Chapter 41: The Auction
When the thrush boss heard this, he was so happy that he grabbed six cat whiskers and said: "Thank you seniors, this, go to the auction, if the seniors want a VIP box, the juniors can ask an acquaintance to set a good position." β
"Well, that's good, let's talk about it," Ah Huang finished speaking, and then said that he still had to make some peripheral arrangements, and then went out.
He ran a lot of places in Tacheng for a while, and even the teleportation array at the top of the tower went in from stealth and turned around, and after finally looking at the surrounding environment of the dome of the Daheng Clan's auction house, he was about to turn around and go back, when he suddenly saw an old acquaintance walking out of the gate of the auction hall, and there was a middle-aged man behind him with a smiling face.
A beast like a kangaroo pulled a four-wheeled convertible car to park outside the gate, and the two walked to the car, and the middle-aged man took a few steps forward to open the door for him, and kept saying something.
I saw that the person was dressed in a gray robe, his hair was gray, and he was cultivating in the middle of the Yuan Infant, and he looked like a senior formation mage who had been evacuated from Su Qiongxing, and the middle-aged man who sent him out all the way to keep talking also had the cultivation of the early Yuan Infant.
Ah Huang is now a cat-headed man in a combined state, if he shows his original form to meet an old acquaintance, he will inevitably be discovered by the spies of the Hengyi family all over Tacheng, but he has already done it, and he is curious about what that person is talking about, and he still needs to be so private as a sound transmission.
After thinking about it, he turned into invisibility and slowly approached until he was able to pick up the other party's thoughts, and after hearing it, he became a little thoughtful.
It turned out that the middle-aged monk was thanking the old man for helping to strengthen the formation prohibition in the auction hall, and asked him if he would also come to enjoy the auction and bid for one or two lots on the day of the auction, and the old man replied that he did not have the rare formation materials exclusive to the formation mage, and he still needed to retreat for a few days, so he would not bother Yunyun again.
Watching the old man drive away by himself, Ah Huang suddenly had an idea in his heart, so he followed incognito, bypassed a few streets and alleys, and arrived at a inn with a large scale and a grand faΓ§ade.
The old man jumped out of the car at the door, walked in the door by himself, and left the beast cart alone outside the door, Ah Huang stared and didn't see any guys in the inn come out to pull the cart, only after a while, the beast pulled the car away by itself, so he couldn't help but ask Ah Jin curiously what was going on.
Ah Jin, who stayed in the waistband of his trousers, said with a smile: "The beast pulling the cart is a spirit beast, it belongs to a car rental company, it comes and goes as soon as it is called, how long can it be used to put the spirit stone or shield coin into the bag on its chest, don't care about it else." β
Ah Huang touched his chin and nodded and said, "In this way, I know how to sneak into the auction hall." β
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Five days later, the ogyro-koko auction house, shaped like an upside-down pot lid and richly decorated, was lit up and a large-scale auction of spiritual objects was about to begin.
On the curved steps outside the gate of the auction hall, several waiters dressed in monochrome linen costumes stood behind a steward in the early stage of Jindan, respectfully receiving the buyers and guests who came to participate in the auction.
The people who came to participate in the auction one after another, there was a gray-haired old road mixed in, he drove a four-wheeled beast cart to the gate of the auction hall by himself, got out of the car and stuffed a lower grade spirit stone, and let the beast cart leave on its own.
As soon as Lao Dao stepped on the steps, the Danchu steward stepped forward, bowed down and saluted: "Master Di, you are here, and the beggar manager also said that you are studying the formation, and you can't come to retreat." β
This old man was the old man who had helped the auction house to strengthen the formation prohibition earlier, and I saw him wave his hand and say: "Poor Dao is studying the formation, and suddenly remembered that there was something wrong with the enchantment that he had strengthened before, so he rushed over in a hurry, hoping that it would not affect the opening of the auction." β
"No, no, you came at the right time, and the guests just started to enter the venue," Danchu Steward replied repeatedly.
The old man nodded and said, "You go and talk to the beggar manager, and then send someone to accompany the poor Dao to go around and get the few formations of the enchantment." β
"Yes, yes," said the steward of Danchu, who immediately assigned a waiter to tell the beggar manager, and the waiter turned and walked inside, and only walked a few steps before retreating.
I saw a person striding over, arching his hand and smiling: "Oh, Master Di, if you want to come, don't say a word, so that someone can be sent to greet you." β
This person was the chief manager of the auction house who had sent the old man out five days ago.
The old man hugged his fist at Heng Qi and said: "Chief Beggar Chief, Poor Dao is polite, earlier strengthened the enchantment of your auction house, Poor Dao has some experience, hurriedly returned to the inn to study, only a few days of cultivation, suddenly remembered that there were a few inappropriate places in the original reinforcement, so he rushed out of the customs again, planning to repair one or two. β
Heng Qi said with a smile: "Hehe, so there is Master Lao, needless to say if you are grateful, the master has finished repairing, and prepared the best box below, so that the master can rest for a while, and take a look at the excitement by the way." β
He then asked the old man to lead the old man to walk around, apologize for the loss of company, and then personally stand guard in front of the gate to greet the other guests.
