Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 25

Pearl turned him down as she had something important to do. She left the party and got into a car, where Wanye was waiting.

“Are you all better now, Miss Pearl?”

Pearl laughed. “I’ve long recovered. Let’s go. Step on or it’ll be over before we get there.”

Wayne nodded and stepped on the gas.

They headed to an underground market. There was an auction for an advanced computer there tonight. It was said that it was a computer once owned by the world’s top hacker, and there was only one such computer in the whole world. Pearl liked fiddling around with these kinds of things, so had to get her hands on this computer.

When they arrived at the scene, they were just in time for the climax of the auction. The computer was the last item to be auctioned. The starting price was 1 million and 3 hundred thousand dollars. Everyone was taken aback. Pearl remained quiet. When the voices subsided, she started to bid for the computer.

“16 million dollars. Any other offers?”

slowly raised his paddle,

million dollars going once. 17 million going

“27 million.”

face stiffened. She looked around and spotted a familiar figure. Unfortunately, many people here were wearing glasses, so it was hard to tell a person’s real

million.” Wayne continued

high price for a computer. No one else offered a higher

54 million dollars?

and asked Pearl if she wanted to keep going.

stopped raising his paddle. At

their way when they reached the

a long

Pearl recognized who he was. She said in surprise,

trade together, and he was

forget that it’s your birthday in two days? I knew you’d

long are you

to you, but now I can just give it to

annoyed. “I wouldn’t have competed with you if I knew it was you. You paid