the feed. "Jarvis, are you ready?"
"Of course, my 'friend.' Please receive it!" Jarvis transmitted a massive amount of data. Mo Fei stored it in his storage area and began learning it. Jarvis had already organized the material into a progression from beginner to advanced, and Mo Fei read incredibly quickly. Still, he had no intention of personally using this knowledge for financial investments. After all, plenty of people learned this stuff, but how many actually succeeded?
"Thank you, my friend. I'm off to work. Once I'm done, I'll be staying here regularly!" After finishing his studies, Mo Fei immediately bid Jarvis farewell.
"Certainly. This place will always welcome the arrival of a 'friend'!" After Jarvis spoke, Mo Fei left directly. Jarvis activated the surveillance feed and watched Tony Stark continuously moving his body. "So this is what 'hard on the eyes' means? I still don't know what it means, but I've learned another new word!"
After leaving, Mo Fei headed to the Telecommunications Company. What he intended to do was very simple: listen in on Wall Street. Where did the financial markets have the most information? Naturally, Wall Street. What he needed was not ordinary trading information, but insider trading intelligence. Mo Fei believed that no matter where it was, people in finance would always have insider information circulating around, especially at those major Wall Street investment companies.
He was tapping landlines. After all, most people in the stock trading halls used landlines to communicate, especially when speaking with clients, since calls needed to be recorded to prove that certain actions had been the clients' own decisions. Mobile phones, meanwhile, were unreliable. Sometimes the sound was unclear because of the surroundings or signal issues, and their recording functions were limited as well. That was why landlines were the common communication tool here.
Inside the Telecommunications Company's switchboard, Mo Fei sorted out all of Wall Street's landline numbers before beginning the surveillance. Vast amounts of conversation turned into information and entered the data storage area, where they were processed.
This round of data processing ran into a problem. The most common topics here were buying and selling, and there were simply too many buy and sell orders. Mo Fei could only filter those out. Much of what remained involved stocks, futures, and currencies, so Mo Fei set the keywords "information" and "insider."
However, Mo Fei discovered that people here loved using those two words. They brought them up whether there was a reason to or not, leaving him with an enormous amount of information even after processing. The phones here rang nonstop. Each piece of information might not have contained much, but the sheer volume was staggering, and his data processing became extremely slow.
"No, the keywords still aren't enough. I need to make them more specific!" Mo Fei had no choice but to reconsider and add more keywords. In the United States, whose information was the most well-connected?
Members of Congress. Those people were generally very well informed, especially legislators from America's two major parties. They certainly had plenty of information. Then there were the senior executives of major banks and the owners of large investment firms.
That thought made him think of someone he should have sought out long ago: George Soros.
Whether this world would see the Asian Financial Crisis this year hinged on that man. Whether he even existed was still unknown, so Mo Fei wanted to find him now. Opportunities were reserved for those who came prepared.
Mo Fei added new keywords: "legislator," "Morgan," "Rockefeller," and so on—surnames belonging to senior bank executives, top executives of the ten major financial conglomerates, and similar figures. With that, the amount of information instantly dropped by more than half.
Useful intelligence would not necessarily appear immediately, however. Mo Fei continued gathering information while beginning his search for George Soros, to see whether the man truly existed.
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