They felt like they would inevitably go home empty-handed if they didn’t seize the opportunity to win the final quarter pill. They were fully aware that the last full pill’s price wouldn’t be any lower than sixty or seventy billion US dollars.

If they did the math and calculated the price, a quarter pill would be less than twenty billion US dollars. The problem was, paying sixty to seventy billion US dollars was beyond the abilities of many.

On top of that, the rules forbade them from joint bi