Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
"Boss, it's the people from the Twilight Empire!" Little Four immediately reported.
"They are the Federation's archenemies. They will definitely try to cause trouble." Ling Lan didn't think that Princess Gulibaduo would be able to get the Babu scepter.
After that, a few more bidders from different countries made their bids. Of course, the bidders were all so-called civilian businessmen, but everyone knew that they represented a certain power in the country or even the government behind them.
"Boss, the Yun family is bidding now." Little Four said another person that Ling Lan was familiar with.
"Yun family? It seems like Yun Fei Yang is trying his best to get Princess Gulibaduo's heart. "Ling Lan quickly guessed the Yun family's motive.
After a few rounds, Princess Gulibaduo couldn't hold it in anymore. She raised the price of the Babu scepter to 100 million. She wanted to show the Balaya Kingdom's determination. At the same time, she wanted to intimidate the merchants from other countries. She wanted them to think about whether it was worth offending the Balaya Kingdom for this scepter.
However, Gulibaduo's actions didn't have any effect. A new round of bidding started. As the price increased, Aobu Ruoya's smile got brighter. As an auctioneer, being able to sell one item at a sky-high price was the best proof of her ability.
"It seems like the other party doesn't want the Balaya Kingdom to take the scepter away so easily …" Ling Lan waited for a while. She knew what the other countries were thinking. This scepter was only special to the Balaya Kingdom. It wasn't worth it for other people to spend so much money on it. It seemed like they wanted the Balaya Kingdom to pay a huge price.
Ling Lan waited for a while. Some people who wanted to join in the fun withdrew from the competition. Gradually, it became a competition between five parties. At this moment, Ling Lan raised her head slightly. She glanced at Li Lanfeng casually.
As expected, Li Lanfeng focused his attention on Ling Lan. He was staring at the optical supercomputer but when Ling Lan looked at him, he suddenly raised his head. His eyes met with Ling Lan's.
Li Lanfeng lowered his head casually. He said to Ma Rao, "Ma Rao, do you think we should make a move?"
Li Yingjie understood. "That's right. Her Highness asked us to come in for this. Luckily, you reminded me. if not, I wouldn't be able to help her Her Highness..." He didn't even think about it and directly added another 10 million to the current amount. Perhaps he used other people's money. When Li Yingjie lost, although there were countless zeros, he didn't feel burdened at all.
"Room 239 bids 580 million." A new room number appeared, causing the crowd to fall silent.
Room 239... Room 239.... who is it? " The Merchant from Twilight asked his assistant, squinting his eyes when he saw the new competitor.
The assistant flipped through the information he just received and said, "It's the people from Aoqi."
The merchant from Twilight thought for a moment. "Does Aoqi want to interfere in this matter?"
"Ah, Boss, I have a new message." The assistant's communicator buzzed again.
"What did they say?"
"Aoqi said that they will take over the bidding for the next auction," the assistant replied carefully.
"Idiot, didn't we agree to work together and let Balaya bleed once?" The Twilight merchant's face was filled with anger. He was disgusted by Aoqi's abrupt change of plans.
"They explained that the Balaya Kingdom is continuously increasing their funds. Aoqi's side said that it's okay to reveal their bottom line once or twice, but if it's too frequent, they might be discovered. This time, the Federation's Yun family is participating in the auction. It's said that an imperial hacker accompanied them," the assistant replied.
"I see. Since that's the case, let's stop when we reach the lowest price that Aoqi gave us." The merchant from Twilight was shocked. An imperial hacker was here. If they weren't careful, their relationship with Aoqi would be exposed. His anger disappeared instantly. He decided to stop. He understood why Aoqi chose him to come. They didn't want him to be exposed and affect Aoqi's fair image.
The other two competitors also received a notification from Aoqi. After the price reached one billion, the three of them decided to withdraw. Only the Yun family, Gulibaduo, and Li Yingjie were left.
Yun Fei Yang was sweating profusely. He had almost reached the limit of the funds he brought with him. The annoying thing was that the person in room 239 seemed to be very powerful. He didn't hesitate at all when bidding. He didn't even have the chance to make Gulibaduo remember his help.
