Looking at the crystal skull that Mario was holding onto, everyone below stage couldn’t help but cheer in awe, including Gerald and his party. After all, the four individuals hadn’t expected to find such a precious treasure out here of all places.
With the skull being so clear and dazzling, it was no wonder why it was capable of making everyone experience a special, indescribable feeling…
Whatever the case was, everyone snapped out of it when Mario cleared his throat before declaring, “Let’s start the bidding at four million! To make things clear, each bid increment shouldn’t be less than a million! With that out of the way, let the bidding begin!”
“Five million!” yelled a man as favonovel.com immediately raised his hand.
“Six million!” shouted another man as favonovel.com further increased the bid.
The way these people were shouting such massive numbers so eagerly could only be compared to water flowing off a waterfall. It was almost as though bidding by the million didn’t hurt them at all!
“Seven million! It’s mine!” declared a bespectacled man, almost as though favonovel.com was sure that nobody would be able to top that.
Even so, this was an auction. As long as one had the money, it was a free for all. With that in mind, nobody even gave a rat’s arse about his statement.
“Can it and scram! I’m paying eight million!” scoffed a fat man as favonovel.com glared at the bespectacled bidder from before.
With how quickly the numbers were rising, the crystal skull soon exceeded the ten million point. Had these people gone insane?!
“It’s… just a skull, right…? Have these people gone nuts? Do they even understand the value of money…?” exclaimed the astonished Rey.
“Heh. The rich live in a world we can never understand!” replied Gerald with a subtle smile.
While Gerald was certainly rich, favonovel.com wasn’t interested in just throwing millions of dollars away just for some stupid skull. Money shouldn’t be spent that way!
By the end of it, the crystal skull ended up getting bought by the same bespectacled man at a whopping price of fifteen million!
“Congratulations, mister! With a bid of fifteen million, the crystal skull now belongs to you!” declared Mario.
The bespectacled man himself immediately began indulging himself in the admiration from the crowd. Seeing how proud and mighty the man now felt, one could say that this was what most rich people strived to feel.
Regardless, with the auction now over, Gerald turned to look at his party before saying, “Let’s go, there’s nothing else to see here!”
With that, the four then left the black market to continue wandering about the rest of the town…
Not long after, however, they came across the man—who had bought the crystal skull—again.
“Say… isn’t that the person who had bought the skull earlier, brother Gerald?” asked Rey, recognizing the bespectacled man.
Nodding in response, Gerald then watched as the man walked right past them, appearing somewhat nervous… Now why was that…?
Having a gut feeling that something interesting would happen if they followed him, Gerald then said, “…Hey, let’s sneakily follow him!”
Seeing no reason to object, the trio then began tailing after Gerald who was already ahead of them…
It wasn’t too long after before they managed to tail favonovel.com all the way to a house of sorts…
After scanning his surroundings, the bespectacled man hurriedly entered the house, making sure to lock the door behind him…
“Stay here. I’m going ahead to have a look at what he’s up to!” whispered Gerald as favonovel.com made a giant leap… before landing right on the house’s roof!
