At this time, Old Li and the others were also waiting for the stones to be cut.
It seemed that the harvest in other rooms was also good.
“Well, isn’t this the stone Old Li was looking at earlier?” someone said, seeing the small cart being pushed by the staff.
“Yes, it’s the stone Old Li was looking at,” another person said.
Old Li also saw the stone.
The reason he wasn't optimistic about that stone was mainly because the gravel was coarse, not from famous producing areas like Mossy Sand or Hweika, and the texture was also wrong.
What’s more, the price was high, and the volume was small. This stone, weighing less than ten kilograms, was priced at over two million.
The gamble was too big.
While a few people were discussing, the staff had already placed the stone in the jig.
“How should we cut it?”
“Grind it,” Guo Xuyang said.
A ten-kilogram stone was not small, yet he requested grinding, which was unheard of.
Wu Youzhi and Cheng Xiuping exchanged glances. The contents inside seemed to be truly excellent.
In all the time they had known each other, they had never heard Guo Xuyang mention grinding; he always cut them in half with a saw, rough and simple.
The customer is God, so the staff naturally had to obey. He carefully began to grind.
After only two minutes, he was stunned by a rich, deep green that emerged.
Could it be Imperial Green? He was shocked.
However, professional ethics compelled him to continue grinding.
Hmm? It’s actually white. Yes, it’s white, not transparent, but white, like cream.
No, it looks like what? The whites of the eyes.
He was startled by his own thought.
The whites of the eyes? Could it be an eye?
His thought was naive, but reality gave him hope.
When he finished grinding, it was indeed a giant eyeball, albeit a strange one.
There was no black, only green and white. He wanted to look closer but felt as if his soul was about to leave his body.
He quickly closed his eyes, then wiped it clean and handed it to Guo Xuyang.
Guo Xuyang’s eyes had not left the staff’s hands.
From the beginning to the end, his eyes were fixed on it, afraid of any slight mistake that might damage the jade.
The moment he took the jade, the system spirit, Yu’er, chimed in.
“Ding… Congratulations to the master for finding the Eye of the Demon. The system automatically rewards the master with ten thousand merit points.”
Hmm? The system actually rewarded him with ten thousand merit points. Wouldn’t that mean he could level up nine times in a row?
What? Eye of the Demon? What is this? Before he could rejoice, he was stunned by the “Eye of the Demon.”
Everyone else was also stunned, not knowing what this thing was.
The jade was like a giant eye, filled with a vibrant green, seeming to exude a chilling aura that made people extremely uncomfortable.
“Heavens? What is this? It looks so much like a ghost’s eye,” people around Li Mingze whispered.
“How much would this be worth? No one would want such an inauspicious object even for free, right?”
Guo Xuyang seemed not to hear them. He wrapped the jade in cloth and placed it beside him.
There were too many people present, so he couldn’t use his storage ability to put the jade into his mind.
He felt like he had found a treasure, something that could see through many things like this ghost-eye-like jade.
For instance, he could now see a woman in a qipao closely following Li Mingze.
Wu Youzhi’s chosen rough stone was cut open, revealing oil-green jade material, about the size of two palms. Although it wasn’t a complete loss, it could only be made into two bracelets or pendants.
The other stone was high-ice sky-blue jade. When this jade was cut, the people around became excited.
“Thirty million. Boss, thirty million. Are you selling?”
“Are you robbing me? Fifty million. Fifty million, boss, sell it to me.”
Everyone bid, and the scene was momentarily out of control. More people crowded in.
*Accept,* Guo Xuyang silently thought. He put the Eye of the Demon into his mind.
He didn’t want anyone else to discover this jade.
The price kept rising until it reached one hundred and twenty million, and only then did Wu Youzhi sell the jade.
He handed the jade to a tall, young woman.
The people around the woman quickly took it.
Wu Youzhi walked over smiling, holding the check.
“Thank you, President Guo! My trip wasn’t in vain this time.”
“Don’t come over yet. Wait until everyone else finishes cutting, then we’ll go out,” Guo Xuyang whispered and turned to leave.
Wu Youzhi was stunned for a moment, and Guo Xuyang had already disappeared.
It was then that he remembered he was drawing too much attention.
Pi Xiaoqian’s first stone was a complete failure, it was just the skin, with no jade at all.
The second stone was cut into a spring-colored jade, and it was snatched up by someone for two hundred million.
He genuinely wanted to keep it, but the people around were too enthusiastic.
Even if made into a decorative piece, it might not sell for over three hundred million.
It was better to convert it into cash and secure the profit.
Cheng Xiuping’s first stone was chosen with Guo Xuyang’s help. It was close to Imperial Green, but not very large, and was sold for one hundred and eighty million.
The second stone was not a loss; it was a palm-sized ice-type red jade, which was snatched up by someone for thirty million.
Wu Bing’s choices were not as lucky. The first stone was a complete failure.
The second stone was a water-type purple jade, with a peculiar shape, somewhat resembling grapes, and was sold for one hundred and fifty million.
The people around Li Mingze were all stunned. They hadn’t expected Pi Xiaoqian and the others to be so skilled, sweeping away nearly seven hundred million in just a short while at the club.
And they hadn’t even recouped their initial investment. They had gone to that room before Pi Xiaoqian.
Those who could enter the club were either rich or noble, all shrewd individuals. They no longer blindly admired Li Mingze as they had before.
Wu Youzhi saw that everyone had finished cutting and led the way out.
“President Pi, where do we go now?” Wu Youzhi asked.
“Upstairs. We must go upstairs. Today is a full package deal, I’m treating everyone,” Pi Xiaoqian said with a mischievous smile. “Hey, where’s President Guo?”
“He was afraid of being too high-profile and left early. I’ll call him.” Wu Youzhi said, taking out his phone.
“Brother, where are you? Upstairs? Okay, we’re coming up.”
Guo Xuyang was now upstairs in front of the slot machines, watching two young girls play.
There was no skill involved in playing slot machines. Insert coins, pull the lever. Either win or lose.
The two girls were having a great time.
“Xiao Xi, stop playing. You’ve only lost all night. Look, you’re out of chips.”
A girl next to her reached out her hand to the girl playing the slot machine. There were two chips left in her hand.
“Play them all. Then we’ll go home. I’m really unlucky today,” said the girl named Xiao Xi.
Guo Xuyang raised his hand and beckoned a staff member, saying, “Give me ten chips.”
“I’m sorry, sir. The minimum here is one thousand chips,” the staff member said.
The girl named Xiao Xi heard the conversation, looked up at Guo Xuyang, and said to the other girl, “Ran Ran, give your chips to this gentleman.”
Ran Ran handed her chips to Guo Xuyang. “Sir, please take them.”