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Chapter 1411: Dawn comes, disaster comes

The driver was also desperate. He had never met anyone who did this. How expensive are taxis in an island country? But Xiachuan wanted to take a taxi to Yakushiji Temple.

He drove until eight o'clock in the evening, when it was already dark, he finally arrived in Nara, and further ahead was the Hanshin Expressway.

Xia Chuan said he wanted to eat first, so he asked him to stop at the door of the hotel. He handed him a stack of US dollars and even gave him the fare for the trip back, but refused to take his car.

The driver immediately decided to stay overnight before leaving, and to worship the Bodhisattva in Yakushiji Temple the next morning. Next time he meets a boaster, he can brag to him: Xia Chuan and I went to Yakushiji Temple together.

But he knew in his heart that Xia Chuan would definitely go at night, and he could only go during the day. With his physique, he could easily fall to his death if he climbed over the wall.

Xia Chuan went into the hotel first and had dinner. He looked at the time and it was still early, only ten o'clock.

He strolled towards Yakushiji Temple without asking anything, as the guidance of his heart lamp was more accurate than any guide.

We walked until midnight and finally saw a magnificent temple.

This temple does not belong to the Jodo Shinshu sect, but to the Hosso sect. It was built by Emperor Tenmu (reigned 673-686) in order to pray for the empress's recovery.

Well, then the Queen replaced him, and that's the key.

Perhaps the decline of Buddhism in the island nation has something to do with her.

With such a long history, disasters are inevitable. Of the original buildings, only the East Tower has survived to this day, and the rest have been destroyed and rebuilt several times.

Xia Chuan passed through the wall and arrived at the yard.

He ignored the other Buddhist temples and headed straight for the East Pagoda with a burning gaze.

The East Tower should be considered a three-story tower, with each floor having its own skirt layer. If you don’t go in, you would think it is a six-story tower.

Xia Chuan calmly passed through the wall and entered the tower.

Scanning carefully with spiritual power, the three floors were all dedicated to Medicine Buddha.

The layer in front of you is the most shocking. In the middle is a bronze and golden Medicine Buddha, shining with golden light even at night.

The Buddha statue is cast together with the pagoda, and dozens of believers surround the golden body, but these people are not gold-plated, but black copper. It is not rusted, but the copper has impurities. In addition, it is too old. The postures of these believers are different. They all look at the Medicine Buddha with great piety, some crawling, some kneeling, and listening to the teachings together.

Xia Chuan couldn't help but sigh, this golden bronze Buddha statue has been around for more than a thousand years, and the gold is still there. Isn't it protected by the power of vows?

He thought back to the Temple of the Tooth Relic, where he could not feel any power of will, but in the end his blood was transformed.

It’s the same here, I can’t feel any power of vows at all.

But Medicine Buddha did not respond.

Xia Chuan secretly sighed that the old Taoist would definitely ask for it when he came.

Xia Chuan couldn't open his mouth. It didn't matter if he broke a few precepts, such as greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, doubt, killing, stealing, adultery, lying and drinking. At least he pretended to be a good boy in front of the Buddha.

Are you being a gangster by asking the Buddha for relics?

Finally I turned around and went upstairs, there was also a Medicine Buddha, but it was not as good as the first floor.

Going up to the third level, there is still Medicine Buddha, but it is not as good as the second level.

Without stopping, he went down to the first floor in an orderly manner and prepared to leave the tower through the door.

But just as he was about to leave the tower gate, a ray of golden light shot out from between the eyebrows of Medicine Buddha and hit the back of his head like lightning, as if it had drilled directly into his head and disappeared.

Xia Chuan fainted instantly and fell limply to the ground.

Left in the tower.

……

More than 300,000 people in the suburbs of Kobe have been evacuated to open areas, and 10,000 Self-Defense Forces are searching house by house. People can take their belongings and carry their houses away, but they are not allowed to stay in the houses.

