Heaven Dou Auction (2)

Twenty four hours constant bidding, without rest.

Every night was a time when top quality items were auctioned. Within those two hours only buyers with cash deposits in excess of one million gold spirit coins could participate. Any other time, any bidder could join.

The rules were very simple, but Tang San still noticed that this uninterrupted auction no doubt brought immense profit to the auction house. The auction of one precious thing would bring a ten percent commission, from some points of view that wasn't much, but in fact, the accumulated wealth was terrifying.

Even so much that the profits must be enormous even compared to the Great Spirit Arena.

"Take us to the auction, please."

Led by the young woman, Tang San and Xiao Wu finally got what they wanted, entering the heart of the Heaven Dou Auction.

The core of the auction was on the second floor. From the main hall there were eight staircases that led inside. Before entering the auction, the young woman gave them each a mask, telling them they everyone had to wear them in order to enter, out of security considerations for the customers. Next time nobody would receive them.

The young woman brought them directly to the entrance to the center of the auction before turning around and leaving. There were other attendants within the auction heart.

Compared to the young woman that brought them, the dress of the attendants here couldn't help but make Tang San's face and ear bright scarlet.

They also wore white clothes, and it was still dresses, but the feeling they gave people was entirely different.

The attendants within the auction were all female, around the same height as the young woman who brought them, but their figures were even more fiery.

The sleeveless white dresses they wore had wide open lapels at the chest. The short skirts barely passed seven cun below the waist, exposing soft delicate thighs. Adding white high heeled shoes, they were even more exceptionally enticing. The deep gorge between their breasts, the pert but swelling under the short skirt, there was nothing that didn't rouse the imagination.

Despite Tang San's staunch willpower, he still couldn't help looking several times. After all, he was still a normal man.

There was a sudden pain at his lower back, and by his ears Xiao Wu's menacing voice,

"What are you looking at? You're not allowed to look."

Tang San swallowed the pain and hastily said in a low voice:

"Do you take me for fatty! Let's go inside."

Xiao Wu used her own, taller compared to Tang San, stature to as much as possible block Tang San's line of sight as that provocatively shaped attendant brought them into the heart of the auction.

The heart of the auction gave people a feeling more like a large auditorium, at a size similar to the central main Great Spirit Arena, at the center was a circular platform, surrounded by rings of seats.

They were altogether arranged into five sections. The three rows closest to the platform were red, and moving successively out from there the next were black, purple, yellow and white. Clearly it was set up according to the different levels of the bidders.

The receiving young woman had previously told them that the innermost red seats were accessed via a special passage, with special security personnel for protection. That was the area for so-called million level VIP's, moreover one still had to be a person of considerable status to obtain red VIP qualifications.

The black seats outside was the common million level VIP area, anyone could enter and become a black guest as long as they had money.

Further out, purple was the five hundred thousand purple level guests, yellow was the hundred thousand level common guests, and the white area furthest out was also the largest area, where the most common guests like Tang San and Xiao Wu were seated.

The attendant brought the pair to the white area, indicating they could freely choose where to sit. Perhaps it was because Tang San and Xiao Wu were too young, or that their guest qualifications were too low, but the attendant wasn't in any way enthusiastic, only very professionally brought them to their seats, even so much that she didn't even have the professional smile of the previous receiving young woman.

Tang San was indifferent, but Xiao Wu was somewhat resentful,

"Hmph, arrogant snobs. Dressed like that, it's clearly to seduce the wealthy. What did they do to grow that big?"

While speaking, Xiao Wu looked down at her own budding chest.

"The attendants here are all like that, it's not directed at you."

A gentle voice came from the side. As Tang San and Xiao Wu turned their heads to look, they saw a white dressed scholarly looking middle aged man nodding at them with a smile.

Strangely, he didn't wear a mask, and no staff came to ask him about it.

Xiao Wu couldn't help asking:

"They're all like this? Why?"

The middle aged man said with a smile:

"The attendants here all belong to the auction house themselves. Even their lives. They were all bought by the auction house as commoner girls, and fostered from childhood. They aren't only the serving staff here, at the same time they're goods for auction. If someone wishes to pay, they can be traded."

