Even Luna Porter couldn’t help but look back at Sean.
Then she nodded and smiled.
Sean wore a wolf-head mask. Not many people knew him here, just Luna Porter, Zackary Campbell, Finn Lewis, etc. Finn Lewis and others looked at Sean like he was a monster.
Miss Porter of the Porter family in Capital City, and Mr. Mason of the Mason family of the Capital City. An engaged unmarried couple. They were stalemated at auction for Ladies Star Grass?
And, by one dollar!
What a rare sight!
“Three billion block?”
When the others noticed Sean’s location, the look of anger and disdain grew stronger. They sat in the five billion block or the eight billion block, but they didn’t dare to play that way. A $3 billion district guy going up against miss Porter of the Capital City?
How dared he!
But this was an auction. No matter how angry they were, they did not dare to do anything wrong. After a few sarcastic glares, they sat down and waited for Luna Porter to “slap Sean in the face” as she had done with the middle-aged man in 125.
Expectant glances turned to Luna Porter at machine 6.
“I give up.”
Luna Porter could have said and done nothing. All she had to do was to wait for the 30-second countdown to end. But then she said something out of the blue.
Beep!
Her voice was not loud, but it sounded like thunder. It immediately caused a strong reaction in the crowd. The expectant glances of Luna Porter suddenly turned to shock, disbelief, and disapproval!
Why?
Why were you so brutal, overbearing, and unreasonable when you competed with us? When it came to that son of a bitch in 118, you suddenly changed?
Give up?
Dear Miss Porter, you were not giving up. You were humiliating us!
In particular, the middle-aged man sitting in front of machine 125 looked at Sean in a very complicated way. Words could hardly describe it. He could not help thinking, “This son of a bitch, NO. 118, isn’t he having an affair with miss Porter, is he?”
Otherwise, Luna Porter fought with everyone and robbed everyone, but why did she give up when it was Sean’s turn?
They must have an affair.
Sean shrugged at the complicated gaze of the middle-aged man in 125. He also looked confused. Only, through the Wolf mask, the middle-aged man could not see him.
Sean couldn’t figure out what Luna Porter meant.
Was she trying to make him be hated by everyone?
Eight and a half billion!
Sure enough, after a few moments of confusion, before the 30-second countdown to zero, someone bid again and directly raised the bidding price of Ladies Star Grass by 500 million!
Machine No. 23......
Sean’s pupils constricted. He glanced back at machine 23 and saw that it was the $8 billion zone. Sitting in front of machine 23 was a square-faced man in his fifties.
When the man raised the price, he looked back at Sean with an aggressive look on his face.
Apparently, he was stimulated by Luna Porter’s behaviors.
$8 billion zone, which meant there was only $8 billion in the man’s card. And now he had got $8.5 billion, which was clearly the same thing Sean did, transferring money to the verification card.
He was just trying to make Sean uncomfortable!
Without hesitation, Sean reached out and clicked several times on the machine in front of him. Soon, the bidding price was renewed. Eight and a half billion dollars!
He still only added a dollar!
The square-faced man gave Sean an angry look and then continued to raise the price!
Nine billion!
Then, just three seconds later, it was nine billion and one!
For the next few seconds, there was drama in the auction room. The guy with the square face was jacking up $500 million at a time. Sean, on the other hand, was steady as a rock, adding a dollar at a time.
The billionaires in the room were stunned.
Most people, though, were rooting for the square-faced man. Every time the square-faced man raised his price, he was greeted with cheers. But every time Sean added a dollar, he got a sneer and a look of disdain.
But Sean didn’t care at all.
He just needed to get Ladies Star Grass!
The square-faced man finally gave up when the bidding price on the giant screen became $12.5 billion and one. His face turned pale, and he had lost all his former pride and confidence.
The reason is simple. Twelve and a half billion was all he had!
It was up to the peak!
“Bastard!”
The square-faced man gritted his teeth as he gave Sean a hard look and said, “Good for you!”
He then dropped his bid.
The billionaires who were watching were disappointed. At 12.5 billion, the price was far beyond the actual value of Ladies Star Grass. Had it not been for a fit of pique, no one would have added further.
Moreover, only a dozen people were sitting in the ten billion zone. As long as they didn’t bid, no one else in the precinct, even if they wanted to, could afford that kind of money!
“That was a close call…”
Sean sighed secretly. Owen Sanchez’ $3 billion, plus Zackary Campbell’ $10 billion, and at this point, there was only $13 billion in his verification card, not even a dollar more!
So, if the square-faced man raised his price one more time and made it to $13 billion, it was Sean who was going to be mad.
A dollar beat a hero!
Zackary Campbell, sitting in the front row, was equally quietly relieved. He knew how much money Sean had, so when the bidding reached $10 billion, he pulled out his bank card and waited to transfer the extra $10 billion to Sean.
Now, it looked like he didn’t have to.
As the clock ticked down to the last five seconds on the giant screen, Zackary Campbell put his bank card back in his wallet. But almost as soon as he closed his wallet, the bidding price that everyone thought was a foregone conclusion was renewed.
And this time, the scale of the change was particularly large!
Twenty billion!
From $12.5 billion and one to $20 billion!
Boom!
Like thunder, the moment, the scene became a mess.
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