Chapter 15 Section fifteen

Kuramo said: "This is a kind of mouse!" "Use your brain. If the downline members, downline members, and downline members increase at this rate, it will surpass the population of Japan in the blink of an eye. In fact, the number of rich people is higher than expected. There are still few, so this kind of business will not be able to continue soon. According to the mathematical principle, even if you want to recover the invested capital, you will not be able to recruit people to become new members. In the end, you will only be left with a debt." "I know this, but will you make money if you join early?"

"Of course it will make money. At least those who joined at the beginning will make a lot of money, but if you are not a member who joined at the beginning, it will be very difficult to get back the money." "You mean it's too late to join now?" Hearing my question, Kuramochi smiled and nodded. "Of course. This kind of thing is over when the cadres make a fortune. People who join halfway are just big fat sheep." "But, do they still have gems in their hands? Selling the gems can recover the invested capital, isn't it?" "Who are you selling it to?" Cang Mo's eyes were still smiling.

"Sell it to anyone? If the jeweler can't do it, in the worst case, you can sell it to a pawn shop." "If you sell it to a pawn shop," Cang Chi folded his arms and tilted his head slightly. "50,000... No, if you can get back 30,000, you will be laughing." "Huh? But, didn't you say that those jewels are worth a million...?" "That's a matter of personal values, isn't it? But the pawnbroker wouldn't think that jewelry was worth a million dollars. No fool would drop money on such shoddy artificial stone." "Huh? Is that man-made?" I looked at the gemstone again.

"And it's not an ordinary inferior product. Although it's not glass, it's not even an ordinary decoration. However, a layman can't tell its pros and cons just by looking at it, right? Everyone It’s a look of pretending to understand, just look at the price, and then talk about what you have and what you don’t.” "So, aren't you cheating?" "I never said it was a natural stone. Even if I did, the person who bought it has no proof." I glared at Kuramochi. "It's really obscene." However, he was unmoved. "That's what making money is all about. It's just taking money from people legally. As long as it's legal, there's nothing dirty about it." He put away the box of gems.

"But I don't understand. Why did you tell me the inside story? Didn't you call me here because you intended to lie to me?" Kuramochi looked at me, shrugged in surprise, and opened his eyes wide. "I lied to you? Why did I lie to you? If I lied to you intentionally, I wouldn't even tell you these things. As early as when you wanted to buy it, I asked you to sign the contract as if nothing had happened." "I always thought you were looking for me to join the club." "Tajima, we're friends, aren't we? And we've been friends since we were young, right? How could I lie to you. Even if you were joking, I still feel hurt."

Kuramo said seriously.I looked at his face and thought, "Who is it who designed this friend to receive a curse postcard?" "Don't you think there is a good way?" I said to him. "And said that I would definitely want to join after listening to it. Now tell me the inside story of the Rat Society, what exactly do you want to do?" "The main point I want to say is later. Would you like something to drink? If you don't drink coffee, how about beer?" "Have a bottle." Kuramochi took out two bottles of beer from the refrigerator and placed one in front of me.As I opened the tab of the easy-open jar, I thought to myself, "This is going to be a hard time mixing in potassium cyanate."

"As I said just now, only those who join at the beginning can make money in this kind of mouse club business, and those who join later will only lose money." Cang Chi began to talk after taking a sip of beer. "I know that." "What I'm going to say next is the point," he said, leaning forward with one elbow on the table. "All in all, the purpose of this kind of business is not to buy things, but to find ways to increase members. In this way, another kind of business has emerged." "Another business?" “We don’t become members ourselves, we help get people into membership. Organizations make money when people get into membership, so when we help get people into membership, it’s a given that we get paid, right?”

I looked at Kuramochi's face.He received my gaze and nodded frequently. "Is that your job?" "For now." Kuramochi said meaningfully, and took a sip of beer. "You said that if you have good health, you should tell me..." "That's the thing. Doesn't it sound bad? We are different from those idiots who become members. We will never lose our money, and we don't need performance, we only need to have acting skills." "Acting skills?" "You'll understand later." Kuramochi explained the remuneration to me.If it is converted into an hourly salary, it is indeed not comparable to my current job.I'm surprised, is it really that profitable?

"To be honest, the number of new members has been decreasing recently. This time, the organization wanted to hold a large-scale publicity event, but there were not enough people, so the people above asked me if there was someone trustworthy around me, and the first thing I thought of was you. Actually, I I asked you out today and I have already reported to my superiors." "Report? Did you say my name?" Kuramochi shook his head. "I didn't mention the name, I just said that I met childhood sweethearts in elementary school. I heard so much from me just now, I think you should know that this job must be kept secret, and not just anyone can do it. How about it? You You can continue to do the current job, do you want to try it as a part-time job?"

