Chapter 177, the beginning of the collapse (for the leader to sit and watch the situation 1/10)
William Li's family waited for nearly two hours before returning to their home through the block blocked by the lucky team.
The journey that originally only took ten minutes ended up taking more than two hours, and he was so nervous along the way that he didn't even dare to open the car window.
Because hatred against Asians is rising rapidly here in Meiliguo, and people being attacked while walking on the road happen every day.
The unemployed people are the most explosive tinderbox. Once someone sees you in the car, you may get beaten up, or even beaten to death.
Fortunately, his car has a film and the condition inside cannot be seen from the outside.
"Try to go out as little as possible in the future, especially when you are taking your children with you. It is really too dangerous now."
After returning home, William Li, who was still frightened, couldn't help but exhort him.
It's really a mess now.
The persistently high unemployment rate has caused a large number of people to lose their jobs, and society has become extremely turbulent.
But what is really scary is that under the flood, prices have skyrocketed, and coupled with the loss of jobs, it has suddenly become extremely difficult for people who did not have much habit of saving money.
All kinds of robberies, zero-dollar purchases, and gunfights take place almost every day, which intensifies the turbulent situation. Originally, many stores could open for business, but because there were too many people robberies and zero-dollar purchases, so
Nowadays, almost all stores are closed in large numbers. Smart people have moved the goods in the stores early, while suffering huge losses.
Now even the supermarkets that provide everyone with basic daily necessities have begun to suffer from zero-dollar purchases, and William Li has begun to worry about whether he will be able to buy the daily necessities he wants in the supermarket in the future.
"I should have bought some more things just now."
William Li couldn't help but said to Alice.
"We can't be like those people who always think about doing zero-dollar purchases."
Alice looked at William Li and said solemnly.
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that supermarkets may be closed due to zero-dollar shopping, and by then we may not be able to buy anything even if we have money."
"And prices are rising rapidly now. Maybe tomorrow, prices will be even more expensive."
William Li quickly explained.
"What you said makes sense."
Alice thought for a while and agreed. Prices are indeed skyrocketing now, and the rise is extremely outrageous.
"Now I feel as if I have returned to the other side of the ocean. The purchasing power of this green coin is no different from that over there."
"too expensive!"
William Li said while moving things: "Why don't we turn the garden behind into a vegetable patch? We can grow some vegetables and then we can save a lot of money."
"Growing vegetables?"
Alice asked immediately.
"Yes, growing vegetables. Things are so expensive now, and our back garden isn't of much use, so why not use it to grow vegetables?"
William Lee said.
"No, no~"
"I will never grow vegetables in the back garden. This is something only you can think of. Children are not allowed to move anywhere where they play."
Alice said firmly, she was born and raised here and has her own stubbornness about this.
"Okay~"
William Li shrugged helplessly.
The next day, William Li got up early and couldn't sleep because there was a major shooting in the wealthy area where they were located last night.
A group of people broke in to steal, but were discovered by the homeowner. A firefight broke out between the two parties. The sound of gunfire broke the tranquility of the night and made it impossible to sleep at all.
When William Lee came to this house, a large number of people were already watching, including King Paul and Bill Liu.
"It's too awful!"
"Except for the child who was hiding under the bed, all members of the family were killed, and all the valuables in the house were looted, including even the food in the kitchen."
Seeing William Li coming over, Paul Wang was silent for a long time and said: "This is something that has never happened in our community before."
"Where are those jingca?"
"I didn't seem to hear any sirens all night last night."
William Li thought for a while and said.
"There are shootings everywhere now, and they are too busy to come."
"And haven't there been frequent incidents of Heihei being shot by jingca recently? They are making trouble everywhere again. These jingca now also feel that their income is too low and not enough to support their families, and they are all on the front line of death.
So there is also a strike."
Bill Liu thought for a while and shook his head and said.
"So that means our place is no longer safe?"
William Li's expression suddenly changed. The wealthy areas have always been very safe. Not only are there a lot of surveillance and patrols, but the properties in the wealthy areas are also very good.
But now it seems that it has suddenly become unsafe.
"What do you think? People here in the real estate sector are now talking about raising property fees. Because prices are soaring, their incomes can no longer support family expenses, so they want to raise property fees, so now there are no property owners at night.
People were patrolling, and this happened."
King Paul said with a wry smile.
"shit~"
"Grass~"
"The property fee is still rising. Hasn't it been increased several times in the past two months?"
