Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Frog Goes and Returns
Shen Qingming followed Cangyue Tears into the auction house, and the two walked through the porch to the central hall of the auction house.
In the center of the hall is a huge column, with large and small service counters as the center. The staff at the counter eagerly register information for customers and arrange where to go.
Deep in the hall there is an upward staircase leading to the auction halls at all levels, and at the top of the staircase there are several higher-ranking staff members who are responsible for passing on the situation of the auction hall to the waiting customers in the hall at all times. Every time a certain item was sold at what price in the hall was called, there would be a burst of whispers in the hall.
Yang Xu pointed to the group of players wandering in the hall, who were the source of the whispers, and said, "Xiaobai, have you seen this group of people?" This group of people is called frogs, and they are the souls of the entire auction house. ”
"Qingqingqing... Mistress? Shen Qingming obviously didn't understand too much, and whispered, "Aren't all men in this group?" Whose mistresses are they? With such a strong taste? ”
"It's a frog, and a frog is a moth-like bug. It is said that the mother worm and the child worm will be separated from each other will find each other, in the old days, someone smeared the blood of the mother worm on the coin, and the coin would fly back to the child worm at night, and the green worm flew to return, then the money was inexhaustible. Yang Xu said as he walked, "This group of people move for profit, so they are called frogs." ”
The Xia family's auction house can also be regarded as a big store in the prosperous and lively Wushi Fang, where thousands of orders are sold every day. Even if he is as experienced as Yang Xu, he can't grasp the information of thousands of goods, and the frog came into being.
The frogs will use the information leaked from within the auction house to estimate the value of the items to be auctioned for the day, discuss which auction is the best value for money, and then sell the results they calculate to the players who are stranded in the lobby for profit.
It is worth mentioning that the frog industry is extremely complex, and the slightest mistake in the calculation process will lead to a thousand miles of error in the final result.
But the reasons for miscalculations are very complex, sometimes they are simple negligence, sometimes they are human fraud. To take the simplest example, if the frog provides a false report to direct most of the competitors to other venues, it can ensure that the highest bidder will be able to auction their favorite treasure smoothly.
Cangyue Tears said hello to one of the frogworms, and the frogworms greeted him attentively, and said with a smile: "Teacher Cang hasn't come to us for a long time, our eldest brother wants to kill you, and he was still talking about why you haven't come to see him for so long yesterday." ”
Cangyue asked with tears: "What are the good goods here today, tell me about it." ”
The frog god said mysteriously, "In front of you and your friends, I dare not tell a lie. The auction house bought a new batch of legendary treasures last month, and now it has sold out, leaving only one treasure that has not been sold for a long time. Mr. Cang, you happened to be here today, and you were going to bid for this treasure that no one had sold in the auction held in the Orange Hall later. ”
Cangyue tearfully asked, "What do you know about this collection?" ”
The frog smiled and said, "Well, people are favors, business is business, Mr. Cang should understand this truth, right?" ”
Cangyue tearfully took out a handful of silver coins and stuffed them into the hands of the green worm, and the green worm said with a smile: "I can't hide it, this treasure is not a jewel, not an inscription, not a magic weapon, but a roll of parchment." It is precisely because of this that no buyer is willing to buy rashly. ”
"Parchment? Could it be a spell scroll? Or is it a letter of assignment? Cangyue Tears speculated, "If it is a legendary-grade magic scroll, the spells contained in it may be able to raze half of Wushifang to the ground." I have personally seen a person release a blue-quality spell scroll, which was sealed with Zhuang Zhou's great move of Heaven and Man, and actually created a damage reduction circle with a range large enough to envelop the entire Taoyuan Village, which lasted for a minute. ”
The frog said, "The spell scrolls in the game are extremely rare, and they are so powerful that they are hard to find. If the parchment was really a spell scroll, it wouldn't have gone unnoticed. ”
"So this parchment scroll is the starting item for a mission?" Cangyue tears said, "But..."
"Teacher Cang, don't think about it so much." The frog said, "You just like to think too much, and in our industry, people who think so much will starve to death." ”
Cangyue said seriously: "The wise man has a thousand thoughts, but there is still a mistake. And in my life, there is no room for mistakes. ”
"People always make mistakes." Shen Qingming kindly persuaded him, "There's no need to give up eating because of choking." ”
Cangyue suddenly asked him: "Xiaobai, do you know the price of making mistakes?" ”
Of course Shen Qingming knows, how many people in the world can make the big mistake of losing the championship in the world finals? But he was still very hypocritical and said, "No." ”
Cangyue tears said: "If you want to climb up, you must not make mistakes." Every little mistake you make can be the beginning of destruction. You never know which anthill the embankment will be destroyed in. Only by leaving no flaws can we sleep peacefully every night. ”
In Shen Qingming's impression, Cangyue Tears is a nurse with a delicate personality and a bit of doglegs, rich knowledge and easy to sell, and can be regarded as a bit of an operation.
In the Inhuman Pavilion with many Inhumans, he is really not an impressive person, and Shen Qingming never thought that Cangyue Tears would have such a side.
"Sorry, I was a bit out of shape just now." Cangyue coughed with tears, and then continued the previous topic, "If it is a legendary-level mission entrustment item, there are only two situations when you stay in the auction house for so long. First, the task is too difficult, and even the big guilds are unable to complete it. Second, the reward is too poor, and the task is not worth the loss. ”
Frog said: "Our boss also took this into account, but before the task letter was opened, no one knew what the task was, how did this group of buyers know the task information in the unopened letter?" ”
"Again, it's two cases." Cangyue tears said, "First, there are ghosts in the auction house who leaked the information about the collection. Second, there is something wrong with the sheepskin scroll itself, which makes people lose the desire to buy at a glance. ”
The green worm took out the silver coin that Cangyue Tears had given him before, and added two more gold coins to it and returned it to him. said: "But what kind of situation is it, I have to ask Mr. Cang to worry a lot." ”
Cangyue Tears accepted the gold coin and said to Shen Qingming: "Xiaobai, are you thinking - sometimes even the auctioneer doesn't know all the information about the collection he auctioned, let alone Cangyue Tears."
Although Shen Qingming played this kind of game for the first time, he also knew that in this kind of large-scale auction house, information confidentiality was extremely strict. Sometimes even the auctioneer doesn't know all the information about the collection he is auctioning, let alone the tears of the moon.
Teacher Cang said, "Do you know why they call me Teacher Cang? ”
Shen Qingming began to guess: "Because you are a teacher?" ”
"It's because I can do things they can't." "For example, I can easily find out the information and ins and outs of any collection in this auction house. To put it mildly, without the information I provided, 50 percent of the frogs here would be unemployed. ”
"It's 80 percent." "At least 80 percent of the worms are unemployed. ”
Cangyue tears said: "Let you see my ability now, Xiaobai, don't be too surprised!" ”