Chapter 593: Economic Crisis?

Performing in a skirt in the ice and snow was a test of acting skills, and also a test of physical fitness.

If one was physically weak, they would be so cold that they couldn't even speak, and their whole body couldn't help but tremble, making it impossible to perform.

Fortunately, Miss Luo Quan's body was much stronger than ordinary girls. Although she still felt cold after taking off her outer clothes, she could still control her body. Moreover, she had stuck quite a few warm babies on her body.

It was precisely in this environment that everyone could see how fair Miss Luo Quan's skin was.

The snowflakes in the sky were falling one after another. The six-part ice crystals fell on her collarbone. If you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't tell the difference, which meant Miss Luo Quan's skin was as white as ice and snow.

Angela lowered her head, pulled her sleeve open, and looked at her own.

Because she often went to the seaside for sunbathing, Angela was the wheat color very common in Europe and America.

In the past, her skin was actually quite white, but everyone around said wheat color was healthy and good-looking, so she deliberately adjusted in this direction.

However, seeing her sister, she immediately regretted it.

Wasn't this flawless white skin good-looking? If you wanted to talk about health, a body that wore only a skirt in the ice and snow and didn't even tremble—wasn't that healthier than her?

It seemed this sunbathing couldn't be done! Angela thought so in her heart, and at the same time, she made up her mind to find a beauty salon and whiten her skin back.

On Miss Luo Quan's side, filming had already started.

The actors playing the villain prince and the male lead this time were all gold-medal supporting actors Miss Luo Quan invited from Hollywood. Their acting skills were impeccable, and their scenes with Miss Luo Quan were very smooth, almost all in one take.

There weren't many scenes that needed to be filmed in the snow in reality. It was expected to be finished in five days. As for other snow scenes, such as ice and snow palaces, they would have to rely on computer special effects.

Miss Luo Quan, who had filmed more than a dozen shots in a row, felt a bit of fatigue and waved her hand to signal everyone to rest for a while.

Then two female assistants from the crew immediately ran over carrying a goose-down cloak that was taller than a person, wrapped Miss Luo Quan tightly in it, and handed her a cup of hot milk.

With the hot liquid in her stomach, the condition of Miss Luo Quan, who was originally a bit cold, suddenly improved a lot.

Ultimately, her constitution was still a bit worse. If it were Yun Jina, it was estimated that drinking a cup of vodka would be enough; there was no need to wear so many clothes.

According to her, she used to go winter swimming often, and the uncles around the farm were about as powerful, soaking directly in ice water and drinking vodka.

It could only be said that people's constitutions couldn't be generalized. If she soaked in ice water in freezing weather, it was estimated that no matter what she drank, she would soon be "cool."

After resting for a while, Miss Luo Quan started working again.

Heaven helped. The snow didn't fall for long before it stopped. The sun poked its head out from the thick clouds and sprinkled warm golden light. Miss Luo Quan suddenly felt much more comfortable.

Filming lasted from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM. Lunch was the self-heating fast food brought this time, which was Chinese food that had been Westernized, such as General Tso's chicken and Mapo tofu.

In Miss Luo Quan's view, these were dishes with only a few dried chilies, but they made a group of girls drink water, which Miss Luo Quan found very funny.

If this was called spicy, then what was the hot pot in Yuzhou?

But thinking of this, she actually had a wonderful trick for cold protection.

In the past in Yuzhou, whenever winter came, people would go to eat hot pot, often eating until they were sweating profusely. This kind of food full of chili was quite excellent in resisting the cold. How could she have forgotten this?

Thinking and doing, Miss Luo Quan took out her phone and directly ordered a large batch of self-heating hot pots online, all of which were half meat and half vegetable.

As for the spiciness, did hot pot have a degree of spiciness?

Mild, medium, extra spicy—Miss Luo Quan felt they were all the same; they could all make people stick out their tongues.

"Hehe, you will have a treat tomorrow." After placing the order, Miss Luo Quan turned her head and smiled at her sister and brother.

"What treat? Are you going to cook for us yourself, Sis?" Yu Miss Luo Quan got spirit when he heard this. He hadn't eaten his sister's cooking much, but he always felt he couldn't eat enough.

Miss Luo Quan shook her head: "I would like to cook myself, but there are no conditions here. I bought some Chinese self-heating fast food. The dish is a specialty of Yuzhou—hot pot."

