Chapter 162 Safe House
The room fell into a long silence.
Probably having anticipated Xu Zhiyan's reaction, Gan Mi was not in a hurry.
Just like before, he accurately poured half a glass of wine into the glass and drank it by himself.
About a few minutes later, Gan Mi frowned and put down the glass, as if he felt that today's wine was not tasty. He stood up and walked to the wine cabinet again, and started to choose absent-mindedly.
“You only see part of it.”
"After entering the five-star copy, you will see more."
After he finished speaking, he heard a slight sound, but he didn't pay attention to it and continued speaking.
"Is it hard to accept? It seems that it is indeed hard for a newcomer like you to accept, but it is actually not as scary as you think."
After choosing and choosing, Gan Mi didn't find a wine he liked, so he simply took two new glasses and took out two bottles of sparkling water from the refrigerator under the wine cabinet.
But when he turned around, he found that Xu Zhiyan was fiddling with his system panel. He was not as shocked by the actual transaction content as he had imagined.
"What are you doing?" Gan Mi asked puzzledly, staring at the young man's actions.
"I'm reporting to the main system. Someone here is engaging in illegal transactions." Xu Zhiyan frowned and answered in a low voice, his fingertips moving up and down, looking for the complaint channel.
Since the process here is so secretive, it means that the owner of the auction knows that these things are against the rules.
Gan Mi was stunned at first, then looked at him as if he was a fool.
"...Xu Zhiyan, are you eight years old this year? You are complaining about the auction on the auction site? Aren't you afraid that an NPC will rush in and take you away?"
Although he was somewhat surprised when he heard the report, he did not panic, but instead felt complicated.
Once in a copy, Xu Zhiyan had the opportunity to leave first, but he did not abandon him and Xinan. Now, when he reported the illegal transaction when he caught it, there was no sense of incongruity at all.
Seeing that Xu Zhiyan ignored him and was still concentrating on fiddling with the panel, Gan Mi sighed, sat aside, and poured two glasses of sparkling water.
"Xu Ba Sui, I think your thinking ability is gradually approaching that idiot Enli. If you report it now, what if we are being monitored by the boss of the auction?"
There was a hint of helplessness in his tone.
At this point, the identity of the auction owner can no longer be acknowledged, so he might as well just hide it.
A thin layer of frost condensed on the outside of the cup of iced sparkling water, and a string of water droplets fell down, leaving a small puddle of water stains on the dark glass table.
After quickly submitting the complaint, Xu Zhiyan raised his head and leaned back on the sofa.
"There can be no surveillance."
He finally set his eyes on Gan Mi's face beside him.
"This is a big business. If the owner of the auction cannot even ensure the privacy of the private room, once he is found out, he will lose his business and make a lot of enemies."
Xu Zhiyan didn't think Gan Mi was a fool who would allow others to monitor him when he attended the auction.
And the thing about feature stripping...
Thinking of this, his eyes darkened.
Since it can be judged as a violation by the main system, it means that the severity of the matter is very high. He thinks that the person whose characteristics have been stripped away will most likely die.
Xu Zhiyan wanted to know Gan Mi's reaction.
He knew clearly that the Smiling Tiger in front of him was not a good person, but he was not sure to what extent he was bad.
Gan Mi thought about Xu Zhiyan's words and found that she could not refute them.
When opening a business, you must be honest.
If he eavesdrops on his customers, his auction house won't last long.
But Xu Zhiyan reported it so brazenly in person...
The other party was testing his opinion.
"But I'm an old customer. Is it appropriate for you to report me so openly in front of me?" Gan Mi did not respond to the report directly, but used Tai Chi to push the problem back.
"Any questions?"
Xu Zhiyan looked innocent.
However, Gan Mi did not stop the report, which made him feel relieved.
Conversations between intelligent people are always half-concealed.
But Gan Mi looked into the young man's clear eyes and decided not to be a riddle teller, so he couldn't help but explain himself.
"You don't have to think that what's going on here is shameful. Those who are about to have their characteristics stripped away are doing it voluntarily. There's nothing to sympathize with."
With a frown, he took out another auction book from the secret compartment on the side of the sofa and skillfully opened the middle pages.
