Getting the best from Tarkov

Time flies and it is already the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month.

But Liao Fan was not like ordinary people who stayed at home to eat reunion dinner and wait to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Instead, he fled to Kunming with his small investment team.

Kunming has another nickname, called "Spring City".

As the name suggests, it is spring all year round here, including winter.

Sitting in the lounge area of ​​the hotel's presidential suite, listening to the people sitting around him chatting about various topics, Liao Fan felt very relaxed at this moment.

There was no hail of gunfire in Tarkov, nor was there the loneliness of being alone at home. At this moment, Liao Fan finally realized the importance of having friends.

"Boss, you said there would be some fluctuations in the Japanese stock market after the New Year. Can you tell us now?"

After hearing Yang Xue's question, everyone else stopped talking to each other.

Although Yu Yu, Xie Baoshan and others have been in Liao Fan's team for several months, for various reasons, except for Zhang Tingting, this is the first time they have met Liao Fan.

This is also one of the reasons why Liao Fan plans to gather everyone together on New Year's Eve.

After all, we have been working together for a long time now, and judging from the situation, we will continue to work together for a long time in the future. It would be a bit strange if we didn't see each other for a long time.

Hearing Yang Xue's question, Liao Fan looked up at the clock in the corner of the room and thought for a moment, "Well, it's almost time. Instead of letting me talk, why don't we watch the news together? I remember that when I came here, I told the hotel that I wanted a TV or projector in the room."

Hearing Liao Fan's question, Yu Yu (Xiao Yu), the youngest member of the team and a bit socially anxious, immediately stood up and walked to the door and said a few words to the waitress waiting outside.

Then I saw the other party walk directly into the private room, pick up a remote control from the table at the door, press a button on the wall, and then I saw a small screen slowly descending.

The waitress then explained, "Hello, guest. We have a projection system installed in our hotel. Do you need to connect your computer or USB drive?"

After hearing the waiter's answer, Liao Fan did not show any surprise, and replied very calmly: "No need, just help me tune to CCTV-1. After that, please wait outside the door with the chef." After that, Liao Fan stopped talking.

"Okay, but the chef is preparing dinner for tonight, so if it's convenient, I hope you can be as quick as possible. I'm worried that if it takes too long, the taste of some ingredients will deteriorate."

"OK, thanks."

While Liao Fan was communicating with the waiter, everyone else was watching the program on the screen with curiosity.

These people are all smart. After considering the current time and the TV station they are watching, they all realized that they should pay attention to tonight's news.

Sure enough, when the evening news on CCTV-1 came as scheduled, Liao Fan immediately sat up straight. At this moment, Liao Fan no longer had the laziness and cynicism of the past, but was replaced by a seriousness and solemnity.

This infected the others and they all sat up straight, and began to wonder what Liao Fan was going to show them.

As the news was broadcast one after another, when an international news appeared, Liao Fan unconsciously said, "Here it comes!"

"Next is a piece of international news. According to our reporter, at 00:00 Beijing time today, the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan was suddenly attacked by terrorists.

The main building of the shrine was destroyed by explosives, and the entire building was damaged over a large area. Also destroyed along with the building were more than 1500 precious cultural relics left over from Japanese history.

According to expert investigations, the explosive was TNT, a high explosive. Based on estimates at the explosion site, the equivalent weight of the explosive was approximately 1 kg.

The explosion occurred near the east roof of the main shrine building.

According to the explosive fragments found at the scene, it can be found that this explosive can be detonated by three methods: timing, remote control and direct contact.

If someone moves the explosive before the timer reaches zero, the explosive will explode immediately. Similarly, the explosive can also be detonated by the murderer before the timer reaches zero.

Based on the existing remaining fragments, it can be determined that the remote detonation method was a mobile phone.

So far, no international force has claimed responsibility for this terrorist attack, and the Japanese government has also stated that it will...

