The First Interstellar Energy Gambler - Chapter 137.1
Translator: Skull_InA_Rose
Chapter 137: Stone Gambling Tournament 6
Zhong Shuo chose a piece of half-gambled bayberry sand skin jadeite. A window had been opened on the top, and the emerald green color inside could be clearly seen from the window. On the bottom of this piece of jadeite, there were python bands and pine flowers. Just because there was a python belt didn’t necessarily mean that there would be jade, but if pine flowers appeared the possibility of there being jade inside greatly increased. There was a window of jade on the top and jade indicators on the bottom. As long as there was no fault in the middle, the jade inside this piece of jadeite wouldn’t be small.
The jadeite selected by the two seemed to be very good gambles, and each looked as good as the other. Only by cutting them would it be known what the real situations inside were like.
The two brought their jadeite pieces to their respective cutting machines in the center of the stadium and began to cut their stones.
Both of them chose to start with grinding the stones. The outer skin of Han XinYuan’s water stone jadeite was very thin, so cutting it directly might have hurt the jade inside. Meanwhile, Zhong Shuo’s jadeite had already been opened, so it was better to grind slowly along the edge of the opening.
Not long after they started, Han XinYuan ground into the jade layer. The jade green color was a very pleasant brightness that made people feel happy to look upon it, but he didn’t know what the crystalline structure would be like.
As for Zhong Shuo’s side, the bet was only rising the more he ground away at the matrix stone.
It’s just that everyone knew that it was normal for jadeite to rise when being ground like he was doing, and it would have only been weird for it to collapse.
After Zhong Shuo had ground off an entire section, there were cheers from the crowd around him. It could be seen that the exposed surfaces were all rich and bright green, and the clarity and crystal structure made it look as if the type would likely be at least a high ice type.
The jade inside Zhong Shuo’s jadeite was at this point roughly already known by everyone, so it was now up to Han XinYuan to overtake him.
The area of exposed jade that Han XinYuan had ground out was much smaller than on Zhong Shuo’s piece, and the green color didn’t seem to be as strong as on Zhong Shuo’s. If the jade type also wasn’t a match for his piece, then Han XinYuan was sure to lose.
Fortunately, Han XinYuan’s judgment was correct. He made a vertical knife cut, and after washing the cut surface an expanse of spinach green was revealed, which showed that the jade inside his jadeite was very deep.
Now, in terms of color, Zhong Shuo’s emerald green was better than Han Xinyuan’s spinach green. When comparing size, both sides looked about the same. Now the key lied in the jade texture and clarity. It was obvious that Zhong Shuo’s jade was at least ice type, but too little of Han XinYuan’s jadeite skin had been cut off to tell yet. Despite the fact that it was impossible to definitively determine his jade’s type yet though, it absolutely wasn’t that bad.
As time passed, everyone’s anxiety for them only built.
Finally, both of them finished their stones.
Han XinYuan’s jade was a 3.4 kilogram spinach green high ice jade with an estimated value of 4.5 million.
Zhong Shuo’s jadeite was a 3.1 kilogram emerald green waxy ice jade with an estimated value of 4.3 million.
Han XinYuan narrowly won and advanced to the top three.
“Wow! Brother! You won!” Han XinYuan had just barely reached the exit of the arena before Han XinYu couldn’t wait to rush up and hug his brother while cheering loudly.
Han XinYuan couldn’t help but hug his younger brother with a rare bright smile on his face.
At the same time, the match between Lin Luo and Pang YaFeng had also started.
The setup was the same with two hundred pieces of similar looking good-quality gambling stones being provided while each contestant could only choose one.
Lin Luo still adopted his usual screening method. His first choice was the old pit material, followed by stones with pine flowers. The light color shown on the new pit materials was also delicate. Even though they also could produce high-quality jade, the pine flowers weren’t a good reference. After all, the bright and lively pine flower might have only formed on the jadeite at a later stage. With such a short amount of time to look over the jadeite provided, it would be east to make a misjudgement.
He finally took a fancy to a piece of mountain rock bamboo shoot skim jadeite with tight sanding on the skin. It could be seen that the crystal type of the jade inside should be good as, while the pine flowers on the skin didn’t seem to be too numerous, they were in fact good quality. The green ribbons of pine flowers that ran over the skin were as thin as hairs, and were distributed over several parts of the jadeite. This kind of pine flower would form on the older forming jadeite and show the base color of the jade inside the stone on top of the skin, though the color of the pine flowers had a high chance of fading.
On top of that, Lin Luo found hairy needle pine flowers in other places. This type of pine flower was difficult to identify, and the color was very light. Coupled with the yellow of the bamboo shoot skin, it was even more difficult for people to notice. That said, these small pine flowers couldn’t escape Lin Luo’s eyes. The hairy needle pine flowers were very likely to mean that the jadeite was full of high-quality jade. If one was able to find these pine flowers, the person could be assured that the stone the pine flowers were attached to was a very good bet.