Chapter Ninety-Five: Hundreds of Billions of Slates
This slate is only the size of a palm, and the shape is irregular, with a line outlining a strange symbol, which has not appeared in the current known human civilization, and looks like some unknown text, more like a child scribbled.
For Hakumashi, the symbol was somewhat familiar, perhaps related to the talisman technique, but there were no similar charms in the large and small talismans he remembered.
But he didn't think it was scribble, after all, he had seen it open doors to another world.
The scene fell silent, and then there was a sound of ear-to-ear exchanges, because Jin Santu had a lot of previous convictions for using garbage as treasures, and most people thought that this was the broken brick he brought out from a demolition site.
"Palm Multilateral Gray Stone Tianzi Monument, the starting price is 10 million US dollars!"
This so-called tomb robber's feast is not a formal auction, because every time the auction is opened, the owner of the auction comes on the field in person, takes out the treasure, sets the starting price, and then the bidding process is completed by the host, similar to the ancient treasure process, so there is no lot catalog before the start, and there is no guide price.
It is such a free rule that leads to the emergence of people like "Jade Gold", as long as he has the courage, he can even sell his own night pot, as long as someone is willing to buy it.
And this time, apparently almost everyone thought it was another bohemian spoof, taking out a random broken brick, imitating the name of the artifact and giving it a casual name, and then setting a more casual starting price to come here and meet a super casual buyer.
Just like the previous rollover scenes, everyone burst into laughter, and for a while, this "Jade Gold" became a laughing stock again.
Even Shiratori Ping couldn't help but laugh dumbly, although Wu Zhi was not in the mood to laugh at him, he still couldn't help but say, "What is that?"
But Bai Maxiao couldn't laugh at all, in his opinion, this important part of the gate to another world is definitely not an ordinary thing, at least it is certain that it is not a thing in the living world.
If Ji Keyan was here, he would definitely fool her into buying it on behalf of Fez, and he would definitely not lose money.
But after all, even Bai Ma Xiao and Shiratori Ping, who are people in the spirit world, don't know what this thing is, let alone other mortals in the living world, they laugh at it wantonly, and talk to each other, some say that Jin Santu is poor and crazy, some say that this is a brick that Jin Santu pulled out of the toilet, and some say that this may be a fragment of a tomb brick, and it is also a cultural relic. In short, although everyone's imagination is uneven, the subjective thoughts are surprisingly unified.
However, Jin Santu on the stage was not angry, not even embarrassed at all, but he did not reveal an expression of "you guys really don't know the goods", but an inexplicable calmness, as if he was waiting for something.
The people who watched the excitement and laughed at him didn't pay attention to his demeanor, but Hakuma Xiao kept looking at him, and only felt that Jin Santu looked like he didn't know what this thing was, but he knew that someone would definitely buy it.
Perhaps this inexplicable calmness is a kind of blind self-confidence.
But soon, the two lights came on and the hostess's remark "President Yamaguchi of the Shinguchi Group is bidding! The current bid is $10 million!" silence fell silent.
After a short stay, everyone's ridicule was successfully shifted from Kim Santu to Yamaguchi Heiji, and most of them thought that the new young president was a sloppy loser who used the behavior of buying garbage at a high price to show his wealth, and there was a beautiful girl sitting next to him, which made people even more convinced that this was a drunken Kaiko.
But Wu Zhi and Bai Ma Xiao were only shocked, and Wu Zhi's shock came from the fact that although Heiji he knew was misbehaved, frivolous and lustful, he was not a person who would spend money on women, not to mention that he knew who the girl next to Heiji was, and it could never be Heiji's woman. And Bai Mashio's shock came from the fact that this mortal actually knew the value of this thing, even if he knew, what was the purpose of photographing this thing?
However, the shocking thing is far from over so far, and Heiji's bid is just the beginning.
Immediately, after Jin Santu took out such a thing, and someone was really willing to bid, the third wave of voices that shocked the audience sounded, "The sixth prince bids! Double! The current bid is 20 million US dollars!"
Bidding at this venue is based on a sign in your hand, blue and red, each with a number representing you. Blue is 10% of a bid, and red is 100%, which is doubled. Generally speaking, no one will raise a red card, after all, the psychological price is limited, and they all hope to buy what they want at the lowest price, so the red card is the patent of Kaizi to fight for wealth.
But the sixth prince did not have a female companion by his side.
At this time, the words of the whole audience changed again, but it was not that the object of ridicule was transferred from Ping Er to the sixth prince, but that the value of this stone tablet began to be discussed.
