Aqua star.
Granville Sea near the Arctic Circle.
A scientific exploration ship is slowly floating on the sea.
Several experts with bad expressions stood on the deck, arguing in low voices while looking at the data that was constantly beating on the large equipment placed above.
Their ship belongs to the Aquablue Star Warm Current Detection Organization jointly organized by the world.
Twenty years ago, this organization used big data detection to discover the possibility that the warm current passing through the Europa Mediterranean might have major problems or even disappear.
and issued a warning.
Naturally, the major forces took this warning very seriously and held many important meetings in succession.
And then...then they decided it wasn't time to do anything yet.
After all, this is just a prediction. Although the confidence interval is above 95%, isn't it still 100%?
And disappearing should be a slow process. They believe that they will find a more effective way to deal with it by then.
Then it's now.
Judging from the detection data of the scientific exploration ship in the past six months.
What was predicted is slowly happening.
The warm currents close to Europa and even Citi are disappearing, and the speed may be much faster than expected!
"If these data are reported, the big shots will definitely not be happy."
"Someone will probably tell them that this is how we are asking for funds."
"After all, they will be inclined to believe that we are exaggerating the severity of the problem with a little bit of math."
An older redjacket expert concluded with a sigh.
The young people were a little angry, but they were suppressed by the words of an old man next to them.
They did slightly exaggerate the severity in order to secure funding.
"Okay, don't worry. Even if the warm current goes wrong as predicted, it will just mean that the crop production areas will shift."
"With the current productivity, the probability of a major famine outside the Black Earth Continent is still very low."
"And who can say clearly what will happen in the future? Maybe there will be a sudden explosion of sunspots and everything will be fine again?"
The red jacket expert coughed, ending today's discussion.
Then he looked at the data on the machine, frowned, picked up the tablet and started uploading the data.
Although he is very good at appeasing team members, he is actually a pessimist.
It is more likely that the warm current will actually disappear, and then there will be big problems for Europa and Citi.
For this reason, he plans to take advantage of this year's vacation to start transferring fixed assets and other things to other areas.
After blowing the sea breeze, the red-jacket expert, who was tired of seeing the sea and the endless sky, turned off his tablet and just walked into the cabin.
He heard someone exclaim:
"Incredible!"
"Are the whales here crazy?"
"They're running fast!"
"Wait, what is this...this length? Have we discovered a new species of whale?"
The red jacket expert was slightly shocked. After hearing the content, he also became interested and followed several team members to surround an observer who was watching the underwater monitoring.
As a valued scientific exploration ship, they shoulder a variety of important responsibilities, and their equipment is relatively complete and advanced.
Through underwater observation equipment, they can drink coffee or hot tea and see various changes under the water.
So.
They were surprised when a white whale broke out from the fish and quickly surfaced!
"Beluga! It's actually a beluga!"
"Hurry up and take a photo, this is excellent documentary material!"
Someone keenly discovered an opportunity to make extra money.
The man in the red jacket felt uneasy for no reason.
But he quickly shook his head to dispel the worry in his heart.
Although their scientific exploration ship is not a 10,000-ton cargo ship, it is still a 5,000-ton ship.
How could a large ship of this level be afraid of giant beasts in the sea?
Even if the giant octopus that is rumored to haunt the deep sea escapes, it can't possibly harm my scientific research ship, right?
Just thinking about it.
Sudden!
The observers and onlookers were buzzing with excitement!
They saw a black shadow catching up with the beluga whale at a speed far faster than the whale could swim!
Then the black figure also rushed out of the water, revealing dark scales and a bloody mouth.
He bit off half of the beluga's neck in one mouthful.
Then, on the sea surface, it ate the flesh and bones of many beluga carcasses that seemed to be at least two or three times larger than it at an astonishing speed.
During this period, they could only see the black figure under the black mist, the black scales on its body, and the weird, unrealistic big head and fish tail.
"This... this is definitely not a creature native to the Blue Star Sea."
"Maybe this is a sea monster?"
"There are sea monsters in the waters of Granville... I always thought the myths and legends told by drunkards were all lies."
Several young team members opened their mouths with fear, but most of them were still excited.
People who board the ship have more or less hopes of encountering mysterious events on the sea.
Plus it's still in a place where they feel safe.
There are even bold suggestions to use detection equipment to conduct remote detection of the black sea monster.
However, the black sea monster on the sea thousands of meters away did not dive back after eating the beluga.
Instead, he turned around suddenly, opened his eyes with a faint golden light and looked at the scientific exploration ship.
in a blink.
Hundreds of crew members on the ship felt inexplicably like falling into an ice cellar.
