OBS Chapter 16 The Crisis of the Awakening of the Emperor's Eye
Chapter 16 The Crisis of the Awakening of the Emperor's Eye
The nights in Yangon are hot and humid.
The commotion of the final round of the public auction had just subsided when Lin Yu returned to his hotel suite. As soon as he closed the door, a sharp, burning pain suddenly erupted from deep within his right eye.
"ah--!"
He groaned, his knee slamming heavily onto the carpet, cold sweat instantly soaking his back. It felt as if someone had plunged a red-hot iron rod into his optic nerve, followed by a tidal wave of darkness that plunged his right eye into utter, deathly blackness.
"System... what's going on?" Lin Yu gritted his teeth, his fingers gripping the carpet so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
[Warning: The system core has been upgraded to "Emperor's Eye," and the resulting energy overflow is causing overload on the host's nervous system.]
[Side effects: Temporary blindness in the right eye, accompanied by severe neuralgia, expected duration: 72 hours.]
[Warning: Under sensory deprivation, mental defenses are at their lowest. Do not attempt to use precognitive abilities!]
"Damn it..." Lin Yu gasped for breath, and his vision in his left eye began to blur and sway.
Just as I teetered on the edge of consciousness, countless fragmented lights and shadows suddenly appeared on my dark retina. It was the system's forced premonition—a vision of the future.
He "saw" the jade trading market in Ruili turn into a sea of fire; he "saw" tons of high-quality raw stones being replaced with ordinary quartzite in the warehouses of the Myanmar jade auction; he "saw" the global jade price plummet overnight, with countless investors jumping off buildings, while the mastermind behind the scenes was frantically transferring funds to a crypto wallet called "Deep Blue" through complex offshore accounts.
It was a meticulously planned financial tsunami. Although the Karen Group collapsed, the mess they left behind is being exploited by another, more secretive and greedy force.
"Financial fraud...collapse..." Lin Yu suddenly opened his only remaining left eye, his pupil contracting violently.
If he had been blind for three days, by the time he regained his sight, it would have been too late. That hallucination-like collapse occurred 48 hours later on the settlement day of the Myanmar gold auction.
"Big brother!"
The door was pushed open, and Su Ya rushed in with a glass of water. When she saw Lin Yu lying on the floor covered in cold sweat, she was so frightened that she dropped the glass and shattered it.
"What's wrong? I'll go get the doctor!"
"Don't go!" Lin Yu grabbed her wrist with surprising strength. "Listen to me... Suya, I don't have time to explain. Now, do three things for me immediately."
Suya had never seen Lin Yu look so serious. She suppressed her panic and nodded emphatically, "Go on, I'm listening."
"First, go to the General's residence and ask him to mobilize the military's cybersecurity department. I need all the transaction data streams from the Myanmar public auction over the past three months, especially records related to 'futures betting' and 'large-scale transfers'."
"Second, contact Acha in Ruili and have him immediately freeze all of Yunnan Jade's overseas accounts and stop all settlement business."
"Third..." Lin Yu gritted his teeth, trying to stand up, but stumbled. "Help me to the study. Although I can't see, I can still 'hear'."
In this pitch-black room, Lin Yu activated the auditory assistance mode of the "Emperor's Eye." Although he couldn't see the images, he could analyze the sound waves through the system and transform the sound of Su Ya's keyboard tapping and the frequency of data transmission into a three-dimensional model in his mind.
"There's something unusual here." Lin Yu suddenly pointed towards the computer screen. "Suya, zoom in on that folder named 'Deep Blue-07.' Their fund flows are disguised as normal ore transportation losses, but in reality, they're shorting the market."
Suya did as instructed, and the dense stream of data on the screen transformed into venomous snakes swimming in Lin Yu's auditory world.
"They plan to suddenly dump counterfeit 'inferior high-quality goods' on the settlement date, causing market panic, and then abscond with all the margin deposits," Lin Yu sneered. "Dream on."
"But big brother, how can we stop it? Although the general trusts you, the military won't shut down the auction just because of a speculation," Suya said anxiously.
"No need for speculation, we need evidence." Lin Yu took a deep breath. Although the excruciating pain in his right eye almost made him faint, he still forced the system to keep running. "Suya, connect me to Interpol's hotline. Since we can't see, I'll use 'hearing' to report these people's background to the whole world, word for word."
Outside the window, a bolt of lightning ripped through the night sky.
Lin Yu sat in the darkness, his left eye reflecting the dim light of the computer screen. Though his right eye was blind, it seemed to see through to the core of the impending financial storm. He had to press the stop button in this global gamble within the 72 hours of his blindness, before it collapsed.