Chapter XVIII Auctions
Qin Man drove the car onto the Ring Mountain Road, she looked at the scenery that kept flashing outside the car window, and the address left on the anonymous letter was really remote enough.
When the car approached the halfway point of the mountain, Qin Man saw an old Gothic castle with a brown exterior standing alone on the halfway up the mountain.
The castle is surrounded by towering ancient trees, and the place that should be very quiet is forced to be tainted with cheesy by the red, yellow, and blue sports cars parked at the entrance of the castle, which spoils the atmosphere.
Qin Man looked at the people who got out of the sports car, each holding an invitation letter and wearing a mask on his face. Only then did I understand how the invitation and mask attached to the letter were used.
In order not to spoil the neat arrangement of the supercars, creating a majestic and spectacular scene. Qin Man deliberately parked her Audi A6 in the most inconspicuous position in the corner.
Qin Man took out the gold* mask prepared for her in advance in the envelope and put it on her face, took the invitation and opened the door and got out of the car.
Qin Man, who carefully looked at the surroundings of the ancient castle, didn't notice that after she got out of the car, a dark shadow slipped out of the back seat of her car.
It turned out that it was Si Mo who sneaked into her car when Qin Man was not paying attention, and since Qin Man refused to take it out to play, it found a way to follow it out by itself.
Small, who hadn't come out to let off the wind for too long, was particularly excited when he saw the lush woods near the castle, and ran away without a snake shadow as soon as he slipped away.
After Qin Man handed over the invitation letter, he was respectfully taken into the castle by the attendants. In the castle hall, the tables around the hall are full of desserts, snacks, and a variety of drinks and drinks.
It seems that the banquet has not officially begun, and the guests who arrived first are gathering in twos and threes, toasting and chatting.
There was a vague fragrance wafting in the hall, and Qin Man smelled it as soon as he entered the door, this fragrance seemed to be the smell of hallucinogens. She looked up at the guests around her, as if no one else noticed the cathargy in the air except her.
Qin Man casually took a glass of red wine and walked to the corner of the hall. She was waiting, waiting for the person who had delivered her the letter to come to her.
"Distinguished guest, I think this wine is more suitable for your appetite."
As she expected, it wasn't long before a maid came up to her with a tray.
"Thank you!"
Qin Man took the cup and frowned at the maid in front of him wearing a revealing rabbit uniform, the owner of this ancient castle was really vicious enough.
The maids wore rabbit uniforms and shuttled among the guests in the banquet hall, holding up the fluffy rabbit tails on their buttocks, and shaking them as they walked.
Qin Man had already seen several men, staring at them with straight eyes. If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a suit and being in public, he probably wouldn't have been able to bear it a long time ago, and he would have been up and down.
"What kind of wine is this? Bring me a drink too. ”
A woman not far from Qin Man saw that the color of the red wine in Qin Man's cup was stronger and brighter than her red wine, so she asked the maid to help her prepare a glass of the same wine as Qin Man.
"Excuse me, miss. This wine was made by my master himself for this lady, and this is the only one. If you are not satisfied with the wine in your hand, we have other wines on the table for you to choose from. ”
After listening to the maid's words, the woman glanced at Qin Man curiously. What is the origin of this person, and he can be treated differently by the owner of the ancient castle. But what surprised her was still to come, and it didn't take long for Qin Man to be invited up to the second floor by the maid.
Everyone turned their eyes to Qin Man in unison, you must know that the second floor of the ancient castle is not a place where everyone can go.
"Isn't this the woman in front of me with the golden invitation in her hand when I first entered the door?"
One of them recognized Qin Man as the person who had entered the banquet hall in front of him with a golden invitation in his hand. When everyone heard him say this, they were relieved, and those who could get the golden invitation card were of course qualified to go up to the second floor.
The maid ushered Qin Man into a room in the center on the second floor, and then a few waiters rushed in, bringing a lot of pastries and drinks and putting them on the table in the room.
