Glass jade was the best type of jade available—its texture was pure, delicate, free from impurities, and gave off a clear sound when knocked on. This type of jade had high transparency and a glossy luster, giving the overall feeling of being clear and transparent like glass. Therefore, it was called the “glass type” jade, or just glass jade.
Just a small piece of glass jade would already be worth a fortune, not to mention this super large one. No matter how thick the outer layer of stone was, the glass jade inside must be at least a few hundred kilograms heavies! What kind of concept was that? It wasn’t an overstatement to say that just this piece of jade alone was worth at least 500 to 600 million.
Everyone was stunned this time. Glass type jade! And such a large one, too!
This thing could cause anyone to be tempted to commit crimes to obtain it!
“God…” Gong Zhiwen looked at the super-large cut stone in front of him, his eyes spiritless, and he mumbled to himself, “Am… am I dreaming? Such a large piece of glass type jade!?”
Everyone else was totally numbed as well. Such a large piece of glass type jade would definitely be worth a fortune!
“Treasure. It’s a treasure!” Even Hong Dali was dazed as well, his eyes deadly focused on… This dude wasn’t looking at the glass type jade. Instead, he rushed forward and held up a part of the uncut stone that was chopped off, weighing a few dozen kilograms. He looked at it nonstop and laughed as he did so, his saliva even drooling out!
“Brouhaha! This is the real treasure!” Hong Dali hugged that piece of stone and laughed out loud.
The others looked at one another, not sure what was going on. Gong Zhiwen carefully asked, “Young Master Dali, the top-grade jade is here, this one. This is a glass type jade, it’s definitely the best type of jade there is out there. What you are hugging now is just a normal piece of stone…”
However, before he finished his words, he instantly went crazy from what Hong Dali said…
“That’s just trash, you can have it if you like it.” Hong Dali didn’t give a single look at the glass type jade, as if it was just a large piece of glass. He just hugged his stone and smiled foolishly. “This one is the real top-grade one, hahaha!”
What the heck! The large piece of glass type jade is trash, that stone is the real treasure?
Everyone felt cold wind blew by. Could it be that Hong Dali was possessed by a ghost? Just as they were all confused, they heard Hong Dali say, “Big Hammer, smash this one. Be careful, this is a treasure, don’t damage it!”
Li Yang’s head was full of sweat as he replied, “OK!” Then, holding the 15 kg hammer like it was just 250 grams, he slowly broke down the stone bit by bit. Everyone’s curiosity was aroused now, they all wanted to see what this real ”treasure” was. A short while later, the stonecutter exclaimed, “It’s green! It’s green! This… this… this is just a normal ice-type jade…”
It was no wonder he felt weird. Although ice-type jades were quite precious too, it was nothing compared to that large piece of glass type jade. The stonecutter felt strange and said, “Strange, why are there two types of jades on one uncut stone…”
However, no one was concerned about that now.
They were all guessing why Hong Dali said that this ordinary piece of ice-type jade was a treasure, yet the glass type jade was trash.
Of course, although the others didn’t know why, Hong Dali himself knew. Because on this piece of jade that he said was a treasure he could see these few words on it—
“Energy +8.”
Energy +8. Just from these words alone, there didn’t seem to be anything special. However, for Hong Dali, these words had a whole different meaning! After all, this was the only piece of jade that added Energy out of all the uncut stones there. No doubt, this was a powerful attribute.
“Energy +8: Increase the power outflow by 80%, able to be embedded on perfect-grade machinery.”
Increase the power outflow by 80%!
Others might not know what this meant, but Hong Dali was definitely very clear of its meaning!
What he most needed now was exactly an improvement of the energy source! An improvement of the energy source that was able to be used for explosive power!
Using his Granzon as an example, although it could reach a speed limit of 310 mph on the surface, the biggest problem was that it couldn’t be sustained!
With its current fuel capacity, to activate the turbine engine to reach this speed, the fuel would be exhausted very quickly—even though the Granzon had an attribute that decreased fuel consumption, it still couldn’t sustain this speed for too long.
And as for electric energy, there wasn’t a need to talk about its explosive power.
But with this energy stone, things would be different! Hong Dali was able to add a further 8 attribute points on the gems he processed now. And, although he could add this energy attribute point to other gems, the other types of gems couldn’t be embedded into machines.
Which means to say, he could only embed gems that were originally energy gems in the first place. With this one in his hand now which had a base attribute of Energy +8, he could add a further eight attribute points onto it, increasing the extra power outflow to 160%. What did that imply?
This was definitely not as simple as just decreasing the fuel needed.
