Gu Nanyan listened quietly without saying a word, his hands clasped together, his right fingers unconsciously resting on the relic on his left wrist, gently stroking it.
With the involvement of the law enforcement department, the voices below quickly disappeared, followed by a turbulent undercurrent that could no longer be concealed.
Even though it wasn't auctioned openly, Shen Bei'an knew that the various private rooms were already in an uproar.
Shen Bei'an suppressed his pity, disgust, and anger.
She walked towards Gu Nanyan and asked, "Can I... take a picture of her?"
“Honey, she’s not Wen Shiyi.”
Gu Nanyan raised his hand and gently ruffled Shen Bei'an's hair, his gaze soft and his tone as light as a feather.
Shen Bei'an knew that Gu Nan'an wasn't saying that the "mermaid" below had no value; she meant that he could save Wen Shiyi and keep her alive, but he couldn't save the "mermaid" below.
He couldn't let her continue living.
It will be very, very difficult to keep these so-called "mermaids" alive.
If it were to give them a quick death, Shen Beian couldn't bring himself to do it.
He couldn't bear to watch a life slip away in his hands.
Shen Beian stepped forward and embraced Gu Nanyan.
He always encounters new, shocking, and bewildering scenes just when he thinks he has experienced enough.
This auction seemed unusually long, with no sound of the auctioneer's gavel falling for a long time.
"What's her starting bid?" Shen Bei'an didn't know how he said that, nor did he know why he asked the question.
Ning Yao has excellent control over her facial expressions; at least for now, you can't tell anything is wrong.
“Ninety million.” Ning Yao had real-time information on her end. “Each bid must be at least one million higher. It’s already reached 1.386 billion and is still going strong.”
Even though most people know that this so-called "mermaid" was "created" by the medical alliance on Fuyun Island, the charm of the mermaid is just too great.
Even if it's a fake, countless people still flock to it.
For them, a smile from a gentleman is priceless.
Moreover, today is the birthday of Arnoll, the leader of the Medical Alliance, and the high price is partly to curry favor with him.
Everyone will experience birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Rich and powerful
Then they would want to live forever.
"This is over, what's next?" This was definitely the auction that Shen Bei'an least wanted to attend.
The more excited I was when I came, the more I want to leave now.
Ning Yao looked down at her tablet and answered in a deep voice, "After the 'Mermaid' auction, there's also a small island in the Pacific Ocean and a blind box mine in North Africa."
In other words, the "mermaid" was the third to last item to be auctioned.
Blind box mining?
Shen Beian was hearing this term for the first time, "Blind box mine?"
“Yes,” Ning Yao explained, “We only know that there must be rare metals in the mine, but we don’t know exactly what they are. The auction price is usually the same as that of a gold mine, which ranks in the middle among the top ten rare metal mines. Whether you make a profit or a loss depends entirely on luck.”
Shen Bei'an understood; in other words, this was a gamble.
If you win the gamble, earning tens or even hundreds of times your initial investment is not a problem; conversely, if you lose, it's not impossible for you to go bankrupt.
"Is Lord Brown interested in these two things?"
Ning Yao knew that Shen Bei'an was certainly not lacking in these things. Back then, when the Gu and Shen families "married," "Mu Bei Island" quickly became the most famous private love island in the world under the "artificial land reclamation" of the eldest son, and its area quickly entered the top three of the world's largest private islands!
As for rare metal mines, the Gu family and the Shen family each own several, and Master Shen is naturally not lacking in them either.
Shen Beian shook his head slightly. He had no interest in these things. He already had an island and a mine, so there was no need for him to gamble.
He just wanted to know that there wouldn't be any more auction items that were so utterly inhumane and immoral.
"Can we leave early?"
Shen Bei'an asked Gu Nan'an listlessly, "There's nothing else I want after this. I learned from Ning Yao yesterday that there's usually a large ball held after the auction on Fuyun Island."
In the original book, both the male and female protagonists attended the ball, and there were some memorable moments where they were proven wrong.
But at this moment, Shen Bei'an had no desire to follow the plot or watch the show.
I just want to go home and rest, and prepare for one last medical exchange meeting.
Then I went home.
Gu Nanyan and Hua Yueli quickly dealt with these matters, and he led Gu Xingxiao and others to prepare for the establishment of the association.
When Shen Beian learned that the Imperial Humanitarian Association had been established and he had become its president, he knew that the things he would encounter would be similar to these, or even more cruel.
He sat on Gu Nanyan's lap and reached out to stroke Gu Nanyan's face. Gu Nanyan lowered his head slightly and let him do as he pleased.
Did she bring him here simply to help him recover the memories he had lost six years ago?
They were on vacation in Western Europe at the time. Even if they regained their memories, shouldn't they have gone to Western Europe?
Why did we come here?
Is it because she had long wanted to become the president of the humanitarian association, which is why she brought him along?
"Okay." Gu Nanyan's thin lips parted slightly.
Ning Yao frowned slightly. According to the rules of the auction on Fuyun Island, one is not allowed to leave early.
Attendance at the subsequent dances was an unspoken rule.
But then I thought about who these two people were.
One who never follows the rules
A person who changes the rules simply because they don't like them.
It doesn't seem so hard to accept anymore.
"If you two wish to leave, I will make arrangements immediately." Ning Yao even suspected that these two were so unrestrained that they weren't afraid of revealing their identities at all.
Fuyun Island is still dominated by the Elders' Council and the Medical Alliance. Even though there is a Law Enforcement Division, it is mostly staffed by these two forces.
Even people from Fuyun Island wouldn't dare do anything too outrageous with these two.
"Where are you two?" Gu Nanyan asked, looking at Shen Juanqing and Xie Yunyu.
Shen Juanqing looked at Xie Yunyu.
Xie Yunyu gently shook her head, "No, we're going to the ball later."
Wushang Loulan rarely participates in these things, but people from Yishui Han and Fengyun usually do.
"Okay." Gu Nanyan looked down at Shen Bei'an. "Baby, shall we go?"
Shen Beian decisively wrapped her legs around Gu Nanyan's waist, put her arms around her neck, and leaned on her shoulders.
The meaning is clear: she doesn't want to leave.
Gu Nanyan chuckled and stood up, holding Shen Bei'an. "Well, Young Master Ning, you can stay with the two of them. We'll head back now."
Ning Yao replied softly, "Okay, you two be careful, I'll go report right away."
Although it's an unspoken rule to stay until the end of the ball, there's no explicit rule against leaving early.
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Master Shen: What rules do I need to personally follow?
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