"Sir, what kind of fruit is this?" Hicks asked again.

"Haha, you'll know after you eat it." Zhou He smiled and did not tell him.

Although Hicks was very curious and wanted to know, after hearing what Zhou He said, he could only give up.

Not long after, Zhou He and the two came to the backstage.

Instead of being crowded with many buyers, I was directly invited to a room by the host.

"Sir, one hundred blood ores are in this box, please check it!" the host said with a flattering look.

This is a big customer.

The devil fruits plus these one hundred blood diamonds are only one billion.

The box of gold given by Zhou He was worth 1.2 billion, and it seemed that Zhou He had no intention of making up the difference. Isn't he a super wealthy man?

Zhou He swept his mind away, nodded immediately and said: "Well, by the way, do you still sell blood diamonds here?"

"I can pay a high price, one hundred thousand for each." Zhou He suddenly said to the host.

"One hundred thousand?" The host was obviously shocked by the price.

"Well, sir, I can't make the decision. I'll ask our boss to come over." The host said quickly.

"Okay, you go."

Immediately, the host left the place directly.

When Zhou He saw that there was no one else in the room, he immediately waved his hand and put the box of blood ore into the storage box.

The two of them didn't wait long. About five minutes later, they saw a fat old man walking in, followed by the host and two muscular bodyguards.

"Sir, are you the one who bid 100,000 beli for the blood ore? I am the owner of this auction, Edelman, and the count of the empire." Edelman said with a smile on his face.

"Hello, Earl Edelman, I want to buy blood ore, and I need at least 10,000 of them." Zhou He nodded.

"Ten thousand?" Edelman raised his eyebrows slightly and made a mental calculation.

One blood ore is five kilograms, and ten thousand is equivalent to fifty thousand kilograms of blood ore.

In the Marla Empire, the control of blood ore is extremely strict. With his status, he can only purchase one hundred kilograms per month.

Every month his fleet needs to use blood ore to attract sea beasts for capture.

By catching sea beasts with blood ore and throwing away the cost, he can earn at least five million beli every month.

However, that requires a lot of manpower, material resources, and a lot of time. If you are not careful, someone will die. Although he never gives compensation or anything, it is troublesome to recruit people again.

Selling blood ore is a completely useless business.

Therefore, Edelman immediately made up his mind and made this deal.

"Sir, you also know that blood ore is strictly controlled in the empire. It is really difficult to obtain 10,000 blood ores." Edelman did not agree directly, but he did not refuse either.

"Count Edelman, I think you should be able to find a way." Zhou He said with a slight smile.

When Edelman heard this, he immediately showed a troubled look on his face and said, "Sir, you really gave me a big problem."

"In this way, if you pay a price of 200,000 blood ores, I can collect 10,000 blood ores for you." Edelman said.

Zhou He pondered for a moment, then said immediately: "Okay, that's settled, where is the goods?"

"Are you sure?" Edelman was obviously stunned for a moment, confused in his heart: "Did he say his price was too low? Or is this guy really too rich?"

"Okay, it will take me a while to get the goods together. How about paying and delivering at No. 1 Warehouse in the east of the city at ten o'clock tomorrow morning?" Edelman reacted and said quickly.

"Okay!" Zhou He nodded and immediately left the auction with Hicks.

When the host reacted, he had an excited look on his face.

No matter how high the price is, it has nothing to do with him, but since his boss has made such a huge sum, the bonus will definitely be huge.

Sure enough, Edelman burst out laughing, looked at the host, and said, "Kerry, you did a great job. If the transaction is completed tomorrow, you can receive a bonus of one million."

"Thank you, Lord Earl, thank you, Lord Earl!" Host Cree suddenly burst into laughter.

Not long after, Count Edelman left here with his bodyguards.

"Hey wait a minute, when the guests left just now, they didn't seem to see the blood ore being taken away, nor in the room. What's going on?" Kerry suddenly realized this problem.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure out the reason, so I didn't bother to think about it and went about my business happily.

…

As soon as the auction came out, Zhou He took Hicks and left the island.