I took a sip of my beer and sighed. "Not interested. Anyway, to put it bluntly, I just want to cheat with you, right?" "Didn't I just say that? To make money is to get money from others. If you can't figure this out, you will suffer for the rest of your life." "No." I held the beer bottle and shook my head. "I won't do it. There can't be such a good thing." "I want you to trust me." Kuramo didn't continue to stalk me to join. I finish my beer and get up from my chair.Since the murder plan cannot be carried out, there is no reason to spend such a long time with him. I found that the most important murder idea in my heart is shrinking.I don't know why, as long as I have a long talk with Cangchi, my thoughts will always be dragged away by him.

"I have something to ask you." I said to him before putting on my shoes at the entrance. "What's the matter? See how serious you are." "Do you remember a girl named Yoko Ejiri?" I thought to myself that he would play stupid again anyway, but I couldn't help asking.However, his reaction was beyond my expectation.He opened his mouth a little in ecstasy at first, then frowned and said, "Remember. The swimming girl, right?" "I told you before that she was dead, didn't I?" "Well, you did. It was a few years ago?" He scratched his nose. "That girl died when we were freshmen in high school. I should have told you that she committed suicide, too?" "Ok……" Kuramochi rarely showed an honest expression, which made me feel at a loss.I was sure he would pretend he hadn't even forgotten about her death. He massaged the back of his neck and said, "Tajima, I know you're interested in that girl. I knew it the first time I saw you at the pool." The sudden speech made me panic. "That's not what I want to say." "Listen to me. You're interested in her, that's why you're so worried about her death, right? But, I advise you to forget about her early. That kind of woman..." "That kind of woman?" I felt the corners of my mouth twitch. "What do you mean by that kind of woman?" Kuramochi stretched out his hand and scratched his meticulously styled hair, showing an embarrassing expression. "Tajima, you're suspicious of my relationship with her, right? You think the girl you like has been snatched away by me." I didn't say a word, just stared at him out of breath.Honestly, I panicked.I didn't expect him to say that. "I recruited. I, slept with her. It was my fault to keep it from you." After speaking, he lowered his head slightly.I stared blankly at the swirls on his head. "You are indeed Yangzi's..." "Wait. It's true to say so, but if you think I got her pregnant, then you have a big misunderstanding." "Isn't it your fault? You said you slept with her, and you still want to evade responsibility?" I yelled at the top of my voice, and took a step closer to him. Kuramochi stretched his hands forward and spread out his palms in an attempt to stop me. "I don't want to mention it, because I know you like her, but I don't want you to misunderstand, so I have to say it." "What are you talking about? Tell me clearly!" "Then let me tell you. She asked me out." "yeah……?" "As soon as you introduced her to me, she called me and asked me out. I felt so guilty about you, but I had the audacity to go on the date. I apologize for that. But she's a big fake Lady." "How do you say that?" Negative emotions began to ferment in my heart, making me feel slightly tight in my chest. "On our first date, she asked me: 'Haven't you ever had sex?' and she said it innocently, and it freaked me out. I honestly said I didn't. Then guess what she said ? She said, just do it if you want." "...you lied..." I murmured.As soon as I close my eyes, Yoko's smile immediately appears in my mind.Her sweet smile and Kuramochi's words are completely contradictory. "What did I lie to you for? I thought she was joking at first, so I also jokingly said, then I'm not being polite. But she actually asked me: 'How much money do you have on you?'" "Money?" I thought to myself, how could Yoko ask Kuramo for money. "It was my first date at the time, and I was also very nervous. I had more than 5,000 yuan with me. Hearing what I said, she actually said: '5,000 yuan is enough, where should I do it?'" "You liar!" I shook my head excitedly, and shouted loudly: "This must be a lie! Don't talk nonsense!" "I didn't talk nonsense. When she said that, I realized that she wasn't joking. Later, my heart was pounding, and I was the one who was afraid. It was really embarrassing. She looked like a commonplace, and said that the jungler Cannons, too." "Field cannon?" "It's just doing errands outdoors. As a result, we walked to the nearby river and found a place where there were no people..." Cang Mochi began to hesitate after speaking. I shook my head again. "I don't believe it." But it was clear to me that my voice had grown weak and limp. "It's true. Of course it's not the first time for her. After all, she's used to it. I'm so embarrassed by comparison. After she finished, she quickly put on her underwear and said to me: 'Here is five thousand yuan.' I didn't enjoy it at all. The aftertaste afterwards is really a bit of a disappointment." "Wouldn't she be like a prostitute if she did that...?" "It's not only the same, it's a prostitute. Didn't you say that her family has no money? That's why she works in the swimming pool. However, I think the money for working there is still not enough, so I made it." That kind of thing comes." Hearing what Kuramochi said, my heart was burning like a fire, and my heartbeat was disordered.I heard the pulse in my ears, but I kept screaming in my heart, "Impossible! There's no way she would do something like that!" "Let me say this first, I use condoms, and I didn't prepare them, she brought them. This means she planned to do it from the beginning. As long as she finds a rich partner, she will take the initiative Get close to each other and sell your