Lee Sin’s Bizzare Adventure Chapter 143: Economic Topics

"The soul absorbed by it can only be liberated by using my soul as the key."

"This is the only possibility."

"Even my will cannot change the rules of "knowledge or not". ”

"So"

Adam smiled expectantly: "Are you willing to accept the challenge?"

Nalan Jia clenched his fists tightly. He almost subconsciously wanted to answer "accept the challenge".

"Calm down!" Bucciarati grabbed Nalanja's arm: "This is a trap."

"I know"

Nalanja held her head in pain:

"If I don't have that brain, even Fugo has failed. There is no way I can win him."

"But I'm not willing to give up like this!"

In the darkest moment of his life, it was Fugo who rescued him from his homeless life.

Now that Fuge's soul is trapped in a prison and reduced to a collection, Nalanja can't bear anything he says, and it's even harder to calm down.

"Haha."

Appreciating such entanglement and pain, Adam reminded him "kindly":

"You'd better not come and die."

"Anyone who can't even solve elementary school math problems is not qualified to be my opponent."

"You?!"

Nalan Jia was angry at first, then weakly lowered his fist.

He knew that the other party's ridicule was actually correct. He was not good at knowledge competition and did not have the strength to compete with Adam.

"What to do?"

Everyone was entangled and helpless, and the air was extremely silent.

"I think" Apache became the bad guy and made the most cruel but rational choice: "It's better to just kill this bastard."

"Continuing to challenge will only make more companions fall into the trap."

"Get out in time." He paused unbearably: "Only in this way can the loss be minimized.".

Survival by breaking an arm is an ancestral skill of the stand-ins, but now it is not an arm that needs to be broken, but a human life.

However, faced with such a cruel proposal, even Bucciarati and Nalanja, who had the deepest feelings for Fugo, had no reaction for a while.

Reality is not a hot-blooded cartoon. Those objectively existing gaps cannot be made up for by willpower and passion.

The competition now is knowledge

Nalanga, has a primary school education; Mista, has a junior high school education; Apaki, has a high school education; Giorno, is in junior high school; Bucciarati, dropped out of junior high school;

Fuge, who only dropped out of college, is already the most highly educated among them. Even Fuge failed in the challenge, how could others succeed?

After all, they suffered the loss of being uneducated.

"Let me do it!"

In this desperate atmosphere, the only college student in the team who had received higher education stood up.

Li Qing walked to Adam and sat down in front of Adam with a serious expression: "Let me be your opponent!"

"Li Qing?!"

Giorno frowned and said solemnly: "Are you sure? If even you fall into it"

"Don't worry, I've observed it"

"If nothing unexpected happens, I should be 80% sure."

Li Qing replied calmly.

For the first time, he did not turn on the digital mode in battle, but stared at the enemy with his naked eyes:

"Listen up Adam, I, Li Qing, now officially accept your Q&A challenge!"

"Okay!"

There was a trace of enthusiasm in Adam's eyes.

He looked at Li Qing's hairstyle, which was very popular among senior intellectuals, and faintly sensed an aura of wisdom.

Such a soul that seems to contain a vast amount of knowledge is exactly the trophy he is looking forward to:

"Very good, that's the case"

"Then let us bet our souls and start this challenge!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the book that had just swallowed Fugo's soul rose into the sky again.

It opens the pages and blooms with a strange halo.

The chains of light penetrated into the brains of Adam and Li Qing, and a projected light screen appeared in the air:

"First round."

"Please ask Li Qing to ask questions, time limit is one minute."

"You first."

In an impatient tone, Adam explained the rules to Li Qing again:

"As long as you can ask questions that I can't answer, and then answer the questions I asked, you will win this challenge."

"Of course, the question must be within the narrow scope of knowledge."

"The test is the knowledge that can be memorized. It is a foul act to embarrass others with some personal questions. Mathematical questions that require a lot of time to calculate on the spot are also not acceptable."

"I hope you won't be clever and get yourself killed like that kid just now."

"Understood."

Li Qing laughed preparedly:

"This macroeconomic issue should be formal enough, right?"

"Then, accept my question"

Thoughts were conveyed through the chains of light, and a question appeared on the projected light screen:

"Q: Twenty years from now, what country will be the world's second largest economy?"

"Adam Cheever, please answer, time limit is one minute."

"What?!"

Adam’s expression suddenly changed:

"Twenty years from now? Isn't this just about predicting the world economic trend twenty years from now?"