Because in everyone's hearts, what the six princes like must be good things. If you can't see it, you don't know the goods, it's a shame, it's a shame.
"I'll just say, this thing is a treasure, I once saw it on the list of missing artifacts in a certain country, it's a national treasure!"
"Come on, is that still a mouth under your nose? Who just said this was a brick out of the toilet?"
A similar conversation exploded in the crowd, and the value of the slate immediately rose several notches out of thin air, from a worthless trash to a priceless national treasure.
Soon, the fourth bombing arrived: "President Yamaguchi bids again! Double! The bid is now 40 million US dollars!"
This time, people's surprise is that someone dares to grab things from the sixth prince, or for such a little-known "national treasure".
As I said when I photographed the Golden Seal before, few people dare to snatch a treasure with the Six Princes, unless it is something you have to do, and you don't plan to continue to mix in the cultural relics market. Or, the sixth prince is willing to give you face. For example, when Ping Er took the golden seal, the sixth prince abstained and gave Ping Er this face.
At that time, it was the first time that Ping Er grabbed something with the sixth prince.
And this time, it's the second time. Aside from archaeology, as far as social relations are concerned, the first time the sixth prince made a bid, and after you grabbed it, he gave it to you, which can be regarded as giving you face. This second time, you bid first, and the six princes grabbed it, and it was your turn to abstain from giving it to him as a gift.
But Ping Er is not, which is a bit provocative.
In complex social relationships, it is really not that you can bid with others casually if you have money, which involves many aspects of confrontation, not just a competition of financial resources.
This time, people's attention finally moved away from this stone slab, focusing on "people", all of them were discussing the duel between Heiji Yamaguchi and the sixth prince, and began to speculate about the relationship between the two, maybe there was a feud, or maybe the female companion around Heiji had a grudge against the sixth prince, in short, rumors spread everywhere, and the more they spread, the more unreliable they became.
However, the fifth one followed, and it was the longest, because it lasted until the end, and the people were in this fifth shock, and they were stunned, and there were no more rumors and speculations in their mouths, but only bursts of exclamations.
After Ping Er bid again, the sixth prince did not give up at all, and soon ushered in a sky-high price of 80 million. Immediately afterwards, without giving the audience a chance to breathe, Heiji did not hesitate to push it up to 160 million.
Without waiting for everyone's exclamations to fall, the Sixth Prince raised the sign of 320 million without hesitation.
"As far as I know, the most expensive price ever sold was an antique porcelain bowl that was sold for $200 million by an Englishman named Daniel Windsor, and I remember it was last year. I didn't expect this record to be broken so quickly after only a few months. There was an irrepressible excitement in Shiratori's tone, and it seemed that everyone was interested in watching others spend money.
But for Bai Maxiao is not surprising at all, if the country knows that this slate can pass through space, it will definitely break its head to rob, after all, the cost of high-speed rail is tens of millions of dollars per kilometer, and the cost of a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in China is more than 30 billion US dollars, but this is only a line, with this may be able to create a portal that can instantly pass through any place, what is more than 300 million?
However, as the auction continued, Bai Maxiao gradually couldn't sit still, because the price kept doubling and rising, and after a while, it reached tens of billions, that is, 10.24 billion, and after reaching this level, it naturally removed the fraction and became 10 billion, and then 200, 400, 800, until 160 billion finally ushered in a stop.
"At present, the highest bidder is President Yamaguchi, 160 billion US dollars!"
The auction has reached this point, these two people are like two money printing machines, at this time the fight is not how much money, but how much money can be printed, these two people are just like using a cheat in the game to call up unlimited money and then crazy with money, but this is the reality. Almost everyone knows that the world's richest man who ranks first on the rich list has a total asset of more than 130 billion US dollars, not to mention that he can't afford to pay this 160 billion, even if he can, who is willing to use it to buy such a slate?
Although the hostess is still very serious and serious about singing and selling, everyone knows that this has been played by these two people, like child's play.
"Your Xinkou Group is really rich, spend 160 billion to buy a slate. However, in this venue, the person who has the most no concept of money is Bai Maxiao, not that he is rich and has no concept, but that he is so poor that he has no concept, for him 100 million and hundreds of billions are all conceptual things, and he has no concept of the upper limit, and feels that as long as there is money, tens of trillions are normal.
Wu Zhi didn't talk, but looked around the window vigilantly, "Be careful." ”
"Be careful of what?" asked Hakuba Shino strangely.
"Pinger, he's ready to do it. ”