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CH 60.2

after some considerations, I decided to make the Empire character’s name more “fantastical” and mix it with western name. So, I’m changing An Lin → An Leen; An Ting → An Tyn. I’ll change the previous chapters to match this.

Character ListQiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.

Chu Rong: Marshal ML.

Ren Mo: aka Master Ren. A mecha master making full manually-piloted mecha.

Fan Xiangnan: ML’s second-in-command.

Chu Yan: ML’s younger brother. Is the same age as MC, currently attending intermediate college.

Chu Huai: ML’s older brother, he’s in politics.

Princess An Leen: Imperial Princess. Infatuated with Chu Rong.

Prince An Tyn: Imperial Prince, An Leen’s twin brother. (fourth in line)

The auction did not start until after lunchtime. In the morning, “Famous Brands” arranged an entertainment event alongside a rich buffet.

Chu Yan sat in the room and enjoyed the food while watching the song and dance performance in the hall. The performance was beautiful, only getting even more perfected by the delicious food. He sighed, “Fan Qi is really good. No wonder his business is getting bigger and bigger.”

Qiao Zhiya, who was currently peeling shrimps, looked up at him. Remembering the thoughtful and meticulous service of the “Famous Brands” auction back then when he wanted to sell his great sword, he nodded in approval.

After lunch, the auction officially began.

This exclusive auction was attended by VIPs, all sitting in private rooms. The organizer simply set up the auction table in the mid-air level with the private rooms, so that everyone can take a closer look at the items.

After the auction table and auctioneer appeared, all the walls of the rooms suddenly disappeared, exposing the blue sky outside, and the floor slowly turned into a cloud of mist. The sofa was placed on the cloud, making people feel as if they were sitting in midair.

“This is all special effects, by the way. We are still sitting in the room,” Chu Yan whispered in Qiao Zhiya’s ear.

Qiao Zhiya glanced at the midair cloud scene. In his eyes, there were only them with the auctioneer. He nodded.

“Thank you all for coming, and now the auction of the first item starts.”

The auctioneer turned, facing Chu Yan and Qiao Zhiya, as if the auctioneer only talked to them privately. The auction began very straightforwardly. The clouds at the auctioneer’s feet suddenly spread towards the next platform, and then the clouds disappeared, and a mighty mecha appeared on it.

“The first item is a new entry of the ‘Flying Eagle’ series, designed by Master Shang in two years. This is the first generation, super-grade, and comes with a complete set of customized weapons. The starting price is 50 million, and you are welcome to bid.

The introduction of the item was very simple, maintaining the consistent style of “Famous Brands”. This was quite different from other auction houses, which liked to praise – and even overpraise – the items a lot.

Chu Yan did not hesitate to press the bidder, startling Qiao Zhiya. The blond youth quickly asked, “Xiao Yan, do you have so much money? That’s 50 million, not 5 million.”

“Nope,” Chu Yan shook his head frankly. Seeing Qiao Zhiya’s worried wide-eyed look, he immediately explained, “It’s okay, I can still get extra money from my family if I take a picture of the item I want. This mecha is a Master’s work, and a new entry for this series to boot. It must use cutting-edge technology, plus a customizable weapon. That base price of 50 million is a steal. I bet the final price will be around 500 million, just you see. I only place a bid for fun.”

Qiao Zhiya was stunned – 500 million just for a mecha. It was indeed an exclusive auction for senior members. The price of goods was not affordable for ordinary people.

With Chu Yan’s bid, a price tag with a room number appeared on the top of the mecha, and there was a three-minute countdown bar on the price. Once a bid has not been outbid by others within this time limit, it would be counted as sold.

After someone started, other customers who were interested in mecha also began to bid. The number of their room was overwritten by the number of other rooms, and the price of mecha soon rose from 50 million to 100 million. It seemed that these guests were very anxious and did not want to increase the price slowly.

Chu Yan didn’t think it was a big deal to see this excitement. He also followed other people’s behavior, directly increasing the current bid by 10 million. It made Qiao Zhiya panic.

After the price of mecha exceeded 400 million, the number of new bids gradually decreased. In the end, there were only three people remaining. One was Chu Yan’s 033, one was 022, and one was 011. The numbers look quite neat.

“I heard that the Master Shang of the Federation had bad health. It took him two years to build a mecha. He must have worked very hard. The Empire always respected the elders, so I will give a price of 500 million for my mind. This feels really good.”

A familiar girl’s voice suddenly came from the depths of the clouds. As her voice dropped, the number on the price mark became 500 million. At the same time, the clouds in the southwest corner spread slowly and became semi-hazy. A young girl sitting on a high-backed sofa was revealed.

