Chapter 1078 Organizer
Feng Bujue walked down the stairs and came to the main hall, still observing the surrounding environment and people.
Although the word "dinner" was used in the previous broadcast, the organizers of the banquet obviously had no intention of inviting everyone to sit around the table and eat Chinese food.
Of course, food and drinks are still provided in the main hall. A variety of wines, champagne trees, as well as many ready-to-eat snacks and fresh seafood...all can be taken by guests.
In other words... you can only get it yourself.
Because there are only men in suits and sunglasses responsible for maintaining order, not waiters.
Considering that many guests have chosen masks that "can't eat without taking them off", the demand for food and beverages here is actually quite limited, so there seems to be nothing wrong with this arrangement.
After a while, Brother Jue, who quickly wandered around the main hall, resisted the urge to take off his mask and eat some food... He found a corner against the wall and stood still, continuing to watch the changes.
"What happened as expected..." Looking at the various guests in front of him, Feng Bujue thought to himself, "Even though everyone is wearing a mask and is a stranger to each other, many people have already formed a 'small group'. "
His eyes moved quickly, scanning the people in groups one by one.
“Even if their faces are covered, sociable people are still good at sociability.
"Stature, conversation, temperament; and taste in drinks, clothes, and even masks...these are all explicit capital that can quickly reflect self-worth."
Thinking of this, he looked at other people.
"Those who are not good at those can only act as vassals for the time being, or fight on their own like me."
Then, he snorted softly.
"Hmph... However, in the long run, there is no difference between the two.
"Those people who are talking and laughing now also understand in their hearts that the 'relationship' established in this situation is nothing more than just playing around and taking advantage of each other.
"Once it comes time to involve one's own interests, anyone can easily betray the other..."
Feng Bujue looked up at the second floor of the main hall; there... there was a doorway guarded by many black suits that no one could approach.
"In the final analysis... in the eyes of the 'organizer' who is promoting this good show, the people standing in this main hall at this moment are all playthings for his entertainment...
"Whether it's gorgeous clothes or excellent social skills...
“Whether it’s showing off your knowledge or showing off your skills...
"No matter what you do, you can't hide the most basic fact - everyone who comes here is desperate.
“If I hadn’t been desperate, I wouldn’t have come to this ship.
“If I wasn’t desperate, I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
"Moreover, these people... are different from the people at the bottom who have never touched the resources of the upper class of society; they are all 'successful people', 'social elites', and 'winners in life'... Their abilities, courage, vision, etc. are all It is different from the former.
"However, they all made some mistakes that brought their lives to the edge of destruction.
"They...are more afraid of poverty and losing power than the average person.
"For mortals, being a mortal is life, but for gods, being a mortal... is the most terrible punishment.
“In the hearts of this group of people, the ‘fear’ of a poor life even surpasses the fear of death—at least, that’s what they must have thought before they really faced death.
"So. They made a desperate move...
"So, they came here...
"In order to escape the abyss in front of them, they rushed towards a single-plank bridge in excitement. But they deceived themselves and ignored... Only a very small number of people can cross the bridge; and the rest will all fall from the bridge and fall into it. In another even deeper abyss..."
Thinking of this, Feng Bujue actually smiled.
"Ha... watching these people struggling and tearing each other apart in a desperate situation... gradually peeling off the layers of disguise on their bodies, revealing the dirty essence, or... nature, under the bright appearance, must be a very extreme thing. It’s about pleasure.”
His smile contains elements of self-deprecation and some indescribable emotions...
I'm afraid Brother Jue himself has realized it... The reason why he can think of these is precisely because the dark side of his heart is also longing for this "show".
…………
Night. Ten past seven.
Maybe it’s to put on airs, maybe it’s to give the guests time to communicate beforehand. Or maybe... it's just random.
In short, tonight's protagonist has finally arrived and made his debut.
It was a yellow man wearing a tuxedo, about 1.8 meters tall, and with medium black hair.
Like the guests, the "host" wore a mask.
Therefore, people cannot see his face; the only information that can be confirmed from him is his hair color, skin color, height, and body shape.