"If you strip away your traits, you will die. If you strip away your skills, you still have a certain chance of survival. You have to understand that not everyone wants to live in this game."
Xu Zhiyan nodded with a complicated expression.
He expected the voluntary thing.
If players are stripped of their traits and skills against their will, why bother holding an auction? It would be better to just arrest people on the street.
But this kind of transaction involving human lives still made him feel uncomfortable.
Picking up the cup and taking a sip of the liquid in it, Xu Zhiyan frowned.
"Do you have any wine? Mr. Gan is so rich, he wouldn't be reluctant to spend even a little good wine, right? After taking it for so long, he only got a glass of sparkling water?"
"...Xu Ba Sui, you should stop now! It was you who just said you wanted to drink milk!"
Gan Mi's tone gradually became angry.
He felt like he was crazy.
This was no less than the tenth time that he had regretted meeting Xu Zhiyan. He really wanted to travel back to two hours ago and strangle himself to death for inviting him to the auction!
But thinking this in his mind, he still reluctantly stood up and went to the wine cabinet to choose wine.
"What to drink?"
"Canned beer." Xu Zhiyan's taste is very down-to-earth.
Gan Mi looked at his cabinet full of high-end wines and said bitterly, "That's all you can do. You don't have any canned wine!"
Before he finished speaking, he opened the freezer and took out a dozen bottles of cold beer.
After successfully drinking the beer, Xu Zhiyan felt much better about Gan Mi. After all, after the initial test, the other party did not stop him from reporting.
"So why are you a regular customer here?"
He asked curiously before the auction started.
"Why can't I become a regular customer?" Gan Mi said lightly and poured himself a glass of beer.
He is familiar with the rules of verbal conversation.
When he encounters a question he doesn't like, he won't refuse, but will just ask back calmly.
Xu Zhiyan cursed the other party in his heart as a level 10 Tai Chi master. He was too lazy to push the issue any further and simply said his guess: "Your characteristics don't seem to be bought."
The reason why a characteristic is called a characteristic is that it means that this ability has its own uniqueness and is the attribute that best suits awakened players. Transplanting someone else's characteristics may not necessarily be a good choice.
Gan Mi raised his eyebrows, showing his disdain bluntly.
“Only trash needs to be transplanted.”
People who have not awakened their characteristics may occasionally encounter incompatibility issues after purchasing the product.
"Most of the transactions here are skill transactions... What do you think of me? Do I look like someone who needs to buy skills?" Gan Mi felt uncomfortable being stared at by Xu Zhiyan.
"Then how did you become a regular customer here? You don't specialize in buying junk, do you?" Xu Zhiyan was skeptical.
Gan Mi had no choice but to turn her head away and start making up excuses.
"Well, actually I am...a supplier..."
"The three largest shops in the trading area are all my businesses. From time to time, players will pawn some worthless items, and after they are recycled, these items will be used here as accessories."
He thought this reason was absolutely perfect.
Xu Zhiyan, who also owns a lot of useless props, didn't have much doubt after hearing the explanation. In order to sell useless props, he was even forced to come up with the blind box machine.
"Okay, when does the auction start?" He no longer worried about Gan Mi's identity, but looked at the auction table eager to try.
"What do you want to buy?"
Gan Mi thought about what she had just said, that she would give the auction item to Xu Zhiyan.
"I want to see the auction start soon, and the main system will drop from the sky and copy the owner of the auction house." Xu Zhiyan touched his chin and went over the list of people at the top of the leaderboard in his mind.
Gan Mi, the owner of the auction house who was reported, was very upset after hearing this.
"Your wish will probably be difficult to achieve."
"I...I've dealt with this boss before, and he's not as evil as you think."
"They're selling illegally, and you still call it unforgivable?"
Xu Zhiyan sneered.
"You don't think these players are really willing to do this, do you?"
Once this kind of trade begins, low-level players who have awakened rare traits and skills will inevitably be subjected to additional unfair treatment if they are targeted.
"Well, I do know a little about auctions."
Gan Mi has a different opinion on this.
"The owner of the auction only charges a handling fee and the costs associated with the transplant, but of course, the price is very high."