This was followed by a video of the scene of the shrine explosion captured by a distant surveillance camera.

When they saw the huge ball of fire, no one in the room spoke except for the sound playing on the speakers. Everyone was shocked by the news.

That's the Yasukuni Shrine, how could it be bombed? Who did this? This is... a national hero!

Unlike the excitement of the people around him, Liao Fan, the instigator, frowned slightly and showed a hint of regret for the effect of the explosion.

As expected, I am not a professional blaster, and the 1.2 kg of TNT only collapsed a corner of the main building.

It's certainly not the bomb itself that's the problem.

It has been said in the news that according to expert predictions, the equivalent of the explosive is about 1 kg. Although there is a slight error, who can calculate it so accurately, especially after the explosion.

But since experts were able to estimate the weight of the explosive based on the explosion site, it proves that this explosive had the power of 1.2 kg of TNT.

And since this is the case, and only one-quarter to one-third of the building collapsed, it can only be said that the explosives were placed in the wrong place.

You know, in Liao Fan's prediction, this explosive would not only overturn the main building of the Yasukuni Shrine, but at least destroy the entire building directly. However, the actual result was so disappointing.

If professional demolition soldiers were allowed to bury explosives instead of the gunners who bomb mines all year round, Japan would probably never be able to visit the Yasukuni Shrine again.

Unless they can clean up the explosion ruins at the original site according to the documents and then restore an identical one at a 1:1 ratio.

But do you really think that everyone is an infrastructure fanatic?

What Liao Fan regretted most was not that the scope of the destruction did not meet expectations, but that the damaged area was too small to cause a social shock.

Therefore, Liao Fan is not sure whether the Japanese stock market will be turbulent after the New Year due to this terrorist attack.

After all, although a terrorist attack of this scale looks quite intimidating, since Liao Fan deliberately set the explosion time in the early morning, there were almost no casualties except for two staff members on duty.

Of the only two injured people, one fell down the stairs because he ran too fast, and the other was too old and had a heart attack due to fright.

However, seeing that Yang Xue, Yu Yu, Lao Xie and others were still immersed in the news of the bombing of the Yasukuni Shrine, Liao Fan didn't want to discourage their enthusiasm at this time.

After all, if the post-New Year operation is announced to be cancelled, it means that they will lose the bonuses and dividends from this operation.

Since following Liao Fan, these people have made a fortune. Among them, Zhang Tingting has even taken out a loan to buy a small apartment in Shanghai.

After a while, the news had been scrolled away, but everyone still hadn't recovered and was still excitedly exchanging their views and feelings about the matter.

Liao Fan had no choice but to quietly get up and walk to the door. While turning off the projector, he called the chef outside to come in and continue his work.

Among this group of people, Yang Xue has a very conflicted attitude towards this country because her biological mother married a Japanese. Therefore, she is still shocked by this terrorist attack.

However, Xun Zhao, the oldest among the group, was the first to notice the strange mood of the boss Liao Fan.

Seeing that Liao Fan did not return to the sofa after opening the door, he came to the bar alone, took out a bottle of Romanee-Conti from the wine cabinet, and took out a cigar from the cigar box on the lower level. He walked over very attentively and took the initiative to take over the task of lighting the cigar.

After lighting the cigar and handing it to Liao Fan, he whispered, "Boss, you don't seem very interested in this matter. Did you know about it in advance?"

When Liao Fan heard Xun Zhao's question, he showed no abnormality on the surface, but his pupils shrank slightly.

But it was only for a moment, and then he returned to normal, took a deep drag on his cigar and said, "Huh... Well, how should I put it, it can't be said that I knew in advance. I also heard that someone wanted to mess with Japan. But that person told me about it with great enthusiasm at the time, but I didn't expect the result to be so anticlimactic."

"Anticlimactic? I don't understand. They even bombed the Yasukuni Shrine, but wasn't that the arson attack in 11? So this can only be considered anticlimactic?"