When the man came to stand by the guardrail on the second floor, the crowd in the main hall naturally fell silent.
【Sense of presence】
These are the words that are running through people’s minds at the moment.
He didn't speak or do anything that would attract other people's attention. His mere "appearance" and standing there give people a strong sense of presence that cannot be ignored.
Not long after, the entire venue fell silent, and hundreds of scorching eyes were fixed on that person.
People were waiting... waiting for him to say something.
This reaction made the organizer quite satisfied.
"As always, these ordinary, vulgar ants disguised as elites... quickly noticed my difference."
He said this in his heart and was about to speak, but he didn't expect...
Hulululululu--
Suddenly, a very obvious slurping sound was heard.
Since the main hall was very quiet at this time, the sound was extremely piercing.
So... people's attention, which was originally on the organizer, was instantly attracted by the slurping sound.
But the source of the sound...a man wearing a crow mask, holding a drink, and inserting the straw of the drink into the "eye" part of the mask, slurping and slurping...
Faced with the crowd's onlookers, this guy didn't mean to stop this weird behavior at all.
He just drank the drink slowly and nonchalantly, then put down the cup and slowly closed the "glasses" on the mask (the two eyes of the crow mask are two round glass designs like small portholes; on the mask bought by Brother Jue, these two glasses can be opened separately).
"I say, big brother." After finishing the drink, Feng Bujue turned around and took two steps, saying hello to the man in a suit and sunglasses who was closest to him.
The man in the suit was also stunned. After two seconds, he stammered, "What...what's the matter?"
"Don't you have the kind of straws that can be bent? This straight one is so inconvenient." Feng Bujue complained in a tone at the counter of a convenience store, and told the other party something that seemed insignificant to everyone.
But... from the actual situation, his suggestion was indeed reasonable.
Because the mouth of Feng Bujue's mask could not be opened, when he was sucking the drink just now, he could only bend the straw to an angle of nearly 60 degrees and hold the drink to the same height as his face. Let the straw pass through the hole at the eye and enter the mask, and then put it in his mouth...
In this case, the straight straw is forcibly bent, which will make it very difficult to suck things, and then it will make that very unpleasant and very obvious sucking sound.
Of course... Normally, when the mouth of the mask cannot be opened, most people simply give up drinking water and eating. If the mouth of the mask can be opened, the straight straw will not have any effect.
"This... this..." The man in the suit was a little confused by the question. As a small figure. Under the focus of so many people, he couldn't help but get nervous.
"Hehe... Hehe..." Fortunately, two seconds later. The organizer standing on the second floor laughed.
His laughter drew people's attention back.
"Oh? Younger than expected." Feng Bujue heard the other party's voice. He immediately thought, "Just now, from his gait when he walked, the skin exposed outside, and the posture when he stood, he should not be more than 40 years old. But now listening to this laugh... He is probably under 30."
"Hey! That guy." Before the smile faded, the organizer shouted loudly to the man in the suit with his slightly arrogant voice.
"Ah... Ah! Yes! Sir!" The man in the suit hesitated for half a second, then immediately stood up straight and answered loudly.
"Go to the logistics department right now and check for the gentleman next to you whether there are any straws on the ship that he wants." The next second, the organizer calmly ordered, "If not, take a helicopter back to the city to buy some for him."
"Uh... yes!" The man in the suit responded with an expression of "being saved". Then, he looked at Brother Jue with a smug look before leaving...
What happened in just one minute was the first round of "confrontation" between Brother Jue and the organizer...
Feng Bujue saw the moment when the organizer was about to speak and disrupted the other party's rhythm with some nonsensical behavior.
The organizer used a very simple and direct method, but one that ordinary people might not think of, to solve the other party's request.
As a result, Brother Jue's situation at the moment seemed a little embarrassing... However, he was thick-skinned after all, and he had the bonus of a mask today, so he didn't care much about the crowd watching.
In any case, this first "fight"...it seemed that the organizer had won.