"Regarding the auction for purchasing characteristics and skills, it is usually held once every two weeks. Most of the time, it is a regular auction. The profit is already very lucrative. There is no need for him to take risks and waste manpower and resources to trick those who have characteristics into selling skills."
As he said this, he looked at Xu Zhiyan.
"You are still too naive at the age of eight."
There are many players who, after entering the game and lingering through a few dungeons, are suddenly driven to despair by various blows.
"Skills and characteristics are things that players can only obtain when they are trapped between life and death. Not everyone is willing to experience it again after hovering on the brink of death once."
Some people are overcome by fear.
Some people would rather die than enter the dungeon again.
"Someone had an epiphany and realized that this game only brought pain, and the people at the auction were just discovering these players through live broadcasts and then doing business with them."
Gan Mi opened the first page, pointed at the photo on it, and said with a smile: "He wants to auction off his skills and characteristics in a package, in order to leave the money for his elderly parents in this world."
"It has good characteristics. The whole set should fetch around one million points. The auction house will take half of that."
The exchange rate between real-world currency and points is 20:1.
That is to say, after an auction, the player's parents will receive 10 million in cash.
For a player who has lost the will to survive, the possibility of dying in the next dungeon is too high. Instead of dying in the dungeon and ending it all, it is better to tear himself apart and sell himself before dying, and exchange some money for his parents.
“The auction is helping them redeem the residual value.”
Gan Mi didn't think that his auction was doing anything wrong at all.
"Of course, the situations you mentioned do exist, but they are few and far between. After all, forcing players to agree requires a lot of energy and time. If it's not a very rare feature or skill, no one would do that."
The big guys at the top of the leaderboard do not need additional implanted features, which means that the top group of people in the game are unlikely to persecute newcomers.
After listening, Xu Zhiyan was silent for a moment and spoke hesitantly.
“What if the deal is done and the players who sold the feature regret it?”
It's not without possibility.
Although some people will be scared by death, some people can get over it after a while, and not everyone can face their own death calmly.
This problem obviously exists.
“It seems so.”
Gan Mi was still thinking about the identity he had concealed.
"But the agreement has been signed. If the player goes back on his word, he won't get a penny." He only mentioned the money and did not explain the fate of the players who went back on their word.
"People have to be responsible for their words, right? Forget it, let's not talk about this. What do you want to buy?"
Gan Mi shook the auction list in his hand.
"The auction is about to start, hurry up and pick one."
"Wait, let me see which one is more expensive."
"Xu Ba Sui! You can die if you don't make people angry, right?"
"I'm making good use of the opportunity... Hey? Why didn't the last person write a feature?"
While the two were talking, the auction began.
There were no players being sold on the stage, only useless items.
The host was an NPC and the atmosphere in the venue was not very warm. It was only after garbage prop No. 1 came on stage that offers for private rooms began to come in one after another.
Just as Gan Mi guessed.
Lot No. 1 was bought for 1.02 million.
The moment the first round of auction ended, Xu Zhiyan received feedback from the system - his report was invalid.
Gan Mi seemed to have expected this.
"The auction process has been changed here, and a lot of points have been contributed to the main system. In addition, this is a covert behavior, and the items being auctioned are clearly props. It is almost impossible to successfully report it now."
"Exploiting loopholes in the rules to make money, isn't that what you often do?"
After being warned by the system several times, he optimized and concealed the overall process. As for the last time he entered the punishment copy, it was not because the auction process was caught by the main system, but because the system judged it as a violation when dealing with the defaulting players.
The trading of traits and skills does not make sense.
But there is no need to talk about this.
"I won't do this kind of business." Xu Zhiyan waved his hand to indicate that he refused to trade in living things.
I don’t know if it was because Gan Mi’s previous explanation worked, he no longer had any questions about the auction process, but he just didn’t quite understand the goods corresponding to the chairs.
[Ability: Passive healing + barrier]
【Note: The method of use is simple. 】
The photo showed an androgynous young man, with thick chestnut hair covering his eyes, leaving only his nose and mouth.
"Who is this? Why does he look different from the others?" Xu Zhiyan asked, pointing at the photo.
"This was sold by a teammate. I remember his name seemed to be Yu Xiu." Gan Mi recognized this unusual item at a glance.
