Chapter 170: The Auction Begins
The next day, from 9 a.m., coin collectors from all over Japan arrived at the hotel venue, and Wu Liang, who had not slept all night, stared at the booth with bloodshot eyes on the gold coins.
After seeing off a few guests from Sotheby's auction house last night, Wu Liang had planned to order a seafood fried rice pad to pad his stomach, but he smelled a faint almond smell in the dark beer that came with the set, which was difficult to detect if he didn't have a keen sense of smell, which was covered by a strong malt smell.
Someone actually took the trouble to put cyanide on himself in beer, and the means were quite insidious!
Turning off the lights in the room, leaving only the one on the head of the bed, and then the chair still fell on the floor of the living room, making a loud noise, Wu Liang sat in the shadows of the living room and waited quietly for the fish to bite the hook.
The fiercest hug is used to break the enemy's ribs! Kindness! Looks like a godfather!
About twenty minutes passed, and there was a knock on the door of the room: "Sir! Room service! ”
Wu Liang sat quietly on the sofa and didn't make a sound, just looked at the door in the dark.
knocked on the door three times in a row, and the guy outside pretending to be room service seemed to be sure that Wu Liang had been tricked, and used a special lockpicking tool to pry open the door of the room. Two adult men dressed in waiter uniforms slipped into Wu Liang's room.
"The hands and feet are sharp, and the target is a brown suitcase, which is quite large and heavy, and should be very conspicuous."
"Got it, big brother!"
The rummaging operation of the two people did not stop until one of them crashed into the food truck, and the lid of the plate covering the fried rice fell to the ground, and the man looked close to his face and exclaimed, "Big brother! Oh no! That guy didn't get hit at all! ”
"Impossible! The taste of cyanide is very light, and with the super malty dark beer, ordinary people can't smell it at all! ”
"Both! Don't say it's impossible, nothing is impossible, as long as I'm not an ordinary person who smells this smell, I can say it's over, isn't it? Wu Liang suddenly turned on the lamp in the living room, raised his hand and pointed a gun at two guys whose faces were full of panic.
After seeing the intruder's face clearly, Wu Liang found that he had just seen these two faces dozens of hours ago: "Roar, roar, roar!" See who I found? Isn't this the bad driver of the Watanabe family who loves to talk to the maid and the thirteen-point housekeeper who loves to gossip? ”
"How do you know ......?"
"Shut up! Mr. Watanabe should have been able to kill him! ”
"Roar! The butler guessed right! However, you two are not good birds to think of poisoning the drink, so guess what I'm going to do next? ”
"You don't dare to do anything here, because you don't have a chance to dispose of the corpses, so you'd better let us go! Otherwise, we just need to shout that none of us can run! Watanabe Takuya's butler still threatened Wu Liang at gunpoint, trying to buy the two of them some time.
It's a pity that when Wu Liang recognized these two people, the ending had already been decided, and the housekeeper's words did not affect Wu Liang's next move in the slightest.
"Poof! Burst! The two shots hit the driver and the butler in the eyebrows, and the bullet penetrated a layer of skull and rolled in the brain, which was no longer enough to penetrate the back of the skull, and only a little blood flowed out. After the two of them stopped breathing completely, Wu Liang used the linen carpet in the living room to roll up the bodies of the two people and throw them into the storage space. He went out and brought back a bottle of bleach and a large rag from the room service car, carefully cleaned up the blood splattered in the room, and then threw the rag and the bleach stained with his own fingerprints into the space, so that even if the police sprayed the whole room with luminol (a chemical agent that can react with blood, even if the blood stains are wiped clean, but this reagent will have a similar reaction when it comes to bleach). Don't try to find out anything that works.
After doing all this, it was close to three o'clock in the morning, and the adrenaline secreted in his body made Wu Liang lie in bed and be excited until dawn.
Not sleeping all night made Wu Liang's eyes bloodshot, but the upcoming big scene made him excited.
At half past six in the morning, dragging the familiar big suitcase appeared in the cafeteria again, in case someone was planning to poison their food again, this time Wu Liang followed behind a newlywed couple, watching what they ate and then putting it on their plates.
After breakfast (which can also be called a late supper), Wu Liang began to put boxes in the booth, and the protagonist of today's auction ---- a lot of valuable golden money!
At 10 a.m., the auction officially opened, and began with a start-up session from Sotheby's Japan branch, Christie Brown. Manager Hefner gave an opening speech on behalf of Wu Liang, this kind of work is better to let professionals do it, Wu Liang doesn't want to be too showy in the news media, being exposed by the media and even being targeted by the paparazzi is a very fatal thing for Wu Liang, who often makes some shady deals.
After the opening remarks, appraiser Peter Murphy Wilson briefed the guests about the two gold coins that appeared at the backstab auction, read out the certificate signed by him, and showed it to the public. After the guests had passed the circular, the auctioneer Sam. Baker stood in front of the auction table and tapped the hammer twice to announce the official opening of the auction.
"At the request of the owner of the item, this auction will adopt the method of group auction, and the gold coins will be divided into groups of 50 according to their type and condition, if you all understand, then we will start the bidding of the first group of lots today." Sam. Baker Langsheng read out the auction method adopted for this auction, and then motioned to the concierge to bring out the gift box numbered one from the platform, and showed the appearance of the fifty gold coins one by one to the camera, and a close-up picture of each gold coin was played on a projection screen behind him.
"Today's first lot is a gold louis coin from France, in medium to upper color, with a slightly scratched appearance but a clearly recognizable figure, with a starting bid of $120,000 and a minimum of $1,000 per bid, and bidding is now open!"
"One hundred and twenty-two thousand!" Mr. Nishikujo, a coin collector from Kyushu, was the first to make a bid, bidding 122,000.
"Twelve hundred and fifty thousand!" Mr. Takeda of Tokyo Hyundai Exhibition Center bid 125,000, is there a higher offer? The value retention of these coins is very high!
"One hundred and thirty thousand!" Oh! Today's first female collector, Reika Minamoto, made an offer of $130,000.