Chapter 94: Oh No, This Feels Like Falling in Love

No matter how much resentment he felt, Ji Boxiao no longer dared to keep shouting.

What he feared was not Lin Xiao, but the other people who had entered the private room. Could anyone who made it into Room Zero be an ordinary person?

Even if he were a pig, he could still guess that the ones with Lin Xiao were not people he could afford to offend.

In the end, Lin Xiao bought the spirit pearl for 1.21 million.

Looking down at Ji Boxiao below, Lin Xiao felt that this fellow had actually made him spend an extra two hundred thousand!

No, after the discount, it was one hundred thousand!

But even one hundred thousand was enough to make his heart ache terribly.

He suddenly regretted not driving the price up on this fellow earlier.

Still, if he had been the one bidding, perhaps no one would have dared to raise the price after him. Besides, he did not care much for those items anyway; if he bought them, he would only have to figure out what to do with them.

This was merely a small episode. The auction went on, and perhaps because the appetizers were nearly done, many fine items began to appear one after another.

Quite a few lots fetched prices in the tens of millions, and even Lin Xiao could not help but marvel at how many rich people there were.

Thinking back to the days when he worked several part-time jobs and still earned only three or four thousand a month, he could only look up at the sky in silence.

During that time, quite a few of his pills and spirit weapons were sold as well, all at prices that satisfied him greatly.

Just then, there was another knock at the door of Room Zero.

The four of them were somewhat surprised, but they still opened it.

Seeing that it was the staff delivering the items they had previously won at auction, Lin Xiao could not help but admit that Liu Hao knew how to handle things.

Normally, these items would have been handed over only after the auction ended, yet Liu Hao had already had them sent over now.

After sending the staff away, Lin Xiao picked up the spirit pearl.

Sun Bin and the other two looked at him with some puzzlement. In truth, they did not understand why Lin Xiao had bought that spirit pearl.

Wen Jingxuan in particular wore an expression of utter foolishness.

“Little Great-Uncle, that vision ability is incredibly tempting, but if it can’t be absorbed, it’s just a useless trinket. Why did you buy this spirit pearl?”

Lin Xiao rubbed his nose. “Who told you I can’t absorb it?”

The three of them only then realized: yes, up to now, they still did not know what Lin Xiao’s ability was.

Because of his identity, they had unconsciously overlooked the matter.

And since Lin Xiao was also a freshman at the Capital Spirit Martial Academy, they had assumed his ability level could not be low.

“Little Great-Grand-Uncle, what exactly is your ability?”

“The admission notice says my ability is an SSS-rank strength type. Actually, that is not true. My real ability is an F-rank vision enhancement.”

“On paper?”

“F-rank?”

“Little Great-Grand-Uncle, I may not be well educated, but don’t try to fool me!”

Lin Xiao knew why the three of them were so shocked. The things that had happened to him really were hard to explain.

The best way was to silence them with action.

“All right, there’s nothing here that really catches my eye. I’m going to absorb the spirit pearl first. If you see anything you want, just bid for it yourselves.”

As soon as he said that, Lin Xiao sat down on the sofa, took the level-two spirit pearl in his hand, and began to absorb it directly.

A level-two spirit pearl still contained a fair amount of spiritual power. The moment he started absorbing it, Lin Xiao felt his own spiritual power increase significantly.

Absorbing the level-two spirit pearl did not take him long. Soon, Lin Xiao opened his eyes.

His second-tier spirit technique was finally complete.

Sun Bin and the others did not bother watching the auction. Instead, they all fixed their eyes on Lin Xiao.

That was vision power! Which man would not want such a divine skill?

Seeing that Lin Xiao had awakened, the three immediately crowded around him.

“Little Great-Uncle, how does it feel? Try out the new spirit technique and see how it works.”

Lin Xiao had the same intention. The very first thing he did was activate his vision ability.

Because Wen Jingxuan was closest to him, his gaze instinctively landed on Wen Jingxuan.

By the time Lin Xiao realized what he had done, he regretted it a little. Would he end up seeing something filthy and strain his eyes from it?

At that moment, a deep blue light appeared in Lin Xiao’s eyes. Wen Jingxuan, seeing Lin Xiao look his way, instinctively covered both his groin and his chest.

“Little Great-Uncle, don’t use me as a test subject!”

Lin Xiao: (o｀e′o)

Do you think I want to? I just didn’t control myself.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao did not see anything he did not want to see. This vision ability was not what he had imagined—it could not strip away a person’s clothes. Rather, it was like X-ray vision, able to see through the essence of things.

Wen Jingxuan now stood before him like a skeletal and meridian diagram.

Although it was different from what he had imagined, it was still quite practical.

When he returned to the nursing home, he could use this spirit technique to help the elderly check their bodies.

“All right, stop covering yourself. It’s not what you think. It won’t show your privacy.”

Lin Xiao briefly explained the effect of his vision ability, and only then did Wen Jingxuan relax.

At the same time, Lin Xiao also discovered another function of the vision ability.

Behind Wen Jingxuan was the wall of the private room, yet his vision could actually pass through it and reveal a figure in the adjacent private room.

There was only one person in the neighboring room, and from the silhouette, it was a woman.

Her figure was outrageously alluring: full bosom, rounded hips, a narrow waist, and long, straight legs—simply perfect.

Although Lin Xiao could not see her face, nor knew her age, for some reason he felt she must be a great beauty.

He turned off the vision ability and found the whole thing somewhat amusing. Why was he thinking like this?

Even if there really was a beauty in the neighboring room, what did that have to do with him?

He shifted his attention back to the auction, and the item on the block at that moment was another spirit pearl.

“Everyone has seen it: this lot is also a spirit pearl. It is a level-four light-element spirit pearl, carrying the spirit technique Judgment of Light. I think I need not say more about how rare light-element spirit beasts are. The starting price is five million. Those interested may begin bidding.”

As Liu Hao’s voice fell, many in the venue could not help but grow excited.

Light-element ability users were rare to begin with, let alone a level-four light-element spirit pearl. There were even fewer people who truly needed it.

But needing it did not mean no one wanted to buy it. If one could secure this spirit pearl, it would mean the possibility of recruiting a powerful light-element expert in the future.

The price soon climbed to seven million, with no sign of stopping.

Just as Lin Xiao was eating melon seeds in silence and watching the show, a voice came from the neighboring Number One private room. It was like a song from heaven, soft and sweet, so captivating that one could not help but sink into it. Yet for some reason, it carried a hint of timidity.

“Two... million.”

The hall once again fell into silence. So there really was someone in Number One private room this time?

Although it could not compare to Room Zero, the owner of Number One private room was no ordinary person either.

And to raise the price by 1.3 million at a stroke, the speaker’s determination was plain to see.

Many people were already considering whether to keep bidding.

A trace of confusion flashed through Lin Xiao’s eyes. Those mere three words somehow seemed to pluck at the strings of his heart.

He felt his ears might just get pregnant.

He had thought he was already beyond being moved, but merely hearing the other party’s voice made him waver.

Damn it—this was the feeling of being struck in the heart!