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?”

raised his paddle, “17

17 million dollars going once.

“27 million.”

Unfortunately, many people here were

continued to

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

54 million dollars?

she wanted to keep going. She

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

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,

wearing glasses, Pearl recognized who he was. She

he was her senior. Besides, their hacking skills were some of the

it’s your birthday in two days? I knew you’d like it, so I came here

are you going to be

was planning to deliver this to you,

with you if I knew it was you. You paid