Chapter 71.1
Editor: Jodi
Thinking about it, even Bai Jing couldn’t help but feel a bit excited. The Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium really lived up to its reputation as being a jadeite extravaganza event that was held once every ten years.
The quality of these rough stones and the double-rubbed surface exhibited high green jadeite of the glass variety characteristics, a quality that was impossible to find anywhere else.
If this rough stone indeed contained jadeite throughout, then it meant that after removing the crust, there would be at least over 60 kilograms of high green jadeite of the glass variety, with a total value exceeding 400 million starcoins. So, even if Bai Jing had to spend three hundred million to acquire it, it would be worth it.
Perhaps the profit margin wasn’t too high, however this was a rare high green jadeite of the glass variety!
Only from high green jadeite of the glass variety could grade 6 and even higher energy fluids be extracted, surpassing other types like jadeites of the high ice or ice variety.
For Bai Jing, this profit margin was the major consideration, so he would definitely not auction off the high green jadeite of the glass variety in his possession.
Moreover, just this one rough stone could earn him over one hundred million starcoins, a price that was equivalent to the value of seven to eight high-end jadeites.
If there were no surprises, this rough stone, A01, would be the bidding king of the entire Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium!
Bai Jing sent his sense perception ability deep into the rough stone labeled A01 along the right window immediately and almost instantly, a strong active response came through, indicating a surge of vitality that contained countless energies.
However, the water seed of the full green jadeite of the glass variety within extended only about six to seven centimeters inward before it fractured, weakening the reaction significantly.
And although it was still of the glass variety, it contained quite a few speckled and thread-like white cotton-like impurities.
In modern times, having white cotton within jadeite wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
As skilled jade carvers could utilize the distribution of the white cotton within to create various transformations, turning it into works of art.
There was even the beautiful snowflake cotton, resembling snowflakes scattered within the clean and clear texture of jadeite of the glass variety, which imbued a sense of artistic conception, that when crafted into bracelets or pendants, caused its value to remain high.
However in the interstellar era, any type of white cotton would absorb and block the energy inside jadeite and, as an impurity, couldn’t be removed.
Therefore jadeites which contained white cotton naturally suffered significant depreciation in values.
Bai Jing continued to send his sense perception inward and found that most of it was jadeite of the glass variety with white cotton, and that it was only in the last ten centimeters, close to the left window that apple green jadeite of the glass variety appeared again.
Looking at it this way, only about one-third of the rough stone was genuine jadeite, around twenty kilograms, which was worth about 150 million starcoins.
Withdrawing his sense perception ability, Bai Jing sighed lightly in his heart.
Sure enough, it was hard for even a god to judge an inch of jadeite.
This rough stone had such good performance, with jadeites appearing on both the left and right sides, and the python belt pine blossoms in the middle also showing good signs, however it still couldn’t reach the state where it had jadeite throughout.
Sigh, it was a bit of a pity.
Bai Jing didn’t show the disappointment he felt on his face and instead smiled faintly as he observed the rough stone with a serious expression.
Because although there weren’t as many people in the secret bidding area as in the open bidding area, he still detected a few prying eyes and so couldn’t let others see his intentions.
After he finished his inspection, he straightened up then glanced at the bidding box next to the rough stone.
Unlike the open bidding area, where bids were made directly on the spot and participants could see each other’s bidding prices and raise them, in the secret bidding area, everyone’s bidding prices were not visible to others, similar to a blind bidding situation.
As the bidding box only displayed the number of bids, not the prices.
Each person only knew the base price of the rough stone and their own bidding price.
And since the base price at the Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium was hardly indicative, ranging from a few times to tens or even hundreds of times, it was almost like having no reference at all.
This blind guessing method led to higher prices for rough stones in the secret bidding area and more intense competition.
For example:
The base price of rough stone A was one million, and person A estimated its value to be five million.
If rough stone A were in the open bidding area and person A found out that the highest bid from the competitors was only up to three million, then they could secure it by bidding 3.1 million. As a precaution, 4 million would definitely secure it.
However, if rough stone A were in the secret bidding area, thinking of others as themselves, person A would worry that their competitors also bid five million or even higher.
Therefore, they might bid six million or even seven to eight million to buy the rough stone, spending nearly twice as many starcoins.
And it wouldn’t just be that person who would think this way, as everyone bidding would be afraid that others would bid higher than themselves. Which was why the rough stones in the secret bidding area were more expensive than those in the open bidding area.
Basically, all the good rough stones were in the secret bidding area.
Moreover, because they weren’t sure if they would win the bid, these people would bid on many rough stones at once, making the competition in the secret bidding area particularly fierce.
Many people would be satisfied with their bids, however when they see others bidding, they would still become anxious, and those with not so strong mentalities would bid a second time, thereby raising the prices.
Especially in the last few minutes before the bid opened, as almost half of the people would adjust their bids, making the prices go higher and higher.
All of which made for a really extreme and exciting psychological game.
However in the end, despite their competition, the ones who profited the most were still the organizers.
And there was no way around that.
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