Chapter 352 The Seller's Trick?

The message sent by Duanshui Jian received no reply. He already sensed that something might be wrong. Players who had finished with the auction scattered with a roar. Fighting against the current, Duanshui Jian squeezed to the front of the auction platform. He saw Ye Xiaowu petrified there like a statue, his eyes still fixed on the auction listing in a daze.

Suddenly, he turned his head and began to look around. Seeing Duanshui Jian beside him, he gave a perfunctory greeting and pushed past him, squeezing out of the crowd.

"Didn't get it?" Duanshui Jian hurried to catch up.

Ye Xiaowu nodded with a dark face.

"What happened?" Duanshui Jian asked.

"There's no problem with my bid," Ye Xiaowu said with certainty. He had already figured out the pattern and rhythm. The auction listing would display the price he offered each time, and he had not received a system prompt of "Bid Failed." This was the best proof. Each of his bids had been successful, including the last one.

"Then what's going on?" Duanshui Jian asked in confusion.

"There's only one possibility: someone raised the lower limit in the final wave of bidding." Raising the lower limit meant that the price was higher than everyone else's. In this case, the order in which bids were placed was no longer a problem. The system directly selected the highest price to display, while other bids were not judged as failures because they were simply replaced by a higher price in the auction. Based on this, Ye Xiaowu was certain that his last bid had not failed, but had been erased by a higher bid.

"That's really bad luck!" Duanshui Jian sighed.

"This has never happened in any of the previous price increases, 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 what time the auction will end!" Duanshui Jian said.

"Someone knows," Ye Xiaowu said.

"Who?"

"The seller."

Duanshui Jian suddenly understood. Indeed, the only person who might know when the auction would end was the seller.

"Uh, maybe after the auction, a friend of hers wanted it, so she told her friend the exact time to help her friend successfully buy the staff," Duanshui Jian guessed.

"Accurate to the second? If she didn't have ulterior motives, would she deliberately remember it so clearly when she consigned it?" Ye Xiaowu said.

"So... what the hell is going on?" Duanshui Jian was confused.

"I don't know, let's see!" Ye Xiaowu said, looking around as he walked. At this time, the auction house was like a movie theater after the show, with players leaving in all directions. 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 mood wasn't as complicated as Ye Xiaowu's, the crowd was very united in their curiosity.

Huo Ranyi and Jiaoshui were mixed in this crowded mass, a situation they really liked. First, they were not easily discovered. Second, the player who came to pick up the staff would definitely be very conspicuous at this time, so they could get a clear look at them. If they were lucky, they might even find out the person's background.

As a result, layers upon layers of people waited expectantly, but no one came to pick up the goods. The occasional two or three people aroused a burst of excitement, but they were all players from ordinary auctions, and the goods they picked up were not the desired staff. On the other hand, the seller, Mang Mang de Mang Mang, appeared, very leisurely picking up her large bag of gold coins.

"Where is he? Why hasn't he shown up yet?" Huo Ranyi muttered. Everyone knew the rule that items sold at the auction house could be kept in storage for seven days. But it would be reasonable for the person who bought such a high-quality staff after such fierce bidding to take it out and try it as soon as possible, right? As a result, this buyer never showed his true colors today, making everyone very anxious.

More than ten minutes passed, and many players had lost patience and left. Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi saw that there was less and less cover around them, and their eyes moved more and more diligently.

"Is Qianli Yizui still here?" Huo Ranyi asked, looking around.

"I haven't found him," Jiaoshui also looked around.

There were fewer and fewer players in the auction house, and basically everyone could be seen at a glance. The two looked around, but in the end, they couldn't find Gu Fei. When Gu Fei finished the auction earlier, the two also wanted to continue to keep an eye on his actions, but at that time, there was a sea of people, and just as Gu Fei couldn't notice them, it wasn't easy for them to keep an eye on Gu Fei.

"Don't be careless. Qianli Yizui has appeared before. Maybe some strangers are paying attention to us now," Jiaoshui said.

Huo Ranyi nodded and continued to be vigilant. Suddenly, he noticed something in a certain direction and quickly pulled Jiaoshui: "Look, those two people over there seem to be staring at us."

Jiaoshui quickly looked back and was stunned. He recognized that the two people were Ye Xiaowu and Duanshui Jian.

Huo Ranyi had never seen the two of them, but he already knew that they would be the bosses of their next big deal. Huo Ranyi liked this business very much because it could make money and clean up Qianli Yizui to vent his anger. As soon as he heard Jiaoshui's introduction, he immediately waved enthusiastically at the two.

Ye Xiaowu and Duanshui Jian also recognized Jiaoshui and walked over.

Jiaoshui wanted to ask the other party's intentions, but when he saw that Ye Xiaowu was still paying half of his attention to the NPC that handed out goods, he immediately understood the other party's intentions.

