Chapter 166: Chapter 166 Choosing Stones_1

Nathan Humphrey walked over with his people and saw Greg Jensen carefully examining a half-human-high stone.

The stone was devoid of flowers and pythons, obviously a dead stone; even if it contained jade, the quality wouldn’t be great.

Nathan Humphrey couldn’t help but laugh with glee, “Can rubbish like this stone even be sold? Are you kidding me?”

The expression on Spencer Burley’s face turned very ugly; in fact, he had no confidence in his heart, but he still said sternly, “Who said this stone can’t be sold?”

Upon hearing Spencer Burley’s words, Old Zhang’s face showed a hint of disdain as he said indifferently, “Mr. Humphrey, next time you make a bet, you might want to consider the strength of your opponent.

After all, not just anyone is qualified to gamble with you.”

“Ha-ha, Old Zhang is right.”

Nathan Humphrey was quite pleased and laughed triumphantly, “Someone like Spencer Burley who doesn’t understand anything indeed shouldn’t be betting with him; it’s a meaningless loss of status.”

“You…” Spencer Burley’s face turned livid as he glared angrily at Nathan Humphrey.

Greg Jensen patted his shoulder and said calmly, “No need to rush; we’ll see who wins and who loses in a moment.”

Adrian Wright nodded and added, “Yeah, Greg is right, let’s continue looking.

Nathan Humphrey said mockingly, “Heh, keep going. I’m waiting to see just how you win today.”

Greg Jensen gave him a deep look but said nothing, leading Spencer Burley and the others forward.

Meanwhile, the always silent Louisa Burley also tensed up and whispered, “Greg, can we really win?”

“Don’t you trust me?” Greg asked with a smile.

Louisa Burley shookher head, a smile playing at the corners of her mouth, “I trust you, Greg, you will definitely win.”

“Ha-ha, I’ll take your word for it.”

Greg chuckled and casually walked over to another large boulder, resting his hand on it.

Before coming here, he made a special effort to look up information about jade and its current market conditions.

From a probabilistic point of view, he felt that larger stones had a higher chance of containing jade.

However, reality proved that this idea was mistaken.

He touched several large stones in succession, but they were all a dull grey, not a glint of light in sight.

Greg frowned, thinking to himself that it would have been great if he had mastered the Mind Soil Technique; then he could directly screen for potential stones instead of having to feel each one by hand as he was doing now.

Remembering the information he had looked up the night before, he chose a stone whose skin seemed not too bad.

This stone was the size of a sea bowl, rough-skinned, with a green python stripe running through it from left to right.

Greg picked up the stone and activated the Mind Soil Technique, carefully feeling for clues.

After a moment, his eyes lit up fiercely.

Because within the stone, not only was there an extremely bright sphere of light, but also the sphere was a dark green color.

Daisy Young?

A look of surprise crossed Greg’s face; he took out a marker and put a check on

it.

“Greg, this stone is so small; it probably won’t yield anything, right?” Spencer Burley said with concern.

Adrian Wright rolled his eyes and said, “You bloody don’t know anything about stones, so stop butting in.”

“Eh, heh-heh, I was just saying,” Spencer replied with an embarrassed laugh, as he truly didn’t understand jade, and the appraiser he had hired had already gone over to Nathan Humphrey’s side.

Rather than mess things up himself, he thought it better to trust Greg.

On the other side, seeing Greg’s choice, Old Zhang’s brow furrowed.

Noticing this, Nathan Humphrey couldn’t help but ask, “Old Zhang, can that stone yield anything?”

Old Zhang nodded and said, “Yes, and the quality should be quite good.” Nathan Humphrey wondered, “Then why didn’t you choose that one earlier?” Old Zhang turned his head and smiled brightly, saying, “Because the quality of the other stones is better, though that one isn’t bad, it still falls short of the three we picked.”

“Haha, if that’s the case, what do you have to worry about?

“Indeed, I was confused, haha.”

Old Zhang joined in the laughter, his mood very relaxed.

Soon, Greg Jensen had chosen three stones and instructed a forklift to bring the large stone over to the cutting machine, while he himself carried over the other two smaller ones.

Nathan Humphrey gave Old Zhang a meaningful glance, and the latter walked over to inspect the three stones that Greg Jensen had chosen, then shook his head at him.

Greg Jensen asked, “Do you guys want to start, or should we go first?” Nathan Humphrey chuckled, feigning nonchalance, “Kid, are you scared? If you’re scared, get on your knees and apologize to daddy right now.

If you can make this young master happy, perhaps I’ll let off your two- million gambling debt, you know?”

“Heh, you wish, you might want to start practicing how a dog barks.”

“Seems like you won’t shed tears until you see the coffin!”

Nathan Humphrey’s expression darkened as he instructed the stone cutter, “Open up our three stones first, let them have a good look.”

“Alright, Young Master Humphrey.”

The stone cutter agreed and started cutting one of the stones with the cutting machine.

As the buzzing of the machine started, water mixed with stone dust sprayed out.

After a moment, that layer of water and dust turned into a transparent mist.

“All, it’s fogging up!”

“There’s a find!”

The rich heirs, upon seeing this scene, immediately shouted excitedly.

Jade is hard and has a denser texture, so when cutting into jade, there’s hardly any stone dust.

The cooling water used then turns into a clear mist as the blade revolves. In other words, the appearance of mist invariably means there’s jade inside. As the blade continued to cut deeper, the stone was split in half, revealing a palm-sized piece of jade.

Although there were two fine lines, the quality of the jade was quite impressive, nearly transparent under the light.

“Blaire Jensen!”

“Good grief, Old Zhang really has a sharp eye, he actually cut out a piece of Blaire Jensen straight away.”

The heirs suddenly burst into excited yells, and Old Zhang was also rather pleased, smiling at Nathan Humphrey.

Nathan Humphrey tossed his chin up towards Greg Jensen, saying with a smirk, “Kid, impressed yet?”

Greg Jensen replied indifferently, “It’s alright.”

“Just alright?”

Nathan Humphrey, as if hearing a joke, couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Truly, ignorance is bliss. I’m curious to see what your stones will yield.” “Heh, just wait and see.”

Greg Jensen smiled, marked two lines on the big stone, and then very politely said to the stone cutter, “Master, please cut along these lines.”

“Quite demanding, aren’t we?”

The stone cutter pursed his lips, directed the forklift to place the stone on a wooden pallet, and then started sawing with the wire saw.

This was the first stone Greg Jensen had chosen, almost as tall as a person, too big for the cutting machine to handle, so a wire saw had to be used.

This time, the stone cutter sawed for more than ten minutes before reaching halfway through the stone.

By then, the sprayed water was still muddied with no sign of a quality find, leaving Spencer Burley and the others with hearts nearly jumping out of their chests from nervousness.