Chapter 189
Gu Hongying was still a little confused: "Who is the king?"
The Golden Nightingale looked at him with her ruby eyes and repeated:
"The [Voice of All Things] King's Lantern has been hung."
Gu Hongying's eyes widened: "Why did Eric and the others hang the Wang Lantern?"
Did they swallow what they said a few hours ago?
Gu Hongying and Robert looked at each other, and both realized something was wrong. Robert said to the Golden Nightingale, "Contact the Voice of All Things."
The golden nightingale's ruby eyes flashed with light, followed by a soft mechanical sound:
"The Voice of All Things has rejected your communication request."
Gu Hongying: "Hit him again!"
"The Voice of All Things has rejected your communication request."
Robert: “Try again!”
"The Voice of All Things has rejected your communication request."
Three consecutive rejections made things even weirder.
Robert's head was already covered with blood without him noticing: "What should I do?"
Gu Hongying looked at the Golden Nightingale and said, "Can you take us to the Sound of All Things?"
Golden Nightingale: "I'm very sorry, the auction is in progress and the room is blocked."
Gu Hongying wanted to ask more, but was pulled back by Robert: "Eric and the others are fighting over this weird thing!"
The information of the items being auctioned is projected on the "floor-to-ceiling windows" of each VIP room, so that the items of [Sound of All Things] Hanging King Lantern have now entered into fierce bidding.
[Antique Fragments]
A piece of bronze fragment of unknown origin, presumably from some ancient artifact, the exact age of which cannot be verified.
Note: The fragments may be cursed, please think twice. 】
Gu Hongying: “……?”
He was puzzled: "Why fight over something that might be cursed?"
"If even a fragment can carry a curse that needs to be specially noted..." The flower on Robert's head wilts a little, "then the entity of such a thing must be very powerful."
They looked at the auction table through the "floor-to-ceiling window". The item was suspended in the air wrapped in a transparent bubble. They could see that it was an irregular piece of bronze the size of an adult's palm with red patterns on it. The color was a bit like the mottled pattern on the white background of the "Fox Mask" that Eric and his friends had bought before.
During the time they were communicating with the Golden Nightingale, the price of the item had soared from the reserve price of 2 million to 16 million, and the price was still rising with no sign of declining.
Gu Hongying took a photo of the French window and said, "The more I look at the money, the more it looks like a number."
"Gu Hongying..." Robert's terrified voice sounded behind him, "Your hand——"
His hand? What happened to his hand?
Gu Hongying looked over unpreparedly. His hand was on the introduction of the auction item. The light began to spread from his hand and gradually covered the entire floor-to-ceiling window.
A reminder sounded simultaneously on the auction table outside:
"【Palace on the Sea】is participating in the auction, with a bid of 17.6 million."
———Wang Deng joined the auction midway, and his first bid was 10% higher than the current highest price.
Gu Hongying: “!!!”
He stepped back in fear and screamed: "How did I get involved in the auction when I just pressed the glass window!!!"
Seventeen million six hundred thousand!
Even if I sell him, I won't get that much money!
That’s not even the sale price!
The two VIP rooms with royal lanterns lit were sold at the same time, which is an extremely rare situation in the history of auctions. The fierce bidding on the auction table has stopped, and the auctioneer bowed in the center of the auction table.
"Since both of you are determined to get this item, and both of you hold the king's lamp, I'm sure you won't give it up. All the distinguished guests participating in the auction—" The light surrounding the auction table reflected in the auctioneer's eyes, making him look cunning and shrewd, which is unique to businessmen. "Wouldn't it be a pity to give up such an item that has caused two kings to compete for it?"
In such extremely rare cases, the auctioneer will temporarily suspend the sale and hold a separate auction for the person who is determined to get the item. This can be considered a small easter egg in large auctions.
Soon after the auctioneer finished speaking, one of the countless "stars" suddenly lit up - another room had a hanging lantern.
"It seems that [antique fragments] are indeed popular..." The auctioneer narrowed his eyes, "There are already three people who have bought them."
