Chapter 187
Gu Hongying: “……?”
Is this a euphemism for being taken advantage of?
Robert was surprised at first, and then asked: "Is it only the bidding of a certain item that will compete with others at a higher price, rather than all the items in the auction?"
Golden Nightingale: "Yes, Mr. Robert."
"That's not bad." Robert breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Gu Hongying, "Just take a picture of the fox face, my small treasury will definitely be enough, don't worry."
Gu Hongying: “……?”
He was greatly shocked; the young man's wealth seemed to be beyond his imagination.
Golden Nightingale: "Mr. Robert, you have a communication from the Voice of All Things. Do you want to answer it?"
Robert: “Connect, connect!”
The golden nightingale tapped the ground with its beak, and a holographic projection of a person appeared on the ground. Eric's face was so gloomy that it could rain: "You two fools! Don't you know what it means to ask in front of the hanging king's lantern?"
The small inter-domain teleportation array of three people was slower than that of two people. As soon as the three of them arrived, Eric heard the notification from all the VIP rooms:
【Palace on the Sea】The king’s lantern has been hung.
Eric was almost pissed off by them.
The hanging king's lantern may seem like the behavior of a big fat sheep, but in fact it is a silent notification from the person who owns this VIP room to others - I have something that I am determined to get, and I also have enough financial resources and capital to get it.
Of course, other people can bid with the VIP room of the Hanging King Lamp, or even bully him maliciously, but if they bully him maliciously, they should also consider whether they can withstand the retaliation of the Hanging King Lamp's people.
Anyone who dares to hang the Wangdeng is either very powerful or has a powerful backer. Most people don’t have the courage to do so maliciously, but it is inevitable to encounter a few fools. The owner of the Wangdeng tacitly acknowledges that no matter what happens, the item he or she has chosen will only belong to the owner of the Wangdeng.
The word "王" expresses it vividly.
Although Fox Mask and his team were determined to win, and although [Palace on the Sea] belonged to Olivia and few people dared to offend him, but for such an ordinary item, the King's Lantern, everyone knew that there must be a cat's greed! Even if they couldn't get [Palace on the Sea], the price had to be at least several times higher than the normal bidding!
"Listen, both of you—" Eric took a deep breath, "When Fox Mask appears, don't participate in the bidding, I'll do the bidding. If you have other items you want, contact me first, don't do it yourself. When [True Word Dream] appears, you can bid for that item!"
In the room with the hanging lantern, you must bid on at least one item.
[True Dreamland] is a new magic item from their Anthony family. Even if it is sold at a premium, it is just a second purchase after losing some handling fees. It will never be higher than the difference in price when they bid for the Fox Mask in several rounds.
"Remember what I just said. To ensure that we can get the Fox Mask, you must not participate in the bidding for the Fox Mask!" Even though the holographic projection was not Eric himself, Gu Hongying and Robert seemed to hear him grinding his teeth. "Did you two idiots remember it?"
Robert: “Remember!”
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Gu Hongying: "I remember it too..."
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The holographic projection was cut off.
After turning off the projection, Eric leaned back and lay down on the soft sofa. He gritted his teeth and said, "They shouldn't have used the same invitation letter!"
"Don't be angry." Hao Zhizhi plucked a grape from the fruit plate and threw it to him, "At least there is still a chance to save it."
“That’s right.” Eric stuffed the grapes into his mouth, chewing them viciously as if he was chewing someone’s flesh. “Fortunately, it hasn’t reached the stage of locking up the item.”
After the King of Hanging Lantern is activated, you can also use the service of locking the auction items. That is, when the locked auction items appear, the bid will be automatically increased by 10% higher than the last bid until the auction items are completely acquired.
If they had locked the fox mask, it would be even more troublesome now—because once the item is locked, it cannot be cancelled.
Eric chewed the grapes fiercely and calmed down a little. He saw Yu Tu flipping through the virtual auction brochure and turned his head to ask, "Tu Tu, do you like anything?"
Eric only likes to compete with Gu Hongying, and gets along well with Hao Zhizhi and Yu Tu.
"I've known you guys for so long, but I've never given you a gift." Eric said, "If you two like any of them, just take a photo."
As the heir of the Anthony family, the thing he has the most is money.
Yu Tu fell silent as he looked at the long string of zeros following the prices of the items on the virtual auction manual except for the first three pages.
He is really...poor!!!
Seeing Yu Tu's strange expression, Hao Zhizhi also picked up a virtual auction brochure and opened it. After a while, they both had the same expression.
Hao Zhizhi: "It's so expensive..."
The prices of the first three pages were not low, but compared with the latter part, the first three pages actually had a sense of economical affordability (?). It was the second time that Hao Zhizhi clearly and intuitively felt that money was just a number - the first time was when she saw the long string of zeros in the bank card of her guardian Zhihuai.
