However, this method clearly worked. As soon as the 50 million bottles of the so-called "pure natural health drink" were launched, they were immediately snapped up by the residents of Safe Zone A.
Among them, Lin Sen quietly bought five million bottles.
There's no other way; he has a lot of plants. In the past, the total amount was controlled due to water issues, but now that water is cheaper, he can naturally expand the scale of planting.
Lin Sen is not worried about land resources. Since Ouyang Feng has lost his permanent residency in the safe zone, Lin Sen has long been determined to acquire the land resources under Ouyang Feng's name.
So Lin Sen registered as soon as the auction announcement came out.
Many people also signed up, including Kang Shuaifu, Huo Jiujian, Chen Xiang, Meng Zaoran, Chen Guangming, Wei Lan, and others. In addition, since the registration was not limited to the Safe Zone A, people like Lai Haoren and Guo Xiaoming also signed up.
Li Lechen wanted to join in the excitement, but was told that only those who had registered could participate in the auction. So, he also spent 100,000 coins to register and received a number plate marked 177.
It appears that at least 177 people will participate in the auction.
In fact, by the time registration closed in the afternoon, more than 73,000 people had registered to participate in the auction.
In other words, the Resource Coordination Committee, as the organizer, easily collected more than 7 billion yuan in registration fees.
Kang Shuaifu was unaware that Li Lechen's "all-natural health drink" strategy had utterly devastated his natural water market. This was because his smart assistant was always programmed to be completely passive, never proactively reporting anything to him.
So sometimes being too confident isn't a good thing.
Kang Shuaifu was full of confidence at that moment.
The auction was simple and straightforward: the highest bidder won.
However, due to the large number of participants, several rounds of elimination are required beforehand.
In the first round, applicants with assets of less than 5 billion yuan were eliminated.
Li Lechen has already sold two batches of water today, and his assets have easily exceeded two million, so he's naturally guaranteed to pass the first round. However, after this round of selection, only 12,000 out of more than 73,000 people have been eliminated.
Those poor 60,000-plus people, no one told them there was a first round of elimination matches, otherwise they wouldn't have gone after 100,000 Sun Coins, getting kicked out before even getting a chance to participate in the auction.
In the second round, applicants with assets of less than 10 billion yuan were eliminated.
"I object!"
Wei Lan was the first to speak out against the rules for the second round.
Her current assets are only 9.1 billion yuan. According to this rule, she's just like those eliminated in the first round—kicked out before even getting a chance to participate in the auction. It would have been better to set the elimination standard for the first round as assets less than 10 billion yuan.
Mo Longao also expressed his opposition.
Of course, the reason is also that his assets are less than 10 billion.
However, like Li Lechen, Mo Longao wasn't really after the natural resources under Ouyang Feng's name; he just wanted to watch the excitement.
But if you get kicked out before the auction even starts, what's the point of watching the show?
Afterwards, more people raised objections, and the organizers had to change the conditions: in the second round, residents of non-safe Zone A would be eliminated.
However, a problem arises at this point. As everyone knows, the composition of residents in Safe Zone A has become quite complex. In addition to the traditional permanent residents of Safe Zone A, there are also some residents who only possess the rights to Safe Zone A but do not actually live there.
Among these people, some are from the safe zone and some are from the quarantine zone.
But the situation is far more complex than that.
Not everyone purchased all the rights to Security Zone A. Some spent a billion, some spent seven hundred million, and some only spent one hundred million to buy a single right.
How to distinguish them?
If the definition of permanent residents in the traditional sense of a safe zone is merely a formality, it is tantamount to openly declaring that the permanent residency eligibility for the vacant safe zone will not be made available to the public.
This obvious "unfairness" will not be allowed to happen.
The Resource Coordination Committee had to convene an emergency meeting to address this elimination rule. The more than 12,000 people who had already entered the second round, including Li Lechen, were locked in the auction area; all they could do was wait.
Of course, the waiting period won't keep everyone too idle, with occasional auctions taking place at any time.
For Li Lechen, it was all just watching the show. Even if he was supposedly locked out, it would only mean he couldn't leave the auction area, but in reality, his activities would be completely unaffected.
So I stayed there without any burden.
The others were more or less annoyed.
Everyone knows that government departments have complicated and inefficient rules of procedure. A dozen or so people sit together and express their opinions. To put it nicely, it's democracy; to put it bluntly, it's everyone passing the buck.
So everyone figured that this decision wouldn't be made for at least an hour or two.
Of course, with so many tycoons with assets exceeding 5 billion yuan here, the organizers wouldn't just leave everyone to their own devices for a few hours.
Therefore, temporary auctions of various commodities were launched.
In fact, even without official guidance, people will not miss this rare opportunity to shop on Taobao and clear out their stock.
Auctions are simply a way for people to put up things they don't find interesting and have them collected by others.
Mo Longao, with his own agenda, was the first to jump out.
"I have honey here that is two thousand years old. The starting bid is 100 million yuan per bottle."
After waiting for a long time, no one responded.
Mo Longao was puzzled. After carefully confirming that he was still online, he said, "Honey is one of the basic ingredients for making the 'Smiling Half-Step Madness,' and this honey is from two thousand years ago. It's impossible to find it now. A starting bid of one hundred million is really a fair price."
Why would someone perform the "Smiling Half-Step Madness" ritual?
Suddenly someone spoke up and asked.
"......"
Mo Longao was speechless.
"I'm not interested in anything right now, and I feel like the earth is about to end."
"Anything else to look at? I'm not interested in honey!"
"I don't want any food. I took a satiating pill and now I don't want to eat anything."
"Hey, what's this guy eating 'fullness pills' like me? I thought they were a commoner's food."
"I wasn't planning on buying any satiating pills, but the sales assistant at the mall went crazy. She wouldn't let me buy anything else unless I bought satiating pills, so I ended up buying 10,000 of them."
"Damn! I bought ten thousand of these too! One of these is enough to fill you up, what's the point of having so many? And they say they won't expire. I'm not planning to live for ten thousand years!"
"Ten thousand years? We don't even know if Earth will still exist then. With so few resources left, how long can it last?"
"The Earth will definitely still exist; it's just that humanity will be gone. At that time, the Earth will belong to the polluting beasts."
Seeing that his honey was completely ignored, Mo Longao was deeply discouraged: "Then I'll sell a get-out-of-jail-free card now, starting bid is also one hundred million, who wants it?"
After a long while, there was still no response.
Everyone was still talking about something they didn't know.
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