Xia Chuhe ultimately failed to borrow the money.

Sister Li rejected her with the same reason as Lu Danggui: what's the point of points in the dungeon? You'll lose everything if you die. Let's talk about it outside.

Xia Chuhe sighed. She couldn't very well say that she wanted to give all the homeless little hens in the world... no, all the homeless little animals in the world a home.

Li Yue leaned over and sniffed Xia Chuhe: "How come you have so much delicious food on you? The colors are so intense they're almost glowing?"

Xia Chuhe pushed her away: "I'm a space-type user, so it's normal for me to pack more food."

Li Yue narrowed her eyes, clearly disbelieving. The concentration of food on Xia Chuhe's body was beyond what a spatial magic could explain. But Xia Chuhe was obviously unwilling to tell her, and she didn't want to keep making a fool of herself.

Li Yue muttered to herself with a hint of self-doubt: "Could it be because of the dungeon? I always feel like there's delicious food everywhere, even though there are people all around."

Xia Chuhe's mind raced: "Sister Li, who do you think can eat this?"

Li Yue: "You really don't need to be this hungry! If you're lacking food, I'll give you some."

“That’s not what I meant,” Xia Chuhe added. “I was just curious.”

Li Yue casually pointed to several people: "She, she, he, he... they are all food. No, they are all food? Oh dear, I'm a little confused too."

Xia Chuhe secretly noted down the names of the people Li Yue had pointed out.

The poultry were lined up in several rows, and Xia Chuhe gradually approached a person whom Sister Li had identified as food.

She quickly turned her head to survey her surroundings, cautiously peeking out like a thief. Once she was sure no one was watching, Xia Chuhe, holding her phone, stretched out and retracted her arm; one of the egg-laying ducks was gone, and a silly little duckling had appeared on the farm.

The person behind Egg Duck rubbed his beady eyes. "Gah? Why is there an empty seat in front? Let's fill it in. Queuing should be neat and orderly."

Xia Chuhe's lips curled slightly. No wonder the butler kept pestering Sister Li to go on the dungeon; this ability is so useful! I'm so envious!

Xia Chuhe glanced at the farm with satisfaction. Not bad, not bad, lots of animals and it's so lively.

Um?

Xia Chuhe's smile suddenly vanished, and she frowned, staring at the wheat field.

Those damned chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons!!!

They actually ruined her unripe wheat!

The wheat field was a mess; the wheat seedlings had been pecked and were of varying heights, with the roots of many seedlings even exposed on the ground, and they looked like they wouldn't survive.

Xia Chuhe wished he could immediately sneak into the farm, tie up the annoying chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons, and then hurry up and replant the wheat seedlings.

However, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the procession had already advanced into the auction hall, and Old Wang's gaze kept lingering on Xia Chuhe, giving her no chance to sneak away.

With tears in his eyes, Xia Chuhe stole another duck. Since the wheat crop was doomed anyway, he figured he might as well steal another duck to make up for the loss in the field.

Xia Chuhe spent all his remaining points to build four chicken coops, for a total of 1200 points.

Farm shows chicken coop construction —

Ten minutes to go.

"The auction is about to begin, ten minutes to go."

The auction house's loudspeakers blared, and the curtains on the stage were drawn back, revealing an electronic wall.

The electronic wall was covered with photos, mostly of peacocks of various kinds, and a few other kinds of birds, probably exchange students.

Xia Chuhe stared intently at the photo and realized he recognized someone in it—Brother Ying was going to be auctioned off!

Xia Chuhe looked around and found the auction house a bit strange, as it only contained birds from the Birds of Prey Academy.

The items for auction are ready, but where are the bidders?

Could it be that Raptor Academy is producing, selling, and using its own products? A purely internal circulation?

This is too childish. After all that trouble, it turns out to be just playing house with yourself?

...

Li Yue looked around and noticed that two of the people she had pointed out to Xia Chuhe were missing. She chuckled to herself, confirming her suspicions: Xia Chuhe's spatial ability was no ordinary thing.

As the sole owner of the food store, Li Yue had seen many space-type beings, and all the space-type evolvers she had seen had one thing in common—their spaces could not contain beings with higher intelligence.

Although Li Yue couldn't be sure what the creatures in the Raptor Academy were, she could at least confirm that they were intelligent at this moment.

If other space-type evolvers were here, they probably wouldn't be able to take in these creatures, but Xia Chuhe can.

Li Yue became increasingly curious about her.

...

Xia Chuhe scratched the feathers off his eyelids and patiently waited for the auction to begin.

The first item up for auction was a green peacock. It didn't look like a human; its eyes held a purity and innocence unique to animals.

The auctioneer was a duck that looked a lot like Old Wang. It held up a small hammer and announced: "Starting bid: 50,000, increments of 1,000 each time."

An electronic voice next to the screen began broadcasting: "Sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety...twelve thousand..."

The digital broadcasts are so fast that sometimes they can't even be played in their entirety, as if people are really bidding fiercely.

"Two hundred and sixty-four thousand energy points," the announcer finally read out.

The auctioneer, brandishing his gavel, announced: "Two hundred and sixty-four thousand once... two hundred and sixty-four thousand three times!"

The hammer fell, and the first order was completed.

...

Eagle's turn to be auctioned soon came, and it was placed on the stage for display.

Eagle's eyes were calm and lifeless, looking at everyone as if they were inanimate objects.

It saw Xia Chuhe, its gaze swept over Xia Chuhe, then turned back, and then drifted away again.

Xia Chuhe always felt that Brother Ying remembered her.

She thought aimlessly, wondering if there were still big-character posters in Brother Ying's room, and whether they were voluntarily auctioned off.

Eagle Brother wasn't the best item in the auction, and ultimately only fetched a price of 220,000 energy points.

Xia Chuhe only vaguely understood it, unsure of the meaning of the quantifier in the auction, or what the energy value was.

Money? Points? Or something else?

The most expensive item at the auction was a hyacinth macaw, which fetched a price of over 30 million energy points.

Xia Chuhe silently calculated that the Raptor Academy had earned at least 100 million from the auction.

From the moment the auction officially began, the formal procedures made her realize that this was no joke.

But who exactly is the bidder?