CH 44

After Lin Luo chose the first piece of jadeite, he did not immediately return to Stone Sanding Square, but continued to search the stalls.

He felt that many of the jadeite that the jadeite merchants took out today looked good, and the game time was tight. Instead of wasting time on the road back and forth, it would be better to find two more jadeite and bring them back together to cut them.

Today’s first person to use the stone cutting machines was still Jessica from the Tomadan branch. She was probably stimulated by getting second place in yesterday’s game. Today, she directly chose a piece of jadeite as soon as she started.

There was a small cut on this piece of jadeite, which showed a layer of white mist, and a hint of green could be seen on the edge of that white mist. Generally, stone gambling players are more cautious about this kind of jadeite. After all, the seller is not a fool. If they can be sure that there is jade in it, why did they not just cut it by themselves, or open a big window and sell it for a higher price?

However, Jessica likes to bet on such jadeite. Using her rich experience and judging by the look of the matrix, she finally came to a decision that this piece of jadeite is worth a bet on.

Such a half bet on jadeite, the possibility of the bet going up is indeed very high. As long as the jade inside is as she judged, she can usher in today’s first good start.

Unfortunately, the goddess of luck does not seem to be standing by her side today.

When she started to grind the white mist layer with a grinding wheel she did grind out a layer of green with a good color, but after changing into a chrome knife she went further inside and found that the green did not continue very far. It is definitely not a big increase.

In the end she could only sell a kilogram piece of green oil jade, estimated at 50,000 credit, and Jessica had bought this half-betting jadeite for 200,000 credit, so the Tomadan branch was deducted three points.

Although no one accused her of anything, Jessica left with a gloomy face to find something else in Stone Sanding City.

The contestants all noticed the changes in the points of the Tomadan branch, but did not show any special emotions.

There is a saying in the stone gambling world: “It’s hard for a god to break an inch of jade [1].” Only after the jadeite is completely cut can you know the real situation inside, and even the most powerful stone gambling master sometimes misses.

Therefore, in their view, gambling losses and gambling wins are already very common.

However, they have become more cautious when selecting jadeite.

Lin Luo soon found another piece of jadeite that performed well, with a rust-colored skin and a layer of plaster pine flowers.

The jadeite with this rusty skin usually comes from deep underground and is very prone to saturated color. When gypsum pine flowers appear they wrap like a plaster on the surface of the jadeite. Whether the jade can rise in value depends on how deep they penetrate the matrix.

Lin Luo carefully checked the position of the gypsum pine flowers and judged that they had penetrated at least one-third of the jadeite. It should be said that the chance of a bet increase was very high.

However, out of caution, Lin Luo still used special abilities to investigate, and the result surprised him. The jadeite inside this piece of jadeite should be good, but the color of the light it emits is very dim, which can be said to be completely opposite to the appearance of the matrix stone.

Lin Luo didn’t understand why, and looked at the jadeite over and over twice, but still couldn’t find the reason. Ultimately he sighed, put the jadeite back in its place, and continued to check the other jadeite.

“Do you want this jadeite?” Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind him.

Lin Luo looked back and found that the person who asked the question was Han XinYu from the Kono branch.

“No, I don’t want it anymore.”

Han XinYu nodded, bent over to pick up the jadeite, and examined it carefully.

Lin Luo hesitated to remind him, but didn’t know how to speak, and couldn’t just tell him, ‘I saw the jade inside, this piece of jadeite is not worth a bet’, right?

While checking other jadeite, he secretly observed Han XinYu.

He saw that Han XinYu was the same as him, checking this piece of jadeite over and over several times, especially the position of the gypsum pine flowers, and finally Han XinYu stretched his eyebrows and went to checkout with the piece of jadeite.

Lin Luo looked at Han XinYu’s leaving back in a complicated mood. If he hadn’t had special abilities, he would have bought that piece of jadeite.

“What are you looking at?” Seeing that his little lover had been staring at others, Xing Mo couldn’t help reaching out and squeezing Lin Luo’s cheek.

Lin Luo shook his head a little embarrassedly, shifted his gaze, and continued to pick up the next piece of jadeite.

Later, he bought a piece of red bayberry sand skin jadeite and a piece of bacon skin jadeite, and brought the three pieces of jadeite back to Stone Sanding Square.

“Xiao Luo!” He Kun, who had just cut the stone, immediately waved to him excitedly after seeing Lin Luo.

Currently ranked first is the Bernice branch. Their current score is 24 points. The newly added player Li Yang played very well, betting on a big increase and a small increase.

Currently ranked second is the Tomadan branch. Although Jessica lost her first gamble, she quickly calmed down and gambled up two bets. With the joint efforts of other members of the branch, their points increased rapidly. The current score is twenty points.

The Kipola branch performed well today, having scored 12 points and is located in the middle of the rankings.

Coincidentally, the points obtained by the Kono branch are the same as those of the Kipola branch, and Han XinYu from the Kono branch is preparing to cut his stone.

“Leaving it to you! Come on!” He Kun just cut a small win, and was in a good mood. He patted Lin Luo on the shoulder to let him know to take up the position in front of the stone machine.

Han XinYu’s jadeite cutting machine is in the fifth position, not far from Lin Luo’s jadeite cutting machine.

The points of the two clubs are the same, and the two of them started to cut the stone at the same time. There is quite the feeling that Lin Luo is fighting Han XinYu…

Lin Luo noticed that that what Han XinYu was unraveling was a piece of jadeite with an elephant’s skin. This kind of skin is so-called because it is usually grayish-white, much like an elephant’s skin.

This kind of jadeite is very easy to receive excellent quality jade from. Usually it comes from very old jadeite deposits. It has, however, been very rare in recent years.

Lin Luo didn’t know why he felt relieved when he saw that he wasn’t cutting the piece of rust-skin jadeite first.

Lin Luo chose among his three pieces of jadeite, and decided to cut the piece of horned python jadeite first.

Lin Luo turned on the grinding wheel, aimed at the position of the python belt, and started grinding the stone.

The matrix was quickly ground off, revealing a radiant green, the texture was glossy and translucent, the crystal structure was fine, and the color was quite strong. As long as it isn’t relying on superficial color, then this will definitely be a big rise.

With the continuous rotation of the grinding wheel, the jade inside this jadeite material gradually showed its outline. At this time, it became much easier to cut the stone with a chrome knife.

After Xing Mo washed away the sand on the cut surface with water, everyone in the Kipola branch could not wait to surround him.

“Looking at the texture it looks like a high quality ice jade.” A smile appeared on Mr. Liu’s face.

“Yes, yes, it’s a very sunny green! The color is very positive!” Mr. Wang also nodded.

“Looking at the jade outline it looks like the the piece won’t be small! Absolutely a rise! Xiao Luo!” He Kun was extremely happy.

This is an obvious rise in value, and this piece of jadeite will definitely bring them a lot of points, which makes everyone very happy.

However, at this moment, a cry of exclamation suddenly came from a distance.

“Oh my God?! Am I right?!”

“Is it a glass type?!”

“It seems to be a kind of glass!!”

Exclamations came one after another, and everyone in the Kipola branch hurriedly looked up and found that the sound was coming from the Kono branch, which means that…Han XinYu, he actually bet on a glass seed…

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

[1] It’s hard for a god to break an inch of jade. = It’s hard to judge small objects.