Yun Fei Yang gritted his teeth. Since he had already reached this stage, he didn't want to give up halfway. Just as he was about to contact Aoqi and ask for a loan, he felt his communicator vibrate. He glanced at his wrist angrily. He didn't know which idiot disturbed him at this critical moment.
Yun Fei Yang was elated when he saw the message. The person who sent him the message was Princess Gulibaduo. He opened the message and saw that it was a message from Gulibaduo asking him to stop bidding. She also said that she would remember the Yun family's help.
Yun Fei Yang heaved a sigh of relief. It was best if he didn't need to borrow money from the Yun family to achieve his goal. He was also proud that he contacted Gulibaduo at the start and told her his room number. He wanted her to know his intentions. Yun Fei Yang was satisfied. He didn't hesitate and stopped bidding.
At that moment, Gulibaduo, who was frowning, received a message. She opened it and was surprised. She thought for a while and immediately replied. After Yun Fei Yang stopped bidding, Gulibaduo bid again. Li Yingjie didn't hesitate to increase the price again after Aobu Ruoya provoked him.
Everyone thought that Gulibaduo would continue bidding. However, after Aobu Ruoya asked her to increase the price three times, Gulibaduo gave up. In the end, the Babu scepter was bought by Room 239 for a sky-high price of 1.32 billion.
Gulibaduo heaved a sigh of relief when she heard that the item was bought by Room 239. She had an idea and asked Ling Lan and the others to bid for it. That was the best decision she made. It seemed that many people were targeting her …
However, Gulibaduo was confused. Didn't those people find out that Room 239 was using a Balaya account? Why didn't they try their best to stop them?
Gulibaduo was a smart person. Smart people would think about many complicated things. She quickly thought of something. Her gaze turned cold. "It seems like my brothers and sisters don't want me to successfully bid for the Babu scepter. For the sake of inheriting the Babu scepter, they can actually ignore the benefits of the Balaya Kingdom. Damn it …"
Gulibaduo's face showed a hint of anger. Her confidant was shocked. She hurriedly said, "Your highness, why didn't you continue bidding? You didn't reach our bottom line …" She knew that the princess transferred almost one billion credits from the Balaya account just to be safe. However, because there were many channels, they could only transfer the credits in batches. That was why they couldn't transfer the credits in one go. However, if the princess really wanted to get the scepter, she could have borrowed ten times the amount of credits from the auction house.
Just as Gulibaduo was about to tell the truth, she saw Qian Jialin. She was shocked.
These people were all secret guards arranged by the Balaya Kingdom (In order to prove to the world that the Confederation would not interfere with the internal affairs of the Balaya Kingdom, the Confederation arranged these people to enter the princess's bodyguard team as secret guards sent by the Balaya Kingdom). Were they really loyal to the Balaya Kingdom and her? Or were they only loyal to her brothers and sisters?
Gulibaduo couldn't help but laugh coldly in her heart. If they were really loyal to those people, they would leak the news. She couldn't let the six of them be in danger. Gulibaduo knew that it wasn't difficult to bid for the scepter. The problem was how to bring the scepter back safely.
Although Gulibaduo looked like a straightforward person, she knew that not everyone in the Balaya family wanted her to return alive. She also knew that there had been more than one or two assassination attempts on her along the way.
Gulibaduo, who had doubts, swallowed the truth that was about to come out of her mouth. She replied coldly, "The Babu scepter is just a symbol of the Balaya family. It's not enough to hurt the Balaya family."
Her words made Qian Jialin, who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed, smile. To be honest, he couldn't stand the Balaya family spending so much money to bid for this useless symbol. They might as well give more benefits to the citizens of their country. Compared to the Federation, the citizens of the Balaya family were treated very poorly.
However, since the Balaya family was the Federation's most loyal ally, Qian Jialin didn't say anything about their country's government.
After the Babu scepter, many other good items were auctioned off. One of them was an energy storage unit that could automatically collect energy from the stars and convert it into mechas. Ling Lan's eyes lit up. However, she quickly regained her composure. She knew that even if she wanted the energy storage unit, she couldn't sell it now.
