"He made a bid..."
Spittoon Face murmured to Gold.
It was merely a sigh of surprise. They would never suddenly place a bid.
He still had two items left to auction. If he bid now and the other side backed off, buying a worthless wooden mask for 500 million would be suicide.
At the interstellar merchant association called Shadow, a young man with light violet double pupils cast an indifferent gaze toward White Hair, a trace of hesitation flickering deep in his eyes.
This price was completely at his limit.
Seeing White Hair's seemingly nervous expression, he instead did not dare act rashly.
"Executive Bai, they made three bids earlier..." an old man beside him softly reminded him.
That made the double-pupiled man reach a decision instantly.
"Withdraw."
Those words finally made him stop pursuing the bid.
He had watched all three rounds of bidding before. The techniques had been exceptionally skillful, but what he remembered most clearly was the timing of each entry.
They had been almost flawless killing blows!
"The price would be too high to turn a profit."
Mu Fan's lips moved slightly. Reading the old man's words beside Executive Bai through lip-reading, he calmly repeated them.
"500 million, going once."
"Going twice."
"Going three times! Congratulations to Buyer Number 29..."
Yue Xi could no longer hear the rest. Her eyes were now filled with immense delight.
For this second auction item, she had already planned to stake all her assets on it.
Yet under Mu Fan and White Hair's brilliant performance, the price had been held to merely a quarter of her total fortune...
She had witnessed every fierce exchange in the auction house, and there was still sweat lingering in her palms.
"Whew..."
Yue Xi softly let out a breath, feeling the enormous burden