Chapter 46: Aria’s Questioning

“What are you doing to my sister, bastard!?” 

Both me and Rebecca look back with a jerk in response to the voice from behind.   

Standing at the doorway is a girl with a dangerous-looking kitchen knife in her hands.   

I look at her from top to bottom. Her hairs are long and blond like Rebecca but are tied up in twin tails. Her skin is fair and smooth. Her light green colored eyes are big and beautiful.  

Even her figure looks amazing above her simple blue knee-length skirt with moderate but shapely tits, slender waist, meaty ass, and plump thighs.   

And most importantly… I know this girl very well.   

“Aria!” I exclaim loudly in shock.   

“Jacob!?”   

Aria also notices me and the kitchen knife from her hands and her jaw, both drops at the same time.   

We both keep staring at each other like this for a few seconds as if we are frozen in place before Rebecca breaks the silence…  

“Y-You both know each other?” she asks, her voice still a bit shaky.  

Yes, I know Aria very well. In fact, she is one of my freaking classmates in school. And excluding Leo and Ryan, she is probably the person I have spoken to, the most in school.   

But well, unlike Leo and Ryan, Aria is not my friend… not even close.  

And the reason for that is; apart from being one of the most beautiful girls in school (not the reason), Aria is also the class monitor.   

Thus, being the one who stops every “rulebreakers” or “wrongdoers” of the class.   

And guess whom she catches the most in the class?   

Yeah, me.   

I am like the main target of her. Any time I bring a porn magazine or adult games in school to share with Ryan and Leo or to enjoy myself, she confiscates them instantly. Like, the moment I enter the class. It’s as if she knows beforehand that I am going to bring them.   

And the worst part is, she only catches Leo and Ryan when they are about to lend me books from their own “private” collection.  

Like, seriously, what the fuck?  

Because of her, my eyes have been deprived of feasting on so many beautiful naked babes that it’s just heartbreaking.   

And this is the reason, I hate Aria Woods and consider her one of my biggest enemies.   

Wait…   

Aria…Woods.  

Shit!!!  

This was in my mind somewhere but I thought it is just a coincidence or something that Rebecca’s and Aria’s surnames match.   

But no! They are freaking sisters!   

“You… You broke into my house?” Aria asks in a disbelieving tone.   

“I-I did not…”   

Fuck! I broke into the house.   

“And I cannot believe this. You were trying to rape my sister…” She says, anger again starting to appear on her face.   

“I am not!”  

“He is not!”  

Me and Rebecca speak at the same time.   

“What!?” Aria says looking genuinely confused all of a sudden.   

I can tell she didn’t expect Rebecca to defend me.   

“B-But he is on top of you!” She exclaims loudly.   

“O-Oh, Jacob just fell on me…” Rebecca says with a nervous smile while lightly pushing me away.   

I quickly stand up and move away from Rebecca.   

“I-I am sorry. I tripped,” I say while making my best apologetic face to Rebecca.   

“O-Oh, it’s fine…” she tells me.   

We both smile at each other.  

“What the heck is happening here!?” Aria says loudly, looking bewildered.  

She bends down and picks up the kitchen knife before moving closer to the bed a little and speaking again.  

“Your eyes are clearly red from crying, sister! I even heard your yells and shouts! Why are you trying to defend him!? Is he blackmailing you?” she asks while pointing the knife at me.   

“N-No, he is not! And I am not defending him… It’s just that I was… It’s just that—”  

“Rebecca was tutoring me!” I say, suddenly getting an idea.   

““What!?””   

Rebecca and Aria both look at me in surprise.   

“I-I mean, yeah. I was tutoring Jacob. I-I was yelling at him because…err… he was doing badly. Yes! A-And my eyes are red because… err… something got into them earlier,” Rebecca says.   

Nice cover, Rebecca.   

“Tutoring him? TUTORING him!? I agree that Jacob’s grades are really extremely bad but why is my sister tutoring him!? And where the hell did you both even meet for this tutoring to start!?” she asks.   

“W-Well, that is…”  

Rebecca doesn’t seem to get any ideas. I need to think of something myself…   

“W-Well, we met at the… library! Yeah, two days ago in the library. And there, Rebecca solved some of my doubts. I-I liked the way she explained things to me so much that I asked if she could tutor me regularly and she said yes,” I answer.   

