CH 57.1

After the vice president Ji MingYu and the permanent director Wu Tao of the Vermi branch confirmed that total value of the jadeite of the two sides was similar, they reconfirmed each side’s willingness to hold the stone gambling battle. In order to ensure the fairness of the battle, the live broadcast on the official website was started at the same time that the announcement went out that the stone gambling battle had begun.

The two began to cut their first stones at the same time. The first piece of jadeite that Qian Bin chose was actually the jadeite No. 888. He flashed a contemptuous smile at Lin Luo, and asked two of Fatty Ma’s men to help him move the piece onto the stone cutting machine.

When the people around saw this, they all started to boo and asked Lin Luo to cut his No. 1046 jadeite first.

However, Lin Luo had planned to solve in order from smallest to largest before and he didn’t mean to change the order of cutting for others, so he continued on to pick up the smallest piece of the three remaining pieces of jadeite in the basket.

This piece of jadeite was also bought by Lin Luo later. The outer matrix was gray black sand skin, the sand texture was poor, and there were a lot of black tinea scabs. Since Lin Luo had not recorded it on his list, it could be said that it was also a piece of jadeite that would collapse. However, Lin Luo seemed to remember a bit about this piece of jadeite, and remembered that it seemed to have a little dark green aura inside. Therefore even if it collapsed, it wouldn’t be a complete loss.

So he started using his special ability to sense the position of the jade inside before beginning to cut.

After the first cut, a black fog layer was cut out, which was not a good sign.

After the fog layer was cut out, it was very likely that green would appear directly under it. At this time, it was necessary to change the chrome knife out in favor of the grinding wheel. Grinding the stone would be much slower than cutting it, so everyone focused their attention on Qian Bin.

On Qian Bin’s side because the jadeite was too large the jade was not able to be seen in the first cut. He was sure that there would be high quality jade in this jadeite, and worried that cutting too aggressively would damage the integrity of the jade. As such when he started to slow down and cut with more caution the result turned out to be that Lin Luo’s side actually revealed his jade faster.

“It’s green?” Someone stared at the window that Lin Luo sanded out, and he seemed to faintly see a little green.

“It really seems to be green? But the color is a bit dark?”

“Who cares, isn’t it good as long as it’s green? At least it’s not broken!”

“Exactly!”

Everyone looked at the jadeite in Lin Luo’s hands with more expectation, waiting for him to completely cut out the jade inside.

When Fatty Ma saw that Lin Luo had shown his jade first, he couldn’t help becoming anxious, and walked over to urge Qian Bin to cut more quickly.

Qian Bin frowned slightly and told Fatty Ma in a low voice that he should be able to cut out the green with a few more cuts, but Fatty Ma obviously didn’t have that kind of patience. He just wanted to overwhelm Lin Luo’s limelight. He was the big man who paid the money, so Qian Bin finally took the risk to draw the line deeper according to Fatty Ma’s request.

When the stone cutting machine began to automatically cut along his line, Qian Bin’s nervous breathing almost stopped. Fortunately, he had real skills, and the line was quite accurate.

This slice cut out the jade directly, and the exposed section was full of a joyous green. Only a little bit of good jade was cut off.

“Hahaha, it’s a rise in value! Good job!” Fatty Ma laughed out loud and looked in Lin Luo’s direction triumphantly.

“It looks like the color should be apple green, and the crystal structure is very good. It should be at least ice type if not better. This is indeed a good piece of jadeite that has soared in value.” Someone commented pertinently on the side.

“Looking at the size of this piece of jadeite, the jade inside should not be small. It seems that Lin Luo is in some trouble today…”

No matter how the people around him talked, Lin Luo still calmly cut his little piece of jadeite. Although the exterior was not very good, there was still jade inside after all, and it was not to be wasted!

Finally, Lin Luo completely finished cutting out the jade. His piece was a greenish bluish black-bone jade [1] with a large number of black patches on the surface, indicating that there were more impurities. The texture was relatively dry and lacking luster, and the piece was also small. The value of this jadeite can be said to be greatly reduced.

The final estimate given by light brain was only 30,000 credits. Although Lin Luo bought it at the reserve price, he still lost tens of thousands.

However, in stone games the total value is compared, which is different from the rules of friendly games, so there was no need to worry about any score deduction. However, when calculating the rank points of the Stone Gambling Association, some points would indeed be deducted.

“Xiao Luo, why don’t you…can you solve the No. 1046 jadeite first?” As soon as he came up, he lost a bet. Even He Kun couldn’t help it.

Lin Luo knew he was well-intentioned, but still shook his head gently. He had confidence in himself.

He picked up his second piece of jadeite. It was the No. 712 jadeite that he bought for 600,000 credit. It was a piece of iron sand skin old pit jadeite. It was a mountain rock type with thin skin and should easily produce good jade. It was a pity that there was an obvious set of lattice-like hairline cracks on the surface of this jadeite, which were shaped like a grid. It was difficult to judge the depth of this kind of lock. Therefore, when the auction was conducted the competition was not fierce.

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