Chapter 1539 Blackout (Part 2)

As time went on, more and more cities without power were restored, and various power plants and nuclear plants that tripped began to be reconnected to the grid one after another.

Guo Tailai also received news from Little Finn that the power outage was indeed caused by the short-circuit burning of super-large high-voltage substations, but not one, but three. A problem in one substation is far from causing power outages on the east and west coasts, and the three super-large high-voltage substations all have traces of man-made sabotage. This was not an accident, but a premeditated attack.

This is reasonable! Guo Tailai also told Lin Jiayi about this situation. As for the members of the Treasure Ship Club, at this time, everyone will not communicate with each other. Each has its own news channel, and no one will be far behind.

The loss of the three special graphite bombs was also explained by Guo Tailai to everyone in the final communication last time. Everyone also agreed to the agreement to limit the amount of funds sucking blood from the United States. There is no news of any graphite bombs, and no one can take it lightly.

When the news of the killing of the dictator father and son was announced, the European stock market had already risen a wave. According to Guo Tailai's knowledge of this wave, Lin Jiayi should have eaten it in advance.

Now the European stock market continues to rise, but there are still a few large stocks of capital that are bearish and operate in reverse.

Just when many people could not understand the investment methods of these capitals, something happened again in the United States.

There are 65 substations throughout New York, including 18 in Manhattan. The West 49th Street Substation in the United States is located in the center of Manhattan Island, New York. This substation is the central station. This station is a 345kV indoor GIS substation. It was built in 1978. Although the equipment is relatively old, it has been relatively reliable in operation so far. Together with the station, there is also a 138/13kV distribution station, which is responsible for directly supplying power to Times Square.

The three high-voltage substations that were previously short-circuited and burned were all in the suburbs and belonged to the key substations on the main road of the power grid. After the accident, people from the FBI and the National Guard were assigned to guard such key nodes, and no abnormalities were found. However, there are only a few police officers patrolling the substation located in the city. In broad daylight, no one thinks that something will happen.

When everyone thought nothing would happen during the day, something happened.

boom! The first explosion didn't sound very violent, but the second explosion that followed was like thunder, and people in several blocks heard a loud sound.

No one came to the scene to destroy it, but the device responsible for the destruction had already been installed inside the substation. A timed explosive device exploded at the set time, exploding a fluffy filament, covering the surrounding area of ​​thousands of square meters. As soon as these fluffy filaments came into contact with high-voltage lines, they caused violent sparks and short circuits. That's where the second explosion came from.

People miles away from the scene saw a momentary flash of neon blue, an unusual flash even in daylight. Some also heard strange buzzing noises and saw an unusual, psychedelic-colored glow.

In an instant, the power supply in Manhattan had just been restored for a short time, and it was cut off again alive. All lights, air conditioners, computer networks, and all equipment that needs power from the grid are all powered off and stopped working.

Fortunately, it was still daytime at this time, and did not cause much panic, and the short circuit in the substation instantly attracted the attention of the police patrolling outside. The fire truck arrived within a few minutes and began to frantically put out the fire. The response was too timely, the fire did not spread, but, undeniably, the power went out again!

This substation is the central station of Manhattan, which can be said to be the main hub of electricity consumption on the island of Manhattan. At this moment, the entire Manhattan completely lost power. Including Times Square, Broadway theaters, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Chrysler Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Fifth Avenue, etc., and even the United Nations Headquarters, all power outages.

On top of that, Wall Street, the world's most important financial center, was without power. The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, was out. Although these trading markets have strict UPS backup power, however, this does not last long. The design of UPS can only support half an hour to one hour, and it only supports backup of important data. To support the use of thousands of computer terminals and huge network connections, UPS is not so powerful.

Several fuel generators started working immediately, finally able to provide power before the UPS failed. But for the blackout of the entire Manhattan, it is a drop in the bucket. Who would have thought that there was no power outage in New York even during 911, but it turned out that the power outage unexpectedly happened under some circumstances, and it was so completely shut down.

Fortunately, both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have backup systems, and the technicians have quickly switched to the backup system, which barely guarantees the normal operation of the stock market and saves a little face for the US government.

The explosion was so characteristic that the U.S. government knew that it could no longer hide it, so it could only hold a press conference to announce that the power outage in Manhattan was caused by graphite bombs, because the power grid was old, and it was necessary to clean up those explosions. The repair time of graphite fiber substation may last more than one hundred hours. In addition, the FBI found and seized a stolen graphite bomb in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and cracked a major terrorist attack against the power grid in Washington, DC.

Stock markets in European countries fell in response, as did US stocks. But at this time, the European stock market is close to closing after get off work, while the U.S. stock market is fighting wildly, and the smoke is full.

"Boss, something is wrong." Lin Jiayi has been paying attention to and operating the harvest of the global stock market. She has not rested for almost a day and a night, but she still keenly noticed that something is wrong, and quickly reported to Guo Tailai.

"What's wrong?" Guo Tailai couldn't see anything from these curves, so he asked Lin Jiayi to explain directly.

"Besides the members of our club, there are at least five shares or even more large amounts of funds operating in the market." Lin Jiayi knew the boss's lack of this, and quickly explained: "The predators on Wall Street are considered one stock, and our club Members' relationship accounts in Europe can be regarded as one share, which is also a large amount of funds, but there are at least three or more shares, a very large amount of funds, which may come from the Middle East or Russia. The source cannot be judged in a short time, but their The operation seems to be taking the opportunity to harvest Europe and the United States."

"Harvest?" Guo Tailai couldn't help but widen his eyes. What kind of funds can achieve the effect of harvesting? And there is a question: "Those guys on Wall Street allow others to harvest Europe and the United States?"

"Boss, they are the most ferocious ones, okay?" Lin Jiayi explained with a wry smile, "It's too cruel!"

"Then let's not mess with each other too deeply." Guo Tailai quickly urged, "Just accept it!"

"Withdraw immediately!" Lin Jiayi quickly picked up the phone and started dialing.