"President?" The man suddenly exclaimed, his face full of surprise.
Huo Cheng just glanced backward. The man was about to slip away like an eel.
Not seeing anyone, Huo Cheng knew he had been tricked.
He flipped his big hand in the air and made a grab. The man narrowly escaped being caught. Before he could react from his belated panic...
This guy's reaction speed was really too fast. He hadn't even had time to get away.
Huo Cheng threw another punch, and the man panicked and tried to defend himself.
He mumbled, "Why bother? There's no need to fight. My..."
The man dodged again. That punch nearly hit his face.
Huo Cheng squinted his eyes. After a few rounds, he had already figured out the man's moves, and these moves were quite familiar to him.
Originally, he was still thinking about how to make the man in front of him stop for a while so that he wouldn't get injured before achieving anything.
Huo Cheng suddenly stopped.
Previously, he was in the middle of a dodging movement. It was like a freeze - frame in an action movie. His current pose looked rather comical.
He had been preparing to dodge the next move, but now he was stuck.
After waiting for a few seconds and still getting no reaction, he looked over in confusion and found that the man in front of him was standing there with his arms folded, looking at him coldly.
He slowly retracted his hand and complained, "It's over, but you don't even tell your opponent! You have no empathy at all. If it were you, wouldn't you feel embarrassed..."
The man chattered on.
Huo Cheng patiently watched him talk. Finding his words meaningless and probably just a ploy to stall for time, he simply interrupted him.
"Is the wound on your arm healed?"
The man glanced at his arm and frowned. "It's better, but..."
Suddenly, an alarm went off in his mind. He looked at the man in front of him, who was smiling playfully.
It seemed that the man was quite sure of his identity.
His heart skipped a beat. He panicked. He never thought he would fall into this man's hands.
"Why do you ask? We're not even that familiar," the man still tried to struggle.
Huo Cheng smiled and stepped closer to him, lowering his voice. "Your nickname, the Ocean Bandit. Don't tell me I have to remind you, YA."
"What YA? I have no idea what you're talking about."
He simply played dumb and refused to admit it.
"Fine. I'll call someone and see if they can confirm your identity."
The man's ears twitched. He turned his face away, a glimmer of joy in his eyes. "Go ahead and call someone to confirm! I can't bear this kind of unjust slander."
He spoke seriously, as if Huo Cheng had really wronged him. Suppressing his excitement, he thought that as long as Huo Cheng went to call someone, he would find a way to escape during this short period.
But he might have misunderstood Huo Cheng's intention.
Under his gaze, Huo Cheng put his hands together to form a megaphone shape. His cold face was about to do something completely out of character with his temperament.
"Come..."
The man covered his mouth and murmured helplessly, "I admit defeat. I'll talk. Can't I just talk?"
Only then did Huo Cheng put his hands down and quietly listen to him.
"So you knew the identity of the person you fought that day from the very beginning?" The man said that he had found out about Huo Cheng from the boarding information and was just curious, so he followed him here.
The man scratched his head shyly. "Who would put a photo of a strange woman in their pocket?"
"Go on," Huo Cheng nodded.
After listening to the whole story, there wasn't much useful information.
Huo Cheng knew that the man in front of him wasn't stupid. What he had said so far was already quite a lot.
As for his real purpose for coming here, Huo Cheng squinted his eyes, his sharp eyes looking ahead. He would find out sooner or later.
Huo Cheng turned his head and said to the man with his back turned, "If you want to know what I'm going to do, then keep pretending to be the character you were just now."
Huo Cheng glanced at his backpack and knew there was something fishy inside.
The excited voice of the host came from the conference hall.
"One hundred million once, one hundred million twice, one hundred million..."
"Two hundred million."
A voice came from outside the door. Everyone looked towards the door and gasped. It was the man who had been sitting at the dinner table before. It made sense now.
Huo Cheng gave the silent venue a cold look. His face remained calm as ever.
When he walked in, people finally noticed that there was a middle - aged man behind Huo Cheng. The man was raising his hand. There was a faint blush on his ordinary face. He said excitedly and apologetically, "I was the one who bid just now."
After the two of them sat down, people finally came to their senses.
The host got even more excited and shouted again, "Two hundred million once, two hundred million twice..."
"Two hundred and one million."
The man who had previously bid one hundred million was not convinced and managed to shout out.
As soon as Huo Cheng came in, he saw the investment project on the big screen: the economic reconstruction project in Country G. It seemed quite good.
His eyes lit up for a moment, but no one noticed at this time.
"Two hundred and fifty million."
A voice beside him sounded. Huo Cheng glanced at the man. It seemed that he was really into his role.
Hearing this price, the other man was completely dejected.
The whole venue reached a climax.
People listened excitedly as the host shouted, "Two hundred and fifty million twice, two hundred and fifty million thr..."
The host picked up the gavel, but before he could bring it down...
A cold but loud voice rang out.
"Five hundred million."
Many people gasped. Even the president sitting in the front row looked over.
Huo Cheng's expression remained unchanged. The whispering around him grew louder. All eyes were on them, especially him and the man beside him.
"Are you interested too?" the man whispered.
Huo Cheng squinted his eyes. "Do you have that much money?"
"No! I'll just renege on the deal later. Anyway, they won't be able to find me," the man said matter - of - factly.
Huo Cheng fell silent and didn't say anything else.
The host clutched his chest for a while and finally calmed down.
He tapped the gavel. His loud voice trembled with excitement.
"Well, five hundred million once..."
"Six hundred million."
Huo Cheng looked at the man beside him who had spoken. People's attention was shifted. Their eyes were full of excitement. They then looked at Huo Cheng, seemingly expecting them to continue the bidding war.
Without waiting for the host, Huo Cheng raised his number plate and said calmly, "One billion."
The man's eyes lit up. He was just about to speak...
"If you bid again, I'll make sure you win this project. And I'll cooperate with others to have you arrested. Do you believe me?"
Huo Cheng's cold threat sounded in the man's ear. No one else could hear it.
People just noticed that the man who had been so enthusiastic and might have staged a comeback suddenly fell silent. A look of entanglement flashed across his face.
Until the host shouted, "One billion three times."
After the gavel fell, people's long - awaited anticipation came to an abrupt end.
After a while, people finally came to their senses looking at the numbers and got excited. The price had increased by more than ten times. It was incredible.
Even the president, who hadn't been that interested in the prices of this auction before, got excited.
"What are you going to do?" the man beside Huo Cheng still asked.
Huo Cheng was just about to speak when a man suddenly walked towards him. He bent down and whispered something in Huo Cheng's ear.
Huo Cheng nodded and said, "Okay."
"What did he come to you for?" the man looked at the man's departing back.
Huo Cheng glanced at the man, stood up, straightened his suit, and left quickly.
"The president of Country G is looking for me."
He casually threw out this sentence.
Huo Cheng walked forward with a straight face. He glanced at the man behind him out of the corner of his eye while still straightening his suit. He knew the man would follow.