The crowd that was in the hall fell silent when they heard this.
All of them looked up at the VIP room above them without saying a single thing.
Well, there wasn't anything that they could say even if they wanted to say something since it wasn't as if they could just bid against whoever was up there.
This was someone with enough influence to get a VIP room, it was not someone that they could offend as normal members of the audience.
The ones that were put in the most difficult position because of this was actually the black market that was holding the auction.
While the bid itself wasn't that low, it definitely was not anywhere near as high as they wanted the bid to go. This was just around the average market price for this item and they would have even made more just by selling it instead of putting it up for auction for this price.