Chapter 1 Despite the contents of the box now being in plain sight, many people were disinterested, yawning and glancing at them before looking away.

Inside the box were grayish-white items, coiled together, resembling dried seaweed if you ignored the color. Although they had a strong fishy smell, they didn't attract flies or mosquitoes, suggesting they were shed skin or tendons from some kind of animal.

However, as soon as this unremarkable item was displayed, faint golden light began to emanate from it, giving people the feeling that their minds were about to be immersed. The quality of this thing was indeed an unadulterated Dark Gold grade!

Fortunately, Fang Senyan was the only one present who could see this gorgeous light. He used the helmet's built-in ability to scan it, and his heart skipped a beat, because the scanned data only showed one sentence: Extremely valuable shipbuilding material!!

"This..." Fang Senyan couldn't help but be stunned. Even though he was usually very calm, his heart couldn't help but pound!

Black also received the shared information from Fang Senyan and exclaimed in the team channel:

"Dark Gold shipbuilding material! We absolutely can't miss it. For a prop of this grade, we'll spare no expense, even if we have to go bankrupt!"

Fang Senyan was now basically certain that this thing was not a Contractor's equipment, but a precious plot material. Fortunately, there were no Contractor captains in this auction house, so very few people could determine its value!

Unless it was Jack Sparrow's father, Davy Jones, or other ancient relics who possessed the ability to identify treasures, the appearance of this thing just as Fang Senyan's Sanse was severely damaged could truly be said to be a match made in heaven. Compared to this box full of Dark Gold materials, everything else auctioned off before was almost negligible to Fang Senyan and could be discarded at will.

Seeing that everyone was not very interested, Fang Senyan secretly rejoiced and prepared to make a fortune silently, hoping it would be directly passed over. He didn't want to attract other people's attention. Then, after the auction, he would contact them and settle it for 500 pounds.

This item's appearance led to a brief lull, and it seemed no one was interested in it. Fang Senyan was secretly delighted and kept praying for it to be passed over.

However, things in life often go against one's wishes. Just as the auctioneer was running out of saliva, and the hammer in his hand was about to strike for the third time to announce the failure of the auction, Fernandes suddenly coughed and said:

"1000 pounds, wrap it up for me. I like these strange things. Plus, it's not easy for McKinney to hold this auction, so we can't let him lose money. I'll just take it and play with it."

Who knew that after Fernandes spoke, that old fox Cottel also smiled and said:

"Oh dear, I've also recently been collecting these strange things. Viscount (Fernandes donated money and got a viscount title), please let me have it. Two thousand pounds."

Fang Senyan was in trouble now. It turned out that these old foxes were all as cunning as him and had the same idea of letting it be passed over, but they were actually very interested! He immediately sighed deeply, knowing that if he wanted to get this thing, he would have to go through a very fierce battle, and he might not even be able to win!

"Ten thousand pounds."

Just as Fang Senyan's thoughts were in chaos, a woman's cold voice suddenly sounded. It was the old woman with the red veil representing the Tzigane. She looked around, her eyes filled with a coldness. Moreover, raising the price from two thousand pounds to ten thousand pounds showed her determination to get it!

Seeing the Tzigane representative make a move, it was almost a standstill again. Obviously, these people were not very sure of the value of this thing and were unwilling to offend this group of women who were good at divination. But after seeing this thing, Fang Senyan was almost determined to get it, so how could he give up easily?

"Eleven thousand pounds."

"Fifteen thousand pounds!" The Tzigane representative didn't even look over this time, because she knew that Fang Senyan wouldn't buy her act, but she didn't show any weakness in the bidding. She had a calm aura and a nonchalant expression as she bid.

However, looking at Fernandes and Cottel, they were quite unperturbed, feeling that they were just starting the bidding and opening the scene, while the others seemed uninterested in the item and didn't make a bid.

But Fang Senyan knew that until the moment the auction hammer fell, it was impossible to see how many real competitors there would be and what the other party's psychological bottom line was! Sure enough, before Fang Senyan could bid, the Arab Wahab started to stir things up again:

"Seventeen thousand pounds!"

The Tzigane woman began to tap the table impatiently with her fingers:

"Twenty thousand pounds!"

