Lose stood by Ji Taoyao's side dutifully, helping her block the visiting eyes of those at the auction.
This is an underground auction house that is not open to the public in the Colosseum. Everyone who knows here is either rich or noble.
There are only two ways to enter here.
One is to be brought in by the old members here and become new members. The second is to know the code words here that are updated every month, and then take out something to prove that you have sufficient wealth.
Ji Taoyao used the second method. Of course, the code words that came in came through the slag removal system.
This small world is very similar to the Western Fantasy World. Although the status of women is higher than that of those ancient dynasties, there are still certain restrictions on women.
For example, in underground auction houses like this, except for some powerful older women who are not easy to mess with at first glance, the rest are almost all men. It feels like there are men from families all over the place. Tonight's Victory Day celebration auction is definitely a
An auction with many good items destined to be exciting.
As the only young woman in the audience, even wearing a mask could not hide her youthful age. Her fair and small chin and beautiful swan neck made Ji Taoyao a small focus among the guests at the auction.
Even though she was sitting in a semi-enclosed cubicle, she was still looked at by many people indifferently.
At this time, Ross, who was standing outside, was like a god of death, blocking everyone's gaze.
In fact, he didn't really want to help Ji Taoyao, but because he originally carried a very strong evil aura. After seeing the creatures in the dark continent who were locked up outside, he suppressed this aura and became...
Even lower.
This seemed murderous to others, as if the master and servant were not easy to mess with, and they did not dare to come up to chat with them casually, but it saved Ji Taoyao a lot of trouble.
For this reason, Ji Taoyao glanced at him appreciatively and said, "You performed well tonight. If you still have money left after taking photos of the things you want to buy on the second floor tonight, I will take it to the sword shop and exchange it for you tomorrow."
A better sword."
Los raised his eyebrows slightly. He knew that Ji Taoyao had misunderstood, but he didn't say anything. It was good to let her just misunderstand.
After the auction officially started, the first items were luxury jewelry, the kind with collectible value, and then things related to the Dark Continent started to be sold.
After the Dark Continent was defeated two hundred years ago, it was forced to the barren continent. Then the most powerful light magicians cast spells and laid out a huge barrier to cut off communication between the two continents.
But there are also many good things in the Dark Continent, which are actually needed by the Bright Continent.
Now more than two hundred years have passed, and the barriers set up by the light magicians have been loosened. Now there are some small loopholes in many places that can allow each other to pass through. This is how the things that appear in the auction came, and they are not in large quantities.
Very precious.
When the auction was about to end, the item Ji Taoyao wanted most when she came here tonight was finally sold, and that was the Devil's Tears.
Devil's tears are actually a kind of crocodile tears in the Dark Continent.
This kind of crocodile is no ordinary crocodile. They are more than ten meters long and rare in number. They live in swamps and are elusive. They have a cruel temperament and extremely strong fighting power.
However, their tears are the most yin thing. According to legend, they have the power to combine light and darkness, and can be used as medicine. They are the best medicine for many medicines.
Ji Taoyao wanted to bathe in Los's blood so that her body could integrate the energy of dark magic. She had to use the devil's tears to neutralize it for the first time, otherwise the risk of this would become very high.
Due to the rarity and ferocity of this swamp crocodile, crocodile tears are a rare thing, and almost every time they appear, they are at auction.
However, because the Devil's Tears are useless, in addition to the high starting price, not many people rushed to bid for them.
After the Devil's Tears came up, the host in a tuxedo made an introduction and announced the starting price: "The starting price for this rare bottle of Devil's Tears is five thousand silver dollars!"
A thumb-sized glass bottle contains less than half a bottle of light yellow liquid. It is such a small amount, but it sells for 5,000 silver dollars. For an ordinary family, ten silver dollars can save the lives of a family of young and old, or even enough for their entire family.
Live for a year.
After the bidding for Devil's Tears started, only two or three people put up placards to bid, and the price increase was not much. They were all increased by about one or two hundred silver dollars.
Finally, it stopped at six thousand silver dollars. After the host said three times and was about to drop the hammer, Ji Taoyao, who had been sitting in the position without raising a card the whole time, finally took action.
She raised the sign and directly increased the price by one thousand silver dollars. Her cold voice sounded: "Seven thousand silver dollars."
This is basically the default rule of the auction. If you suddenly increase the price several times before the hammer falls, it basically means that you are bound to get this item.
Generally, in this case, no one will rob it later, because malicious bidding is very boring.
The host's eyes lit up, he raised the hammer and said: "Okay, now a lady has increased the price to 7,000 silver dollars. Does anyone else want to increase the price?!"
The eyes of the people below were all focused on Ji Taoyao. Everyone's eyes were full of interest. They all thought that this noble lady would buy some jewelry and other things, but they didn't expect that she ended up buying Devil's Tears.
Just when everyone thought that the Devil's Tears would fall on Ji Taoyao, a man sitting in the non-VIP area behind him suddenly raised a sign: "I will increase the price by one thousand, eight thousand silver dollars!"
Before the host answered, Ji Taoyao immediately raised her sign and her voice was still cold: "I will increase the price by two thousand, ten thousand silver dollars."
Ji Taoyao knew through the slag elimination system that this was a small local family on the border of Guangming Continent. The family had a little money, but not much. The original trajectory was that they spent 6,000 silver dollars to buy back the Devil's Tears.
The reason they bought this thing was because their new-born young master had no magic talent at all. They heard that Devil's Tears could improve his talent, so they got the news and rushed to the royal city all the way to take pictures of Devil's Tears.
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But in fact, Devil's Tears only have the effect of fusion and are useless at improving magic talents. They were deceived by hearsay.
The members of this family gritted their teeth and followed the price twice. After Ji Taoyao easily raised the price to 20,000 silver dollars without blinking an eye, they finally broke through. Their family's liquidity did not allow them to follow the price any longer.
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Finally, Ji Taoyao got her wish and bought this bottle of Devil's Tears, which was crucial to her, for 20,000 silver dollars.
She didn't waste much time. She wasn't interested in what was coming in the finale, so she went directly to the backstage to pay the debt anonymously, picked up the Devil's Tears, and left with Los.
She didn't notice that after she left, the family members who had not bought the Devil's Tears quietly followed them.