"How can you do that?"

In the office, Tracy's face was like frost, and her phoenix eyes were fierce, glaring at a short and fat old man with a big hooked nose on the sofa.

"In three days, the auction will begin," Tracy gritted her teeth and asked, "You are now telling me that you want to withdraw the lot, isn't this deliberately dismantling my table?

The old man drooped his eyelids, looked at the black pharmacist robe on his body with a faint expression, and his fingers were still gently brushing the nine-star symbol on his chest, looking careless. And a few young men wearing low-level and middle-level pharmacist robes next to him looked at Tracy with a sneering gaze.

It seemed that Tracy's questioning did not even seem necessary for them to answer.

At this time, a middle-aged man sitting next to the old man frowned slightly, and reprimanded: "Miss Tracy, Mr. Sander is a top nine-star alchemy master, his status is noble and respected, you had better be careful and polite when you speak, otherwise you ......"

As he spoke, he sneered, looked at Tracy with contempt, shook his head, omitted the latter words, and said, "...... Now I can still remind you that if in a few years, Mr. Sander is promoted to a god craftsman, hmph, just by what you say, you will bring trouble to yourself!"

Tracy almost gritted her teeth.

The short and fat old man on the sofa, named Sande, was sixty-six years old this year, and he was a nine-star alchemy master. The young pharmacist next to him were all his disciples. And this middle-aged man who spoke was the senior director of the Divine Craftsman Hall. His name is Ejiman.

The Golden Skull Chamber of Commerce and the Shrine of Divine Craftsmen are two different institutions. Most of the time, there was no conflict between the two sides. However, there is some overlap in some areas. It also means competition.

Xander is an independent alchemist. Although he has not yet been promoted to a divine craftsman, he has a very high prestige and status in the south of the empire with several unique alchemy secret recipes. It is a figure that many business groups, chaebols and even aristocratic wealthy families are vying to befriend.

Especially in the past year, the nine-star Diluo Quenching Pill refined by Sound. It's hard to find. Almost as soon as it came out, it was already sold out.

This kind of body quenching pill has great benefits for physical body cultivation. It can not only strengthen qi and blood, make bones stronger, muscles more tough and powerful, but also broaden the meridians. Make the operation of the source force smoother and faster. At the same time, it also has a healing effect.

When Roy was injured in a misunderstanding with the Dark Camp Teacher, the seven-star Wu Luo Quenching Body Pill that Steve gave him created an opportunity for his breakthrough. And the nine-star Diluo Quenching Pill, whether it is the precious and rare nature of the material or the medicinal power, is far superior to the seven-star Wuluo Quenching Pill.

Speaking of which, Tracy has known Sander for years, too.

Don't look at Sander now that he has become a big man, but he was very down-and-out at the beginning. Don't say anything unique. Even if it was a pill that many pharmacists of the same level could refine, he couldn't refine it.

Any great pharmacist is piled up with money.

A secret recipe may cost tens of millions of gold Lulang. And it is not enough to have a formula, but also a lot of practical practice is needed to master the heat of the elixir and refine the high-quality elixir. Otherwise, it is likely that even the cost of materials will not be recovered.

Practice, too, requires materials. The general pills are okay, the high-grade pills. The materials alone require millions or even tens of millions of gold lulangs. There are many materials that are still priceless and cannot be bought with money.

At that time, Sand could only refine some low-grade mainland goods. Because there is no formula and no money, life is tight, and it is stagnant in refining medicine.

Later, when Sander went to the Golden Skull Auction House to sell the elixir, he happened to see Tracy take an order. At his pleading, Tracy gave him the order. Not only did he prepare the materials for him, but he also sold him two best-selling pill formulas at an extremely low price.

It was because of Tracy's help that Sander got out of the predicament and got on the right track step by step. It has come to this day.

However, Sander is clearly not a man who knows how to repay his kindness.

After becoming famous, Sander began to get on his toes. Not only does he speak domineering to others, but he also looks arrogant to Tracy. At this time, there were a lot of flattering guys gathered around him, and under the praise of these people, his personality became more and more arrogant.

