The guests, who were all well-dressed, took their seats one after another. They seemed to be very familiar with each other, and there was endless chatter, and from time to time there would be a few ladies' chuckles.
There was only Lu Mingfei, sitting alone, as if he was isolated from the world and squeezed into a corner of the world.
The opera house is not big, but the hundreds of seats are almost filled with people. It is like a hive magnified a thousand times. Each cell is filled with a corresponding drone. They are gearing up and ready to go, and there are bursts of people.
A buzzing sound.
"Hey, hey, hey, look at these fake faces. No one is willing to take off the mask of hypocrisy. Some people have never met each other in ten years, but now they are like neighbors living across the door. They are so stupid.
Isn’t it?”
There was a very unsociable complaint from Lu Mingfei's left side. He turned around and saw that a young man who looked slightly older than him was talking to himself and sat down in seat 25 next to him. He had red hair.
The angry and majestic look reminded Lu Mingfei of the angry flamingos he saw at the zoo during the spring outing of junior high school.
"Hey, friend, you look different from them." The red-haired young man came closer. His personality seemed to be the same as his appearance, and he was so outgoing that he seemed to have some kind of social anxiety disorder.
"Are you referring to my... appearance?" Lu Mingfei pointed at his incongruous outfit.
"And your character." The red-haired young man smiled and spoke highly of Lu Mingfei, "You don't look hypocritical at all, just like gold in the trash can."
"We've only met for the first time. It's too early to talk about how we behave." Lu Mingfei smiled, thinking that this person might have just slipped out of the mental hospital next door, right?
"Don't doubt it, I've always judged people very accurately." The red-haired young man snapped his fingers and suddenly whispered in a voice that only Lu Mingfei could hear, "Neo Gonzalez, call me
Just Neo.”
Neo - bird...could this guy really be a flamingo? Lu Mingfei couldn't help but wonder.
"The only two people in the entire auction house who I feel are different are you and the lady in the front row, No. 38, the one wearing a pure white crystal dress. She is so elegant, like Her Majesty the Queen who reigns over the world." Neo.
He looked straight ahead diagonally, "I think I must be in love!"
Lu Mingfei followed Neo's gaze. He was shocked at first, and then fell silent... It seems that this flamingo brother was obsessed with girl No. 38 and had no time to take into account Lu Mingfei's emotional change when he saw girl No. 38.
"Huo Lie...Brother Neo, do you know her?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"do not know."
"So the prerequisite for falling in love is that the person also likes you, but you don't even know each other yet..." Lu Mingfei said calmly.
"Well, it doesn't matter. Love always comes unexpectedly. She will know me and fall in love with me. After all, I am the only one in this world who is worthy of picking that beautiful flower." Neo seems to have fallen in love.
, a little confused.
Lu Mingfei twitched his lips. He really wanted to wake up this guy who was daydreaming. Neo didn't know girl No. 38, but he was very familiar with her. Based on his understanding of the girl's personality, she would like someone like Neo.
The probability is...completely impossible!
The lights in the venue began to go out one by one, leaving only the giant chandelier in the center of the dome still on. Hundreds of upside-down rhombus crystals deflected the hazy light in all directions.
Waiters in white rang the bells as they passed by in the aisles, the voices of the guests talking gradually became lower, the curtain opened on the stage, and a man in a black tuxedo came out with a microphone and a hammer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Sotheby's Directed Auction, the first Chicago Cultural Tour auction in the summer of 2010, will start in five minutes. I am the auctioneer this time. Please hold your number plates and don't miss you.
My favorite thing, because every thing we will bid for next is unique." The auctioneer smiled mysteriously.
"Now, please close your eyes when it gets dark."
In the dim hall, the guests all closed their eyes, including Neo, who was next to Lu Mingfei. Everyone closed their eyes and lowered their heads, as if they were doing some sacred prayers, imagining the great God.
Among the hundreds of morbid scenes with eyes closed, Lu Mingfei was the only one with his eyes open and leaning on the back of the chair. He looked so out of place, as if there was no god in the boy's heart that he could worship.
"Mingfei, no matter what happens later, don't be surprised or act rashly." Ange's kind reminder rang in his ears.
"Okay, principal." Lu Mingfei responded calmly.
