American Celestial Master

Chapter 267, Pit
The news that Central Park was haunted spread quickly, after all, there was more than one homeless person who had spent the night in Central Park like Subi last night, and all the homeless people said they had encountered a ghost.

"My legs are still weak and I have no strength at all. It must be because the ghost sucked away my life force!" A homeless man told others about his experience with snot and tears running down his face.

But the stories of the homeless can only be spread among the homeless. These news will not appear in the official news media or fake news media. Moreover, as we all know, most of the homeless have the problem of using hallucinogenic drugs. Did they encounter ghosts at night? If you believe what they say, then you have encountered ghosts! Besides, at this time, what's the big deal about encountering ghosts?
So although there are some rumors about Central Park spreading, in general, time is always passing, the New York Stock Exchange remains peaceful, and the limited number of haunted news is nothing in New York. At most, it can only provide after-dinner talk for harmless idlers, or provide seeds of rumors for malicious idlers.

This rumor did not even cause much fluctuation in the stock market. The turnover rate was just a little higher that day, but there was nothing too unusual. In Central Park, at least during the day, there were still many tourists.

At night, Subi certainly didn't dare to go to Central Park again, but some homeless people who had just had nightmares had no other good place to go. Secondly, they themselves suspected that they were hallucinating because they had too much fun.

The result was no doubt that they all encountered ghosts that night. Although no one died, rumors began to spread among the homeless that all the homeless people in certain places had died.

As a result, by the third night, there were basically no homeless people in Central Park. However, these changes still did not cause any disturbances in the New York Stock Exchange. Although Central Park and the Stock Exchange are geographically close, the distance between the homeless people sleeping in Central Park at night and the Wall Street wolves busy in the Stock Exchange during the day is very far. Human joys and sorrows are not the same.

But on the fourth day, real people finally began to notice the changes in Central Park. It was not news that homeless people in Central Park had encountered ghosts, but it was definitely big news that there were no homeless people in Central Park at night!
So on the fourth day, a reporter who noticed this anomaly interviewed the homeless people who used to live in New York's Central Park, listened to their ghost stories, and hired a superhero to explore Central Park with him that night. As a result, they both ran into a ghost, and the reporter was so desperate that he wanted to turn around and take a photo of the monster behind him. Then the superhero carried him and the monster in a long-distance running race in Central Park until dawn. Then, the superhero said: It costs more money.

Then the reporter asked for an interview with School X. A middle-level manager received him and told him that School X had heard about the change and was assigning staff to conduct relevant investigations. Before the results of the investigation were obtained, he had nothing more to tell the reporter.

After coming out of the middle-level manager's office, the reporter stopped a senior student who was walking on the playground and asked him the same question. The student said something more interesting:
"This behavior is very similar to what our teacher described in a hypothesis in class. When a new restricted area is gradually formed, abnormalities will definitely appear at night first. Then, as time goes on, this erosion will gradually affect the daytime. Some people with weaker physical functions will also be affected during the day. Then most people will also be affected during the day, and then... the restricted area will be officially formed. Well, generally speaking, during this process, the scope of the restricted area will also expand to a certain extent..."

So a big news, an explosive news came out all of a sudden: right in Manhattan, not far from the New York Stock Exchange, a new restricted area was emerging.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately broke the barrier of human joy and sorrow. Grapes, raw silk and the best products of protoplasm also immediately felt the fear of the homeless sleeping on the bench in Central Park. All kinds of stocks, whether related to this incident or not, began to fall wildly. Fortunately, several major media came out together at noon to refute the rumor. X School also said that the relevant reports were not accurate and that there was no evidence to show that some abnormal situations in Central Park had any connection with the restricted area.

"It doesn't take a lot of power to create nightmares and get lost at night. Some ghosts with limited power can do it. Especially those wanderers who stay in Central Park at night. Their physical and mental conditions are not good, so they are more susceptible to this kind of thing.

Our main suspicion now is that some unlucky person who died in Central Park happened to become a ghost and created this effect. It's just that we haven't found its support yet, but the difference between a ghost and a restricted area is almost as big as that between a plastic toy knife and an AR-15, or even bigger. In short, this panic is unreasonable..."

In this series of reports, one fact was overlooked: when the reporter personally experienced it, he hired a superhero to accompany him, and the superhero was also fooled. Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention this matter, so this loophole was ignored.

With these rumors dispelled, market confidence began to recover after the afternoon market opened, and even a small positive line was drawn at one point. However, the real Wall Street wolves knew that this might not be a good thing.

The next day was Friday, the last day of the stock market opening this week. The New York Stock Exchange would be closed on Saturday and Sunday. On this day, the battle between bears and bulls was quite fierce. However, when the market closed in the afternoon, the Dow Jones Index only rose by more than 20 points throughout the day due to the rumor that a joint investigation team from X School and the state government had been sent to Central Park to investigate and found a suspected possession of the earthbound spirit. Many commentators believed that this showed that the stock market had adapted to the impact of this incident.

But those who really understand the situation know that in this process, many dealers have actually run away secretly.

(End of this chapter)