Soul Painter

When the "20th and 21st Century Art" special sale next door was auctioning his own works.

Gao Fan was wandering around other auction houses.

He's looking for something interesting.

This time Christie's auction included jewellery, famous cars, famous watches, antiques, etc. Gao Fan didn't see anything particularly interesting except for a cherry blossom colored diamond.

Until today, which is the last day of the spring auction.

In the special session of "Rare and Good Objects", Gao Fan found a name from the catalog manual.

'Moon soil'.

Hence the name Siyi, lunar regolith is lunar soil.

After the United States completed the feat of landing on the moon in the 1970s, the soil samples brought back from the moon have become the treasures of all mankind. This will be a precious clue for mankind to study the moon, its neighbor in space.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) also based on the idea of ​​'sharing good things with everyone' and 'showing off its own strength'. In the following decades, it has presented these precious samples to other countries one after another. The 'moon rock' received by the Netherlands weighed 89 grams.

Seems very discriminatory, right?

However, in recent years, news has proved that the 89-gram moon rock in the National Museum in the Netherlands is actually a fake. NASA stated that it has never presented this dark red moon rock to the Netherlands, and it is impossible to send it to the Netherlands. A single country donates such a large moon rock. After all, there are strict restrictions on the volume and weight of extraterrestrial materials brought back from the moon.

The Netherlands did not respond, but did quietly remove the moon rock from the National Museum's exhibits.

Now, this piece of 'fake lunar soil' is placed in Christie's auction brochure.

Gao Fan also kept an eye on it.

Christie's "Rare and Good Objects" special sale will auction some strange objects, such as metal boxes suspected of being left by extraterrestrial civilizations, and chronological slates of prehistoric civilizations. Compared with the most precious coat of antiques, authenticity is not important' postscript.

It is simply a fake sale, but its history can guarantee that it is true.

While Gao Fan was sitting in the venue with few people, waiting for the auction of "Moon Soil", he occasionally saw the text messages from Lawrence from the venue next door. Lawrence was reporting the real-time "battle situation" to Gao Fan. It's just full of gunpowder.

At present, the auction of "Redemption" has reached an irrational price range of 280 million US dollars. All normal buyers are stunned and trembling, while some other mysterious buyers are sure to win and are bound to win.

Gao Fan took out "Redemption" for auction, and the reason was very simple. He was unwilling to sell it before because it was very precious. If there is an amazing work of art capable of rebuilding human sanity, leave it to those who need it most.

If STK opened his mouth, Gao Fan would think about it and sell it directly to STK, but STK has never contacted Gao Fan about this matter, and of course Gao Fan would not take the initiative to mention it, so auction is the best way. Higher wins, that's fair.

When the seventh item of the "Rare and Good Objects" auction "Moon Soil" appeared, the bidding price there exceeded 350 million, and the message from Lawrence was trembling. If it can exceed 450 million US dollars, then it will be It broke the record created by Da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" in 2019.

At this moment, Lawrence has also surpassed the realm of money. The only thing that can impress him is the unparalleled fame in the world. He wants the false name of being the first auction price in the history of human oil paintings. He wants it very much and wants it like crazy.

Gao Fan turned off the phone screen and did not reply to Lawrence. He was calm in his heart, because no matter what the final transaction price of "Redemption" was, it was not a normal price. This was the interference of the mysterious world in the normal market order, and it did not represent his real worth.

In Gao Fan's view, facing the temptation of "the world's most valuable oil painting in the past and present", Lawrence should be worried, because his next work will not be auctioned at such a high price anyway, because he will never paint again. The second painting "Redemption" will not be released.

"Hello, ladies and gentlemen, what we are going to auction now is a piece of 89 grams of lunar soil..."

The auction table was empty because this lot was not in Xiangjiang.

Instead, the auctioneer in London will introduce to all guests via live broadcast.

