After paying an objective tip, Sherlock also learned a lot about the "talent market" from the clever waiter. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although the world government has ordered a ban on human trafficking, in fact, this ugly trade has been going on in secret.

And Hannabal, the penguin's base in the first half of the Great Voyage, is one of them.

Sherlock had never been involved in the slave trade during his time in the East China Sea, and he, a fairly conscientious profiteer, was not very interested in the black trade. But out of curiosity about the unknown, a certain glasses still plans to go to the so-called talent trading market to find out.

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The Caro Auction House, located on one of the most expensive streets in the affluent area of the East Island, is one of the many properties of the Oswald family on the island.

According to the waiter, this is the largest auction house in Hannabal, and at the same time the largest slave auction house, and every day I don't know how many slaves are here with the auctioneer's final word, and countless Baileys are turned into innumerable Baileys.

Led by a beautiful maid, Sherlock came to his seat. Immediately afterwards, a staff member provided him with an introduction to all the products in the auction, and Sherlock did not look at it immediately, but first quietly looked at the surrounding environment.

Carlo's auction house was actually an old theater, and when the Oswald family took control of Hannabal, the top of the house, Basso Caro, ordered the theater to be renovated into an auction house and named it after himself.

Because of this, the interior of the auction house still maintains the layout of the theater, and the spotlights that hit the stage are also the kind of headlights of the stage play, and the seats in the main hall are scattered with distinguished guests who participate in the sale, although there are not a few people, but the venue originally used for the stage play still seems very empty.

Sherlock took a closer look and noticed that most of the people attending the auction were richly dressed merchants, but there were also nobles from a nearby country.

At this time, there was still some time before the official start of the auction, and the guests were talking softly among themselves, and it was not difficult to see from their surprised expressions that the goods auctioned by Caro Auction House this time were very exciting.

(No wonder the Oswalds split the island into two zones and strictly forbade violence on the East Island, probably to protect the safety of these cash cows.) ）

Retracting his gaze from elsewhere, Sherlock opened the auction list in his hand.

The main lot in Carlo's auction house is naturally slaves, but it is not limited to slaves. The tradition here is to auction off some curiosities for an appetizer first, followed by the slave main course.

Sherlock glanced at it a few times, and saw that the auction was only some featureless jewelry or antiques, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but when he saw the last rare treasure, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Famous knife - extinct, one of the twenty-one works of the big fast knife...... Isn't this Lowwick's saber?"

At the beginning of the Sky Island, Sherlock also learned from Nami and the others that he was rescued by Rowick from the hands of Tenyasha, Blackbeard, and the enemies of nature, although this sounds a bit unbelievable, but it has to be said that this thing saved the life of the sorcerer.

After that, the blue-haired traveler was very righteous to lure away the pursuing White Hunters and other navies, and if it weren't for the help of Rowick, then the Straw Hats probably wouldn't have had a chance to land on the Sky Island.

(Unknowingly, I owe that guy a big favor...... Sherlock pushed his glasses and chuckled, thinking quickly.

The sorcerer still knows a lot about Rowick, this man is a little funny, and he is a little stupid and a little stupid, but as a swordsman, he will definitely not lose his love knife. The appraisers at Caro Auction House are very professional, and this knife is absolutely genuine.

Therefore, there are only two possibilities for the famous knife to be auctioned here.

The first is that Rowick hangs, and the murderer seized the knife as a trophy and auctioned it here for money.

This possibility is not great, after all, Rowick's strength is still good, and the strong man who has the ability to kill him may not be short of money to need to take out such a famous knife for auction.

As for this second possibility......

"Note: The original owner hopes to meet with the successful bidders and discuss the world's famous knives, hehe......"

Looking at this seller's additional condition, Sherlock showed an intriguing smile.

(Well, in that case, I'll help you later, and I'll pay you back.) ）

Shaking his head, Sherlock continued to look at the information in his hand.

After the extinction of the famous sword, the next item to be auctioned is the slave. As the largest slave trading market in Hannabal's private domain, the slaves auctioned by Caro Auction House are naturally not ordinary goods.