The maid opened the window in the room in the opposite direction to the banquet hall. Qin Man looked down from the window, and there was no figure on the first floor.
"Miss Qin, at twelve o'clock at noon, there will be an auction here." The maid took out a roster of auction items and handed it to Qin Man.
"The master has instructed that as long as the auction items can get into your eyes, he can give you one for free."
Qin Man opened the booklet in his hand, it was just some ordinary antiques.
"How often do you hold this auction?" Qin Man summoned the maid who was waiting beside him, looked into her eyes and asked.
"We hold an auction every year, and we've had 15 sessions so far." The maid looked at Qin Man's eyes, and her head began to become dizzy.
"Who are the people who come to the auction? Why do they wear masks to hide their identities when they come to auctions? Qin Man continued to ask.
"The people we invited to the auction were all high-class people from Los Angeles, businessmen and politicians. Most of them are reluctant to reveal to outsiders what they have bought here? So the masters thought of a way to use masks to hide their identities from each other. ”
"Do you know the man in the picture?" Qin Man took out the photo of Xiu Ming and asked the maid.
"Don't recognize?" The maid shook her head.
"What's your master's name? Where is he now? After the maid finished speaking, Qin Man put away the photo in frustration.
"My master called..."
"Cough" Lin Zhan, who was hiding behind the door, couldn't listen anymore, and interrupted the maid's words with a cough. The maid has been controlled by Qin Man, and if he continues to ask, he is afraid that his family will be taken out.
"Is that you? How did you end up here? You sent that letter? ”
Qin Man looked at Lin Zhan who came out from behind the door, Lin Zhan was the leader of the famous killer organization Ling Xiao Pavilion, and Ling Xiao Pavilion's territory was in Fencheng. For no reason, why did Lin Zhan appear in Los Angeles?
"Not? This castle is mine, but the person who holds the auction is not me, I just rent out the place, and then collect some rent and conservation fees. ”
Lin Zhan looked at Qin Man's eyes with a fierce light, afraid that she would misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained.
"You really didn't send the letter?" Qin Man asked questioningly again.
"Really, I heard that the owner of the auction invited a distinguished guest today, I was just curious to come over and take a look, and I just learned that the distinguished guest they said was you."
Lin Zhan sincerely raised two fingers and swore to the sky, he knew that the distinguished guest they were talking about was Qin Man, he must have hid far away, and he would definitely not stupidly throw himself into the net and take the initiative to send it to the door.
"What do you know about the owner behind the auction?" Qin Man asked.
"We're middlemen, so I don't know much about them."
The 'middleman' that Lin Zhan refers to does not refer to a specific person, but an organization that specializes in collecting intermediary fees and helping people match people to do business.
Qin Man shook his head helplessly after hearing this, this Lin Zhan is always like this, he has always been straightforward in doing things, and he doesn't pay attention. I don't know how he managed such a big organization as Ling Xiao Pavilion.
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the door between the auction hall and the banquet hall was opened, and the guests were transferred from the banquet hall to the auction hall one after another.
The auction collections displayed at the auction were all antiques, calligraphy and paintings, nothing new, and Qin Man began to feel a little sleepy after reading it not long after.
"Next is the last auction item in our field, this auction item is not listed in the book, it is a temporary addition to our auction, I think this auction item will definitely make everyone present feel that the trip is worthwhile."
The auction item was covered with a red cloth, which was carried onto the stage by four strong men, and through the corner of the red cloth, it seemed to be covered with an iron cage. After the auctioneer walked over, he reached out and grabbed the red cloth that was covering the outside, and jerked it open.
Everyone was still muttering to each other, guessing what kind of lot it was, to make it so mysterious, and when the red cloth was lifted and what was inside, everyone was silent at the same time.
There was a little girl in an iron cage covered with red cloth, and the girl's arms were suspended from the cage, as if she had been tortured, and she was covered with wounds all over her body.
