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"What is this?" Ling Lan asked curiously.
Little Four replied, "An energy block."
"An energy block? Are you serious? Why wasn't it identified? " According to the item's introduction, this item was only one or two hundred years old. It was impossible for them not to recognize an energy block made two hundred years ago.
"Because it's not an energy block from your world. It's from the Mandora star system. With your current technology, you won't be able to detect the energy stored inside. Of course, it's possible that this is an empty energy block that has been used up. It's normal that you can't detect the energy inside," Little Four immediately replied.
Ling Lan frowned when she heard this. She asked Little Four seriously, "Why did this energy block appear here? Little Four, do you know about it? "
Back then, Little Four went to Earth for some reason and recognized her as his master. It was already unimaginable that something like this would happen. However, ten thousand years later, another item from the Mandora star system was discovered. This made Ling Lan wary. When the Mandora star system was destroyed, how many things managed to enter this star system? Or were there other intelligent entities that were similar to Little Four?
If it was only the first possibility, she would be thankful that it was a special item. However, if it was the second possibility, she and Little Four had to be careful in case they were exposed.
"It might be a hole in space. If I can come out from a hole in space, it means that other things can come out too," Little Four replied.
"Then, is it possible that something like you will come to this star system?" Ling Lan asked.
Little Four thought about it seriously. "Probably not because I didn't sense any similar existence in the virtual world."
Seeing his boss's serious expression, Little Four explained again, "Boss, we intelligent entities are very sensitive to our own kind. As long as we've existed before, even if we haven't met, we'll be able to sense each other's presence. All these years, I've only found a few little things that evolved on their own in the virtual world. They can't be compared to me at all. Ah …" Little Four paused and seemed to have thought of something. "Does Floret count as one?"
Although Floret's essence was the Doomsday Flower of the Mandora Star System, he was originally just a sprout. Strictly speaking, Floret did not really come from the Mandora Star System.
Ling Lan knew where Floret came from. She firmly shook her head and said, "Floret doesn't count."
"Then it's definitely gone," Little Four said with certainty.
Little Four's reply made Ling Lan relax. She instinctively looked at Zilong and the others but realized that they didn't notice her. A forceful gaze landed on her. Ling Lan knew that it must be Li Lanfeng.
Compared to her other companions who only looked for her when they needed something, Li Lanfeng would always pay attention to her. If she had any needs or arrangements, Li Lanfeng would definitely be the first to know. This made Ling Lan quite depressed. She worked hard to raise these children but in terms of tacit understanding, they couldn't even compare to Li Lanfeng who joined them halfway …
However, when Ling Lan thought of the time when she practiced mecha with Leopard … she instantly understood.
Back then, she and Li Lanfeng worked hard to practice mecha and grew up together. They had a true friendship. Compared to her companions who treated her as an omnipotent boss, Li Lanfeng treated her as his comrade and confidant when she was the team leader. Hence, he paid more attention to what she needed. This might be the difference between Li Lanfeng and Zilong and the others.
This made Ling Lan unable to treat Li Lanfeng as Zilong and the others. Needless to say, Li Lanfeng still had a special place in Ling Lan's heart.
Ling Lan threw away her unhappiness and secretly made a series of hand gestures with her hands.
Li Lanfeng squeezed to Li Yingjie's side and patted his shoulder. "Ma Rao, you've been looking at them for so long. It's time for me to look."
Li Yingjie glared back at him. "I'm still looking at them."
Li Lanfeng looked over and sneered. "You're looking at things that cost more than ten thousand. Can you afford it?"
"Even if you can't afford it, it's still good to broaden your horizons." Lin Zhong-qing glanced at Li Yingjie and hurriedly interrupted.
Li Yingjie suppressed the anger that was about to explode. He snorted and looked at the screen again.
Li Lanfeng didn't care if he offended Li Yingjie. He pushed Li Yingjie away and took over the optical supercomputer. Very quickly, he changed the page to the cheapest item and said, "Why don't we look at these things instead of those items that we can't afford? Maybe we can buy one to show off."
Li Yingjie was about to explode when he was pushed away. However, after hearing Li Lanfeng's words, his eyes lit up and his anger disappeared. He said, "That's right. Since we're here, we should bring something back as a witness."
He leaned his head over and started discussing with Li Lanfeng what they wanted to buy.
Li Yingjie reacted quickly. Li Lanfeng was with Boss Lan just now. If Li Lanfeng wanted to make a move now, he must have received Boss Lan's orders. He had to cooperate with Li Lanfeng.
Finally, the two of them picked and chose the three cheapest items to place their bids. All of them cost a few thousand points. One of them was a white porcelain piece the size of a thumb. It was said to be something from tens of thousands of years ago, but it was too small and broken, so they didn't know what it was. Although it was old, it wasn't expensive. The starting price was only 1,500 points, and only one person was interested in it. Li Yingjie considered for a while, then pressed the number 1550, covering the previous person's order.
