Lorraine felt trapped.
Since boarding the outer juster Island, you can't see what you want to see clearly, you can't hear what you want to hear, and the disappeared enemy is missing, even your allies can't find it.
Those normal scenes became more and more abnormal, but Lorraine stretched out his hand, but he didn't know where to catch the pulsating vein.
Powerlessness
Until Fury's design decided to belong, Lorraine knew that this sense of powerlessness would always exist.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the theme of the auction of asylum villa was crafts, and Lorraine did not send anyone to participate. The theme of the night was works of art, including oil paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and music scores. It was Carmen's favorite collection hobby and Drake's favorite stepping stone when tackling major problems.
Lorraine still didn't attend this one. Carmen and his team won 6 of the 22 auctions with 47000 pounds a night and became a well deserved superstar that night.
On the other hand, Harry and Ryan, who got in touch with each other, were once again sent out by sigsa. It took half a night to basically find out the background of most bidders.
Judging from the auction of the design of the fury, including Lorraine, it is known that agents from Britain, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Denmark and the United States attended, including Lorraine's long prepared Russian dukov chamber of Commerce and the Solomon chamber of commerce with the U.S. interim Treasury standing behind it.
Among them, there are two people with the same financial resources as Drake. One is Lorraine's old friend dukov, and the other is the Portuguese Baron bartolomio, the Brazilian planter who loves beach BBQ, which sig mentioned.
Tripod standing means that the roaring auction is bound to set off a bloodbath.
The premium was almost inevitable. Lorraine's psychological price rose again, from 140000 to 180000 pounds, reaching the actual cost of the whole four roaring ships.
Is such a high price really reasonable? This is perhaps the most meaningless question at the moment.
Because the design of fury is unique, its significance to bidders is the same as that of sloDe's shield to LEV.
Leff can compete for shields at no cost. These chaebols who hope to make their navy owe them a big favor by designing plans can do their best above the dead line.
At that time, the loss of reason was almost inevitable. Thinking of this, Lorraine even wanted to praise Morgan's ancestors.
The auction at the asylum villa requires all auction procedures to be done immediately, and the money will be paid off. That is to say, the number of bidders Qian Qishi is not important. What matters is how much cash they have, or how much cash they can collect before delivery.
"How much money do we have left?" Lorraine suddenly asked Carmen.
Knowing Lorraine's thoughts, Carmen immediately called Sharon and found out the latest deposit inventory after the night.
After a day's hard work, 176420 pounds remained at the bottom of valkiri's cabin and 12200 pounds remained in the vault, a total of 188620 pounds, slightly higher than Lorraine's valuation of the design drawings.
SIG, who heard the numbers, breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It's too dangerous..." she touched her chest and sighed. "General Drake told me that the design drawing might be fired for 120000. I felt incredible at that time. Who knows that your estimate is even higher... Fortunately, even if the estimate is higher, we have enough cash."
Her words didn't get the expected response. Lorraine frowned and Carmen stroked the meaningful figures on the account book.
"The room is too small," said Carmen anxiously. "Old dukov is a schemless brown bear. In order to please his majesty Ekaterina, he may prepare 200000 or more."
"Last month, dukov cancelled the order for a second-generation God, and paid a penalty of £ 3000." Karen added, "when I received the news, I thought he thought the configuration of the second-generation God was too extravagant. Now I think he is likely to start mobilizing funds from that time."
"How much do you think old dukov can get in a month?" Lorraine asked softly.
"Two hundred and fifty thousand," replied Carmen, "I remember his general manager showing off in front of me, saying that old dukov would never let his cash be less than two hundred and fifty thousand."
"So we're still short of 70000..."
Seager found that he was numb to tons of gold in just two days.
Not long ago, she was just an impostor lieutenant colonel with an annual salary of 100 pounds. Now she is participating in a discussion of [200000 pounds] and easily utters such anti-human words as [7000 pounds].
Can you go back?
New questions popped out of her mind without warning, but the old topic continued on her lips.
"What's Mr. President going to do? Ask Boston to send money right away?"
Lorraine shook his head regretfully. "Unless fury ends tomorrow's night, Boston's cash won't be in place at all."
"So, technology like today wins?"
"Frighten a group of people who don't care about money with high bidding? That's wishful thinking."
Seager looked into Lorraine's eyes. "Sounds like you have a third way?"
"It's very simple. If two tons of gold is not enough, add another 100 kilograms." Lorraine shrugged. "Please tell the noble Baron when you classify your duties and say... He owes me once."
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At 10 p.m. on July 20, under the protection of Haina, Carmen visited the No. 1 wharf of Morgan chamber of commerce with two boxes of ancient gold.
According to the rules of asylum villa auction, once the auction list is determined, it is not allowed to apply for auction qualification temporarily. However, since there is the organizer of Morgan chamber of Commerce, the means of offsetting money with goods is bound to be feasible.
After all, this approach is equivalent to selling the collateral directly to the Morgan chamber of Commerce. In the pure buyer's market environment, the Morgan chamber of commerce can press the price wantonly, playing the pawn shop or the kind of black hearted and monopolized.
With the fierce determination to be cut, Carmen easily persuaded Susan Morgan to value all 24 priceless gold wares. The valuation result was 72000 pounds, and the maximum single piece was 6400 pounds. Both the total price and unit price were less than 50% of Drake's own valuation.
The problem of chips was solved. With the guaranteed ancient gold ware, Lorraine's active money returned to 260000. If it was not enough, he was ready to use the final means to blackmail Hamilton after the auction.
Hamilton also came for the fury.
Despite the financial constraints of the United States, the temporary finance department should have an authorization of at least 50000 to 100000 pounds for the sake of top battleship manufacturing technology.
This money is certainly no match for a group of red eyed chaebols, but after the failure of the auction, Lorraine is fully confident to talk to Hamilton about the bridge loan.
The final chip is 310000 pounds.
In the bright moonlight, Lorraine looked forward to the auction the next day and fell asleep.
At this time, on the other side of the island, pier 28 of outer juster.
A brig ship without any flag anchored steadily into the wide Shaji plank road in the moonlight.
Arthas went up and raised his head high along the extended planks until his gray blue pupils caught a strong figure.
"Welcome to asylum hill." he bowed and saluted, "His Excellency lieutenant general Louis de relano, deputy chief of staff of the French naval channel fleet..."