He waited for three minutes as usual, and a new star lit up among the "stars". The ground beneath the auctioneer's feet shook, and he disappeared like a shadow. The four brightest stars among the "stars" also disappeared in the waves, as if they had temporarily submerged in another space.
In the other space was an endless darkness. The auctioneer hid in the darkness and asked softly, "Would you like to compete for the top prize in literature or the top prize in martial arts?"
"There are only us in the extra field, there is no need to make such a fuss." A familiar voice came from the star named [Fei Guang Bu Du], and Gu Hongying in the [Palace on the Sea] couldn't help but shudder.
He really didn't expect that among the four royal lanterns that were to be auctioned, one actually belonged to Di Changqing.
Gu Hongying whispered to Robert, her voice devoid of emotion, full of pain: "Why is he everywhere?"
Robert didn't quite understand the pain and whispered back, "Is this person annoying?"
Gu Hongying: "The word 'annoying' is too lenient!"
While the two of them were whispering, a familiar voice came from [Yao Ling An Zang] to Gu Hongying. It was the principal's voice.
She said, "Di Changqing, are you going to interfere again?"
"Xie Jianwei, don't say such harsh words." Di Changqing replied lazily, "Although I don't know why you want to shoot this thing, but you all want it, so I want it too."
"There are two more friends, are you keeping silent?"
Di Changqing's attack suddenly turned.
Gu Hongying understood—he had accidentally gotten involved in a conflict that he shouldn't have been involved in at his level.
There was no movement in the Sound of All Things, and Gu Hongying was unsure of what was going on, so he could only bite the bullet and say hello: "Hello, Principal."
As soon as his voice came out, a trace of suspicion flashed across Xie Jianwei's eyes in [Yao Ling An Zang]. She blinked and quickly regained her composure.
"Gu Hongying," she asked, "who is in the other room?"
Gu Hongying answered her question honestly: "Eric, Yu Tu, Hao Zhizhi."
Xie Jianwei slapped her head with a headache. She mobilized her mental strength and repeated the names of these three people.
In [Sound of All Things], the [Fox Mask] placed in the corner was covered with a barrier formed by mental power. The red in the eyes of Eric, Yu Tu, and Hao Zhizhi temporarily receded, and the color of their pupils returned to normal.
Hao Zhizhi kept rubbing her temples: "Mind control?"
Eric held his aching head and asked, "An additional show of Hanged King's Lantern?"
Yu Tu stared blankly at the mask in the corner. There seemed to be some strange images in his mind, but they were not his memories.
The inexplicable control was released, and Yu Tu suddenly walked straight to the corner and picked up the [Fox Mask]. The last time he snatched it from Eric's face, he was too panicked and didn't have time to take a closer look. Now, when he picked it up, Yu Tu found that the [Fox Mask] in his hand had a feeling of both cold and hot - when you think it is cold, it is hot, and when you think it is hot, it is cold.
I can't describe the specific feeling, only confusion fills my mind.
Yu Tu is now in an extremely calm mood, so calm that it is eerie.
He recited a sentence in a calm tone that no one could understand, which coincided with the strange memory in his mind. The next second, Yu Tu's figure disappeared. When he reappeared, he had broken through the blockade between the rooms. Robert was startled by the sudden appearance of Yu Tu:
"Wow! Tutu, how did you get here?!"
Yu Tu didn't look at him. He walked towards Gu Hongying step by step. Gu Hongying was frightened by his abnormal appearance and stepped back repeatedly: "Tu Tu, what are you doing? I'm so scared--"
Yu Tu knocked Gu Hongying to the ground with a decisive move, then covered his face with the mask in his hand.
The red lines on the mask suddenly overflowed from the edge of the mask and meandered on Gu Hongying's skin. Gu Hongying struggled desperately, but the red lines quickly covered the entire skin on his face.
During the struggle, nine furry, black fox tails suddenly seemed to appear behind Gu Hongying.