Remember Will's backup plan?
Someone had hacked into the securities exchange long ago and lain in wait (foreshadowed in Chapter 110). The instant the stock market opened, the accounts under surveillance were hijacked by a hacker with the ID Robin Hood.
Huge quantities of stocks were sold off simultaneously, and a torrent of dollars poured into the thousands of illicit accounts under Tim's name.
While Tim and Barbara used Oracle to wage a tug-of-war against the securities firm's firewall, the Roman's men stationed throughout New Jersey swarmed into banks with cash cases and immediately withdrew the funds in the accounts.
Seeing that it was about time, Qin Wei gave the order to retreat.
His only regret now was that the banks had insufficient cash reserves. Otherwise, if he could empty those illicit accounts, he might end up a hundred times richer than the real Batman.
Of course, they would not leave the remaining money in the accounts to be frozen, either. The hackers gave this enormous sum of nearly a hundred billion dollars to all the struggling households in Gotham whose bank balances were below $100, then erased the transfer records while they were at it.
Of course, the records could always be recovered. All they could hope for now was that these poor people would withdraw or spend the money soon and never give the capitalists a chance to reclaim it.
In just fifteen minutes, Will's side had gained ten billion dollars out of thin air. That rate of earning money was even more outrageous than being handed a money printer to print it themselves.
But where some laughed, others cried. Dr. Reed could not even cry. With a hand clamped around his throat, his eyes had already rolled back, and his nails kept clawing at the back of