Unknowingly, Hua Yan has been in the Steel City for more than a month, since he became the director of this training department, there is basically no free time, recently the entire Steel City has been engaged in large-scale military training, and the number of soul people who go out to hunt and search has dropped by more than eighty percent at once, and the auction that was originally held every weekend has not been held for four weeks.

It's the weekend again, and the golden Buddha has been repeatedly refined by Hua Yan with soul energy, and finally Wen has cultivated soul gold, which can be used to cast swords, but now the materials for casting swords have not yet landed, Hua Yan plans to go to the trading house today to buy a piece of platinum-rhenium alloy to make do with a sword first, and then the soul key in his mind lit up.

After Hua Yan connected to the brain network, it was Hong Zhan who sent him a message, telling him that there was an auction to be held in the evening, which was a surprise for Hua Yan, a few days ago he asked Hong Zhan to help him keep an eye on the auction, but he didn't expect this week to finally open, so he packed up all the valuable belongings and prepared to go to the auction to have a look.

Although the trading house and the auction house are all subordinate to the Ministry of Commerce, which is a subordinate department of the Logistics Department, these institutions are financially transparent and operate independently, and those valuable materials are also purchased by them from those soul powerhouses and rune powerhouses at high prices.

Even though Hua Yan is now the chief of training and the vice president of the guild, he still has to buy these things at his own expense.

Hua Yan has no complaints about this, and in his heart he still supports this open and transparent system.

Now Hua Yan is more familiar with the Steel City, the auction is held in a hall on the second floor of the Hunter's Guild Building, Hua Yan just walked into the hall on the first floor of the Guild Building, and Hong Zhan, who was guarding there, greeted him.

After getting along for a month, the current Hong Zhan admires Hua Yan is also a five-body caster, Hong Zhan himself is also a rune powerhouse, with two runes in his body, "Ze" and "Wind", but he is not from the ancient martial arts family.

At first, Hua Yan was still a little puzzled about this, but later, Hong Zhan also explained it to him.

It turns out that the upper echelons of the country have always known about the existence of these ancient martial arts families, and there are some secret transactions, and the state allows these ancient martial arts families to accept some talented soul ability children into the family through secret channels to continue the inheritance, as a condition, these ancient martial arts families should also cultivate some strong people for the country, help some excellent soul energy people build runes, and become rune powerhouses.

And Hong Zhan is the rune powerhouse trained by the ancient martial arts family for the country, before the end of the world, Hong Zhan has always been a member of the dragon group in Huaxia, and he is also the personal guard of Commander Han Chenggang.

In the Steel City, there are more than a dozen people like Hong Zhan, but Hong Zhan is also the best among these people, after all, there are still very few people who can construct two runes.

"Director Hua, let's go to the second floor."

Hong Zhan walked up to Hua Yan, gave a military salute, and said.

"Good!"

Hua Yan nodded, answered, and didn't say anything more, and the two went to the auction hall on the second floor together.

The auction hall is very large, four or five hundred square meters, and there are already two or three hundred people here, but it is not too crowded. The ceiling of the hall has four large white lotus-shaped chandeliers, with a stepped shape below and rows of sofa seats.

In the front row of the auction hall are more than a dozen VIP seats, which are much more spacious than the others, with tea seating and even special staff waiting on the side.

Directly in front of it is a rostrum more than one meter high and about ten meters wide, on which there is an auction table, on which a small mallet is placed, and there is a large display table next to it.

At this time, the auction had not officially started, and many people were still entering the venue one after another, Hong Zhan led Hua Yan to the front row to find a VIP seat, as the training director of the Steel City and the vice president of the Hunters Guild, the current Hua Yan is still eligible to enjoy this VIP seat.

"What do you want to drink, two chiefs?"

After Hua Yan and Hong Zhan sat down at the same VIP seat, a young female staff member next to him bowed slightly and asked.

"Let's have two cups of hair~"

Hong Zhan nodded at the female staff member and said, now Hong Zhan has basically figured out Hua Yan's living habits, and directly ordered Hua Yan usually likes to drink hairy.

At this time, he saw Attila with a goatee also come in, he stroked his beard in one hand, held a staff in the other, and followed by two attendants carrying a wooden box, looking at the cautious appearance of the two attendants, it is estimated that the box is more valuable, and it seems that it will be auctioned tonight.

After Attila saw Hua Yan, she bowed her head slightly to Hua Yan, smiled, said hello, and entered a VIP seat and began to close her eyes and recuperate.

Hua Yan picked up the Maojian tea that had just been delivered, took a leisurely sip, and then handed over the half of the skin of the dragon scale demon pig to the staff, ready to let her arrange the auction.

Now Hua Yan has nothing too valuable on his body except this, and there are more than a dozen giant wilderness fruits, which can be exchanged for one or two hundred yuan, and now the currency issued by the Steel City is still relatively valuable, and one dollar can basically buy eighty kilograms of grain.

