So far, the entire bidding process of the metal cube has taken almost half an hour, and the price has continued to soar from the initial starting price to more than ten times, and it seems that there is no intention to stop.

Zach has always maintained a "slotted" mouth shape, and the soaring price of weapons has completely exceeded his original concept of money, compared with these people who are competing for bidding, he, a teenager with millions of savings, has a delusion of "I'm really poor......

But by the end of the day, Zach had become completely numb to the long string of numbers on the main stage.

And when the price soared to an extremely terrifying height, some bidders with insufficient net worth chose to withdraw on their own.

It is not difficult to speculate that the people in the 24 auction rooms tonight can basically be divided into two categories: individuals and institutions.

The first type is the extremely wealthy guys, and the main targets who come to participate in this auction are probably the previous high-profile cultural relics and ancient collections, which can be simply understood as the collector type.

And the rest, that is, these people who are still competing for the metal cube, are basically supported by powerful institutions or consortia, and they may all come for tonight's finale auction.

Compared to the latter, the former obviously does not have any ability to compete, and for them, a super-cutting-edge technological product may not have too strong attraction, and they do not have the ability to eat such a terrible thing.

So in the beginning, these groups didn't try to bid on the guys who came on behalf of the organization.

Of course, someone like Zach is definitely an extreme case in this auction, because he is definitely the only one of the twenty-four people who can't afford to buy any of the auction items......

"They have so much money, why don't they buy Australia."

Zach sat in his auction room.

He asked the waiter for a bunch of snacks, and the people outside were bidding frantically, and he watched the string of numbers on the center stage grow longer little by little as he ate.

At the fundraising party, Luo also sat in the original position and waited for the auction results to come out.

After a walk around the fundraising party, Daisy sat back here, boredly playing with her fingers......

Luo didn't know what other purpose this woman had, but as long as she didn't make any suspicious moves, Luo didn't bother to bother with her.

At least in the long bidding process, turning your head and looking at it when you are bored can still achieve the effect of pleasing and refreshing the mind.

……

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

The sky over Hilo City is as cloudless as it is during the day, but the city lights in the center of the city are so bright and dazzling that even if you look up from the street at this time, you can't see a single star.

This bustling little city is itself a glowing star on the map of the Americas.

People who have lived in the city for a long time have basically forgotten what the sky looks like when it is not illuminated by lights, and naturally they do not have the habit of looking up from time to time.

Of course, even if someone happened to be staring at Tianyu at this time, they would not be able to detect that something was streaked high in the sky, silently staying directly above the skyscraper in the center of Hilo......

……

Luo sat in the guest seat at the fundraiser and suddenly frowned.

At one point, he seemed to hear a strange, muffled mechanical noise in his ears, a sound that was hard to describe, like tinnitus.

When he listened carefully, he found that all that came to his ears was the noisy conversation of the people at the party and the sound of the stage stereo.

At first, Luo thought it was just his own illusion, but soon he found that the low and muffled sound that appeared in his mind was still maintained.

It was a strange noise, he had never heard it before, it was out of place with any of the noises around him, at first it seemed to ring directly in his ears, but then it seemed to be haunted in his head, and he couldn't judge the source of the sound at all.

Luo thought it was possible that the symbiote's modification of his body caused this phenomenon.

Or maybe they have their own auditory hallucinations.

After all, from a physical and psychological point of view, he has a lot of problems, and as a person with two personalities, it is not surprising that he has auditory hallucinations.

"Did you hear any strange noises?"

Law asked Daisy next to him.

"Nope."

"Nope."

Daisy and Zach on the other end of the audio comm replied at the same time.

Daisy was obviously a little puzzled by the question that Luo suddenly asked.

"What's the strange sound?"

"Nothing."

Law shook his head.

He glanced at the others around him and saw that they didn't have anything out of the ordinary, still talking to their companions.

In this way, he could not tell whether the deep voice that enveloped his head really existed.

Surrounded by such a strange sound, Luo faintly had some uncomfortable premonitions.

All he knew was that after the blood reacted with the symbiote, all of his senses were greatly enhanced, including his ability to hear.

The improvement of hearing can be roughly understood as the improvement of the ability to receive sound intensity and sound frequency.

The former is the capture of some subdecibel sounds that were previously difficult to notice, while the latter is the range of sound frequencies that can be received.

Luo only knew that he could hear subtle sounds more than before, but he didn't know exactly how far the frequency range he could hear now had expanded.

As it stands, if the muffled murmur is not a mental auditory hallucination, then it is likely to be a sound that is beyond the range of frequencies that a normal person can hear. None of the others present seemed to be aware of the voice's presence.

Luo tried to listen carefully to the sound, he wanted to find the source of the sound, because as long as it was a sound from the outside world, there must be a sound source.

But the problem now is that he is completely unable to judge the location of the sound source......

Maybe it's a common occupational problem, when he perceives the existence of unclear things, Luo always instinctively has some bad premonitions.

……

33 minutes and 42 seconds.

The auction for the Metal Cube ends.

In the end, it was the bidder in Auction Room 15 who won the weapon at an unimaginably high price.

Law interrupted Zach, who was still counting the digits of the final closing price, and said:

"You can leave."

