Chapter 23: Cut Off!

  As he walked into the back warehouse, Lin Xiao saw rows of neatly arranged shelves, on which were placed some stones that weren't particularly large. On the floor further inside, however, were many very large stones, with the largest one almost as big as Lin Xiao himself.

  "These were all brought over from Myanmar, some of which were sent to the processing plant for processing, those that have been confirmed to contain jade, and these are unconfirmed, you've heard of blind stone gambling?" Zhang Rui Xiang picked up a stone the size of an infant's head from the shelf, smiling at Lin Xiao.

  "I've heard of this, but I've never played it before." Lin Xiao replied to Zhang Rui Xiang while continuously using his detection technique to detect these stones.

  The formation process of jade often takes billions of years to calculate, and if we talk about the age, they are much older than any antique. If antiques may contain aura, then the possibility of jade containing aura should be even greater.

  However, the emergence of boundary force is also random. It's possible that an ancient artifact contains a small amount of boundary force, but a stone tool left over from primitive human times doesn't contain even half a bit of boundary force.

  Lin Xiao also had a try-and-see attitude, if there was something good, it would be great, but if not, he wouldn't be too disappointed, at least this time he had already gained something.

  His ears listened to Zhang Ruixiang's introduction about the difference between jade stones, and Lin Xiao didn't let his eyes stop either. He kept scanning one stone after another, and finally, when he felt a bit dizzy, he had scanned all the stones in the entire warehouse.

  "Three of them have a red glow reaction, the others are all white light, and the brightest one among the red lights... is that one!" Lin Xiao's gaze fell on a large stone about half a person high in the depths of the warehouse. In his eyes, the stone was now flashing with a faint red light. The red light was faint, but it was much brighter than the other two.

  Secondly, there is a stone the size of an infant's head on the shelf, and then there is another stone placed on the ground that is almost as tall as half a person.

  Lin Xiao's gaze swept back and forth between the three stones, thinking to himself: "I reckon I can't afford those two big ones for now, but that small one might be worth asking about the price."

  Although he had never played with gambling stones, Lin Xiao at least knew that these things were very expensive. The bigger the stone, the more expensive it was, and the better the production place, the more expensive it was. Since this batch of stones was placed together, they must be from the same production place, so the bigger ones would naturally be more expensive. This half-person-high one, estimated to be over 100,000 yuan.

  "Little brother, have you set your eyes on any? I'll give you a 20% discount!" Zhang Rui Xiang said with a smile as he saw Lin Xiao staring at several pieces of jade.

  "Zhang Ge, I really want to buy one to try my luck, but I don't know how much it costs?" Lin Xiao walked up to the shelf and picked up the jade stone with a red glow reaction, "For example, this piece, roughly how much would it sell for?"

  Zhang Ruixiang took a look and saw that Lin Xiao had only picked up a small piece, so he couldn't help but smile and say: "This piece in your hand is the cheapest among this batch of jade stones. If I sell it to someone else, it would be at least 7,000 yuan. But since we get along pretty well, little brother, I'll give you an 80% discount. You can take it for 5,600 yuan."

  Lin Xiao didn't haggle and directly counted out 56 old man heads from his bag and handed them to Zhang Rui Xiang.

  "Zhang Ge, count."

  Zhang Ruixiang smiled and took the money, without really counting it. "Little brother, I trust you. Do you want to open it now and take a look?"

  Lin Xiao looked at the jade stone in his hand, thought for a moment and nodded.

  If it's cut open and it's the legendary Glass Emperor Green or something, then he'll be rich, maybe even complete the 'Family Fortune Million Two' task in one go. It's also possible that even if it doesn't turn out well, at least the boundary power can still be absorbed, not like the boundary power will disappear just because it's cut open.

  "Come on, Old Master Gu has something to attend to today. Those two young ones aren't skilled enough, so let me, Zhang Ge, help you cut it open myself. Who knows, little brother, you might be lucky and actually cut out a glass lotus!"

  Following Zhang Rui-xiang, the two returned to the outside. The employees in those two stores were now idle, perhaps because it was still early, and there were only two or three customers in the store, who also looked like regulars.

  "Ah! Old Zhang, you were hiding behind all along. I was wondering why I couldn't see your face!" Those few guests immediately smiled and went forward to greet Zhang Rui Xiang as soon as they saw him.

  "Today, a batch of new goods has just arrived, and you guys will have to give me some support later!" Zhang Rui Xiang smiled and greeted them while taking the jade stone Lin Xiao had bought to the back of the processing table.

  "Old Zhang, are you going to do it yourself?" Those people looked at Zhang Rui Xiang in surprise as he walked behind the workbench. In their impression, Zhang Rui Xiang rarely took action himself.

  "How come, you think I've lost my touch?" Zhang Rui Xiang took off his suit and put on an apron. "Little brother, can I cut it now?"

  Lin Xiao stood by and nodded with a smile.

  "Zhang Ge, just be bold and cut it, even if you cut it badly, it's okay." Lin Xiao said.

  It's not like nothing happened, anyway Lin Xiao just wanted to absorb the boundary power in the first place, and even if he cut off the boundary power, he could still absorb it.

  "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten this little skill of mine." Zhang Rui Xiang replied, his face immediately turning serious as he began to meticulously cut the jade stone in his hand.

  Those guests in the store who were quite familiar with Zhang Ruixiang looked at Lin Xiao a few times, wondering what kind of relationship these two people had. They didn't seem to be particularly close, but why was Zhang Ruixiang being so polite to this young man?

  However, at this time Zhang Rui Xiang had already begun to take action. They also put down the doubts in their hearts and focused on watching the jade stone in Zhang Rui Xiang's hand.

  Everyone in the store fell silent, with only the sound of jade cutting machines echoing through the store.

  The stone chips on the surface of the jade kept falling off, and the entire jade was shrinking bit by bit. Zhang Ruixiang's movements looked extremely smooth, not at all like a novice.

  Unconsciously, the number of people in the store also gradually increased. Those who can come here are either good at jade or good at gambling. Seeing Zhang Rui Xiang personally cutting and carving jade stones with his own hands, they all stared wide-eyed and watched seriously.

  Lin Xiao was different from others, they were looking at the cutting surface of the jade stone, ready to exclaim in surprise or make a hissing sound at any time, while Lin Xiao looked at the red light on this piece of jade stone. Once the red light dimmed, he would stop Zhang Rui Xiang's action at the first time.

  As the layers of stone flakes fell off one by one, a hidden green hue inside the jade also gradually became more and more apparent.

  "It's out!" someone in the crowd exclaimed.