I was curious about the son of the Murphy family. I looked around the auction area and asked, “Where is Mr. Murphy? I don’t see him.”

She pointed at several places around the area and replied, “The place is filled with surveillance cameras. The young master of the Murphy family is watching everything from the shadows.”

 

I pursed my lips. He sure liked to waste his time.

I looked back at the box onstage and said after a moment’s pondering, “Are you sure the Murphys won’t auction it off?”

She shrugged. “I can’t say for sure.”

“Okay. The current bid is four hundred and fifty thousand. Are there any more bids? Four hundred and fifty thousand going once, four hundred and fifty thousand going twice…” announced the host.

“One million!” someone yelled out, cracking the calm atmosphere.

The bid had come from Joseph. I was appalled and asked in befuddlement, “Mr. Campbell…”

He looked at me solemnly and replied, “Mr. Fuller has requested that I buy this box. It might be able to open your box.”

take a look inside.

smiled a small smile. “Mr. Fuller hopes that you’ll be able to

continued calling for one

leaned towards me and whispered, “It’s not a huge loss to buy it for one million. You have both boxes now, which means double the value. They

good idea. I could not open the box on its own. It was a good idea to open it. They also had

called the bid thrice and was about to bang the gavel. I was sure the box

a deep voice bellowed,

roar erupted amongst the crowd. The

He was about to bid a higher price, but I stopped him.

to open it, we could always try asking the eventual buyer of the

spend so much

around curiously until I found the

seat of the VIP section, Stacey sighed. “This must be

man who had raised the paddle. He was dressed in a black suit and

asked Stacey, “How do you know he’s not

his charisma, he had to be a

her head. “You’re not observant enough. Take a closer look at his clothing choices. His clothes are all branded and must cost at least a

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