I hope she believes this…   

But Aria is not looking at me anymore.   

“You were at the library!? Really!? But you never go to public places like that!” she says, her eyes filled with doubt and surprise.   

What? Rebecca doesn’t go to public places? Why?  

“I-I was just passing by, so I decided to take a look in… after such a long time,” Rebecca answers, rather uncomfortably.   

Aria still looks really doubtful but for some reason, she does not ask Rebecca why she decided to “take a look in”.  

“… okay, that’s fine. But when did he come inside the house!? I didn’t hear any sound of doorbell! And wait for a second, where the hell are your books? You were studying, right!?” she asks.   

This time, I am lost for words but fortunately, Rebecca takes over.   

“I-I was in the garden when he came so, I took him inside. And I was teaching Jacob with your books so he didn’t bring any…” Rebecca says while pointing at a small study table placed at the corner of the room, on top of which there are some of the course books lying.   

Wait, those books must be Aria’s, then why are they in Rebecca’s room?   

“Sister, Jacob is just—”  

Suddenly, Aria stops speaking and eyes open wide in shock. She looks at me with a jerk and stares as if seeing something alien or something.   

“H-How… are you doing this?” she asks me in a scared sort of way.   

What? What am I doing?   

“What do you mean by that? I am doing not doing anything…” I say.   

“H-How are you standing here?” she asks. Her voice is starting to shake now.   

Is she an idiot? I am standing because of my legs…   

I look at Rebecca, expecting to see her sighing because of her sister’s question but to my surprise, she is also looking at me as if expecting an answer.   

“I don’t get what you are asking…” I say in confusion.   

“Wait, don’t tell you don’t know…” Aria asks, looking even more surprise.   

This is just getting ridiculous.   

“Don’t know about what!?” I ask, bit frustrated now.   

“Aria, he doesn’t know…”   

Rebecca suddenly says before Aria can open her mouth again.   

“But sister, then how is he—”  

“Jacob…”  

Rebecca cuts in between Aria and addresses me with a serious look.   

“I need to tell you something… about my system.” 

 

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Chapter 93 – Shameless

 

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Max felt good getting in so quickly, giving out a silent chuckle as he turned around, what he saw almost made his mouth drop on the floor.

Xiao Ming was naked in front of his mirror. Max could see his tiny dick from it. He had to stare at it for a few seconds to confirm that what he was looking at was real.

Max covered his mouth as he tried to hold back from laughing. He kept looking at Xiao Ming as he teared up while his body shook.

Little Dou also pinched him as hard as she could to stop him from laughing, not wanting Max to ruin their only chance this night.

“Hmm.”

‘I can’t hold it anymore!’

Xiao Ming flexed his arms in front of the mirror. He smiled, showing his teeth while contracting his stomach. There was nothing to be seen, only his fats.

His arms were also skinny, making all his actions pointless. Xiao Ming was moving his head from multiple angles as he changed his facial expressions.

“Pff”

Max forcefully covered his mouth, as he cautiously checked whether Xiao Ming heard it. Fortunately, he was so focused on himself to hear anything.

Max became calmer as he turned more serious. That was a close call, and he didn’t want to make the same slip.

“Looking good!”

Xiao Ming started talking to himself in the mirror. He nodded as he checked out his own body.

“Haah!”

He stood straight giving Max a full view of his tiny member. Xiao Ming even touched it while carefully looking at it.

“Heh. That was fun.”

“Most people don’t get any woman, but I have a different one every day.”

Xiao Ming puffed out his chest with pride. He genuinely believed that he was great about having a lot of women.

“Those peasants can only look up to me while I steal their women. Hah, they are clueless that I can just buy their women from them. Heheheh.”

“That isn’t their fault. I’m just too attractive. Do they have a face like this? Do they have a lot of money? They are nothing compared to me!”

Xiao Ming looked down on his soft dick, massaging it with his hands like it was the most valuable asset of his life.

“That worker was fortunate to experience my amazing techniques. She was even moaning so loud. Well, every woman that does it with me always cries out loudly.”

