The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer

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“Wow, Big Black would sure like it!” As soon as Long Teng saw the picture, his eyes instantly lit up.

The golden crystal ore between its eyes had long been replaced with a huge natural diamond, and every day when it opened its eyes, it could see the bright light.

Long Teng, because of the flying dragon beast, also paid extra attention to shiny things.

Xie Sen couldn’t help but exclaim, “It’s beautiful.”

He scanned the comments. Almost all of them were screaming with praise, and many of them said that they were going to win. He looked at the comments, and asked, “Do you know anything about the price of jewelry? How much does a pearl this big cost?”

Long Teng shook his head. “I don’t know. My dad prepared all the stuff for Big Black.”

Maine also shook his head. “I rarely pay attention to it.”

Bai Jiao didn’t usually wear jewelry, but because of family reasons, he had attended a variety of banquets since childhood, so he had some understanding. “For the largest pearl, less than one-thirtieth of the diameter of this one, the sale price was three hundred million.”

Xie Sen was dumbfounded. Then this one, according to the diameter, couldn’t be less than nine billion. How could he afford it?

He was so excited that he spoke his mind. Bai Jiao laughed, “It’s not that expensive. This pearl is too big for jewelry, so it’s only decorative. It’s more of a collectible. But, it’s too big and too rare to be cheap.”

Xie Sen thought for a moment. “Let’s do a dual approach. We’ll wait for news of the sale, and see if we can find any potential loopholes.”

Long Teng focused on the latter half of the sentence, and his eyes shone brightly.

Maine asked, “Can you pinpoint its location?”

Xie Sen looked upward. “Above the eightieth floor. The exact location–” he said, ready to call out to Adam in his mind to ask for the distance between Little Silver and his current location.

But with a sweep of his eyes, he realized that the height of each floor was different. Like now, the dining room was obviously taller than the guest rooms. He remembered that the bottom few floors were battle arenas, and for that kind of event, each floor would probably be higher.

So even if he knew the distance, he couldn’t calculate the exact eighty or so floors. When he thought of Adam’s weak voice from before, he decided not to waste Adam’s energy. He mulled it over, then said, “I can’t determine the exact location.”

“Then let’s go floor by floor to find it?” Long Teng said.

Maine’s finger operated on the virtual screen twice, and quickly browsed through it, then turned the screen to the trio again. “The 80th and 81st floors are the auction house. The 82nd floor and the floors above have no public listing for their use, and are forbidden to enter.”

Xie Sen’s eyes lit up, “The auction house must have a lot of treasures. Little Silver is also a treasure, so will it be put on the 80th and 81st floors?”

Maine said, “We can go and take a look.” He clicked into the 81st floor, and pointed to the bottom right corner. “There is an auction at 8pm.”

Xie Sen looked over, and saw that the tickets were 100,000 per person. He couldn’t help but spit out, “This is a money grab, right?”

Maine said, “The 80th floor ticket is 10,000, where the starting bid price is 1 million. The 81st floor starting bid price is 10 million, and the really good stuff is on the 81st floor. The ticket is the threshold.”