Translator: Sean88888 Editor: Elkassar1
The expert was named Eastern Goat. He was a big man with a goatee, and also a drunkard with a red nose and a red face. He constantly smelled of whiskey. Whenever he was asked to appraise treasures, he would always walk with his nose up in the air. However, he did know his stuff; he seldom made mistakes when he appraised.
But he had a terrible personality. Whenever he appraised something that was slightly lower in value, even if it was not a fake, he would feel like it was an insult to his status. He would often throw the object to the floor right then and step on it a few times in anger. The auction house naturally had to deal with all the consequences that followed afterwards. His arrogance was shocking.
But at this moment, when the arrogant expert Eastern Goat saw the glow, he solemnly received the stinky sock sack like he was receiving a royal crown. He took out a particle and, with a sacred expression of learning and researching, carefully inspected it with a magnifying glass.
( Note: The particles are tiny ores. )
A minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
Five minutes passed…
The expert remained completely motionless, maintaining his original posture.
The fat auctioneer had cold sweat on his forehead again. What if he had made a mistake? If these things turned out to be fake, he would become a huge joke, and his reputation would go down the drain.
He quietly crept up to Eastern Goat, trying to get some assurances for his anxious heart, but when Eastern Goat saw the auctioneer, he remarked impatiently, “What’s the rush! Let me look at them for a few more minutes! I don’t get to see these things everyday!”
Hearing this, the last shred of doubt disappeared from the plump auctioneer’s heart. He had no more use for the expert; he was anxious to finalize the deal! With a wave of his hand, the angry expert was dragged away.
Six months ago, after news got out that planet Uplos was confirmed to be rich in high-purity Pi deposits, corporate stocks related to Pi element on the Galaxy Financial Exchange had experienced a temporary nose-dive.
But as soon as these corporates limited their output, the price of Pi element rose sharply, and their stocks recovered to their original value, some even rising higher than before.
Yes, it was one thing to have reserves, but it was another to develop them into their own resources!
For example, everyone knew there was money in the bank, but how many people could turn this money into their own?
So the auctioneer was confident that he would bring the boss a huge amount of profit if he could close this deal…and he would also get a large amount of benefit, so much that it would be beyond his imagination.
No one dared to look down on Old Charlie anymore. He took out another stinky sock, err, no, another sack and picked up a small piece of Pi element particle the size of a rice grain from inside it. He then walked over to a man who wore an eye patch and had unkempt stubble all over his face.
The man was named Zach Polly, and he was the president of the Merchant Shipping Alliance. He had a space shipping business, but if he encountered merchant fleets during his travels that he had confidence in defeating, he would often take on the role of a space pirate too. When he encountered a large fleet or a military fleet, he would turn into an honest taxpayer of the Empire.
He was someone who had already fallen out of the competition in this auction, but previously, Zach Polly had taken out a cage that contained a selenium-based creature: a selenium snake that could swim in space!
Selenium-based creatures had always existed only in the theory of biologists, and no one had ever seen a living selenium-based creature before. There was no doubt that the biologists of the Empire would go crazy upon seeing this snake.
Unfortunately, the Empire was busy trying to deal with the rebellion of the Alliance at the moment, so investment in biology was very limited. To put it crudely, the biologists could not afford anything.
On the other hand, Zach Polly was only interested in wine, women and weapons. The notion of leaving his name in history was as attractive to him as a pile of dogshit. That was why this selenium snake had appeared in the auction house instead of being sliced up in a laboratory somewhere.
“This particle for your selenium snake,” Old Charlie told Zach Polly coldly.
Zach Polly stared at the stinky sock in Old Charlie’s hand with a greedy look in his eyes.
“I want everything in the sack!”
“Nope,” Old Charlie replied coldly.
He then turned to another man which had a huge mass of Yellow Nebulite mother lode in his possession. He had similarly used it to bid before. This mother lode would be very nutritious for G-spot. The man was not that greedy; he nodded, agreeing to the trade immediately.
His Yellow Nebulite mother lode was also very valuable and rare, but it was far from being comparable to a hard currency like Pi element. He would be making a huge profit in this transaction.
Zach Polly was stunned. When he realised that Old Charlie had no intention of turning back to him, he instantly hurried over and said, “Hey, hey, I’m willing to negotiate. How about half the sack?! No, a little less, how about three particles? Just three!”
