Chapter 56 The Landlord's Foolish Son
It was getting dark, and the whole Jincheng was quiet.
And the auction venue of Jubao Pavilion, located dozens of meters underground, was bustling with people.
"Take off another one!"
Looking at the hot dance on the stage, Ye Shengge blew a loud hooligan whistle and cheered loudly.
"Shua!"
In an instant, the whole venue darkened, and the original noise gradually stopped.
"It's time so soon? I haven't seen enough!" Duan Zixuan glanced at the time on the bracelet and suddenly felt bored.
"Yeah, I haven't seen enough!" Ye Shengge said in a low voice.
Half a minute later, the spotlight hanging on the sixth-floor ceiling suddenly lit up and shone towards the center of the stage.
Under the spotlight, a woman attracted the attention of everyone present.
She was wearing a tailor-made black dress, which not only outlined her graceful figure, but also cleverly highlighted her extraordinary temperament.
The black fabric glowed with a low-key luster under the light, mysterious and solemn.
She raised her jade hand lightly, picked up the auction hammer gracefully, smiled and looked around, and a crisp voice sounded: "Dear distinguished guests, welcome to today's auction site."
"Next, I will introduce you to the first lot of tonight!"
Her waist was slender, but she had just the right sense of strength. As she moved her hands and feet, she swayed gently, exuding an invisible charm.
"This is a blue-quality scarlet turntable, which contains four hundred random prizes. There is a 0.25% chance to draw a blue-quality armor red scale armor!"
"There is also a 0.25% chance to draw a blue-quality talent, advanced vehicle proficiency, which is a must-have skill for hunting in the wilderness!"
"A full 0.5% chance to get a blue-quality reward, which is definitely a top-notch item in the blue-quality turntable!"
The woman introduced the first lot, and at this time, everyone's attention shifted from the woman to the blue turntable.
The probability of drawing a blue quality reward is 0.5%, which is indeed a high probability of winning among many blue quality turntables.
But if you really take it to draw, you can hardly draw a blue quality reward.
Its value is far less valuable than the items that have been drawn.
"The starting price of the blue quality scarlet turntable is 1000 points, and each bid must not be less than 100 points. Please start bidding!"
After the woman finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at the projection screen behind her.
Those who participate in the auction of Jubao Pavilion will be given a bidding device. Those who want to bid can directly enter the price. Only the manager or the owner of Jubao Pavilion knows who is bidding.
On the empty screen, the numbers jumped quickly and soon reached 1900 points.
In fact, there are not many people who can participate in the auction in this area, including the Lin family, the Chen family, and the remaining two second-level camps.
Of course, there are also some wilderness lone wolves. If they are lucky, they can also save some "family assets", but such people are hard to find one in a million.
Chen Ping sat in the crowd, somewhat uninterested.
It’s not that he hadn’t thought about bidding for the blue turntable, then drawing out the blue-quality prizes himself, and finally selling them to Jubao Pavilion to earn the difference.
But the possibility of exposing his abilities in this way was too great.
He could sell some important resources to Jubao Pavilion, but he couldn’t let Jubao Pavilion know the origins of these resources.
In this way, it would be difficult for the other party to associate his abilities, and at most they would think that he was a ruthless person who always killed people and robbed treasures.
Besides, the blue-quality rewards were just average, and the difference in price was not enough for Chen Ping to take risks!
About an hour later, the woman walked off the stage, and a middle-aged man came on stage to continue the bidding.
Just when Chen Ping was drowsy, a green-quality weapon suddenly made his eyes light up.
"This is a medium-range pistol that can easily kill a level 1 scarlet beast, and can also cause some damage to a level 2 scarlet beast."
"It is easy to carry and has strong attack power. The only disadvantage is that it needs to be charged after every five attacks, which takes about three minutes!"
"The starting price of a green-quality pistol is 200 points, and each bid increase must not be less than 10 points. Please start bidding!"
After his rebirth, Chen Ping recognized at a glance that it was a pulse pistol.
If it can be upgraded to blue quality, it will definitely be able to kill in the scarlet secret realm below level A.
In Chen Ping's previous life, in the fourth year of the Scarlet Doomsday, he killed a member of the Scarlet Church and found a blue-quality pulse pistol.
Originally, he wanted to save some resources to upgrade it to red quality. After saving for a year, he was still a few scarlet coins away when he was stabbed to death by Lin Ruoyun.
If used properly, the burst damage of the green-quality pulse pistol is not weaker than that of ordinary blue-quality firearms.
But now most people don't know this pulse pistol, let alone use it!
Everyone looked at the screen and felt that exchanging 200 points for a green quality weapon was somewhat like cutting leeks.
"200 points once!"
"200 points twice!"
Failure to sell is common in Jubao Pavilion, and the price given by the appraisers is only more than 100 points. Normally, it is not enough to be auctioned.
But Shen Xiaoqian always felt that this weapon was extraordinary, so he forced it into the auction.
"200 points three..."
Before the auctioneer dropped the hammer, the number on the screen jumped and became 210.
"Damn, is there anyone who really wants to buy this?"
"A green quality weapon, sold for 200 points, and there are people who are taking advantage of it!"
"This must be the stupid son of a landlord!" Duan Zixuan said confidently while looking at the big screen.
