Except for extremely rare high-quality customers like Yi Chen who are directly identified and branded by the Duke, ordinary people need to undergo triple checks if they want to enter the auction house.
1. The total amount of ancient coins and the estimated value of the items carried by the individual must be greater than 30,000
2. Individuals must present proof of power affiliation and proof of guarantor. If they are unable to do so, the limit for condition 1 will be increased by 20,000.
3. Upon entry, the individual's physical condition will be checked. The individual must be able to open up and possess certain "rare" qualities. If they do not have these qualities, the limit for condition 1 will be increased by 20,000.
Customers who meet the three conditions and enter the venue are naturally either rich or noble.
Yi Chen's eyes were full of doubts.
He looked at the 'skin slave' who was whipped onto the stage. There was a large amount of gangrenous tissue on his skin, which was black and festered. Even with his clothes covering it, his poor skin structure could still be seen between the gaps on his exposed neck and wrists.
Although the gentleman's suit on Yi Chen is made of low-grade leather, it is mixed with yellow leather. Due to the concealment and camouflage of the yellow leather, it is almost impossible to be detected by any leather slave, and at the same time it can also sense the other party's physical condition in turn.
The cortical induction currently tells Yi Chen that the leather slave invited to the stage may die at any time, and his cortex is already on the "edge of withering".
"Golden Mask."
When Yi Chen called out the name, a waiter in a tuxedo and a golden mask immediately came to the private room.
"What can I do for you, Mr. William?"
"Why did that leather slave appear at the auction? Its physical condition was extremely bad. It was basically on the verge of death and might even cause regional infection."
Following Yi Chen's gaze and direction, the golden mask immediately responded:
"You mean Mr. Achim Cross
Indeed, during the physical examination upon entry, his physical condition was the worst.
It seems that he came to the auction this time to buy something related to leather, but unfortunately there was no such auction item. Now he was called on stage to be forced to auction. It's really pitiful. "
"Why did you let him in?"
"Because he meets the requirements. In addition to carrying a large amount of cash, he also has some very interesting things... Oh! My God, how could I disclose the privacy of a guest so casually? Damn it, I actually made such a mistake."
As soon as the words fell,
The man with the golden mask directly took out a golden demon-subduing pestle, held it with both hands, and pierced his head vertically, dying on the spot!
At the moment of death, the demon-subduing pestle and the golden mask turned into golden liquid and seeped into the ground, leaving behind only a corpse with its facial skin and bones stripped away and its brain exposed.
soon,
A group of servants wearing golden masks came into the private room, quickly dealt with the corpse and cleaned the floor.
"I'm really sorry, it was my negligence in my work just now, please don't mind it."
"fine… "
As the Golden Mask left, Yi Chen became more confused. Why would such a wealthy slave end up like this
"Did you commit a serious crime in the leather factory and be exiled? Did your skin become ulcerated because you didn't get fresh leather for many years?"
At this time, words came from the yellow skin in the body.
≮This kind of open-source leather slave can live normally in the old world even if he can't get supplies from the leather factory. The festering on his body is most likely caused by trauma, some permanent curse, or he got possessed when he was undergoing a cortex-related "disease in-depth". He can only come to the Duke to try his luck, hoping to get a perfect skin for a full-body skin replacement.
The exiles had been deprived of the right to live in the tannery, so the tannery would not impose any punishment.
If you cross the line of 'exile punishment', it will be the death penalty, and your body will be remade on the spot to maximize its value before death.
This person must have encountered one of the three situations I mentioned. You can pay close attention to it.
Listening to Huangpi's explanation, Yi Chen seemed to be thinking about something and called for the golden mask again.
"Speaking of which, if this person has no suitable items for auction and no one wants to sell him as a slave, what will be done?"
"Don't worry, the starting price of slave rights is only one dollar. Even if it's just a finger, there will be people who will buy it. After all, the guests who can come to the auction site have been identified by us. Even if they are about to die, they still have their value."
Yi Chen continued to ask: "If the slave rights are auctioned off, what will happen to his belongings and money?"
