Longevity Story

However, it was also a cloak monster, and the amber snake eyes on the wand carved by the star were particularly conspicuous, not to mention the hidden traces of several snake teeth at the top and bottom of the wand.

Not paying attention to the discussion caused by the arrival of the conspicuous newcomer, Xing Ke and the others went straight to the No. [-] auction hall where Sherlock and their target were located... The Story of the Longevity Species

Chapter 603 I haven't seen you in 30 years, and now you are bought by someone else on the stage, while I am in the audience...

"Sixty! ~ Someone bid for sixty! Is there a price increase?"

"61."

"61, 61! And..."

"63."

"63! The price has accumulated to 63! The rare descendant of [Dementor], the integrity is quite high, is there anyone else who offers a higher price?"

"65..."

.........

Accompanied by the sound of this style of auction, Xing Ke and the others walked through the rows of empty benches, until they reached the first few rows, there were only sparse ones, and about thirty cloaked monsters were seated.

Now it seems that three families are bidding for the [Dementor] trapped in a special cage on the stage not far away——

Barely a tall and thin humanoid creature, wearing a rotten cloak, his whole body seemed to be soaked in water, with scabbed palms, and his whole body was rotten.Without facial features, there is a small deep hole where the mouth should be...

This image of Xing Ke is quite familiar. Does this count as meeting an old acquaintance?

Also, when did dementors become a rare species?

However, compared to the rotten cloak dementors, Xing Ke was more worried about whether there were Sherlock and Lena in these cloaked monsters, so he simply dragged Illya and Diana to the empty seat in the first row and sat down. His wand stood beside him very flamboyantly.

[If you can't find an acquaintance, then let an acquaintance come to you! 】

This is the truth that Xing Ke took 20 years of blood, tears and sweat to realize.

When Xing Ke and the others were seated, the hammer on the auction table finally settled.

In the end, this rotten dementor cloak, which was hailed as [rare], was sold to one of the three cloaked monsters who bid for it at a price of 67.

"By the way, what is the unit of this [67] number?"

Illya asked Xing Ke softly.

Xing Ke smiled, did not speak, turned to look at Diana, Diana understood:

"...The unit is ten thousand, and the currency is British pounds. You can freely choose the currency when you pay. It's just that the exchange rate between Golden Galleon and British pounds is one thousandth more than that of Gringotts."

"In other words, did the [Dementor] just now sell for 67 pounds? It's said to be rare, but it's not very valuable."

"After the dementors experienced an unknown disaster more than 20 years ago, the number of species has indeed been decreasing year by year. In the end, even Akazban and the Ministry of Magic no longer sheltered them..."

Listening to the popular science recalled by Diana, Xing Ke didn't know why it always felt a little familiar.

"However, although the number is very small, the Ministry of Magic has never added dementors to the protection scope of the [Regulations on the Protection of Magical Species], so as a non-protected creature... the risk of hunting is not very high."

Xingke understood Diana's last euphemism.Dementors themselves are "evil creatures" that violate the interests of mankind. Their individual strength is not very strong, and their ability to fight with wizards depends on quantitative suppression and physical attack immunity.

So in the current period when the number of races is decreasing, wizards with a little strength can hunt them after discovering that they are evil, or they can use them for experiments, or they can sell them for money as they are now.

The individual strength is not high, the way of survival is anti-human, and it is not protected in any way. Although the experimental value is not high, it is not low...

All in all, a perfect hunting object.

Wizards were nobles in the last century. Speaking of British nobles, it is inseparable from the famous "hunting game".

Presumably now, during the holidays, wizards will go to the rumored "haunted house" of Muggles after having a drink with their friends. If you are lucky, you can hunt a dementor for the table at the next party. A little richer.

Although such prey is rare, it is impossible to succeed every time it is captured. After all, the dementor's escape ability is much higher than its attack strength. Without special cages and chains, it cannot be locked.But in this world, there are always people with a heart.

Dementors are unlikely to become "regulars" at auction houses, and the price will not be higher.

You, Dementor, poor...

"But, why aren't they included in the [Species Protection List]? Their numbers are already very few, aren't they?" Ilya asked Diana directly across the star carving sitting in the middle.

No matter how evil the creatures are, they will always be protected for the sake of the future if they are so small in number.

For magic research, for mysterious inheritance, and so on.

"Well... I don't know. There are several professors in the clock tower who have been submitting the [Dementor Protection Proposal], but the Ministry of Magic has never passed it."

Although Diana was a good student who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, she was not a know-it-all.

"Cough, I have a guess on this question."

Xing Ke coughed twice to express his presence.

"Illya, do you remember that year Hohenheim allowed the dementors to settle in because of the fugitives from Akazban?"

"Well, of course I remember. I was so disgusted by the image of this thing that I crammed to learn the Patronus Mantra."