Murayama personally delivered a televised speech to mobilize people to evacuate. Residents in the suburbs of Kobe must evacuate, and people in Osaka can judge for themselves if their houses can withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake, then you can continue to sleep. If you make a wrong judgment, be prepared to be crushed to death.

At the same time, it was announced that only disaster relief vehicles would be allowed to pass on the Hanshin Expressway.

Then mobilize all the people to rescue and provide help to the refugees.

Finally, he repeated Xia Chuan's words: When the dawn comes again, perhaps the disaster will have arrived at the same time.

Everyone heard the news and all the goods in the supermarket were sold out.

The world was shocked. Never before had an earthquake been so certain and so resolutely implemented.

The earthquake hasn't happened yet, but rescue is needed first.

As for the stock market, it was already shocked and the 7.3 points were broken. This was more frightening than a real earthquake, because Murayama said it was a magnitude , but it was actually , and the stock market fell too much in advance.

There was an 8.0 magnitude earthquake between Kobe and Osaka, oh my god.

Mo Rongjun finally understood what the emergency was. Thinking about the time Xia Chuan told her, she was filled with god-like awe.

At this moment, there are many people in the world who are suffering, but the one who is suffering the most is definitely Nick Leeson.

Nick Leeson, a talented trader in the international financial world, is the general manager of Bahrain Futures Company of Bahrain Bank in Singapore.

In the Nikkei 225 futures contract market, he is known as 'the invincible Leeson'.

As early as the second half of 94, Li Sen believed that the island nation's economy had begun to emerge from recession and the stock market would have a sharp upward trend.

So they bought a large number of Nikkei 225 index futures contracts and call options.

Man proposes, God disposes. Xia Chuan directly overturned the market, and Li Sen suffered heavy losses, with a loss of up to 2.1 million pounds.

This was not the worst. Li Sen could not afford the loss from this illegal operation, so he took a crazy gamble and once again added a large number of Nikkei 225 futures contracts and interest rate futures contracts during the crash. The total position had reached more than lots.

This is leverage, a futures contract that is magnified dozens of times.

When Murayama gave his speech, the Nikkei 225 index fell below 18500 points, and Leeson lost more than two million dollars for every point he lost.

How much did Barings Bank lose? 1.4 billion US dollars!

The position losses of Bahrain Futures Company were close to the total capital and reserves of the entire Bahrain Bank, and it had no choice but to go bankrupt.

There is no longer any channel for financing and the losses are irreversible.

Li Sen fled for fear of punishment.

……

When the first ray of hope finally arrived, all the media people opened their eyes wide.

Unlike any other earthquake, this time the media knew about it in advance and they specifically targeted those buildings that were sure to collapse.

Even Hollywood flew in to shoot the exterior scenes. There is absolutely no place to find this material. The director's thinking is completely different from that of the reporters. They specifically targeted the Hanshin Expressway. It would be spectacular if it collapsed. They even prepared a helicopter.

As dawn approached, all the helicopters took off, including the rescue helicopters.

All those who evacuated their houses did not sleep, waiting to verify Murayama's words. After all, it was not far away, even if the dawn came, no one could afford to miss a night.

5:46:52.

There was a rumbling sound of artillery fire in the air, and the first thought of the evacuating people was that a war had broken out, but they were immediately thrown to the ground. The earth seemed to have suddenly turned into a fishing boat in a category twelve storm, with loud roars and rumblings. The typhoon-resistant buildings in the suburbs of Kobe seemed to have been slapped in the face by the gods and turned directly into a garbage dump.

This speed simply left the media people stunned!

The helicopter rented by Hollywood watched the Hanshin Expressway shaking in the air, but unfortunately they chose the wrong location.

It wasn't the part they filmed.

The photographer on the ground's camera was shaking, and he fell and got up again.

The disaster stopped after twelve seconds.

It's like nothing happened.

But everything before my eyes has changed.