“The so-called targeted auction refers to the auction of items that can only be circulated within a certain range by law, so only customers with specific identities will be invited.
But often, many of the things that appear at such auctions have unknown origins, and even large auction companies dare not make them public.
Therefore, generally these auction houses will only invite some trustworthy special users, including business and political celebrities, or auction partners.
There are even some interesting items, and you can’t really know what’s on the auction block until you are there in person. "
Ange explained that he knew that Lu Mingfei did not have much experience in bidding.
The only time it seemed was when I chopped off the head of the boss behind the scenes at the beginning.
Listening to Ange's introduction, Lu Mingfei took the information and started to read it.
A sunflower-style three-legged plate with colorful treasures and floral patterns dating from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and a Lego neck vase with a blue and white underglaze red low-relief sculpture of the King of Qin breaking the formation from the Song Dynasty.
One after another, old antiques with extremely high price tags appear on the information map.
“These are regular items at Sotheby’s auctions,” Angers said.
"Why does the name Sotheby feel a bit familiar?" Under Ange's attentive eyes, Lu Mingfei didn't think too much.
After placing the information on the table, Lu Mingfei asked: "Principal Ange, do you want me to buy some antiques?"
Obviously he knew that the problem would not be that simple, but Lu Mingfei still teased him politely.
"Just take a look at the things in the documents." Angers didn't pay attention to Lu Mingfei's teasing tone. He just continued, "After all, what we want is not this kind of ordinary cultural relic."
Lu Mingfei looked at Ange with some interest and listened to his continued explanation.
Seeing Lu Mingfei like this, Ange didn't give in anymore:
"Let's put it this way, the directed auction is the place where the college searches for treasures. We often find some rare collections here. For example, we once bought a brass blowtorch of unknown age for less than $400,000."
"This shouldn't be an ordinary blowtorch, right?" Lu Mingfei asked.
“That’s right, that was not an alcohol blowtorch at all, as everyone at the auction house thought at the time, but a weapon.
This is the work of alchemists from the 19th century. If you turn the blowtorch sideways, it becomes a flamethrower.
Usually they call this kind of thing dragon's breath, and the fuel is not alcohol, but refined mercury-containing nitroglycerin.
It can emit a cone-shaped flame up to 20 meters long, with explosive effects, and simultaneously releases a huge amount of mercury vapor. It is a powerful weapon against dragons.
After we won the bid, according to the director of the equipment department, they got enough inspiration. "
Angers briefly talked about the auction items other than normal antiques in the directional auction.
"Explosion, alchemical item"
Lu Mingfei could even think of the scene in the equipment department with his toes.
"Actually, to be precise, the customers invited to Sotheby's directional auction for you to participate in this time are the same as us, that is, mixed race."
In the end, Angers determined the nature of this directional auction, that is, an auction belonging to a mixed-race society.
"So, you ask me if I can still put on that kind of makeup that I wouldn't recognize even my relatives, just to do something secretly?"
Lu Mingfei took a sip of the freshly brewed tea and asked.
"By the way, if that's the case, wouldn't it be okay if I put some makeup on you?"
"First of all, we don't do things secretly." Angers corrected.
"We are just trying to get the items we need at the lowest possible price. Your face is so outstanding that you need makeup to make people think that the items you are bidding on are not good quality."
Lu Mingfei just remained silent in response to Ange's forced explanation.
"Secondly, the reason why I don't go to the makeup auction, and I don't let anyone else go, is because you are my chosen next-generation secret party leader."
"Does it matter?"
Only then did Lu Mingfei really become interested.
"Because my purpose this time is not only to ask you to bid for an item that is very useful to us, but also because I want you to meet other forces in the mixed-race society."
Ange did not hide his purpose and told Lu Mingfei directly.
"You have to know that in the mixed-race society, we belong to the secret party, a mixed-race organization, and it is also the largest mixed-race organization.
But we’re not the only ones, there are other hybrid organizations, big and small, and we don’t necessarily share the same philosophy.
For example, the purpose of our secret party is to exterminate all pure-blood dragons.
