The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

345: The Lot Gets Taken Down

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The fact that someone was in box ZERO and bidding from there alarmed many of the bigger families in attendance.

Those in other boxes were undoubtedly from big families but none of them were eligible to enter box ZERO, even the lord of the island, Wuji, wasn’t qualified.
So it begged the question, who was in the box and were they visiting for the because of the tomb?

Speculations flew left and right, and for a while, none of the big shots paid attention to the stage.
They were busy trying figure out who was in box ZERO.
Only someone incredibly important would have made Branch Boss Claude open the box.

“Come here, go and find out who is in box ZERO,” was a repeated refrain from the other boxes.

Those in the boxes made their move by sending out their servants to investigate.
They had no information whatsoever on the identity of the person in the box.
They didn’t have a name, appearance description, family lineage – really anything at all.

It didn’t matter what these nobles thought; the auction continued.

The stone reached eight hundred thousand gold and showed no signs of stopping.

“Eight hundred fifty thousand!”

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“Nine hundred thousand!”

“One million!”

“One point one million gold!”

No one was willing to give up.

“Wow! What is going on today? No one wanted that stone after dozens of auction attempts.
All of a sudden it’s going for over a million?!”

“Am I dreaming?”

“I feel like I’m dreaming.”

“Those people are too rich for their own good.
Spending so much on such a useless thing.”

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“Rich people, they make no sense.”

“How tyrannical! Throwing around millions for a useless stone!”

Those on the floor looked up at the box seats with some amount of jealousy in their eyes.
Most of them were adventurers or children of lesser houses so they could only sit and watch.

Floor attendees couldn’t help but holler out at the wasted expenditure.
Millions of gold for a broken piece of stone?

“That’s too expensive! Over a million for a bit of stone?” Margaret tried to wrap her mind around the price tag.
Yes the ore was incredibly hard, but what use was it if it couldn’t be melted down? Maybe if they could find a heaven and earth fire…
But using a divine fire for an ore? Unless it was some kind of life-saving stone, what fool would waste a divine fire on it?

“It’s reached one and a half million; those other three are really stubborn.
Senior Ming Xi has been increasing by two hundred thousand increments too.” Ink touched his chin.
He didn’t understand rich people.

Ming Xi increased the price to two million.
Two million was by no means a small sum, but still it wasn’t a big deal for those in box seats.

Both Zi Cheng and Ai Lin were wealthy people.
Zi Cheng, because she used modern world knowledge, had opened a lot of shops and created many specialty dishes.
She had branches all over the continent, so of course she wouldn’t be short on funds.

Ai Lin was trying to keep a low profile, so she didn’t use any other world knowledge to open businesses like Zi Cheng, but she did have lots of rare magical items in her space storage, such as elixirs.
Besides that, she was a high-level pharmacist, and pharmacists were the best at making money fast.

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Zo was a young master of the Blackstrom family, so even though he was useless, he had his father’s blessing and protection.
Therefore, he was never short on money either.

Ming Xi was the prince of the Ancient Silver Moon kingdom.
How could he lose to them in regards to wealth?

As a result, the price of the stone kept going up.
No one was willing to give up.

Claude, seated in another room, was frowning.
He waved the steward over and whispered a few words to the man.
The steward immediately left to do as ordered.

Before long, a maid rushed on stage toward LeXue.
Whatever was whispered to her made her smile stiffen.
It looked like something unexpected had happened.

After the maid left, LeXue awkwardly coughed into her hand and with an apologetic smile said, “My apologies.
The owner of the item has requested the that the lot be removed.
Because of this, the auction for it will not be counted.
I, LeXue, would like to give my deepest apologies to our distinguished guests.”

Her words lit a fire in the audience and grumblings immediately erupted from the floor attendees.

“What the hell?! Things being actively auctioned can’t be pulled like that!”

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“When did Ancient Moon house have this kind of allowance?!”

“Isn’t the broken bit of stone owned by the house?”

Those in box seats were no less riled.

The owner of the item wanted to pull it? They all knew what the house rules were.
Once an item was on the list, it couldn’t be withdrawn, never mind items already actively being auctioned on stage.

The house gave such a flimsy excuse; did they think the people were fools?! The attendees were outraged, but mingled with that outrage was also amazement.
Box Zero was really something else.
Otherwise, how could Claude, a guy known to eat people up and not even spit out their bones, would risk making such a controversial move?

They suspected the stone was pulled because box Zero had it be pulled.

In truth, Ming Xi and his group were being unjustly accused.
They didn’t know they could do something like that.
Had they known, they wouldn’t have bothered wasting their breath bidding!

Jier smiled knowingly.
“Don’t worry.
Someone will bring it over to us soon.”

Ming Xi knew this as well.
He frowned a little but didn’t say anything.