Chapter 437: Get Away, Understand? (1)
The second auction was different from the first, or rather, the opposite. The items up for auction were all from the shadows: arms, drugs, human trafficking—anything that could be sold in the underworld could be found here. Of course, the items up for auction here weren’t the kind that just any underworld figure could afford.
The auction rules for the second session were the same as the first, with cash transactions only, and all starting bids were above one million US Dollars. However, the auctioneer had been switched out for an even more seductive young lady, whose flirtatious glances elicited countless howls from the audience.
"...The second auction now begins. Our first item up for bid is a batch of military weapons decommissioned by Country M’s army six months ago, including handguns, submachine guns, rifles, sniper rifles... The opening bid is eight million US Dollars, and each raise must be no less than two hundred thousand US Dollars..."
Qin Jiran listened to the introduction on stage and then glanced at Su Yanyi and the many members of the Dark One team, all displaying expressions of cool indifference. Suddenly, he felt that reality was more fantastical than making movies.
Arms were always the underworld’s favorite commodities. This batch of weapons quickly rose to sixteen million US Dollars—double the starting bid—and was still climbing, illustrating their popularity.
"Aren’t you interested in this?" Qin Jiran asked, looking at Su Yanyi’s aloof demeanor and feeling puzzled. He thought that the Su family, being part of the underworld forces, would naturally need these things. And those up for auction seemed like excellent items for a shooter, so why wasn’t Yanyi showing any intention to buy? Could it be that they had their own procurement channels?
In his mind, images of smuggling, arms tycoons, and international arms organizations swirled—activities that would make for an interesting film.