Chapter 219: 219: The ruthless one speaks less_1

Chapter 219: Chapter 219: The ruthless one speaks less_1

“Haha, Xiao Li, you truly are a hot-blooded youth, unlike us old bones who are too scared to step on stage.”

“Get up there and touch it with your own hands, puncture the lie of the ghosts and gods, let everyone see what true science really is.”

“Bro Li, I support you, you’re the coolest! Your stance on stage is so manly!”

The crowd, seeing Li Yixuan take the stage, instantly started jeering and egging him on, reveling in the excitement without concern for consequences.

Li Yixuan was indeed a bold man, walking up to Elder Wang, he smiled faintly and said, “Elder Wang, although you are a famous collector in Zhonghai, what you’ve said is a bit too fantastical, so it’s not too much for me to come and try it out myself, right?”

“Haha, of course not, if you didn’t come, others might not believe it. Feel free to touch it, but I must remind you, after you touch it, no matter what strange scenes you encounter, you must keep shouting in your mind, ‘This is an illusion, this is an illusion,’ understand?” Elder Wang smiled and advised earnestly.

“Haha, got it!” Li Yixuan nodded in agreement, but in his heart, he didn’t take Elder Wang’s words seriously at all.

He was a leader in Zhonghai City’s technology industry, and also a young power in the emerging industries of Zhonghai City. It was only through daring and perseverance that he managed to squeeze into this auction attended by many wealthy families and leading enterprises. Whether to showcase himself or to uphold his belief in science, he felt he should really touch this jade token, to probe the truth of it.

“Elder Wang, then I’m going to touch it!” Li Yixuan approached the Jade Token, slowly reaching out his hand.

“Please, President Li! Remember what I’ve told you!” Elder Wang reminded again.

“Haha!” Li Yixuan laughed it off, thinking to himself, that nonsense you made up to fool people, I, Li Yixuan, don’t believe a word of it.

With a careless smile still on his lips, Li Yixuan’s fingertips gently touched the surface of the Jade Token.

At first touch, Li Yixuan felt nothing, but then his mind suddenly sank, and his eyes closed tight, he could no longer even hear the sounds around him.

“Well, it’s okay now, you go down first, then have the staff find a psychologist for some psychological counseling so you don’t end up with a trauma,” Elder Wang waved at Li Yixuan.

This time Li Yixuan was noticeably more obedient, nodded his head and walked down dejectedly, creating a stark contrast to his bullish and hasty manner when he had first come up.

Then, Elder Wang glanced around at the people in the audience and asked in a deep voice, “Now, does anyone still doubt the authenticity of this Jade Token?”

People looked at each other; after witnessing the scene of Li Yixuan nearly wetting himself from fear, who would dare to doubt? Yet some were still not convinced.

“Isn’t this Li Yixuan just collaborating with you to perform a magical trick?” A middle-aged man in the audience, a bit disgruntled, asked.

He had previously worked at a TV station and was very familiar with a magician’s tricks. Although everyone else was intimidated by Li Yixuan’s demeanor, in his eyes, the fear Li Yixuan displayed was patently overdone—as they say in the business, his acting was a bit too forced.

Therefore, he harbored deep doubts about the Jade Token on stage.

“My friend, since you have doubts and suspect that the gentleman before was a plant, then you are welcome to come up and try it for yourself!” Elder Wang was quite generous, not at all angry about his questioning.

“Ha ha, let’s give it a try!” This middle-aged man was a skeptic, with his preconceived notions, he always felt that everything was a setup by the auction’s “production team.” As someone in the television industry, he was determined to use his professional spirit to break this charade.

In front of him, writing a script was like playing the fool before Guan Yu.

After all, I’m a director who has written countless scripts; your arrangements are far too uncreative.

The director then stepped onto the stage, a man of few words, reaching out to touch it right away.

Then, within the hall, a piercing scream echoed to the rafters.

“Ah! There’s a ghost!”