46: Chapter 46 Overwhelming Wealth, Zhao Kuang's Impotent Fury

Zhao Kuang pressed the bid button in his box without hesitation, and with a voice like a broken gong, he roared arrogantly.

"I bid 150 liters of purified water!"

"This little kitten, I, Zhao Kuang of the Iron Blood Alliance, want it!"

Zhao Kuang's voice echoed throughout the entire auction venue through the box's loudspeaker.

Upon hearing the names "Iron Blood Alliance" and "Zhao Kuang", several mid-sized faction leaders who had been itching to bid instantly wilted like eggplants hit by frost, abandoning their plans.

On the outskirts of this core hub in the East China Region, the Iron Blood Alliance was nothing but a pack of unreasonable mad dogs.

Anyone who dared to slight Zhao Kuang at the auction would definitely be blasted into a sieve by his train fleet once they left the hub.

Zhao Kuang thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of intimidating the entire audience with both his reputation and financial power.

He had assumed that his bid of 150 liters of water was enough to make everyone else shrink back in fear.

After all, even for him, the leader of the second-ranked alliance, producing that much purified water at once was equivalent to emptying out the savings of several medium-sized trains.

He looked around smugly, already beginning to fantasize in his mind about how he would vent his bestial desires on this cat-eared girl tonight.

However.

Just as Zhao Kuang was preparing to accept the auctioneer's gavel and enjoy the next second of the crowd's awe-filled gazes.

A crisp, ethereal, yet inexplicably arrogant and mocking girl's voice drifted out from another black-gold VIP box diagonally opposite.

"500 liters of purified water."

"Plus... ten boxes of fresh mutant tomatoes."

The voice was not loud.

But to everyone in the audience, it was like a nuclear bomb detonating in mid-air!

The entire noisy auction hall fell into a deathly silence at that instant.

Everyone looked as if they had been hit by a freezing spell, staring dumbfounded in the direction the voice came from.

Even the experienced auctioneer in the tuxedo on the stage dropped his wooden gavel with a "clatter" onto the floor, his mouth hanging open like an idiot.

500 liters of purified water?!

And... ten boxes of fresh mutant vegetables?!

Where the hell did this god-like tycoon come from?!

In this wasteland world where resources are extremely scarce, even the warehouses of those super alliances couldn't possibly produce such a terrifyingly huge sum of money at once!

Moreover, those were fresh vegetables!

Priceless treasures rich in vitamins and trace life energy, capable of letting people feel a hint of the warmth of the old era in the midst of despair!

"Gulp..."

It was unclear who swallowed a large mouthful of saliva, breaking the deathly silence in the venue.

Subsequently, the entire venue erupted into a clamor loud enough to blow the roof off!

"What did I hear?! 500 liters of water? Ten boxes of tomatoes?!"

"Crazy! Absolutely crazy! Using enough supplies to build a large base just to trade for a useless slave with a shattered core?!"

"This is a true dimensional strike! In the face of absolute wealth, the Iron Blood Alliance is nothing!"

Meanwhile, inside that VIP box where the sky-high price was bid.

Su Chen was lazily leaning on the leather sofa, one hand playing with Chu Qingxue's soft long hair, not even lifting his eyelids.

The shocking bid from earlier naturally came from his chief housekeeper, Su Xiaoxiao, who was by his side.

At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao was adjusting the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, her small face filled with the smugness and arrogance of "I'm rich, and I can do whatever I want."

"Train Master, wasn't my bid just now particularly imposing?" Su Xiaoxiao leaned close to Su Chen as if asking for credit, blinking her large eyes as she asked.

Su Chen chuckled, reached out, and pinched her slightly baby-fat cheeks.

"It's alright, barely befitting our identity as train no. 0099."

"Since we've taken a liking to it, we'll take it in the most brutal way possible. I have no interest in playing games of bidding one or ten at a time with those paupers."

Su Chen's gaze passed through the one-way see-through glass and landed on the cat-eared girl who was still curled up in the cage on the auction stage.

He had clearly seen just now that when the entire audience was staring at this girl with lecherous gazes.

This little wildcat, who had been tortured until covered in wounds and whose ability core had been completely shattered, had, in those blue and yellow heterochromatic eyes...

Although filled with despair, still revealed a heart-palpitating unruliness and a will to die that refused to submit!

That was the kind of look a true assassin would only have when trapped in a desperate situation.

"A useless person with a shattered core?"

Su Chen's lips curled into an arrogant arc.

Possessing the server's only SSS-rank talent [Omni-Modification], he could even instantly reassemble a pile of scrap metal into a top-tier bronze Valkyrie Exoskeleton Armor - Modified.

What was a mere shattered ability core?

As long as she still had a breath left, Su Chen could pull her back from hell and reforge her into a blade of the dark night that belonged only to him!

"Bang!"

Just then, a loud crash of a heavy object smashing glass came from Zhao Kuang's box opposite.

Zhao Kuang's face had turned the color of a pig's liver, the veins on his forehead bulging like earthworms, his entire body trembling violently from extreme anger and humiliation.

He rushed to the box's loudspeaker, glaring at the box where Su Chen was, and let out a roar like a beast, gritting his teeth.

"Friend opposite!"