The psychological shadow of childhood, of course, will not be easily forgotten.

"You're right, this thing is really disgusting, that's why the students in grades 30 to [-] who went to school in Hohenheim that year thought so too. And now more than [-] years have passed..." Xing Ke revealed Some malicious [you know] smile.

"...Oh, I understand." Illya understood her mind, and in her heart she mourned for 0.1 seconds for the dementor on the stage that was being removed by the staff.

Sure enough, bullying anyone can't bully the younger generation.

Regardless of how weak they were at the time, their psychological defenses were also weak.

But 30 years in Hexi, 30 years in Hedong, and now it has really passed 30 years. The students in the school have become the backbone of the Ministry of Magic and penetrated into various departments of the Ministry of Magic.

For things like [beating the underdog and solving the psychological shadow of your childhood], whether you are Gryffindor or Slytherin, everyone can tacitly stand on the united front.

As for the professors at the Clock Tower?There is always a shortage of "madmen" in the world who can let go of all personal grudges for the research in their hands.

The Clock Tower is an institution dedicated to the study of emerging magic.

"Diana, I don't think the proposals made by the professors in the Clock Tower can be passed for a while. Please suggest them to establish an [experimental protection zone] as soon as possible."

"Huh? Brother, how did you know?"

"What do you know?"

"After those professors failed to pass the No.13 proposal, the No.14 proposal was "On the Establishment of Isolated Experimental Captive Breeding Institutions for Special Species--The Necessity and Funding Budget", and it was unlikely to be passed. Miraculously, the huge budget passed.”

"...Oh, so it turned out to be a backstop thirteen times. It was me who underestimated their group of lunatics."

As we all know, before doing something with low probability, you must prepare thirteen sacrifices to back your back, the kind of sacrifice that is not a pity to die.

It seems that although the research madman of the clock tower is a lunatic, he still has common sense... Longevity Story

Chapter 604 In order to buy a thin book, I am willing to spend all my life savings...

One of the experience of negotiation——

When you want to ask your boss, or an unfamiliar customer, or a business partner, if you know in advance that there is a high possibility of being rejected, you can't make your real request right away. .

First raise the price, put forward some more outrageous requirements, and then slowly negotiate the price and slowly reduce the price. In this case, your original real goal may be turned away.

The other party can also get a feeling of [earned by oneself].

However, the above is just an ideal state, and the other party is not a fool, and he will never make a decision that exceeds his bottom line, and it is impossible to completely ignore the strategy here.

Therefore, it is a very happy thing that the negotiation can be successful. It has nothing to do with interests, gains and losses, and it is a very happy thing.

So, those clock tower professors who were able to successfully negotiate with the Ministry of Magic must be very happy, right?You must have opened a bottle of champagne on the night when the No. 14 proposal was approved, right?

However, the problem is that there are not many things in this world that can give people happiness other than alcohol and white powder... There are not many people who can get happiness...

.........

Just like the man in front of Xing Ke now, he is destined to be unable to negotiate successfully and to obtain happiness.

.........

Time goes back half an hour ago.

After Xing Ke and the others were seated, the [Dementor] was already a big deal.The auction items that came up after that were all small characters—

What solidified the portrait of the soul of a famous singer, the Golden Snitch caught by the famous Quidditch star in history, the alchemist's handbook that was strongly sealed... and so on. These are of no interest at all...

"eighty."

A slender and young voice suddenly appeared among the bidding sounds that were almost always full of male voices.

There was a moment of silence in the field where the bidding was still fierce, and even the hammer holder on the auction stage hesitated for a moment.

It's just that a staff member appeared behind the curtain of the stage in time, and conveyed some information to the hammer bearer's ear, dispelling the hammer bearer's concerns.

"Oh! Eighty! The sealed note, the sudden price increase of twenty, it seems that this gentleman is bound to win, and..."

As expected of a professional, he is not afraid of the cold scene, and wants to reheat the scene.

Seeing that the hammer bearer had no concerns, the bidders in the audience could only ignore the youth of the voice in the front row.

"...81."

The man who had just bid first bid again.

"84."

An old man's voice raised the price immediately.

"ninety."

Xing Ke raised his hand very calmly to increase the price.

"ninety one."

There was a momentary hesitation in the old man's voice.

"one hundred."

But Xing Ke was unshakable, even if Ilya was poking him in the lower back with a wand, he was still unshakable.

"One hundred, now the price is one hundred! Is there another gentleman and lady who bid more?"

However, this time, no one in the audience made a sound.

100 million pounds is like a watershed, beyond the price bottom line in everyone's mind.

Time passed by little by little, and the hammer bearer on the stage saw that he had been talking to himself for a long time, and there were already people in the audience who were specifically aiming at such a commodity and immediately got up and left the stage, and the hammer bearer did not stop. What more to say, I started to drop the hammer three times—