“With that kind of attitude, is she looking down upon our Federation’s masters?” Chu Yan was dissatisfied with Princess An Leen’s tone of pity and contempt. He hesitated to bid again, pulling the price directly to 600 million. He angrily said, “Does she think she can say anything about Master Shang? Heh, those Empire people really know how to be a guest!”

Qiao Zhiya also frowned, calculated his savings, and acquiesced to Chu Yan’s bid.

The previously sold weapons plus the regular mineral processing share, his savings has already broken 100 million. It should be enough to won this bid, as long as it does not break one b-

“O-one billion! Who’s so bold! The room number 066 never bid so high before, why are they suddenly quoted such a high bid?” Chu Yan couldn’t help exclaiming as he looked at the new numbers appearing on the price mark.

As soon as Qiao Zhiya’s thoughts were broken, he followed Chu Yan’s line of sight. His ears drooped down, and he said, “Xiao Yan, we can’t escalate the prince anymore, I don’t have enough money …”

“If you can’t, then don’t. As long as the winner it’s not the Princess, it won’t be a problem. Let’s just watch how this goes down,” Chu Yan got excited. He pressed an option to make sure the Imperial Princess was the focus of his screen, then laughed uncontrollably, “Everyone is anonymous in this auction, but she still wants to show her face. Heh, I bet she was ashamed enough to not turn on her anonymous function again. Absolute hilarity!”

Princess An Leen really couldn’t turn on her anonymous screen again. She just made a bid of 500 million and spoke a brisk word. As a result, her bid was immediately covered by someone else’s, then doubled by another guest. This was a direct slap to her face!

What’s more terrible was that she also specially turned her room into a translucent mode. She couldn’t see others, but others could see her. Now she just felt that all the other guests were seeing her like an animal in a zoo, laughing at her embarrassment.

A servant beside her bent over and said quietly, “Princess, the Empress said, let you—”

“Shut up!”

An Leen glanced at the servants, pressed the bid button, selected 1.5 billion, and aggressively whispered, “Chu Rong is also here, I can’t make him look down on me!”

The two servants stopped talking, and looked at each other. One of them stepped back carefully and walked out of the room to send a message to the Prince.

“1.5 billion? The Imperial Princess is so rich?” The smile on Chu Yan’s face disappeared. He frowned again, hesitated again, hands hovering over the bidding button. Then, he grinned fully, “Well, this is a matter of the Federation’s dignity! Erge will not blame me!”

Qiao Zhiya glanced at him without stopping him.

Chu Yan might have spoken big, but his hand were still only hovering over the button, clearly hesitant. In the end, he only raised the price by one dollar, which was full of ridicule and raised the bar.

“I’ve always been one dollar taller than her, she’ll be furious!” Chu Yan let out his price and then deflated. He leaned back on the sofa, eyes darting at the Imperial Princess.

“Who’s in Room 033, I’m going to beat them up!” Princess An Leen used to be arrogant in her home. She was never targeted like this. And now, there was who someone dared to bid like this, it was obvious what the other party’s intention was!

She did not hesitate to pick up the bidder again and bid 3 billion.

The servant was taken aback by the price. He turned to see that his companion had not returned yet, and now he was very anxious.

Although the Princess came with a lot of Federal currency this time, this kind of amount was still too much.

“Damn! 3 billion!”

Chu Yan pushed the table down hard, unwilling, but did not bid again.

Although the Chu family has money, it wasn’t that they could throw around 3 billion easily like this.

Qiao Zhiya saw Chu Yan’s defeated expression. Ears twitching, he slowly touched the bidding button. ‘If… if I worked hard to make more mecha weapons and sell spar… I can gain 3 billion…’

The price on the price tag changed again. It’s now 3 billion and 1 dollar, by room 033.

Chu Yan sat straight, turned his head and stared at Qiao Zhiya. “You …”

Qiao Zhiya guiltily avoided his sight, put down the bidder, silently pulled out a spar and put it on the table. When he saw that Chu Yan was still staring blankly at him, he took out a few more and whispered, “Just bid if you like, I-I have money…”

–Anyway, as long as they can outbid that Princess.

“You are really Erge’s bel– hehehe…” Chu Yan almost said ‘beloved’, but was able to catch himself mid-sentence. He glanced at the beautiful glittering spars on the table, eyes felt sore all of sudden. He patted Qiao Zhiya’s shoulder, and warmly said, “Qiao, no matter what you want to do, no matter who wants to go against you, I will follow you to the deepest abyssal trenches and the hottest volcanoes! Even if you want to deceive Erge or Dage, as long as you will it, I will do it!”

“No, you don’t need to…” Qiao Zhiya felt numb being stared at by Chu Yan like this. “G-go bid. Just don’t tell Chu Rong and Dage when they go back, I’m afraid they will hit you.”

