Chapter 193: Kamar-Taj

The biting cold wind over the Mount Ximalaya never dissipates all year round, and the snowflakes blown by the wind are like pure white sword light, shuttling through the lonely and vast valleys.

The sound of the wind is like the sobbing of the earth, drowning out the horn blown by the traveler at the end of the sky. He turned his head and looked back. Behind the layers of peaks, there is smoke from cooking, like rising incense lines.

When the last incense in the incense burner burned to the end, when the fire went out, the straight incense line also dissipated. The last moment when the smoke dissipated, the clear sound of the chess piece hitting the chessboard echoed in the quiet room.

A white and slender hand pinched a chess piece and gently placed it on the chessboard. The Supreme Sorcerer's hand had no traces of time, but it carried the rough texture left by the farming years. The texture spread along the back of her hand. Gu Yi looked at the chessboard with a calm expression.

She turned her head slightly, looked at the incense that had burned out, and said: "Let's stop here for today."

Strange, who made the last move, looked at the chessboard. The battle of this game was not fierce. Obviously, both sides of the game were a bit absent-minded.

Gu Yi flicked her robe lightly, and some fine dust rose around her. She stood up and walked slowly to the incense table, and lit a stick of incense again. Strange could smell that the fragrance of the incense candle became lighter.

Wang walked in with a tray. Strange put away the chess pieces and chessboard on the table and put them under the table. Wang took out tea and snacks from the tray he was holding.

Strange thought, Kamar-Taj can be called a holy land, naturally there is its reason. This is a feeling completely different from living in New York.

He looked around the room. It was not big, and there were few furniture. The floor was some rough felt. One whole wall opposite was a wooden museum shelf, with an incense table in front, hanging paintings hanging on the left and right walls, and two bonsai placed in the middle.

There was a low table in the center of the room. The chessboard and chess pieces were usually collected under the table. After Strange finished practicing magic, he would play a game of chess here with Gu Yi.

Strange originally didn't know how to play Go, but after practicing for a few days, he was quite handy.

The game with Gu Yi was a draw, only counting time. After a stick of incense, they would put away the chessboard, drink tea and chat. Strange also learned about the mysteries of the universe from Gu Yi during this time.

The atmosphere here is completely different from what Strange imagined before coming.

In Western mythology, the concept of holy land often appears magnificent, the architecture must be magnificent, and the atmosphere must be mysterious.

But Kamar-Taj is not like this. Although having such a building in the deep mountains of the Mount Ximalaya is already a miracle in itself, the temperament here is more simple and natural, rather than sacred.

But Strange also had to admit that such an atmosphere gave him long-lost peace and relaxation. The brain that was almost washed away by money gradually calmed down.

But similarly, in this atmosphere, Strange felt that the words he was about to say might not be easy to open.

He looked around the room again. Although the furnishings here are simple, each one is just right, and you can see the traces of the vicissitudes of time.

Everyone here, whether it is the Supreme Sorcerer or a small apprentice who has just entered, carries a calm and agile temperament. In contrast, Strange always seems out of place.

And his next words might make him even more out of place.

"I see you are a bit absent-minded." Gu Yi sat back, blew the tea, and said to Strange.

"Sorry, teacher."

"I can see that you have something to say. You don't have to avoid it. There is nothing that cannot be said here."

Gu Yi's tone always carries a calm power, making people believe what she said involuntarily. Strange first took a deep breath, then sighed long, and said: "Alright, but this is really too hard to open."

He looked at the tea leaves spinning in the teacup, tried to imagine this place as the financial center of Wall Street, and then opened his mouth: "The thing is like this, we have a plan..."

When he said this, Strange already regretted it. He always felt that it wouldn't be long before he would be thrown out of this place.

So he paused, pressed his eyebrows, and tried to convince himself to bite the bullet and continue.

"Before, I had some insights after listening to the way of getting along with dimension demons told by the teacher, so I discussed it with a few friends. They unanimously believe that Earth can have today's prosperity, which is inseparable from the firm belief of the Supreme Sorcerer..."

In order to prevent his posture from being too ugly when he was thrown out, Strange still paved the way first.

"But humans have never been a race that sits and waits for death. We don't hope to entrust our own safety entirely to the protection of others, so..."

Strange sighed again and said: "Sorry, since the following turning point may be shocking, you'd better not drink tea."

When Gu Yi heard this, she put down the teacup, but Wang was distracted when Strange spoke. He still drank tea slowly. He blew the hot tea and drank a sip "slurping", and heard Strange say: "... we have made a financial fraud plan against dimension demons."