When William Li heard this, he immediately cursed. The property fee had almost doubled compared to before.
"They said that if they don't have enough to eat, they will no longer be able to provide quality services."
"This explanation leaves you speechless."
Bill Liu said with a shrug.
"Didn't you say you were going to drive a truck?"
William Li fell silent, thought for a while and asked again.
"Drive a hammer truck. There are too many zero-dollar purchases everywhere now. Stores are closing in large numbers. Trucks are basically idle. In addition, it is not safe to drive a truck now. People everywhere are staring at trucks on the highway and robbing them.
"
"Several people in our truck group were robbed. All the goods in the truck were robbed, and even the people were almost killed."
King Paul said helplessly: "I'm unemployed again, and now I don't know what to do?"
"I heard that prices have risen a lot again. I'm ready to go shopping to buy food."
"I just went there yesterday, and basically everything went up by more than 20%, and some increased by more than half. However, when I was checking out yesterday, I happened to encounter a group buying for zero yuan. I guess there may be nothing in the supermarket today."
William Li said quickly.
"Let's go, let's go, I'm also going to collect some food and supplies."
When King Paul heard this, his face was immediately full of sorrow. Not only had prices skyrocketed, but he might not even be able to buy food and daily necessities.
"I'll go too and buy some more to keep at home. It's really too messy now."
William Li also nodded repeatedly, and the three of them took a pickup truck and headed towards the supermarket.
"Have you seen the news this morning?"
On the way, the three of them continued to chat.
"I did not see."
"Me too~"
"The green currency has plummeted again. The day before yesterday, the other side of the ocean announced that it will no longer use green currency to settle energy trade, and will gradually implement the green currency for all commodities and trade."
"Yesterday, green coins plummeted, and more and more people announced that they would no longer use green coins as foreign exchange reserves or foreign trade settlements. Today they continue to fall. In the international currency market, people from various industries and regions are selling green coins in large quantities.
As a result, today's depreciation is far greater than yesterday's."
"The exchange ratio of green coins to fruit coins has reached 1:2."
"What? It's already 1:2?"
When William Li and Paul Wang heard this, they were immediately dumbfounded. This depreciation must be too fast. It only took two days.
"This is just the beginning, and it will definitely continue to plummet in the future. God knows how huge the green currency reserves in the world are. If the status of the international currency cannot be maintained and the green currency is sold, it will be like paper by then.
"
"Right now, we are relying on many allies to grit their teeth and support us. Once they cannot support it anymore and start to announce or sell green coins, it will really be like paper."
"Over the years, too much money has been printed. People all over the world are not fools. The currency has been devaluing for decades. Everyone knows that it cannot continue like this. Sooner or later it will collapse."
"It's just that no one expected that this day would come so quickly."
"In my opinion, the money you have on hand should be converted into gold or the like as much as possible to preserve its value."
Bill Liu sighed and continued: "Many of my classmates and friends who work in New York financial securities companies are now unemployed on a large scale. Affected by the sharp depreciation of the green currency, the current stock market is impossible to watch. It is estimated that it will be very difficult.
The market will be closed soon."
"My parents just bought a house in the city not long ago and sent me money."
William Li was stunned, and it took him a long time to speak.
"..."
When Paul Wang and Bill Liu heard this, they fell silent immediately.
Soon, the three of them arrived at the supermarket. Fortunately, the supermarket was still open.
However, when the three of them arrived at the supermarket, they were all dumbfounded because almost all the products had new price tags on them overnight.
"shit~"
"Fuck~"
"Oh, God, even the cheapest pork costs thirteen green coins a pound."
"And this instant noodles, they used to be very cheap. You can buy a lot of them for a few green coins, but now they cost a few green coins for a pack!"
Similar exclamations can be heard everywhere in the supermarket. Prices have skyrocketed again overnight.
"terrible!"
"When I came here yesterday, the price was only half of what it is now, and it doubled overnight!"
William Li looked at the price tags on the shelves and shook his head in surprise. The prices had risen too fast and it was too outrageous.
"Hurry up and buy some urgent food and daily necessities, buy more rice and noodles, even if they are expensive, otherwise prices may rise again tomorrow, and you may not be able to buy them even if you have money."
But Bill Liu pushed the shopping cart and started frantically loading bags of rice and food into it.
PS: Thank you for your support as a leader. Well, the update of the second leader has begun~