"Thirty thousand pounds." Fang Senyan also went all out. Since he was determined to get it, then he should also express his stance.

The Tzigane woman turned her head to look at Fang Senyan again, as if she wanted to engrave everything about him in her mind. At this time, she fell silent, but Wahab revealed a sinister smile:

"Forty thousand pounds!"

Fang Senyan looked at him with contempt, then closed his mouth and began to leisurely drink his coffee, not looking like he was going to raise the price at all. Wahab immediately felt bad, because his bid was just his revenge. To be honest, this guy was just an agent. If he bought something of unknown use for forty thousand pounds, he would probably be in big trouble! This represents four whole new three-masted warships!

As time passed, cold sweat broke out on Wahab's forehead. Just as the hammer was about to fall, Fang Senyan slowly said:

"Forty thousand and five hundred pounds."

Wahab finally breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, not daring to play any more tricks. The auctioneer didn't expect that this supporting character would actually bid a sky-high price of forty thousand pounds for something with a base price of 1000 pounds. The commission was also quite substantial, truly an unexpected surprise! He immediately cheered up and promoted it with great enthusiasm, hoping to continue to soar to a higher price, but the only Tzigane woman who was competing with Fang Senyan knew that Fang Senyan had at least gotten tens of thousands of pounds from the Tzigane people, so she weighed it and seemed to give up. In the end, Fang Senyan still got this thing.

When the auction hammer fell, Fang Senyan let out a long sigh, feeling relieved. On the other hand, the Tzigane representative was intercepted by Fang Senyan twice in a row, and the auctioneer had to go over and say a few good words to appease her. After all, it was important to be friendly in business to make money. The woman remained silent and waved her hand to let them go, giving people a sense of deep scheming.

After getting the box of Dark Gold quality materials, Fang Senyan studied it again carefully, but all that was displayed were ???... After being able to touch and observe it up close, Fang Senyan felt that there was a very strong vitality in this thing, completely unlike a dead object.

To make an inappropriate analogy, like the pork knuckles on the vegetable stall, they feel completely dead and heavy when you pinch them, but if you reach out and pinch your calf, as long as there is any movement, you can feel the power that may burst out at any time. Fang Senyan was now holding this box of materials, and after studying it carefully, he finally confirmed that he was completely clueless about this aspect, so he put it away. He was full of confidence that he would find someone who knew the goods.

In the next auction, the twenty culverins mentioned by old McKinney finally appeared, but the auctioneer's rhetoric was definitely different:

"...Recently, the Royal Harbor sailors have been winning battles one after another, so the superiors have specially given them a comprehensive upgrade to reward these great young men for their bravery. Since it's an upgrade, then some old and outdated equipment that has been replaced cannot be directly melted and scrapped, so they are specially taken out to exchange for some military funds."

However, without exception, all the exhibits that were taken out next were brand-new and bright culverins, with Hamburg's nameplate and factory mark on the gun barrel. If these cannons were considered "old and outdated equipment," then the current sailors' ship-borne cannons should be directly thrown into the scrap heap.

Many people requested that these twenty culverins be auctioned directly in one go, but old McKinney stubbornly auctioned them one by one. This was not only to maximize profits but also to avoid risks.

If one or two brand-new culverins occasionally appeared on a pirate ship, then the governor could still make excuses that the pirates bought them privately through smuggling, and this reason was barely acceptable. But if these twenty brand-new culverins just ordered from Hamburg appeared on a ship at the same time, and this ship was not a British Royal Navy warship, then Norrington would know that the only one capable of doing this was Governor Swann, even if he was thinking with his hemorrhoids.

Soon, these twenty culverins were divided up, and after a fierce competition, they were auctioned off for a high price of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Fang Senyan was not without the opportunity to get one or two of them, but in his experience, these cannons had to be at least four to play a certain role, and the power of one or two was almost negligible. So, he simply gave up.

However, Fang Senyan picked up another bargain next, spending five thousand pounds to buy a lot of standard equipment for sailors, probably enough to equip about a hundred people. This time, they really started auctioning off the equipment淘汰(taotai) that the sailors had淘汰(taotai)d. It was just that what was taken out for sale was the equipment that the sailors on the two flagships had 淘汰(taotai)d! The quality was still quite good. ro!.