Chapter 77.2
Editor: Jodi
Apart from the half-bet rough stones, the secret bid area also had many full-bet rough stones with good performances, with base prices not much lower.
Bai Jing opened his electronic notebook, where he had already written down the numbers of over a hundred rough stones in a densely packed manner.
In addition to A02 and A4100, there were 5 pieces of jadeites of the glass variety, 8 pieces of jadeites of the high ice variety, and 15 pieces of jadeites of the ice variety, with half of them being rare colors such as violet, white base green, bicolor, and red jadeite, and with the lowest being the hibiscus variety.
However a third of them had been crossed out, all of which were unsuccessful bids.
What’s more some of the auction prices even shocked Bai Jing.
A piece of white salt skin rough stone that weighed less than 20 kilograms, with good performance, had a winning bid price of 63 million!
However with such a high price, there was a very strong possibility that it would be a collapse in bet.
If it had contained high green jadeite of the glass variety or was full green jadeite, then it could have indeed earn over ten million starcoins.
However he had probed it with his sense perception ability and so knew that the jadeite inside was light green jadeite of the ice variety, one that occupied only half of the rough stone and which was worth at most, 15 million starcoins.
The buyer was bound to lose terribly!
What Bai Jing didn’t know was that the first day’s bid opening prices set a new high for the Jadeite Emporium, making it so that many people returned home empty-handed and with nothing to show for their tossing.
So, in the next few days, these people naturally set their sights on the better rough stones in the later rounds.
And with everyone eyeing the same rough stones, the bid prices could only go up, something which was unavoidable.
Moreover, most people had a herd mentality— that was, the higher the numbers on the bid boxes, the more the bids, driving the prices higher.
Meanwhile, the less promising rough stones received few electronic bid slips, with people barely giving them a glance, making the contrast stark.
And this situation allowed Bai Jing to pick up a few rough stones with poor performance but high potential for producing jadeites of the high ice and just ice variety.
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As the bid opening in the secret bid area approached its end, there were hardly any good rough stones left, causing it to be similar to the open bid area, with mostly only offcuts left.
And tomorrow would be the final bid opening day, with the rough stones numbered A01-A100 set to be opened after the last batch.
These 100 rough stones were the best-performing half-bet rough stones selected from over a hundred thousand rough stones by the organizers, with the top-ranked A01 likely to be the bidding king of this Jadeite Emporium in both the open and secret bid areas.
And this, would be the highlight of this Jadeite Emporium, a highlight which would determine who would claim the title of bidding king.
Would it continue the upward trend of the previous bidding king? What astronomical price would it fetch?!
Moreover the financial resources, methods and insights of each aristocratic family would be showcased in these 100 top-quality rough stones, and would even to some extent, determine their development for the next three to five years.
For example, if a certain family lost billions at the Jadeite Emporium and at the same time failed to get a few high-end jadeites, their auction houses would struggle to attract attention with good items, let alone headline pieces.
Not to mention that their partnered senior energy masters also needed grade 6 jadeite to extract energy fluid, as even a resourceful woman couldn’t cook without rice.
If this situation couldn’t be resolved quickly, their competitors wouldn’t miss this opportunity to push them down!
And because of Bai Jing, the Gu Conglomerate would be the biggest winner of this Jadeite Emporium, reaping huge benefits!
What’s more if he could secure rough stone A02, it would mean having harvested over 60 kilograms of sunny green jadeite of the glass variety and over ten kilograms of top-quality imperial green jadeite of the glass variety!
And along with the 2 pieces in the open bid area and 5 pieces in the secret bid area, these were enough to extract hundreds of boxes of high-grade energy fluid above grade 6, sufficient enough to meet the needs of the auction house as well as the military for nearly two years!
As for the jadeites of the high ice and just ice variety in rare colors like violet, white base green, bicolor, and red jadeite, they could be gradually placed in the auction house as headline items.
Because although they weren’t top-grade jadeites, they wouldn’t tarnish the reputation.
As for that top-quality chicken yellow jadeite of the glass variety, it would attract a lot of attention just by being displayed, as there wasn’t a second piece of top-grade yellow jadeite in the entire Empire!
However all this would have to wait until the bid opening ended tomorrow.
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That night, Bai Jing had insomnia for the first time.
He had seized every bit of time to rest during the apocalypse, and after coming to the interstellar era, he had continued this habit, falling asleep within 30 seconds of lying down.
But now, he had been lying in bed for two hours and still couldn’t sleep.
Then when he finally fell asleep, he had a nightmare.
He dreamt that the auctioneer smiled and said, “Congratulations, Secret Bid A02 has become the rightful bidding king of this Jadeite Emporium with a winning bid price of 360 million, congratulations!”
360 million? How could it be 360 million!!
Bai Jing sat up in bed, covered in sweat, then looking around, he found that he was still in the hotel and breathed a heavy sigh of relief. Phew, turns out it was just a dream.
If he could change his bid slip now, afraid he might go and revise it overnight!
He hadn’t changed the bid price until the very last moment of the bid sealing. Although there were a dozen more numbers on the bid box, he restrained himself from bidding again.
Because he trusted Gu Yuanzhao’s judgment.
However now, he regretted a little.
If he didn’t win—
Then Gu Yuanzhao, you’re dead.
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