But not every hybrid holds this concept. More hybrids stay away from this war. They consider themselves to be a third race between humans and dragons.
Some of these families have even existed for thousands of years, and their accumulated wealth and power are astonishing.
It just so happens that there will be many organizations participating in this auction, and this form is also one of the social methods of the mixed-race forces from all sides.
Therefore, in addition to letting you bid for the items that the academy is bound to win, I asked you to go there to let you have a general meeting with other forces. "
"Oh, by the way, Cassel College's semester is about to start this summer, and the auction is in Chicago. You can just go back to school after attending it."
Angers clapped his hands, with a well-planned expression on his face.
"I remember it wasn't the end of the primary school term. How could it be that you said you were just going back to school?"
Ignoring what Angers said before, Lu Mingfei suddenly asked this question.
"Perhaps you don't know that during your absence, we have arrived on the 20th in advance." Angers replied with a smile.
"My summer vacation is over like this?"
After hearing the bad news, Lu Mingfei leaned back on his chair and looked at the sky.
After the vacation in the second semester of the first grade, I encountered one after another troubles.
First, not long after the vacation, he was attacked by several knights from the Solomon Temple at Shilan Middle School.
Then Odin led many pure-blood dragons to blockade their hometown.
Then there was the death knight among the four horsemen of the apocalypse that he met after coming out of the black cavity, and he saved Elizabeth by the way.
Lu Mingfei felt a burst of tears as he recalled what he had encountered since the summer vacation.
This summer vacation, it seems that I didn’t take a few days off at all!
"All right."
After looking at the sky for three seconds, Lu Mingfei quickly accepted the reality.
"So principal, can you tell me what the item I want to bid is?"
"Alchemy Sword·Bronze Purgatory·Seven Deadly Sins."
Angers answered word for word.
“This is an alchemical weapon forged by the supreme master of alchemy among the four monarchs, Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, in BC with the power of the master of metal and fire elements.
Its casting technology is unparalleled and is known as the pinnacle of alchemy.
This is a set of alchemical swords forged for killing the other seven first-generation species of the four great monarchs. I believe you have seen them before. "
Angers reminded.
"Well"
Lu Mingfei suddenly fell silent.
It wasn't until he heard the name of the Seven Deadly Sins that he remembered why he had found the words Sotheby so familiar.
Isn't this the place where he commissioned Mai Shutoku to auction the Seven Deadly Sins?
It's all because of the many things he encountered during the summer vacation that made his memory age early.
Therefore, Angers gave himself the power to bid for the Seven Deadly Sins.
The seven deadly sins in the auction were originally put up by myself.
Is the ghost actually myself?
Lu Mingfei looked at Ange with a strange expression, and he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
It turned out that Mai Shutoku had specially leaked the news to Cassel, and she had also arranged for it to be entrusted.
"Why are you looking at me with such pity? Is there something on my face?" Ange said uncomfortably.
"No, you may have seen it wrong." Lu Mingfei shook his head decisively.
"How are the funds for the auction calculated?" Lu Mingfei continued to ask.
"I asked Norma to open an account for you in a bank in Zurich, with two million US dollars in it, which is considered a deposit on the account.
As for the invitation, I will ask Norma to make it for you tonight, according to your identity after makeup. "
Angers talked about his arrangements.
"What if the price of the bidding item exceeds the deposit you deposited?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"It doesn't matter. I will ask Norma to transfer the money to you quickly. If it doesn't work, don't feel too bad. This is an allocation from all members of the school board." Angers said nonchalantly.
As the principal of Kassel, he never spends his own money!
"I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded heavily, "I've accepted this task!"
Although Su Enxi contributed to the funding of the school board, it only accounts for one-sixth at most, Lu Mingfei thought.
"I asked Norma to set it as an A-level mission, and you can set off tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Angers patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder.
After chatting for a few more useless topics, Angers went back to have dinner with Elizabeth, who had a relationship with him like a grandfather and grandson.
"How's your body?"
Zero, wearing a maid skirt, suddenly appeared silently on the balcony of the villa. She stared at Lu Mingfei with her ice-blue pupils.