Xiao Ming proudly smiled as he shrugged his shoulders, implying that it wasn’t his fault for being this skilled in pleasuring them.

“I must’ve made her day with that. No, she probably won’t forget it her entire life.”

“Ungrateful woman. She didn’t even thank me.”

Max’s face was twitching every time Xiao Ming said something. He thought that the old man from the auction was already shameless. This was the real shamelessness, the peak of shamelessness.

*Knock Knock*

Xiao Ming wore the bathrobe from the side as he walked back to sit on his bed. He then turned to the door and said,

“Who is it? Come in.”

The door opened as the Awakened that Max saw slowly got in. This was the first time Max was able to look at him closely. Max felt like there was something wrong with this Awakened, but he couldn’t figure out what.

“Oh, it’s you.”

“Is there any problem down there?”

Xiao Ming laid on his pillow as he emotionlessly stared at the Awakened standing in front of him.

“No, everything is going the way they should be.”

“That’s good.”

“When they looked at the list, they said that there were more items this time compared to the past months. They were also a lot more valuable items.”

Xiao Ming laughed when he heard that. He felt like everything was under his control and that he did a great job of handling this.

“What did I say? I told you I’m a genius!”

“Lowering the percentage of the fees required while telling them that we have a good amount of security personnel that came from the well-known security firm that the banks use!”

“I promised them that their items would be insured if something happened before they were sold. Hahaha!”

“Hahaha. Boss, you’re so good! All of it worked just like you said!”

“Hehe, and they all believed it! No one in their right mind would even think of stealing from this hotel. This was the property of the Xiao Hotel Group. Even idiots wouldn’t want to be our enemy!”

“And also, with you here, who can steal them?”

“Stupid people. With only a few words, they instantly came running.”

“There’s no problem then.”

“As long as this event was successful, my father would leave me with a lot of business to handle. That would give me a lot of liberty to do more things!”

Xiao Ming gave an evil chuckle while thinking about the higher number of women that would land on his bed at that time.

His father would also give him a lot more money. He was already thinking about the things that he wanted to buy: new cars, new clothes, or even a yacht.

Xiao Ming can already imagine all the women, money, and the people that would go for a considerable distance to suck up to him and how good it would feel.

‘So pathetic.’

‘Too bad none of that will happen.’

Max and Little Dou were silently listening at the side. Max constantly shook his head, knowing that with him here, nothing good will happen to Xiao Ming.

‘Successful event? No, no, no. This will be the worst event and the last one you will have.’

“Heheheh, I can’t wait for that. Did you know that the host of the auction rejected me?!”

Xiao Ming turned to look at the eyes of the Awakened. Anger was reflected in his eyes as he clenched his fist.

“She rejected me! Everyone that rejected me didn’t have a good ending! Just because she’s a senior attendant, she thinks she can turn me away? Hahaha!”

“When we finish this event without any problems, get that woman for me.”

“That woman was getting cocky thinking that I can’t lay my hands on her, acting like she’s important when she’s not.”

“I’d like to see what you can do when you’re under me.”

Xiao Ming stared down the floor as he said that. Coincidentally, the area he was looking at was where Max was staying.

For a second, Max thought that Xiao Ming knew he was there. He could have sworn they had eye contact. Max even checked him once more with his Status Checker to make sure he didn’t have any skill to locate him.

Xiao Ming curled up his lips as his eyes became fierce. The Awakened, on the other hand, only looked at him blankly, waiting for his next instruction.

“Hehe, I’ll thoroughly enjoy your body and let others play with you after. That’s the price you will pay for refusing my advances.”

 

 

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Chapter 92 – Seeing His Enemy Again!

 

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[Here!]

 

They arrived in this quiet floor. According to Little Dou, this was supposed to be where Xiao Ming was staying.

This floor was small, only around ten square meters of lobby space. There were no windows, and overall, it looked like a small hotel lobby.

[He’s in there!]

 

In front of them was a fancy double door. From its designs, everyone could discern that it was valuable. It was a pity that Max couldn’t steal it.

The more he stole from Xiao Ming, the more damage he will give him so Max was prepared to do everything to hit him the worst way he could.

He would only steal the expensive ones as the others were worthless. It’s his time that is going to be wasted so Max won’t bother with the useless ones.

