Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1775

She was deliberately forcing him to drain his accounts to buy back something that already belonged to Obsidian Sun! The realization hit him like a freight train, his eyes burning red with absolute fury, his chest heaving violently. But even though he knew the truth, even though he saw exactly how she was playing him... what could he do? He couldn't stop bidding. If he folded now, AWS-14 would land in The Sterling Sovereign's hands. And if it fell to The Sterling Sovereign... that was exactly the same as handing it right back to The Panacea! That woman had used a single asset to completely obliterate Obsidian Sun's grip on the ship. God only knew what she would do with it next! The ultimate price Obsidian Sun would pay would be apocalyptic. The Raven bit down hard on his back teeth, his finger shaking as it hovered over the bidding terminal. He hesitated for two agonizing seconds before brutally slamming the button. [Anonymous Bidder 01: One hundred and five billion dollars.] The numbers flashed on the screen. The Raven stared at the interface, his jaw locked tight enough to crack. That wasn't just a bid he had entered. It was a vicious, soul-crushing stomp directly on his pride. Back on the auction floor. The moment the hundred and five billion dollar mark appeared, the crowd went completely hysterical. Even the Lead Auctioneer's voice cracked, sounding like a dying animal as he screamed into the mic. "One hundred and five billion! They're still going! Who on earth is this anonymous bidder?!" "Are they insane? This guy has completely lost his mind!" "Why is he so obsessed with Specimen Fourteen?!" "He's still chasing the pot at this price?!" The buyers who had long since folded stared at the anonymous tag on the screen, their expressions shifting dramatically. At this price point, no one believed Anonymous Bidder 01 was just an impulsive billionaire looking for a new toy. A hundred billion dollars wasn't a sum any random syndicate could just manifest out of thin air. It wasn't chump change you tossed at a novelty item. This person was terrified of revealing their true identity, yet they were perfectly willing to bleed dry for AWS-14, matching the price hike after price hike! "Who the hell is backing them?" "To be this desperate, they must be after the research data locked inside the asset." "No kidding. Nobody's dropping a hundred billion for a fancy bodyguard." "If they can reverse-engineer the neural mapping from AWS-14, they aren't just buying a weapon; they're buying a flawless biological blueprint." "If they can actually push the science forward, stabilize the mutation, and build that legendary eternal phalanx... man, that's game over for the rest of us." The buyer trailed off, but everyone around him understood the terrifying implication. Someone else glanced at the previous bid and muttered, "Then what about The Sterling Sovereign? Is he trying to build an army too?" The man next to him scoffed, his tone dripping with meaning. "Did you forget who The Sterling Sovereign is currently hanging out with?" The reminder hit the crowd like a shockwave. "The Panacea! She's sitting in his suite!" "Exactly," the man said, snapping his fingers. "Think about it. Even the ship's crew had to beg her to evaluate AWS-14. You really think she's going to treat that asset the same way a normal buyer would?" He gestured toward the glowing Apex Bio-Transfer Pod on the stage. "If anyone else buys it, they'll have to spend months just trying to figure out where to insert the needle. But The Panacea? She already mapped out its neural grid and control mechanisms in front of us. If she wants to run experiments, who on this entire planet has a better head start?" The revelation cast a heavy, complicated silence over the surrounding buyers. The Sterling Sovereign's limitless wealth combined with The Panacea's god-tier intellect. If those two genuinely wanted to dissect AWS-14 and extract its secrets... they would be an unstoppable force. It was the ultimate alliance.