"Oh good." Zach nodded, stood up and patted the snack crumbs off his body.

"The bidder on the fifteenth took the iron block, and now that the auction is over, the auctioneer has sent the things to his auction room, I know the location of the fifteenth auction room, but I don't think it's a good idea to do it directly in this building, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, you go downstairs directly, we'll see you in the parking lot."

Rowe said to Zach in a steady tone.

"It's okay, anyway, I've just checked the identity information of the other twenty-three people, and there are only two or three people who can afford the auction price, all of them are from some multinational scientific research institutions, we can go back and deal with it...... Oh yes, I'm just monitoring all the surveillance cameras in the parking lot, that iron block is not big or small, as long as someone drags that thing into the parking lot, it must be able to find out, you can just do it in the parking lot, how about it? ”

Zach suddenly made a good suggestion.

"It's not impossible......

Luo narrowed his eyes, he felt that Zack's idea was still very feasible, after all, they were not completely sure who the person in the fifteenth auction room was, and once this priceless metal cube was taken out of this building, it might be difficult to find out where it went, after all, the person who bought this weapon at a high price would definitely protect it as well as protecting his own life.

And in the parking lot, because there is no prior planning and preparation, it will be hasty, and it is possible to face the security personnel in the entire building at that time, if Luo can't stealthily and quickly grab the metal Rubik's Cube, then he will have to take Zack, a guy who has no combat effectiveness, it is estimated that the difficulty coefficient will be very high......

No, it's quite high.

Hilo City is Doug's territory, and this entire building is a base camp for Doug.

He's now in someone else's territory.

It's still quite difficult to grab someone's stuff here and leave it smoothly.

……

After ten seconds of weighing up, Law decided to do as Zach suggested.

Hands-on directly in the parking lot.

"Just do as you say."

"Okay, I'm just waiting for your words." Zach said with some excitement: "I have already controlled the monitoring system of the entire underground parking lot, and those people in the fifteenth auction room should also be preparing to go downstairs with their things at this time, by the way, the parking lot is very large, and there are three floors, you have to move quickly." ”

"No problem."

"Also, I don't recommend that you have a conflict with the other party, especially with a gun, I saw the security personnel division and firepower configuration on the main system of this building, there are really a lot of people, if something goes wrong, I can prevent the main system from closing the garage door, and I can also temporarily cut off the communication system between these security personnel, but the security personnel in the parking lot alone are enough for you to drink a pot......"

"I know."

"So my suggestion is to find a way to get the target person out of the way, and then drive away directly with his people and the car, preferably silently, silently, and then I'll drive our Porsche away, and the plan will be perfect." Zach said with a smile.

"Actually, you just want to drive that sports car out and have a good time, right?" Law asked.

"That's just a small part of the reason, but it's for your safety and mine, and considering all the conditions I've learned about the building so far." Zach said.

"Alright, just do as you say, you can go downstairs to the parking lot now."

Law stood up and cut off the video transfer from his glasses.

"Okay, I'll let you know as soon as I notice a target in the parking lot." Zach also cut the video on his glasses.

……

with this time three minutes ago.

After the bidder on the fifteenth transferred the money of the final transaction amount of the metal cube to the auctioneer's account, the staff pushed the box containing the metal cube to the auction room where he was.

"Mr. Smith, congratulations on being the biggest buyer of the night."

A usher, dressed in a black suit, pushes open the door and pushes a large box containing a metal cube into the room.

"Don't say that, the biggest winner tonight should be Mr. Doug."

The owner of auction room fifteen waved his hand.

"Mr. Doug just thinks that he is not good enough to understand this weapon, so he has to choose to give it up, it can definitely create a value in the hands of your company that far exceeds the amount of this transaction, Mr. Smith will not deny this?" The usher said with a smile.

"You seem to have a point." Smith shrugged, glanced at the box that was being pushed in, and asked, "Can you open the box and show me this?" ”

"Of course, it's yours now."

The usher nodded respectfully, took out a metal card, swiped it through the swipe slot of the box, and then handed the metal card to Smith with both hands.

The lid of the box slowly slid open in two, revealing the metal cube that had previously been used in the isolation device.

Smith took the metal card, raised his hand and reached for his glasses, and took a closer look at the metal Rubik's Cube.

His gaze seemed a little excited and hot, as if he were looking at some rare treasure.

"Did Mr. Doug mention the origin of this thing?"

"You're embarrassed about me, I'm just a receptionist, and I didn't even know what was going on tonight, let alone the provenance of the finale, before the auction began," the usher said, shaking his head.

"I see, well, I'll try to find out about this problem later, and my task now is to bring this thing back to the company's scientific research base."

Smith nodded, and he turned back to pick up his blazer from the couch and put it on.

"Okay Mr. Smith, I'll help you push the box."

The usher pressed the close button of the box, and the lid of the safe box slowly closed.

"This way, please."

He held the cart containing the safe and gestured for Smith to go first.

"Thank you."

Smith nodded, pushed the door open and walked out.

……

The two men left auction room 15 one after the other, passed through a hallway, and entered the elevator.

They probably never dreamed of what was going to happen to them......

……

(End of chapter)