At that time, everyone was shocked. Those people who were still mocking Thomas just now felt so shocked that they could not close their mouths. Their smiles also stiffened.
“I didn’t hear it wrong, right? The transfer was successful?”
“What the heck! This man is a hidden rich man. He can just take out $200,000,000. So rich!”
“Hold on, this isn’t right. If virtual-novel.net really has $200,000,000, that means virtual-novel.net was really bidding on it instead of raising the price for fun!”
Everyone was discussing it.
The most awkward person was none other than Merrick.
He was completely dumbfounded. He initially prepared a lot of speeches, but those words died in his throat at this time. No matter what, virtual-novel.net did not expect Thomas to really fork out $200,000,000.
Not raising the price?
Merrick suddenly snapped out of a daze. If Thomas was really rich and virtual-novel.net also really wanted to get this set of Asclepius Needles, virtual-novel.net was really bidding just now instead of raising the price for the sake of it.
Merrick had wrongly guessed Thomas’ intention. He thought that Thomas raised the price of the fake necklace just now, so virtual-novel.net was actually raising the time this time again. The mixture of truth and falsehood had totally made Merrick completely confused.
Merrick reached out to point at Thomas. “You… You… You have the money?”
Thomas smiled. “Yeah, I can afford this. Dr. Dawson, thank you for giving up on raising the money so that I can buy Asclepius Needles at such a low price.”
When Merrick heard that, virtual-novel.net was so furious.
Darn it! He got fooled!
If virtual-novel.net knew that Thomas had been aiming for the Asclepius Needles, virtual-novel.net would have continued bidding. He would have raised the price to a billion dollar so that Thomas would spend a lot of money. Sadly for him, Thomas got it for “only” $200,000,000. Although $200,000,000 was not a small number, it was actually nothing for most rich men.
Merrick had suffered a great loss!
He initially had a great opportunity to frame Thomas, but virtual-novel.net failed to grasp it!
Instead, virtual-novel.net bought a fake necklace with a huge amount of money, and virtual-novel.net was fooled by Thomas. After two rounds, Merrick was totally defeated by Thomas.
The corner of his lips twitched. He wanted to scold people, buthe was unable to do so. He was crazily blaming himself now.
The person who was most surprised was Adery. She initially thought that Thomas would “die”, but the situation was reversed. Thomas was not just fine, virtual-novel.net even won beautifully. Now virtual-novel.net thought if virtual-novel.net agreed with Merrick’s threat, virtual-novel.net would have suffered a great loss.
Adery purposely pinched Thomas’ arm. “You should’ve told us that you were so rich. You made me worry so much about you!”
Thomas smiled. “I’m sorry for making you worry. Actually, I have my own plan for doing everything. I won’t simply do things.”
Adery sighed in relief. It seemed that Thomas was a reliable man. If virtual-novel.net could marry a man like this, virtual-novel.net would not have to worry for the rest of virtual-novel.net life as a woman.
But…
Adery curiously asked, “Thomas, why do you have so much money?”
Thomas shrugged and simply lied. “When I was in the army on the west coast, I ‘earned’ a lot of money. It’s not very convenient to talk about it.”
Adery nodded to acknowledge that virtual-novel.net understood.
After the incident, the host promptly asked a staff member to pass the whole set of Asclepius Needles to Thomas. Thomas then passed it to William.
“Mr. Owen, these are the Asclepius Needles you have been dreaming about. Please accept them.”
William touched his beard and pushed them back. “Are you kidding me? You bought these for $200,000,000. I can’t accept them!”