"I am Zhao Kuang of the Iron Blood Alliance!"

"We're all running in the East China Region; for you to publicly slight me, Zhao, over a useless person with a shattered core, isn't that being a bit too unappreciative?!"

Zhao Kuang's voice was full of naked threats; he tried to use his second-ranked alliance power to force the other party to retreat.

"I'll add another hundred liters! I bid 600 liters of water!"

"I hope my friend can give the Iron Blood Alliance some face and let this little kitten go to me!"

Hearing this seemingly consultative but actually threatening remark from Zhao Kuang.

The entire venue went quiet again, everyone holding their breath, wanting to see how that mysterious tycoon would respond.

After all, in many people's eyes, completely offending a behemoth like the Iron Blood Alliance for a useless slave was an extremely uneconomical thing to do.

However.

What came from Su Chen's box was a scoff filled with extreme disdain and mockery.

"Heh..."

Although this chuckle was not loud, it was like a resounding slap, fiercely striking Zhao Kuang's face.

"Face?"

Su Chen's lazy yet supremely domineering voice, through the loudspeaker, exploded in everyone's ears like the judgment of a god.

"What kind of thing are you to deserve to ask me for face?"

"A bunch of rabble who can't even scratch my train armor, and you dare to spout nonsense here?"

Su Chen's words were like a sharp knife, directly tearing away Zhao Kuang's last shred of dignity, trampling his so-called alliance deterrent power underfoot and grinding it into the dirt.

The survivors at the bottom were shocked to the point of tingling scalps upon hearing this.

Someone actually dared to call the Iron Blood Alliance rabble right in front of Zhao Kuang?!

How much confidence must one have to dare to say such words?!

"Xiaoxiao."

Su Chen ignored Zhao Kuang, who was about to explode on the spot, and just calmly uttered two words.

"Increase the bid."

"Understood! Train Master!"

Su Xiaoxiao excitedly cleared her throat, her crisp voice resounding through the venue again like a heavy hammer, completely shattering all of Zhao Kuang's pride and dignity.

"Our Train Master says that for some paupers who can't even produce this much water, they shouldn't come out to make a fool of themselves."

"We bid... 1000 liters of absolute purified water!"

"Plus twenty boxes of fresh mutant tomatoes!"

"Alliance Leader Zhao, do you still want to follow?"

Silence.

Deathly silence.

1000 liters of water!

Twenty boxes of fresh vegetables!

This number had completely exceeded the cognitive limits of everyone present; this was no longer buying a slave; this was simply smashing people with a mountain of gold!

"Pfft—!"

Zhao Kuang in the opposite box, the moment he heard this number, only felt a surge of blood in his chest, and a mouthful of old blood almost sprayed directly onto the one-way glass.

1000 liters of water?

Even if he pawned Zhao Kuang's own underwear and drained the water tanks of all the Iron Blood Alliance's trains, he couldn't scrape together half of this amount!

How could he still follow?!

In this pure war of wealth crushing, he, Zhao Kuang, the dignified leader of the second-ranked alliance in the East China Region, was defeated thoroughly, defeated like a stray dog!

"Good... very good!"

Zhao Kuang's eyes were bloodshot, like a beast forced into a desperate situation, staring fixedly at Su Chen's box, the thick killing intent almost solidifying.

"I don't care who you are! You had better pray that you hide in this safe zone forever and never go out!"

"Otherwise, I swear, I will definitely make you pay a painful price for today's arrogance!"

After finishing this meaningless harsh threat.

Under the gaze of the survivors in the audience who were holding back laughter, Zhao Kuang, like a clown, kicked open the door of the box with his men and left in a huff, looking dejected.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the auctioneer's gavel sound, which was slightly trembling due to excessive excitement.

This auction, which had shocked the entire core hub, finally came to an end.

Su Chen, with an absolute financial power that made everyone feel despair and suffocation, won the bid for the demi-human cat-eared girl named "Dark Night" without any suspense.

...

After the auction ended.

Under the respectful escort of several fully armed guards from the top-level auction house.

The huge black iron cage containing the cat-eared girl was carefully transported to the VIP docking platform of [abyss roarer].

Su Chen, along with Chu Qingxue, Su Xiaoxiao, and others, had already been waiting here.

When the guards retreated.

Liu Ruyan, draped in that wine-red robe, walked over with a bewitching gait.

As the train's chief medical researcher, she naturally came to check the physical condition of this new "trophy" immediately.

At this moment, the cat-eared girl was curled up in the corner of the cage.

Long-term torture and the backlash from her shattered core had pushed her to the brink of death, making even her breathing extremely weak.

But when she sensed someone approaching.

Those black cat ears suddenly stood up.

She mustered the last bit of her strength and lifted that face, stained with blood but still unable to hide its exquisite beauty.

In those blue and yellow heterochromatic eyes, hatred and a fierce glint, almost tangible, erupted.

"Hiss—!"

She was like a beast that was injured to the extreme but still wanted to protect its last bit of dignity.

Facing the approaching Liu Ruyan, she bared those two sharp, cute little fangs and let out a shrill hiss filled with warning.

It seemed that as long as Liu Ruyan dared to take one more step closer, she would not hesitate to pounce and bite through the other's throat.