Following the light from the balcony, Lu Mingfei could well see the white lace embellished on her skirt.
And, the legs below were tightly wrapped in white stockings, and the delicate yarn gently clung to the thighs, reflecting the delicacy of the skin, like a layer of snow-white gauze.
Under the moonlight, the white stockings exude a subtle luster, giving people a soft and attractive feeling.
This is a pair of perfectly proportioned white silk long legs.
Even though Zero doesn't look tall, his legs are indeed amazingly beautiful.
"Why are you asking these questions all of a sudden?"
Lu Mingfei asked after recovering from the white silk stockings.
"Nothing, just checking to see if you were disabled during the time you disappeared."
Ling answered coldly without paying too much attention to Lu Mingfei's gaze.
"Are you concerned about me?" Lu Mingfei asked with a smile.
After getting along with Ling for a year, Lu Mingfei thought that he understood this girl's character relatively well.
She looks as indifferent as an iceberg, but in fact she is the same. She rarely has any interest in things, she is very polite to people, and she never shows any displeasure.
Naturally, she doesn't have the common problems among girls such as stinginess and jealousy.
In addition, she always has a vague aura of a queen, and she has a mysophobia. She will bring her own cushion when going to the library, and she will wash her hands after reading a book. She is called the "Queen of Vacuum" by the girls. ".
It means that she can only live in an absolutely sterile vacuum environment.
However, the difference is that she does not dislike Lu Mingfei.
Whether it was the seat Lu Mingfei had sat on or the books he had used, Ling, a girl with severe mysophobia, would not care.
She even often asked Lu Mingfei to treat her to dinner. Of course, these happened when Lu Mingfei made mistakes or needed her help.
For example, when Lucia was away and Susie asked Lu Mingfei to help with things, he left it to Ling, the secretary.
Or maybe she used her cold face to reject the prying eyes of the girls for Lu Mingfei in class.
At this time, he wanted to treat him to a meal to express his gratitude. In fact, a meal was enough to bribe this three-no girl.
Lu Mingfei himself asked why Ling didn't dislike him for being mysophobic to others, and Ling's answer was, "You're just not dirty."
Therefore, Lu Mingfei didn't pay attention to the situation where Zero stood still without acknowledging or objecting.
He knew that Zero was such a girl who showed no emotion.
In fact, Ling came here to work as a maid just to take a look at Lu Mingfei's physical condition. Since he disappeared, she has searched everywhere for him many times.
After confirming that Lu Mingfei was fine, Ling nodded and said, "In the future, if you have any trouble, just call me."
After a few words of cold concern, she turned around and went back without hesitation.
It was as if Lu Mingfei's response was not needed at all.
"So cute."
Looking at Ling's petite back, Lu Mingfei sighed from the bottom of his heart.
After drinking the tea in his hand, Lu Mingfei also returned to his own birthday party.
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“TRY A WEEK WITHOUT RAILWAY!!!”
This giant white cloth hangs in the empty waiting hall of a Chicago train station.
Looking at the huge white cloth, Xia Mi suddenly felt sad.
They flew thousands of miles to Chicago and rushed straight to the train station. What they saw was a waiting hall full of papers, placards and drink cans.
Just now, all the Chicago Railroad employees marched, and then they all went home and wouldn't come back for a week.
They went on strike.
Without the switchman and dispatch center, the CC1000 branch line express will also be suspended, so they cannot report on time this semester.
But even though this was a natural disaster and no grade points would be deducted, the college would not pay for a week in Chicago.
This made Xia Mi very sad.
"Brother, what should we do?"
"Then just stay in Chicago for a week." Chu Zihang said calmly.
"Want to use this giant piece of cloth to pitch a tent?"
Xia Mi asked Chu Zihang who was standing beside him.
After Chu Zihang had a blood exchange and his injury improved, Xia Mi flew to Chicago with him.
As a reward for taking care of her during this period, Chu Zihang paid for the first-class air ticket.
"It's better to stay in a hotel. I'll pay for the room." (End of Chapter)