Although the auctioneer's tone was formal, when he said that "this piece of lunar soil was proved to be a piece of wood fossil, so it was removed from the National Museum by the Dutch authorities", it still aroused the Xiangjiang venue where few people sat. There were some laughs in there, it was really funny.

Gao Fan stared at the fist-sized red stone on the big screen.

Inspired.

Even if it's just live.

But looking at this 'false moon soil', Gao Fan broke through the bottleneck of mysticism, and still brought him some interesting pictures.

In his inspiration, he saw a vast and barren gray world.

Also saw an astronaut in a bulky white spacesuit.

The occult does not lie.

It connects to the truth of the world.

So this piece of "false lunar soil" does come from the moon, right?

Has the history associated with it been swallowed up by mystery?

Interesting~ Gao Fan thinks this is so interesting.

What is there on the moon?

The starting price for this piece of "fake lunar soil" is US$30,000, and each bidding unit is US$2,000.

Although it was placed in the National Museum of the Netherlands, the annual premium alone was more than 500,000 US dollars.

But once it is revealed to be false, its value will drop off a cliff.

Gao Fan raised his placard and bid $32,000.

Then, the sanity value in Gao Fan's system interface began to falter.

It's flickering.

Gao Fan once made a promise to Wang Shiluo.

Stop hunting him down.

Once hunted down, it will fall into madness.

Now the oath is being fulfilled.

It also proves that this piece of lunar soil is really related to the "Book of the Seven Sages", and is the third puzzle left to Gao Fan by the Eternal Demon.

It's a pity that Gao Fan can't get it now.

"Interesting~" Gao Fan thought to himself that he swears casually, but it can be fulfilled. What is the reason? Who is fulfilling the oath? Is it mysterious?

Although Gao Fan had already realized that it would work when he made the oath, but at the moment it really worked, Gao Fan began to think, is there a huge mystery that spans the sky, covering everything, He is greater than the silver key, He is the creator of everything, so the oath will be so effective.

Finally, Gao Fan's sanity dropped to 79.

If he really captured this piece of lunar soil, then the lunar soil would be like a slow poison, corroding Gao Fan's sanity until Gao Fan completely fell into madness.

Fortunately, just when the auctioneer was about to drop the hammer.

A price appeared in London, $35,000.

Gao Fan's sanity stopped falling.

"I'm thinking about the truth of the universe..." Gao Fan muttered, and then he raised his card again, $40,000.

London offered $45,000.

For the next ten minutes.

The price of this piece of lunar soil rose alternately between the bids of Gao Fan and the buyer from London, all the way up to $108,000.

This auction, which obviously only had two parties bidding, made everyone present turn their heads and look at Gao Fan. At the same time, some people recognized Gao Fan and showed a very interested expression. A painter, he didn't participate in the auction of his own work, but grabbed a fake stone here?

Of course, everyone didn't know that Gao Fan's card raising was also playing with his own reason, referred to as "death".

Immediately, someone noticed the latest news and whispered to the people around them. At this time, their eyes on Gao Fan were different again, with admiration in their surprise, as if they were not looking at a person, but at a person who had a similar relationship with him. Gao Fan also received a text message from Lawrence, it is very simple, 430 million US dollars.

"Redemption" ended up selling for $430 million.

The total transaction value of Gao Fan's four mask-themed paintings in this spring auction at Christie's has reached 830 million US dollars.

An appalling figure.

...

Gao Fan turned off the SMS interface and looked at the moon soil on the big screen again. The opponent had already offered 150,000 US dollars. Gao Fan looked at his spare SAN value, and there were 34 points left. How many more rounds could he play?

Just as he was about to raise the sign, a hand suddenly pressed his hand, and when he turned his head, Gao Fan saw Gao Zhengdao wearing a yellow hard hat.

This 'Lü', who looks exactly like him, said to him, "Stop messing around, I'll get the moon soil, this is the task you gave me."

Chapter 4 ~ See you tomorrow