Chapter 272 She Really Knows Her Stuff

Gideon towered over the blond man. "Trying to run?" The man instinctively flinched. "I… I just need to use the bathroom." "Take him," Gideon ordered his bodyguards. The bodyguard dragged the blond to the restroom. When the man saw the glint of a knife in the bodyguard's hand, his legs gave out, and he crumpled to the floor. "What are you doing… No!" A scream ripped through the restroom. No one in the exhibition hall paid it any attention. Every pair of eyes was fixed on Nancy. Blake sneered at the reporters. "What skill does she even have? The first two ores were both worthless. That imperial green emerald was just dumb luck." The excitement instantly died down. The crowd thought Blake had a point. Nancy's first two stones had been duds, after all. Perhaps she had just gotten lucky with the third. Nancy let out a derisive laugh. "Lucky or not, the ores I acquired are worth more than yours. That means I won." Blake's jaw tightened. "We were supposed to compete on skill. Winn