Life at the Top

While the market was put on hold for lunch break, it gave a breather to every person in Harbor City who had been shrouded by gloomy clouds.

Just then, people suddenly realized that this storm had not come without warning.

In the United States across the ocean, a similar situation was occurring.

The entire dot-com bubble was being popped worldwide.

It had originated from the United States and slowly spread to Europe and Terra. Sweeping across the entire world, every stock market in every country and region was affected.

Everyone who entered the stock market with high prices now had to pay a tragic price for their impulsive decisions.

Almost one trillion US Dollars had been lost in the global stock market on the first trading day the bubble popped.

A flood of reports had brought the latest news to citizens of Harbor City, and the readers felt their scalps tingle in fear.

Harbor City had not fully recovered from the financial tsunami attack three years ago, and here they were with the popping of the dot-com bubble. Countless people had grown gray hairs overnight because of this.

all sorts

merely a temporary adjustment and

was willing to listen to

prices drop by the minute and names of shares lining up at the limit down, everyone was worried that they would lose the money they had invested into the market. People were gloomy and they began

thought of and understood the situation, Jasper followed Zachary and Michael back to the living room that

faces irreversible losses, will the rich families of Harbor City save the city?” Jasper

or at least, most of us will. It’s just like the economic crisis three years ago. Most of Harbor City’s rich businessmen teamed up to defend against the invasion of western

City’s economy is destroyed, then we rich families will also have nothing to rely on. Balancing the pros and cons, I think most people would be able to

Jasper something to

it goes first.”

could not help but

Harbor City’s economy, then it did not make sense for them to ignore the

that the enemy was in the dark. Jasper

had his advantages as well. His biggest one being the same as his opponents—a hidden identity. His only solace was that his opponent did not know enough

the market opened again on

were gathered together and the battle began to focus on a