“How are we going to get in?”

[I went in a while ago after someone opened the door to go inside! We can wait for someone, or you just open the door and hope that he won’t notice! It wasn’t locked when I was previously here!]

 

“I have to open the door and hope that he won’t notice? What’s the chance of that happening?”

[I’m not sure! His bedroom was behind that door! If he’s lying down, he would be facing that door too!]

 

“What?! There’s no chance for me to go in that way then.”

Waiting for someone to open the door for them was definitely out of the picture. No one would wait that long just to sneak inside.

If Max were going to do that, he would rather break in and knock Xiao Ming unconscious while invisible and clean his vault in the process.

“Let me think! There must be another way.”

*Ahnn*

Max furrowed his brows, looked up, then shook his head. He thought that he heard someone moan beside him, but they were the only ones here.

*Ahnn*

While he was thinking of a plan, standing motionless, Max heard it again. It was like a faint sound of moaning somewhere.

Max tried to guess where the sound was coming from, pointing his ears to where he thought it came from.

*Ahnn*

Max went closer to were it was, hearing the moans getting louder with each step he takes until he couldn’t get any closer.

“It’s inside?”

Max stuck his ear on the door as quietly as he can to confirm whether the moans were coming inside Xiao Ming’s room.

*Ahnn!*

“It’s really inside!”

“Was there a woman inside a while ago?”

[No, I followed the Awakened inside. There were only two of them at that time! There were other rooms, but they were too far so I can’t say!]

 

Little Dou shook her head. From what she recalls, she didn’t see anyone though she doesn’t clearly remember the other rooms.

Xiao Ming’s room has a weird layout. The room behind the door was Xiao Ming’s bedroom. Behind his bed was a glass wall with wide and thick curtains covering it.

On one side was the bathroom and a walk-in closet. On the opposite side, was a door to the living room. The living room was then connected to the recreation room, and the recreation room was connected to the movie theater room.

It was weirdly designed that Little Dou wasn’t able to check the farther rooms to see if there were anyone.

*Ahnn*

Inside the room.

Xiao Ming was with a naked woman on the king-sized bed. The yellow lights shone down on them, illuminating their moving bodies. The curtains were open this time, but it didn’t change anything as it was already dark outside.

Xiao Ming was positioned in between her legs humping the woman as fast as he can like a crazed animal.

He was doing a lousy job at it. Xiao Ming only focused on pleasuring himself, closing his eyes while moving his waist.

The girl was lying down the bed, unmoving like she had no energy. In reality, she was only not in the mood for this right now.

If Max were to see this, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from laughing. Xiao Ming’s dick was as tiny as his thumb. No one would believe it if they didn’t see it for themselves.

“Ahhh uhhh uhhh!”

Xiao Ming was shouting with every movement he makes. The faint, moaning sound that Max heard outside was Xiao Ming’s.

It was the walls that made his moans lighter, but it was all him. The girl was moaning along with him in a low tone. However, Xiao Ming’s obnoxious moaning covered hers.

After what seemed like ten seconds of humping, Xiao Ming reached his climax. Fondling the breast of the woman as he clenched his lower body.

It was quite pitiful to hear the fake moans of the woman he was humping. Even after he was done, she was still moaning. Evidently, from her tone, she was only moaning to act like she was enjoying it.

The girl was a worker at this hotel. She was only pretending to like it to satisfy the son of her boss. After this, she would get a lot of money, worth more than a few months of work.

This had been going on for a few months now, so she was extremely used to doing this. She even learned the fake moans to make him end faster.

The girl had a voluptuous body, but her face was ordinary, someone Max would not pay attention to if he ever saw her. Her skin was also unattractive; she had scars, rough, dry skin in some areas, and her legs were on the thicker side.

Only Xiao Ming would choose someone like her when he could have picked someone prettier. He might just be addicted to sex, not bothering who it was on his bed.

“Haa haa haa”

Xiao Ming had a satisfied expression on his face. When he wasn’t looking, there was a disgusted look on the girl’s face. He was the only one who was enjoying this.

“I’m already done. You can leave now.”

Xiao Ming didn’t care what the girl was feeling. She was just one of the workers he was paying. Xiao Ming wiped himself, not even glancing at her.

