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While Ian was constantly refreshing the shop, gradually, the auction came to its finale.
As the devil fruit was pushed up, Bacala also woke up Ian.
Ian pretended to yawn, looked sleepy, leaned on the chair with his arms outstretched, and looked around at the rich and powerful people participating in the auction.
Obviously, these people are not little interested in the last devil fruit, and while the auctioneer was introducing this devil fruit, they all muttered and discussed in private.
As the upper class of powerful people, although these people are very interested in devil fruits, but don't get me wrong, even if they buy them, they will definitely not eat devil fruits!
The devil fruit has been in this world for many years. Most ordinary people are not aware of the power of the devil fruit, so they are somewhat afraid of the devil fruit. Although they know that eating the devil fruit After the fruit, you will get extraordinary power, but you also firmly believe that there are indescribable devils in the devil fruit. When you eat the devil fruit, the devil will occupy the human body.
This kind of statement is a superstition, but it is widely spread in this world, and as rich people, the most cherished thing is their own life. They would rather believe in these superstitions than try to eat their own bodies Devil fruit.
How can we noble people be like those prostitutes? …
So these people present are more interested in devil fruit because they think it is fun and interesting! And out of collection addiction, or want to use devil fruit as a step to advance, etc.
They dare not eat it themselves, but they can let their subordinates eat it. With people with devil fruit ability as bodyguards, their lives will be more secure.
And it has to be mentioned that as the world's nobles standing at the top, Tianlong people's words and deeds have a great influence on these noble classes, causing many people to want to imitate them and bring devil fruits to slaves to eat. Have fun with this…
Soon, the auctioneer marked the reserve price of this devil fruit, 500 million Baileys!
As soon as the reserve price was called out, some people started to increase the price immediately, but what surprised Ian was that the price increase of these guys was about 100,000 Berries at a time, and occasionally there would be a one-time increase of 200,000 or 300,000. .
Ian asked Bacala a little puzzled, "Are you sure these guys are really rich?"
In his view, for the so-called rich, why do you have to start with a million dollars for a price increase? So much money, are you fucking kidding me
Bacala covered her mouth and chuckled, and said to Ian in a low voice: "You don't understand this. In fact, many rich people and nobles are just superficial. In order to maintain their extravagant living expenses, many people even rely on They live on debt, and most of the rich and nobles are not idiots, but smart. It is impossible for them to spend a lot of money on this kind of thing for fun! Unless there are world noble Tianlong people here, otherwise , you won't see that kind of guy who takes money for money... "
Ian was speechless for a while, patted the suitcase containing the chips at his feet and said, "So, don't I have more money than most people here!?"
"Of course!" Bacala said with a smile, "Just with the bargaining chip you are carrying now, I am afraid that more than 90% of the rich people here do not have as many assets as you!"
Having said that, Baccarat is actually very distressed. Although Tezoro gave Ian 20 billion Baileys without blinking an eye, in fact this is really a huge amount of money. Tezoro This is the amount of heavenly gold that was paid to the Tianlong people! Ian took away his one-year protection fee at once. How could you let Tezoro be willing
This is why Tezoro gave Bacala an order to see if she could get some money back from Ian and the others. This is a typical gambler's psychology. If you lose a lot, you want everything Get some money and come back, even if you know that the other party is not easy to mess with...
Ian nodded, expressing his understanding, so he asked Baccarat again: "What is the general transaction price of a devil fruit like this in your auction house?"
"The base price of superhuman devil fruit is usually 500 million, depending on the ability, the final transaction price is around 800-1000000000, better powerful devil fruit, maybe it can soar to around 1500000000!" Baccarat said: " The base price of the animal series is slightly lower, usually 300 million, and the transaction price is also around 600 to 800 million. Of course, the phantom beast fruit is an exception, but it is very rare. Natural series are also quite rare, the base price is generally starting at 1.5 billion, and the transaction price ranges from 2 billion to 3 billion.”
Ian heard it, then calculated it, and was speechless. If this devil fruit will be photographed for about 1 billion in the end, what will be added to the price increase of 100,000 Baileys like these guys? time to go!
So Ian said to Bacala: "Help me increase the price, add 50 million Baileys!"
Baccarat was not surprised. He did as Ian said and increased the price by 50 million Baileys at once, so the price of this devil fruit immediately rose to 611 million Baileys.
After the auctioneer excitedly quoted the price, all the people present at the auction couldn't help but let out a low cry, and then turned their heads to look in the direction where Bacala and Ian were.
Of course Bacara and the others knew who it was, so they immediately realized that the price was called out by Ian, so they all looked at Ian with surprised eyes.
