Gu Fei's purpose had been achieved. He immediately sent a message, and the recipient understood perfectly. Qi Yao Wu, who had been ready and waiting, leaped onto the high platform where Gu Fei was standing. She raised a money bag high and shouted, "I bid twenty thousand!"

Silence fell.

The auction house, which hadn't had a moment of peace since the Ideal Staff was put up for sale yesterday, suddenly became extremely quiet as the staff's auction neared its end, the very moment when it should have been at its most intense. It was so quiet that everyone could hear their own breathing.

"Twenty thousand!!" Someone pinched their thigh hard, wanting to know if this was a dream.

Everyone's attention quickly shifted from the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword to the incredible person who had bid twenty thousand. Red clothes, thief, female, twenty thousand gold! All the characteristics matched up, and everyone quickly thought of a legendary name: Xi Yao Wu.

So the players who wanted to question whether this woman was causing trouble shut their mouths.

Players who had more than twenty thousand gold in their pockets and wanted to continue bidding shut their mouths.

Some players who wanted to stir up trouble and bid randomly even though they didn't have the money, thought of some violent rumors about this woman, and shut their mouths.

Everyone silently watched as this woman stood high on the platform, waving her money bag and looking down at the players.

"Twenty thousand gold, is there anyone who will bid higher?" Gu Fei said at this time, continuing to play his role.

"Damn, twenty thousand and you're still not satisfied!" Some of the crowd started to boo Gu Fei, and some even threw trash at him. Fortunately, the super safe zone had system restrictions, and everyone could only make throwing motions, but the things in their hands couldn't be thrown out.

"No one is going to bid higher than twenty thousand? No one? Twenty thousand for the first time!" Gu Fei shouted.

"Second time!"

"Third time! Sold, the beauty is yours!" Gu Fei took the lead in applauding, but no one responded. Everyone was so jealous that they were dying, who would be happy that someone else bought top-quality equipment? Everyone watched as the two of them exchanged money and goods, the only interaction that could take place in this super safe zone, and everyone's hearts were bleeding.

The only people who weren't paying attention to this earth-shattering transaction were Han Jia Gong Zi and the others who knew this was just a show, and some other people.

Ye Xiao Wu, and Duan Shui Jian, after learning yesterday that the Ideal Staff was being auctioned, and that it was the same one that belonged to Mang Mang de Mang Mang, immediately rushed to the auction house.

For an entire night and day, Ye Xiao Wu was the only person who had not left the auction console for even a moment.

"Is it necessary to go this far?" Duan Shui Jian didn't understand his madness, and he also noticed that Ye Xiao Wu only bid occasionally and intermittently. Most of the time, he was completely focused on the price changes, and he was constantly recording something in a notebook.

"If I don't do my homework, how can I be 100% sure of getting the staff?" Ye Xiao Wu said.

"What do you mean?" Duan Shui Jian didn't understand.

"Look." Ye Xiao Wu continued to stare unblinkingly at the auction panel while explaining to Duan Shui Jian: "Although it shows here that the auction time for this staff is 24 hours, it doesn't specifically show when it started, when it will end, or how much time is left. According to the information we've gathered, we only know that the staff was probably put up for auction around eight o'clock in the evening. In other words, this auction requires not only enough money, but also enough luck to make your bid right before the auction ends, so you have a chance to get the staff."

"Oh, so you're trying to calculate the exact auction time for the staff?" Duan Shui Jian asked.

"How is that possible? What I'm doing now is mastering the pattern of when the price of this staff jumps and refreshes. This will ensure that my bid is higher than all my opponents at the most timely moment," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"This? There will be a pattern?" Duan Shui Jian was puzzled.

"Normally there wouldn't be, but now there should be," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"I don't understand," Duan Shui Jian said.

"Let me put it simply! The price refresh on this auction panel looks very instant on the surface, but it actually has a fixed interval of one second. That is to say, within one minute, this price can only jump up to sixty times at most, it's absolutely impossible for it to jump more. However, if there are more than sixty prices appearing at the same time within just one second, the system will never be able to flash all sixty prices in that one second. It will directly process them in the background, screen out the highest one, and display it on the panel after the next second. But, in this extremely competitive situation, there is one situation that is bound to happen."

"What situation?"

"More than two players are posting the exact same price," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"That's right... what will happen in that case?"

"The system will screen according to the time, the first bidder will get the ownership of this bid, and other players will get a system prompt that the bid failed," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"Uh... I understand all of this, but, where is the pattern that you want to master?"

"That's it, I want to grasp the delay of the system when checking the same bid. For example, when the auction panel now shows 3000 gold, the system is actually already calculating the order of the next batch of bids of 3100 gold. If I master this delay and bid at the precise moment, I can ensure that my bid is in the lead in every time comparison," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"This... is that possible? Although you used the word 'delay', these are actually all happening within one second!" Duan Shui Jian said.

"That's why I'm working so hard from now on!" Ye Xiao Wu said.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" Duan Shui Jian asked.

