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

offers? 17 million dollars going once. 17 million going

“27 million.”

spotted a familiar figure. Unfortunately, many people here were wearing glasses, so it was hard to

million.” Wayne continued to increase the

for a computer. No one else offered a higher price except that strange man in glasses. He

54 million dollars?

and asked Pearl if she wanted to keep going. She

her mind, Wayne stopped raising his paddle. At last, the man

about to send Pearl home after the auction was over, but a group of people blocked their way when they reached the entrance. The leading man was

been a long time,

he was. She said in surprise, “Dimi? Why are

trade together, and he

to get the computer. Did you forget that it’s your birthday in two days? I knew you’d like it, so I came here to Caplein

long are you going to

to deliver this to you, but now I can just give

you if I knew it was you. You paid