soul and flesh to make money. I think there may be a dozen or twenty people who have done it with her. I only do this once, and I think some of those people may be her regular customers." impossible.The shouting voice in my heart gradually became smaller.I don't know much about Yoko Ejiri, or maybe I should say I don't know anything. "I, I thought you were having an affair with her." Hearing what Kuramochi said, I raised my head and saw a weird smile on the corner of his mouth. "So I was still thinking, now I'm a 'brother' with you, but you haven't slept with her. In this way, she is really stingy. For the sake of working colleagues, at least she should let her go for free. Why don't you play it once. Anyway, you've already been fucked by a bunch of men, and you won't lose a piece of meat." I punched it.The mind was a mess, filled with emotions such as anger, sadness, and shock.He dodges my fist, grabs my wrist instead, and knocks me down on the cold floor with a flying punch.I stared up at him, but couldn't get up. Cang Mo panted heavily and sat on the chair. "I think you will be hit hard, so I have been silent until now. But I think this misunderstanding must be resolved." "I heard her senior vocational classmates talk about her, but her classmates didn't tell me that she was selling sex. Her classmates said that the man who impregnated her ordered her to remove the child, and she committed suicide." "That's just a rumor, right? Besides, she won't sell sex in her school." I bit my lip.He made a lot of sense, but I still couldn't accept it. "Do you have proof? Can you prove that she did something like that?" "I have no proof, but I am a witness." "How could she do that kind of thing..." "You can't judge by appearance. This is a world of mutual deception." Cang Mo squatted down in front of me, on one knee, with one hand on my shoulder. "Come out with me next Saturday. I'll show you what the world is like." The following Saturday, Kuramochi took me to a room in a new building.The room was about the size of an elementary school classroom, and there were more than 30 iron chairs lined up inside.When we arrived, the chairs were more than two-thirds full.Kuramochi and I sat in the third row from the front on the right.I'm in casual clothes and Kuramochi is in a suit. "Just do what you said just now. Then it doesn't matter if you don't talk." Cang Mochi whispered in my ear. A young man in a gray suit stood in the corner, looking around the venue. "Thank you very much for coming to Hoji International's briefing session today. I think, let's start today's meeting. First of all, please make a speech to everyone. Chairman, please." A man then appeared on the podium.He wears black-rimmed glasses, looks intellectual, and is of medium build.Although he has the title of chairman, he is about forty years old. Zhubao began to speak.His tone is sonorous and forceful, emphasizing certain sentences from time to time.The content of the speech is such that the world is full of opportunities; the current general commodity trading system is time-consuming, laborious and absurd; if you want to make money, you must let others make money first, and only this spirit of mutual support can save tomorrow's Japan, etc.He can be said to be a good speaker with a lot of words and good jokes at the right time. When he was giving a speech, a blackboard was set up behind him.Save the chalk, write "Consumer = Seller" on the blackboard, and draw several circles to enclose the words. "Everyone understands the meaning of this sentence, right? When people want to buy something, who do they trust the most? They don't believe what the clerk says. Because the clerk only needs to sell the item, and doesn't care what the customer will do after buying. Well, so what they believe the most is what someone who actually bought that product said. Same for you guys, right? So what if someone who bought it sells it to you? Now it's convincing Right? Of course, some people will drag others into the water even if they are at a disadvantage, but such people will be included in the list of rejected accounts in the future, so this kind of behavior is meaningless." His words are moderately light-hearted, which seems to be one of the speech skills.In fact, I felt that people in the room were gradually attracted by his speaking skills. The topic of keeping the conversation changed, and it became about gems.He triumphantly said how their organization developed a special sales channel to import high-end gemstones while minimizing costs. "That's the problem, though," he said, raising his voice. "No matter how low the purchase price is, it is meaningless if you have to go through several checkpoints before reaching everyone. Besides, opening a large store is too expensive, so this is our idea." As soon as he finished speaking, he used chalk to tap several times on the blackboard where "Consumer=Seller" was written. Then he began to explain the relevant content of the sales system, which was almost the same as what Kuramochi told me, only the tone was different.I knew it was a trap, but listening to him, I was still affected by the aura exuded from my whole body and the ingenious speaking skills, so I fell into an illusion, thinking that listening to what he said might really make money.Since even I, who knew the inside story, thought so, it is only natural that people who hear it for the first time will be deceived. After keeping the speech, the master of ceremonies stood up again. "Then next, I would like to invite members who joined the club at the last briefing session and have made actual achievements to report for us. Mr. Kazuo Watanabe, please." Hearing what the emcee said, Kuramochi who was sitting next to me stood up.He walked to the front and saluted stiffly.Of course, that is also one of acting skills. "I'm Kazuo Watanabe. Well... I'm really flattered that the organization named me