Osiris Illusion Sealed
In the end, the rooster head sold for 186 million euros.
Converted into Dragon Yuan, that was roughly 1.3 billion.
That single purchase consumed nearly half of Gu Cheng's funds.
He had already started wondering who he could borrow some money from.
But after thinking it over,
aside from Xie Yuchen, there was only Yin Nanfeng.
The others either had no money or were not close enough to him for him to borrow a billion to tide himself over.
Wait.
There seemed to be another wealthy big shot!
He took out his phone and sent the man a text: "What are you up to?"
After Chicken Head,
the next item was not either of the other two bronze heads.
Instead, it was a stamp.
According to the auctioneer, this British Guiana One-Cent Magenta was the only one in the world. For nearly a century and a half, it had passed through the hands of collectors around the globe.
Its last purchase had been by Stanley Gibbons, who acquired it for his collection for 8.3 million U.S. dollars.
It was known as the "Mona Lisa" of the stamp world.
MP Group had secured the rights to auction it this time.
The starting bid was five million euros.
Then the bidding rapidly soared to twelve million euros.
Fatty was dumbfounded.
"A fucking scrap of a stamp is worth that much money?!"
"Am I behind the times, or has the world gone crazy?!"
Lao Hu and Fatty had only recently gotten into antique collecting. The porcelain, paintings, and calligraphy that had gone for tens or hundreds of millions earlier had already shocked them.
But seeing a finger-sized stamp fetch twelve million euros with their own eyes left them completely dumbfounded.
Gu Cheng chuckled. "That stamp is junk in your eyes,