Chapter 22 The President
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Soon a young girl walked onto the auction stage. She appeared to be eighteen or nineteen. In her red dress, her figure was enchanting.
"I heard she is that new secret lover of the president here!"
"Wow, really? She’s so stunning, the president is really lucky!" Someone in the crowd began to whisper.
After a short speech, the auction officially started.
As soon as she finished speaking, Robert heard a familiar chime.
"My host, you just got a new random task successfully!"
Task Level: 2
Task initiator: System
Mission: Collect all the auction items
Task reward: Unlock the mall lottery module
PS: All contributions for this task will be paid by the system
Damn! Seriously? He wondered when the system become so generous. Robert was shocked and overjoyed and knew what he had to do.
"Now, please allow me to introduce our first item, the most expensive and rarest gem in the world, the blue tourmaline! The estimated price is $200,000,000; our starting bid is $10,000,000,” Meenas said.
"$300,000,000!" Robert raised his sign and called loudly from the first row before anyone else could speak.
Everyone became quiet! His words shocked Meenas. She had presided over many auctions before, but this was the first time she had seen someone raising a price like that!
"$300,000,000… This gentleman is bidding $300,000,000… Do I hear any other bids?” Meenas asked as her voice trembled.
People were still quiet there...
"Well, this blue tourmaline now belongs to this gentleman," Meenas said, walking down the stage and handing Robert a cheque to fill out for the purchase.
"No need, I’ll pay by cash later,” Robert waved his hand.
Three, three hundred million in cash? Everyone wondered if they had heard correctly and where the rich young man came from.
In order to stop the awkward tension, Meenas quickly took the second lot, "Our next lot is..."
Before she finished, Robert raised the sign again, "$2,000,000!”
Nobody else but Robert bid so Meenas asked, “Still by cash?”
Robert nodded, "Of course, and remember to get some cash counters. One is not enough."
How could this young guy have so much money? Even if the Bush family supported him, how could he waste money like this? Aaron thought and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"The third lot..." Meenas continued.
"$300,000,000!" Robert raised his sign again. But this time, Meenas smiled and replied, "Sorry Sir, the reserve price of this lot is three hundred."
It meant Robert would have to start out with more, he was curious about why it was so much.
"This lot is the whole villa area which was just built in New York City," Meenas explained as several assistants carried a huge table out to the stage. It had buildings and trees built on it.
"As long as you win the bid, all the villas, including the land and various facilities, will be yours,” Meenas added.
"Fine, if $300,000,000 doesn’t work, then four hundred thousand,” Robert snapped coldly. He honestly wasn’t interested, but to complete the task, he needed to get everything. Plus, the system was paying so he didn’t care.
“One billion!" Suddenly, Aaron raised his card and stood up. The villa area was one of the main reasons why he had come to the auction, and he was not going to rest until he got it.
Robert turned and looked at Aaron who was standing in the middle of the second row, confused. He thought it was strange to see the Director of the Academic Affairs Office at the auction. Abby had told him before that Aaron and the principal of the school were extremely famous in New York City. Robert thought he might own some companies but then continued to bid, “$2,000,000,000!”
Someone shouted, “With that much, you can build your own new villa!”
"That guy is way too rich... The total assets of my company aren’t worth that much!”
Aaron was amazed, Robert was bidding more than he wanted to pay. He cursed under his breathe, “Damn, Robert Martin! You wait and see!”
"Two billion! It is a deal!" Meenas said loudly.
"Still cash!" Robert said nodding, "I'm so thirsty. May I have a cold cocktail?"
“What the hell? We can’t get anything now while he’s here!”
Some people were about to walk out. The auction had become nothing more than a show for the unknown exorcist.
Suddenly, the organizer and president of this auction walked onto the stage.
Holding a scroll in his hand, he said solemnly, "This scroll was a gift from a friend of mine, who discovered it along with his archaeological team in the Far North. Now I put this for bid, started from $1."
$1? Robert was confused and thought that it might be the thing Abby mentioned he might need. He quickly turned his ghost eyes on and was shocked at what he saw.
Babel Scroll:
Function: Open the Babel
PS: The Babel is a tower of training, which has 100 floors. Each floor will provide random ghosts for the user to practice attacking
Robert sighed to himself, Abby really had helped him a lot. It would be the perfect thing for him to improve his capabilities.
"One billion!" Robert said without hesitation.
No one had any interest in the scroll but Robert so everyone thought he was crazy. Aaron sneered then asked a bodyguard to hand a note to the president, he assumed that the scroll had to be important to Robert, so he was not going to let him win.
The president glanced at the note, then looked at Aaron for a moment. He nodded confirming he accepted the terms of Aaron’s note, he calmly said, “Sorry, everyone, I have changed my mind. I don’t want to sell it any longer.”
"Changed your mind?" Robert shouted. He still had his ghost eyes open and could a ghost on the president.
Asthenia Ghost:
Level: 2
HP: 200/200
Features: Specifically attaches to males. It may cause impotence, premature ejaculation, kidney deficiency and other diseases
Robert almost laughed out loud, as he thought about the president trying to satisfy Meenas.
"Well, fine. I understand he may not want to sell because it is a personal item but I wonder if he will trade it?” Robert whispered to himself, then purchased an aphrodisiac pill from the system mall.
The red pill would help the president rid himself of the ghost. Robert walked toward him, holding the pill out, he whispered, “Mr. President, I can see that you are having some problems...in the bedroom.”
Robert raised his eyebrows and looked at Meenas who wasn’t too far away, “I have an aphrodisiac pill made from magic fire. How about I give you this and you give me the scroll?”
The president was terrified that Robert knew his secret. He assumed he was a student from some master, but his attitude changed. Aaron’s note offered him one and a half billion, that is why he took it out of the auction.
"Deal!" The president readily took the pill and handed the scroll to Robert.
Those around them were shocked, the president changed his mind again.
Aaron saw this and began to fear Robert at that point.
"Ok, now the final lot!" Meenas said, taking a step forward with a sultry pose, "It is me..."
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