The First Interstellar Energy Gambler

Chapter 58: Ups and Downs – Part 2

At this point Lin Luo began to be more careful when working with his jadeite. He swapped to the grinding wheel and began to slowly sand it along the opened window to reveal more of the jade interior.

But at this point, what was exposed was still the white horse tooth jade…

Different from Lin Luo’s slow grinding of the stone, Qian Bin probably had confidence from his last big rise win, and he was very daring when he cut. He aimed the knife at the location of the crack and cut it horizontally. He wanted to see if the crack spread to the inside.

Fortunately, his first cut was very successful, and the small slice that was exposed was was full of green jade and very pleasing to look at.

“All right! It’s spinach green! It has a good texture! The bet is rising fast! Hahahahaha!” Fatty Ma smiled triumphantly, while staring in Lin Luo’s direction with greedy eyes.

He believed that soon that piece of yellow and green double-color jade would belong to him and that it was fortunate that he was not able to win the No. 1046 jadeite at the auction. He never imagined that the piece of jadeite he wanted only had the appearance of value. In the end how can a piece of horse tooth jade compare with his high ice apple green?!

With a sound of ‘bzzt’, Qian Bin’s second knife cut fell.

Fatty Ma hurriedly raised his eyes to see what kind of water his second piece of jade was. As a result, when he saw the section, his whole body became stiff.

He saw small cracks on the cut jade surface, and it seemed that it was likely that it would continue to spread inward…

“This, this…” Fatty Ma could hardly believe his eyes. Such cracks would damage the energy structure of the jade very greatly. If it continued to spread inward, the jade would be almost useless!

Qian Bin also looked very ugly, but he couldn’t just give up like this, maybe the cracks would disappeared later.

With this idea in mind, Qian Bin made a third cut.

It’s a pity that fate didn’t favor him. The third knife cut advanced a few centimeters deeper, and the cracks on the cut surface became more numerous and pronounced.

Qian Bin took a deep breath and his fingers trembled slightly as he drew the last line. The chrome knife in fully automatic mode cut along the line he drew.

There was another ‘bzzt’.

The pieces of broken jade flesh fell to the ground in pieces.

The bet completely collapsed……

In the end, the only part of this jade that could be used was the thin layer on the top.

The appraisal given by the light brain was 8,000 credits.

“It’s a pity, look at the crystal structure. It was at least an ice type. If it hadn’t cracked, this jadeite would have definitely been worth one or two million.”

“Yeah, what a pity.”

Listening to the comments of the people around, Fatty Ma and Qian Bin’s faces were very ugly.

“It’s okay, we still have a third piece of jadeite.” Qian Bin said in a low voice, not knowing whether it was to comfort Fatty Ma or to comfort himself.

After listening to this, Fatty Ma immediately glanced in Lin Luo’s direction and saw that he had sanded off the top of No. 1046 jadeite and was about to change to the chrome knife to cut the stone, but the only part that was exposed at the moment was still horse tooth jade. He felt a little relieved.

Qian Bin’s third piece of jadeite was a piece of black sand skin jadeite. The jade inside jadeite with this type of matrix should be pretty good. It had a ring shaped python band on the exterior wich also made it seem to be a good gamble. If he was lucky it could be very good, and have a large amount of good jade inside.

“Qian Bin’s jadeite looks pretty good…” He Kun stretched his neck to ‘watch the enemy’.

Lin Luo also subconsciously glanced in Qian Bin’s direction, and after seeing the obvious circular python band outside the black ebony skin, he was taken aback again.

He also had an impression of this piece of jadeite. If viewed as a black black sand matrix, the exterior looked pretty good. However, this piece of jadeite was not a black sand skin jadeite.

WeiJiang stone is a kind of old pit waxy skin jadeite, its appearance is very similar to black sand skin jadeite, but in fact it is completely opposite to black sand skin jadeite.

It is characterized by there being nearly no distinction between the skin and the flesh, and the exterior colors black with green and green with black are the norm [1]. Therefore, only those without sand skins make good bets, so while Qian Bin’s stone would be a good black sand skin jadeite, it is actually the worst WeiJiang stone.

If one were to look closely at the ring-shaped python belt, they would see that the edges of this python belt were jagged and tended to be black.

A long time ago, many people gambled on it as black black sand skin jadeite and lost their fortunes. In recent years, WeiJiang stone has appeared very few times and has gradually been forgotten by people.

Unexpectedly, Qian Bin would be hit. It seems that the observation time was too tight and he was not able to inspect the stone thoroughly enough. If he had been able to carefully check the edges of the python belt around the sand, he may have been able to find some clues.

Perhaps because of the awakening of his mental powers, Lin Luo felt that his memory had become very good. He could remember everything he has read and learned. Coupled with his extraordinary power of observation, he didn’t need to use special abilities at all to discover the special features that indicated that the jadeite was WeiJiang Stone.

Lin Luo shook his head lightly, no longer looking at Qian Bin’s direction, and concentrated on cutting his own jadeite.

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