Chapter 1: The Dark Spirit World
Thousands of people sit in the palatial hall, with five floors of auction seats, all eyes focused on a small display case on the middle table. Each of them had a close-up camera of the auction item on their pads, but they seemed to be more keen on seeing the real thing, even if they couldn't see anything at all.
"This 'Tang Zhenguan Blue and White Dragon Scale Bowl', with a starting price of $65 million, is now up for auction. The auctioneer on the stage skillfully began to bid, and the people present began to whisper, and the bidding came and went.
"One thing is for sure, it's a national treasure. This should be regarded as the earliest blue and white porcelain found so far. In the VIP auction room on the fifth floor, a man wearing glasses, a hip-hop jacket that doesn't match the venue, and holding a very light notebook, said to the person next to him while tapping on the keyboard, "After identification, this is the real thing." β
"It's a treasure, to be exact. A young woman dressed in style next to her with sunglasses that were big enough to cover half of her face added, "I think you'll be interested, Dan." β
"You've always had a unique eye for antiques, Mo Ran. The man in the suit and leather shoes called Dan said, and then said to the man who was knocking on the notebook, "Mo Ye, I think at this time, don't take out your professional skills of the White Tiger Banner, now that we are on vacation in the living world, can you put the affairs of the spirit world aside first." β
Moye took out a chocolate bar from the pocket of his jacket and took a bite, "Mr. Daniel Windsor, I don't know this in the first place, if it weren't for the meeting later, I wouldn't be in this kind of place." β
Daniel smiled and said to Mo Ran, "Is he usually so unkind?"
I couldn't see Mo Ran's eyes under the sunglasses, I only saw the corners of her mouth raised, "Except for Mo Li, he is not close to anyone." β
"That's my rival. Daniel said playfully, "Why are you wearing these damn sunglasses and leaving school with Mo?"
Mo Ran took off his sunglasses, revealing a handsome face, "I thought you only had Mo Li in your eyes, and you wouldn't care about other women's dresses." β
"Baby, are you jealous?" he said as he reached for her shoulder, but she blocked it with folded sunglasses, and she smiled, "HeyβI'm not a random person. If you don't shoot again, the blue and white porcelain bowl will be taken away. β
Daniel, who was rejected for his affectionate move, was not embarrassed at all, raised the hand that was blocked by her, and signaled to the staff on the side, who nodded knowingly and raised his number plate.
"Are you really shooting? You're running out of storage in your house, right?"
Daniel stared at Mo Ran the whole time, trying to seduce the lady in front of him with the most charming eyes, and the bidding of the auction downstairs came and went, and he didn't even look at it, "You like antiques so much, I'll exchange this bowl for your time for one night, is it enough baby?"
Facing his hints, Mo Ran seemed to have been used to it for a long time, and said very calmly: "If you want to hear me report to you for a night's work, I don't have time, and I have to get off work." β
Listening to her pretending to be stupid, he seemed to have expected that he would not succeed, so he didn't dwell on it anymore, and said to the staff member, "Keep moving, don't stop if I don't say it." Then he said very cynically, "I lack a job at home that matches my identity, and this is just right." β
Mo Ran shook his head helplessly, "You are really the richest person I have ever seen, except for Mo Li." β
Daniel frowned, and just about to say something, Mo Ye on the side said, "Mr. Secretary-General, the time has come." β
Daniel ignored him, but stood up, walked to the window, looked at the crowd downstairs, and suddenly shouted, "Double!"
The audience fell silent, and everyone's focus suddenly turned from the bowl to the fifth floor, their auction room.
"$200 million for the first time!" Daniel didn't know how much they had photographed, but now that he knew, there was no surprise or pity in his eyes, like he had spent the money of a breakfast on something inconsequential.
After a brief silence, the auctioneer dropped the gavel. Only then did Daniel continue to say to Mo Ran what was interrupted by Mo Ye just now, "Now, who is the richest between me and Mo Li?"
"Moli. She didn't hesitate at all, "Just now, she was richer than you." Now, you've got $200 million less in your pocket, and she's got $200 million more in her pocket β but after taxes and auction commissions, I'll do the math, huh...... Seems to be richer than you. β
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The auction room with the curtains closed, it was dim at this time, and Moye's notebook was placed on the ground, projecting multiple stereoscopic projections, and eight figures sitting on chairs appeared around the three of them.
Mo Ran got up, stood in the distance with Mo Ye, looked at the people sitting in a circle in the middle of the auction room, and bowed.
"Mr. Mo, you have summoned us for this meeting, there must be something important to announce, right?" Daniel was sitting precariously at this time, changing his previous prodigal image.
Mo Jun looked at Daniel and said calmly: "Mr. Secretary-General, after our investigation, the power of 'Hydra' has appeared in China. β
His words were short, but everyone was talking to each other, and Daniel was silent for a while, and then said, "So, what kind of organization is this? They have appeared in Spain, Egypt, Tunisia, and India, and now they are our capital, what are they trying to do?"