This time, it's the Golden Skull auction house's mid-year auction in June. Originally, Tracy had made an appointment with Sander to use his bottle of Diluo Quenching Pill as the finale of the pill category, and the external publicity also explained this. Many of the guests who attended the auction even stared at the bottle of medicine.

Unexpectedly, seeing that the auction was still three days away, Sander suddenly changed his mind and asked Tracy to cancel the auction of the Diluo Quenching Pill.

You don't need to ask Tracy to know that Ejiman of the Divine Craftsman Hall is the one who instigated Sander to make this decision.

After Sander became famous, this Ejman flew over like a fly that saw a rotten egg, and circled around Sander all day long, wearing top hats one after another, and patting the sycophants comfortably, so that Sander, who had never seen much of the world, was a confidant, and almost fell to the point of obeying his words.

Ejman and Tracy, on the other hand, have a competitive relationship.

The Golden Skull auction house has a small auction every week, a medium-sized auction every quarter, and a large auction every half year and at the end of the year.

Auction is the main business of the auction house, and a successful auction is very important to the performance of the auction house. Like this mid-year auction in June, Tracy has been preparing for a long time. Especially in the first few months, Lulian was at war, and it was difficult to collect lots, so he put in a lot of effort.

And the temple also holds auctions every once in a while. The things they auction are all the works of professionals from various industries under the Divine Craftsman Hall, but the time is not fixed, and the category and quality of the lots are not fixed. Therefore, in terms of the impact and importance of the auction, it is far less than that of the Golden Skull Auction House.

Egilman understands how profitable a high-impact auction can be, and he has always wanted to change that.

Prior to this, Egilman had organized several auctions and fixed the time of the auctions, but none of them were as effective as those of the Golden Skull Auction House. Speaking of auctions. Whether it's a seller or a buyer, the first thing that comes to mind is always the Golden Skull Auction House.

After a series of defeats, Egilman knew that in order to achieve his goal, he had to defeat his opponent and remove the Golden Skull Auction House as a roadblock.

In other words. It's to beat Tracy!

Two months ago, Egilman suddenly announced that the Shrine of Divine Craftsmen was going to hold a super-large auction at the same time as the Golden Skull Auction House's mid-year auction.

When the news was announced, everyone thought Ejman was crazy. You know, it's the Golden Skull Auction House's mid-year auction. It not only gathered buyers from all over the southern part of the empire, but also gathered countless precious and rare treasures and the works of masters.

Egilman wanted to hold an auction, and he didn't stagger the days for a month or two, and he actually chose to fight with the Golden Skull Auction House on the same day. Isn't that self-sufficient?

However, everyone still underestimated Egilman's ability and his insidiousness.

In the minds of many professionals, the Shrine has a high status. It's an organization that belongs to them, non-combat professionals, and it's their home.

By joining the Divine Craftsman Hall, they can not only get the protection of this huge organization, be able to communicate with masters of the same profession, but also get materials, recipes, and various opportunities to improve their experience that they can't get outside.

Ejman takes advantage of this. To the masters of various industries who were originally going to send their works to the Golden Skull Auction House, they launched coercion and temptation.

During these two months. At least two dozen people who worked with the Golden Skull auction house abandoned the mid-year auction for a variety of reasons, handing over the work to Egilman.

Coupled with some chaebols who focus on immediate interests, merchant groups and mercenary groups are attracted by the conditions offered by Ejiman, and there are more and more auctions in the Shenjiang Hall, gradually. There is even a tendency to overwhelm the Golden Skull auction house with its mid-year auctions.

This kind of competition is actually quite normal. Besides, Tracy has not been idle in the past two months, although she is a little tired and has taken some more trouble. However, with the good relationship with all parties over the years and the reputation of the auction house, he still found a lot of precious lots with full weight, and overwhelmed the other party.

However, what Tracy never dreamed of was that at this last critical moment, Ejiman would stab himself in the back.

Sander's lot was repeatedly determined by Tracy. And each time, Sander's answer was yes.