The other item was the unknown cylinder that Ling Lan was interested in. It was still 3280 points. Li Lanfeng and Li Yingjie discussed for a while and set the price at 3300 points. Of course, everyone knew that this was only temporary. The last few minutes would be the real battle. Unless there was no competition, it would be the real battle.
As for the third item, it was a broken tree branch. It should be said that it looked the worst out of the three items and seemed to be the least valuable one. However, its starting price was the sum of the previous two items, 4,500. It was so expensive because it was a small section of a plant that was cut off from the Green Sea Planet that Caesar discovered.
After some research, they discovered that this was a new type of green plant. However, it wasn't very valuable. This type of plant could be seen everywhere on the Green Sea Planet. However, because it wasn't completely open to the public, Aoqi still put this item up for auction. Some hobbyists who liked to collect all kinds of plants were very interested in this item.
In fact, this was indeed the case. Out of the three items, the competition for this tree branch was the most intense. The price had already risen to 6700 points. Li Yingjie casually placed 6800 points. However, this number still made the other people's expressions change. Damn it, this was almost half of their travel expenses.
The subsequent changes made everyone give up on this tree branch. Within a short period of time, the price of this tree branch had risen to 10,000 points. They didn't have enough money. Plus, they didn't want to waste money on an ordinary plant. Therefore, everyone's attention was focused on the other two items …
The time slowly approached 2am. In the last five minutes, the prices of all the items began to skyrocket. There was only one person competing for the porcelain piece. After the other person made two bids, Li Yingjie overbid him again. Then, the other person stopped bidding. Li Yingjie, who felt that it wasn't enough, focused on the cylinder.
There were still two or three people interested in the cylinder. When the price jumped above 5000 points, there was only one person left to compete with Li Yingjie.
The other person increased the price by 100 points. This made Li Yingjie very angry. In the last minute, Li Yingjie was so agitated that he actually entered an extra zero. Originally, he wanted to enter 6200, but now, it became 62000. After entering the price, Li Yingjie looked at the string of numbers and his expression changed. He hugged his head and squatted on the ground.
Lin Zhong-qing saw this and his face turned pale. He pushed Li Lanfeng away and looked at the price of the cylinder on the optical supercomputer. He shouted crazily, "Hurry up and buy it. Hurry up and buy it …" It was obvious that he was hoping that the other party would be impulsive and make another bid to overbid them.
After hearing Lin Zhong-qing's words, Li Yingjie regained his senses. He still had some hope. He immediately clasped his hands together and prayed to the gods. He wanted the other party to overbid him so that he could recover his losses …
In the surveillance room, Brother Xu sneered and threw away the optical supercomputer in his hand. He was the one competing with Li Yingjie. When he saw that the other party made a mistake, he felt relieved. He would treat the extra money as their payment for the private room.
It was finally 2pm. Li Yingjie and Lin Zhong-qing's prayers were not answered. In the end, they offered the highest price. Li Yingjie won the unknown cylinder and the worthless piece of porcelain were also bought by him.
Li Yingjie was in a daze. He asked in a daze, "How much in total?"
"Sixty-four thousand three hundred credits." Lin Zhong-qing was also dejected from the blow.
Li Yingjie bit his lips and finally calmed himself down. He said with difficulty, "I only have 53,400 credits on me. Do you have any extra credits?"
Zilong opened his communicator and said, "I have 2200 credits."
Zhao Jun scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "I've been using too much recently. I only have less than 2000 credits left."
Li Lanfeng sighed. "I have 2600 credits."
"1800 credits," Ling Lan said. She seemed to have been eating a lot recently. She used up her money quickly too.
"I only have 1100 credits." Lin Zhong-qing lowered his head in shame. His family was the poorest. He barely brought 1500 credits with him on this trip. He scrimped and saved on the ship but he still had 1000 credits left.
"But we don't even have enough to pay for the auction." Li Lanfeng smiled bitterly.
Zhao Jun rolled his eyes. "Why don't we use the money that the princess gave us?"
The few of them looked at each other. This was their only choice. Should they tell the auction house that they didn't want to buy the item? If they really did that, they would be thrown into a pot of oil and fried.
Fortunately, the item would only be sent to them after the auction. They just needed to help the princess get the Babu scepter and ask her for some money. Ling Lan and the others gritted their teeth and swore that they must get the Babu scepter to solve their problem.
At 2 o 'clock, the live auction was held. The big screen in the box showed the scene of the auction hall. A young and handsome auctioneer gracefully walked up to the auction stage. Before he introduced himself, the audience was already applauding enthusiastically.
"Dear guests, I'm the auctioneer, Aubrey. Ruoya, I'll be serving you from now on. "The auctioneer smiled and bowed to the audience. Then, he introduced himself. When he said his name, many people exclaimed in surprise.
Little Four patted Aubrey's head. Ruoya's life information was displayed before Ling Lan's eyes. Only then did Ling Lan understand why she had been so enthusiastic on the spot, and why she had exclaimed when she had mentioned his name.
