The auction begins
"What's the auction item?" someone asked.
The intelligence analyst swiped down the page and the auction list appeared.
【Medicines:
1. Bigu Pills (five pieces): Take them to maintain peak condition and a light and healthy body for three months.
2. Beauty Pill (one): Take it and you will look radiant and twenty years younger.
3. Da Huan Dan (one pill): for people who are near death.
4. Soul-Restoring Pill (one): After taking this pill, a person who has died within 24 hours will be brought back to life.
5. Life-extending Pill (one): Extends life by twenty years and prevents all diseases.
【Talismans:
1. Amulet (one piece): Brings good luck and avoids misfortune, can ward off three fatal disasters.
2. Water-avoidance Talisman (three pieces): You will not get wet when entering water and you can breathe underwater for twelve hours.
3. Boundary Talisman (one): After being activated, it can isolate the inside and outside and is unbreakable.
At the end of the list, there is a line of small print.
[The above items are all small gadgets I made in my spare time. The effects are roughly equivalent to the description, and the specific effects vary from person to person. The final right of interpretation belongs to this store.]
"hiss……"
There was a gasp in the conference room.
Extend your life by twenty years!
Back to life!
Resist deadly disasters!
These are things that everyone will be moved by.
But now, Zhong Ling only sells it to the people of Daxia, and insists on letting the whole world watch.
It's so heartbreaking!
Daxia
"Fuck! Fuck! Am I seeing this right? A life-extending pill! Add twenty years to your life!"
"Beauty Pill! Girls! What the heck is this? It makes me look twenty years younger! Holy crap, I love it!"
"Don't fight with me! I'd trade ten years of my ex-boyfriend's life for a beauty pill!"
"The ruthless man upstairs, I am willing to use my boss's twenty years!"
"Get out of here! The amulet is king! It can ward off fatal disasters! It's like three lives! What's money? Life is what matters most!"
"I'm also very excited about the barrier talisman!"
"Global live broadcast, exclusive to China! Hahahaha, I can imagine the expressions of those people right now, their faces must be green, awesome! So awesome!"
The country's truly top wealthy people and prominent families began to mobilize funds as soon as they saw the announcement.
They understood that this was the ultimate opportunity that concerned the rise and fall of the family and the life and death of an individual.
Zhou Zhenguo's Office
Zhou Zhenguo and Qiao Jianmin sat opposite each other, both looking at the auction announcement.
After a long time, Zhou Zhenguo spoke, his eyes complicated.
"Comrade Zhong Ling, you really do whatever you want." His tone was filled with helplessness and amazement, but more of it was excitement that came from the bottom of his heart.
Qiao Jianmin continued, "She's asserting her authority and issuing a warning."
At this moment, the phone on the table rang.
Qiao Jianmin answered the phone, his expression becoming serious. He just kept saying "hmm" before finally hanging up and saying to Zhou Zhenguo, "The leaders have already heard about this. They've instructed us to fully cooperate with Comrade Zhong Ling. We need people and land, and we need everything else. We must make sure this auction is a success."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Jianmin's personal cell phone rang.
He saw the caller ID and answered immediately: "Comrade Zhong Ling."
Zhong Ling's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Director Qiao, have you seen the announcement?"
"I saw it, I saw it!" Qiao Jianmin replied quickly.
"Well, that's good." Zhong Ling said in a relaxed tone, "As for the venue, I want you to help me find one that's big enough and has good security."
"No problem!" Qiao Jianmin agreed without hesitation. "How about the main venue at the National Convention Center?"
"It's all fine, you can do whatever you want." Zhong Ling completely trusted Qiao Jianmin.
…
Daxia National Convention Center, Hall 1.
This place is usually used to receive foreign guests and hold high-level meetings.
Today, the hall is packed with people, and all those who can sit here are figures who can make Daxia tremble.
There are families with hundreds of years of heritage, business tycoons, and technology upstarts.
More than three billion viewers around the world are watching through the official live broadcast.
"My God, are these the richest people in Daxia? They look... very nervous." A foreign anchor explained in an exaggerated tone.
8 o'clock in the evening.
The lights in the hall dimmed except for the podium. Qiao Jianmin, dressed in a Mao suit and with a serious expression, walked onto the stage.
He said solemnly into the microphone, "Dear guests, good evening. The auction begins now."
Just as he finished speaking, the next second, Zhong Ling's figure appeared out of thin air on the chair in the center of the rostrum.
She was still dressed in cotton and linen, with a cup of tea in her hand.
Everyone's breathing held, and they looked at Zhong Ling with fanatical eyes.
Qiao Jianmin was already accustomed to the way Zhong Ling appeared. He cleared his throat and signaled the staff to present the first item.
A red velvet tray was brought onto the table, with a piece of pale yellow talisman paper on it.
"The first item for auction is the amulet." Qiao Jianmin's voice spread throughout the venue.
"This talisman can protect the wearer from three fatal disasters, whether accidental or not. After three times, the talisman will spontaneously combust."
boom!
The scene was in an uproar.
"Withstand three fatal disasters? This... this is three lives!"
"Oh my god, if this is true, it would be worth any amount of money!"
In live broadcast rooms around the world, barrages of comments instantly filled the screen.
"Fuck! A huge bomb at the start! I'm going to die right now!"
"How are you all, friends from abroad? We've already started selling the Resurrection Armor, though it's just a trial version."
"You're jealous! Why am I not from Daxia? I'd trade ten years of my boss's life for a peace charm!"
Qiao Jianmin looked at the commotion in the audience and banged the gavel expressionlessly. "Amulet, starting price: 1 billion Great Xia coins. Each bid must be no less than 10 million. Now, the bidding begins."
"1.5 billion!"
A slightly overweight middle-aged man sitting in the front row practically shouted out the price. He'd made his fortune in coal, and he knew full well his tale of fortune wasn't entirely clean. He'd been plagued by nightmares over the years, fearing something terrible might happen to him.
For him, this talisman is a guarantee of life.
"Eighteen hundred million!" a cold female voice rang out. Everyone looked over. It was Li Sijing, the eldest daughter of the Li family. The Li family was large and powerful, but also plagued by internal strife. Her father had died in an "accident."
"Haha, Miss Li, you are so bold, two billion!" A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looking gentle and elegant raised the number plate.
He is Jiang Ning, the founder of the Internet giant "Skynet Technology". He is worth hundreds of billions of yuan, but in recent years there have been reports that he has been threatened by foreign forces.
The price kept soaring, and every price increase caused gasps from the audience. This was really like adding money to the stakes of one's own life.
Finally, when the price reached five billion, the only remaining competitors were Jiang Ning and an old man sitting in the corner. The old man was the patriarch of the Rong family, a century-old family.
"Five and two billion." Old Master Rong's voice was a little hoarse, but full of energy.
Jiang Ning's forehead was sweating. He glanced at Old Master Rong and gritted his teeth: "Five and a half billion!"
The whole audience was shocked. Five and a half billion, to buy a piece of talisman paper? It sounded unbelievable, but it also seemed quite reasonable.
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