Capítulo 223: Ancient Jade Cube
Mo Qingkuang didn't make any bids for several items in a row, just quietly watching Lin Yang's direction with a complex expression, his thoughts unknown.
Now, without Mo Fan's reminders, he had confirmed Lin Yang's identity. As long as Lin Yang placed a bid, Mo Qingkuang would follow, preventing him from obtaining anything.
"Next up is a box made of an unknown material," Niao Niao introduced the new item that had just been brought up.
The box's material was indeed hard to identify. It wasn't large, could be held in one hand, and its material was neither metal nor jade. It was multicolored and looked quite peculiar.
"Our auction house's appraisers couldn't determine what it is, but one thing is certain: it's very sturdy. Neither fire, water, nor heavy impacts had any effect on it."
Hearing Niao Niao's introduction, the crowd was puzzled. Why auction something unknown? Why buy it? To use it as a brick to hit people?
Niao Niao seemed aware that this item would be hard to sell, but auction house rules required even unsold items to be displayed.
"The starting bid is 1,000 lower-grade spirit stones, with each raise not less than 500! Welcome to bid!"
The low starting price was to ensure it wouldn't go unsold. Surely, some curious and wealthy person would buy it to find out what it was.
Sure enough, many began bidding:
"1,500 lower-grade spirit stones."
"2,000 lower-grade spirit stones."
"2,500!"
"3,000!"
...
As it turned out, there were plenty of wealthy people willing to spend some spirit stones on an unknown trinket. The bidding quickly surpassed 5,000 lower-grade spirit stones, making Niao Niao quietly sigh in relief. As long as it sold, it was good.
Since she started her career, she had never had an item go unsold. For an auctioneer, the transaction rate of auctioned items was a crucial indicator of their ability.
"Qingkuang, this item is called the Ancient Jade Cube, a treasure left behind by a powerful figure from ancient times." At this moment, Mo Fan's voice echoed in Mo Qingkuang's mind.
"Ancient Jade Cube? What's its secret?" Hearing this, Mo Qingkuang got excited.
To him, treasures from ancient or prehistoric mighty figures were always true treasures. Hadn't it been said that fire and water couldn't damage it?
Mo Fan explained, "This cube is a strange mechanism. See those various colors on its surface? You can only open it by making each of its six sides a single color."
In fact, it was a Rubik's Cube that Mo Fan had set up back in the day for Lin Yang to find by chance.
Now that he and Mo Qingkuang were here, he couldn't let Lin Yang get it; it was an extremely important treasure.
Listening to Mo Fan's explanation, Mo Qingkuang didn't quite understand what the cube was, but if the ancestor said it was good, he had to buy it.
Before he could start bidding, Lin Yang had already placed a bid: "10,000 lower-grade spirit stones."
Hearing VIP 857's bid, the crowd was stunned. He had suddenly doubled the price of this unknown item. Did he discover a secret, or was he just rich and looking for something to play with?
What they didn't know was that while Mo Fan was explaining to Mo Qingkuang, the Saint Alchemist was saying the same thing to Lin Yang.
Getting this ancient jade cube was Lin Yang's great opportunity from picking up a bargain.
"10,000 low-grade spirit stones! VIP number 857 bids 10,000 low-grade spirit stones!" Seeing someone bid so high, Niao Niao was overjoyed, even a bit suspicious. Was this VIP number 857 a shill arranged by the auction house to drive up the price?
After all, this VIP number 857 had already driven up the price of that dragon's saliva grass to over 300,000.
It proved that, whether this VIP number 857 was a shill or not, their effect as a shill was very obvious.
The sudden high bid not only made some people think this was just a rich fool, but also aroused more curiosity.
Could it really be a treasure unknown to others? Had this VIP number 857 discovered some clue?
For a moment, bids were rising one after another. Spending thirty or fifty thousand spirit stones on a decorative toy to take home was something some people could afford to do.
After all, if they could uncover its secret and get a big bargain, it would be a huge gain.
Lin Yang was not surprised at all. He was already prepared for this situation. In this world, there are always more curious people than cautious ones.
Those who are cautious would not come to the Chiyan Auction House. He had already decided that even if he had to spend all his 300,000 low-grade spirit stones, he would get this ancient jade cube.
"50,000 low-grade spirit stones." After several people kept raising the bid, the price of the ancient jade cube had already risen to 30,000. Lin Yang didn't hesitate and added another 20,000.
At this point, people hesitated. Spending a few tens of thousands of spirit stones on a toy wasn't a problem, but if this unknown object exceeded the price of many treasures, it would be a loss.
After all, who would want to spend 50,000 low-grade spirit stones to buy a brick to take home?
Just as everyone was hesitating, Niao Niao happily reported the bid of 50,000 a second time.
Mo Qingkuang knew it was time to act: "51,000 low-grade spirit stones."
"Here we go again!"
The guests in the hall were speechless. At this point, VIP number 108 was making things difficult again for VIP number 857.
It was unclear what grudge VIP number 108 had with VIP number 857, but from the last dragon's saliva grass to this unknown item, VIP number 108 seemed to be deliberately making things hard for VIP number 857.
Those with keen eyes could easily see that, except for the dragon's saliva grass, VIP number 108 and VIP number 857 did not bid on other items.
This time with this unknown object, the two were again bidding simultaneously, clearly a contest of temperament.
Strictly speaking, VIP number 108 was actively trying to compete with VIP number 857.
Lin Yang was also extremely angry. Even if this unknown object was just some odd material, did VIP number 108 really have to compete? Was having money that impressive?
He hadn't realized that the person upstairs who was bidding to deliberately annoy him was his arch-enemy Mo Qingkuang. He was already vaguely sensing that VIP number 108 seemed to be deliberately targeting him.
"60,000 low-grade spirit stones!" Lin Yang called out again. He might as well raise it to 300,000! If you have money, just keep bidding. After all, once this auction is over, this thing is still mine!
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