Chapter 189

Gina absolutely refused to lose face in front of her niece, even if paying forty million dollars for it hurt a lot.

Even Johnny was left dumbstruck.

Selling a panacea polypore for forty million dollars? This would probably never happen again!

He quickly turned to Frank and Kenny. “Gentlemen, are you going to raise the bid?”

Both men were frowning.

Raise? They only had thirty million dollars together.

That being said, they did not expect Gina and her niece to be that stupid to buy a polypore for forty million dollars!

And since neither man spoke, Johnny turned to Gina and Cindy with a smile. “It’s all yours, Ms. Zonda.”

Gina whipped out her card while shooting Frank a gleeful, triumphant look despite her heart bleeding.

And once the payment was made, Cindy got her wish as she took the wooden chest containing the polypore.

“I’ll definitely become a partner of the Salazars with this!” Her eyes were aflame with excitement as she opened the door.

The panacea polypore lay still within the velvet cushioning, but where it should be flawlessly white, it was instead glistening in red. To make things worse, while normal polypores tended to be plump and meaty, this one was rock hard and rotting on the edges!

“What the…” Cindy gaped. “What the hell is this? Why is it rotting? And it’s so hard!”

Frank moved forward for a look and chuckled coolly. “Oh, so it’s dead.”

It must have been kept in the chest for too long–the herb itself had wilted, losing moisture and hence drying up.copy right hot novel pub