Water Breaking Arrow sent the message, but there was no reply. He already realized that the situation might not be good. The players who finished the auction scattered. Water Breaking Arrow sailed against the current and forced his way to the front of the auction stage. He saw Ye Xiaowu petrified like a statue, his eyes still staring at the auction board.
Suddenly he turned his head and began to look around. He saw Water Breaking Arrow next to him and randomly greeted him, then pushed him aside and squeezed out of the crowd.
"You didn't get it?" Water Breaking Arrow quickly caught up.
Ye Xiaowu nodded with a dark face.
"What happened?" Water Breaking Arrow asked.
"There won't be a problem with my bid." Ye Xiaowu said with certainty. He had already figured out the pattern and rhythm. Every time the auction board would show the price he offered, and he didn't receive a "failed bid" notification from the system. This was the best proof. Every single one of his bids was successful, including the last one.
"Then what happened?" Water Breaking Arrow was puzzled.
"There is only one possibility. In the last wave of bids, someone raised the bottom line." Raising the bottom line meant that the price was higher than everyone else. In this case, the time was no longer a problem. The system directly chose the highest price to show, and other bids wouldn't be judged as failures, because they were only equivalent to being replaced by a higher price in the auction. Because of this, Ye Xiaowu was sure that his last bid wasn't a failure, but was erased by a higher price.
"That's really unlucky!" Water Breaking Arrow sighed.
"This kind of situation didn't happen in the previous bidding, but it happened at the last second. It's hard to believe that this is a coincidence." Ye Xiaowu said.
"If it's not a coincidence, then what is it? No one knows when the auction will end! "Water Breaking Arrow said.
"Someone knows." Ye Xiaowu said.
"Who?"
"The seller."
Water Breaking Arrow suddenly understood. Indeed, the only person who could know when the auction would end was the seller.
"Uh, maybe after she finished the auction, her friend wanted it, so she told her friend the specific time and helped her friend successfully buy the staff." Water Breaking Arrow guessed.
"Accurate to the second? If she didn't have the intention, would she deliberately remember it so clearly when she consigned it? "Ye Xiaowu said.
"If that's the case … what the hell is going on?" Water Breaking Arrow was confused.
"I don't know. Let's take a look!" Ye Xiaowu looked around as she walked. At this moment, the Auction House was like a movie theater that had just ended. There were players everywhere. Ye Xiaowu wanted to go to the pickup area to see who had bought the staff, but a crowd had already gathered there. Although their feelings were not as complicated as Ye Xiaowu's, the crowd was very united in their curiosity.
The Flaming Cloak and Glue blended in with the crowd. They really liked this situation. Firstly, it would be hard for him to be discovered. Secondly, the player who had come to retrieve the staff would definitely be very conspicuous. If he was lucky, he might even be able to find out more about this person.
In the end, layers and layers of people waited anxiously, but no one came to pick up the goods. Occasionally, two or three people would appear, causing everyone to be excited. However, they were all normal auction players, and the items they were bidding for were not ideal staffs. The seller, on the other hand, appeared out of nowhere and took away her big bag of gold coins in satisfaction.
"Where is he? Why isn't he showing up? "Flaming Cloak mumbled. Everyone knew that the items sold in the auction house could be kept for seven days. However, for a top-grade staff that was bought through such intense bidding, it was only reasonable that the buyer couldn't wait to take it out and try it out, right? However, the buyer didn't show up today, which made everyone very anxious.
After more than ten minutes, many players lost their patience and left one after another. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around them, Glue and Flaming Cloak looked around more and more diligently.
"Where is Qianli Drunk? Is he still there? "Flaming Cloak asked as she looked around.
"I didn't see him." Glue was also looking around.
The number of players in the Auction House gradually decreased, to the point where everyone could be seen at a glance. The two of them looked around, but in the end, they could not find Gu Fei. Previously, when Gu Fei ended the auction, the two of them had wanted to continue watching his movements. However, at that time, there was a sea of people, and it was as if Gu Fei didn't notice them. It wasn't that easy for them to watch Gu Fei.
"Don't be careless. Qianli Drunk did show up. Maybe someone new is watching us," said Glue.
Flaming Cloak nodded and continued to be vigilant. Suddenly, she noticed something and pulled Glue away. "Look, two people seem to be watching us."
Glue looked back and was stunned. He recognized that the two people were Ye Xiaowu and Broken Arrow.
Flaming Cloak had never seen them before, but he knew that they were the bosses of their next big deal. Not only could he make money, but he could also vent his anger on Thousand Miles Drunk. Huo Renyi was very happy with this business. After hearing about the glue, he immediately waved at the two people enthusiastically.
Ye Xiaowu and Broken Arrow also recognized Glue, and they walked over.