“Once the slave rights auction is successful, the money and belongings of this person will be kept by our Chamber of Commerce and will be returned to him after the ten-year period is up.
If he dies during his ten years of slavery, the property will naturally become ours.”
"knew."
The forced auction begins.
The atmosphere of the whole venue was brought to a climax.
Generally speaking, audience members invited to the stage can bring out a valuable item that is suitable for auction.
Even if some people are very reluctant to part with the items, and may even lose the treasures they have fought so hard to obtain, they can only put them up for auction. Otherwise, if they are auctioned off as slaves, they may very likely lose their lives on the way.
After all, most of the people who come to the Duke's Chamber of Commerce are gamblers. Once they buy slaves with good strength, they will make the most of them and go directly to the darkest place. Some of them may even bring slaves to the Duke to gamble with a very high failure rate.
When the sixth person in the forced auction came, it was a slave named Achim Cross.
Yi Chen has basically determined through cortical sensing that this person does not carry any valuables, and is even prepared to buy this person's slave rights.
Unexpectedly, an accident happened.
The man suddenly tore off the coat that wrapped his body, the leather, padding, bandages, metal armor plates wrapped around his body, etc., revealing his festering, gangrenous and dead skin.
This scene made many of the patients present feel very uncomfortable.
But Yi Chen opened his eyes wide instead, taking the opportunity to see the other person's skin condition clearly, and even had a strange feeling in his heart.
"Is this guy trying to expose his poor condition on purpose and try to make himself lose the bid? No... If the starting price is one coin, there are so many weird patients here, and some of them are heavy-handed, so they will definitely choose to bid."
Just when Yi Chen was puzzled, something even more exciting happened.
The slave uses his fingernails to cut the skin along the midline of the body, or slide it like a 'zipper'.
When the cutting is completed,
The man moved quickly and walked out from between the skin bags, while the gangrenous skin bags that had been perfectly peeled off remained in place, still standing.
There was no blood dripping from either the skin slave itself or the peeled skin bag, or the blood in the body had already been blocked due to necrosis in most areas.
A series of hoarse voices came out from his throat, "I will sell this high-quality leather bag infected with "gangrene pyoderma", which is also a limited leather bag that the leather factory can no longer produce.
Even if the skin disease worsens due to some underlying reasons that are completely beyond my control, I believe that at this point in time, such skin can be sold at a good price.
Please ask the Duke to identify it."
The Duke didn't even look at it, but raised his hand to indicate that the peeled skin met the auction standards.
The customers below the stage looked at each other in bewilderment. They did not have much desire to buy such a piece of skin that the leather slave himself could not control and was withering and dying.
But someone still made a bid.
50,
200,
500,
1000,
10000,
Just when someone called out a price of 1,000, a voice suddenly came from the corner bidding 10,000. Everyone turned their heads to look.
The bidder turned out to be a short old man with a head three times the size of his body. There was a nameplate on his chest that seemed to correspond to a research organization in the old world.
His purpose was very clear. He planned to buy this special skin bag and use it as research material.
Just when he thought he could easily win,
On the third floor of the venue, a quote came from a private room of a high-quality customer: 20,000.
Directly doubled, full of aura.
The old man originally wanted to raise the price, but when he glanced at the enclosed private room, he immediately felt a sense of oppression at the brain level.
Obviously, the high-quality customer sitting inside has remarkable attainments at the brain level, and the quality of his brain is even higher than the brain he has cultivated for many years.
The other party doubled the price directly, which also shows that he is determined to win.
Competing with such a high-quality client with an excellent brain would not have any good results in the end, so the old man had no choice but to give up and raise his shriveled palm to indicate that he would not bid any more.
As the Duke struck the hammer, the ownership of the skin fell into the hands of a mysterious high-quality customer.
Yi Chen, who was sitting in the private room, also showed a comfortable smile because of the success of the auction tactics, but he soon noticed something unnatural.
"Hmm? It's just doubled to 20,000 coins. Isn't this price exactly the 'patent fee' that the Duke gave me..." Then Yi Chen glanced at the ground that had just been cleaned, and thinking of the scene of the Golden Mask committing suicide, he shook his head.