After Fang Zhao's beast tooth sold for a whopping 300 million, Kevin Lin posted a status: Ha! Ha! Ha!
A few days ago, when he had posted a photo of the tooth, some people had commented that it would not fetch a high price. Now, although he had only posted three words, it had allowed Kevin Lin to vent his anger.
Reality was the best way to retaliate.
Scrolling through the news again, news of Fang Zhao's animal tooth music score being sold for a sky-high price was already everywhere. Regardless of the attitude of the person who had posted the news, it had helped Fang Zhao out quite a bit.
"Fang Zhao, this person is too weird!"
This was what many people in the entertainment circle thought.
When Fang Zhao had made a name for himself in Yanzhou as a composer, many people had not taken it seriously. Firstly, Fang Zhao was too young and his status in the circle was mediocre. Secondly, composing was a profession behind the scenes and did not have much hype, so it did not pose much of a threat.
In the end, not long after, Fang Zhao had jumped onto the gaming entertainment headlines, especially when a few gaming videos were released. He had been dubbed "God" by gamers.
The gaming circle was not a small circle. Furthermore, there was Silver Wing Media behind it. It was as if they had seen the rise of a gaming god, so many people were on their guard. Whether it was a comprehensive entertainment company or an e-sports club, they were all armed to the teeth.
However, when you raised your knife and loaded your gun, Fang Zhao turned around and announced that he was going to serve in the military, shocking many people.
Because of this, many people secretly mocked Fang Zhao for having a hole in his brain. Going to serve in the military when his popularity was at its peak? Did he think he was too famous?
However, when they heard the news, many entertainment companies in Yanzhou heaved a sigh of relief. Fine, military service it is. Get out of our sights. We won't have to see him for a year.
Just as the bunch of people heaved a sigh of relief, who would have expected that the "Project Starlight" proposed by the higher-ups would suddenly descend upon Fang Zhao. The reason was to encourage celebrities to go to tough places, and Fang Zhao's actions were commendable.
The people who had just heaved a sigh of relief were dumbfounded.
If military service allowed live broadcasts, there would not be so many celebrities who skipped out. Such a good opportunity to boost their popularity had actually been picked up by Fang Zhao!
If they had known earlier, everyone would have chased celebrities out of their companies to serve. No matter how tough the places were, there would have been people fighting to go!
However, there was no such thing as a 'foresight'.
All right, a live broadcast it was. In any case, among the five celebrities in the first episode of Project Starlight, Fang Zhao's overall qualities were the worst. He was also boring and did not know how to entertain the audience. He would not become popular. Everyone in the industry felt relieved.
But before long, on the first day of Fang Zhao's official military service on planet Baiji, he stirred up a huge incident.
The discovery of the grade A power ore had caused a global uproar. Fang Zhao's nickname, "Diting," had also spread. It was said that Fiery Bird had already signed an endorsement contract with him for their new earphones, which would be launched next year. Many people were dying of envy!
During that period of time, local television stations, online television stations, and personal terminals had been pushing news about this matter daily. As the first person to discover this, Fang Zhao naturally became a hot topic.
Under the general trend, even the navy couldn't stop it. They could only let it fade away.
With great difficulty, the buzz had died down. Everyone's focus was on planet Baiji's development and had neglected Fang Zhao. A terrorist attack had drawn the attention of the entire world to channel S5.
At that time, some people had really hoped that Fang Zhao had been blown up and killed in the attack. As competitors in the industry, they really did not want to see Fang Zhao, who did not play by the rules but always managed to steal the headlines. However, not only had this demon survived, he had even earned military merits and been promoted. Local governments had even promoted him as a military service role model!
This experience had been full of ups and downs. Some people even planned to turn this incident into a TV series.
And now, an auction item that had originally been valued at 30 to 50 million had been hyped up to 300 million!
Everyone in the industry who viewed Fang Zhao as a formidable rival refused to look at the news. They did not need to look at the push notifications to know that the headlines would definitely be about Fang Zhao!
Yanzhou military district general hospital.
After Yan Biao had been sent back to Earth, he had been placed here for prosthetic limbs and follow-up treatment.
The prosthetic limbs had already been installed. Every day at this time, he would go out for adaptive training, but today, he did not go out. Instead, he was watching the live broadcast of the auction online.
A nurse delivering medicine to Yan Biao sighed when she saw the image displayed on the screen. "I really did not expect that an item from a minor celebrity would actually fetch such a high price."
The nurses in the hospital had seen their fair share of military district chiefs and general level officers. Thus, to them, someone like Fang Zhao could only be considered a minor celebrity.
Yan Biao could not suppress the smile on his face. At this moment, he really wanted to tell someone: That is my future boss!
If the boss is doing well, the people under him will naturally do well too. Seeing the item that Fang Zhao had brought out fetch such a high price, Yan Biao was even more motivated to continue his rehabilitation training.
Leizhou. Zaro had a look of despair on his face. He felt that he had lost face this time, too much face. The dignified young master of Leizhou's aristocratic family, an internet celebrity, had actually failed to compete for an item he wanted to bid!