Using heat, for example, a ton of coal could produce a maximum heat of 3,000 degrees. Using the extra power outflow from this gem, the heat could reach up to 7,800 degrees! To have such an increase without using the gem, not to mention just 2.6 tons of coal, even using 2,600 tons of coal might not achieve this degree of heat too!
Therefore, with this energy gem, the power outflow wouldn’t be a problem anymore. Next time, the Granzon might be able to reach the speed that initially required using the turbine engine with just using electric energy alone!
And this was just for the improvement in power for the Granzon.
If he used it on the Mechanical Holy Garment, coupled with the ion wind driving force that he and Lin Chuyin were researching on recently, it would be even more incredible.
The ion wind driving force’s concept was actually quite simple. Based on the principle of neutralization of positive and negative electrons, a positive ion was generated from one end of a pair of electrodes, and a negative ion that was flying to the other end could drive the air to form a stable airflow. That was, “ion wind.”
Currently, the ion wind driving force they developed could only blow out a fire, it was impossible to use it to fly around like Iron Man. However, with this energy gem now…
“Brouhaha! This is a treasure, this is the real treasure!” Hong Dali tightly hugged the Energy +8 ice-type jade, sat on the floor, and laughed like a lunatic. “With this, I can finally try to fly!”
The others all took two steps back in unison—who was this fellow, they didn’t know him!
Whatever the case, things ended well. Gong Zhiwen hurriedly said, “Young Master Dali, since all of the jades have been cut, I shan’t stay here any longer. Please proceed with your matters, I shall hurry back now to process these things.”
“Ah, OK, OK, no problem. Uncle Gong, please go ahead. We shall be going back now. Hahaha, today is a really satisfying day!”
Hong Dali only cared about the energy gem and hugged it tightly. As for the glass type jade that was worth a fortune… who cared about it!
…
Two days later, Shanghai Tianhai City, Door to Heaven.
An inner member said to his companion, “Hey, have you heard? That Gong Zhiwen who’s into the jewelry industry is hosting an auction to auction an amazing treasure. I wonder if it’s real or fake.”
The companion nodded and said, “I have heard of it. The auction is 10 AM today, just half an hour later. He’s being very mysterious about it this time, I wonder if it really is a treasure. Also, I heard that there’s only one item to be auctioned. That’s really weird.”
The previous person said, “Exactly. How about it, do you want to go take a look?”
The companion thought for a while and said, “Although we are on opposing sides with him, we are all members of the Chamber of Commerce, after all. We still need to show him some respect. Since there’s only one item to be auctioned, it shouldn’t take too long, so let’s go take a look too.”
The previous person said, “Yup, then let’s go take a look together later.”
Half an hour later, in the large conference room on the 96th floor of Door to Heaven, Gong Zhiwen was hosting the temporary auction here.
This time, the slogan Gong Zhiwen used was that it was definitely a treasure that was never seen before in history. It was up to the others if they wanted to attend the auction or not, but they would definitely regret not coming in the future.
It should be known that for their level, if an item wasn’t worth a few hundred million, no one would dare to call it a treasure. But now, Gong Zhiwen actually said that it was definitely a treasure and it was one of a kind. Wouldn’t it be worth a few billion, then?
There were already quite a lot of people in the conference room now, seated in their own small groups. There were also people continuously coming in from the entrance. When the time finally reached 10 AM sharp, the doors were closed and by then, there were already two to three hundred people seated inside. Everyone stretched their necks out, waiting to see what kind of treasure it was for Gong Zhiwen to gather so many people here.
Now that the hour arrived, just a short moment later, Gong Zhiwen smilingly walked up to the stage, which was also the display booth for the auction today, and said, “Everyone, I gathered all of you here today because I wish to auction an amazing piece of treasure.”
After he said this, the people downstage hurriedly said, “Director Gong, stop the suspense and just go straight to the main topic. What kind of treasure is it for you to gather us here? Hurry up and tell us, my heart is already itching from curiosity.”
The rest all agreed and said, “Exactly, don’t waste time, just tell us!”
“Alright, alright.” Gong Zhiwen put his hands together, bowed 1, and said, “Since that’s the case, I shan’t leave you all in suspense anymore.” He softly clapped his hands and an attendant immediately carried a tray up.
The tray wasn’t very big, the center was covered with a red cloth, and the item beneath it didn’t seem to be large in size too.
“This item is definitely an amazing treasure.” Gong Zhiwen didn’t introduce its history and only said, “The starting bid is one yuan. All of you can look and touch it, then you can call any price you want.”
Footnotes:
An ancient type of Chinese greeting.
