Xiaoyi walked back to his room to wash up as if nothing had happened, and said to Huo Li through the wall with his consciousness: "Last night, I seemed to have entered a special real world. No matter how I picked the lock or smashed the window, I could not leave any traces in reality, but that world could affect me."
"Xiaoyi, what you mean is that if the mastermind behind all this creates a nuclear explosion in that special world, you will die there! And we in the real world will not notice anything?"
"In theory, that's the case," the boy answered with his consciousness while brushing his teeth, "Maybe I was playing Master Philip one second, and turned into a wisp of steam after a nuclear explosion the next second. But in this case, I won't really die, This is only one of the tens of thousands of tons of my limbs. There are still 120,000 tons in the system space! Maybe this is the reason why this person didn't attack me yesterday. Maybe he wanted to draw out my entire body?"
"That's impossible!" Huo Li said, "Only my system and the little cat know the secret that you are an alien, and we will not harm you or leak the secret. As for the little cat, although I always think she is too emotional sometimes, but with her constitution of leaking secrets and predicting worse scenes, if she hadn't had a good ability to keep secrets for hundreds of years, the world would have been messed up by her "disaster planet" constitution. "
"What about the Happy Planet? Did you blow it up?" the boy asked.
"Not a single cell will be left."
The boy frowned slightly and looked at himself in the mirror: "Maybe he was just testing me? And he is not sure that I am an alien? After all, there are too many people in this world who want me dead: including all parasitic beasts and all humans except you. Who knows what abilities these trillions of life forms have?"
"Fortunately, you were not hurt by him this time, but next time..."
"Who said I was not hurt!" The boy interrupted Huo Li's words rudely with his consciousness, and said while looking in the mirror: "I slept for nearly 20 hours in a row, and my face is a little swollen! The physical quality of humans, tut tut tut!"
An hour later, the two Master Philips and their family assistant Mr. Liu walked into the lobby of Fandu Auction House, The entire lobby was decorated in a magnificent style, with even the gaps in the marble floor decorated with gold edges. There was a row of windows in front of the lobby, separated by vintage metal railings decorated with reliefs. The metal railings of each window were curled into a row of numbers at the top, ranging from 100 Star Coins to 1 billion Star Coins from left to right.
The left side had the most customers, especially the three windows below 10,000 Star Coins, which even had long queues. But the customers on the right side gradually became sparse, and the senior receptionists for 100 million and 1 billion Star Coins were reading newspapers calmly, while the other was drinking black tea leisurely.
The boy didn't know whether they were human or parasitic beasts, but no matter what, they used human habits to the fullest.
"Two young masters, please follow me," said the bald uncle Liu Mo, "According to the message sent by Miss Alena, the purchase price of the hospital that meets your request is about 20-50 billion star coins."
Liu Mo took the two to the luxurious armchairs in front of the rightmost window, and after the two young masters Philip sat down, he stood aside respectfully, and then asked in the impromptu Fandu dialect: "Show us the list of large items without discounts."
According to the rules of Fandu Auction House, if the customer is in urgent need of money, the items can be directly sold to the auction house for cash without auctioning. However, the purchase price of such goods is generally reduced to about 50% to 80% of the auction proceeds. Of course, some goods that will definitely be bought by buyers are excluded, which are the undiscounted items mentioned by Liu Mo.
At first, the old lady who was drinking black tea just used her sharp eyes behind her reading glasses to look at the two young Masters Philip. It was not until she heard what Liu Mo said that she put away her contemptuous expression, put down her teacup and handed him a beautiful book on the table. Liu Mo quickly bent down and handed it to the eldest master with both hands. With his appearance, he was a shrewd and flattering middle-aged businessman.
After Huo Li had a rough look, Xiao Yi acted like a spoiled young master, stood up, snatched the list of items from his brother's hand, and said arrogantly: "Let me see! What doesn't our Philip family have? Even if I take a toy that I don't want, it can be exchanged for hundreds of billions!"
The old lady behind the counter gave little Philip a stern look. She had been in the intrigue-filled trading world for most of her life and looked down on these rich second-generations who didn't know the rules. After hearing little Philip's boastful words, she couldn't help but say:
"The famous brands, sports cars, and jewelry that you rich kids usually play with are not value-preserving goods in the trading street. Even a top-grade pure blue star stone is not worth 100 million here. This is the top window of Fandu Auction House, not the luxury stores that sell pieces of cloth at sky-high prices that you usually hang out in."