"Haha, Lao Gou, do you know how powerful 1kg of TNT is?"

"do not know."

"Hiss~~~Huh~~~ Let me tell you this, that building you just saw shot from above on TV, if you could find a good blasting spot, 1kg of TNT could have flattened the entire building. How could it have only partially collapsed? Sigh~~~"

After hearing Liao Fan's words, Xun Zhao's eyes immediately showed a hint of horror.

It’s not that he doubted what Liao Fan said.

What shocked Xun Zhao was that Liao Fan actually complained that the buildings were not blown up enough.

It seems that this small boss of mine is not a good person either.

But so what? Judging from the past period of time, the other party trusts me very much. Otherwise, why would they put the financial part of such a highly private investment team in my charge?

You have to know that in a normal company, if the boss is a hands-off manager, then the company's personnel and finances must be firmly in his own hands, otherwise he can be sidelined by professional managers in minutes.

But what Xun Zhao didn't know was that the reason Liao Fan trusted him so much was actually because Liao Fan knew his weaknesses.

Even though Xun Zhao has divorced his original wife, he still has a daughter who lives with his ex-wife.

If Xun Zhao had any second thoughts, not to mention whether he had the ability to do anything under Yang Xue's nose, he would never even be able to see his ex-wife and daughter.

Do you still expect a man who makes his fortune by killing and setting fires to have any compassion or moral bottom line?

While Liao Fan and Xun Zhao were enjoying red wine and chatting about all sorts of things, a huge uproar had already broken out on the internet.

"Shrine" and "explosion" have almost become the new codes for wealth. Any video discussing this matter will be forwarded and followed crazily.

"Family! Are there really still terrorist attacks these days? It feels so scary!"

"He's a complete terrorist, except he's wearing a patriotic banner."

"Brother above, why do you think he is Chinese? Just because it was the Yasukuni Shrine that was bombed? Don't you know that Koreans also hate it deeply, but they are powerless to do anything about it?"

"That's not right, brother. If it was done by the Koreans, do you think it would be demolished by a naive idiot?"

"Um... your idea is quite novel."

"This guy is a lunatic! Why did he bomb the Yasukuni Shrine? What qualifications does he have to do this? Isn't he afraid of causing a diplomatic dispute?"

"Excuse me everyone, my dog's cage wasn't closed tightly, and it escaped from upstairs on its own."

"No, everyone. Why are you so sure this person is Chinese? According to probability, he could be from any country."

"Brother, if we really go by probability, the chances of him being Chinese seem to be higher~~~"

Although there are always some people who are not sociable and deliberately take opposing attitudes to attract attention and gain popularity, it must be said that with the broadcast of the news just now, the popularity of this explosion case has rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search list at an unimaginable speed in an instant, and is ranked second.

The first one is the latest notice regarding the use of fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

At this time, Liao Fan didn't know that he just wanted to vent on a whim, but it actually attracted so much attention and heated discussion.

What he didn't know was that in an apartment building in Nanjing, a social animal who had just entered the workforce was so scared that he was breaking out in cold sweats.

After seeing the news, he immediately thought of the figure he saw standing on the eaves of the Yasukuni Shrine that night.

At that time, he was so scared that he didn't consider why the man was standing on the eaves at such a late hour.

After returning home, he wondered if that person might be his colleague.

However, I haven't seen any news about the Yasukuni Shrine being stolen or burned for several days, so I didn't take it seriously.

It wasn't until tonight, when I happened to see the news, that I realized how crazy that person was playing at that time.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel scared. If I had been exposed to the spotlight of the Japanese government at that time, I would definitely be suspected of being involved in the bombing. Even if no one was held responsible for the incident in the end, I might be directly labeled a terrorist and executed without my permission.

But once his fear and worry subsided, he immediately trembled with excitement: "This is a true warrior! Compared to him, setting a fire with two cans of lighter kerosene is just childish!"