The Strong Beauty is a Goddess in Showbiz: Chapter 437 The other half of the map
When Hong Ye and others saw this, they had no choice but to get up and leave the darkroom.
When passing by Ke Lu and others, he angrily dropped a sentence: "You have no idea what you are missing!"
Ke Lu didn’t even give him a look.
After the group of people left, she asked her subordinates in the room to retreat, and there were only four of them left in the room.
Ke Lu: "This is a group of stowaways who have connections with foreign countries. The leader, Mr. Hong, has been traveling around for many years. He has mastered many secrets and has good methods. These people usually use any means to achieve their goals."
“Then let them have no choice but to resort to any means.”
Shen Xi shrugged his shoulders and spoke indifferently.
Hearing this, Ke Lu looked over: "What do you think, Mr. Shen?"
Shen Xi proudly raised his chin at Qi Wu and Jin Si: "Since these people are stowaways, they will not come to Hong Kong empty-handed. You tell me, if we report them, they are likely to carry national treasure-level antiques cough cough .”
He did not say the rest, but the meaning was self-evident.
Jin Si was silent for a second and gave a rare thumbs up to Shen Xi.
“You will also think of this method sometimes.”
This recruitment is painless. Even if the stowaways cannot be captured and imprisoned directly, the auction is coming soon, so it is enough to create some trouble for them.
Ke Lu thought for a few seconds.
“This method is indeed possible, but they have a lot of connections, and I’m afraid they also have people above them.”
Shen Xi chuckled and looked at Jin Si: "It's up to you to take action."
As the security department behind the country, most of what the Secret Service deals with are confidential matters that are secret and inconvenient to be disclosed to the public.
The secret department takes action, even if there are people above them, they can only hold back.
Jin Si was noncommittal and just nodded lightly.
Seeing this, Ke Lu said nothing more.
On the night of the auction, as Shen Xi said, Mr. Hong and others were entangled in trouble and were unable to arrive at the scene in person, so they had to send a subordinate over.
But how could a mere subordinate have ever played with them?
The black market auction in Hong Kong City is established underground, in a circular underground space, surrounded by dark grid-like rooms of the same size. The auction table is on the circular platform at the bottom.
No one participating in the black market auction will show up and will participate in the bidding in the room throughout the process.
Ke Lu ordered the people of the Sanzhu Group to stay outside and be alert to the surroundings, and then walked in with Qi Wu and others.
“Most of the identities in the other rooms are unknown, but what is certain is that Mr. Hong did not come in person.”
“Then it’ll be okay.”
Shen Xi chuckled lightly.
Money, based on the wealth of the Xi family and the Shen family, they had it.
The situation is great. Now that the leader of the Sanzhu Group is on their side, what else do they have to worry about?
“I’m afraid this half of the map also came from the hands of some stowaways.”
Jin Si narrowed his eyes and glanced at the dark grid-like windows in the underground space calmly, then withdrew his gaze.
Shen Xi nodded in agreement: "When the lost ancient country comes out, it will naturally attract a lot of stowaways. We just stumbled upon it that time."
Although the Secret Department has been paying attention to this lost ancient country, compared to the unscrupulous methods of those desperadoes, the Secret Department has always observed and evaluated before taking the next step.
Hence, by the time they are ready to officially dig into this line, the stowaways may have already succeeded.
Two men were discussing this matter, and Qi Wu had already pulled Ke Lu aside to talk about things in Kyoto.
“Xu Xu went to study abroad, and Yi Ran is waiting for her to come back. Jia Yan is still playing games, and Tan Song and Tong Luo are still active in their own stages.”
Ke Lu had a flash of memory in her eyes.
She quickly smiled: "You are doing well, that's enough."
"And you?"
Qi Wu tilted his head and asked her.
"Me?" Ke Lu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "What do I have to ask? This kind of thing is too complicated to talk about."
Furthermore, she didn’t want Qi Wu to be involved in this aspect.
"That's not what I meant." Qi Wu shook his head and looked at her seriously, "Are you happy?"
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The smile on Ke Lu's lips gradually faded.
She remained silent for a long time, until Qi Wu came over to look at her expression, and she regained consciousness and leaned back a little.
"I'm not bad either." She avoided Qi Wu's gaze, "Father has always valued me and protected me, and my subordinates also respect me."
Qi Wu did not come closer and said softly: "You know that's not what I meant."
"Yeah." Ke Lu nodded and looked back, "At least, I'm happy these days."
Qi Wu couldn’t help but smile: “That’s enough.”
Ke Lu gradually relaxed physically and mentally.
Looking at her smile, she said: "I will help you achieve your goal."
The auction will begin soon.
The auctioneer in a tuxedo stood on a round platform holding an auction hammer, and four screens fell in all directions, showing half of the map.
The map is old and incomplete, and many places cannot even be seen clearly, but it still attracted the attention of many photographers in the venue.
There are many people here tonight specifically for this half of the map.
“The starting price is one million US dollars!”
“One million and one hundred thousand!”
"1.2 million!"
“One million and three hundred thousand!”
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As the auctioneer's voice became more enthusiastic, the value of this half of the map gradually increased to three million.
“It’s just half a map that I don’t know whether it’s true or not. Just for those false rumors, these people are working so hard?”
Shen Xi muttered.
The original starting price of one million US dollars has already raised the value of this half of the map, and the participation of these people has made it attract everyone to flock to it.
Jin Si shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "It's just a cushion."
As the auction prices get higher and higher, the lights in many dark rooms have been dimmed, leaving only a few rooms still participating in the bidding.
Shen Xi and Jin Si finally took action.
“Four million dollars!”
“Four.1 million dollars!”
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In the end, only one family was left to bid with them. The two looked at each other and decided in their hearts that the people still bidding with them were the people sent by Lord Hong.
But he is just a subordinate. When he reaches the limit, he should hesitate.
So when the price of the map was raised to five million US dollars, the subordinate sent by Mr. Hong hesitated.
Just for a moment of hesitation, half of the map was photographed by Shen Xi and Jin Si.
When the auctioneer struck the hammer, Jin Si turned around and walked back without hesitation.
Qi Wu noticed his gaze and stood up.
Jin Si came to her side, raised his hand and caressed her cheek, and glanced at Ke Lu behind him from the corner of his eye: "We are leaving now."
"Um."
They had already planned this. In order to prevent the group of stowaways from reacting and more people coveting the map to detect them, they had to leave after getting the map.