CH 19.1

Chapter 19: First Lose Then Win – Part 2

Therefore, when the exposed surface of Lin Luo’s second cut was exposed, everyone was stunned, staring at the green with wide eyes.

“It, it’s green…”

“Apple green…?”

“The crystal structure seems to be good too, it should be a hibiscus species…”

“It looks like a winner!”

“Sir! I’ll pay 50,000 credits to buy your jadeite!” The second cut has proved that this is definitely not based on green skin, and the re-selling price of this jadeite has risen a lot!

“I’ll go for 55,000!”

“I pay 60,000!”

“Sorry, I want to solve them all.” Lin Luo said with a smile.

Since Lin Luo had said not to sell, these people could only calm down. However, those speculators are eager to buy. Lin Luo sold a jade already. After this piece of jade is fully solved, he might still sell it. If they can get it, then they can find an energy engineer to refine it again. It’s a lot of income!

The color of this jadeite is much better than the previous one, and the quality of the energy liquid and element liquid that can be extracted will also be higher.

Lin Luo continued to cut, bit by bit, and the next few knives turned out to be all stone layers. People’s excitement quickly dropped again, thinking that it really depends on the skin, and it is estimated that in the end only a small piece of jade can be taken out.

Lin Luo adjusted the position of the jadeite, then continued to cut out the rough shape of the apple green jade.

Everyone discovered that this jadeite turned out to be oval, no wonder Lin Luo had to use so many cuts and constantly change the angle.

The jade that was finally taken out, although not big, had a maximum diameter of only 30 centimeters and weighed 2 kilograms [1], but both the color and the texture were much better than the previous one.

Someone immediately started bidding, “Sir! I’ll give out 60,000 credits!”

“I’m do 70,000!”

“80,000!”

In the end, the bid price reached 100,000 credits. Lin Luo felt that the market price should be about the same, so he sold this jade to that person.

The gambling lost twice in a row, then the gambling won twice in a row, which made the crowd of onlookers feel a little overwhelmed.

Especially the person in charge was very unhappy in his heart. He didn’t expect this kid to have such a good luck and make a profit in such a short period of time!

He grit his teeth and looked at the remaining jadeite in the basket, secretly praying that the next two pieces would go bust!

Lin Luo then picked up the fifth piece of jadeite. This piece of jadeite was a piece of white salt sand skin, which looked ordinary and unremarkable, with a patch of ‘dead’ tinea scab attached to the surface.

As the saying goes, black goes with green, and tinea scabs are part of this black. It is a function of how jade grows along side tinea. This tinea is called ‘live’ tinea, which is a good manifestation of the skin.

Dead tinea is another matter. The layer of dead tinea scab appears dry and flaky. The appearance of this type of scab generally means that the quality of the jade underneath is very bad.

But sometimes dead tinea scabs and live tinea scabs will co-exist on the skin of the same jadeite. Observing under strong light, you will find that the two tinea overlap. At this time, it is difficult to distinguish the jadeite.

The piece of jadeite selected by Lin Luo has dead tinea scabs mixed with live tinea scabs, but there are very few live ones. In addition, the skin of this piece of jadeite is not too thick, and even if it is cut it can at most produce jade such as bean seed type which isn’t very valuable, so the stone gambling experts invited by this store had divided this piece into scraps.

Lin Luo switched to the grinding wheel again and started grinding the stone in the direction of the scabs.

Unsurprisingly, it came out green. It was a very positive sunny green, but because the window was small there were not many exposed parts and it was hard to see what the texture was.

Some people began to hesitate to make a bid, but in the end they decided to hold off.

Lin Luo opened three more windows one after another, basically aligning the direction of the jade inside, then switched the chrome knife and started cutting the stone.

In fact, Lin Luo can directly find the direction to cut according to the jade aura he sees without having to do so many steps, but if he does so it will definitely attract suspicion from others. He doesn’t want to expose his own special ability.

In the past two days he has been studying on the light brain, and has memorized some of the skills and common sense of gambling. Therefore, this method is the safest one and will not cause any doubt.

His first action was to cut along the side of the matrix stone. When he went down, he saw a layer of black fog. Black fog loves to run along the skin. Everyone knows this. This cut is equivalent to wiping out the three small windows previously made, as black fog isn’t a very good sign.

A knife is poor, a knife is rich, a knife is heaven, and a knife is hell. This kind of statement, when used to describe the current situation, is really too appropriate.

But who can say why, the people present are still staring at the chrome knife in Lin Luo’s hand. After Lin Luo reversed the situation twice and got two big wins, they now dare not draw a conclusion so easily. It may look bad now, but you have to wait to see the situation clearly.

The second knife Lin Luo cuts vertically. If he can cut out green, it means that this is definitely not relying on skin green, in other words it would be another big value increase.

The chrome knife is very sharp, so when you cut it down, the result came out very quickly. After splashing water on the cut surface, everyone clearly saw the bright and clear green with fine crystalline structure, and it turned out to be a rare excellent quality ice type!

“It’s gaining value! My God! It’s a winner!”

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 2 kilo = 4.4 lbs = 3.3 catties