I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 555 142: Losses and Shouldering the Blame

"Boom——!"

A loud noise disturbed Enfield Collection's peaceful dream, dragging him abruptly out of his fantasies of glory.

Somewhat impatiently, he looked towards the doorway and saw his servant and subordinate, Yang Qian, push open the door and rush in recklessly.

"I know this is rude, but..."

Noticing Enfield's impending anger, Yang Qian hurriedly bowed and respectfully handed over his tablet with both hands.

"But I think you need to see this..."

Enfield slightly furrowed his brows. Although somewhat annoyed, seeing Yang Qian so humble and thinking about the fact that he had handled previous matters reasonably well, Enfield eventually accepted the tablet and took a glance.

He was curious to see what could have shocked Yang Qian to this extent.

...

Silence.

For a moment, the office, which was filled with a gunpowder-like tension, became utterly quiet; even the sound of a pin dropping to the floor could be heard clearly.

Enfield's expression, along with his consciousness, froze.

Because he saw green, a screen full of green.

A market-familiar "K-line chart" occupied most of the screen space.

This pattern, made up of countless red and green candles, appeared normal in the first half, with gentle fluctuations and only slight declines.

But now, the last green candle, representing today's market K-line chart, plummeted suddenly, with a line longer than all other lines combined.

And in the top left corner of the screen, Enfield saw the name of his group.

[Gunman Technology: 12.42 (-36%)]

For a moment, Enfield thought he had seen wrong.

He rubbed his eyes, but in that brief moment, the numbers changed again.

[Gunman Technology: 11.64 (-40%)]

Enfield's breath stalled; he understood better than anyone what these numbers meant.

A 40% drop in a single day almost meant the company's market value was halved, instantly evaporating hundreds of billions of financial bubbles, and all investors lost confidence in the company. Retail investors fled in a panic, abandoning Gunman Technology as if in a collapse.

Gunman Group, at this moment, became an abandoned pawn.

More troublingly, judging by the decline, this wasn't the bottom for Gunman Technology.

It could continue to fall... Once those sleeping investors woke up, the first thing they would do is to quickly sell off their Gunman shares to minimize losses.

Moreover, Enfield noticed that below the Gunman Group interface, another stock's price was also significantly impacted.

[Treasure Holding: 97.1 (-11%)]

Treasure Holding is the core industrial group of the Collection Clan and the main enterprise of the family.

The general public might not understand the connection between Treasure Holding and Gunman Technology, but professional investors, with their rich information channels, could easily find out about the relationship between the two, leading the charge to sell off shares.

And their sell-off naturally prompted retail investors to also flee.

Although this crash was primarily panic-driven, and once some investors regained composure, they might even pull Treasure Holding's stock price back, at most dropping by 10%, even so, this would still bring unimaginable losses to the entire Collection Clan.

That's what Enfield was worried about.

If Gunman Technology incurs losses, so be it. This company was originally a disposable product for the Collection Clan, designed to take down the Huangxing Group. Achieving the goal justifies the loss.

But if it affects the actual Collection entity, everything changes.

"Gulp..."

Enfield couldn't help but swallow his saliva, sweat pouring down.

"What on earth is happening?"

He instinctively wanted to ask, but Yang Qian had already considerately prepared another interface for him.

The video of Huangxing Group's new product launch.

A strong shield penetration device that completely countered energy shields, priced under a hundred thousand.

Magnificent individual combat armor equipped with artificial intelligence, priced at only sixty thousand.

The two products painstakingly developed by Gunman Technology were utterly crushed by these offerings.

In fact, the phase-shift shield and shield penetration device weren't even in the same product category.

They were, logically speaking, a spear and a shield, unrelated to each other.

But somehow, the spear overpowered the shield, and it was even cheaper, making those who bought the shield appear foolish.

After all, no matter what, a shield tends to hinder a warrior's movement to some extent, causing some inflexibility.

However, for survival, most mercenaries still gritted their teeth and purchased shields.

Yet now, in the face of a cheaper shield penetration device, the phase shield became as useless as a piece of paper, easily torn apart.

Given this... why would mercenaries waste money on such a cumbersome shield? They might as well buy a spear and other physical shields.

Thus, the sales of the phase-shift shield naturally suffered greatly.

As for individual combat armor and exoskeletons, they were purely outperformed in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness.

But a sixty thousand armor, could it really be the product of a novice tech company?

Enfield recalled that long ago, Military Technology also made civilian individual armors. But even the lowest-grade armors sold for over fifty thousand, possibly dropping to thirty-something during promotional events, though such times were rare...