Aubrey. Ruoya was Aoqi's Aubrey. He was President Fehra's son. He was the only descendant left. President Fehra used his own power to turn the originally poor Aoqi into a rich tourism planet in 30 years. He was supported by the citizens of Aoqi. There was even a proposal to make the Aub family the royal family of Aoqi and become the symbol of Aoqi, just like the other empires.
However, President Lafite rejected this proposal. However, because of President Lafite's rejection, the citizens of Aoqi became even more enthusiastic about this proposal. It was said that this proposal would be sent to the parliament. Once it was passed, Aoqi would become the Aoqi Empire and Aubrey would become the royal family. Then, Aubrey. Ruoya would become the next king.
Of course, Aobu Ruoya was so popular not only because he was President Lafite's son, but also because he was an outstanding adventurer and a top-notch auctioneer. When he was still hiding his identity, the items that he auctioned were all sold at sky-high prices. This made him the most popular auctioneer in Aoqi. The fact that Aobu Ruoya could be invited to this underground auction showed that the organizer was very powerful and had a close relationship with the Aoqi government. Otherwise, Aobu Ruoya wouldn't have appeared here.
Aubrey took out the items one by one in an orderly manner. Ling Lan and the others only wanted the Babu scepter. No matter how rare the items were, they didn't care about them.
However, they didn't ignore them. When the Federation's ace mecha was auctioned, the six of them wanted to get it. However, the price was so high that they could only drool. Of course, even if they had the money, it was useless.
There were many people who wanted to get the Federation's ace mecha. However, there were four main competitors. One was from the Southstar Federation, one was from the Aoya Alliance, one was from the distant Chaotic Lands and the last one was the Ye family from the Huaxia Federation.
The Southstar System was located at the southernmost part of the human world. The people there were all brave and good at fighting. However, their brawn meant that they were simple-minded. This caused the development of mecha in the Southstar System to lag behind the other superpowers. The Southstar System wanted to get this ace mecha so that researchers could disassemble it for research.
It should be known that even if an ace mecha was defeated on the battlefield, the ace mecha operator would choose to self-destruct to protect the secret of the ace mecha. This ruined the idea of getting an ace mecha from the battlefield. They had no choice but to look for other ways.
Now that they saw an ace mecha being auctioned, they would definitely try their best to get it.
The other two parties wanted to get the ace mecha for the same reason. The Ye family probably agreed to the Federation's request and tried their best to bring the smuggled ace mecha back.
In the end, it was still the Ye family who obtained the mecha. For a period of time, the Ye family had not made a single sound. Little Four had been monitoring the situation and found that because the Ye family had received the news rather late, they had not received all the money they had. Furthermore, the price of the mecha had exceeded the credits they had prepared so far. In the end, they had urgently sought out the people of the Li family. The Li family had transferred a large sum of credits to them and they had finally gotten the mecha back.
Although they managed to keep the ace mecha, the Ye family (the military) also paid a huge price. The amount of money they paid was enough for them to develop 30 to 50 mechas. However, this price had to be paid. Otherwise, if the other countries were to develop weapons that could counter their ace mecha, the losses they would suffer would not just be this amount of money. The military was very clear on this point.
Of course, the military, who had paid the price, would not let the matter rest just like that. Who was the one who had smuggled this ace mecha out? The military would definitely launch a bloodbath to find out who the culprit was. They would definitely ferret out the culprit from the military and then cook and eat him.
However, these were all matters of the military. Ling Lan only paid a little attention to it before throwing it to the back of her mind. The next item was the Babu scepter.
After Aobu Ruoya explained the origins of the Babu scepter, the entire auction house fell silent. Everyone knew that this item was only useful to the Balaya Kingdom. At most, they would just keep it as a collection. However, everyone knew that offending a large country for an ordinary item was not worth it.
"The starting price of the Babu scepter is 10 million credits. Please make your bids." Aobu Ruoya said calmly. He had already sold the ace mecha for a sky-high price so he didn't care much about this item.
"11 million credits." Room 103 made a bid. Ling Lan knew that Princess Gulibaduo was the one who made the bid. She couldn't wait any longer and was the first to make a bid.
After Gulibaduo made her bid, no one else made a bid. Gulibaduo was elated. She might be able to take back the scepter that represented the Balaya Kingdom easily.
"Room 103 making the first bid! Although the Babu scepter was an antique with 400 years of history, its significance was not to be underestimated. It represented the honor of the Balaya Kingdom's royal family. The Balaya Kingdom's royal family had once promised that whoever returned the Babu scepter to the Balaya Kingdom would be granted one request. No matter how much money you have, it is just a number. However, with this scepter, you might have another chance. You might even have another chance to live. I think all of you know that this is more important. Now, let me ask you one more time. Is there anyone else who wants to make a bid? "
Aobu Ruoya revealed the secret of the Babu scepter. Princess Gulibaduo gritted her teeth in anger. She knew that it wouldn't be easy for her to get the Babu scepter now.
"15 million credits!" As expected, room 7 made a bid the moment Aobu Ruoya finished speaking.
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