Published: February 9, 2025
Just as the fervor from the record-setting transaction price of 5.8 million was still in the air, the final auction item of this bidding event appeared.
Many people were actually here specifically for these three key items.
"First, let me introduce these three auction items. The first item, which you may have heard some news about, is... the Jingjue Floating Sphere."
There was some reaction from the audience, but it wasn't too strong, likely because they were already aware that this item would appear.
"I won't go into the specifics; the commanders here should know better than I do. This Jingjue Floating Sphere is a level two intensity sphere, with good performance, and the starting price is 300,000 grade 3 magic crystals. After five minutes of consideration, please write down your bids and hand them to our staff if you're interested."
This was the first time Ye Zhongming had heard about the Jingjue Floating Sphere, and he turned to Wen Chong to ask what it was.
"It's a kind of high-tech product with many functions," Wen Chong whispered, explaining the role of the Jingjue Floating Sphere to Ye Zhongming, whose eyes lit up with interest.
This product was a combination of Earth technology and roulette products, originally designed by a very famous university during peacetime. As the items produced by the roulette became increasingly advanced, the craftsmen, alchemists, and smelters evolved, and this originally overlooked design was inadvertently discovered and manufactured, leading to the creation of the Jingjue Floating Sphere, known as one of the three major weapons of the Resistance Zone.
The other two items were the Rong Clan Holy Armor and the Mechanical Fortress.
The Jingjue Floating Sphere is a medium-sized flying vehicle mainly operating below 1,000 meters in the air. It integrates reconnaissance, measurement, attack, and lightweight transportation, making it a high-tech equipment.
Moreover, due to the incorporation of roulette technology, this Jingjue Floating Sphere possesses excellent concealment features, making it difficult for the flying mutated creatures that have already occupied the Earth's skies to detect it, greatly increasing its practicality. It has now become something that various war zones desperately want to acquire in large quantities.
However, this Jingjue Floating Sphere's research team is located at the Summit Pass Base, supported by the four major exhibition zones, which are highly guarded against each other. This is why they opted for an auction format, with half of the proceeds going to the research team for their expenses.
Due to time constraints, Wen Chong didn't provide too many details, but the functions revealed were enough for Ye Zhongming to decide to participate in the bidding.
With this item, it would be akin to having an extra pair of eyes and could compensate for the lack of aerial power at Cloud Summit Villa.
Initially, Ye Zhongming had planned to cultivate flying battle beasts to fill this gap. This time, Xia Bai's team had over a hundred battle beast cubs with flying capabilities, but that ultimately required time to train, making it much faster to directly purchase a Jingjue Floating Sphere now.
"What was the selling price of this item before?"
Ye Zhongming knew he couldn't just guess the bidding price; the starting price was merely a reference. He needed to know the previous value of this item to gauge possible bids from other Resistance Zones.
Wen Chong hesitated, noticing that Ye Zhongming was very interested in the Jingjue Floating Sphere, but he also wanted it. Once Ye Zhongming got involved, this newly elevated wealthy young man would become a direct competitor, and T Zone might very well lose in the auction.
However, considering future cooperation between them, Commander Wen eventually told Ye Zhongming that all four major Resistance Zones had purchased this equipment before, but the amounts varied. When converted to grade 3 magic crystals, it was approximately between 500,000 and 600,000.