BXBX NOVEL Chapter 562
Chapter 562: Ohhh! This One Is Good!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Since everything was prepared, Running Dog instantly activated auctioneer mode; even its voice seemed to become a bit impassioned. “Everyone, I am the auctioneer for this time auctioning of high intelligence animals, Running Dog. Right next, we shall start with the first item!”
Saying so, it turned on the holographic projection again. The animal projected this time was a grey wolf wearing a grey vest. “This is a Siberian wolf. Its name is Wolffy, five-years-old, it’s already trained to be very obedient by the Young Master. Please look!”
Then, in the holographic projection, Wolffy gentlemanly wore a grey vest, a yellow hat, stood with its chest out and head held high and walked alongside someone, its steps stable and full of valiance, extremely cool and impressive.
Especially with the video that Running Dog aptly showed. It was a video of normal pet dogs such as huskies standing alongside it. That scene... Hehehehe...
Everyone’s eyes shone. “Ohhh! This one is good!”
“Then now.” Seeing that everyone was eager to bid, Running Dog excitedly announced, “The auction for Wolfy, the big grey wolf, shall now start! The starting price is one yuan, those who want it can make your bid now.”
The starting bid of one yuan was just a casual statement, they naturally wouldn’t expect that they could buy this highly intelligent wolf with just one yuan.
“This one is good, I shall see if that who still dares to show off his husky in front of me next time. If he dares, I will ask Wolffy to challenge him.” Someone instantly raised his card: “One million!”
To be honest, they wouldn’t be able to find a second wolf like this in the entire world! Hong Dali could indeed train animals, but the problem was that he wasn’t in Chenhui Building anymore and had transferred to his base on the sea. It was said that he even planned to build a school there, so he was probably planning to stay on the sea for a long period or go tour around the entire world.
In other words, there would not be other high intelligence animals appearing for a long time!
What was the meaning of rareness? This was the meaning of rareness! This was the only Wolffy in the entire world, why would they not fight for it with their all!?
“1.2 million!”
“1.5 million!”
“1.8 million!”
“2.4 million!”
The price continued to rise.
A normal grey wolf wasn’t valuable! But if they brought Wolffy out and hype it, it would become valuable!
“3 million!”
“3.5 million!”
“4 million!”
Running Dog: “Very good, this Mister has bid 4 million, is there anyone higher? 4 million going once, 4 million going twice... Ah, well done, that Mister has bid 5 million. 5 million going once, 5 million going twice!”
Someone raised his card again: “6 million!”
“Oh, I am really too excited! This is really squandering at a high level, but I like it!” Running Dog waved its four arms frantically. “6 million going once, 6 million going twice, 6 million going thrice! Deal! Congratulations, Mister, you have successfully auctioned for a highly intelligent pet wolf!”
In the end, this amazing Wolffy was sold for a high price of 6 million yuan.
“Then, ladies and gentlemen, let’s start with the next auction item!” Running Dog fiercely slammed the mallet and decisively started with the auction for the next highly intelligent animal.
...
Tianhai Military Headquarters, large conference room.
The Bureau Chief and the others all stared in bewilderment at the video recording that Running Dog transferred to them at the same time.
Running Dog was indeed very awesome. Hong Dali specially used a perfect-grade smartphone’s data network line and installed it on this fellow, using the perfect-grade data connector from a perfect-grade smartphone too—the signal was stable, strong, and not affected by distance!
“This... this...” The various military leaders here were astonished. “Just such a short while and the sum accumulated is already over 100 million? Are the things that this prodigal Hong Dali makes really so popular?”
“Exactly, this was only such a short while and 16 animals were already sold. And it looks like the animals at the back are going to be fought for more ferociously, each of them easily costing more than 10 million or more!”
“In my opinion, it wouldn’t be just 10 million. Things are more valuable the rarer it is, after all!”
They were all exclaiming at the prices of these animals that Hong Dali groomed. Even the Bureau Chief was amazed as well. “This... just a random thing that Dali makes is already worth this much? We all thought that the animals were not worth much, but they can actually earn so much!?”
At first, Hong Dali did indeed groom the animals purely for the sake of squandering.
At that time, he practically wiped out all of the stray cats and dogs in Tianjing City, bringing back several thousands of them back and raising them!
Even though those stray cats and dogs were easy to care for and there were specialized people taking care of them, selling one for a hundred yuan or so was already the maximum. Of course, the more likely case was this little prodigal Hong Dali giving them away for free.
But no one expected that although the stray cats and dogs didn’t earn any money for him, just from the looks of things today, earning a few hundred million from these animals definitely wouldn’t be a problem!
One must know that the animals being auctioned were the smaller animals, those at the back were the more impressive ones—just the two tigers alone would definitely be worth at least tens of millions, without a doubt!