Immediately afterwards, their eyes widened as they discovered that the sea monster... actually flew up!
Yes, it flew!
Without wings, it just twisted its body, which was bigger than a large shark, and quickly flew over the scientific exploration ship while twisting its body in the air!
"This is an extraordinary monster!"
"I knew that the myths and legends were definitely not made up!"
"Holy Lord bless me! I don't want to be eaten by a sea monster!"
The black sea monster flew in the air, slowly lowered its altitude, and slowly approached the cabin, its eyes scanning the people in the cockpit.
This big black fish monster seemed to have found its target and left in front of people's eyes.
Then bang!
The entire sea ship began to tilt violently up and down before falling heavily back to the sea.
As everyone in the cockpit fell to the ground, someone saw it on the surveillance screen.
The sea monster landed directly behind the ship and made a big hole, causing the ship to lose its balance.
Fortunately, the sea monster quickly flew out of the hole made.
Then without any hesitation, he submerged into the sea and disappeared.
Only a group of frightened crew members were left, gasping for air for a long time before they left the cockpit in embarrassment and looked at the big hole in the back of the ship.
After being lost for a while, he finally reacted to the shouts and curses of a few old sailors and hurriedly threw himself into emergency repairs.
They were secretly glad that the sea monster did not damage the keel and bottom of the boat and spared their lives.
Red Jacket experts also arrived with the team members later.
After being keenly aware of what was going on, he and his team members counted the items in the warehouse.
Soon they discovered that a box they had brought with them after their expedition to the Arctic Circle expedition site was missing.
The red jacket expert remembered that the box contained what appeared to be a piece of milky-white cryolite drilled out of the depths of an iceberg somewhere in the Arctic Circle.
Because the texture was a bit weird, it was preserved by experts and prepared to conduct experiments after returning.
But he didn't expect that he would be snatched away by a black sea monster!
Could it be that that thing had some attraction to that sea monster?
Thinking of this, the red jacket expert quickly called all the members of his team back for a meeting and strictly asked them to keep this secret.
Then, he quickly reported it to his superiors.
It’s about a supernatural sea monster.
The parties that should have been dragging their feet are also rushing into action.
Not long after, a warship from a nearby port ended its rest state early and rushed over.
Then, after confirming that there was no major problem with the scientific exploration ship itself.
Europa officials sent a helicopter to pick up the red jacket expert and his team members in advance.
It won't be long before the information about the black sea monster and the mysterious cryolite dug up in the Arctic Circle will be classified as top secret and will be studied by a team of experts.
And as one of Europa's few bargaining chips, it is used to deal with other major forces and exchange information.
Dahei didn't know that he had been labeled as the Granville sea monster by a force.
And they have the eating habit of eating whales.
Hunting the white whale was just because Dahei intuitively discovered that eating this mutated whale would be beneficial to the stability of its future soul.
So it ran to eat.
Blackfish's head is so simple and direct.
Likewise, it was discovered that the big iron ship contained good things that the owner had designated to pay attention to and get as much as possible.
Dahei flew into the sky and ran over.
And he strictly abides by his master's command not to kill anyone unless necessary.
He really didn't deal with those fragile mortal opponents, he just smashed open the iron plate with his tail and took away the interesting things.
Dahei reviewed the whole process in his mind after entering the water, and felt that he had done a very good job.
There should be a chance to ask the owner for credit in exchange for some elixirs!
Just thinking about it.
Dahei suddenly felt cold, and immediately saw a black turtle no bigger than a palm appearing in front of him as if teleporting on his right.
He stretched out his short head and stared at himself with squinted eyes.
Dahei paused, and after a few seconds spit out a cryolite the size of an adult's fist from his mouth.
The black turtle opened his mouth and sucked the ice crystal stone away. Then he nodded with satisfaction, turned around and sank into the seabed.
Xuangui recently fell in love with submarine volcanoes.
Not to mention you can eat some weird and delicious food there.
It can also resonate with the breath of underwater volcanoes. The entire body is submerged in the volcanic lava, slowly absorbing the volcanic energy while accelerating the growth of proficiency in magical powers.
It is that the effect of each active volcano will become worse and worse if it stays for a long time, which makes Xuangui a little worried.
It still prefers to lie down somewhere motionless, preferably with food delivered to its mouth by itself.
If the scene of the Black Turtle taking a bath in the volcano was seen by the human civilization of Aquablue Planet, it would definitely cause an uproar, attracting countless experts to publish a large number of papers...
Three days later.
Nirpur.
Mr. Huang and others held the first Oriental Auction in the newly decorated factory.
Although the venue is simple, security is extremely tight.
The number of security personnel is even higher than that of qualified attendees.
