Chapter 298: Single-handedly stirring up the global financial market
Li Xiang has tasted food from all over South America. If you were to say that the food was barely acceptable, the Argentine barbecue would be considered better than the Brazilian barbecue, as it was more flavorful. In addition, the Chilean seafood was also quite good.
Seafood in Chile is very cheap. You can buy a relatively large king crab for about 12,000 pesos (about 85 yuan), while the same ingredients in China cost at least 2,000 yuan.
The unique horseshoe abalone here is only 1,000 pesos per piece (about 7 yuan), the meat is tender and thick, and it is crispy and chewy when eaten raw.
There are also king crabs, mussels, barnacles, etc., all of which are delicious.
This may be because seafood does not require overly complicated cooking methods, and many of them can be eaten raw.
As for Peru, Li Xiang was surprised that people there actually eat alpacas. In China, alpacas are treated like pet babies. Whenever one appears in a hotel garden, many people come to watch and take photos.
However, in Peru, alpacas are just ordinary livestock, they need to work, and they are also a very common food on the table. Li Xiang also tasted it out of curiosity, and the taste was barely acceptable, between beef and mutton, but not as good as beef and mutton.
Although there are a large number of alpacas here, estimated to be in the millions, Li Xiang did not like them and did not take any action.
Then there is another common meat here, which is rat meat. The whole big rat is roasted on bamboo sticks, and the young girl chews it in her hands. The scene...
It is said that Peruvians consume 70 million "giant rats" every year. This is the national dish of Peru, and the most famous dish in the Andes is roasted guinea pig.
Of course, this guinea pig is not ugly. It is also called a "Dutch pig". Whether in Peru or in other countries, it is a fluffy little cute pet. Many people in China also raise them. Peruvians treat them as pets when they are not hungry and dress them up beautifully, such as putting on small clothes, wearing small hats, and taking them out to play. When they are hungry, well, they just roast them.
After being roasted, it loses its fluffy appearance and becomes a mouse shape. If it were a Chinese person coming here for the first time, they might not dare to eat it.
Although Latin America is a food desert for Li Xiang personally, it is a paradise for beauties. All kinds of hot and sexy beauties can be seen everywhere. However, Li Xiang has them "at home", and they are all stunningly beautiful, so he doesn't think much of the beauties here.
In addition, Li Xiang also collected some Colombian coffee, Cuban rum and cigars, but Latin America was relatively poor and it was not interesting to search, so Li Xiang returned to North America.
Well, North America is still rich, and looting is not only stress-free, but also very enjoyable! He swept through North America again, including a large amount of gold and various drugs. For example, the warehouses of well-known North American pharmaceutical factories were looted.
In addition, there are a variety of rich foods, such as Uncle Que De's maple coffee black tea, organic blood orange tea, Manuka honey, cranberry white chocolate, Godiva chocolate, and various delicious biscuits and snacks...
Oh my god, American public opinion is in an uproar again.
"It's never going to end, is it? Are you always picking on us Americans?"
A blogger said: "The biggest and most mysterious zero-dollar buyer in history is here, everyone be careful."
"The law here allows zero-dollar purchases, but the upper limit for zero-dollar purchases is 950 U.S. dollars. This owner is so good, 950 U.S. dollars is worth hundreds of millions, right?"
All major social media platforms in North America were in an uproar, with six of the top ten trends on Twitter carrying the hashtag #TheRobberyoftheCentury#.
In a special program urgently broadcast by Fox News, the host held up surveillance screenshots sent back from the scene, which showed boxes of Pfizer antibiotics, Merck antiviral drugs, AbbVie's drugs for treating rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, as well as the chocolate shelves in Walmart warehouses, which were cleared out with only the labels left.
"It's just like a swarm of locusts!" A senior executive of a pharmaceutical company expressed indignation at a press conference.
There is a very popular video that received over a million likes in one hour, and the comment section was filled with countless magical realism jokes.
@自由美利建靓仔: Who in my family understands this! I just supported the free purchase of freedom on Twitter last week, but today all the asthma sprays were swept away. The retribution is coming faster than the IRS tax notice (crying emoji)
@TexasCowboyDon'tCry: If the FBI could use the energy it uses to investigate TikTok to arrest people, my blood pressure medication would still be aging gracefully on the CVS shelves!
The well-known YouTube commentary channel "Truth Grinder" released an in-depth analysis overnight, zooming in on the surveillance footage frame by frame: "Pay attention to this reflection. The looters obviously have very advanced space folding technology. Otherwise, how can we explain that when 18 tons of gold disappeared from the underground vault of the Federal Reserve, there was not even a scratch on the blast-proof door?"
Fifty thousand conspiracy theory comments quickly emerged under the video, ranging from extraterrestrial technology in Area 51 to the deep government directing and acting in the show.
An Indian netizen said: "This is the messenger of our Lord Shiva. Who told you not to believe in our Lord Shiva?" But no one paid attention to him.
The most amazing thing is the Wolf of Wall Street section of Reddit. At 3 a.m., an anonymous user posted real-time data from the Chicago Board of Trade: "Did you notice? Godiva cocoa futures soared 300% in half an hour. I suggest shorting Pfizer and buying honey stocks at the same time. Don't ask where the information came from. I just crawled out of the ventilation duct of a pharmaceutical factory warehouse that was robbed."
Li Xiang had not expected that just by plundering supplies in North America, he would cause turmoil on Wall Street. Various financial giants adjusted their strategies, and financial markets in countries around the world also fluctuated violently.
Those who made money cheered, and those who lost money cursed. It can be said that he stirred up the global financial market with his own strength.
The White House spokesperson was questioned three times at the press conference, and finally said "a special investigation procedure has been initiated" and hurriedly left.
What really triggered a frenzy across the internet was a strange sight captured by a New York Post reporter: a homeless man in downtown Manhattan was holding up a cardboard with the words "Professional purchasing agent - accepting small zero-dollar purchases (limited to less than $950)" written on it in marker, along with the caption "Industry market segments are undergoing structural adjustments."
When TMZ released the single "950 Sadnesses" released overnight by a rapper, the entire public opinion field went completely crazy.
The chorus of the song, "The IRS takes 30%, the robbers take 70%, so who is the country's parasite after all?", accompanied by the tap dance challenge that became a hit on TikTok, brought this farce to a new climax.
Li Xiang: "It's fun to plunder in North America, but it's easy to attract global attention." He had made quite a splash in Latin America before, but it was "calm and collected".
Li Xiang's original itinerary was to go from South America to New Zealand and Australia, or cross the Atlantic Ocean to Africa and then to Europe, but now he made a comeback and came back to North America, and then passed through Alaska, the Bering Strait, and Siberia, and returned to China again.
It’s closer this way. He hasn’t been home for many days. If he doesn’t go back, his grandma will be worried.
When I got home, grandma was busy in the vegetable garden.
The several pepper trees that Li Xiang planted last spring have grown to more than two meters tall. The small white flowers are blooming like stars in the sky, and the branches and leaves are lush and tall.
The plum blossoms have long since withered and turned into small green plums. However, the lightning-struck peach tree that was transplanted back in the winter of the year I returned home is now in full bloom. The trees are lush and flourishing, and I estimate that they will produce quite a few peaches this year.
(End of this chapter)
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