Chapter 75.2
Editor: Jodi
On the third day of Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium, Bai Jing first went to the open bidding area to check the rough stones.
And sure enough, after yesterday’s lesson, those peeping eyes had practically vanished, making him feel much more relaxed.
However as the numbers exceeded 7000, there were basically not many rough stones to choose from, as the rest were mostly just dregs.
Bai Jing walked along the new stone platform, scanning through the rough stones quickly.
Among the thousands of rough stones, there weren’t many with brush pine blossoms or python belts on them, and the skin of the rough stones changed from fine skins or sand skins to rough skins.
He used his sense perception ability to explore ten of them, and the best among them was of the green oil seed variety, and the rest included a new bean variety.
Bai Jing noted down a rough stone that had a starting price of 150,000 starcoins numbered 7540, which contained fifty to sixty kilograms of blue-green jadeite of the green oil seed variety which, no matter what, was still quite cost-effective.
And it just so happened that he had to mail extracted energy fluids to Star Ocean Auction House, what’s more it wouldn’t take that much time anyway.
In addition, Bai Jing found those black stones that had extremely high energy content in them in the later numbered areas!
And delighted, he continued to look for more, however unfortunately, among the thousands of rough stones, he only found one new piece.
It was the size of a fist, was pitch black, covered with a thick wax shell and was smooth and round without any edges.
He recorded the number of this new piece of rough stone in his electronic notebook carefully. He had to snap them up!
He looked at the starting bid price— it was only 30,000 starcoins.
It made sense. After all, this rough stone didn’t show any performance, so no one really cared about it. Which meant he should be able to snap it up for 100,000 starcoins.
When he reached the location where the rough stones were numbered 10000, he just glanced back then left the open bidding area.
In all likelihood, after the rough stones numbered 6001-9000 were opened for bidding in the open bidding area today, except for some who would pick up some bargains, most people would flood the secret bidding area.
After all, the secret bidding area would have its first bidding in three days, so there wasn’t much time.
What’s more the bidding in the secret bidding area would last for a week, with new batches of rough stones being bid on every day.
The first 20,000 rough stones that would be opened for bidding the next day would have their bidding boxes as well as rough stones sealed at 10:00 p.m. the night before, and no further bidding would be allowed.
There were two ways to bid—— one was to go to the auction hall, where scrolling subtitles would be displayed on the big screen.
That one would start at 9 a.m. and continue until noon.
And the other was that at noon, if one won a bid, the corresponding number would automatically appear on everyone’s bidding device, then in the afternoon, one could go directly to the auction hall to collect their winnings based on the bidding results.
Normally, it was much more convenient for everyone to just wait for the results to be sent to their bidding devices.
However more than 80% people would still go to the auction hall, because the feeling of being on the edge of one’s seat was unbearable.
It was a bit like when certain major exams released scores. Obviously, because there were too many people trying to log in, one would just keep getting pushed out as soon as they logged in, however people would still keep trying to log in to check their scores.
That sense of urgency was hard to endure for even a second.
So, there was bidding in the morning, bidding in the afternoon, then bidding again in the morning of the second day, with each day being extremely exciting.
However the rough stones numbered A01-A100 in the secret bidding area would only be opened for bidding on the last day.
And this, was the real highlight of the entire Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium.
Because which major aristocratic family was able to win the bidding king, whether the bidding king would be a significant rise in bet, and which family would be the biggest winner of this jadeite event would all be revealed one by one!
This was also the purpose of the major aristocratic families coming to participate in the Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium. It was for fame, to intimidate other aristocratic families, and to also leave a colorful mark on future records.
Gu Yuanzhao had other matters to attend to in the afternoon, so Bai Jing went to the secret bidding area alone.
The number on the bidding box of rough stone A01 had changed from ’17’ to ’23’, indicating that the competition for the bidding king among the major aristocratic families was quite intense.
And holding a flashlight in his right hand up, he examined the surface of the full green of the glass variety along the mouth that had been polished out inch by inch carefully, then scanned the code on the bidding box with his bidding device and placed his second bid.
Causing the number on the bidding box of rough stone A01 to quickly change to ’24’.
And in the eyes of others, this was translated as: Gu Yun, worried that others would bid higher than him after his bid yesterday, was very anxious, so he added another bid on top of the original one, hoping to win the ‘bidding king’ of this Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium.
Then Bai Jing walked to the side of rough stone A02, glanced at the cracks on it briefly, pretended to hesitate a little, then placed a bid on it as well.
Compared to his bidding for A01, this bid seemed more like a backup plan and a chance to pick up bargains.
Bai Jing had already decided on the price the night before—213 million.
The extra amount was just in case. After all, he had seen too many cases where adding another 100,000 would cause the rough stone to be snatched away after bidding in the open bidding for millions or tens of millions.
When the electronic bidding was submitted, Bai Jing’s heart felt much calmer. He believed in Gu Yuanzhao.
And his series of actions also corresponded to the mentality of most people.
No one would think that what he really valued was A02. After all, A01’s performance was just too perfect.
Bai Jing had already inspected the first 100 rough stones in the secret bidding area yesterday, and because the openings that had been rubbed out were all mid to high-grade jadeites, the prices set for them were quite high.
Making it so that the numbers displayed on the bidding boxes for the rough stones he had bid on yesterday had all reached above 50.
However Bai Jing didn’t believe that the prices he had filled in could surpass the highest prices on the electronic bidding slips inside the bidding boxes, which meant that his slips had now become invalid.
And that he had basically only selected one rough stone in the secret bidding area, so he needed to hurry up.
As Bai Jing looked through them one by one, he found that none of the rough stones with numbers below 500 in the secret bidding area had bidding boxes with numbers lower than ’30’.
It seemed that the assets of others weren’t strong enough to compete with the wealthy for the bidding king, so they had all set their sights on these rough stones.
Indeed, the risk of half-bet rough stones was much lower than that of full-bet rough stones. Moreover, judging from the openings of these rough stones, the water qualities were all good, indicating that they had been selected carefully.
And the Stone Solvers who had unraveled these rough stones partially were also masters among masters, because many of the openings happened to be in the best positions for the water and color of the entire rough stone. If they shifted even three centimeters to the side, the value of these rough stones would be discounted greatly.
Really amazing!
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Thanks for the chapter! I’m clearly not made to gamble, lol.
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