"HuoGuo?" Angela heard this dish for the first time.

Miss Luo Quan explained: "Translated, it's called Hot Pot, but I prefer to call it 'Burning Pot'; that would be more appropriate."

Angela guessed what kind of food it was just by hearing the name: "So it must be very hot."

"Not only hot, but also very spicy." Miss Luo Quan flipped the hot pot photo on her phone to show the two of them. On the red pot, it was densely packed with chilies, looking scary.

"Haha, I like spicy food the most. When it arrives tomorrow, I must have a portion." Yu Miss Luo Quan rubbed his hands excitedly and sucked in saliva.

"This is not the same concept as the chili powder that KFC and McDonald's send you. If you eat this and your stomach is not good, you will have diarrhea." Miss Luo Quan felt it was necessary to introduce it to them before eating.

Putting so many chilies in hot pot definitely wasn't for the bright color. Spicy was really spicy. Even if Yuzhou people ate it often, their stomachs wouldn't be able to stand it.

It was just that she didn't know if Yu Miss Luo Quan could hold it.

However, it was said that Mexicans were quite good at eating spicy food, and that place also produced chilies with very high spiciness, such as the ghost pepper.

The US was so close to Mexico, logically speaking, they shouldn't be much worse in eating spicy food.

"Rest assured, haven't I eaten chili? My stomach has just been checked, and it's fine." Yu Miss Luo Quan patted his chest, indicating that there was no problem at all.

And Angela was a bit hesitant. She didn't eat spicy food much usually. Hearing her sister say this hot pot was so powerful, she estimated she couldn't hold it.

Fortunately, Miss Luo Quan indicated that she also bought some clear soup hot pots this time. Although the taste definitely wasn't as stimulating as the red soup, it could be considered fresh and delicious. Angela was relieved.

After lunch, Miss Luo Quan reminded the crew to collect the garbage and put it all in the plastic bags prepared by Peng Lin.

The environment here was beautiful. If it were destroyed because of these non-degradable plastic wastes, that would be too sinful.

Although she hadn't made any contribution to global warming, she definitely had to protect the environment within her power.

In the blink of an eye, time came to 3:30 PM.

Although it was still early, for the sake of insurance, Miss Luo Quan counted the personnel and headed home.

Winter was not as good as summer; the climate was not easy to grasp. If you could go back early, you should go back early.

For the crew's employees, compared to the movies they had filmed before, it was much easier to go out to film with Miss Luo Quan this time.

Work started at 10:00 AM and ended at 3:30 PM. The food was quite good, but there was no lunch break, and the wages were slightly less.

But compared to previous crews, the wages given by the *Frozen* crew were definitely not small.

As expected of Hollywood's conscience, the treatment Miss Luo Quan gave was so generous that it was almost at the top of the pyramid in the industry.

No wonder every movie she filmed exploded. It could only be said that she deserved to make a fortune!

On the way back to the hotel, Miss Luo Quan saw that the pedestrians on the street were slightly different from when she came here.

When she came, some of these people on the street were ambitious, longing to get rich overnight, but also afraid of losing everything.

Some were glowing, their mouths were about to crack with laughter; they had clearly won money.

And some had decayed complexions, looking like they were mourning; they must have lost a lot of money.

But today, she saw that the pedestrians on the street were either on the phone or looking at their phones, and everyone's complexion wasn't very good.

In the gambling city, there were winners and losers. It was almost impossible for everyone to lose money. The situation in front of her would only happen because of some other things.

Miss Luo Quan opened her Twitter and soon found the answer.

The entry "US Stock Market Circuit Breaker" topped the regional search trend list, with as many as 600,000 tweets!

"Circuit breaker" was a specialized term in the stock market, describing the stock market continuing to plummet and automatically triggering an insurance mechanism after exceeding a pre-set red line.

From the moment the circuit breaker appeared, all trading behaviors in the stock market today would be suspended, forcing everyone to stop operating until the market opened again tomorrow.

Once a circuit breaker appeared, it meant that the stock market index was plummeting in all directions, and the omen was very dangerous.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the US stock market had never had a circuit breaker.

And after the circuit breaker occurred in the 2008 stock market, it didn't take long for the economic crisis to happen.

Miss Luo Quan remembered that the last global financial crisis was caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, which was the collapse of the balance between real estate developers—banks—loan home buyers, which finally triggered a financial disaster that swept the world.