Except for a few female slaves who are beautiful and can sing and dance, and rare slaves of other races, the rest of the slaves are almost all pirates who have been rewarded, and several pirates have bounties of tens of millions, and even the highest bounty of a pirate captain has 41 million Bailey!

Although there is no navy in the area near Hannabal, there are registered pirates who regard other pirates as enemies.

With these pirates eating each other's dog-eat-dog-eat-black, coupled with the Oswald family's promotion of slave trading, Carlo's auction house naturally doesn't have to worry about no pirates auctioning as slaves.

(Although the penguin's membership system seems to be for the benefit of its own members, it is the Oswald family itself that actually benefits the most.) ）

Sherlock looked down to the end, and found that the slave who appeared in the finale of this auction had no information, and he couldn't help frowning.

This is also one of the conventions of Carlo's auction house, and the slaves used in the finale are mysteriously unrevealed, which whets the appetite of the bidders, and there is no doubt that the slave for the finale will definitely be the most precious of the auction.

(But what could a slave with a starting price higher than 41 million Bailey?)

Just as Sherlock was deep in thought, an unfamiliar male voice came from beside him.

"Alas, this glasses guy looks so familiar, have we met somewhere before?"

Sherlock, who had been accosted, turned his head to look and found a middle-aged man in a fancy dress with a mustache on his lips sitting in the seat next to him, looking at him with a smile on his face.

Sherlock looked at the other man quietly, and quickly recalled in his mind, realizing that he did not have the slightest impression of the mustache.

(I guess he's seen my bounty order, so he thinks it's familiar.) Sherlock thought to himself.

"Oops, what a presumptuous, forgetting to introduce yourself. ”

Gazed at by the dark eyes under the sorcerer's lenses, this familiar guy didn't show the slightest embarrassment, but stretched out his hand with a smile: "My name is Jean and I'm a jeweler. If you want to buy some jewelry, please come to me. ”

It seems that this product seems to be thinking that Sherlock is a prince and nobleman from a nearby country, and intends to expand the market. After all, the noble and elegant temperament that the sorcerer has cultivated since childhood is too deceptive.

"Sherlock, it's a pleasure to meet you. A certain spectacle also smiled and stretched out his hand to shake it gently, for a familiar businessman like Jean, he had met too many times in the East China Sea before, and he was already familiar with it.

After greeting each other for a while, the two began to chat about the slave auction as a topic to pass the time before the auction began, and it was hard to imagine that the two were actually meeting for the first time.

Jean was a regular patron of the auction house, and the wealthy jeweler would buy many slaves for fun at any time. And it seems that he knows all aspects of Carlo's auction house very well. Sherlock, intentionally or unintentionally, gained a lot of valuable information.

"Hey, Sherlock, guess what's the cargo for this finale?" said Jean mysteriously.

A different color flashed in Sherlock's eyes, and he pushed his glasses, "Is it a female mermaid?"

According to the price code privately set by the slave market, the starting price of a human slave is 500,000 Baileys, and the starting price of a female mermaid is 70 million Baileys.

In the case of a female mermaid, its value is definitely more than enough for the finale of this auction.

"Mermaid? ”

Jean shook his head: "Merfolk swim too fast in the sea, and they don't easily land on land, I'm afraid only the professional slave catching team near the Chambord Islands has a chance to catch merfolk." ”

"And what exactly is the finale this time?" Sherlock pretended to have an appetite appetized.

"Hey, hey, hey...... This is also a piece of gossip I heard from a friend, but it is extremely credible. Jean smiled again, looked up and around for a moment, and then whispered:

"It is said that the slave used for the finale of this auction is not of any other race, but a human being. ”

"Humans?" Sherlock frowned, and then he suddenly thought of the last line of the list of slaves of various races, and his face suddenly changed.

"Isn't it ......"

"That's right!" said Jean, touching his mustache, the smile on his face growing stronger.

"The slave who was auctioned off last this time is a Devil Fruit ability!"