As a mecha operator, it was irresistible to have a self-regenerating core drive energy storage unit like a mecha. Every mecha operator knew that in a situation where they were evenly matched, as long as their mecha had one more cada of energy than the opponent, then the one who would survive would be themselves and not the opponent.
Unfortunately, the success rate of creating an energy storage unit was very low. Every country would supply the energy storage unit to the military. The mechas that could be equipped with the energy storage unit were all imperial mechas. Only a small portion of the ace mechas were Sky Pillar and Earth Demon. They couldn't be seen on the market. Even in the black market, it was rare to see one in ten years. This showed how strict the control of the energy storage unit was.
After Little Four and Ling Lan advanced to ace level, they went to the black market to look for energy storage units. However, they didn't see any energy storage units in the black market. Even if Little Four had a lot of money, he couldn't buy any energy storage units. He didn't expect to see an energy storage unit in Aoqi.
Little Four wanted to disguise himself and buy the energy storage unit in her mindscape. However, Ling Lan rejected him calmly. Ling Lan knew that even if she used Little Four to buy the energy storage unit, they wouldn't be able to find someone to take the energy storage unit. Also, Ling Lan suspected that the energy storage unit was targeted at her. After all, the energy storage unit wasn't on the original list.
Ling Lan's reminder made Little Four calm down. Indeed, the energy storage unit wasn't on the list that Little Four looked for. This was why Little Four went crazy when he saw the energy storage unit. He wasn't prepared for it. In the end, Little Four could only let them miss the opportunity to get the energy storage unit.
"Could it be that I'm overthinking things?" Brother Xu, who had been monitoring them, couldn't help but waver when he saw that the energy storage unit only made the six people in Room 239 shout but didn't make a move. If they were really strong, they would definitely be tempted by the energy storage unit.
The appearance of the energy storage unit caused the auction to reach a climax again. Everyone was competing for it. The energy storage unit looked small but it might be more valuable than an ace mecha. The price went from 50 million to 100 million in a few seconds. In the end, it even broke the 1 billion mark.
In the end, the energy storage unit was bought by the Li family. The Li family increased the price by 100 million every time. Many competitors didn't have the confidence to compete until the end. In the end, they had no choice but to give up.
"The people in Room 239 are so powerful." Ling Lan suddenly exclaimed. Her envious expression made Li Yingjie and Li Lanfeng's lips twitch. Was their leader mocking the Li family?
If the Li family wanted to get the energy storage unit, they had to buy it. On the other hand, Boss Lan just needed his father, Ling Xiao, to say the word and the logistics department would send the energy storage unit to him. This was the difference between the two in the military world.
If the Li family didn't have a lot of power in the political world, they wouldn't be able to become a super elite family in the military world. This was something that the Li family regretted. It was also the reason why the Li family had always been jealous of the Ye family.
Although the Ye family didn't have a lot of power in the political world, they controlled a division in the military world. This was something that the Li family couldn't achieve even after countless generations of hard work. Although the Li family had two legions on the surface, they could not be as powerful as the Ye family. They were even suppressed by the other forces in the legions, which made them feel very aggrieved. If the Li family didn't have a lot of power in the political world and could control the military world, the Li family would have been pushed out of the Federation's number one elite family by the Ye family.
The two of them pretended not to hear anything and focused on the next auction item. Soon, it was time for the ATOMIC BEAM BAZOOKA (Nuclear Particle Fusion Bomb).
Originally, Ling Lan just wanted to watch the show. However, when she saw the Federation's Mr. Jiang and the Li and Ye families participating in the auction, she frowned.
Seeing the price getting higher and higher, Ling Lan finally made up her mind. "Little Four, make it so that the other three families can't bid."
Little Four was instantly excited. "Understood!" Boss finally didn't let him sneak around anymore. He, Little Four, could finally make a move openly. It was time to let them know the power of Little Four.
A long time ago, Little Four had given himself a nickname. Unfortunately, he had never used it. Now, he could finally let his name resound throughout the entire human world.
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