Lorraine decided to attend the first auction.
At 9 a.m., vomir tyron, the personnel manager of Morgan chamber of Commerce, visited and brought ten valuable masks decorated with lottery gold.
At first glance, the style of the mask is exactly the same, but the details show unique ingenuity. For example, the decorative pattern, Lorraine got the rose red abstract peony, Carmen's golden rose, and Haina's sea blue Narcissus.
Manager Tyrone and Karen are acquaintances. They often meet at the designer salon.
It is said that when they met for the first time, tyron regarded Karen as a cutting-edge young designer and made a corner digging structure in front of Haite, which once made the scene embarrassing.
He also met Carmen several times, all in the social field. Unfortunately, although he was deeply impressed by Carmen, Carmen didn't remember him very much.
With these two layers of familiarity, tyron naturally indulged a lot when talking.
He said that these masks are nominally souvenirs given by the shelter villa to the participants. Their actual role is to protect privacy and cover their faces when entering the venue like a masked ball.
After a brief exchange of greetings, tyron got up and left. At 9:40, Lorraine and his party, who put on their dress, took a carriage prepared by Morgan chamber of Commerce and driven by sailors, drove into the forest road and headed for the main venue.
Outside the window, the deep jungle swayed backward, and the faint birds often sounded in his ears, creating a wonderful and contradictory sense of expectation in Lorraine's heart.
On the one hand, Lorraine knew that he was participating in a capital event, and the presence of more than 20 families may represent the wealth of the enemy country.
On the other hand, since landing yesterday afternoon, he hardly saw any outsiders. It was like a secret vacation, completely separated from the noise of the world.
What causes this sense of contradiction is the effect of paying attention to privacy deliberately created by the Morgan family.
Specific routes, independent docks, dedicated forest crossing roads, silent light auctions, and the same and different masks delivered before the opening.
Can these things really keep the identity of participants completely confidential? Not really.
Because the participants can't get around the contact with the organizer in any case, and for things in the world, as long as one knows the secret, the secret is no longer a secret.
Can these things make participants feel the security of their identity? In fact, yes.
Even if you know that there are many ways to dig out your identity, those deliberate means will continue to remind participants that their privacy is safe.
Security is a feeling, not a reality. Morgan chamber of commerce is unable to achieve impeccable confidentiality. To some extent, it does not need to do that.
It's like in front of you.
The carriage drove out of the forest road and presented in front of Lorraine a magnificent convoy of about 50 or 60 rivers.
These cars are inlaid with the logo of Morgan chamber of Commerce. They drive out in line from the forest roads, meet on the main road paved with stone slabs, and flow to the final destination. The main venue is a shell like opera house with pure white roof and light yellow main body.
Lorraine watched the traffic coldly.
Along the way, SIG said for the first time: "the third carriage parallel to us is driven by Mr. Roddy, the housekeeper of the Solomon family in Boston. The strength of the Solomon family can't participate in the auction of the shelter villa. With that poor cash flow, they can't even afford the hot auction."
"Mr. President, who do you think they came with?"
Lorraine's mind jumped out of Hamilton for the first time, but he didn't say it. He just pointed to a car behind the side.
"The man driving the car is the nephew of Mr. dukov, director of the associated press of Commerce. I met him at the associated press ball. Dukov chamber of Commerce spans Russia's political and economic circles, and Drake, who realized Miami, is also between his economic strength and his achievements. Why do you think he came here?"
"Russia... Wants to cross the Baltic Sea?"
"Yes, yekaterina the great is ambitious, but Russia still has a long way to go to truly dominate Europe."
"Mr. Yin and yang are strange." Seager flew over with a white eye. "If the competition is not fierce, how can you bring two tons of gold?"
"Who knows?" Lorraine shrugged. "Fury is a beauty that makes the whole world crazy. Two tons of gold may not make her commit to marriage. Moreover, even if she is moved by the dowry, the process of marriage may not be smooth..."
The carriage drove into the square along the traffic flow and stopped in an empty place under the guidance of the attendant.
Edley jumped off the shaft and opened the door. Lorraine met sig in the first carriage. Carmen, Sharon and Hannah got off the second carriage. On the third carriage were Yuexia brother GUI's group of four, LEV, Karen, Harry and Ryan.
The square was filled with the elegance of masquerade ball. Except for the drivers, everyone supported a short Ivory grip and put up a beautiful painted mask to cover half of his face.
A waiter came up to ask Lorraine's number. Ed Lei greeted him and handed out a number plate depicting [XVII]. Instead of answering, the waiter crossed ed ed Lei and bowed to Lorraine and others. As soon as he turned around, he guided the people to the door.
Everyone's goal is the towering gate with smooth lines. The gate is five or six meters high. Through the gate is a golden hall with a height of more than ten meters.
The scenery of the hall is only seen in Luolin's life. The gold inlaid wall, the gilded ground and the discernible marble ground reflect the huge chandeliers filled with crystals.
There are seven chandeliers in total, which are divided into three columns. They are hung high in the surrounding of the dome and air window. Each has a diameter of more than five meters and emits dim light like a cluster of stars in the sun.
In addition to the chandelier, the only decoration left in the hall is the 30 doors side by side like a honeycomb, as well as the trailing spiral staircase connecting the hall with the door.
Each of the green decorated red copper carved spiral ladders corresponds to three doors, randomly connecting any one of the three floors, which looks dazzling and creates the illusion of a creeper wall, as if the whole wall is covered with stairs, and the dense arch lacking aesthetic feeling is mixed in the middle, but it becomes less eye-catching.
"Very attentive design..." Lorraine sighed.
"Indeed." Carmen smiled and nodded, "the elements used look stiff, but this hall should also have the function of banquet. When the curtain, colored silk, curtain, stage and candle light are added, of course, music can't be less, and the whole will become much softer."
Lorraine didn't expect Carmen to think so much and asked curiously, "is there any inspiration?"
Carmen doesn't deny it. She said: "in terms of Drake's scale, it's time to consider a special banquet hall. I'm mainly hesitant about the location. London and New York are prosperous enough, but not private enough. Santa Diana and Miami are private enough, but we're not a small chamber of Commerce like Morgan. They lack too much in prosperity."
After leading the group up the stairs, Lorraine laughed at the entrance to the box corridor.
"Choose Miami, the town we built, and believe in her future."
"OK."