Miss Luo Quan didn't know what the final impact was because she was too young at the time and didn't feel much about such changes.

However, she knew that although the US was the source of the crisis and the economy had suffered a huge blow, it was Europe that suffered, and the US itself slowly recovered from the crisis.

And China withstood this crisis at that time and also repelled a large group of American financial crocodiles who attempted to fish in troubled waters here.

Ten years later, the US stock market had a circuit breaker again. The signal released could be said to be quite dangerous. If it wasn't handled well, it would be a precursor to another financial crisis.

During the 2008 financial crisis, people jumped off buildings to commit suicide every day in the high-rise buildings on Wall Street. If it came again this time, it was estimated that the situation wouldn't be much better than last time.

Now the Twitter discussion about this matter had exploded. After watching for a while, Miss Luo Quan roughly understood what happened.

It was that the US national debt was about to expire, but the US, which had had fiscal deficits for many years, was unable to repay it at all and could only continue to print money and let foreign countries buy US national debt to "dismantle the east wall to fill the west wall."

However, this morning, Russia and Saudi Arabia reached some agreements on oil sales, which in the eyes of the financial street, was a major threat to the US dollar.

As everyone knew, the value of the US dollar was linked to the price of oil. The more expensive the oil, the more valuable the US dollar.

The reason why this happened was because the US had controlled the Middle East, the world's largest oil-producing area, through many wars.

And now if the price of oil started to fall, the value of the US dollar would also fall, and the US national debt in the hands of other countries would also depreciate.

Under a series of chain reactions, the US stock market collapsed, plummeting by 7% overall. It triggered the circuit breaker mechanism in less than five hours after the market opened, evaporating trillions of US dollars.

Now everyone had been forcibly stopped by the circuit breaker mechanism, but the pessimistic sentiment in the market had already formed. Unless the White House sent police to notify everyone door-to-door not to be too pessimistic, otherwise, it was estimated that the circuit breaker would happen again at this time tomorrow.

The situation of the stock market now was a bit like the Japanese stock market two years ago—the same circuit breaker, the same pessimism, but the reasons were not the same.

Japan was because of natural disasters. Three consecutive earthquakes and the rumor of an unprecedented 9.5-magnitude earthquake made the whole society desperate. At that time, *Japan Sinks* even became something that many people thought was very likely to happen online.

In such a situation, the stock market crash wasn't actually surprising.

And later, Miss Luo Quan's "Don't Give Up" directly turned the tide and made everyone regain confidence. The day after the song was released, it forcibly made a straight line that was sliding rapidly lift its head and rise. She was simply a creator of miracles.

This was also the reason why the Japanese public regarded her as a goddess.

And for the US, the situation was much more complicated.

On one hand, the national debt was due; on the other hand, they were printing money desperately; on one hand, the price of oil was falling; on the other hand, the economy was sluggish.

Under the action of multiple factors, this circuit breaker happened.

Unlike natural disasters, this was a standard man-made disaster.

The predicted *Japan Sinks* didn't happen. After the rumors were self-defeating, the stock market naturally recovered. Even without her song, the stock market would have warmed up; it was just a few days late.

But for the US, even if she sang every day, it was estimated that it would be of no use. Capitalists wouldn't care about whether you give up or not; they just wanted to stop losses in time and pull as many leeks as possible to be their cushions.

Therefore, it was basically a nail-biting situation that a circuit breaker would happen again in the next few days.

However, for Miss Luo Quan, the good news was that she didn't have any stocks in her hands now.

Previously, in order to invest in new energy research and development, she had invested most of the money she could move. At that time, the stock market was quite good, and she made a lot of money after selling them.

At that time, she still felt quite distressed, feeling that it was a pity to buy so many high-quality stocks, but now it seemed that she was really lucky and avoided such a risk inadvertently.

If she hadn't sold the stocks to invest at that time, not only would the R&D of new energy be much slower, but the value of the stocks would also depreciate.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel proud. Sure enough, the Goddess of Luck still favored her.

However, some were happy and some were sad. People without stocks became melon-eating masses, watching this once-in-a-decade major event as a fun thing.

And retail investors, big investors, the middle class, and even some capitalists suffered heavy losses in this stock market circuit breaker.

People who simply bought stocks for dividends were still okay; they just lost a little money if they sold them in time.

And those who attempted to make a fortune in the chaos basically all suffered this time. ===== CHAPTER 594 =====