“No need to remind me!” Chu Yan still knew how to deal with this. He held the bidder in his hand again and said boldly, “Today, my goal is to infuriate that Imperial Princess to death! Fuck her up!!”

“It’s 033 again! Damn 033!” Princess An Leen was so angry that her hair was going up. She glanced to the position of room 008, and hesitated a bit, and went to the bidder again.

“Princess, no! The Prince said, you–!”

“Go away!”

An Leen waved the servant’s hand and offered a bid again. This time it was directly 5 billion. Obviously her sense of proportion and rationale had gone somewhere. She gritted her teeth and said, “I don’t believe that 033 can compare!”

“Oh!”

Chu Yan was so rude that he put the bidder back and did not bid again.

Although Qiao had money, and had said that he could continue to bid, he wouldn’t waste it like this! It’s enough to push the Princess into spending this much money!

“Xiao Yan, you don’t want to continue?” Qiao Zhiya saw that he put down the bidder again. He thought Chu Yan was worried about him, so he reassured him, “If you want to continue, just continue, ah. The ores we found last time can also be sold for extra money.”

“Nothing. This 5 billion prince is equivalent to helping Master Shang to raise his worth. It’s enough to go this far,” Chu Yan said as he pushed the spars on the table towards Qiao Zhiya, motioning him to put it away. “Let’s find another chance to anger the Princess in the future, don’t worry!

Qiao Zhiya glanced at the hazy figure sitting behind the clouds and frowned, remembering that “love at first sight” claim she had. He hovered above the bidding button, but the prince was raised into 10 billion directly.

This event was too abrupt. Chu Yan gawked with wide eyes, almost falling off the sofa. “Who is it in Room 066, they can throw around that sum?!”

“Where did this room 066 come from!” Princess An Leen was not only surprised, but also furious.

After seeing the bid, she saw that room 033 hadn’t moved, and she felt relieved. But she didn’t expect that the 066 came out of nowhere, and directly doubled the current bid!

“Princess, the Prince is calling you,” The servant who had gone out to send a message to the prince finally returned.

Princess An Leen froze, staring at her fiercely. She sat down and straightened her hair, and took over the communicator.

“An Leen, you need to be modest,” An Tyn’s voice came from the communicator. It was cold, and it didn’t sound like he was facing his sister. She wanted to defend herself, but her brother interrupted her chillingly, “If you continue to be wild like this, then I can only deport you back to the Empire. Unlike Mother, I won’t be spoiling you.”

“Ge…”

“You still think I won’t be harsh on you?” An Tyn interrupted her once again, his attitude became even more indifferent. “You came to the Federation for a reason but you only continue to make trouble. I can’t afford it anymore.” Then, he directly hung up.

An Leen froze, then clenched her fist unwillingly, her eyes nearly twisted.

‘It’s the same again, it’s always the same! Why should I accept this result!’

She glanced again at the direction of room no. 008, and cast her bidder aside with a calm face, turning off the translucent effect of the room.

Princess An Leen’s hazy figure disappeared, and the number on the price logo did not change. The three-minute countdown ended. The first item of this auction was sold at a sky-high price of 10 billion yuan, and the winner was the VIP of room 066.

The auctioneer knocked the hammer and declared the transaction successful.

Then an uncle with a raspy and hoarse voice came out and said, “Thank you for Princess An Leen for your favor. In addition, while this master’s health isn’t very good, Princess An Leen doesn’t need to keep minding it.”

As soon as this word came out, Chu Yan sprayed water directly. As he coughed, he said, “Ma-master Shang? Is Master Shang in room 066?”

He froze a bit, then went crazy. He put down the water glass and laughed wildly, “It was actually Master Shang who bought the mecha back again. This was a direct face-slamming rejection of Princess An Leen’s 500 million ‘mind’. Mother’s teacher is very hard-tempered indeed!”

Chu Yan’s mother’s teacher?

Qiao Zhiya looked at it and was a little curious as well.

After spending so much time with the Chu family, he rarely heard the Chu family mention the parents, nor had he seen other relatives…

Princess An Leen did not expect that the guest in room 066 was the designer of the mecha. She just felt the hot pain on her face and couldn’t help it.

She stepped on someone else’s name and showed it off. As a result, she was beaten back again and again, until her dignity was trampled in the mud.

The guest in room 066 continued to talk. His attitude was even more ruthless. “Princess An Leen, I heard that your father is looking for a pharmacist in China? Also, your father’s body been… in quite the spot for so long. His health might be falling, so you must have a hard life. They said that good people have good rewards. In our Federation, Marshal Chu fortunately recovered his spiritual power during this year’s festival. Presumably, your father will also have a hope of recovering as well.”