Prosperity! Prosperity!
Listening to the shouts of the auction, Chen Yu felt as if a golden mountain was waving at him.
80,000, 100,000, 70,000, 90,000.
…
The 10 cans of Flame Fruit were snapped up by the auction participants, all sold out in just ten minutes, fetching prices beyond imagination.
With the final hammer blow.
The auction concluded.
Even though the auction had dispersed, Chen Yu remained seated, staring out the window towards the auction stage, completely stunned.
Tens of millions of gold coins.
His 300 bottles of canned goods would yield a profit of tens of millions.
“Boss~!”
“We’re rich!”
At this moment, Black Bean seemed even more excited than Chen Yu.
He remembered clearly.
The fox elder had promised to take the average value of 10 auctioned items and purchase the remaining 290 cans of Flame Fruit, which would bring them tens of millions of gold coins.
“We can buy a whole city.”
Black Bean cheered ecstatically.
Zhao Xin, leaning against his chair, was also unable to recover for a long time.
Was this real?
He had been in the underground for less than a month, and he was about to possess tens of millions of gold coins. Converted to copper coins, it would be hundreds of billions.
And resource points, trillions!
If he were bolder, the resources he held at this moment might even rival half the total resources of all foreign survivors.
He was undoubtedly the richest among the survivors!
“Hey, snap out of it!”
While lost in thought, the sharp cry of the little devil came from Chen Yu’s ear.
“Ah~”
Hearing this shout.
Chen Yu then turned his head in surprise, just in time to see the little devil’s furrowed brow.
“The money isn’t in your hand yet, what are you so excited about?” the little devil frowned. “Even if it is, with tens of millions of gold coins, shouldn’t you be thinking about how to protect it?”
Chen Yu was instantly stunned.
Indeed!
Tens of millions of gold coins would make even some of the large families in the underground covetous. Chen Yu was confident he could handle those nouveau riche, but for those with deep foundations, like the Ailton family, their doormen were Golden rank, and they could dispatch a few Obsidian rank experts.
Chen Yu would find it difficult to resist.
No!
It should be said that resistance was impossible.
According to the initial offer of 20,000 gold coins from the fox elder, the resulting 6 million gold coins might have made him willing to purchase.
But now—
It had exceeded ten million.
Could the Ailton family really afford such a large amount of cash?
Even if they had the ability to afford it, would they be willing to give out such a large fortune?
Business negotiations.
Always required both parties to be on equal footing.
Chen Yu was currently merely bluffing, a paper tiger that would collapse at the slightest poke.
“I do need to be more careful.”
After a moment of thought, Chen Yu murmured softly.
“Chen Yu, I think it’s best to leave now,” the little devil reminded him seriously. “The underground is a place where people eat people. If we retreat now, we’ll only lose 10 cans. If you still go…”
“I will go.”
Chen Yu answered without a hint of hesitation.
Fortune favors the bold.
If he retreated now, he would have given away 10 cans for nothing.
Hundreds of thousands in profit!
He was someone who normally wouldn’t discard a few thousand resource points, so letting go of hundreds of billions of resource points to run away, even if he managed to escape, would torment him.
Running away, wouldn’t that mean he came for nothing?
His legendary blueprints, his upgrade guides, wouldn’t they all have been bought in vain?
Besides, could Chen Yu really escape?
With tens of millions of gold coins in his possession, if the Ailton Chamber of Commerce truly intended to betray him, he would be hunted to the ends of the earth.
To the underground, he was an outsider.
Compared to a major underground family like the Ailton Chamber of Commerce, he had no ability to resist at all.
Running was not an option.
What he could do now was to take a gamble.
He had to face it head-on.
Only when the final moment arrived, and Ailton was truly prepared to tear up the agreement and take his goods, would he then consider running.
If all else failed, he would leave the goods behind.
Money could be earned again.
But life, once lost, was truly gone.
He would just consider it a lesson learned, and be more careful in the future.
*Hoo—*
Taking a deep breath.
Chen Yu patted his head, which had been dazed by the surprise, and rubbed his face to invigorate himself. He pushed open the door to the private room and saw Roni, followed by two lions, waiting for him outside the door.
“Third Grandfather wants me to take you over.”
Roni’s expression was cold.
Upon seeing Chen Yu, she instinctively pursed her lips, as if something was about to be said, but it was swallowed back before it could be spoken.
Chen Yu looked around.
Taking a deep breath, he put on a smile.
“Please.”
Returning to the appraisal area.
When Chen Yu arrived, he found it quite lively. Those who had acquired items at the auction had gathered here.
They wore happy expressions upon receiving their items, but their smiles froze the moment they saw Chen Yu.
Noticing this.
Chen Yu sheepishly touched his nose.
They really held a grudge.
Just for saying a few harsh words, these mercenary groups and wild camp leaders still harbored resentment towards him.
It mattered not.
With the group taunt already in play, he didn’t mind the consequences.
“Let’s go~”
Roni, walking ahead, murmured.
Chen Yu and his companions were clearly not standing in the same area. After walking down a corridor and turning a corner, Roni said in a low voice.
“Telling you to speak carelessly, now they resent you, don’t they?”
“Am I afraid of them?” Chen Yu pouted. “Believe it or not, I can still go out and cast another group taunt aura. You wait and see…”
As he finished speaking, Chen Yu turned and walked outwards, shouting.
“Come to get scrap metal, is junk useful?”
“Are you sick?” Roni grabbed Chen Yu’s arm and covered his mouth with her hand, secretly craning her neck to look outside.
Seeing that the other participants were not paying attention to them, she breathed a sigh of relief.
“Are you poisoned?”
Roni, patting her chest, glared.
“Making enemies on all sides, what exactly are you thinking?”
“Just looking for some excitement in a dull and monotonous life,” Chen Yu said with a smile, raising his eyebrows. For some reason, Roni couldn’t help but pause, pinching the corner of her clothes. “You’re truly insane.”
Stamping her foot, Roni ran forward again.
Chen Yu followed her retreating figure.
“Hey, where are you taking me?” Chen Yu whispered, catching up. “Is your third grandfather planning to tie me up and betray me? Give me some psychological preparation.”
“Insane.”
Roni shot him a glare.
“Our Ailton family has always done business openly. Betrayal? Do you think we are bandits? Do you think our family would be interested in your goods worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins?”
“What if it’s tens of millions?”
“Ah?”
“Didn’t your third grandfather tell you that your Ailton family is going to buy my 300 bottles of Flame Fruit at the auction’s average price?”
“Huh?”
Roni, who was walking ahead, was instantly shocked. With her mouth agape, she grabbed Chen Yu’s arm.
“Then why aren’t you running, what are you waiting for?!”