Chapter 418: Chapter 356: Can dishes be auctioned? Eye-opener!
"Genesis?"
Someone sneered in the bullet comments: "Which tiny corner did this organization crawl out from? How did they even sneak into the auction? Even we wouldn’t dare throw an olive branch to Mr. Li, how do they dare?"
The players gathered in this live stream can’t claim to represent the very top of the player community.
But their financial power is undoubtedly in a transcendent position, and they surely have plenty of talented people under them.
They have some understanding of each other to varying degrees.
Nobody had heard of any organization called "Genesis," merely thinking it must have been newly established, scraping together resources to sneak into the auction.
Someone realized the name Cao Cao seemed familiar, and posted a comment asking: "I feel like I’ve seen this guy’s name somewhere before."
"Cao Cao? Isn’t this the great villain from the Three Kingdoms?"
"How dare you have the same name as Prime Minister Cao? Who do you think you are?" Tang Qianzang checked out his brief profile, discovering that his avatar was of a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner, incurring even more rage: "A foreign ghost from the Western Realm—the audacity to insult our Dragon Country ancestors!"
Liu Qi Shao said, "I know this person, he used to be a channel head for the White-headed Eagle, disappeared a while back."
"I know about this; it’s somewhat related to Li Zheng too."
A player named Chris, also known as Moriarty, suddenly spoke up: "Before Watanabe was killed by Li Zheng, he had asked the White-headed Eagle for help. The person in charge of this was none other than Cao Cao."
This Chris is from the United States and is a minor leader in a United States player organization. Well-informed and widely connected, he is appreciated by the backstage BOSS of that organization, specialized in handling diplomatic tasks.
Li Zheng saw the bullet comment by Chris, which reminded him of the few Mud Furnace people who died by his hand early on.
He remembered they nominally visited Channel 879 in the name of the High Celestial Plain at that time.
In the end, there were three of them: one was a Fudao Island spy; another a Genesis spy, and the last one he initially thought was loyal to the High Celestial Plain.
Now it seems... they had an unclear relationship with the White-headed Eagle.
The official organization of the Mud Furnace Country truly presents a united front, one could say "solid as iron."
Li Zheng smirked, "I remember being assassinated several times before. Those people thought wearing masks would hide their identities but I ended up killing them all."
"If I’m not mistaken, both groups of assassins had Western faces. I wonder if Mr. Cao Cao remembers anything?"
The Western ghost’s attack on him coincided exactly with Watanabe Shunyo’s death, surely he brought in reinforcements.
Based on what Chris said, the one who hired the assassins was no doubt this Cao Cao currently trying to recruit him.
Cao Cao wiped his cold sweat and quickly typed a reply: "Mr. Li, you’ve misunderstood, you can tell from my name that I greatly admire your nation’s culture. I particularly respect the Dragon Country people, how could I secretly attack you? Someone must have framed me!"
He has to clear the assassin arrangement against Li Zheng; otherwise, if he catches on, he’ll never sleep peacefully again.
"Framed by me? Ha ha!" Chris chuckled coldly, "You claim to admire Dragon Country but haven’t even learned a bit of their admirable quality of being straightforward and honest. Truly shameless, leaving others in grief and resentment!"
This began by openly mocking Cao Cao and subtly praising the Dragon Country, directly hitting Li Zheng’s ’patriotic’ spot. Chris being in this position is certainly for the best.
At least he knows who to flatter and who to offend.
Unlike some novel side characters, who lash out at the protagonist and end up being ground into the dust.
"No worries, as long as Mr. Cao Cao doesn’t oppose me in the future, I, Li, will let bygones be bygones."
Li Zheng said this squinting, causing several attentive ones to speculate on his intent.
Cao Cao took this as a reinforced warning—no mercy next time if there’s any more trouble.
Chris assumed that his recent words had scratched Li Zheng’s itch, showing satisfaction.
Tanaka Junichiro suspected Li Zheng’s past with the High Celestial Plain would resurface and lead to action.
Banquan Longma wondered if Li Zheng, recalling the past, might flip and make trouble for him once more.
Li Zheng, meanwhile, was musing: Sakura’s scales are actually shiny black and glaringly reflective under the light.
"Dare not! Dare not!" Cao Cao quickly sent two bullet comments to demonstrate his resolve.
Liu Qi Shao found such trivialities tedious; he looked on for so long that he grew annoyed and urged, "After adding the Gold level, what’s the base price for this batch of potions?"
The topic finally returned to the right track; Li Zheng pondered, "The base price is fifty bottles of Platinum level blood material, with each additional bid not less than five bottles!"
Even after adding the Gold level potion, the base price remains fifty, but the materials have been upgraded from Gold to Platinum.
This price, it increased several dozen times!
Liu Qi Shao wore his dark face as the previous auction’s dissolution resulted in his greatest loss.
Initially, he only needed four hundred plus bottles of Gold level potions to secure a batch rising to Silver level potions.
But due to Tanaka Junichiro’s interference, he couldn’t get hold of them.
Now re-auctioning, even though an entire set of Gold level potions is included, the price is quite reasonable.
But whoever ends up with the potions will come down to whoever bids more generously.
Liu Qi Shao could bite off a piece of Tanaka Junichiro, for if he didn’t bleed significantly in this auction, he might leave with nothing!
Tanaka Junichiro created this problematic situation.
"Go, find which channel Tanaka Junichiro is in!" he gestured, ordering his aide to investigate while he focused on bidding against others.
Liu Qi Shao’s thought was straightforward; whether it was intentional or accidental, he and his soldiers suffered losses.
Especially because Genetic Potion, the valuable means of increasing survival rates, being messed with irked Liu Qi Shao.
The most critical point is that Tanaka Junichiro...he’s a Mud Furnace person.
A Mud Furnace person causing trouble for a Dragon Country person?
You’d better expect to have bad luck!
Dragon Country people could be neighborly to anyone, except for Mud Furnace...Stealing Country...ahem, foreign people.
Only foreign people, no such broad-mindedness has room.
If you behave, you get nice treatment, like a stray dog sniffing around the door.
But if you act up in front of Dragon Country people.
Sorry, but delivering justice with an iron fist might pay your face a visit.
Tanaka Junichiro is unaware that targeting Li Zheng, failing to poach business from him, incurs the wrath of Li Zheng and an influential Dragon Country organization leader.
With the auction just in its second lot, bidding became fiercely heated.
The screen flooded crazy bids, with the highest skyrocketing to five hundred bottles of Platinum level blood material.
A tenfold increase!
Watching this price, Liu Qi Shao almost bit his tongue off.
No other reason.
Just because the price was offered by Tanaka Junichiro.
The five hundred-bottle high bid hovered for fifteen seconds with no further offers, leaving Tanaka Junichiro satisfied, "Now it’s secure!"
Li Zheng was equally amused, "Little devil has ill intentions, but sadly for him, what baby produces—even if you want to tamper—you’ll have to see if baby agrees."
Liu Qi Shao was not as happy, breathing heavily like a bellows, even wishing he could immediately send someone to beat up Tanaka Junichiro and seize the potions.
"Five hundred bottles of Platinum level blood material sold!" Li Zheng confirmed the deal, transferring the Genetic Potion set to Tanaka Junichiro while receiving the payment.
"Next is something a little different, please prepare yourselves." Li Zheng grinned, revealing his white teeth: "Next up for auction is a custom luxurious meal set!"
As he spoke, Li Zheng waved his hand, presenting twelve exquisite dishes that blinded everyone watching.