"This is a question that even top economists find difficult to give an accurate answer to. How can you have a correct answer? This is a foul and should be ruled directly"

As he spoke, his voice suddenly choked.

Because, after Li Qing raised this question, the absolutely impartial "Truth Machine" did not call Li Qing a foul.

This means that Li Qing knows the correct answer to this question.

"How is that possible?!"

Adam couldn't help but begin to doubt life.

And Li Qing just sat there like an old man, imitating Adam's previous appearance, mocking with disdain:

"What? You only know how to memorize economic theories, but you don't know how to predict economic trends?"

"You also say that your wisdom is superior to others. If you don't know how to use it, the knowledge you memorize by rote is completely rubbish!"

"You?!"

Adam unconsciously clenched his fists, and the veins on the back of his hands squirmed like snakes in anger.

Li Qing’s words inadvertently touched the hole in his heart and reminded him of his past:

He is a genius, a child prodigy.

Have a photographic memory, a profound knowledge of knowledge, a strong knowledge of astronomy and geography, a thorough knowledge of the east and west, and a broad understanding of the past and present. In Adam's view, these idioms from the ancient Eastern countries seemed to be tailor-made tributes for him.

He can remember all the books he has read, including the author's punctuation on every page and paragraph.

He can remember all the knowledge he has heard, including the teacher's tone of every sentence in every lesson.

In Adam's view, since he already possesses the wisdom to stand at the pinnacle of mankind, he should have a position above others.

"I'm in the United States and I just got off the plane." He doesn't even despise this level of life.

Of course, this is just Adam's own fantasy.

In fact, this so-called genius, who has been admired by thousands of people with the halo of a child prodigy since he was a child, was persuaded to quit by his tutor when he was just a graduate student.

The professor said:

“You only know how to memorize, but you don’t know anything about creation and application. You think you have extensive knowledge, but you are never knowledgeable but never masterful.”

“Fragmented knowledge is completely unsystematic and in the final analysis is just a pile of garbage!”

"People like you should not waste time in the laboratory, but should go to the TV station to perform 'acrobatics'."

The stern professor mercilessly woke up Adam who was living in fantasy.

But Adam refused to wake up. He went crazy under the humiliation of being kicked out.

In order to prove that his wisdom is superior to others, he began to indulge in a boring question and answer game. Gradually, after awakening some strange power, this question and answer game completely became the only meaning of Adam's existence.

He found great satisfaction in winning again and again, flaunting his victory with the souls of his opponents.

And now

When life was prosperous, Adam heard such ridicule from Li Qing again: "The knowledge you have is just some rubbish."

"Damn it!"

Adam shouted angrily:

"You will pay for what you say!"

"Isn't it just about predicting economic trends? I'll wait"

He seemed to suddenly realize something, and his mood became slightly calmer:

"I almost got fooled by you."

“If you think about it carefully, it is actually not that difficult to predict the world’s second largest economy twenty years from now.”

According to the theory of Italian economist Pareto, 20% of people in society occupy 80% of social wealth. This is the famous 80/20 rule.

This law not only applies to a certain country, but also has significance when viewed on a global scale: developed countries, which account for 20% of the human population, account for 80% of the world's wealth.

Classes have been solidified, the poor will only get poorer, and the rich will only get richer.

The current economic power will only be stronger in twenty years.

The remaining poor countries are all scorned by Westerners, and they are all leeks harvested by the economic powers. Do you want to change your destiny?

The Asian financial crisis two years ago has proven that it is simply wishful thinking!

"Haha."

"High-end technology is in our hands, and the market cake that can be divided has long been divided."

"Unless there is a Third World War, the status quo of our old developed countries dominating the world will never change!"

Adam thought carefully for a while and finally came up with an answer:

“Twenty years from now, the world’s second largest economy will still be Japan!”

Just finished speaking

A hint of disdain appeared at the corner of Li Qing's mouth.

The three-dimensional light screen flashed for a while, and then the following subtitles were printed:

"Wrong answer."

"Correct answer: Dragon Kingdom."

"What?!"

Adam’s face changed drastically and his eyes were as wide as an ox:

He had also thought that Wano, which was now far ahead, might be surpassed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy, but when he was beaten to death, he never imagined that that country would become the second player!

It is now 1999. According to Western public opinion at this time, that country is simply a weak existence that will collapse economically the next day.

Adam has read countless articles and books on economics, and none of them is bad-mouthing the Dragon Kingdom.

Now facing the correct answer given by the "truth machine", he had to doubt his life again:

How could this happen?

I promised to collapse!