The first rain in the Capital of Knowledge in 3692 came quietly at dusk on February 32.

The cold wind in winter is still raging on the earth, but the weeds beside the road have already sprouted in the cold wind at the end of the road. The bare branches in the city are dyed with a little green color, allowing people to feel a hint of spring even in the cold wind.

The weather is still cold, and ordinary people passing by on the street are still wrapped in thick coats. After finishing their work for the day, they rushed to the warm home with the cold wind. In this gloomy weather, burning the fireplace and having a hot dinner is the greatest happiness for ordinary people in a day. However, professionals with physical fitness far exceeding ordinary people are different. Even in such a cold season, professionals are still wearing thin clothes and wearing their usual equipment outside, traveling between the streets and alleys, constantly gaining the envious gazes of ordinary people around them.

The sky is gloomy, and the low clouds block the sunset at dusk. The thin snowflakes fall in the darkness, falling on the heads and shoulders of pedestrians, and are quickly melted by their body temperature and turned into evaporated mist. But soon, the snow turned into rain, and the falling snowflakes became smaller and smaller, and eventually turned into raindrops with ice, dripping from the sky, making the ground slippery.

But even in such weather, the commercial area of ​​the City of Knowledge is still crowded. Passengers visit and shop in the commercial area, and caravans deliver payments in the commercial area. Local residents buy items needed for life in the commercial area, and professionals sprinkle gold coins in the commercial area to improve their strength. Generally speaking, the weather is cold, but the atmosphere in the commercial area is always as warm as fire.

The irregular quadrilateral commercial area becomes more and more lively as it goes inside. The shops on the most central streets are often open until midnight, and the taverns everywhere are brightly lit all night. However, on the central streets, several large buildings basically stop operating after dusk, and only a few days a month will be postponed to the closing time. There are not many such places, but Murray and Jones Auction House are one of them.

Today is just the day for the monthly auction of Murray and Jones Auction House. It is also one of the few days when they delayed their business closure every month. As usual, at the beginning of each month, the Auction House will publish the monthly auction catalog of this month in a special newspaper and pass it among hundreds of thousands of people across the city. In addition, the Auction House will specialize in producing some more detailed introduction publications. Free delivery to some special customers. In addition to the rich and famous people in the city, these customers also include high-level adventure groups based in the city, lone high-level adventurers, and high-level mages of the Mage Guild. Of course, their six affiliated guilds and major temples are naturally indispensable. In short, the purpose of the Auction House is to use this as an advertisement to attract as many guests as possible to participate in the auction, creating a greater reputation and higher commission for them.

Of course, monthly auctions cannot be compared with annual New Year auctions. Whether in terms of the types and rareness of auction items, they are far inferior to the latter. But after all, the reputation of auction houses is that people of all ethnic groups in the mainland often think of when they want to auction rare items is the auction house of the Capital of Knowledge, so there are always some strange items here every month, attracting lovers from the whole city and even the world.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the two-hour auction is about to begin, and the auction house is gradually becoming sparsely populated. Only a few late guests rushed into the auction house, afraid of missing the items they like. In order to increase the time for participants to stay in the auction house, avoiding many customers predicting the time according to the order of the auction, only appearing when the items they want to auction appear. The auction house used a shameless method. In addition to the last ten precious items, the auction orders of the first twenty or thirty items were all random, and no one knew when the auction items appeared, which forced most of the participating guests to stay in the auction house. Although this method is shameless, it does work. Often, customers who did not want to bid for which item at the beginning decided to temporarily participate in the auction price, which invisibly increased the auction price.

With the bells before the monthly auction began, the two carriages slowly stopped in front of the auction house. Lina and Vivian each pulled a little girl wrapped in thick clothes and her hats were pressed down to block her face and jumped out of the car. In the car behind, Catherine and Pennis also jumped down with two maids. Eight people looked at the door and walked into the door.

"Sister Lina." The little girl holding Lina's hand was Mixueer. She was lively and active and went to such a place for the first time. She was curious about everything. She had to come over and take a look at every strange decoration. "Does the auction house here really have everything?"

"It would be great if there were really everything." Lina shook her head and said, "It's just that there are many strange things here, not everything. Too many things that have disappeared in the world, or things that others don't want to sell cannot be found here."