Xiaoyi scanned the booklet in his hand for a few times. The first page was energy stones, with prices ranging from 1.5 million to 2 billion star coins per ton. The following pages had rare animals, rare plants, technology patents, and even interstellar battleships. The last page of the manual has some special needs of buyers: for example, a wealthy customer wants to buy a long dress worn by a certain star in the interstellar world; the museum planet has been buying antiques and artworks at high prices for a long time. As for paintings from 10,000 years ago, they can be sold for billions if they are well preserved. A painting exhibited in the Louvre 10,000 years ago can be sold for a sky-high price of 20 billion!
Among these employers' needs, there are even requests from pharmaceutical companies to blatantly buy drugs from the World Salvation Alliance system mall, and technology companies to buy defensive talismans. It is not uncommon for obviously down-and-out or greedy taskers to secretly resell goods.
Huo Li sat there and recalled the treasures he had collected over the years in his system space. It was obvious that the collections he had bought at the interstellar auction could not be sold... In the end, he selected several popular high-grade energy stones, took out a few small pieces from the space as samples and asked Liu Mo to pass them to the old lady.
"Top-grade ice crystal stone, black abyss stone and cosmic light stone, 5 tons, 5 tons and 2 tons respectively. According to the price list, the total price should be around 66.4 billion star coins." Huo Li leaned back in the armchair, looking a bit like a business elite.
After the old lady heard the names and quantities of the three energy stones, the indifference and impatience on her face immediately disappeared, and she quickly took them with a gleam in her eyes and put them into the detector on the side to read the values. After seeing the rows of parameters, the old lady suppressed her shock: Did she really miss a big customer? Then she said respectfully:
"Mr. Philip, the quality of your energy stones is very good, and they can be sold at the same price! I will arrange for the pick-up and tester now, and then the transaction can be completed after all the energy stones are tested..."
"So boring, is it so troublesome?" Xiaoyi interrupted impatiently, moving restlessly on the chair, "Brother, what kind of rubbish are you selling? It's only worth 60 billion! How can such a small amount of money be enough to spend?"
The old lady, who originally looked down on this young master, didn't want to pay attention to this little devil at all, but continued her topic a little stiffly: "We have three payment methods in Fandu Auction House. Do you want to..."
"Brother!" Xiao Yi shouted in dissatisfaction, "You might as well let me buy some home decorations instead of selling these broken things! I can definitely make more pocket money than you do. It's too shabby for our Philip family to have only a few hundred billion Star Coins in liquid funds when we go out to do business."
After all, the ignorant kid in front of him was the younger brother of the big customer in front of him, and he couldn't do anything disrespectful to offend him. The shrewd senior receptionist could only try his best to suppress the urge to roll his eyes, squeezed out a stiff smile and asked: "Mr. Philip, I wonder what 'priceless' home decoration you are going to buy?"
The boy stood up from the chair and skipped forward, casually taking out a rectangular wooden board from the space. It seemed both shabby and inconspicuous, but the old lady obviously saw it at a glance. After revealing its origin, she stood up and pointed at the board with a trembling hand: "Monet's Sunrise! This, this can't be the real thing!"
Xiao Yi looked at her with contempt, as if he despised her inexperienced look: "Don't you have a detector? Humph, it's just an oil painting, why would I bother to make it!"
While casually passing the painting through the gap in the fence, the serious old lady was sure in her heart that this was 99.99% a fake, and the young master must have been deceived! But for the one in ten thousand possibility, the old lady hurriedly found a pair of brand new gloves for cultural relics, took the painting with both hands, and carefully put it into the detector.
The black-haired young master beside him sneered: "There is a high-level protection amulet on the back of this painting. It won't hurt even if you throw it into the fire now."
In the interstellar age, when humans invented more advanced ways to store cultural relics and artworks, most of those precious paintings had been destroyed, and a considerable number of them were owned by private tycoons. There are very few artworks that can be preserved to this day and collected in the museum planet for the world to visit. Even the practice assignments of any student in the Academy of Fine Arts ten thousand years ago could be displayed in the high-level exhibition area as long as they were relatively well preserved, not to mention...
