Chapter 335

"Holy crap."

"Are all these people just shrewd as hell?"

Chen Yang was utterly speechless.

According to the tropes of novels, shouldn't this auction be the usual time for showing off and slapping faces?

But instead, what happened was…

They came over and knelt to lick your boots? And a bunch of bigshots personally came to kneel and lick your boots?

Sure enough.

Everything in novels is a lie.

In reality, where do you find so many idiots delivering themselves to your door to get their faces slapped? Especially for the higher-level powerhouses — they're even more cautious in how they conduct themselves; otherwise, in a place like the Southeast Asian region, they wouldn't have survived this long!

And for these bigshots.

To be on good terms with Xia Country, they only need to pay out a tiny bit of benefit.

This bit of benefit, while they wouldn't completely ignore it, wouldn't affect them much either; what they get in return is a more stable and secure future.

This is their way of getting through the world!

And the auction that followed.

Left Chen Yang even more speechless.

Originally.

Chen Yang had exchanged 100 Shi Shi-grade elemental essences with the officials, coming here intending to bid on those two items.

But…

After the auction began, Chen Yang noticed that every time Isabella placed a bid, people from other countries at the auction almost never bid; only a scattered few Xia Country powerhouses followed the bidding a couple of times before quickly giving up.

"Huh?"

"This fire-attribute legendary equipment was actually won for just 7 elemental essences?"

"This thing usually goes for at least 20 elemental essences!"

"And also…"

"This storage ring of 5,300 cubic meters, and it only cost 24 elemental essences?"

For this item, Chen Yang had originally planned to have the Xia Country officials back him up.

100 elemental essences might not be enough!

But…

The smoothness of this auction completely exceeded his imagination!

And by this point.

Yue Hongyuan, how could she still not understand what had happened in the Southeast Asian region?

Obviously, it was the bigshots of the Southeast Asian region collectively showing goodwill toward the Xia Country officials!

"It seems that mysterious genius's deterrent power is far stronger than we imagined."

Yue Hongyuan couldn't help but sigh.

Although Isabella was right beside her, she didn't dare directly say "you," instead referring to her as "that mysterious genius," to avoid letting people know that Isabella was that genius.

"Looks like the people here are pretty smart~"

Isabella was also a bit surprised.

Of course.

The "here" she referred to was Blue Star!

Yue Hongyuan naturally didn't know, and thought Isabella was talking about the Southeast Asian region.

"This is their way of survival…"

Yue Hongyuan said helplessly.

After this.

No matter what Chen Yang thought, in any case, he wouldn't harbor any ill will toward the Southeast Asian region.

At least, in the future, if he wanted to rob the Magic Crystal Bank or something, it definitely wouldn't be in the Southeast Asian region!

Although the other party didn't know that Chen Yang had personally come here this time.

But, in this kind of situation, being on good terms with the Xia Country officials brought absolutely no harm!

"This feels way too good…"

Not long after.

Chen Yang obtained the two items he wanted; besides that, he also bid very low prices on two quite nice origin skill books — a pleasant surprise from this trip to the Southeast Asian region!

……

(One more shot of the school beauty~)