"The ability is very interesting. It is a barrier that is passively triggered after being injured, and the blood has a healing effect. The only drawback is that the attack power is not good and the luck is bad."
"After his ability was exposed, he was tricked by his teammates into signing a slave contract item, and then he kept following that person."
Gan Mi had seen this kind of thing many times, so his tone didn't fluctuate much.
"Passive trigger? Slave contract?"
These two words combined send chills down one's spine.
"Well, to put it simply, if you encounter danger, you stab him with a knife. The barrier is large and good, and the blood can be used as a healing potion. As long as Yu Xiu does not die in the dungeon, he will be restored to his original state after the settlement and leaving the dungeon."
After saying that, Gan Mi shook his head.
"People are used as non-consumable props. Slave contracts cannot be destroyed, they can only be transferred. So the person who photographs Yu Xiu will be his next owner."
“…Is this possible?”
This time, Xu Zhiyan was really shocked.
"It seems that the owner of this auction is really a ruthless money-making robot with no moral bottom line. He is willing to make such rubbish?"
“…”
Gan Mi's smile froze as she was scolded for no reason.
He found that whenever he met Xu Zhiyan, it was difficult for him to maintain a smile and his defense would break down in minutes.
"Compared to the boss of the auction, this teammate is obviously worse."
He just took the order and earned the commission!
"This isn't the first time Yu Xiu has been sold. He was resold many times on the black market by that teammate before. However, since there was no third-party witness, the buyer and seller deceived each other. His teammate even cheated him out of some money by claiming that the item was invalid."
It's been a long time, and no one in the black market is willing to be fooled anymore.
But the man really wanted to sell it, so he had to hold his nose and find the auction.
"That person is determined to squeeze out all the value of Yu Xiu. Even if he doesn't come to the auction to sell, he will find other ways. In fact, the owner of the auction is a good person."
"Is there something wrong with your definition of a good person?" Xu Zhiyan retorted.
He pointed at the chairs that Yu Xiu had delivered and spoke.
"Thank you, boss. I want this."
Gan Mi almost couldn't breathe.
"...Xu Ba Sui, are you interested in this kid?"
"I really came here to buy a chair." Xu Zhiyan explained sincerely that he really came here to buy a chair and had no other ideas.
As for Yu Xiu, he is just a good person who did good things for you.
Anyway, it's not his money.
Gan Mi stared at Xu Zhiyan for a while, and finally caught her breath: "...Just wait for me."
After saying that, he knocked on the table, calling the NPC who had been waiting at the door.
"The last one... Tell the boss that I bought the last product and ask him to take it off the shelf and not go through the auction process."
The NPC waiter was quite observant and left without saying anything more.
Xu Zhiyan realized something belatedly: "You have a good relationship with the auctioneer's boss. You can actually take the goods off the shelves directly?"
Gan Mi answered without changing his expression.
"There are business contacts, and I have money."
After saying this, he was suddenly stunned and came to his senses.
Something is wrong, so why is he pretending he is not the boss? Can't he just show his hand?
But thinking of Xu Zhiyan's dislike for the auction owner...
Forget it, let’s install it first.
Gan Mi didn't understand why he cared so much about the young man in front of him. He reflected on it for a long time and attributed it to Xu Zhiyan's personality.
greedy.
It has an irresistible attraction for businessmen.
Soon, the NPC delivered the pick-up documents and address. After Xu Zhiyan filled out the form, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the auction service was indeed good, and all the items could be delivered to his door.
But unfortunately, he didn't want to reveal the specific coordinates of the safe house, so he just filled in the address of a free warehouse.
The prop slave contract was presented, and the name of the auctioneer was written in the owner column.
In order to prevent sellers from cheating, the entire transaction process is taken over by the auction. The player who originally wanted to cheat Yu Xiu of his money will no longer have the opportunity to cheat money once he steps in here, and can only make a quick buck and leave.
The process was extremely clear, and under the guidance of the NPC, Xu Zhiyan quickly became Yu Xiu's new master.
After all, Gan Mi had spent money, so he didn't intend to let Yu Xiu go in front of him. He planned to wait until he left the auction before picking up the goods at the free warehouse.
The rest of the auction was not interesting to Xu Zhiyan.
