January 1 of the second year of Zhongping.

It's not clear whether this date is New Year's Day for NPCs, but for players in China, it is also a good choice to spend New Year's Day once in the game.

On this festive day, the Celestial City has attracted the attention of many players, and there is no strange reason, the reason is that the Celestial Elephant Guild has released a message on the official website that it will hold a grand auction in the Celestial City in Hailing County, Guangling County, Xuzhou on January 1, the second year of Zhongping, and many rare items in the game will be sold.

At the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the system issued an announcement that the function of the teleportation array had returned to normal, and the teleportation fee was 1 silver person, which was about equivalent to 100RMB to use a space crossing, which was even cheaper than taking a long-distance bus of hundreds of kilometers.

Those who know a little about the Celestial Elephant Guild know that the real force behind the Celestial Elephant Guild and the Celestial City is Lu Shuang's Flying Sky City, and Lu Shuang was just promoted to the rank of marquis some time ago, and has become a model and object of worship in the eyes of many players. The Celestial Guild attracts players under the banner of an auction, but in fact, most people go to the Flying City behind them to see if there are any good things sold in the Flying City.

After half a month of planning, the Celestial City has set aside an area in the city dedicated to various transactions, and players can go to the ultimate market to list the items they need to sell, set the price and wait for the buyer to place an order to buy. Although the Ultimate Market cannot be used for online trading, its venue can still be used, don't look at the background of the game in China is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there are a lot of black technologies in the Ultimate Market, which makes people think that it is bringing real technical equipment to ancient times.

The power of the people is unlimited, and while most of the people come for the items sold in Skyfield, the items listed by casual players in the Ultimate Market are also quite interesting. Compared with the soldier's standard equipment, casual players have obtained a lot of special items in various places through various means, for example, some players anonymously listed a set of internal skills with soul characters from beginner to special level on the market, priced at 30,000 gold, but they were given a second order in less than half a minute.

You must know that 30,000 gold is converted into RMB is 300 million yuan, but someone bought it without blinking an eyelid, if it weren't for the seller being anonymous, and the buyer could not be informed of the information, the buyer and seller would have been watched by the people who ate melons.

In addition to this large order of 300 million yuan, there are many bits and pieces of items that have been bought, there are props with strange functions, high-quality equipment, production drawings or architectural drawings of rare items, and even some information about historical figures is also on sale, as for the authenticity of it is impossible to judge.

It can be said that Celestial City provides an offline trading platform for individual players. In the past, there were many player forces who wanted to build such a trading platform in their own territory, but due to the high transmission fee and insufficient human traffic, local players came and went, and finally they couldn't do it.

Players can buy a complete set of first- and second-level equipment here, and the third-level equipment is limited to 10,000 sets per day, and the price is only 90% of the market price. In order to pursue the maximum profit, the territories of other players' forces generally only produce weapons and armor parts, and other parts are in short supply even for soldiers in their own territories, and other players naturally can't buy them, let alone want to buy third-level equipment.

Another advantage of the Celestial City is the unique special attribute enhancement, which can increase the strength of the combat profession transferred in the Celestial City by 5%, and the attribute of equipment by 10%. Although for ordinary players, this improvement has little effect, but it does not prevent the Celestial Guild from attracting people with this sign.

In addition to the cheap equipment that players can buy in the Elephant City, they can also buy some items that are usually difficult to buy in other players' territories, such as various production tools, medicines, elixirs, practical props, etc., and there are a wide variety of goods. Some local tyrant players even buy luxury goods or enjoyment items, such as a well-known Hanfu blogger who bought a set of exquisite Hanfu, and this kind of Hanfu requires a king-level tailor to make, and it cannot be bought at all in other players' territories; Some people have their eyes on the wine and food produced in Flying City, and plan to use Sky City as a food street to enjoy the delicious taste of the tongue in the game.

The Celestial City is like a large shopping mall with people coming and going at the moment.

Of course, there are also players who can't stay idle, wandering around after leaving the commercial area, passing through the residential area and then through the functional area, only to be stopped by a team of heavily armed soldiers. Although the players were very curious about what they were doing over there, they didn't let any outsiders in, but when they saw the eighth-order soldiers wearing full-body armor and holding a hundred refining guns, and then looked at the special generals leading the team next to them, they shrank their heads, so they had to go back the same way and go shopping elsewhere.

