CH 343

343: Fighting for the Ancient Rui Beast

Her team members knew what kind of person she was so they didn’t hold it against her for not completing the task with them. On the contrary, they even tried to comfort her with words of encouragement.

They heard about the sea emperor’s tomb opening later on. Naturally, Zi Cheng and her friends wanted to go and see it. The senior who led the group had not wanted to go initially, but he changed his mind after Zi Cheng expressed her desire to go. He had a good impression of her, so he agreed to take the group to see the tomb.

Zi Cheng didn’t think her luck would be so good. She met Caesar right after getting off the boat. Her favorability rating with him had reached eighty percent. Wouldn't she be able to get it to one hundred with just a bit more effort?

Yifu and Jasmine were sitting next to her.**Yifu is the braindead one who unconditionally follows Zi Cheng around and Jasmine is Feng Wu’s roommate. She hates Feng Wu.** It was only natural for Zi Cheng to bring her friends with her. Jasmine’s favorability rating had been stuck at ninety percent for a while. Zi Cheng thought it was strange that she couldn’t nudge it any higher. Jasmine’s favorability was just too hard to increase.

Zi Cheng had invited her to be on the same team for the team mission in the hopes of getting it to one hundred percent. She never expected to be swept overboard and get separated from the team.

Caesar looked at the woman next to him. Zi Cheng was kind and gentle, and yet so strong. She wasn’t dependent on a man, but instead worked hard to win respect using her own abilities. He admired such qualities in a woman.

“Zi Cheng, if you see something you like, just get it. Consider it a present from me.” Caesar wasn’t in love with Zi Cheng, but he did like her a lot. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with gifting a present to a girl he liked.

However Yifu and Jasmine turned and looked at them with calculating eyes. A strong and wealthy man like Caesar was irresistible!

They had heard of him before. He was known to be a genius magician and a member of the Blackstrom family. It was a given he would be the next family head.

If Zi Cheng could marry Caesar, she would gain a lot! Of course they would be happy to see something like that happen.

Minor aristocrats like Yifu and Jasmine recognized the difference between ordinary nobles and established powerful families.

“No, I can’t accept something like that. You’ll have to forgive me for rejecting your kindness.” Zi Cheng said softly after biting her lip.

“This is our first meeting in real life. You helped me when we first met. Think of it as a gift from me to you.” Caesar refused to be rejected.

“Yes, but that was just something I wanted to do. I didn’t do it because I wanted a gift from you.” Zi Cheng looked at Caesar earnestly. She was speaking the truth.

Though Caesar was disappointed, he didn’t want to press the issue, however his opinion of her rise.

Zi Cheng checked her favorability rating with him and saw that it had increased by five points. She kept her face neutral despite being happy over the news.

A soft cry came from below their box, “Why is that thing up again? How many times has it been already?” It was obvious the person was a regular to the auction house.

“Yeah, how many times have you guys pulled it out for auction? Why is it out again?”

“You won’t be able to sell it OK?” someone shouted from the audience.

Some shouted back, “Why not take a look?”

LeXue didn’t reply to the comments. She just went ahead with the auction. “The lot in my hand is Lot #70. It is an unknown ore that no one has seen before. It is incredibly hard, so hard that our refinery could not melt it. That is how hard it is folks...”

LeXue did her best to describe the lot in a complimentary way. Despite this, no one was interested in bidding. Even those who had initially been interested lost interest when they learned how many times it had been rejected.

“The reserve price for unknown ore Lot #70 starts at one hundred gold. The auction starts now!”

There were two first time attendees who were interested in finding out what it was so they casually bid on it.

Suddenly someone shouted out, “One hundred gold!”

LeXue shouted from the stage, “Is there anyone interested in bidding over one hundred gold? Going once!”

“Three hundred two!”

“Four hundred!”

The last shout came from Zi Cheng. She hadn’t wanted to bid earlier, but something about the stone tugged at her. It felt like the stone belonged to her. While she was dazed, someone else had nearly taken the stone from her.

“Four hundred gold! Box Number Two bid four hundred gold! Anyone else?!”

“Five hundred!”

Zi Cheng clenched her teeth. “Six hundred!”

Ai Lin sneered. She shouted out, “A thousand gold!” She remembered how in the book it had said Zi Cheng spent three hundred gold for the ancient rui egg. It had given her countless opportunities. Now Zi Cheng wanted to get it again for three hundred gold? Dream on!

“One thousand two hundred!” Zi Cheng frowned. Why was that voice so familiar?

“One thousand five hundred!” Ai Lin continued to hike up the price.

“One thousand eight hundred!”

The two went back and forth until the price rose to ten thousand. It made everyone else wonder about the stone. Was it actually something precious? If it was, then they couldn’t allow it to fall into someone else’s hands!

“Twelve thousand gold!” The bid came from someone in box Five.

Not to be outdone, box Four shouted out, “Twenty thousand gold!”

This confused Ai Lin and Zi Cheng. Were these guys just bidding for fun?

“One hundred thousand gold.” An elegant and refined voice spoke up.

“Third brother!” Caesar was taken aback at the sound of the familiar voice. His third brother didn’t like to go out so Caesar was surprised to find him at Bilou, especially considering how chaotic and dangerous the island would be with the impending opening of the god’s tomb.

Caesar was worried about his brother being there.

Before Caesar was completely drunk on Zi Cheng, he was a very good brother and genuinely cared about Zo’s well-being.

Indeed the shout did come from Zo. He hadn’t expected so many people to bid on the stone. He clearly remembered being told that Zi Cheng got the egg without any competition!