He was a space pirate, accustomed to taking what he wanted by force, and he also knew Old Charlie’s background, so in his panic, he reached out and grabbed Old Charlie’s shoulder. But Old Charlie, who seemed so frail that a strong wind could knock him down, suddenly placed his hand on Zach Polly’s large hand, coiled his thin, frail body, and kicked Zach Polly’s foot, sending Zach Polly to the ground face first! A few of Zach Polly’s front teeth were knocked out!
Because Old Charlie was now hosting Freddy’s seed in his brain, Sheyan had strengthened Old Charlie’s Physique before they departed. Old Charlie was now almost twice as robust as a normal person, thus avoiding the embarrassing situation of him being so fragile that he could be knocked down by the wind. In the Nightmare Worlds, twice the attribute of a normal person was nothing to shout about, so the cost for this enhancement was very low.
But the key point was, Sheyan’s standard of a “normal person” was based on the ordinary earthlings of his time. However, the overall Physique of the humans in the future had declined due to the low gravity living environment in space and their fully automated lifestyle thanks to the advancement in science and technology. The guy called Zachary Polly may have decent Physique among future humans, but against Old Charlie, he was way too weak.
After knocking Zach Polly down, Old Charlie pushed him into the crowd, then took out half a Pi particle and asked him flatly, “Do you still wish to sell the selenium snake?”
Zach Polly’s face paled. He did not expect his profit to drop by half in an instant. Of course he was hurling abuse in his mind, but half a Pi element particle was still at least ten times higher than the price that those broke-ass biologists could offer. No, it should be at least a hundred times higher!
He could only accept. Sheyan was actually determined to have this selenium snake no matter what, because it was actually also an unknown mysterious item. It was worth as much as seven achievement points.
After all that, Old Charlie turned to the fat auctioneer and asked flatly, “Have you finished the appraisal? I don’t have much time.”
The auctioneer was smiling so hard that his cheeks were trembling. He instantly nodded and replied, “Right away, sir… The inventory has been done. There are five Pi element particles, weighing 18.9 grams in total. Okay, here we are. We’re going to pack the mech suit in a blue suitcase as you requested.”
While he was replying to Old Charlie full of smiles, someone brought the suitcase over and shut down the power output system of the mech suit. The mech suit started folding itself. It seemed that it had no problem fitting inside a suitcase.
But at that moment, the voice of the representative, Grant, sounded again. “Good. I’ll take both of them. Send them to my box.”
The fat auctioneer started losing his patience.
‘I don’t mind your arrogance normally, but right now, I’ve just closed such a big deal, and you instantly show me this kind of attitude? You’re causing trouble on purpose!’
The fat auctioneer’s expression instantly turned ugly as he shouted, “Shut the f*ck up, Grant, or I’ll make you shut up. The boss has been unhappy with your behaviour for a long time….”
He had not even finished his speech when a horrible steel cable carrying dazzling electric sparks suddenly flew out of Grant’s box to whip the fat auctioneer. The electricity flashed, and a boom sounded.
The attack tore the fat man, who must weigh more than 150 kilograms, into pieces! Flesh and blood rained down in the spacious auction house!
Out of the box came a monster with a square body. He had a humanoid figure, but his hands were so long that they almost touched the ground like an ape. His head seemed to be directly attached to his torso, his neck so thick and short that it was almost non-existent. He was also wearing a custom-made combat armour which covered his entire body. His muscles bulged inside the combat armour.
The construction materials of the theatre box could not stop the man at all. He split the box apart as he advanced towards the center of the auction hall, holding the shiny steel cable in his left hand. The steel cable had countless sharp barbs, and they were now covered in flesh and blood. The steel cable that was dragged loudly across the ground seemed extremely brutal.
No one could remember when the last time a tragedy like this had occurred in the black market. And this time, the one who was killed was a staff member of the black market!
It must be noted that to establish a black market like this, the most important thing was stability and order. The power behind the black market could definitely not let the people who won the bids in their auction to be killed immediately after they left this place! All the customers here were powerful figures with brains. If several of these incidents occurred, everyone would realise that there was something wrong with this place. Who would be willing to come here in the future?
Therefore, although this black market was built in the most chaotic and filthy area in the city, it had far greater order and cleanliness than the high class areas. The boss behind-the-scenes understood very well why this place could become so popular, so he was very careful in maintaining order, even at the expense of giving up some benefits.