The girl followed his words, getting up, and going out the door after hurriedly wearing her uniform. This is how it always goes.

After the girl got out, no one saw that the closing door opened back a little bit before closing. The one who was responsible for it was Max.

When he heard some rustling behind the door, Max instantly reacted, buying an Invisibility Potion and drinking it right away while staying near the door, getting ready to go in if it opened.

It was then that it really opened. Max didn’t have the time to look at the person who got out, only focusing on sliding in the gap unnoticed.

His leg slightly hit the edge of the door, but no one noticed it before it closed. Max smirked as he successfully got into the room with Little Dou.

 

 

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Chapter 45: I Like You

 I keep looking at the closed door for a while, in shock of what happened just now.   

[You are fucked up, buddy…]  

F-Fucked up… B-But why? Why did Rebecca run away?   

[I am sorry to say but I guess she probably hates you. I cannot think of any reason other than that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]  

Rebecca… hates me?   

[Buddy, you had sex with her once and didn’t contact her for days after. You don’t think any girl would like that exactly, do you? And please don’t misunderstand, I am not saying that it’s your fault. You were in pretty fucked up situation.]  

I-I guess. But still, how come I am not dead yet? My poison…  

[Hmm… The most possible reason for that is the glitch.]  

Glitch? Even in a death poison?   

[Yeah. I think it means that you won’t die even if any permanent woman stops loving you, or even if she cheats on you.]  

R-Really… I guess it’s good then…   

[…]  

What?   

[YOU PIECE OF FILTHY SHIT! YOU CUCK! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT IT’S GOOD IF YOUR WOMAN CHEATS ON YOU!? YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF IF THAT HAPPENS EVEN BEFORE THE SYSTEM COULD!!! DIE IN HELL AND ROT THERE, IDIOT!!!]  

Woah, Woah, Woah! Calm down, okay? I never said that it’s good if any of my women cheats on me! I just meant that it’s a good thing that I am alive and all.   

I will never let my woman cheat on me… Ever.   

[Oh, sorry…Just… just try to be a bit clearer, okay? You really angered me there. You already know what my motto for women is: Stealing is good, getting stolen from is bad.]  

Yeah, I know.   

[And losing your woman is really bad in general as well! So, think about something to make Rebecca love you again. Let me help you with the first step: talk to her.]  

I know that. But the question is, How?   

[Hmm… How about entering through the window you escaped from last time?]  

That… That is a good idea!   

[I know, right? Just hope someone doesn’t see you and call the cops…]  

Yeah…  

I start running forward in full speed towards hedges.   

[Hey, hey, wait! What the fuck are you doing!?]  

What? I am jumping over the hedge.   

[Idiot, you are not in beast awakening right now. You will just break your neck if you go in this way! And why are you even bothering to do this? Just enter through the freaking front gate.]  

Oh… I-I am just a bit stressed.  

[Yeah, right…]  

I move sideways and enter through the front gate.   

Fortunately, the window in question is wide open like it was that day I ran away from here. I peek inside and it looks like there is no one here.   

Rebecca much be in her room upstairs…   

With a little difficulty, I climb inside and thus, enter the house.   

This place is exactly like I remember it, neat, clean and beautiful. The television seems to be on, so I decide to take a look at the living room but there is no one there as well.   

I guess Rebecca must be watching it before…   

[Don’t waste time snooping around! Go to her room!]  

I am not snooping around or anything! I was just checking if Rebecca was there!   

[Yeah, yeah. Move your ass.]  

Slowly, I move up the stairs while trying to be as quiet as possible. I don’t want Rebecca to hear me and just close her room from the inside.   

Fortunately, it doesn’t take me much time to find Rebecca’s room as there are only 3 rooms upstairs and I also remember in which one I woke the other day.   

I put my hand on the doorknob…  

Please don’t be too angry with me Rebecca.  

… and open the door to enter inside.   

“J-Jacob!?”  

Rebecca jumps up from the bed as soon as she sees me entering inside. Her long blond hairs are loose and her beautiful blue eyes are tinged red with tears flowing and running down her smooth cheeks.   

It looks like she was trying to cry herself to sleep…  

Fuck! This is bad… I need to apologize to her fast.  