Why? Because in the mindset of Heavenly State’s citizens, tigers were always the kings of the beasts!
Tigers were the symbol for people who were of the highest class! In ancient times, didn’t those bandit lords liked to use tiger skins as their seat? Now, this was much more awesome than tiger skin seats. This was directly live tigers and ones that knew how to babysit!
There were only two of these awesome tigers in the entire world. Plus their beautiful and domineering appearance, high intelligence, gentlemanly behavior—what did they need to wait for? They would definitely fight for the tigers like crazy!
Of course, there were some who were brighter and were more concerned about Hong Dali’s technology. This bunch of people all deadly stared at Running Dog and said, “Bureau Chief, can we think of something to order the technology for making this robot? This robot is really incredible, if we modify it and install weapons onto it, we wouldn’t need to send ordinary soldiers into the battlefield anymore, right?”
“Yup, indeed, this thing is indeed useful! Dali’s technologies are already so far ahead of us?”
Unexpectedly, upon mentioning Running Dog, the Bureau Chief resolutely shook his head and said, “Regarding Running Dog, I have asked Dali before. He has very clearly stated that the technology for making Running Dog cannot be leaked out, and we must strictly control the number of Running Dogs made. Now, Dali has a total of 20 Running Dog robots, and most of them are being used for modifying the aircraft carrier.”
“This...” Someone said, “Dali this little rascal is keeping such a good thing to himself, that’s not very good, isn’t it?”
This was a highly intelligent robot, if it could be used for military purposes, it would definitely shake the world when revealed!
“This is different.” The Bureau Chief shook his head and said, “This isn’t keeping the good things to himself. The influence of robots is too big. If it’s manually controlled, that would not be a big problem, it’s fine no matter how much we produce of it. But for highly intelligent ones like Running Dog, if there were a lot of them, once they evolve, that would definitely not be a good thing for humans. Therefore, we can only control their numbers to below the safety line, and definitely not use them for war.”
What the Bureau Chief said did indeed made sense.
For highly intelligent robots such as Running Dog, if they manufacture thousands of it, once the programming went wrong or someone with evil intentions controlled them, or the robots really evolved into artificial intelligence, the damage they could do to the human civilization was too severe.
The war between humans and robots had always been one of the main themes of sci-fi movies in history.
To prevent this, they must be very careful about this kind of highly intelligent robots. If not, it could easily become a disaster for humans.
“That’s true.” That general carefully thought over it for a while and felt that it did make sense. “If robots replace the army, they will become a disaster if they revolt. If they don’t replace the army, then they don’t have much significance anymore. If there were just tens or twenty war robots, that would be just for show.”
“Therefore, there’s no need to think too much about this.” The Bureau Chief smiled and said, “The technology for the Mechanical Holy Garments is the most important thing. No matter the circumstances, it’s safest when it’s humans who are in control of the weapons.”
The few of them chatted as they watched the live broadcast. Time passed very quickly for them, and in just a blink of the eye, it was already three hours later.
Running Dog had already auctioned quite a few animals. At this moment, the clerk violently wiped off his sweat and softly said, “Bureau Chief, Running Dog has already auctioned away 68 animals. The total value added up is...”
“How much money is it added up? It should be quite a bit, right?” The Bureau Chief drank some tea and asked.
Each of these animals was quite rare. Such highly intelligent animals, even the Bureau Chief coveted them. Therefore, he was naturally very curious as to how much they were sold for.
“It’s a total of...” The clerk wiped off his sweat again. “487,000,000 yuan.”
“PU—” The Bureau Chief spat out his tea. “How much did you say!? 487,000,000 yuan!? Close to 500,000,000 yuan!?”
The clerk violently swallowed his saliva. “Yes... The lowest was three to four million, the highest was 10 million or so. Added up, that’s 487,000,000 yuan.”
“God...”
The other military officers were all astonished too.
God, these animals were actually sold for almost 500 million!?
“Are you for real? That’s 500 million! Am I dreaming? This... this value is too dreamlike!”
“That’s right. It’s been only just half a day and this little rascal Dali earned almost 500 million?”
“The two tigers still haven’t been sold yet, I wonder how much they will be sold for...”
“In my opinion, they are worth at least 20 million each!”
“20 million? I reckon they would buy it even at 30 million!”
“I think 40 million is quite possible, too!”
It wasn’t that these military leaders never saw money before—they wouldn’t be surprised if it was just tens of millions. But the problem was that this wasn’t tens of millions, this was a few hundred million! A few hundred million! And this was only the animal project that they thought wasn’t worth much. Even this one was already like this, then for the other projects...
Just thinking about it made their scalps go numb.
Yet, just as they were exclaiming, someone suddenly shouted, “Quick, look, the two tigers are going to be auctioned now!”