Mo Jun shook his head, "So far, they haven't sent a representative to meet with us. I don't think they're a ghost-suppressing organization at all, but they're made up of spirits. β
"Not only that, but we still don't know the name of this organization, and 'Hydra' is just a word that we heard by chance from a believer. "At the moment they are active in our country and I have found that there are people among us who believe in Hydra. However, it was not found who it was. β
Mo Jun said: "It's a pity that maybe there are some of our people. Even, I suspect that they exist in the town ghost high school. β
"Ghost High School?" said everyone in unison, expressing extreme shock at the information.
They knew that the spirits in the Ghost Suppression High School would infiltrate various industries after graduation, and if there were people from this cult among the students, then they would quickly infiltrate important positions all over the world like a virus. For such a mysterious and somewhat strange organization, it is still unscrupulously developed by them, and it is an absolute threat to the spirit world and even the living world.
"Friends, I think it's time to take the initiative. Daniel frowned, his eyes full of concern, "Even if they are invisible, we will tear their invisibility cloaks and expose them to us." Guys, this is probably the biggest crisis of UG in decades, we don't know how long these organizations have been around, we don't know what they're trying to do, but they're deliberately hiding themselves and consciously infiltrating us, then they must be bad people. β
"I'm in favor. Mo Jun blurted out, it seemed that this was also the main purpose of his meeting.
After a few seconds of silence, the rest agreed.
Jack Rogan, the representative of the U.S. Board of Governors, said, "So what exactly should we do? Their beliefs are in their hearts, and we can't take everyone's memories and check them again." β
Mo Jun said: "Tell everyone, supervise each other, check each other, they will always worship their gods regularly, as long as they find it, immediately isolate and check, if necessary, you can use force, even if you break the crowbar, you have to pry their mouths open for me!"
"Interesting analogy, Mr. Mo. "Let's go with this plan, focus on the range of activities they frequent, search more, and make sure you find out what these people want to do." The reason why I chose only the eight of you out of the hundreds of council representatives is because you have all reported about them, and they don't want us to know about their existence, so there will definitely be no one of them among the eight of you. β
The representatives of the board of directors accepted the proposal and went offline after the meeting, but Mo Jun was still here.
"Mr. Mo, is there anything else?"
"Mr. Secretary-General, I would like to talk to you about the University of Phoenix. β
"Is there any problem with China's ghost universities?"
"Sir, as far as we know, there are people in the University of Phoenix, perhaps, I know who they are. β
Daniel was surprised, but immediately stopped him, "Don't act rashly yet. I don't know how many of them are in the UG, but if you just know and don't have definite evidence, don't alarm him just yet. β
Mo Jun didn't seem to have any intention of startling the snake, and he didn't have any opinion on his proposal, "With all due respect, I think something big will happen in the spirit world soon. Judging from the records in various ancient Chinese texts, these people have existed for a long time, and the reason why we have discovered them is because their activities have become very frequent in recent decades, and I think that they have been planning something and have recently begun to put it into action. β
Daniel fell into deep thought, and it didn't take long for him to think of something, "You mean, the 1986 White Horse Quire incident?"
"Chances are, that was one of the things they were planning. It's a pity that all the members of the Fengwang Society were killed, and we have no way of knowing what happened at that time. Thinking of that mysterious incident, Mo Jun also felt very regretful.
"Please also investigate in secret, and remember that everyone around us now may be a member of the 'Hydra', and no one can be trusted, including you and me. Daniel sighed and said with some despair, "Mr. Mo, although I don't want to admit it, but now, the spirit world may have unknowingly entered a dark moment. β
Mo Jun nodded, agreed, and went offline.
Daniel lowered his head, pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, and Mo Ran behind him stepped forward and said, "Dan, I think the conjecture put forward by Mo Li fifty years ago may be right at this time. β
"Fifty years ago?" Daniel squinted at her, "that was when my father was here, and I wasn't even born." β
"Yes. At that time, Moli proposed the hypothesis that there were 'dungeons' around the world. She believes that on Earth, there are eight underground palaces that house supernatural beings with destructive powers. Mo Ran said what happened fifty years ago, as clearly as it happened yesterday.
Daniel smiled wryly and shook his head, "She couldn't provide definite evidence at the time, and she probably doesn't have any evidence now, right?" β
Mo Ran said: "Mo Li has been following up on this matter for decades, should Fez support it at this time?"
"Yes. Daniel looked at her and said confusedly, "Now we can only go step by step." Remember, let her investigate in secret, no one can be trusted. β
"Understood. Mo Ran responded, and suddenly his tightly knit brows relaxed, "By the way, enjoy your rice bowl well, I thank you for your two hundred million on behalf of Moli." β