Qin Man turned his head and looked at Lin Zhan inquiringly, Lin Zhan hurriedly raised his hands to prove his innocence, indicating that he didn't know anything about this matter.
"When did your auction house start selling people?"
The auctioneer looked at the audience with a smile on his face and did not answer. He ordered the skylight above the castle to be opened, and he couldn't wait to see how everyone would react when they learned the truth.
The skylight was facing the iron cage on the stage, and when the skylight was opened, the sunlight shone into the room and hit the girl. The moment the girl's skin touched the sunlight, a terrible scream came out of her mouth. Immediately afterward, her body began to change, her teeth and nails slowly stretched and became extremely sharp, and her eyes turned from black to gray.
"W-is this a vampire?" Everyone watched in disbelief at the changes in the girl's body.
"That's right, it's a vampire. The auction began with a reserve price of $10 million. ”
"I'm going to make a necklace out of her teeth"
"I'm going to take her back and put it on display at home."
After everyone confirmed that the vampire was being held on the stage, it was as if they were crazy, and their ugly faces were undoubtedly revealed.
It turned out that the hallucinogens in the air were used by auction houses to stimulate consumption, and under the double stimulation of hallucinogens and the lot being vampires, the bidding price instantly soared to 80 million US dollars.
"We had an agreement with the military to restrain vampires and not to harm humans at will. How much blood of the same kind have you and I on your hands, just to protect this group of garbage in the audience. You feel that they are vulnerable, so sympathize with them, have pity on them. But the person who was auctioned off on the stage was just a child, and if you look at them present, do you have a trace of unbearability for us in your heart? ”
Lin Zhan's question, Qin Man couldn't answer. At the beginning, it was the agreement she signed on behalf of Los Angeles, Fencheng, Lancheng and the military, and the person who sent the letter was really well-intentioned, and specially arranged for them to see this scene, so as to shake their battle line and position.
"Didn't you say you were going to give me something?"
"Ah" Lin Zhan listened to Qin Man's words, and had a bad premonition in his heart.
"150 million"
After Qin Man finished bidding, Lin Zhan suddenly felt so painful that he couldn't breathe.
"The guest on the second floor bid 150 million, do you have anything to increase the price?" The auctioneer asked the crowd
"160 million"
A greasy middle-aged fat man downstairs added 10 million on the basis of Qin Man's price increase. This is a vampire, and his injured body will heal quickly, and it must be better than the pets he had before.
"Two hundred million" Everyone downstairs was stunned by Qin Man's neat bid.
"Sister, can you learn from others, let's add 10 million, 10 million? Your 50 million, 50 million price increase every time, my heart can't stand it. ”
Lin Zhan almost didn't catch his breath, and looked at Qin Man with a painful face and said.
"Okay, the guest upstairs bid 200 million. Is there anything else to mark-up? 200 million once, 200 million for the second time, is there anything more? ”
Lin Zhan looked at the slow-talking auctioneer, and wanted to rush down and beat him up immediately.
At the same time as the "deal" auction hammer rang, Lin Zhan seemed to hear the sound of his heartbreak.
"May I ask who took the object?"
After the auction, the bunny girl came to Qin Man and Lin Zhan's room with the girl who had fainted in pain and the bill.
"Bill him."
The rabbit girl walked up to the heartbroken Lin Zhan with a smile on her face, Lin Zhan took out her card with teary eyes, Lin Zhan was unwilling to hand it over so easily, and the rabbit girl pumped it vigorously twice before taking the card from Lin Zhan's hand.
Lin Zhan thought that it must be because he settled in Los Angeles and did not report to Qin Man in advance. That's why she wants to take revenge on herself like this.
"Man, are you going to take it away?" Lin Zhan pointed to the girl lying on the sofa.
"No, since it's your money, the person will naturally belong to you."
"Really? Then I thank you for your kindness on my own behalf. ”
After Lin Zhan finished speaking, he hurriedly led people out of the castle, he was afraid that if he stayed, he would be vomited blood by Qin Man.