The Bidding

Chapter-3: The Great Cosmic Auction

At last, the day of the great cosmic auction came. Today, Mr. Cocoon is really very busy as he is collecting mini-globes of the 20,000 planets he has visited and selected for the auction before. These 20,000 planets do not have any kind of living beings except Earth. Yet, he had collected a mini-globe of Earth as well, as he did not know there lived humans. After collecting the mini-globes, he appeared at the auction. The auction is held in a large UFO. Though it was 2 hours before the auction’s start, the whole UFO was filled with the invited guests and their closed ones. Though it was not the first cosmic auction, it was the first cosmic auction where planets were going to be sold. In this auction, at least 1000 living beings were present, though only 201 of them were actual bidders; others were there to see the auction. The auction was arranged very beautifully. It had pictures of the universal wars on the wall. The auction had tight security since there was a chance of universal piracy. Around an hour before the auction’s estimated starting time, the bidders started to arrive. Once all the bidders, Mr. Cocoon and Mr. Leolo met, the auction started.

Chapter-4: Planets Going-Going-Gone!

At the start of the auction, each bidder was given a book filled with the information of each planet in the bidding. A planet’s price was decided with its environment, massiveness, resources, and potentiality. The bidding started with a planet as big as Jupiter but was very hot like Mercury and had hills like the Moon of Earth. It costed 11 octillions. The first bidder bid 11.5 octillions, and the second bidder said 12 octillions. Lastly, the first bidder won by saying 15 octillions. Then 19992 planets were sold. The last planetary system in bid was the Solar System. It was the costliest as well. The bidding happened in order: first Mercury, then Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and lastly Neptune. Mercury costed 60 octillions and sold at 2 nonillions. But, Venus was not as popular as Mercury; it costed 2 quintillion and sold at 5 quintillion. Earth, the third planet in the Solar System, was the costliest bidding price at 10 undecillions, but no bidder seemed interested in it. So, the bidding went to the next planets. After Earth came Mars; it was 17 decillion and sold at 20 undecillions. It was the most wanted planet in the Solar System, unlike Earth, which was the most unwanted one. After Mars came Jupiter, with the price of 10 decillions and sold at 5 undecillions, becoming the second most wanted planet. On the other hand, Saturn did not cost much, 84 quadrillion only, but sold at 54 quintillion. It was sold at such a high price because of its beauty, more likely for its rings. Then, Uranus and Neptune were sold with a very high price as well. After the bidding, in the Solar System, Earth was the only planet that was not sold out of 8 planets.

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