And the moment they left, in the dark, several people who were following and monitoring Zhou He were dumbfounded.

After finally waiting for the person to come out, why did the person disappear in the blink of an eye?

Zhou He was naturally aware of the surveillance of these people, but he didn't care.

He took Hicks to the shore, took out the van, and then got in with Hicks.

It took more than ten minutes to reach the sea far away from the island at full speed.

Zhou He walked into the trunk without any ink, took out all the blood ore from a box, and then slapped it out with one palm, which instantly shattered into powder and fell into the box.

"Sir, use the blood you gave me." Hicks also knew what Zhou He was going to do, so he immediately stretched out his hand and said.

"Your blood? Even if your blood is drained, it won't be enough." Zhou He looked at the amount of powder in the wooden box and chuckled.

"Open the trunk!" Zhou He suddenly said.

The next second, a click was heard, and then the trunk door of the van opened directly.

Immediately, Zhou He raised his hand and slapped it toward the water.

A majestic mana burst out and submerged into the water.

But I saw that the water surface did not make any waves.

"Gulu gulu gulu"

After a while, a lot of air came up from the bottom of the water.

Immediately afterwards, a sea beast over ten meters in diameter was seen floating up with its belly turned over.

Immediately, Zhou He waved his hand gently and saw that a cut had been made in the blood vessel of the sea beast. A large amount of blood was drawn by a force and submerged into the wooden box. After a while, it was mixed with the blood mineral powder.

Zhou He wrapped the wooden box with magic power to prevent blood from flowing out, and then began to stir it with magic power.

Ten seconds later, the blood in the wooden box became extremely viscous and exuded a strange fragrance.

When Zhou He saw this, he threw the entire wooden box into the sea.

At the same time, he put the body of the sea beast into the storage box without any waste.

When the wooden box fell into the sea, the sea surface was dyed bright red in an instant, and the strange fragrance became even stronger.

The next moment, countless swimming fish were seen swarming in, and soon after, some fish with a length of four or five meters began to come.

Within a minute, sea monsters measuring more than ten or even tens of meters began to appear.

Five minutes later, a huge sea beast over 100 meters long appeared.

Ten minutes passed, and this huge sea beast devoured all the nearby fish and sea beasts.

The seawater, which was red due to the thick blood, gradually returned to its original color at this moment.

However, the peculiar fragrance not only did not fade away, but instead became stronger and stronger.

Moreover, that fragrance did not come from the sea, but from the body of the giant sea beast.

The sea beast was still unaware, floating on the sea, seemingly full, and enjoying the sun.

This is of course not the instinct of sea beasts. Sea beasts will not bask in the sun after eating.

The fact that they can bask in the sun so comfortably is naturally due to the blood ore. Otherwise, how could they attract the Neptune species?

"Sir, haven't the Neptunes come up yet? We've been waiting for more than ten minutes. Is this fake?" Hicks said with a frown.

"Haha, of course it's not false. The Neptune species have already arrived, and they are quite big." Zhou He said with a smile.

"Are you here?" Hicks has been using his Haki, but he didn't notice any movement on the bottom of the sea.

"It's still deep under the sea. It's normal that you can't notice it. Your domineering power of knowledge and color is not strong enough and you need to practice it well." Zhou He said.

"Yes, sir, I will work hard to practice." Hearing this, Hicks quickly said solemnly.

At this time, on the seabed thousands of meters deep in this area, a pair of huge eyes of a Neptune species that was over a thousand meters in size was staring at the hundred-meter-long sea beast above.

The upper body of this Neptune creature looks like a sea snake, but the lower body has octopus tentacles, which looks extremely weird and aversion to cold.

The sea beast above had a very strong fragrance exuding from its body, which made it a little greedy and wanted to eat it immediately.

However, there was a sense of crisis in my heart, but I couldn't put it into words.

It has been waiting here for a full three minutes, and it seems that there is no danger.

The Neptune species just didn't care, greed overcame everything else.

Immediately, the body suddenly swam upwards, and when it was close to the sea surface, it opened its big mouth, and in the next second, it could swallow the sea beast directly.
To be continued...