At this time, rows of parameters were displayed from the detector, which immediately brought the old lady receptionist's thoughts back to reality. "Created in 1872!" The old lady rushed towards the screen and spilled the boiling tea without noticing.
The bald Liu Mo standing nearby added: "You can't fake the age. When this painting first came out, it was criticized. No one thought of imitating it to make money that year. Of course, there are other parameters that you can take a look at slowly." Although Liu Mo said it calmly, he was actually worried: Big sister-in-law is really capable! She can even fake this and get the age right! I hope there are no mistakes in other parameters...
But unexpectedly, any parameter of this "Sunrise" is completely consistent, indicating that this is undoubtedly the real thing. The old lady was so excited that she was about to have a heart attack. She quickly used her smart brain to contact the Museum Planet and tremblingly told the whole story: "...It's really the "Sunrise"! The machine detection is correct, all right! The professional team will be here in an hour, all right!"
"It's not just a "Sunrise," the boy interrupted, "there's another one that's too big. I can't get it in if I take it out. What's it called... Oh, it seems to be "Luncheon on the Grass" and there are 18 other paintings."
"This, this, this..."
"I think it's better for me to take it out later," Young Master Philip said lazily, "You should urgently dispatch some guards here."
Three hours later, Xiaoyi and his group successfully met up with Alena and her group. In a private room of a top-notch restaurant near Fandu Square, the few people who had successfully completed their purchasing and auctioning tasks were having lunch. Liu Mo, who had been holding back in fear for the entire morning, finally opened his mouth and started talking incessantly:
"Brianne, you don't know! When I saw that even the deputy director of the Museum Planet came to participate in the appraisal, I was scared half to death. What if they found out something was wrong? At that time, the entire auction house was surrounded by the armed forces of the Museum Planet, as if they were afraid that someone would rob it! Hahaha, the 20 fakes that my sister-in-law conjured up made them run around in circles!" Liu Mo wiped the corner of his mouth, looking like a filthy businessman with a smell of copper.
Britney imagined the scene at that time and was still a little worried: "Boss, that's 186 trillion, which is 186 trillion star coins. What if the Museum Planet finds out in the future? And it's not good to deceive them like this. After all, the Museum Planet has been committed to protecting and repairing cultural relics."
"Well, what are you worrying about?" A red-haired beauty next to her took a sip of red wine and said charmingly, "The financial strength of the Museum Planet is stronger than that of an ordinary small galaxy. 186 trillion will not hold them back." The black
-haired boy: "Who said that what I gave was a fake."
The six people were surprised in unison: "What!!!"
The black-haired boy: "Those 20 paintings are indeed Monet's authentic works. Instead of taking up space in my space, it is better to give them to the museum."
Huo Li: "Could it be that they are from the Happy Planet..."
"An heirloom of a poor tycoon," the black-haired boy said as he ate a pink translucent apple, "I think it's a pity to let them be turned into ashes by a nuclear bomb. But next, Huo Li, you have to fake the entire Philip family. Soon, countless eyes will be staring at us."
"So our Philip family must be a large tycoon with a long history and the most disciplined and law-abiding." Huo Li added, "No problem at all."
An hour later
Huo Li had already set out on his own "fake journey" from Fandu Square. Xiaoyi followed Alena and the others to the hospital. Just as Xiaoyi was looking around in the back seat of the car, admiring the bustling streets of the Fandu planet,
the bustling crowd on the street disappeared in an instant, leaving only empty cars coming and going.
The boy thought to himself that something was wrong. Before he could react, the two parts of the road on the left and right sides, which were moving in opposite directions, overlapped and merged into one! All the vehicles collided with the oncoming cars in an instant! Boom! The road turned into a large explosion scene in a second!
The boy broke the glass and jumped out of the car, which had become a fireball, within half a second. However, when the boy was still in mid-air and had no leverage, the space twisted again, and a large truck, which was bounced high by its own momentum and explosion, appeared out of thin air 0.5cm in front of him! The little alien was hit head-on by it and was blown away by the huge force. It drew a nearly straight parabola on the street and fell into an exploding tanker...