Eye of Darkness

On Team Rocket's platform, Yan Ming saw information about an auction in Nibi City, called the Gray Rock Auction House, which had a high status in Nibi City.

This auction house, like most auction houses in the elf world, is divided into three types of auctions, which are first-level venues with a value of about 1000 to 20000. You only need to pay some fees to set up a stall in it for people to come and go. The purchase by trainers and others is actually an auction, and the first-level venue is actually more like a trading venue.

The second form of auction is the traditional sign-up auction.

Only items with a value of at least 3 yuan can be auctioned on it. If you want to enter the secondary venue to sell or buy items, you need to pay a large fee or be the holder of the auction item to enter.

Therefore, good things will only flow out in the secondary venue. The commentator will introduce the items one by one for sale. Compared with the first venue, the secondary venue is more formal and the people will be more formal. rare.

As for the third-level venues, you need items worth more than 30 to enter the club. However, in most cases, items worth more than one million are also available, and compared with the second-level venues, there are not many venues in the third-level venues. , because once a third-level auction is held, there must be items coveted by most people among the items auctioned.

If you want to participate in this kind of auction, you need a special invitation letter to enter. Most of the people who can get the invitation letter have family support behind them.

After reading the information about the auction house, Yan Ming thought about it and decided to go and have a look first.

The Limestone Auction House is located in the most prosperous area of ​​​​the city center of Nibi. The overall architectural style exudes a simple flavor. From the outside, it does not look like a commercial auction house at all, but rather like a temple. door.

The scale of the limestone auction house is not small, covering an area of ​​nearly [-] acres, and the area reaches about [-] acres.

The origin of this auction house can be seen from the sign at the door of the auction house. The main building of the auction house is gray, and the outer wall of the main building is covered with patterns. These patterns are from the gray stone auction house. Detailed pictures of auction items.

The interior of the auction house is divided into two parts, one is the main hall and the other is the side hall.

There is a huge table at the reception desk in the main hall. This table can accommodate 30 people. There are rows of seats on both sides of the main hall. The height of the seats is about 1.5 meters. The arrangement on the seats is a kind of bamboo. The chair cushions are made to look more comfortable.

There were quite a few people in the auction house at this time, and passers-by were walking through the main hall. Yan Ming noticed that most of the people who came to the auction house would go directly to the passage on the left and go to the side hall. A few people would be there. Consultation service at the reception desk in the main hall.

Yan Ming thought for a moment, walked to a front desk, and under the watchful eye of the receptionist, took out the blue stones from his bracelet.

“I want to make a sale.”

The receptionist was a tall woman wearing a cheongsam. The woman looked at what Yan Ming took out, then looked at the Pikachu on Yan Ming's shoulder, and smiled.

"Okay, this trainer, would you like to conduct a value assessment? After the assessment and the value is reached, you can enter the second-level auction."

"If you don't want to evaluate, then please go to the exchange in the side hall and sell it at the first-level venue."

After thinking about it, Yan Ming nodded.

"Okay, I want to do a value assessment."

Hearing Yan Ming's answer, the woman smiled softly.

"Okay, please pay the appraisal fee of 500 alliance coins."

500?

Yan Ming curled his lips, this was really not cheap, but Yan Ming was not short of these alliance coins.

At the woman's signal, Yan Ming handed over 500 alliance coins. Then the woman put the stones that Yan Ming took out into a box and handed them to another woman next to her.

The woman took the box from the woman's hand, and then said knife to Yan Ming.

"plz follow me."

After saying that, the woman held the box in her hands and walked in front towards a corridor on the right side of the main hall.

Yan Ming looked at this scene, then looked around, and followed the woman's pace.

Behind the wooden door on the right is a long passage, and at the end of the passage is a large door.

On both sides of the passage stood two beautiful maids in cheongsam.

There was a smile on the maid's face, but it was a cold smile.

After the woman nodded to the two maids in front of her, the two maids opened the door in front of them, revealing a staircase.

Yan Ming followed the woman up two floors and came to a room, which was a large open place. There were more than 40 tables in the whole place, and different items were placed on each table, including There are some people sitting here looking at the items in front of their desks.

The woman placed the box on an empty table, then turned back and bowed to Yan Ming.

"Please wait here for a moment."

After saying that, he left Yan Ming and walked in the other direction.

Yan Ming sat on the chair and glanced at the people around him who seemed to be conducting appraisals.

Yan Ming just glanced at it for a few times and then lost interest.

He recognized the items that the two men placed on the table. They were the abiding stone and the burning balloon, which had no effect on Yan Ming.

He didn't wait long. After a while, a man about 40 years old and wearing glasses walked into the room. His eyes swept over everyone in the room one by one, and finally settled on Yan Ming.

"Excuse me, do you need to appraise the value of the item?"

"Hello."

Yan Ming stood up from the table, opened the box, and revealed the faint blue stone inside.

"Yes, this is a strange stone I got in a cave during my adventure. It can greatly improve the power of elves' fire and ice skills."

Hearing Yan Ming's description, the man's eyes lit up, he took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket, and then eagerly picked up the blue stone and looked at it.

After looking at it for a long time, the man seemed to have discovered something. He took out a square instrument from his pocket and scanned the stone.

Yan Ming also looked at the man with interest, expecting the man to give some insights.

The man carefully observed the instrument in his hand.

After a long time, he sighed and placed the stone in his hand on the table.

"Don't you know what this stone is worth?"

"This dark blue stone should be a strange energy stone. It has huge energy inside, which can stimulate the power of elves. It is an excellent auxiliary material, but..."

Hearing Yan Ming's words, the young man showed a hint of bitterness and handed the stone back to Yan Ming.

"I don't recognize the origin of this stone, and I don't know its specific utility, so I can't give you an accurate value."

Hearing the man's words, Yan Ming frowned slightly.

I don’t know what kind of material this is?You are a big auction house, but you don't even recognize a stone... It's too much.

As if aware of Yan Ming's dissatisfaction, the man said helplessly.

"I don't know where you got this stone. Although I don't know its origin, the ice and fire energy contained in this stone is also extremely rare. My suggestion is that if you There are still several pieces of the same stone, and we can arrange a secondary auction for you, but we cannot give you a minimum guarantee for how much they can sell."

After listening to the man's words, Yan Ming thought for a moment. What he meant was that the stone was valuable, but he didn't know how much exactly.