In addition to the finale bottle of the nine-star Diluo Quenching Pill, there are also three bottles of eight-star Peiyuan Pill and ten bottles of seven-star Spirit Power Pill. This batch of pills occupies a very heavy weight in the auction lots, and there is no time to miss a little. If Sander withdraws the auction, the auction will be hit extremely hard.

With only three days left, where can Tracy find a lot of the same weight?

This is betrayal!

"Mr. Sander," Tracy said, holding back the anger in her heart, ignoring Egilman, "you have worked with us for many years, and you should know that we have never neglected you. The orders given to you are the best in the thickest conditions, and all kinds of materials are also available in open supply and full support. You're retracting the shoot now, and you're ......"

"Excuse what?" Sander raised his drooping eyelids and said arrogantly, "Could it be that because I don't cooperate with you Miss Tracy this time, the Golden Skull Auction House will ban me?"

He looked around, and amid the laughter of Ejiman and the other disciples, he said leisurely, "Don't hide from Miss Tracy, I have already met with Elder Blatter of your auction house a few days ago. I also talked about it. He understood my hardships and gave me a lot of advice. ”

As he spoke, a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "It's just right, I'm going to go to the imperial capital to develop, learn more advanced knowledge of alchemy, and I can cooperate more with Elder Blatt in the future." ”

Tracy's heart sank to the bottom of the cold valley little by little.

Although she is also an elder of the Golden Skull Auction House, she is only a new elder, and in the process of promotion, she inevitably occupies the quota of others, and is regarded as a roadblock blocking the road to Qingyun.

In addition, she has been in Lulian all this time, and she has not had enough time to establish a good relationship with the other elders of the auction house, so even Tracy herself knows very well in her heart that she can only be regarded as a newcomer with an unstable foothold in the Elders of the Auction House.

Originally, Tracy was planning to make some achievements. With this as the basis for his own foothold, he slowly sought an alliance in the Presbyterian Church in the future, but now it seems that some people in the Presbyterian Church already look at him unpleasantly.

This Blatter, Tracy had heard of before, was the most arrogant and domineering person. There is a lot of power in the Presbyterian Church. There was a large group of people gathered around him. This promotion blocked the way of one of his cronies, and made his calculation of expanding his voice in the Council of Elders fail, and he can be regarded as one of his potential enemies.

And since he said this to Sander, it also means that Sand can not care about the background of the Golden Skull Chamber of Commerce behind him at all. Even if he ruined the mid-year auction this time, it would not affect his future cooperation with the Golden Skull Auction House in the slightest.

That's not the worst, though.

At this moment, Li Fanxi hurriedly walked in. Anxiously, she whispered a few words in Tracy's ear. When Tracy heard this, her face changed. On the other side, Ejiman and the others showed a smug smile on their faces.

Tracy walked to the window and saw that the auction house was already full of black crowds standing downstairs. Several auction house guards and directors were scrambled around. It was a chaotic scene. Outside the crowd, there were many carriages parked, and dozens of well-dressed aristocratic gentlemen gathered beside the carriages, who were talking in low voices and watching coldly.

Tracy felt cold for a moment. She knows. These people gathered downstairs in the auction house are not only the sellers who sent the auction. There are also buyers who have signed up for the auction.

Before coming to the auction house, Ejman and Sander had already released the news. As soon as he heard that Sander was going to withdraw the auction, many buyers who came for the Diluo Quenching Pill rushed to the auction house to inquire about the matter. And those sellers who participated in the auction were even more anxious.

You know, the Divine Craftsman Hall auction is held at the same time as the Golden Skull Auction House auction, if everyone else goes to the Divine Craftsman Hall auction. Then they still left their treasures in the deserted auction hall of the Golden Skull Auction House, didn't they become idiots?

Standing in front of the window at this moment, Tracy is like facing an overwhelming wave of frenzy, and it seems that in the next second, she will be shot to pieces!

The situation is about to spiral out of control. Tracy quickly turned and went downstairs.

"Let's go, let's take a look at the excitement. Egilman said to Sander with a smirk, and the group of people laughed and followed Tracy downstairs.