But Ian sneered at these guys, Nima, did you scare you by adding 50 million at once
Now he really wants to jump up and point at these guys, and say: "I'm not targeting anyone, I just want to say that everyone here is so poor!"
This kind of feeling is actually quite strange, a group of rich and nobles are not as rich as a pirate like myself, this is really no one...
Ian's outcry this time really shocked many people. They whispered to each other and speculated about Ian's possible identity.
However, although a little surprised, these rich and nobles are not intimidated by Ian's price increase. Just like Bacala said, the final transaction price of a superhuman devil fruit is between 8 and 1 billion. , For this kind of price, the people who participated in the auction knew it well in their hearts. They slowly increased the price by hundreds of thousands, just to see if they could get the devil fruit at a lower price. It's just shrewdness based on luck.
Among the people present, there are still some who can actually spend so much money to buy Devil Fruits. Although Ian was surprised that Ian raised it so high at one time, the current price of Devil Fruits is still far below their psychological bottom line, so After being quiet for a while, some people began to increase the price on Ian's quotation one after another.
This time it was slightly higher, and the price increase began to appear people who added 500,000 Baileys at once.
However, Ian frowned and signaled Bacala to add another 50 million Baileys! So all of a sudden, the price of this devil fruit was close to 700 million Baileys.
The presence of such a rhythmic guy as Ian was unexpected by the upper-level people present. Many people felt that Ian seemed to have the mentality that he must win, so they hesitated not to continue bidding.
However, in the end, there were still four people bidding. One was a fat man with a big belly and a cigar in his mouth, and the other was an old man surrounded by beauties. He also wore a crown on his head. He seemed to be the king of some country. The third one is a well-dressed elite with glasses, and the last one is a fat aristocratic woman who looks like a nouveau riche.
These four people bid again one after another, pushing up the price of the devil fruit to 730 million.
"Add 100 million!" Ian looked at the four people with a thoughtful look, but said to Bacala.
It's 830 million. After reaching this price, the devil fruit seems to be close to their psychological bottom line, so the fat man with a big belly immediately withdrew from the price increase.
But among the remaining three, the fat aristocratic woman added another 10 million, the elite also added 10 million, and the guy who looked like a king added 20 million.
"Add another 100 million!" Ian said to Bacala with an inexplicable light in his eyes.
970 million, now, the elite sighed and shook his head, and withdrew from the competition, while the fat woman gritted her teeth and glanced at Ian, and did not continue to follow, only the king-like Guy, hugging the beautiful woman next to him lewdly, with a look of indifference, unexpectedly added 50 million!
The price suddenly exceeded one billion Baileys, which already surpassed the superhuman fruit auctioned by many auction houses. The bidding between Ian and the old king has already attracted the attention of everyone present.
They all wanted to see what kind of price such a not-so-surprising shriveled fruit of the superhuman family would finally be auctioned under the bidding of the two.
"Do you want to add more?" Bacara asked Ian with a nervous look on her face.
And Ian stared at her for a while, then smiled and said: "Plus, why not? As I said, I must get this fruit."
Ever since, under Ian's instructions, Bacala added another 100 million Baileys.
It's 1.12 billion, Ian looked at the king, and sure enough, the king still didn't care, and added another 50 million.
Ian smiled and added another 100 million, 1.27 billion Baileys.
The king seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally added another 30 million, which just brought the fruit to a high price of 1.3 billion. Then he turned his head and looked at Ian provocatively.
"Would you like to add more?" Bacara was a little excited, but still asked Ian for his opinion.
"What do you think!" Ian glared at her, and said, "Of course... no more!"
"Well, ok..." Baccarat responded subconsciously, but immediately came to her senses, looked at Ian in astonishment and said, "No... no more!?"
"Nonsense!" Ian said, "I'm not stupid, 1.3 billion is obviously more than the value of this devil fruit!"
"You, didn't you say that it is inevitable?" Bacala was confused: "You have more than 6 billion chips, and now it's only 1.3 billion, so you won't add any more!?"
Yi An chuckled and said, "Of course I must, but who said I must be bought with money?"
After finishing speaking, Ian slapped the armrest of the chair aggressively, stood up, pointed at the guy who looked like a king, and said with a gloomy expression: "Damn old man! How dare you intercept my things! Nima, don't leave after school!"
The well-dressed upper-class people present at the scene never thought that not only did Ian not continue to increase the price competition in the end, but instead stood up so viciously and threatened the bidders personally, they were all stunned for a while, staring blankly. he!
On the other hand, Ian stared at the old man maliciously, looking him up and down, as if he wanted to remember his appearance firmly.
Huh, Nima, a "caretaker" who pretends to be a dog! How dare you play this trick with me...
Brother told you to spit out too much!