Reborn As Super Heir Chapter 1921 - 1824: Worthless Like Chicken Ribs

Chapter 1921: Chapter 1824: Worthless Like Chicken Ribs

Now that they had secured the right of first refusal, everyone’s attention naturally shifted to those two finale Beast Heads.

Everyone knew this was only the first step; this underground auction was open to the whole world.

You had to understand, the items on the Philadelphia Black Market basically all ca from the casinos in Las Vegas, and once sothing had been appraised by the casino’s Appraisers, there were rarely any misjudgnts.

After all, these were the objects used to exchange gamblers’ chips; if they weren’t sure about an item, those Appraisers wouldn’t even accept it.

So the items on the Philadelphia Black Market were ninety??nine percent guaranteed authentic.

Precisely because of this, the Philadelphia Black Market drew people like moths to a fla; even oil princes from the Middle East would travel all this way just to bid.

On top of that, the twelve zodiac animal heads were world??famous; they weren’t only loved by Huaxia people. So once these two pieces appeared at the auction, Huo Sining could already imagine just how insane the scene would be.

"I figure this auction is going to be an unprecedented bloodbath. All sorts of big shots are going to show up. Even if we have the right of first refusal, we’ll still have to pay dearly in the end if we want to take this pair of Beast Heads back."

Huo Sining let out a sigh and said.

Hearing this, Su Qingqing was stunned at first, then suddenly understood. "Ningning, you an there’ll be a lot of collectors fighting over these two Beast Heads, and the final sale price will be many tis higher than market value?"

Huo Sining didn’t speak. Beside her, Gu Xu let out a cold laugh. "Even if there aren’t that many people fighting, with the Rothschild Family’s style, there’s no way they’ll sit on their hands. This ti Semiya took a huge loss at my wife’s hands, lost nearly a hundred million US dollars not to ntion so many fine antiques. There is no way that Clayflo is just going to swallow that in silence; he’ll definitely try to get his face back in the upcoming auction."

Yue Shuwen frowned tightly. "You an he’ll plant shills to jack up the price of the Beast Heads, force Ningning to spit out all the money she won in the last two days?"

Li Jun’s heart also sank. He shook his head. "I’m afraid it won’t just be a matter of spitting it out. We might end up paying back several tis, even more than ten tis that amount."

Yue Shuwen shot to her feet. "More than ten tis? That’s vicious! Anyone with eyes can see what’s going on; Clayflo wouldn’t go that far, would he?"

But Gu Xu agreed with Li Jun. "Why not? It’s all right there in the open. We want those items, and if Clayflo doesn’t make money off us, he’d be a fool. Besides, he can always say if we think the price is too high, we don’t have to buy. But would we not buy? We can’t. He’s obviously betting on that, has been waiting here all along. This so??called right of first refusal is basically a chicken rib—can’t do without it, but once you have it, it’s a hot potato in your hand."

As soon as Su Qingqing heard this, her face went ashen, humiliated and stifled. "So we can only let him slaughter us? Then what was the point of scheming so hard to get this right of first refusal?"

Huo Sining shook her head and smiled. "It’s not completely useless. At least it gives us a safety net. After the bidding ends, we’ll have three days to figure out how to raise the money. That gives us more ti and more options to maneuver, to make sure we can actually secure those two Beast Heads in the end."

Su Qingqing was not very convinced. "But if we have to pay more than ten tis the market price for these two items, are we really going to bring them back at any cost? If we do that, aren’t we walking right into Clayflo’s trap?"

Huo Sining looked at Su Qingqing. "So what if we are? Reuniting the twelve zodiac animal heads has always been our country’s wish; it carries the hopes of all our people. Now two of them have finally surfaced again—are we supposed to just give up? Don’t just ask . Ask my master, ask Old Man Qin Lianshan, ask Director Huang, or ask your own master. See if they’re willing to give up this rare opportunity and let these two Beast Heads fall into other people’s, other countries’ hands."

Collectors in Huaxia Country were the most helpless, most stifled collectors in the world, because antique lovers everywhere might own authentic Huaxia Country treasures, yet for dostic collectors in Huaxia Country, every single masterpiece was hard??won, often out of reach.

On the rare occasion they ca across sothing good, it was usually at a foreign auction. To bring one or two pieces back, they had to pour out mountains of hard??earned money—and those pieces were exactly the items that had been looted from Huaxia Country in the first place.

So people said that to be a collector in Huaxia Country, you had to have an extraordinarily strong heart and superhuman tolerance, or else you’d die of rage sooner or later.

Maybe this kind of feeling could only be truly understood when you were standing on foreign soil. It was especially strong for Huo Sining now, standing in the Philadelphia Black Market Building, seeing with her own eyes those exquisite cultural relics laid out in the glass display cases.

These items ought to have been resting safely in the collection rooms of Huaxia Country, but for various obscure reasons they had drifted overseas. These antiques and artifacts wandering abroad were like scattered fragnts of Huaxia people’s souls; if those souls weren’t all brought ho, how could the flesh??and??blood body of the entire Huaxia Nation ever be made whole?

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