"Hmm..." After a slightly awkward silence, the organizer cleared his throat and spoke again, "Ladies and gentlemen..."
His words made those who still looked down on me retract their gazes.
"Welcome to the Song of Songs." When the organizer said this, there was no earnestness. There was a hint of chill in his tone. "I am the organizer of this banquet. You can just call me 'organizer'."
He paused for two seconds, looked at the reaction of the crowd below, and then said: "You are all smart people. I will save those false and roundabout words..."
He was not a person who would say that kind of words... because "false" and "roundabout" are rhetorical devices that people will use when they need help from others. And this organizer has almost no chance to say such words.
"I will just talk about the part that you are interested in..."
When the organizer said this, eight men in suits appeared silently on both sides of him, four on each side, standing side by side.
Each man in a suit held an object covered by a white cloth in his hand. Judging from the outline...there should be some kind of rectangular object under the white cloth, with a side length of about thirty centimeters.
"Heh..." After waiting for a few seconds, the organizer sneered, "Let me introduce to you the prizes of this 'game' tonight."
Before he finished speaking, the men in suits each removed the white cloth covering the objects they held.
Under the white cloth... without exception, there were small glass cabinets.
The bottoms of those cabinets were made of metal, and the bases were covered with rectangular glass covers, and the cabinets contained...
"I will start from my left hand side... and introduce them to you one by one." The organizer just glanced left and right, confirmed the position and order of those things, and then stopped turning his head, but kept looking down at the crowd below, and told the story...
"First, 'Red Tears', one of the most famous natural red diamonds in the world, was stolen from a collector's home in 2040 and has been missing since then. The market value at the last valuation... was about 6 million US dollars."
"Second, 'Firefly', there is nothing special, just It is a very perfect cat's eye stone with a market value of about 5 million US dollars. "
"Third, 'Fragrance', a funerary object excavated from the royal jewels of a European country. Legend has it that it will bring bad luck to women who wear it, causing them to die within a few years, and each dead person will die in a place with a strange fragrance. The last time 'Fragrance' appeared in the auction market, it was sold for 12 million US dollars. "
"Fourth, 'Lover', produced in Myanmar, one of the largest diamonds in the world, was first discovered in the 19th century. The original stone was cut into two pieces because it was too large, and was born by the hands of two skilled Italian craftsmen. "
"Fifth, 'Love' "The 'Pink Diamond' is the sister stone of the previous one. The market value of these two diamonds is about 5 million US dollars. "
"Sixth, the 'Dashmir Pink Diamond' originally belonged to a famous female star in the 20th century. In 1968, she was murdered in the living room of her own home. The only thing stolen from her mansion that day was this diamond. The year before she was murdered, she bought this diamond for $180,000. I think everyone knows about inflation. You should be able to calculate how much $180,000 is equivalent to now. "
"Seventh, the 'Crown' was the prize for a series of competitions held by a certain American game company in 1982. The prize is made of pure gold and decorated with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and aquamarine. Due to the collapse of the US gaming industry in 1983, the competition game related to the prize was only released in limited quantities and ultimately failed to reach the finals. The whereabouts of the ‘crown’ were unknown in the same year. The estimated value of this item was 25,000 US dollars at the time. Similarly, taking into account inflation and its background story, the current market value is at least 4 million US dollars. "
"Finally..." When talking about the last thing, the organizer paused, glanced at the cabinet, and then said, "'Heart of the Ocean'."
He only said these four words about this gem.
He only needed to say these four words about this gem...
No one here doesn't know the story of the Heart of the Ocean, and no one will estimate the value of this gem.
"Well...as long as we get 'that', it's fine..." When the people in the main hall looked up at the priceless gems in a daze, Feng Bujue was unmoved. He was only concerned about...the "goal" of his trip.
"Well, I think you have an idea of the value of the prizes this time." After a pause of a few seconds, the organizer continued, "There is no doubt that any one of these jewels is enough to help you get out of your current predicament.
"As long as you win the 'game', you can take one away.
"But...if you lose the 'game'..." (To be continued ~^~)