Chapter 1192: Chapter 1191: Caution
"One million!" The price had already reached one million, something Lin Zai hadn’t anticipated. This Gelan Glue could become an advanced pharmaceutical in Lin Zai’s hands, but after all, it’s just a raw material and shouldn’t be so expensive.
"One million, once." While Lin Zai was still stunned, the auctioneer was already planning to drop the gavel. "One hundred fifty thousand!" Lin Zai shouted, "Two hundred thousand!" Another voice rang out, "Two hundred fifty thousand!" Lin Zai shouted again, no matter what, Lin Zai always added fifty thousand slowly and steadily. "Hey, I think this person is deliberately opposing you," Zhao Shuai said.
"Five hundred thousand!" Lin Zai called out, but at this moment, the room fell silent, and the other voice didn’t ring out again. In the end, Lin Zai bought the Gelan Glue for five hundred thousand.
At this moment, a man walked toward Lin Zai. "Congratulations, you bought the Gelan Glue." The voice was exactly the one that had been bidding against Lin Zai for the Gelan Glue.
Lin Zai saw a man dressed in white, with nothing particularly remarkable about his appearance, but he exuded an air of sophistication. At this moment, he was also sizing up Lin Zai. "Sir, you’re quite generous." Lin Zai replied courteously.
"Keke, I’m Li Pu, a journalist. Could we get acquainted?" The man stretched out his hand toward Lin Zai. "Lin Zai." Lin Zai also extended his hand to shake hands politely.
"I wonder what Mr. Lin intends to do with this Gelan Glue?" Li Pu asked. "You’re asking too many questions. If you hadn’t intervened, Lin wouldn’t have needed to spend so much money on this." Zhao Shuai stood up and looked at Li Pu with a face full of anger. His intuition told him that Li Pu wasn’t some harmless character.
"Hmph, I was asking Mr. Lin, why are you in such a hurry?" Li Pu also seemed a bit irritated.
"It’s nothing, just genuinely interested in this Gelan Glue." Lin Zai didn’t want to say much to someone he didn’t know who had approached him out of the blue. "I’m kindly reminding you; don’t be ungrateful. Judging by your looks,
you certainly don’t seem like someone capable of creating great inventions. Such a person, holding auction items from the Dark Cosmos, would only invite disaster. Don’t say I didn’t warn you."
Li Pu gave Lin Zai and the others a dismissive look and then left.
"Disaster?" Qi Rongfeng said with a frown, "I haven’t been to the Dark Cosmos before without encountering such a lethal situation," Qi Rongfeng remarked.
"There have been instances of people disappearing mysteriously here." Wu Mu said with a solemn expression.
"Disappear..." Lin Zai murmured, always feeling that there was something unusual about this place. Nothing has ever been lost with so many extraordinary items here, maintaining a strange order. But the auction hall on the second floor felt fraught with peril. Whether it was the bathroom door made of polyimide core materials or Li Pu’s words just now, it all made Lin Zai feel there was a deeper secret here.
"What do you mean? Miss Wu, have people disappeared here often?"
Qi Rongfeng asked.
"Not often, I only know of one case—a person who supposedly bought the ’Mysterious Fruit’ at the last auction. He disappeared after the purchase and never appeared again," Wu Fen said.
"Mysterious Fruit?" Lin Zai was somewhat puzzled.
"I heard about the Mysterious Fruit before. It’s said to be a fruit that has grown for millions of years in the depths of the desert, yet no one has found it so far. How could it be auctioned here?" Qi Rongfeng asked with some curiosity.
"I didn’t attend that auction, but I heard everyone who participated had significant interest in unusual research." Wu Fen said.
Lin Zai always thought of the Dark Cosmos as merely the place where the top scientists of this small town gathered, but now it seemed that’s not the case. There might really be some unspeakable secrets here.
However, Lin Zai couldn’t understand why Li Pu only sought him out, even though Wu Shan had paid a higher price for the Four-dimensional Mirror just now. "Does the Mysterious Fruit have any magical properties?" Lin Zai asked.
"It’s said that the Mysterious Fruit can reverse aging, letting people stay youthful forever. But these are just legends. The only existing one was auctioned not long ago and disappeared, making it even harder to know if it’s true or not," Wu Fen said.
"So, the Mysterious Fruit could let ordinary people reverse aging and stay young forever. However, in the hands of someone like Lin Zai, the Mysterious Fruit could be transformed into an advanced pharmaceutical, maximizing its effects and even achieving immortality. Now, Lin Zai’s purpose in buying the Gelan Glue is also to create an advanced pharmaceutical, allowing it to function as a miraculous medicine.
Thinking this way, Lin Zai felt that the person who bought the Mysterious Fruit was also likely a scientist, someone who could make full use of the Mysterious Fruit’s potential. This kind of person buying the Mysterious Fruit here was bound to attract some dark, evil organizations, forcing the scientist to serve them.
"Let’s go." Lin Zai thought sitting there wasn’t a solution. Since there was already a crisis, they should take the initiative rather than letting the villains make the first move.
"Hey, wait, Lin, won’t we get into trouble going out like this?
Li Pu just made everyone so nervous." Qi Rongfeng asked with some concern.
"Yeah, why don’t we stay here for a while? I’ll call my dad to come to find us," Zhao Shuai said.
"How old are you to still call for your dad?" Wu Mu shot Zhao Shuai a disapproving look.
"Hey, this is being cautious, you know? What if something really happens here, and no one answers even if we call for help?" Zhao Shuai defended.
"Alright, if something really does happen, we wouldn’t wait around for your dad to arrive. We should go out now; staying here won’t solve anything," Lin Zai said.
"I agree, let’s head downstairs first. I’m familiar with downstairs," Wu Fen said.
"Right, then let’s go down first. With Lin around, I’m not that scared," Qi Rongfeng said.
"Alright then, let’s go down," Zhao Shuai also said.
Lin Zai placed the Gelan Glue into the Jiezhi Bracelet first and walked toward the staircase to prepare to go downstairs. Zhao Shuai, Wu Shan, and Qi Rongfeng followed behind in that order. Just as Lin Zai was about to go down the stairs, six men in auction security uniforms blocked his way. "Sir, our boss would like to meet you. Please come with us."
"Is this how you invite someone? This is illegal!" Zhao Shuai said angrily.
Lin Zai, seeing these six skillful men, realized it wouldn’t be wise to confront them forcefully here. However, judging by their accent, their language wasn’t very fluent, yet the town’s institute chief said that on the Kai Ao Star, there is only the Kai Ao Country, with vast deserts and oceans in other areas; there shouldn’t be any foreigners. Lin Zai thought going with them might not be a bad idea.
"Alright, I’ll go with you; let the other three leave," Lin Zai said.
"But we can’t leave you, Lin," Qi Rongfeng said.
"Yes, since I accepted you as a brother, I wouldn’t abandon you," Zhao Shuai said, looking excited.
"I’m not afraid either. Even though I’m a girl, I’m no less brave than you," Wu said. "Our boss said to invite everyone over. Sir, please go," the leader of the six security guards said.
Seeing his three companions’ resolute expressions, Lin Zai was somewhat moved. "Then let’s go together."
Lin Zai and the three of them were escorted by six security guards toward a room at the innermost part of the auction platform. On the way, Lin Zai increasingly felt something was off, suspecting that those managing the Dark Cosmos might also come from another planet like him, and perhaps their technology is even more advanced.
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