The storm of electronic fraud, the day I was deceived into northern Myanmar

"Have you met Xiaobai?" Lao Chen asked me.

I nodded and did not tell him the reason for this incident: "She is very good. After learning about your situation, she was very worried about you and wanted to come and see you."

Old Chen smiled bitterly: "There's no need to look at it... What's so interesting about a dying person?"

"Don't be so pessimistic, everything will be fine." I comforted him.

He licked his dry lips and said, "Yang Lei... do you want to know what I used to do in China?"

Regarding Lao Chen’s past, I know that what he told me before was all lies.

But I didn't ask any more questions. Now that he wanted to talk to me about this, I felt as if he was explaining the aftermath.

I forced a smile and said in a joking tone: "What? You want to tell me the truth now?"

He smiled: "It's not that I want to lie to you, it's just that there are some things that are hard to talk about..."

Lao Chen took a deep breath, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and then began to speak slowly: "I used to be a figure in the domestic financial circle, managing billions of assets. At that time, I could be said to be prosperous. Infinite, cars, houses, women, nothing is lacking..."

What he said didn't surprise me.

Lao Chen has always given me the impression that he has great wisdom but is as foolish as a fool.

People like him must have experienced strong winds and waves before.

"However, people always make mistakes. At that time, I invested a lot of money for a project that was about to be launched. As a result, the project went bankrupt and suffered heavy losses. At that moment, everyone left me, even my long-term partners. Treat me as the god of plague and avoid me."

His voice gradually deepened, and I could feel the pain in his heart.

"At that time, in order not to hurt my family, I divorced my wife and sent my daughter abroad... I lost everything, my family, my reputation, and my friends. So, I chose to leave and ran to Thailand. Going on vacation, hoping to find my lost self there.”

Lao Chen paused and took a deep breath.

"However, fate never seemed to let me go. In a small bar in Thailand, I was drugged. When I woke up, I found that I had been kidnapped into this electronic fraud park."

Lao Chen continued: "When I got here, I realized that no matter how successful or outstanding you were, once you lose it, you are nothing... In order to survive, I could only contact my family. After they learned that After learning about my situation, he tried his best to help me raise money..."

His voice trembled: "If I had known that I would die sooner or later, I wouldn't have let them raise money for me no matter what I said... I feel that I have done too many wrong things in my life..."

I didn't know how to respond, I just felt a heavy atmosphere permeate the whole room.

"Yang Lei, I'm telling you this not to ask you to sympathize with me. I just hope you understand and don't follow in my footsteps..."

I exhaled and nodded: "Yeah."

Lao Chen smiled, and the smile was full of relief: "You are very smart, and you are not as indecisive as me. If you can get out of this park alive, you must remember not to let your family get into trouble. Even in When you are most desperate, you must remember not to drag down the people you are closest to..."

He seemed a little tired after talking too much, and his voice was fluctuating and unstable.

I originally wanted to advise him to take a good rest and not waste too much energy.

But by the look on his face, I knew that even if I told him, he wouldn't do it.

He explained a lot of things to me and also said his last wish: "If I can't survive this time, I hope you promise me two things."

I nodded: "You say."

"I hope you can take good care of Xiaobai...at least protect her within your ability."

"Don't worry, I will."

"Another thing, I know it's a bit overwhelming. But I still want to say..."

He sighed and said: "If you leave the park one day, I hope you can go and see my family... I have their contact information on my phone. I don't need you to do anything for them, I just hope you can help me. Apologize to them...I am not a good husband, nor a good father..."

"I promise you."

He smiled with relief: "Although I taught you a lot of things before, they were just superficial. The reason why I didn't teach you everything was because I didn't want you to use those methods to get deeper and deeper... Now it seems that I was wrong. "

"Here, being too kind will only kill yourself. So...Yang Lei..."

Lao Chen took a deep breath, as if making final preparations for the next words: "I have an encrypted document on my phone, which contains many of my experiences and what I have learned throughout my life. Among them are my best ones." Hedging strategy', I hope you can learn it seriously."

"A 'hedging strategy', simply put, is the process of making any risky investment or decision while simultaneously taking opposite steps to reduce the risk. Here, you can use this strategy to balance yourself against other people, say, For every person who appears to be cooperating, you need to have a plan for dealing with their sudden betrayal."

Lao Chen Lu continued to talk for nearly an hour, during which he showed pain several times.

I wanted to stop him and make him say less, but I held back the words.

"Give me another cigarette," he said to me.

I took out the cigarette and handed it to him to light.

This time he took several puffs without coughing, and I found that his complexion actually improved a lot.

Just when I thought a miracle happened, he slowly closed his eyes.

The smoke fell from his mouth, and the smoke floated gently in the air, as if it had taken away everything he had...

I instinctively bent down to pick up the cigarette butts on the ground, but found that his face looked unusually peaceful the moment he closed his eyes.

He just lay on the bed quietly, as if asleep, extremely quiet.

For a moment, I seemed to feel that the atmosphere in the entire room had become dull, as if time and space had frozen at this moment.

I don’t know why, but my nose felt a little sore, and tears slipped from the corners of my eyes unconsciously...

Old Chen is dead...

He died in this depressing and almost suffocating park.

His face, which had been wrinkled by time and stress, looked so peaceful at the moment.

He was finally free from this dark world.

Looking at Lao Chen on the bed, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart, as if I had lost some kind of support, or as if a piece of flesh had been cut off.

The smoke gradually filled the whole room, just like the darkness in my heart, depressing and cruel.

I walked to the window and stared at the buildings and roads in the park, staring at this hell full of fraud, violence and death!

I suddenly realized that Lao Chen might be lucky.

At least he no longer has to live in such a world, no longer has to be trapped in this endless darkness...