Anti-aircraft equipment and unmanned turrets even appeared on the walls of the transformed factory.
On the roof of the factory, there is a large jamming device that can be activated at any time.
At the same time, the identity of the people attending this meeting is not simple.
Except for a few businessmen who invested in Mr. Huang and others from the beginning and became their friends, they received invitations.
The rest of the people attending the meeting were all rich or noble people from the major forces.
And most of them often represent the will and instructions of higher-level figures.
In addition, and more importantly, the president of the Morning Star Church, which was unparalleled in Bangzi Country, and the Onmyoji from Sakura Country also came to the scene and participated in the auction.
They have become the most distinguished group of guests in this auction.
The first time Junichiro Kamo saw Mr. Huang and the others.
I was convinced that these few people were exposed to the real mysterious world just like myself.
The arrogant man finally felt that the other party had the status to talk to him.
On the other side, the president of Daystar Church was a little embarrassed.
He also felt the extraordinary power of Mr. Huang and others and Junichiro Kamo, an onmyoji master. The high-level sense of oppression could not be exactly the same as what his own archbishop brought to him. It had to be no different!
He was not too surprised that Mr. Huang and others were extraordinary.
After all, that terrible ghost was led to Bangzi Country from here.
And that Onmyoji... the aura he brought about made the president instinctively feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, he intuitively determined that the ghosts and gods of the other party, himself, Mr. Huang and others were not the same as the extraordinary ones.
Fortunately, it seems that there are no enemies, and this auction does not look like anything going to happen.
Mr. Huang personally presided over the auction this time.
As soon as he came on stage, he showed everyone how to lift a large box that was larger than others with one hand and put it on the table easily.
The heavy box made a muffled sound.
After opening it, everyone saw the heavy purple-red wooden products inside.
"This is a set of purple-red fragrant wood furniture from the ancient country three thousand years ago!"
"Purple red fragrant wood can repel snakes, insects, rats, and ants, and is warm in winter and cool in summer. Daily use can also regulate the body and mind, making people healthy and longevity."
"It can be said to be a rare treasure."
"Starting price: 10 million oriental ancient national coins!"
The auction used ancient oriental national coins. This was a decision made by Mr. Huang and others after discussion and with the approval of Taoist Bone Burial Rat.
This despite strong protests from Citigroup guests.
But he was immediately pushed back by the sentence "Come if you can, or get lost if you don't."
There are so many big names behind the guests of Citigroup waiting for them to buy things back. How can they be so tough?
Fortunately, in the past few decades, the ancient oriental national currency has been circulated in various areas of influence. It is not impossible to exchange it, so I have to hold my nose and accept the regulations here.
Ten million yuan of purple-red fragrant wood furniture was quickly sold to 100 million yuan.
Finally, it was acquired by a well-known Eastern investor for a price of 230 million.
Mr. Huang believes that this scene will spread back to his hometown soon.
It is estimated that before long, there may be similar imitations on the market.
Then there will be grandfathers and ladies pointing to their collections, and then holding a photo of this fragrant wood furniture and shouting for everyone to come and take a look. He happens to have one of the items at the auction.
Don’t ask if it’s new, just see if the color and shape match!
Mr. Huang took a sip of hot tea and waved.
The companion behind the scenes shook his head, but followed Mr. Huang's previous instructions, threw a large box with both hands and flew high into the sky.
Then Mr. Huang lightly tapped the ground with his right foot.
Then he used martial arts magic to fly more than twenty meters into the air. After catching the big box with ease, he held the box in his right hand and slowly fell down like a feather.
The image of a flexible fat man who can fly suddenly fell into the eyes of thousands of attendees.
While they were amazed, they couldn't help but feel jealous and jealous.
These people can come here because they have read Mr. Huang's information.
Know the fat man’s family history and subsequent experiences.
It is clear that a few months ago, this guy was a rich man in a small place.
At that time, this little rich man was not even qualified to attend their dance and flatter them!
Such a small character has now become someone they must treat with caution, even a little out of reach!
The reversal of status has to make some people lament the wonder of fate.
After Mr. Huang landed gently, he looked at the complicated eyes of those present.
He enjoyed it very much.
Especially when I noticed that I went to visit a big boss in the same industry a long time ago but was rejected.
Now he was looking at himself jealously.
Mr. Huang only felt that his little vanity was greatly satisfied!
There is a feeling in my chest that I am also filled with pleasure today.
Mr. Huang opened the second big box.
Four large vases over one meter high were taken out from inside.
"This color... is the azure vase from Ru Kiln?"
"No, this color is similar, but the gloss is more moisturizing and more comfortable."
"And the patterns on the bottles, this painter... is definitely a painting by a famous artist, but I can't find a clue!"
