"-shit!"

In the midst of angry cursing, the flying ashtray smashed directly into the screen. The huge LCD screen was smashed and cracked, covered with cobweb-like cracks. More than half of the screen went dark, lost signal and went black, and some of it became distorted and dazzling colors.

Today, Mark's eyes are bloodshot.

He clutched his forehead as soon as he finished cursing.

As soon as he said that sentence, he felt that his blood vessels were constantly bulging and shaking. When this sentence was shouted, it was like a heavy punch to his head, and he even felt a little dazzled and couldn't breathe.

The blood vessels under his scalp were vibrating heavily, rapidly, and he could easily "hear" the heavy pumping of the blood vessels directly with his ears. If you shake your head slightly, you will feel like a heavy iron ball is shaking in your brain.

Mark hadn't slept well for three days.

Ever since he got the news that Miss Delan would be participating in this episode of the Emperor's talk show, he was so worried that he barely fell asleep. I think about a whole bunch of messes every night...... In the past three days, he has slept intermittently for less than four hours. He was so sleepy that his eyes were dry and swollen, but his headache was so bad that he didn't feel sleepy at all.

And now that he has finally finished watching this episode of the emperor's talk show, he should be able to sleep.

But after reading it, his blood pressure went up in an instant. The UI in the upper left corner of him even reminds him that his body temperature is rising abnormally, and his blood pressure and heart rate are in danger zone-

Mark only felt a metallic murmur echoing in his head, and he seemed to have some tinnitus, a sound like metal grinding and mosquito buzzing in his head.

"Mark!"

His roommate heard a loud noise in the room, and he ran in without wearing the right slippers: "What's going on? What blew up?" Then he looked intently to see Mark, who was panting violently like an enraged bull, staring at the flickering image that only a quarter of the screen was left. and Miss Dailan, who happened to appear in the corner of the broken picture, as if there was only one head left.

He quickly understood.

Mark, as a former little Liuli pusher, became a die-hard supporter of the Brokers after the barber exposed that he was the former little Liuli. Last month, he was one of the first to realize that Russell and the barber might be missing. The earliest group of videos suspected of Russell's disappearance, and the Tianen Group wanted to target the Brokers, there was a copy of it produced by him.

Although it is unknown why, the Cyber Security Department of Tianen Group did not delete their videos and did not send an enforcement department to arrest them...... But Mark believes that this must also be part of the conspiracy of the head office. In the wake of the disappearance of the Brokers' executives, the rapid decay of the Brokers' poured capital is evidenced by this. Normally, capital is profit-seeking.

After having taken full control of the Brokers' "Principal Reputation Score", they have already mastered the discourse of the platform. At this point, all they have to do is start harvesting – to drain the Brokers' capacity and profits by gradually lowering the purchase price, rather than continuing to overinvest and keep prices high.

If it only lasts for a period of time, it can also be understood as a game. Because at this time, as long as one of these "investors" chooses to "betray", then he can immediately get a lot of profits. That's not a few times, but a dozen times, dozens of times. And the most important thing is that when the first person runs away, the others must buy the points he sold at a higher price, otherwise this absolute control will be gradually diluted by the market.

In other words, when a person who holds more "points" chooses to run away, the value of the "virtual assets" held by others will depreciate.

The first one to run away can be immediately realized and earned; If someone runs away, the assets in their hands will shrink immediately; If enough people run away, the rest will be lost.

Under this kind of "coercion and temptation", it is impossible to maintain a stable structure, and there will definitely be people who can't bear to decide to liquidate. Because even if they can endure it, they have to wonder if others can't bear it.

However, this has been more than a month. Not only is no one cashing out, but there is a steady stream of excessive capital injection.

This means that the value of the points in the hands of the original investors will be diluted. Because market behavior has been disrupted, and points are not issued, but "generated" through point trading, there will be fewer and fewer new points. And people have also begun to tend to see points as a more valuable currency, and have begun to reduce the use of points - which will lead to a further reduction in circulation in the "market".

That's not a good thing for anyone.

The Brokers' "reputation score"... Although its trading price is rising, the overall value is falling inexorably. High-value money that no one will use will become "good money" and be driven out by bad money.

So some people, including Mark, keenly discovered the problem-

Those people, or at least some of them, the investors who are the main investors, are not trying to make money or gain power through the platform of Brokers. Rather, it is intended to directly paralyze the daily operations of the Brokers, and then destroy the basic plate of the Brokers!

They don't need to make money by speculating on "reputation points" at all, because they don't see that benefit. What they have to do is to keep throwing money at it, and keep throwing money at it - until no one will reward others with reputation points as tasks, and use benefits to destroy the atmosphere of "helping each other" between people.

And these investors are not a family or two, otherwise the Brokers would have sensed that something was wrong. They are many...... Within a few months, the big names who joined the Brokers one after another.

To be able to make so many "big shots" obediently obey orders and overinject funds in an orderly and disciplined manner, there is no doubt that this must be an order from the board of directors.

The group that has the supremacy of Happiness Island wants to destroy the Brokers.

They did not destroy it by sending the Enforcement Department to physically erase them, because they believed that this would only strengthen the faith of the Brokers, and then go underground; They didn't destroy it by spreading rumors and smearing, because they knew that this would only help Jishe spread its popularity and get more people who oppose the company to join it; They did not destroy the Brokers by erasing their existence in the online world, which only made people aware of the existence of the Brokers, and made people continue to educate people about their existence.

The board of directors is heartfelt, extremely serious about destroying them—

Therefore, they chose the sharpest and most unstoppable conspiracy.

That is to corrupt them with money.

It's not about buying off individual betrayers, it's about buying off everyone—for everyone's benefit. If they abandon the rules of the Brokers' game, which they don't know how long it will last, they will be able to immediately reap solid benefits from the existing social rules.

As a result, it became the members of the Brokers themselves who fell into the prisoner's dilemma. Even if they don't sell points, but use them normally, they can't bind other people who earn points to sell them. And when everybody is doing that, the environment is destroyed. A person's persistence becomes meaningless, and they can only choose to obey the environment helplessly.

Everyone who is active does not follow the rules, and they can make a steady profit from it, and they will never be held accountable. Then, those who have dreams and aspirations become a minority because they are hindering the benefits of others.

Even the upright people who are not interested in this interest will feel that their behavior is not good. If they continue to obstruct, it will lead to internal divisions and struggles among the "idealists"; But if they give up the obstruction, then they can't stop the loss of a large number of the bottom layers of the organization.

It only takes a continuous injection of money to completely destroy the vitality of the organization – and the only one who can pay this price regardless of profit is the head office that sees the Brokers as an enemy.

Since they had all done such things, how could they let Russell go?

So, Mark realized from the very beginning....they were probably not missing, but dead. It's just that he still has luck in his heart, so he wants to hear what Miss Delan has to say.

And now, Mark has finally given up.

Looking at Mark, who was blushing and silent, the roommate sighed helplessly: "Miss Dailan can't help it, she's the chief reporter, so can't you look at the company's face if you say anything?"

「... I know."

Mark was silent for a long time before he whispered, "My anger is not directed at her. I also knew she couldn't do anything, but she was brave enough. She did the limit of what an ordinary person can do - the realization of exchanging her life for the truth.

"I'm angry at the three bullets that came in from outside the studio...... They shattered my last luck.

"—I'm angry at the fact that some people don't want to give us a way to live, and they don't want to give us a glimmer of hope."