I took a step forward…   

“Rebecca, I am really—”  

“Don’t come near me!” she shrieks loudly while jumping back on the bed.   

I stop moving, shocked by this extreme reaction.   

Seriously? Does she hate me so much that she won’t even let me come close?  

No, in need to somehow explain things to her.   

I again take a step forward with a bit more determination this time.   

“See, Rebecca. A lot of things happened—”  

“No! Don’t come near! P-please…”   

Rebecca again says loudly while quickly backing away even more.   

Please? Did she just say please?   

Don’t tell me…   

Shit! She is thinking that I am here to rape her again! She must have got a trauma…   

I do agree that the behavior of Rebecca was really strange the next morning after my first beast awakening (giving me a blowjob and all) but I guess it was all just because her thinking ability got messed up at that time…  

“… o-or you will hate me as well,” she continues in a much smaller voice.   

…   

What? I will hate her?   

This doesn’t make sense according to what I was thinking.  

Why would I hate Rebecca?   

“I don’t hate you, Rebecca. In fact, I really like you,” I tell her as earnestly as possible.   

“Y-You like me?”   

She asks but before I can even confirm again, she covers up her face and starts crying even harder than before.   

“Don’t… Say that…” She says.   

“Why, Rebecca? I really do like you! I am not lying” I say again.   

“Don’t…it will just be… harder for me… when you start…hating me…” She says while sobbing between every few words.   

Hating her? Why would I hate her?   

“I don’t hate you, Rebecca. See? I just confessed that I like you,” I say.   

“No… you will… if you get… close to me,” She says.   

Her tears are literally forming a wet spot on the bed now.   

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. I need to do something…   

Without making any noise, I slowly start moving towards the bed. Rebecca doesn’t notice me as her hands are covering her eyes (and also because of her continuously welling up tears).   

And the instant I get close enough…   

“Kyaaaaa!”  

I leap forward and lands on top of Rebecca, pinning her down on the bed.   

“GET AWAY! NOOOO!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!”   

Rebecca starts screaming and thrashing wildly, trying to push me away but I hold my ground.   

“Listen, Rebecca, I am touching you,” I say.   

“GET AWAY! GET AWAYYY! DON’T—”  

“REBECCA!” I yell loudly.   

Rebecca gets silent from my sudden outburst and she even stops thrashing for a moment.   

“See? I am touching you and I still like you very much,” I tell her while caressing her cheeks.   

“Y-You… don’t hate me?” She asks in a low and fearful voice.   

I don’t reply but just simply lower my head and kiss her soft lips which are salty with tears. Like this, I keep kissing her for a few minutes till she calms down before separating my mouth…  

“Now, do you think I hate you— Argh”  

Before I can speak; Rebecca pushes me sideways on the bed and sits on top of me.  

And instantly after, I start feeling her soft lips raining down kisses all over my face. I too put my hands on her slender waist and start kissing back with equal enthusiasm.   

Thought her tears are still coming out and dripping down on my face, I know that they are the tears of happiness.   

To tell the truth, I have many questions to ask Rebecca about what happened just now and why was she so scared to let me close to her but first… we are going to have some “intimate” reunion.  

*BANG*  

Suddenly, the door of Rebecca’s room opens with a bang, forcing us to separate our lips, and a girl walks in.   

“What are you doing with my sister, bastard!?”  

 

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Chapter 91 – Exorbitant Price

 

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Xiao Ming was the first one to piss Max this much. Max wasn’t a good person. His belief was simple; if someone annoyed him, he would get them back one hundred times worse.

If someone helped him, then he would only thank them and most likely forget about it the next day. That’s how his head works. Not that he was ungrateful; he only knows that if he owed someone, it might come back and bite him in the future.

This will only be the beginning of Max getting Xiao Ming back. Max doesn’t think that this will be enough. And this wasn’t only for him, Layla and Lydia, his women, were also attacked, which made his retaliation several times harsher.

“Sorry for the long wait, everyone! Now, let me show the first item!”

The woman looked apologetically to the crowd, invoking some of their sympathies, especially those horny dogs.

“It’s fine pretty lady! Take your time!”

Max curse the guy who shouted that in his mind.