to be on stage this time." After finishing his opening remarks, Kuramochi began to describe his successful experience.Tell me how much benefit he has gained since joining Suiji International until today.Needless to say, this successful experience is of course fictitious.Although his speaking skills are not as good as keeping them, he is full of acting skills. He behaves like an ordinary young man who has turned from a salty fish and has become a successful person.It was only then that I realized that what he said about acting skills last week was exactly what happened.All the attendees were inspired by his successful experience. After Kuramo finished speaking, he returned to his seat amidst the clapping of everyone.His expression was still that of a dull young man, but I saw a look of pride in his eyes, as if he was saying: "Are you handsome?" I blinked and told him through my eyes: "Good job!" This is what Kuramochi is responsible for.An actor who tells stories of success.I asked him before I came here: "Why do you want to do this?" His answer was simple and clear: "Because in fact there are no such successful people. If all the people who talk about success are cadres, people will be suspicious. ? So it's our turn to play at this time." When another actor finished talking about his successful experience, the master of ceremonies stood up again. "Then, this is the end of the briefing session. Next, each group will have a person in charge. Please move to the next room." In the next room, there are several round tables.The guests are seated one after another according to the instructions of the members.There is a table for every four people. As soon as I sat down, I was startled.Unexpectedly, Fujita was sitting opposite me.He also noticed that it was me. He was surprised at first, and then frowned in displeasure. I remembered what I heard him say before: "Is there a way to save money faster." He is about to get married, and he probably needs money very much. A female member came to our table and greeted everyone.After she showed us various manuals, she talked endlessly about what a great person it is to keep the chairman, and how excellent the sales system of Suiji International is. "Hearing this, do you have any questions?" Hearing her question, a woman timidly spoke up. "Will you teach us how to resell the gems we bought?" "We will introduce the store to customers who have no sales channels, put the gems in the store for consignment, and wait until they are sold, and then hand over the money to everyone." "But it's okay if it's an accessory, can you sell just a gem?" "Some stores will help process them into accessories, and you can also design them yourself and then put them on consignment at the store. Although it costs processing fees, it can be sold at a better price, so many people choose this method." "It's awesome to be able to design it yourself." The eyes of the woman who asked the question were shining. I lick my lips, and it's my next turn to ask a question. "The more members you recruit, the better, right?" "Of course. The more members you recruit, the greater the relative commission will be." "In this way, my upline members will also benefit, right? It always feels unfair. Maybe my performance is better than the upline members, and he has to take a cut of the money I earn." "The original intention of the organization is to support each other. People with good performance must make up for the insufficient performance of those with poor performance. Once you get offline, you can advance to the next level." The female member answered my questions fluently.However, this question is only based on the correct script, and it is only natural that it can be answered so smoothly. In fact, the woman who asked the question before me was also a hidden stake in the arrangement.In other words, among the five people at this table, three are from Hozumi International.The three people colluded to let the other two guests fall into the trap, which is the purpose of this organization. The female members quickly answered our various queries.It is difficult for people who are brought to such a place suddenly to analyze things calmly, so if they can give reasonable answers to their questions, they can gradually gain the trust of the other party. The number of times I saw Fujita and another guest nodding increased. "How? Do you want to work with us?" The female member said to the colluding female guests.The female guest nodded heavily. "Okay, please let me join." "Thank you very much for joining. Then please take this document to that table and fill it out." The gaze of the female member then turned to Fujita.Now it's real work. "How do you think about it?" "What should I do..." Fujita scratched his head. I know he can't think rationally.The reason why he hesitated, except because he didn't have the courage to spend a huge sum of 400,000 yuan to buy gems, must be because of his intuition. He glanced in my direction, wondering what I would do. Originally, my work today was only the question just now, so I can keep silent from now on.However, I spoke up: "If you want to join the club, it is better to join as soon as possible?" I suddenly raised a question that I hadn't used the tricks before, and the female member suddenly panicked. "Yes... yes, that's right." "So if you don't join the membership until the next explanation session, you may become the downline of the members who joined today, right?" "um, yes." "Then, I'm going to join. The later you join, the fewer people are likely to become members." I took the documents and went to the formalities desk.Kuramochi was there waiting for me. "What's the matter? Is there an impromptu performance?" He asked me with a look of surprise. "Yes." I looked back at the table just now. Fujita was accepting the explanation of the female members and receiving the membership documents at the same time.