"Puff!"

Wang sprayed the tea in his mouth all over the table.

Strange hurriedly took out a rag to wipe the table. He said helplessly: "I reminded you that the next turning point might be shocking..."

"But this is too shocking! Cough cough!" Wang said while coughing.

Gu Yi was quite calm, even appearing quite interested. She asked Strange: "Financial fraud plan? Tell me in detail."

Strange took out a small projection device from his clothes pocket and placed it on the table.

When the eyes of the three were focused on this device, a projection suddenly popped up inside. On it was still Strange's face. He waved at the camera and said: "Hello, I am Strange, and I am also the lecturer for this plan..."

Wang looked at the projection, then looked at Strange who was sitting next to him. He asked suspiciously: "Why don't you sit here and tell us? Why do you have to make a projection?"

Strange pointed to the projection, signaling Wang to continue watching.

At this time, the lens filmed by the projection paused. Just when Wang and Gu Yi thought it was about to start, the lens suddenly pulled away, filming a whole conference room. On both sides of the long table were people in suits and leather shoes.

Then, the content of this projection video fully, detailedly, and concisely explained to Gu Yi and Wang what is called a cosmic demon financial fraud plan.

The plan prototype discussed in the S. H. I. E. L. D. conference room at that time could only be considered a prototype. In fact, any such scam involves very complex numerical calculations, such as how should the requirements for promotion be set? What should be the ratio of early investment to late return? How should the timeline of each step be specifically arranged?

Because the four people discussing it had no financial education background, after completing the plan prototype, S. H. I. E. L. D. found some powerful financial practitioners to help them improve this plan.

Rice ball book.

Most of these people were fished out of prison, their moral bottom line had been tested, and many had practical operation experience, so the plan soon became very perfect.

They used the most meticulous and easy-to-understand way of telling to explain how this scam should operate.

The so-called Ponzi scheme, which is pyramid selling, is the most classic financial fraud routine and the oldest one. In all financial fraud routines, this routine can be called enduring, endless, generations of people engaged in it, and generations of people being deceived.

Moreover, this routine has evolved to today, and the people who will be deceived have changed from the original low-education, ignorant of economics and finance, to young people with knowledge, ability, and education today.

Even many people know that this is a Ponzi scheme, and they can talk about the history and principles of this scam, but in the end, they will still be deceived.

The reason lies in the fact that this scam accurately attacked the weaknesses in the thinking of intelligent creatures, that is, greed and fluke psychology.

Low investment, high return, intelligent creatures are always greedy, and many people know that this high tower will collapse sooner or later, but they always feel that they will be the one who takes the money and runs away.

After the explanation of these professional financial personnel, this truth became easier to understand and more feasible.

They cited several examples that had happened, as well as various variant varieties based on this foundation, and even Wang, who was not interested in finance and economics, listened with relish.

In the process of listening to the lecture, he glanced at the Supreme Sorcerer from time to time with his peripheral vision. He found that Gu Yi's eyes were getting brighter and brighter. Wang instinctively leaned to the other side, only to find that the other side was Strange, who proposed this plan, and also the future Supreme Sorcerer.

A very tacit understanding of electric waves suddenly generated between the two generations of Supreme Sorcerers, one old and one young, and Wang's only thought now is - cosmic demon, danger.

After the projection ended, Gu Yi calmed her mood first, and then opened her mouth: "I didn't expect you to surprise me so much, Stephen."

"Uh, I know this plan is very wicked, but... wait, surprise???" Strange looked at Gu Yi suspiciously, and found that Gu Yi's eyes on him were indeed appreciative and surprised.

Gu Yi picked up the teacup, drank the tea, and said with satisfaction in her tone: "It seems that my stories before were not told in vain. I really didn't expect that you could find the key to the current situation from these fragmented stories."

"Uh..." Strange was choked. He actually wanted to ask what the key was, but obviously Gu Yi had more to say.

Gu Yi sighed and said: "I have already mentioned in the stories I told before that there are demons in this world, and there are many of them."

"Just like humans, they have wisdom, can communicate, have their own interests and positions, and also have different personalities and characters."

"They are born powerful, have great power that humans cannot understand, and most of them have their own fields, distributed in every corner of the universe."

"And to explain who they are, I have to mention what is the universe."

Then, Strange learned the truth of the whole world from the narration of the Supreme Sorcerer Gu Yi. ===== CHAPTER 194 =====