The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 140 - 108: The Knife of Urgency

Chapter 140: Chapter 108: The Knife of Urgency

Every month at the beginning of the month, Xinyue held a supernatural market that lasted for three days and two nights, where goods, treasures, and even some shady contraband from all over the world were sold.

Large enterprises such as the Forge Association, Alchemy Workshop, Magic Association, Spark Technology, and Eternal Gene would also promote here, selling their products at prices far below market value. As long as you had enough capital, you could find many good things here.

The auction, however, had a threshold; only extraordinary beings with status and connections could participate, and the items up for bid were all premium, often fetching sky-high prices in the billions.

The most attractive aspect of this auction was the organizers’ publicized "guaranteed abnormal item in every session."

While most of the time the abnormal items being auctioned were just some classic trendy junk, with the "abnormal item" tag, anything listed in the Control Bureau’s complete abnormal catalogue, even if it was a piece of crap, could see its value multiply hundreds or thousands of times.

In the luxurious auction hall, Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi took their seats, Fang Qing, disguised as Wang Zhen, sat in a corner, concealed and unnoticed.

This auction was very famous in the extraordinary world, always fully packed. You could see quite a few foreigners, even golden-haired elves with long ears, bearded dwarves, and scantily clad succubi who reluctantly put on a jacket after being reminded by the staff.

Soon, the first auction item was brought up, a pink hair dryer with two cartoon eye stickers, cosplaying as Peppa Pig, and next to it, a water-blue ring.

The auctioneer introduced, "These are the latest magical devices crafted by the master artificer, Mr. Geng, last week—a portable flamethrower and a Water Curtain Defense Ring.

Ha, yes, although it looks like a hair dryer, it is actually a flamethrower.

According to tests, this flamethrower can spray flames of up to 2000 degrees Celsius at maximum power, enough to melt steel. It has seven compressed spiritual storage matrices, also known as spiritual batteries, with an automatic recovery feature, fully recharging in 24 hours. At full spiritual battery capacity, it can spray flames at maximum power for over a minute.

This Water Curtain Defense Ring activates automatically when using the flamethrower, protecting the user from high-temperature burns.

For many extraordinary individuals who often venture into dangerous areas, this magical device is a good self-defense tool. Flames at 2000 degrees Celsius, I imagine even among those present, not many could withstand them.

The starting bid for this item is 3 million."

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately raised their paddle, and the auctioneer immediately quoted: "3.1 million."

"3.2 million."

"3.4 million."

"..."

The first auction item was eventually raised to 5.8 million, bought by an obviously nouveau riche extraordinary person.

"Tsk tsk, 5.8 million for a flamethrower and a defense ring, really rich." Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but whisper.

"They have a lot of money, spending four and a half million is like ordinary people spending four hundred yuan." Chen Guangxi said calmly, "The world of the rich is just that simple and boring; whether they like it or not, whether it’s useful or not, as long as they like it, they buy it."

The second auction item was more normal, a box of exquisitely packaged red wine brewed by the "Wine God Association," with a superb taste, intoxicating, having the special effects of nourishing spiritual energy, healing dark wounds, and enhancing physical vitality. It could also be used as a top-tier extraordinary material, starting bid 4 million.

Chen Guangxi eventually won it for 12 million, as she quite liked drinking wine—to be precise, she liked eating and drinking to her heart’s content.

"See, just like that." Chen Guangxi remained indifferent, without any thrill of splurging, as this was pocket change for her, just a small amount.

"I’m quite curious, just how rich are you?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"I don’t know the exact amount, it’s too much to count for a long time, probably... enough to rival a nation."

Chen Guangxi’s words carried a hint of nostalgia, "I’ve loved collecting gold and silver treasures since I was a child, carrying them with spatial magic, and when I got tired, I’d find a cave, take out those treasures, and sleep in the sea of treasure, it was so comfortable."

"...When you came out of the book, did you bring those gold and silver treasures with you?" Zhou Yuan asked with wide eyes.

"Of course."

"..." Zhou Yuan now knew that when Chen Guangxi said she was as rich as a nation, she wasn’t bragging; she truly had the means.

Chen Guangxi’s true form had a wingspan of two kilometers, an absolute behemoth. Even if she hadn’t reached such an exaggerated size long ago, it wouldn’t have been much less. And to accommodate such a form, the sea of treasure was no exaggeration; it was truly an ocean, an ocean... of gold.

Besides the gold and silver treasures brought from her hometown, she regularly sold her scales, blood, hair, and other materials to various organizations for high prices. After years of business, her income was astronomical.

Rivaling a nation, indeed not an exaggeration.

While chatting, two more auction items were taken.

The next item brought to the stage was a yellow stone surrounded by dazzling electric light, stored in a transparent protective cover. Even from afar, Zhou Yuan could feel the violent thunderous power contained within.

[Thunderstone, containing immense electrical energy, is a rare lightning-type material, you can buy it for your yellow-skinned rat.

By the way, this Thunderstone was a product of a battle between two high-level extraordinary beings in the Spirit World, accidentally flung into the real world. If you can find that battlefield in the Spirit World, you can get more Thunderstones.]