When Tracy and Sander appeared in front of them, the crowd fell silent, and everyone's eyes wandered back and forth on Tracy and Sand's faces, with complicated expressions.

"Miss Tracy," the crowd dodged out of the way, and a noble, well-dressed old man with silver hair walked out and asked, "I heard that the Diluo Quenching Pill sent by Master Sander is going to be withdrawn, I don't know if this news is true or not?"

The old man's name was Mignolet, a respected earl and the owner of a large merchant group, with great prestige and influence in the southern business world of the empire.

He has a small mercenary group, twelve caravans, and shops scattered throughout cities in the south. He has cooperated with the Golden Skull Chamber of Commerce for many years and is one of Tracy's most important customers. And this time, he not only gave away several precious lots, but he was also a bidder for the Diluo Quenching Pill.

Mignolet's question was also the question of everyone present, and for a while, countless eyes converged on Tracy's face.

Standing beside Tracy, Li Fanxi was already sweating in his palms. He could see Tracy's somewhat pale face, and he could see her slightly trembling body.

Egilman and Sander's knife was so fast and hard that Tracy didn't have time to react.

In fact, even if a mid-year auction fails, it is not fatal for Tracy. But she was only a newcomer to the Presbyterian Church at the moment, and everyone was waiting to see her jokes. I don't know how long it will take to get back on my feet in the future.

Moreover, the shopping mall is not afraid of competition, and winning or losing business wars is originally a matter of relying on their own abilities. In a head-to-head battle, Tracy doesn't lose to anyone. But being stabbed by the opponent in such a way that goes beyond the bottom line of the rules is unbearable for her, who has always been proud and conceited.

At this moment, Li Fanxi didn't know how Tracy could handle such a situation. In his opinion, this is already a dead end!

In the silence, before Tracy could speak, Egilman's gloating voice had already broken the silence.

"Your Excellency," said Egilman, "you are well informed. You know, less than half a prayer after Mr. Sander asked Miss Tracy to withdraw the film, you already knew it. ”

Egilman's words are tantamount to an indirect answer to Mignolet's question.

The crowd was in an uproar, and the faces of Mignolet and the surrounding nobles showed a look of pity and pity. Everyone knows that this time, the mid-year auction of the Golden Skull Auction House is considered yellow. Such a fuss, including themselves, will focus their attention on the auction of the Divine Craftsman Hall.

No one wants to live with their own interests. As for Tracy, she can only blame herself for her bad luck.

Seeing Tracy turn her gaze to herself, Egilman made an innocent look and shrugged her shoulders and said, "I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"

As he spoke, he turned his head and ignored Tracy no longer as he walked with Sander towards Mignolet and the others.

"Your Excellency," said Egilman with a smile, "if I have time, I would like to invite you to the auction held in our Divine Craftsman Hall. Master Sand has agreed to hand over the Diluo Quenching Pill he has refined to us for auction. I think that with your strength, you will be able to get your wish. ”

Mignolet nodded, and was about to speak, when suddenly, Tracy on the side spoke: "Your Excellency, please wait a moment. ”

Everyone looked at Tracy in surprise, but saw that although she was pale, she still maintained an admirable composure, and said to Mignolet elegantly: "I can confirm that Mr. Sander has applied to withdraw the pill he sent for auction, and we will respect Mr. Sander's decision." But ......"

She raised her chin slightly, her gaze swept over Ejman and Sander's faces, and she said word by word: "If you wait for me a little bit before making a decision, I think our Golden Skull Auction House may give you an unexpected surprise." ”

Surprise?

People all looked at each other, even Li Fanxi was surprised, no one understood that at this time, Tracy still had a chance to turn defeat into victory.

"I'll miss it first. Tracy finished speaking, and turned and walked into the auction house.

Looking at Tracy's back, Li Fanxi's heart suddenly moved, and he suddenly thought of a possibility! For a while, his eyes lit up suddenly...... Two chapters, 9,000 words. When it's three chapters...... (To be continued......)