"His father must be so angry to death with such a prodigal son!" Ye Shengge also nodded in agreement.
"Bang!"
The auction hammer fell, and Chen Ping successfully won the green weapon.
In Jubao Pavilion, all the auctioned items will be privately traded to the bidders by the auction house after the auction, which is also a kind of protection for the bidders.
Everyone thinks that buying a green pistol for more than 200 points is a huge loss.
But for Chen Ping, who has more than 100,000 points, this is nothing.
On the ninth floor underground, Shen Xiaoqian was sitting in the office, flipping through the account book.
The auction was halfway through, and Wang Shi sent the actual data to Shen Xiaoqian.
"How was the result of this?"
"Not too good, the transaction rate is less than 30%!" Wang Shi replied.
"So low?" Shen Xiaoqian was a little surprised.
"Master, I checked the membership list again and didn't find anyone from the Lin family!"
"Did they send the gloves?" Shen Xiaoqian asked.
Many forces or bigwigs often don't attend this kind of auction in person, but let some middle "gloves" bid on their behalf to hide themselves.
"It's unlikely. I received news a few days ago that the Lin family sent Lin Tianze this time. Maybe...something happened on the way!" Wang Shi guessed.
"After the auction, send someone to investigate."
"Yes!"
"Did that gentleman buy anything?" Shen Xiaoqian continued to ask.
"For the time being, I bought a green-quality pistol!" Wang Shi replied.
"Green-quality... pistol?" Shen Xiaoqian frowned slightly.
"Keep watching the auction. Report to me immediately if you have any news!"
"Yes, Master!"
Wang Shi retreated respectfully.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, the auction reached its climax.
Three blue-quality armor and weapons were auctioned directly at a high price of 6,000 points.
One of them was auctioned off by the Chen family. The Chen family was severely damaged in this beast tide, but a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the family assets are still very strong.
The remaining two items were auctioned off by two level-two camps in Binhai.
Of the two blue turntables, one was not auctioned off, and one was auctioned off.
Soon, it was the fourth to last item - the scarlet coin.
The manual that Chen Ping saw introduced that the scarlet coin was dropped by scarlet beasts above level 2, with a very low drop rate and unknown ways of use. There was no number marked, and Chen Ping subconsciously thought it was one.
As a result, twenty coins were directly displayed on the big screen in the void.
Chen Ping now only had four coins left.
At this time, the female auctioneer who appeared at the beginning of the auction came back on stage.
"This round, coin-like item has an unclear purpose for now, but it is very rare. We have only been able to obtain twenty of them in more than two months!"
"In the game "Scarlet Apocalypse", items similar to this can be used to upgrade talents and weapons. We guess that it also has similar functions, but it is not clear how to use it!"
"Twenty coin items, sold as a set, starting price... 10,000 points, each bid must not be less than 1,000 points!"
When the woman said the price, she also felt that the price was too high.
After all, the purpose of this thing is not clear.
At the same time, there was an uproar in the audience.
"Damn, are you crazy about money? These twenty red iron pieces cost 10,000 points?"
"You don't even know how to use them, but you're selling them at such a high price, what a rip-off!"
"If you don't want to buy, you don't have to buy. No one is forcing you to buy, poor bastard!"
"Hey, kid, keep your mouth shut. Are you a shill for Jubao Pavilion?"
"Everyone, be quiet!"
The quarrel intensified, and the woman on the stage spoke slowly. Her voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone.
The woman had seen similar situations many times, and these twenty coins and the beast egg failed to be sold twice. Every time the price was quoted, it would trigger a heated discussion.
"This is Jubao Pavilion. The prices of all the auction items are decided by professional appraisers after discussion. If anyone has any objections, they can raise them with us after the auction."
"But if you make trouble during the auction, don't blame us at Jubao Pavilion for being ruthless!"
The woman stood on the stage, intimidating without anger, and her powerful aura made everyone quiet down.
"Ten thousand points once!"
The woman began to count down.
Chen Ping looked at the screen, holding the bidding device in his hand.
If it was the middle stage of the Scarlet Apocalypse, 10,000 points for 20 Scarlet Coins would definitely be a huge loss.
But now it is still the early stage, and even the Scarlet Secret Realm has not yet arrived.
Twenty Scarlet Coins for 10,000 points can only be considered a normal price.
"Ten thousand points twice!"
The woman spoke again. This thing has been unsold twice, and the Pavilion Master has no intention of lowering the price. In her opinion, this time it will definitely be unsold again.
"Ten thousand points..."
The number on the big screen in the void suddenly jumped, 11,000 points.
"There are idiots every day, and there are especially many today. This thing is useless. Why buy it back? As a figurine?"
"Indeed, it's better to wait for the auction at twelve o'clock and get a few scarlet banshees back!"
"With this money, why get scarlet banshees? You can get scarlet male banshees, which will definitely surprise you more than banshees!"
"What surprise?"
"This thing can only be understood but not expressed in words!"
The crowd was discussing in a low voice, and the woman on the stage had already dropped the hammer.
The red coin that failed to be auctioned twice was actually sold!
The woman was a little unbelievable.
Half a minute later, the first item of the finale slowly appeared on the big screen in the void.
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