Several attendees who were very interested in antiques immediately opened their eyes and marveled at these vases.
More people are concerned about the origin of this vase and the meaning of its contents.
Even the dullest attendees were somewhat aware of it.
The items at this auction look like they are worth a lot of money.
It is probably not a product of world culture as they know it.
It is a cultural product of another world or the mortal world under the control of mysterious forces.
After supplementing their knowledge of myths and legends, they thought of the mythical paradise lost, the world of mountains and seas, and various legends of heaven and earth.
And secretly guessed which mythical place these things are more likely to come from.
After selling several antiques at high prices in a row.
Mr. Huang announced the intermission.
Hot tea provided by healthy tea bags was provided to the guests.
Although the attendees were either rich or wealthy, the number of tea bags was limited after all. In addition, many people did not believe that they had missed the opportunity at first. Some of them had tasted this kind of tea for the first time.
After drinking the tea, they all felt something in their hearts and realized how extraordinary these teas were.
Regardless of whether I had tried it before or not, I became more and more interested in buying these tea bags and drinking them as water.
A few minutes later.
Mr. Huang returned to the stage with a smile.
"Ahem, cough, cough, a good thing will be on stage next."
"This thing won't be of much use to ordinary people."
Having said this, Mr. Huang glanced at the people below and paused for a moment in the faces of Junichiro Kamo and the president of Daystar Church.
Then he took out a small wooden box.
After opening the box, a small jade slip was taken out.
"This is an inherited jade slip from the Southern Wasteland."
"The content has nothing to do with exercises. It should be the knowledge of a monk's life and arts."
Mr. Huang said this, stretched out his finger and said a low price.
Soon, the auction became lively.
Even if it has nothing to do with extraordinary skills, it would be great to know more about the living habits of extraordinary people.
No matter which force it is, they are all interested in this.
However, Kamo Junichiro suddenly stood up and said a high price.
The venue became quiet again.
Many people chose to give up after calculating in their minds the gains and losses between offending an extraordinary person and the jade slip, as well as the steps given by the high price.
Then, Kamo Junichiro got this jade slip.
Mr. Huang sent it over on the spot.
Junichiro Kamo has always been in a small dark room in the Cave in the Pot.
My heart is very eager to understand the real extraordinary world.
Just hold the jade slip tightly and input the magic power.
The onmyoji couldn't help but be slightly startled.
He didn't expect that the inheritance jade slip he bought at a high price actually contained more than a hundred methods of growing spiritual plants.
What value does this thing have to him now?
Wait, it seems that I can try the Resentment Flower and Seven Sins Grass by myself in this spiritual planting technique?
Junichiro Kamo checked slowly, and after seeing the heresy in the jade slips, he felt relieved.
It seems that I am indeed blessed with good luck and am the destined person!
No money wasted in exchange for a useless thing!
Junichiro Kamo sat back in his seat with satisfaction.
The auction will then continue.
After selling some antiques, Mr. Huang will auction some strange and mysterious objects.
For example, Tianlei engraving stones, rejuvenation elixirs, and some jewelry that can have health-preserving effects if worn for a long time.
Wait until the auction is coming to an end.
Mr. Huang bowed his hands and thanked the attendees for their help.
He clapped his hands.
Suddenly, the lights on the roof above the factory dimmed and then brightened closer, illuminating the podium.
Mr. Huang smiled and said:
"Thank you all for coming and being willing to come to this place where birds don't shit."
"So we put it all together and decided to treat everyone to a potluck dinner!"
Saying this, the attendants filed in through the back door.
A simple wooden table was placed in front of the guests.
and distributed simple dinner plates.
After a while, Mr. Huang carefully opened a wooden barrel.
Suddenly!
The entire venue was filled with some extremely sweet smell.
Everyone, including Junichiro Kamo, had a great increase in appetite and their stomachs began to growl.
Especially Junichiro Kamo, after staying in this soulless environment and smelling the aroma of spiritual rice, he instinctively secreted a lot of saliva.
Mr. Huang also swallowed secretly.
If it hadn't been for Taoist Rat's instructions, he would have wished he could have eaten the rice cooked by these spiritual rice alone.
Look at these crystal clear rice with distinct grains.
Mr. Huang took a deep breath of the aroma.
His hands transformed into afterimages and distributed balls of rice onto the plates in front of the participants.
The simple meal...is really just a small ball of rice.
The portion is not enough for an adult to swallow in one bite.
But no one at the meeting questioned or was angry.
Looking at the spiritual rice in front of me that I have never eaten before.
They all had the illusion that this was the rarest delicacy in the world!
(End of chapter)
