195: space

"Our next lot is... two gold-rank monster beast eggs bundled together, starting price sixty million!" Yu Shenghuo announced on the auction stage, striking his gavel.

The crowd below immediately burst into an uproar: "What's going on? Why auction two together?! Who can afford that!"

"Exactly, what's the situation! President Yu, you can't screw us over like this!"

...Because the auction wasn't even halfway through and three gold-rank monster beasts had already appeared, they assumed there would be more opportunities to participate later, so they hadn't been in a hurry to bid.

Because of this, the third monster beast egg hadn't sold for a higher price.

Yu Shenghuo had also seen this, so after the third monster beast egg, he auctioned two together, instantly throwing everyone's plans into disarray.

Yu Shenghuo smiled on the auction stage and said, "This was requested by the owner of the items; there's nothing I can do. Everyone, quiet down, we're starting the auction."

Su Ze's hand froze as he was moving fruit to his mouth. This idea was clearly Yu Shenghuo's, but now it was all being pushed onto his head.

The people below also quieted down.

They were feeling regretful and conflicted—regretting not participating in the auction for the first three monster beast eggs, and conflicted over whether they should participate in the auction for these two.

Or would there be more opportunities later?

At that moment, someone below said, "Don't even think about it. In this auction, the better things are always placed later, especially identical items."

"Right now it's two gold eggs; if you wait any longer, it might be three, and then everyone will be even less able to afford it."

These words instantly woke everyone up, and they began raising their hands to participate in the bidding.

Furthermore, many small and medium-sized families also began to join the bidding; they had all been observing before, but now they couldn't help but make a move.

Soon, the price was pushed to eighty million.

This was already roughly the combined price of the first and second auctioned monster beast eggs, and there was still a trend of it continuing to rise.

Seeing this, Su Ze marveled, "President Yu's trick really is effective. If they were auctioned off one by one, they definitely wouldn't have reached this price."

In the end, the price for these monster beast eggs was taken by a medium-sized family from another city for eighty-nine million.

After that, there were several other auction items, and everyone could clearly feel that they were a notch above the previous ones.

It seemed that person's claim that things got more valuable the later they appeared was not without reason.

But what they didn't know was that the person was actually someone Yu Shenghuo had arranged to be in the crowd for the purpose of hyping up the prices.

After several other things were auctioned in a row and a second batch of gold-rank monster beast eggs never appeared, the crowd's hearts inevitably grew anxious.

But to their despair, the next lot was still not the monster beast egg they were longing for, but a very strange-looking monster beast crystal core.

It was a transparent crystal core.

Generally speaking, monster beast crystal cores could be easily distinguished by color: red was a fire-attribute crystal core, black was dark-attribute, blue was water-attribute, and so on.

But this crystal core was transparent, and its attribute couldn't be discerned.

Yu Shenghuo introduced, "This monster beast crystal core was obtained by our Beast Tamer Association when we killed a level seventy turtle-type monster beast during the last incident at Azure Dragon Beast Taming University."

"But the strange thing is, we had already obtained a level seventy water-attribute monster beast crystal core from that beast; this was a second crystal core inside its body."

Although Yu Shenghuo's cadence piqued many people's interest,

a crystal core dropped by a level seventy monster beast was indeed expensive, but it wasn't enough to cause excessive interest among the crowd.

And if it were just that, it didn't seem sufficient to be placed at this point in the auction.

The crowd's reaction seemed to be within Yu Shenghuo's expectations, so he continued, "We then conducted research on this crystal core, but as everyone can see, we couldn't even determine its attribute."

"But by chance, we discovered that it displayed characteristics of the space-attribute..."

Yu Shenghuo stopped there, but it was enough to cause an uproar among the crowd.

He meant that this was a space-attribute monster beast crystal core?!

Su Ze also instantly perked up. He had always wanted a space-attribute crystal core to forge a storage tool, and he hadn't expected the opportunity to be right in front of him!

Seeing that the atmosphere had been stirred up, Yu Shenghuo raised the gavel in his hand and struck it down: "space-attribute crystal core, starting price sixty million!"

Generally, the price of a level sixty monster beast crystal core was around ten to twenty million; rare dark-attribute and light-attribute monster beast crystal cores might approach thirty million.

But the starting price for this space-attribute crystal core in Yu Shenghuo's hand was sixty million, yet the crowd didn't think it was an exaggeration at all and quickly began bidding.

Su Ze also said, "Sun Hao, it's time for you to have some fun, come help me bid!"

Sun Hao immediately walked to the microphone, but then turned back to ask, "Captain, how much should I call out?"

"Don't worry about it, just suppress everyone else's prices for me!"

Sun Hao immediately nodded: "Understood!"

He then pressed the button next to the microphone and called out a price of sixty-five million.

What Su Ze didn't notice was that when Yu Shenghuo brought out this crystal core, the nearby Hanba was rarely surprised.

Her bright eyes looked at the crystal core below, as if confirming something.

At the same time, the Zhu Family in the room next door was also listening carefully to the voice, then shook their heads.

"I can't tell; it's not someone we're familiar with. I wonder who it is that could get President Yu to open the SVIP room door."

"Perhaps it's a big figure from somewhere else. Young Master, are we still going to compete with him?"

Zhu Zhi, sitting in his seat, nodded and said, "That's a space-type crystal core. The number of people in the whole country who can produce one wouldn't exceed the fingers on one hand; of course we can't let someone else have it!"

He then gave a look, signaling his younger brother Zhu He beside him to call out a price of sixty-six million.

With the continuous price increases, it soon climbed to seventy-eight million, at which point most people had already withdrawn from the competition.

After all, it was ultimately just a level sixty monster beast crystal core. Even if it could create a portable storage item, it wasn't an essential function for most people.

In the end, only Su Ze and the Zhu Family were left bidding.

"Who is that upstairs? They're actually bidding against the Zhu Family."

"Who knows, but President Yu actually opened an SVIP room for him, so it seems he's someone of high status. This crystal core has nothing to do with us anymore; let's see who it ends up with."

Just as Sun Hao called out a price of eighty million after consulting Su Ze, Zhu He immediately followed with eighty-one million.

When Sun Hao asked again, Su Ze was already a bit hesitant.

After all, for a level seventy crystal core, the price was already way too inflated, even for a very rare space-type.

Just then, Hanba leaned into Su Ze's ear and whispered a few words.

Then, Su Ze's eyes lit up, and he immediately made a gesture toward Sun Hao.