"It's dawn now, please open your eyes!" the host said through the loudspeaker, covering the entire hall.
As if receiving some kind of amnesty, everyone opened their eyes at the same moment. For a moment, it was as if the lights were bright again in the opera house, but it was no longer the crystal chandelier that illuminated the place, but... hundreds of pairs of golden and translucent eyes!
This is not a masquerade party or a special effect for cosmetic lenses. This is hundreds of real golden pupils. When they are gathered together, they are more dazzling than the daytime. At this time, whether it is an expensive suit, customized leather shoes or black card gold eyeglasses.
Cards, purple cards, and white cards are not enough to indicate whether a person is noble or not. The only thing that can judge whether a person is noble or not is whether the golden light in his eyes is attractive enough, and whether his bloodline is pure enough...
This is...a feast of dragons!
On Lu Mingfei's left hand sat Neo, and on his right was a curly-haired uncle. At this time, the golden light on his left side obviously overshadowed the right side. Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked, that was the brilliance in Neo's eyes.
This guy has a bloodline that is not weaker than "A" grade... This was Lu Mingfei's first reaction when he saw those golden eyes.
"You are very low-key." Neo looked at Lu Mingfei for a moment, "Everyone who comes here is showing off all the time. They show off their luxury cars and female companions when they are at the door, and they show off their clothes and clothes when they enter.
Conversations, and now they are directly compared to the nobility of blood. Everyone lights up their golden eyes to the extreme, as if they can dominate the audience with two big light bulbs on their faces. After a few hours, they are tired.
It's like running a full marathon and leaving yourself breathless."
"Even I am unconventional." Neo pointed to his bright golden eyes, and then pointed to Lu Mingfei's casual clothes and calm black eyes, "But you are different, I have never seen
You are such an eclectic person."
"Uh... Actually, 'eclectic' is not very appropriate to use here. 'Out of place' is more appropriate. Of course, if you want to praise me, you can also use 'eclectic'." Lu Mingfei popularized Chinese idioms to Neo on the spot.
.
"Almost." Neo waved his hand nonchalantly, and then searched the crowd in front of him until he saw girl No. 38, and he was stunned.
Lu Mingfei originally thought that Neo was intimidated by the dazzling golden eye blood of girl No. 38, but little did he know that this guy's crazy qualities were revealed as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Ah...she is even more beautiful when her eyes turn golden! My Queen!"
Neo couldn't help but shout out, which attracted the crowd around them to look at the two weird boys with strange eyes. Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes.
"Ming Fei, you are smarter than I thought. You were right not to ignite your golden pupils. Your golden pupils are too terrifying. Their pressure can even overwhelm Chu Zihang. If you reveal your 'S' level bloodline,
It's easy to arouse others' suspicion, and our plan will fall short." Ange's voice sounded again, "As for the boy No. 25 next to you... you can continue chatting with him, no problem, as long as you don't reveal your identity and behave appropriately.
The sillier the better.”
"Okay." Lu Mingfei replied in a low voice.
"Actually, I've also paid a little attention to him. During the chat, you can tentatively ask which camp of mixed breeds he belongs to." Angers said, and then introduced the overview of the mixed breed world to Lu Mingfei.
"There are too many hybrids in the world. They are scattered all over the world. Cassel College only covers a small part of them. The hybrids will attract each other and eventually integrate together to form tribe-like forces.
"
"For example, our Kassel College, another example is that there is a mixed-race underworld force in Japan called the Snake Qihachi Family, or the Gattuso family in Italy... They form different systems, and within each system
Everyone has their own rules, and now you can understand this situation as contact between different people. This is a mixed-race society."
"A mixed-race society..." Lu Mingfei murmured to himself. While chewing the word, he quickly glanced at the different skin colors and faces in the hall from all over the world.
"Some of their families have existed for thousands of years, and their accumulated wealth and power are astonishing. However, because of their different stances, many of them are not against the secret party."
"Do you know why many collectors in the world keep a low profile and never want to reveal their names in front of the public?" Angers asked.
"Because many of them are mixed race." Lu Mingfei answered.
"Bingo, to be precise, more than half of them are." Angers explained, "Legend has it that dragons like gems and metals, the most representative of which is the King of Bronze and Fire, which loves bronze; the King of Sky and Wind loves it the most.