"Mystery is a large auction jointly organized by Dong and Dong. There are many good things, so the prices are naturally high." After seeing their strange expressions, Eric took a book and slowly opened it. "I don't even know what the items on the last four pages are. But if you want to bid for the things on the last four pages, you don't have enough money."
The virtual auction booklet has five items per page, and the last four pages have only one item per page, and the virtual pages will be unlocked when the item is about to be auctioned.
Yu Tu: "Various resource replacements?"
Eric nodded: "Yes."
He looked at Yu Tu's expression and couldn't help but laugh: "You really don't need to be so serious, Tu Tu, you may not have much idea of how wealthy the Plant Tribe is."
He pointed at the virtual auction brochure in his hand: "Whatever you want, the Plant Tribe can afford it."
"And there's Zhizhi." Eric continued, "Elder Zhihuai is a medical practitioner, and a mysterious one who travels between the East and the West without a trace. He has made a considerable fortune from curing illnesses and saving lives. Except for the last four pages, you can take as many photos as you want."
Hao Zhizhi: “……?”
Although she had seen the long string of numbers on the guardian's bank card, and her guardian had told her that she could buy whatever she wanted at any time, she found it difficult to connect her guardian with the "mysterious medical practitioner who came and went between the East and the West" because of his soft-hearted personality and the fact that he would get lost at any time, to the point that all the items he used had to be equipped with positioning devices.
Coming and going without a trace—does it mean that he himself doesn't know where he is lost?
With three hours left before the auction, Eric left Sound of All Things to do some much-needed socializing. Yu Tu, Hao Zhizhi, Robert, and Gu Hongying's holographic projections spent time playing flying chess, a game that tests one's luck.
After a round of flying chess, all four of them fell silent.
The flying chess piece must be thrown to six points in order to get from the base to the take-off point. For this simple step, four people took turns throwing eight times before each of them managed to throw a six, allowing a plane to take off.
And then... the chaos began.
Either Robert crashed back the plane that Gu Hongying had taken off with great difficulty, or Yu Tu took away Hao Zhizhi's stacking chess pieces; either Gu Hongying's plane was just a few steps away from the finish line but couldn't get the exact number, or Yu Tu reached the last section of the journey after going through untold hardships only to be sent back home... As for the jumping pieces, flying pieces, and consecutive throws bonuses in flying chess that only European emperors have - in this melee, not a single person triggered them.
The probability is so low that it is unscientific. It is truly heartbreaking to hear about it and makes people cry when they see it.
After this game of flying chess was finally concluded with great difficulty, the two people and their two projections looked at each other, and then looked away at the same time.
Gu Hongying: "Flying chess is quite boring..."
Robert: "That's right, there's no need to play a second round of a game that doesn't require any skills."
Hao Zhizhi: "Flying chess is just so-so, not very fun."
Yu Tu: "Throwing dice is boring."
The four of them looked at each other again, and no one said a word.
Eric pushed the door open in such a strange atmosphere. He saw two people and two projections in the room, each occupying one side. The atmosphere seemed quite solemn, and he couldn't help wondering: "What happened?"
The four of them looked at him at the same time.
Eric: “……?”
One minute later——
Eric held a small square dice in his hand and threw it. After the dice rolled on the ground for a few times, there were four identical small dots on the side facing up.
Gu Hongying: "Four o'clock, the fifth round."
Yu Tu picked up the dice that had rolled a little far and put it back into Eric's hand: "Try again?"
Eric, who had been smiling brightly when he came in, now had a dark face. He weighed the dice in his hand and threw it out. The dice spun on the ground, and under Eric's gaze, it stopped spinning, with the five-point side facing up.
Hao Zhizhi: "Five o'clock, sixth round."
When they tried to get Eric to throw the seventh round, Eric slammed his hand on the table with a dark face and said, "Enough! Who wants to play such a childish dice game!"
Robert: "Eric, are you angry?"
Hao Zhizhi whispered: "Little Rose, you see through it but don't say it."
Eric's look was murderous.
The two people and two projections were as quiet as chickens.
Finally, it was Gu Hongying who broke the silence. He pointed at the dice that was angered innocently and said, "Do you want to play flying chess?"
A kind of unspeakable luck test game.
There was still about an hour before the auction started. Eric said with a dark face: "Play!"
With three minutes left before the auction began, Eric threw the dice back into the box: "Flying chess is childish and not a good way to kill time."
Others spoke out in agreement.
Eric waved his hand and let the Emerald Snake in [The Sound of All Things] come over, take away the flying chess and restore the tabletop to its original state. The other people tacitly ignored this.
The auction was about to begin, and Gu Hongying and Robert disconnected the projection connection.
Eric, Yu Tu, and Hao Zhizhi walked to the huge "floor-to-ceiling window" and looked out from it. They could see the majestic auction table lighting up in circles from the center outward, as if the distant stars had fallen from the night sky to the mortal world. A slightly mechanical sound reached everyone's ears at the same time—
"Welcome all distinguished guests to [Mystery]."
“The auction begins.”