Episode 9. Rooting Out the Fake (7)
Honestly, I had wondered what good seizing a Special Zone could possibly do.
“Twenty-eight……!”
“Thirty million.”
“Thirty-one million won!”
But as I watched that heated competition and the absurdly rising sums, I understood.
A market formed wherever people gathered.
“Thirty-one million! Anyone going higher?”
The people hesitated at the teddy bear’s question.
“All right! Ahjussi, sold for thirty-one million!”
At the teddy bear’s declaration, two skull masks approached the winning bidder.
He was a middle-aged man in his fifties with rough skin.
When the skull masks stood on either side of him, the man took out his smartphone.
One of the skull masks also produced a smartphone, and the middle-aged man fumbled with his device for a moment.
He appeared to be scanning a QR code.
Ding—
“Done. Payment confirmed.”
What? How?
Ordinary smartphones should not have been able to communicate from here.
Through some unknown method, the teddy bear’s group succeeded in performing a bank transfer in real time.
The man who had just sent a vast sum squeezed his eyes shut, his face dark with despair.
“Name your prices again!”
At the teddy bear’s cry, the next round of bidding began.
The process repeated twice more and produced absurd results.
The subsequent winning bids were thirty-four million won and forty million…