I saw that the old man nodded, and asked the Danchu steward to take him to repair the formation base, and after ordering the enchantment array to close, he quickly walked around the position of the large and small array bases inside the auction hall to defend the enchantment.
The old man skillfully twisted the formation technique, and used wisps of finger wind to flick the essence of the earth system into the formation base, repairing all kinds of improprieties in the formation prohibition.
This made the Danchu steward who was accompanying him amazed, and Master Dark Dao was worthy of being a senior array mage, and this move was really breathtaking.
In just half an hour, the old man had completed the repair of the entire enchantment array, and asked the Danchu steward to tell the person controlling the array at the auction hall to open the large array, only to see a flash of floating light, and the enchantment array was immediately opened, enveloping the entire auction hall again.
In the end, the steward of Danchu respectfully invited the old man who had completed the repair of the big array to sit in the No. 4 box, one of the best five-seat VIP boxes in the auction hall.
At this time, all the boxes in the auction hall were full, and the scattered seats in the lower circle were almost seated, and it was close to the official opening of the auction.
I only heard the three gongs of "bang, bang, bang", and the chief manager of the auction hall was full of smiles, holding a small gong, walked up to the auction table surrounded by a circle of seats, and said: "Warmly welcome all Taoist friends, deign to come to participate in the spiritual auction held by the Cong family, this auction is still in accordance with the old practice, only the number of spiritual items, not the type of spiritual items." β
He suddenly raised his voice and said: "This auction will auction 19 rare spiritual objects, in order to add to the fun of surprise, the rarity is not in order, but randomly selected, and now - take out the first lot to display!"
A young and beautiful woman dressed in a short linen dress but showing the crystal skin of her limbs, holding a spirit bag in her hand, walked out of the backstage and handed it to Heng Qi.
Heng Qi took the spirit bag, took out a two-foot square bamboo cage, and placed it on the auction table, which was quite high so that all the guests could see the items on it.
In the bamboo cage was a canine with long black hair and black eyes, with a non-iron and non-wooden collar around its neck, and its eyes shining with a ghostly light, looking around curiously at the guests.
Heng Qi raised his voice angrily: "This first lot is a spirit, called 'gold', it is a cross between wild spirits and canine spirits of the contempt family, the survival rate is very low, there is only one left, it is still a cub, but it can be raised independently, it is a gold spirit, the nose is extremely sensitive to metallic objects, and it will be of great help to find gold treasures." β
Then after a pause, it was estimated that the guests present had seen and listened to it clearly, and then he said again: "Now that the auction starts, the starting price of this first lot is still the usual starting price of zero, and the price increase shall not be less than one hundred spirit stones each time. β
Heng Qi holds a gong in his left hand and a mallet in his right hand, and strikes it with a "bang" to indicate that the auction of this item has begun.
"A thousand spirit stones!"
The sound of the gong fell, and someone immediately made an offer, the sound came from the VIP box at the back, the box was very private, and no one knew who was the first to bid, but this offer also made many guests in the loose seats inhale like a toothache.
"Five thousand spirit stones!"
Without waiting for the beggar to repeat the first offer, the second quote followed, or from the VIP box behind.
If the first quotation immediately exceeded 1,000, which made people psychologically bearable, the second quotation was suffocating, and it doubled by five times, which has already broken the extravagant expectations of most people.
As soon as the price of these five thousand spirit stones came out, the whole field fell silent, and an artificially cultivated treasure hunting spirit was quoted at five thousand, almost to its value.
The auction hall was cold for a few breaths, and then Heng Qi's excited voice sounded again: "The price of the No. 37 VIP box is 5,000 spirit stones, the courage is amazing, the end is a good momentum, do you still have a price increase?......
In the No. 4 VIP box, which had been closed silently, there were two people muttering in their minds, and one said excitedly: "Ah Huang, I need a lot of gold materials for my cultivation advancement, and I want to take a picture of this 'gold grabbing', just in time." β
The other person said indifferently: "If you want to shoot, you can shoot it, anyway, you have earned a lot of spirit stone treasures by killing the enemy, and it will be almost the same if you take a little change." β
But the real human body in the box is only the old man, but there are two people who are talking in their minds, it is Ah Huang and Ah Jin, the two of them are dressed as the old man, and they come in in a grand way to mend the enchantment, and they actually act seamlessly with the style of Ah Huang's formation master.
Listen to Ah Jin again: "The first few poor ghosts I killed add up to 10,000 spirit stones, and the last queen was killed by the old thief, and all the things in the storage bag were swallowed by him, anyway, the spirit stones are not enough for you to support for a while." β
Ah Huang said: "It's okay, it's not enough for me to make up, you can make a bid quickly." β
Ah Jinxi said: "I'll buy one to play, you see other suitable ones, and also take one or two to make fun, knowing that you have a small ring, and the spirit stone is at your fingertips." β
At this moment, there are two more bidders in the auction hall, and the bidding price of the golden dog has jumped to more than 8,000 spirit stones, which is basically a little cold, and he begged three times if anyone has increased the price, and then began to count, but before he counted the third time, someone continued to increase the price.