‘Sh*t! There’s a limit to being a shameless pervert! Are you a virgin?! Why can’t you control yourself? Old man, you’re already so old! Leave that to your grandchild!’

The bald old man was laughing on his seat, disregarding the hateful glares that he received. Some of them were angry for not being the first to say those words, thinking about how lucky the old man was.

Not minding the small commotion, the woman uncovered the cart, showing what look liked an unknown jewel.

The jewel was unpolished and dirty but didn’t seem to be damaged. It was as big as a hand and shined like a diamond.

“This was an unidentified jewel that was originally an inheritance from a big family. Since they currently need a large amount of cash, they are prepared to let this jewel go for a minimum amount of one million!”

The crowd’s eyes’ lit up, hearing that the owner urgently needed money. That would mean they were somewhat desperate, effectively lowering the price of the treasure.

As they looked at each other with understanding on their eyes, knowing precisely what the other was thinking, but one person broke the silence,

“One million!”

A man in a suit shouted. This tiny amount of money seemed to be insignificant to him, not caring about the circumstance behind the exchange. He was prepared to use everything just to get this jewel.

“Two million!”

Another man with a beard from the other side shouted. The same as the first man, he didn’t care about what most people from the crowd were planning. His eyes were only focused on the jewel.

The two of them shot the other a glare then turned back to bid higher, not wanting it to land on someone else’s hands.

“Three million!”

“Four million!”

“Five million!”

The audiences’ plan of keeping the price low wasn’t working because even though they were a lot of them, there were still a considerable number of wealthy individuals in this place.

Some of them were in the jewelry industry and would not waste this opportunity to put their hands on a potential national treasure.

Some people took some pictures to send to their bosses. Phone calls kept ringing everywhere as they became crazy in bidding.

A number of them pooled their money to have a chance of getting it, agreeing to split the jewel up later.

The bid continued to shoot up. No one wanted to give up. Most of the onlookers were starting to think they were crazy.

But it wasn’t that simple. From their years of experience dealing with jewels, they can determine that this one was different than the commonly traded ones.

“40 Million!”

There was a middle-aged man in the crowd that shook in excitement every time a higher bid was being made. His face was completely red as his bright smile never faded. Max figured that he must be the seller that needed the money.

‘Crazy! Crazy people!

‘What are they doing?!’

‘Too expensive! That’s a waste of money!’

Max was initially feeling pretty good that he had a lot of money, but seeing these people splurge money more than double his entire savings, made him feel poor and irrelevant.

Each bid was like a bomb that exploded in his ears. Every explosion made him feel smaller and smaller. In the end, the highest bid reached an outstanding 82 Million!

The man who got it was the first man who shouted for his bid. Right after successfully winning it, the man and the seller from the crowd went out to seal the transaction.

Since then, the man never came back. It seemed that he spent all his available balance in that jewel and not wanting to be in any trouble, went away while being guarded tightly by his security.

Happiness was all over the woman’s face. This was only the first one, and she already sold it for a hefty amount! If this were to continue, she would surely secure that lump of bonus.

‘Little Dou! We have to make our move now! This can’t happen again! I lost a lot of money just by sitting here!’

Max still couldn’t believe it. If he had arrived earlier and didn’t sit here to watch, he could have gotten that expensive jewel.

He felt as if someone stole his money even when it wasn’t his, to begin with. He already treated all the items as his property.

Max didn’t look back and walked straight out. As everyone was busy waiting for the next item, no one bothered to look at him.

He arrived at a small hallway somewhere. There wasn’t anything in it except some paintings on the wall. Since Max went out in the middle of the event, there was no one with him excluding Little Dou.

Max and Little Dou then went on their way. After Little Dou flew in so many directions, turning left and right for a good minute, evading some guards that were stationed in their spots, they reached their destination.

It was a warehouse at the back that has a lot of guards outside. Each of them was carefully checking the items that were being brought in and out of the room.

‘Xiao Ming is inside?’

[Up there!]

 

Little Dou pointed to an elevator that wasn’t operational. But that never stopped Max from using the stairs after avoiding another group of people to head up.

Max wanted to see if he could do something to annoy Xiao Ming, even just a tiny bit. After all, it would give him happiness if Xiao Ming were to be pissed off.

 

 

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