All kinds of gems; while the king of the earth and the mountain has a special liking for hard stone and armor... Half-dragon blood flows in the veins of hybrids, so our desire for physical works of art is far greater than that of ordinary people."
"Really?" Lu Mingfei thought for a while. He didn't seem to have a hobby of collecting gems and artwork...probably because he was poor.
"Generally speaking, there are two ways to get the photos you want. One is to rely on your momentum and financial resources to pressure people. To use a Chinese word I particularly like, it is 'pretend'. When your background is strong enough and
When you show determination to win certain lots and can scare the other person, you may win it in one fell swoop... But this method is suitable for experts, not for you as a newcomer."
"The other is..." Ange didn't finish his sentence.
"Pretending to be stupid?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"That's what it means." Ange exclaimed, "You act like, 'I don't know anything but I just have a lot of money. I'm just here to love art and pick up girls.' Generally, no one will talk to you maliciously.
If you don’t know the price, they will simply think that you are just a scapegoat who doesn’t understand anything and loves to show off.”
The auction on the stage is in full swing, and bidding is now on the eighth lot.
"The one that will be auctioned soon is the light yellow ground Yangcai icing on the cake and the long-necked gourd vase with a long neck. At that time, the JDZ imperial porcelain craftsmen adopted and became familiar with the painting techniques pioneered by Qianlong in the early years, and developed a luxurious and complicated decorative technology - 'Road Brocade'
The ground' is highly respected. This technique of using fine needles to carve curly grass patterns, phoenix tail patterns and flower patterns on the glaze to express the 'brocade ground' effect has been perfected day by day in JDZ. This long-necked gourd bottle is
"A masterpiece of this period." The auctioneer introduced enthusiastically, "The patterns painted on the bottle are bright and varied in color, overlapping and interlaced, the composition is exquisite, and the details are colorful. The starting price is... ten million US dollars!"
The gourd bottle was finally photographed by Ange while chatting with Lu Mingfei and teasing the lady beside him while holding up a sign. The transaction price was a total of 20 million US dollars, which made Lu Mingfei secretly smack his tongue.
I thought that the secret party was actually so wealthy!
I wonder what my uncle and aunt in the small coastal town would think after knowing that I participated in an auction of this magnitude?
You probably think that this money is enough to send his fat cousin Lu Mingze to the training class for ten million years, right? Well... he has really learned a lot.
Next to him, Neo seemed to have little interest in these precious antique calligraphy and paintings. Lu Mingfei couldn't figure out whether this was sent by a young man from a big family to practice or he was simply invited to join in the fun.
"The following will be the special part of the day, as always, 'unexpected encounter'." The auctioneer smiled.
Lu Mingfei's eyes narrowed, and he clearly saw Neo tense up next to him. Could it be that the other party... collided with his target?
"Mingfei, look for the right opportunity. If nothing else happens, our target will be on the scene!" Ange said solemnly in the earphones.
In the center of the stage, a huge black hard-shell box was pushed up on a cart by a beautiful assistant wearing a cheongsam. The auctioneer pressed the lid of the box with his white-gloved hands, looked around the audience with a smile, but was not in a hurry to open it, as if
What kind of treasure from the Pirate King is contained inside, which whets my appetite.
"This extraordinary lot can be called the pinnacle of craftsmanship. No words can describe its magnificence. According to the seller's request, we have a rare zero starting price auction. The price can be increased at will without any restrictions."
"Extreme craftsmanship, a set of seven alchemical swords, now... the auction begins!" The auctioneer was about to open the heavy box lid, his voice was very tempting.
"one million."
Before the true identity of the lot was revealed, the auctioneer's introduction was abruptly interrupted in the air. Everyone turned around and focused their attention on the rear corner of the venue.
To the left of Lu Mingfei..., Neo held up his number plate.
"Visitant No. 25, are you sure you mean one million?" The auctioneer's hammer hung in the air, hesitating.
"five million."
A cold voice sounded, and everyone's eyes were drawn to the front of the venue.
VIP No. 38, Zero was sitting there holding the number plate, her face expressionless, like a queen attending this grand banquet.