But at this auction, this money is a bit shabby, according to his estimation, he can't get anything good, think about it, and finally reluctantly cut his love and sell this half of the dragon scale demon pig skin.

The banks in the City of Steel are on the top floor of the Hunters' Guild Building, and for large transactions such as auctions, cash is rarely used, and most of the checks signed in this bank are used.

At this time, five or six priests of the Light and Dark Alliance came in from outside the door, dressed in black robes and hooded heads, led by the blonde-haired and blue-eyed Hera, and behind a priest carrying an iron suitcase.

As soon as they entered, the noise in the auction hall suddenly became more than half as loud as they looked at Hera, and the attraction of beautiful women to men was not outdated in any era. However, the expression on Hera's cold face did not change in the slightest, and when he walked to the VIP seat in front, after seeing Hua Yan, he glanced at it coldly, and then snorted imperceptibly and sat down.

Then Luo Zhongfa also came in, he was followed by two officers, and he also carried a box, he found a VIP seat adjacent to Hua Yan, said hello to Hua Yan with a smile, and then did not say anything more.

After a while, Hong Zhan, who was sitting next to Hua Yan, looked at his watch, and then whispered to Hua Yan:

"The auction is about to start."

"Hmm~"

Hua Yan nodded lightly.

At this time, a beautiful woman in her thirties walked out of a side door next to the rostrum, which was the one Hua Yan saw in the trading house one day, and today she wore a blue and white porcelain cheongsam, which looked beautiful and elegant.

The beautiful woman walked to the auction table, smiled a little charming, and said into the microphone in a clear voice:

"Welcome, everyone, tonight's auction has officially begun!"

"Next is the first auction item tonight, the shell of the iron-jawed demon turtle, with a starting price of 200 yuan, and a price increase of no less than 10 yuan each time."

At this time, the two staff carried a turtle shell with a diameter of more than one meter and put it on the booth, with a blue-black luster, which looked very heavy.

Now the intelligence department has shared all the demon beast data and mutant beast data in the steel city on the brain network, and Hua Yan has also seen these materials, the iron jaw demon turtle has a very strong defense, and its shell can resist two or three tons of attack force, which is an excellent material for making shields.

As expected, this turtle shell quickly attracted a lot of bidding.

"230 pieces"

"280 pieces"

"380 pieces"

"450 pieces"

In the end, this first lot was auctioned by a strong man nearly two meters tall at a price of 450 yuan, according to the current shortage of food in the steel city, the value of this turtle shell is worth more than 30 tons of grain, and it is indeed a staggering price.

However, this strong man was very excited after photographing the turtle shell, and after paying a check to the stage, he directly picked up the nearly 200 kilograms of turtle shell in one hand.

Hua Yan nodded slightly, it seems that hunting demon beasts is the most profitable business, and it can also be seen how big the threat of those demon beasts is to human beings now, high risk, high returns, the materials on these demon beasts are all exchanged for human lives, Hua Yan sighed secretly in his heart.

The next few lots were also made of monster materials, and most of them were sold for a few hundred yuan.

"The following lot is an A+ grade demon beast, the skin of the dragon scale demon pig, although it is half a sheet, but its value is self-evident, we have no A+ grade monster materials in our previous auction records, and now the starting price is 2000 yuan, and the price increase is not less than 100 yuan each time."

The glamorous woman at the auction table involuntarily raised her voice when she spoke.

Now the monster information of the Steel City has divided them into four levels according to the danger of the monsters, S A B C four levels, of which the S-level is the most dangerous, and each level is divided into three sub-levels, for example, A-level is divided into A A+ A++, S-level has not been encountered yet, the dragon scale demon pig that Hua Yan and Shi Feng teamed up to kill last time belongs to the A+ level, and among the monsters encountered at present, it is also considered to be the top difficulty.

The size of the dragon scale demon pig is very large, even if it is half a skin, it is enough to make several top-level armors, so this starting price has also caused a lot of people to coax.

"2300 pieces"

"2800 pieces"

"4000 pieces"

"6600 blocks"

"8,000 yuan" At this time, a priest in a black robe stood up and shouted, and the audience was suddenly much quieter, this price has exceeded the ability of most people.

"8,000 yuan, is there anything else to add?" The voice of the glamorous woman on the stage was also a little excited, 8,000 yuan is simply an astronomical amount for an ordinary person.

"8,000 yuan for the first time, 8,000 yuan for the second time, 8,000 yuan for the third time!"

With a "bang", the auction hammer struck.

After a while, a check for 8,000 yuan was sent by a staff member, Hua Yan took it, flicked it lightly with his fingers, and put it on the coffee table in front of him casually.

Hong Zhan looked at Hua Yan and chuckled.

"Director Hua, you became rich overnight!"

"It's just something outside of the body, a small matter."

Hua Yan picked up the teacup, took a sip, and easily leaned on the sofa to taste it slowly.