Just when he was about to run away, Gan Mi suddenly said that he wanted to go out too.
"Let's go together. I'm going to the trading area."
"If you take me to your store, will there be free gifts?" Xu Zhiyan suddenly became quite expectant.
Gan Mi turned around and stared at the young man with an embarrassed look on his face.
"…Can you be even more greedy? Didn't I just give you two gifts? Do you know how much that teammate wants? 800,000!"
Hearing this number, Xu Zhiyan narrowed his eyes.
"Oh - I thought you were going to cheat on your teammates, after all, this teammate's eating habits are so ugly."
He didn't think that Gan Mi would obediently pay to buy Yu Xiu for him. He always felt that the other party might kill that teammate and get the money back.
However, if he were to encounter a player who did not treat other people as human beings, he would probably not show mercy to him.
Hearing about the thieves eating each other, Gan Mi lowered his head and smiled.
The two did not say anything more on this topic and left the auction venue together.
Meanwhile, backstage at the auction.
The chestnut-haired player was packed into a cage and would soon be sent to his destination. He curled up inside with lifeless eyes, like a body without a soul.
After being tricked into signing a slave contract, he couldn't even commit suicide.
On the side, the player who was taking money from the NPC also had a very painful expression.
"If I had known the procedures here were so strict, I wouldn't have come here."
He grumbled in dissatisfaction, but immediately became happy after seeing the money presented by the NPCs.
"Eight hundred thousand, I can actually sell for that much... It really is more profitable to sell people. Even after deducting the handling fee, there is still a lot. If I can get some more contracts in the future, wouldn't it be a big profit!"
When he saw the money coming in, his mind immediately started to fly.
After sneaking out of the auction, the man turned left and right, going through several places before leaving, for fear of being spotted.
The charges for the shell are too expensive, it costs money just to breathe here!
But when he logged out according to the process and returned to his newly bought house, he found something pressing against the back of his head.
“…Who is that person!”
He asked in a trembling voice, but he already had the answer in his mind.
Cylindrical, cold and hard...
It's a gun.
"What do you want? I have money, I have money now... I have four hundred thousand... no, eight million!"
However, no matter what he said, the killer who followed in the real world didn't say much and shot directly.
The pistol equipped with the special bullet made no sound.
The moment the man fell to the ground, he landed on the red carpet that had been tampered with, and disappeared.
"Bad customers have been cleared out."
"Time is frozen, and points will be collected next."
After speaking into the phone, the killer put away his gun, looked at the clean room in front of him, and sighed.
"You dare to take Boss Gan's money? You really think your life is too long."
At the same time, inside the shell.
Xu Zhiyan was thinking about how to get rid of Gan Mi.
But the other party said that he wanted to watch the blind box machine. He had just accepted the gift, so it seemed a bit impolite to just leave like that?
Looking at the blind box self-drawing machine that has been very popular, Gan Mi's tone was rarely sour.
"This machine is very interesting, but I have looked in the system mall and found that this thing is not from the system, and I don't know how it works."
Things in the real world cannot store props, and there is no related program in the game store.
He really couldn't figure out how this blind box machine worked no matter how hard he tried.
Xu Zhiyan scratched his hair and said perfunctorily.
"I know how the blind box machine works. Anonymous told me."
"You know?"
Gan Mi narrowed his eyes, half believing and half doubting, feeling that Xu Zhiyan seemed to be fooling him again.
"certainly."
Xu Zhiyan nodded and suggested exchanging opinions.
"I'll tell you the name of the system, but I won't tell you how I cheated in the Sea Serpent Casino. It's a good deal."
He suspected that Gan Mi was unwilling to let him go because of the casino matter.
"Can."
Gan Mi felt that it was indeed not a loss.
Then, he heard the real name of the blind box machine system...
"The latest version of the biotechnology reaction system?"
Xu Zhiyan looked certain.
"Yes, that's what it's called."
Inside the blind box machine.
In the small, lighted space, three monsters were busy.
One is responsible for brushing the player's points, one is responsible for determining the order details and quantity probability, and the last one takes out props from different duck backpacks and delivers them to the players through the palm-sized single-sided glass window.
They are the embodiment of a biotech reaction system that consumes a bucket of snacks every three days.
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