"A stopwatch would be great," Ye Xiao Wu said.

"Are there any in the game?"

"No."

"Then good luck!" Duan Shui Jian said and stopped talking. The two of them completed the above conversation through private chat. On the surface, both of them were intently watching the auction panel, deeply integrated with the surrounding army of buyers.

In order to master the time difference within one second, Ye Xiao Wu hadn't rested all day. Especially considering that the real buying frenzy would only start after seven o'clock in the evening, when the price refresh and some sudden situations would be far more severe than they were now, he couldn't afford to be negligent. In the end, he didn't encounter the embarrassment of not having a seat to participate in the auction like Gu Fei and the others.

When Duan Shui Jian came back in the evening, he didn't have a seat either, just like Gu Fei and the others. He could only wander around outside the auction console where Ye Xiao Wu was. There were so many people in the auction house that neither he nor Gu Fei and the others noticed each other until Gu Fei suddenly jumped onto the high platform and shouted about the auction. Duan Shui Jian suddenly noticed and quickly sent a message to Ye Xiao Wu: "Qian Li Zui is auctioning his Dark Night Flowing Light Sword!!!"

After studying for a day and a night, Ye Xiao Wu found that, as he had predicted, after seven o'clock in the evening, a large number of players swarmed in to snap up the staff, and the situation was much more severe than it had been during the day. Ye Xiao Wu had been mentally prepared for this. He knew how many people all the auction consoles working at full capacity could accommodate. All kinds of situations were within his calculations, but he still didn't dare to relax in the slightest. He focused all his attention on competing with everyone for the bid. He was completely unaware of the mess that Gu Fei had caused behind him.

It wasn't until he gradually felt more confident that Ye Xiao Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief and opened the message that had been flashing for a long time.

"Qian Li Zui is auctioning his Dark Night Flowing Light Sword!"

Duan Shui Jian sent this message five times.

"Where?" Ye Xiao Wu was surprised, it wasn't on the transaction panel!

"Behind you," Duan Shui Jian finally waited for Ye Xiao Wu to reply.

Ye Xiao Wu quickly turned around and saw the scene where Xi Yao Wu jumped onto the high platform and took down the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword with a bid of twenty thousand. Ye Xiao Wu was stunned. He recognized that it was Xi Yao Wu, and didn't she and Qian Li Zui know each other a long time ago? What was this all about?

The appearance of Xi Yao Wu was a change for Ye Xiao Wu. If not for this scene, he would have definitely bid for the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword at all costs. For him, taking Gu Fei's super-level weapon would mean that half of the road to being harmonious with Gu Fei was completed. But the appearance of Xi Yao Wu made him realize that there was something going on here, so he quietly stayed put.

"Are you not going to continue the auction?" The auction outside had already ended, but Duan Shui Jian found that Ye Xiao Wu was still distracted, so he quickly sent a message to remind him.

Ye Xiao Wu collected his thoughts and continued to focus all his attention on the auction operation.

In the crowd, Jiao Shui and Huo Ran Yi, who had witnessed this transaction, were also reporting this as major news to Jian Nan You and the others in a hurry. Especially the terrifying attributes of the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword made them, Gu Fei's enemies, very frightened. They could imagine that Gu Fei's instant-kill damage was inseparable from the support of this weapon. Now he was actually going to sell this sword, which was great news for them.

Who would have thought that the good times wouldn't last long. After Xi Yao Wu jumped onto the high platform and bought the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, Jiao Shui and Huo Ran Yi were greatly disappointed and exclaimed in unison, "Damn, what a pair of lovebirds."

"What's going on?" Jian Nan You and the others who were listening to the broadcast couldn't get any real information from this sentence.

"The one who bought his weapon in the end was Xi Yao Wu," the two said dejectedly.

"What's going on? What is their purpose in doing this?" Jian Nan You frowned.

"I don't know..." Of course, Huo Ran Yi and Jiao Shui couldn't guess that Gu Fei's purpose in holding the auction was to attract attention and help his own buyer to grab a platform.

"Don't worry about it for now, you two keep a close eye on it."

"Do you want to expose them?" Huo Ran Yi suddenly had a crooked idea.

"What's the point of exposing them? Can everyone form some deep hatred with them? Don't do things that are meaningless, keep an eye on what you two should be keeping an eye on!" Jian Nan You said.

"Alas!" Huo Ran Yi sighed deeply for not being able to find a chance to defeat Gu Fei.

"Actually, you could have all come today. There were so many people in the auction house that no one would have noticed you in the crowd," the two chatted idly while keeping a close eye on the NPC who was delivering the goods.

"Ah!!"

"Damn!!!"

"Fuck!!!!"

The auction house suddenly burst into chaos, and curses rang out loudly again. The auction of the Ideal Staff was officially over, and the players who didn't buy it vented their depression in a timely manner, like gamblers who had lost a bet. Of course, they wanted to spend their money even more.

"How is it?" Duan Shui Jian and Mang Mang de Mang Mang, the two groups of people, sent messages to their buyers at the first time.

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