Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 439: Bid

Huo Yi, on his way back, couldn’t help but say to Lin Yue, "Master, senior brother has chopped off someone’s hand."

Lin Yue, with her swollen belly, was tending to the flowers she had planted in the garden.

"Were you scared?" she asked.

Both Huo Yi and Eileen shook their heads, with the latter handing over a box of elixirs to Lin Yue, "Master, these are from senior brother."

"Keep them for yourself," Lin Yue shook her head.

Eileen’s eyes lit up, "Master, can I give the elixir to my family?"

Lin Yue smiled slightly, "It is a gift from your senior brother, yours to do with as you please."

Though Huo Yi didn’t understand the value of the elixirs, since her fellow disciple wanted to give them to her family, she added, "Then I’ll give them to my grandfather as well."

"Help master trim these flowers," Lin Yue gestured her two disciples over to assist.

On the other side, while dealing with a corpse, Zhan Shijie heard the irritated voice of his master’s wife, Lin Yue, in his mind, "Next time, spare the children!"

Zhan Shijie shuddered, then bowed in the direction of the Gu Mansion, "Master’s wife, I will be careful next time."

He certainly knew that what happened in Shencheng City couldn’t be hidden from the master’s wife.

That’s why he had claimed that had the cultivator succeeded just now, he would have found it impossible to explain himself to the master’s wife.

Lin Yue, now at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, had a Divine Sense that could cover the entire Shencheng City, essentially in sync with Gu Feng’s capabilities back at his peak—able to cover a city of a thousand square kilometers!

Had Zhan Shijie not taken action just then, the assailant would not have been able to harm the two disciples.

But Lin Yue would have definitely held Zhan Shijie accountable.

Zhan Shijie also knew that he should have shielded the younger sisters from the gruesome sight of the severed arm, but the situation had been too urgent as the assailant’s claw skill had already targeted the junior sisters; he had no choice but to sever the assailant’s arm with his flying sword.

After a long wait without hearing the master’s wife’s voice again, Zhan Shijie finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He swiftly cleaned up the corpse, then called the upper echelons of the Shencheng City police department.

Since every street was under surveillance, to avoid unnecessary trouble, he asked them to handle the surveillance footage.

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Elsewhere.

Cosmic Transmission’s headquarters building.

In the business meeting room.

Accompanied by the manager of the investment department, Jack Ma personally met with representatives from 16 construction companies.

These construction companies were the elite of global family-owned enterprises.

They did not undertake Earth’s infrastructure projects, only those of star systems on other planets.

Moreover, they were all directly controlled by the families.

They were here to bid for the palace construction project on the main planet of the star system where Yu Zecheng was located.

From materials to all construction costs, they were to be provided by the contractor, while the other party, Lord Yu, only promised to give a small spirit stone mine development permission.

This was the first time a Star System Lord had opened up a spirit stone mine development qualification.

It immediately attracted top-tier families from around the globe for the bidding.

To date, spirit stones remained a scarce resource for cultivation practices.

Currently, the channel for obtaining spirit stones was still limited; apart from working in mines in outer space for two major star systems and receiving a set number of spirit stones per month, most of the spirit stones had to be acquired through points in the arena.

Although reserves were gradually increasing, they were still far from sufficient for the number of cultivators on Earth.

Take one of the eight great families of Europe for comparison, their family has ten Foundation Establishment cultivators working on other planets, bringing back 3,000 spirit stones to their family each month.

After deducting their daily consumption, that’s 300 stones a month for ten people.

The remaining 2,700 stones were for three, or even four generations of their family, roughly amounting to around forty or fifty people.

This still doesn’t take into account the enormous systems like the Royal Family.

If they also ensured that each of these descendants had a full supply of 30 spirit stones per month, then 3000 spirit stones wouldn’t be enough for one family to consume.

At the end of each month, there really isn’t any surplus left over. What are you going to use to exchange and purchase other magical treasure materials from other families?

Now, many top families are no longer using Earth currency for resource exchanges.

Gradually, they’re all using spirit stones.

So, it can be said that no family on Earth has enough demand for spirit stones.

At this time, Yu Zecheng used a spirit stone mine as payment for the construction costs of the main star palace, essentially allowing the Earth team only to need to spend Earth’s wealth and resources to exchange for spirit stones.

This made the major families on Earth restless, and they crazily came over to bid as soon as possible.

Jack Ma reviewed the various construction materials and prices presented by the bidders on-site.

Beside him was a materials commerce association advising Jack Ma.

They needed to ensure the evaluation and comparison of the materials used by each family, the main building design, the construction period, and the cost of the entire project.

Yu Zecheng didn’t care about these details and left Jack Ma to handle it for him.

Sixteen representatives at the scene came from different families.

Some were even collaborations of three, or four or five families coming together to bid.

Because the construction cost of the entire palace was not cheap.

They needed the best materials and had to deploy cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage for labor, making the cost particularly high.

None of the sixteen reports on the table had a total material cost of less than 50 billion US dollars!

This wasn’t something that just any family could easily afford.

Thus, the representatives of the major families bidding this time actually had the support of mid and downstream families who were seeking to expand and strengthen through alliances.

Such a rare spirit stone mine was something everyone wanted to take a chance on!

They had all mined for other Star System Lords before.

They knew how much a small spirit stone mine could produce, at least around a hundred tons of spirit stones.

Assuming one spirit stone weighed about half a kilogram, if they could secure this mine, they could at least mine 200,000 spirit stones!

Then, divided among the families, each could calmly get tens of thousands of pieces.

This would ensure the supply for the family’s consumption for a year or two.

If converted into Earth currency, this small spirit stone mine would be worth at least 4 trillion RMB!

That was ten times their investment of several tens of billions of US dollars!

Jack Ma glanced over the main design concepts for the palaces and couldn’t help admiring everyone’s creativity for coming up with a Chinese-style theme.

It seemed that these families had also invested a lot of effort behind the scenes for this project.

Moreover, the various steel materials they selected for construction were all top-tier, aerospace-grade with anti-corrosion and heat-resistant properties.

Overall, in terms of materials, everyone was more or less on the same level; there were just some differences in design philosophy.

Besides that, Jack Ma needed to make comparisons based on the construction period.

"Alright, I’ve seen more or less everything. I’ll show it to Lord Yu and ask which one he will choose, then I’ll notify you," he said.

After concluding the entire bidding meeting, Jack Ma left to see Yu Zecheng.

After Yu Zecheng picked a proposal, the winning Singapore consortium immediately transferred 2 billion US dollars into Jack Ma’s account.

"This is a small token of appreciation for President Ma. We welcome President Ma to visit Singapore anytime."

Jack Ma happily accepted the money and instructed, "Get ready with all the construction materials and the team. I will send you there."

The other party replied, "Yes, President Ma, we will prepare immediately."