Lu Shuang didn't wear a mask today, and when he came to this ultimate market, which was as lively as a bazaar, he found that there were really a lot of good things in it, and the majority of players should really be omnipotent, just like in the last online game, he got the only artifact with the strength of a casual player.

Items listed on the Ultimate Market can be anonymous or leave their names and contact information, but the buyer's information is automatically blocked by the system, and even the organizer cannot know the buyer's information. Players who want to buy goods in the Ultimate Market only need to select the goods they want to buy in their minds, and have enough money on them, and then place an order, and the items will be automatically placed in the player's backpack. There is no need to go to the counter to buy, and the organizer cannot know the player's information, which is a kind of protection for buyers to prevent someone from trying to kill people and oversell goods.

Lu Shuang scooped up more than a dozen items in the ultimate market, each of which is very powerful, especially there is an architectural drawing called the Detective Camp, the built Detective Battalion can be transferred and trained as a detective, it is a professional intelligence officer, specializing in the countryside, the interior, the anti-prison, the dead, the living, assassination and other tasks, and the loyalty to the lord is die-hard, so you don't have to worry about being pried open to get information.

Any player knows the importance of this architectural blueprint of the Scout Camp, but in the end it was bought by Lu Shuang. It's not that others don't know the goods, but this architectural drawing is priced at 10,000 gold, and ordinary players and ordinary guilds can't afford it. But the price is not the most critical, the key is that this Scout Camp requires a minimum of S qualification NPCs to be transferred to Scouts, even if other player forces buy and build it, it will not be used at all. No player has so many S-qualified NPCs, and it is impossible for S-qualified NPCs to be transferred to become detectives, generals and life professions are the first choice, and only Flying City has so many S-qualified NPCs to become detectives.

If buying and selling in the ultimate market and business district is a side pesper, then the auction is the main course of the event.

In order to attract the participation of well-known player forces, Lu Shuang discussed with the high-level leaders of the Celestial Elephant Guild for a long time, and finally chose to put some items that were of interest to the major player forces on the auction, including skill books, equipment, medicines, warships and war weapons, each of which was coveted by them.

Roughly statistical, skill books include primary skill books, intermediate skill books and advanced skill books, each group of 10,000 primary skill books, 2,000 intermediate skills and 500 advanced skill books, the starting price is 100 gold, a total of ten groups. The Elementary Skill Book can help a fourth-order soldier with enough force value to advance directly to a fifth-order soldier, without the need for intelligence and regardless of the chance of promotion, and the intermediate and advanced skill books are a sixth-order soldier and a seventh-order soldier, respectively. There is no shortage of fifth-order soldiers in the major player forces, many players can be promoted to fifth-order soldiers, but there are relatively few sixth-order soldiers and seventh-order soldiers, and most of them are rushing to this intermediate and advanced skill book.

In terms of equipment, Lu Shuang took out the fifth-level equipment, obsidian battle armor, and ancient ingot knife, which was also the same as the auction method of the skill book, in order to let the leaders of the player forces who came over at least be able to buy one or two things, so that they would not all be snatched away by individual local tyrants.

In the case of medicines, the main ones are small and large pills for internal strength, as well as pills for recovery of injuries and first aid. Although players drop one level after one death, most players are now above level forty, and dropping one level is still quite hurtful, and two or three months of leveling time will be in vain. Moreover, these medicines and pills have miraculous effects on NPC generals, and can even save an NPC general at a critical moment.

In terms of battleships and war weapons, Lu Shuang took out a building ship and ten four-masted galleons, which are extremely rare battleships for the major player forces. Whoever grabs it will be able to walk sideways in the nearby waters, after all, only Flying City is the only player among the players, and the other players are not. The weapons of war are 10 intermediate catapults and 10 intermediate ballistas, each in a group of five, for a total of four groups. Although I believe that with the strength of the super guild and the first-class guild, there must be a few catapults or ballistas at the moment, but they are all beginners, and there is still a big gap compared to the intermediate ones.

In addition to the above auction items, there are some other items, almost all of which are what the local tyrants want to get but can't get. It can be said that the Celestial City has not only attracted many scattered players to come over, but also those powerful player forces have also come over to see what items can be bought to improve the strength of the territory.