"Then isn't that slavery? But, don't the two great Empires prohibit slave trading?"

Tang San said somewhat astonished.

The middle aged man smiled calmly, saying:

"There are a lot of helpless people in this world. This is the Heaven Dou Auction, let alone slaves, there is nothing that can't be sold here. The reason those young women are expressionless is that they long ago lost their own hearts, and even more the decision of their own fate. All they can do is obey. Even though they're beautiful, they don't own their own souls. I can only describe them as 'lamentable'."

Listening to the middle aged man speak, the expression on Xiao Wu's face gradually changed. If she loathed those scantily clad beautiful attendants before, then now her heart was brimming with pity.

"How much do they cost?"

Xiao Wu asked.

The middle aged man seemed to see through her intentions,

"You want to buy them and give them freedom? That's just another tragedy."

Xiao Wu puzzled asked:

"Why?"

"Besides serving men, those attendants don't have any survival skills. Even if you bought them, with their looks they would still finally fall into the hands of men. Their fate would be even more miserable. They don't have souls, they don't belong to the world. Besides, the price for each is a hundred thousand gold spirit coins. More than ten times that of the highest class prostitutes, it's not something just anyone can spend."

The middle aged man's tone was somewhat helpless. He seemed to carry himself with a particular atmosphere that very easily made others feel familiar with him.

Right now there weren't a lot of bidders at the auction, and only a sparse fifth or so of the seats were in use.

On the stage a spirit tool similar to a belt was being auctioned, and the price had already reached forty thousand gold spirit coins.

Next to each seat were special buttons to call out bids, above them was separately written one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand and one hundred thousand, representing how much each bid would raise.

The middle aged man seemed interested in Tang San and Xiao Wu, and changing the topic asked:

"Coming to the auction so young, is there something you want to buy?"

Xiao Wu said:

"We aren't buying, we're selling."

"Eh?"

The middle aged man smiled:

"Selling things, huh. I wouldn't have thought that someone as young as you would be selling."

Xiao Wu said:

"Who said you can't sell if you're young. Maybe, later once we have money we can still buy spirit bones to play with. Yi, how did you know we're young, don't tell me you have x-ray vision?"

Everyone here wore masks, and even though Xiao Wu and Tang San were a bit smaller than adults, it still wasn't by much.

The middle aged man said:

"Good, ambitious. It's no wonder youths can possess such strength. Even though you wear masks, the childishness of your bodies and eyes can't conceal your age, clear sighted people will naturally notice."

Hearing this, Tang San couldn't help trembling inwardly, could it be this person was capable of seeing his and Xiao Wu's strength? However, why wouldn't he feel any threat from him?

By now that spirit tool on the stage was sold for forty three thousand gold spirit coins.

The auctioneer on the stage touched the amplifier and spoke to the bidders with a smile:

"The next auction we will conduct is a rare item. Interested bidders please pay attention. Especially male guests."

While speaking, he pointed to the stage and three large men pushed out a cart. The cart was covered by red cloth and the inside couldn't be seen, but from the shape it was some large square box.

Tang San, Xiao Wu and even that middle aged man's gazes were all attracted by this new auction and stopped their discussion.

The announcer somewhat mysteriously said:

"Can you guess what it is? Then, I will first reveal to all distinguished guests the starting price. This item's opening price is ten thousand gold spirit coins. The minimum bid increase is ten thousand gold spirit coins. This is top quality among top quality."

As the auction's presenter, the ability to raise the atmosphere and the enthusiasm of the competing bidders was clearly required, and he very successfully attracted the bidders' attention.

"Next, all distinguished guests please pay attention."

While speaking, he grabbed the red cloth, sharply pulling it away.

After the flash of red light, what was revealed wasn't any box, but rather a large iron cage. Within the iron cage was curled up a young woman.

The young woman was more than half naked, with only key places covered by shells. Because she was curled up her appearance couldn't be seen clearly, but her figure was close to perfect.

Fair skin like sparkling jade, and a head of short green unstyled hair.