This sort of dissatisfaction that came from suddenly discovering that someone else was even more impressive than him. Zaro had not experienced this sort of dissatisfaction in a long time.
"Pissed off!" Zaro made his attitude clear. His eyes swept over the assistants one by one, and finally stopped on the agent.
Zaro's agent did not mind. He thought to himself, You don't have to worry about anything just sitting there. Just raise your hand and raise the bid! I am feeling refreshed, but you should at least consider the company. Do you think money falls from the sky? Why don't you learn from your peers in the Renault family? Among those of the same generation, any random pick is an elite. I can accomplish great things with anyone I follow, but I just had to be sent to Zaro's place. Why is my life so bitter? I worry endlessly every day!
His agent was expressionless. "Our company has not been profitable recently. We are short on funds."
Zaro did not listen. "Change your excuse."
Zaro's agent's tone was as calm as a pool of stagnant water. "The newly released 100-episode drama lost quite a bit of money."
This time, Zaro was silent. He felt a little awkward. "Isn't it just a loss of tens of millions..."
"A loss of 90 million," Zaro's agent corrected his ambiguous statement.
The new drama they had invested in had the female lead of Zaro's young master's new girlfriend. The plot was shocking and illogical. Although the actors' acting skills were passable, they could not withstand the toxic plot. And they had even shot 100 episodes! Who had tricked Zaro into saying that the more shocking the plot, the more popular it would be, so he had insisted on investing in the drama. And then it had become so "popular"?
I'll be damned if I believe you! What a loss!
Every episode was a big production. If it had only been 10 or 20 episodes, perhaps with Zaro's popularity, he might have been able to keep his capital. But the plot that could have been completed in 10 episodes had been stretched to 100 episodes. What a loss!
This was the result of Zaro's insistence.
Zaro did not deny the fact that the investment had failed.
"What do you want to buy?" Zaro could still recognize the situation. Since he could not get the first bid, and Zaro's agent had pointed out his own failure, there was no point in arguing.
"The first bid was too high. The later ones will be even harder. I'm afraid our money will only be enough for Fan Lin's seeds," Zaro's agent analyzed. Investing in Fan Lin was better than investing in Zhao.
Hearing this, Zaro was once again in a daze.
"Bid! Buy seeds! Buy watermelon seeds! "
Zaro's agent automatically filtered out the second half of the sentence. "It's decided."
The auction continued. Indeed, as everyone had expected, the bids for the later ones were even higher. In less than 10 seconds, the second bid had already exceeded 300 million.
After Fang Zhao were two famous engineers. One of them was a mineral ore, the other was a machine component. They were sold for 450 million and 500 million respectively. After them was Fan Lin's.
This time, Zaro had thoroughly satisfied his craving. In the end, he had won Fan Lin's seeds with a bid of 1 billion, surpassing the big farm owners in Muzhou.
When the countdown ended and the word "sold," Zaro instantly felt better.
Zaro's agent did not utter a word. This bid was higher than he had expected, but he had his own considerations. Buying land on planet Baiji was impossible, but he could take a roundabout route and rent Fan Lin's experimental plots. If Fan Lin's experiments went smoothly, they would probably enter the final phase. Whether he would continue planting in the future was hard to say. They could take advantage of this auction to negotiate with Fan Lin about renting the plots. Of course, transferring them would be even better. Those experimental plots were not small!
Through internal sources, he had seen planet Baiji's development plan. Outpost 23 was a priority development area and had a good location. This was also the reason he had not stopped Zaro from raising the bid.
Everyone participating in the auction had their own considerations. Some felt that it was worth it, while others felt that it was not. However, the masses of spectators did not think too deeply. They had already been stunned by the crazy bids.
They had originally thought that Fang Zhao's 300 million was already a high price, but they had not expected that it would be even higher. Even if some people had expected higher and higher bids, such a huge jump from 400 to 500 million to 1 billion. What was going on?
"It must have been some big farm owner in Muzhou," Kevin Lin said to Fang Zhao as if he had a lot of experience.
"Our big farm owners in Muzhou are very bold!" a Muzhou sentinel said proudly.
After Fan Lin and company, it was finally the turn of planet Baiji's generals.
When it came to the auction items at the back, the spectators finally saw what was called the craziness of businessmen and what was called capital manipulation. After the starting bid, the numbers jumped without any reservation. Businessmen's pursuit of profit was displayed to the fullest.
The real-time highest bid was displayed. In front of the number was the word "10,000" after the number. Here, 10,000 was the smallest unit of measurement.
This one was going for 5 billion, that one was going for 8 billion, and then another 10 billion. In comparison, Fang Zhao's 300 million for the first lot seemed insignificant.
The netizens were also dazzled by the string of large numbers.
"Is this, is this all crazy?"
"I don't know. I was too busy counting the zeros. This is my first time watching such an auction!"
"Do you think they are buying auction items? They are buying land! They are investing in planet Baiji's land! "
"If you do the math, it seems worth it."
When the last set of commemorative coins was sold for a high price of 20 billion, the auction finally ended. Someone calculated the total value of this auction and it exceeded 100 billion.
Baiji military district had raked in 100 billion during this auction. Many people were red-eyed.
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