"Brother didn't get the staff?" Jiaoshui asked knowingly.

Ye Xiaowu shook his head.

"There are a lot of people buying it, so you have to rely on a little luck," Jiaoshui comforted him.

"Maybe it's luck, or maybe it was bought back by the seller," Ye Xiaowu said.

"What do you mean by that?" Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi's expressions changed.

"With my method, theoretically, it shouldn't be such a coincidence that someone offered a higher price than me. Unless it was the seller who knew exactly when the auction would end in advance, and stepped on that second to buy back the staff at a price that raised the lower limit by a lot," Ye Xiaowu said.

"Method?" Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi's attention shifted for a moment. They never knew that there were methods to auctions in Parallel World.

Ye Xiaowu obviously didn't want to explain too much about this, he just continued to look at the pickup area and muttered: "The person who bought the staff hasn't shown up yet..."

"That..." Jiaoshui said cautiously, "The seller you said bought back the staff, how likely do you think that is?"

"99.99%," Ye Xiaowu said after glancing at Jiaoshui.

"Isn't that equal to one hundred percent!" Huo Ranyi said.

"Maybe it's really a coincidence... " After all, luck is something that cannot be explained by science.

Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi did not dare to ignore this unexpectedly obtained information, and quickly contacted Jian Nan You: "Da Nan, we met that Hongchen Yixiao. He said with certainty that there is a 99.99% chance that the ideal staff was bought back by the seller!"

"Oh? What is his basis?" Jian Nan You asked quickly.

"He didn't say, but I don't think he's talking nonsense," Jiaoshui said.

"In that case, this is really a trap!" Jian Nan You said.

"But we haven't found Qianli Yizui and the others around," Jiaoshui said.

"Didn't they show up before? It proves that they have been on the scene. This is definitely a trap, leave!" Jian Nan You said.

"Do you want to take another look? Even if it's a trap, we have to find out who has the staff!" Jiaoshui said.

"Now that it's confirmed that it's a trap, the staff will eventually return to Mang Mang de Mang Mang's hands after a round, so there won't be anything wrong with continuing to pay attention to this woman," Jian Nan You said.

"That makes sense... But the two of us will wait here for a while to see what tricks they have. Anyway, it's absolutely safe here," Jiaoshui said.

"That's fine," Jian Nan You said.

In order to make the trap theory more credible, Jiaoshui asked Ye Xiaowu how he was sure that the staff was bought by the seller.

Ye Xiaowu didn't explain as much as he did to Duanshui Jian. He only said that there was a difference between successful bids and failed bids when many people bid, and he had mastered the pattern, so his bids had always been successful. But the last time before the end, he was directly buried by a higher price, so he was very suspicious of this coincidence.

As soon as Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi heard this, they immediately felt that Ye Xiaowu's reasoning was indeed very reliable. During that period before the end of the auction, no one had raised the lower limit again, but this kind of thing happened one second before the end. It was too coincidental and worthy of 99.99% suspicion.

"Selling it himself and buying it himself, what is he doing?" Ye Xiaowu said.

Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi looked at each other and didn't say anything.

"That Qianli Yizui, he auctioned his sword and found his own people to buy it. What kind of trick is he playing?" Duanshui Jian was also thinking.

Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi didn't know the answer to this question either. The four of them frowned and tried their best to think. Jiaoshui and Huo Ranyi could be considered to know half of the answer, but why did Qianli Yizui also want to play this trick? Why was that? The two of them were racking their brains.

At this time, Gu Fei and the others were no longer in the auction house. When Gu Fei jumped onto the high platform to sell his sword and began to divert most of the people's attention, Lan Yi led a large group of people out of the auction house. Originally, they shouldn't have appeared in the auction house in the first place. It was only because they suddenly realized that there would be no seats for the auction that they all ran over in a hurry. At this time, when he saw that Gu Fei's method was likely to work, Lan Yi hurriedly greeted everyone to leave the auction house to avoid suspicion, leaving only the priest who was snapping up the items.

"Qianli's method is likely to work, but... in this way, he will be exposed. Jian Nan You's people may be mixed in the crowd. Seeing him appear at this time, they may realize that this is our trap," You Ge said worriedly.

"What a nuisance!" Han Jia Gongzi said with a gloomy face from the side, spitting out a sentence unhappily.

"But if we don't do this, we won't be able to get the auction platform..." You Ge said.

Han Jia Gongzi was stunned and stopped.

Han Jia Gongzi looked back at him, and You Ge said slowly: "I was just thinking, how could you, who never let go of any details, be as careless as ordinary people and ignore the fact that there would be many people in the auction house at this time..."

"Of course I know this kind of thing."

"You want to play it for real and really use Mang Mang de Mang Mang's staff as bait to lure Jian Nan You to take the bait."

"Jian Nan You is not stupid. Only in this way will he be fooled wholeheartedly," Han Jia Gongzi said.