Glue wanted to ask them why they were here, but when he saw Ye Xiaowu paying half of his attention to the NPC who sold the goods, he immediately realized their intention.
"Brother, you didn't get the staff?" Glue asked even though he already knew the answer.
Ye Xiaowu shook his head.
"Many people bought it. It was luck," Glue comforted him.
"Maybe it was luck, or maybe the seller bought it," said Ye Xiaowu.
"What do you mean?" Both Glue and Flaming Cloak's faces changed.
"With my skills, there shouldn't be such a coincidence that someone would offer a higher price than me, unless the seller knew in advance when the auction would end and took advantage of that second to buy the staff back at a much higher price," Ye Xiaowu said.
"Skill?" Both Glue and Flaming Cloak were distracted. They didn't know that skill was important in auctions in the parallel world.
Ye Xiaowu obviously didn't want to explain. He just looked at the NPC and muttered, "The person who bought the staff hasn't shown up yet …"
"That …" Glue said carefully, "What do you think is the possibility that the seller bought the staff?"
"99.99%," Ye Xiaowu said after looking at Glue.
"That's not 100%!" Flaming Cloak said.
"Maybe it's a coincidence …" After all, luck couldn't be explained by science.
Glue and Flaming Cloak didn't dare to ignore this unexpected information, so they quickly contacted Jiannan, "Da Nan, we met Hongchen Yixiao, and he said that there's a 99.99% chance that the staff was bought by the seller!"
"Oh? What proof does he have? "Jiannan asked quickly.
"He didn't say, but I don't think he's lying," Glue said.
"So it's really a trap!" Jiannan said.
"But we didn't see Qianli Drunk and the others around," Glue said.
"Didn't they show up before? This proves that they were just there. This must be a trap. Let's leave! "Jiannan said.
"Should we wait and see? Even if it's a trap, we have to figure out who has the staff! "Glue said.
"Since it's confirmed that it's a trap, the staff will eventually return to Mang Mang's hand. We can continue to pay attention to this woman," Jiannan said.
"That makes sense … but we'd better wait here and see what tricks they have up their sleeves. It's safe here anyway, "Glue said.
"That's fine," Jiannan said.
In order to make the trap more believable, Glue asked Ye Xiaowu how he was sure that it was the seller who bought the staff.
Ye Xiaowu didn't explain in detail like he did to Broken Water Arrow. He only said that there would be a difference between a successful bid and a failed bid when there were many people bidding. He knew the pattern. The bids were always successful, but the last bid before the end of the auction was directly buried by a higher bid. So he was very suspicious of this coincidence.
Hearing this, Glue and Flaming Cloak immediately felt that Ye Xiaowu's deduction was very reliable. Before the end of the auction, no one had raised the bottom line, but this happened one second before the end of the auction. It was too much of a coincidence, and it was worthy of 99.99% suspicion.
"He sold it and bought it himself. What is he doing?" Ye Xiaowu said.
Glue and Flaming Coat looked at each other and didn't say anything.
"When Qianli was drunk, he auctioned his sword, but in the end, he also bought it from his own people. What kind of trick is he playing?" Broken Water Arrow was also thinking.
Glue and Flaming Coat didn't know the answer either. The four of them frowned and thought hard. Glue and Flaming Coat knew half of it, but why did Qianli play such a trick when he was drunk? Why? The two of them thought so hard that their heads hurt.
At this time, Gu Fei and the others were no longer in the auction house. When Gu Fei jumped onto the stage and started to attract the attention of most people, Lan Yi left the auction house with a large group of people. They weren't supposed to appear in the auction house, but because they suddenly realized that there would be no place to auction, they all ran over in a hurry. At this time, seeing that Gu Fei's method was very likely to work, Lan Yi hurriedly called for everyone to leave the auction house, leaving only the Clerics to buy the swords.
"Qianli's method is very likely to work, but … he will be exposed. Jian Nan You and the others may be in the crowd. When they see him appear at this time, they may realize that this is our trap." Brother You was very worried.
"How meddlesome!" The young master of the Han Family had a dark expression on his face as he spat out unhappily.
"But if we don't do this, we won't be able to get on the stage …" Brother You said.
"So what?" Han Family Young Master said.
Brother You was startled and stopped walking.
Han Family Young Master turned back to look at him. Brother You said slowly: "I was thinking, you usually don't let go of any details. How could you be so careless as to ignore the fact that there will be a lot of people in the auction house at this time …"
"Of course I know this kind of thing."
"You want to make the act real. You really want to use the vast and boundless magic staff as bait to lure Jian Nan You."
"Jian Nan You isn't stupid. This is the only way he will fall for it." Han Family Young Master said.
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