"Oh." Mixue'er nodded in a slight sense of understanding: "If this happens, the things here must be very expensive. Can Ansha and I afford it?"

"Haha." Lina laughed and continued to shake her head: "It's not necessarily expensive. If the people participating in the auction don't want to buy it, they will buy it very cheaply. However, if someone wants to compete with you, it will become very expensive. OK, don't run around, go in."

Entering the first auction hall of the auction house, the auction has indeed officially begun.

The first auction hall did not have the noisy situation that many people imagined. Instead, it was very quiet. The guests who came to participate in the auction sat neatly in their seats and listened quietly to the auctioneer's detailed introduction to the goods. The second floor of the auction hall is a semi-circular platform, and twenty private rooms are built on the platform. These private rooms are for large customers with sufficient funds. Unless some wealthy people who can be sure to have sufficient funds, others must verify their capital in advance if they want to use them. As for the benefits of private rooms, they can not only have independent space, but also when they become interested in a certain item or

When an individual asks for personal inspection, ordinary guests can only observe and inspect the goods one meter away from the goods after they go on stage. However, the guests in the private room can personally deliver them to the private room by the auctioneer assistant after making the request. In addition, in an auction, the guests in the private room can have three times, up to five minutes and three times each time, which is no more than ten minutes of suspension time. This is the greatest convenience for participants. Using this period, the auctioneer can carefully weigh the pros and cons to make a decision, or take this opportunity to temporarily lend funds like friends around them when they are insufficient.

Since the adventure team had a lot of funds this time, Katherine came over to book a private room and completed the capital verification in the afternoon. So the group did not stop on the first floor. They went up to the second floor and entered their own private room under the guidance of the waiter. Several eyes were seen from different private rooms, and hurriedly swept the eight people, then took them back, and they were no longer interested in them.

"It's a pity that I'm late." Vivian was the person who was most interested in this auction and said regretfully: "I don't know which auction item it is now."

"This is the third one," said Penis. "Two have been taken before."

"How do you know?" Lina asked curiously: "Isn't the auction order random?"

"Of course I heard it." Panis pointed to his ears: "Although the auction hall has a good sound insulation effect, I can still hear it."

"Have you finished shooting two?" Vivian asked anxiously, "Do you know what they are?"

"Don't worry, nothing is important without what you want." Panis said casually: "This is our private room."

"Thank you for your hard work." Catherine nodded and smiled at the waiter who led the way, and walked into the box first, explaining to the maid sisters: "Don't be so nervous. I know that you two have seen many more powerful people along the way, but those people here will not come to cause trouble for you, nor will they just come to kill you for fun. So there is no need to avoid them like in the City of Innocence, just treat them as normal communication objects. Of course, it is not realistic to let you communicate normally now, just treat them as non-existent."

"Yes, master." The two maids consciously wiped the tables and chairs of the private rooms for everyone, put the snacks and drinks provided by the customers of the auction in a convenient position, and then stood behind Catherine and waited for the owner's instructions.

"Dangdangdang." Shortly after I sat down, the door of the private room was knocked.

This is a habit passed down from the theater and one of the benefits of using private rooms. When watching performances in the theater, whenever the screen is in between or not very interesting, guests often take the opportunity to visit acquaintances and friends in nearby private rooms, turning the private rooms into a social place. Often, some people with poor life turn the private rooms into another special social place. However, this is only the behavior of a few people and has no universal significance.

"Hello." Pansy quickly walked to the door and gently opened the door of the box. As soon as she saw the person outside the box, Pansy felt an invisible pressure. This was the pressure naturally generated by the strong against the weak. The pressure made Pansy very uncomfortable and instinctively wanted to avoid it. But when she remembered Catherine's words just now, she forced herself to muster up the courage to ask: "Is there anything you have?"

"Huh? Who are you? Have you never seen you?" A crisp and pleasant voice came from outside the box, but the simple words were as fascinating as jumping notes, and they automatically formed a moving melody in the listener's mind: "Wow, Mr. Pannis, you are finally back. Well, there are also sister Lina and the idiot, welcome back."
Chapter completed!