Chapter 494 is also on the auction
On the bow deck of the Fire Knife.
Gaode and Sarah stood side by side, while Baozai was in the same position.
Gothe is about to leave Ember Island and head to the City of Black Sails, not only to participate in the All Souls Day auction, but also to start a "fishing" operation according to Sarah's plan.
As the host, Sarah chose to send her off in person out of etiquette and to show that she valued this matter.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Gaode, who had already possessed Boeing, used his air control ability to levitate and fly towards the main island.
Just before leaving, he couldn't help but look back at Ash Island, where the blue flame occupied most of the area.
According to the current adaptation progress, given another ten days and a half, the blue flame energy tolerance should be increased to 100%.
At that time, the blue flame that others regard as a scourge may be similar to a hot spring for him, allowing him to swim around.
In this case, take a little time to look for it. Isn’t the [Spell Bottle] the thing in Tie Tie’s bag?
It's a pity that the auction waits for no one.
Of course, after the auction is over, he will have to return to Ember Island to continue "acting" with Sarah, and then he can continue his treasure hunt.
After so many years, the [Spell Bottle] has not been discovered by anyone, so it should not be less than ten days and a half.
It’s just a break, but it’s still a little uncomfortable after all.
It's like winning a lottery ticket and being sent on a business trip before you can claim the prize. Although the lottery ticket won't fly away, you always feel that you are thinking about it.
"Boss, why do you feel like he is still a little reluctant to leave?" After watching Gothe leave, Baozai frowned and hesitated with Sarah.
According to normal people's thinking, although they did not strictly restrict Gaode's movements during the three days on Ashes Island, and they also entertained him with delicious food and drinks, it was still essentially a kind of "house arrest."
Now that he can get rid of this "house arrest", Gaode should be extremely happy.
Happiness, that is completely unreasonable.
Is it an illusion?
But Gaode's turning back and the reluctance hidden in his looking back are absolutely true.
Such an unreasonable thing
Unless there is something here that worries him.
This kind of place where birds don’t poop and can’t even eat bread, what’s there to worry about?
Could it be.
Baozai's eyes subconsciously fell on Sarah, who was extremely outstanding in appearance, figure and temperament, and was known as the most beautiful woman in the City of Black Sail.
Damn it, is this kid so brave that he has a bad idea for the boss?
"Huh?" Sarah raised her eyebrows, actually understanding the hidden meaning in Bao Zai's subconscious eyes, and glared at Bao Zai.
Baozai lowered his head immediately, not daring to look around anymore, but his thoughts continued to fly uncontrollably.
Through the mist on the sea several miles away, Gothe could clearly see the Columbus docked at the dock through Mandora's magic eye.
The hull of the ship remained moored in place without moving at all, and even the number of times the cable was wound around the wooden pile was exactly the same as when he left three days ago.
On the deck, the sailors were busy wiping the salt frost on the railings. The lookout yawned at the top of the mast. Even the figure of the cook carrying a wooden basin towards the kitchen cabin showed his usual casualness.
Everything was as calm as if there had never been any waves.
On the pier, there was a busy scene. Gothe also saw the members of the hunting fleet running around on the pier.
Three days later, the hunting fleet members are still at the dock.
Obviously, the matter of cooperating to capture the slaughterhouse that night should have gone smoothly without any accidents.
With a slight thought, Gothe turned into a pale shadow and passed over the sea, landing steadily on the main deck of the Columbus.
I noticed Lan Wen, who was flying from Gothe, from a distance and was already waiting on the deck.
Seeing Gao De return safe and sound, Lan Wen breathed a visible sigh of relief.
"What's the specific situation at the dock?" Gothe asked.
Lan Wen quickly stepped forward to report.
It was quite different from what he thought. On the night he went to Ash Island, the Iron Hook Gang, who learned of Santos's death, immediately began to encroach on the Anchor Gang's territory and assets.
The primary target is the most valuable Xiangmao Slaughter Dock.
Although Apache has already taken the manpower of the hunting fleet to take control of the slaughtering dock, this is only temporary. He must pass the Iron Hook Gang before he can truly become the master of the Xiangmao Slaughtering Dock.
The Iron Hook Gang paid enough attention to the Slaughter Pier. The leader of the Fourth Ring Mage personally brought more than 40 people to kill him, saying that he wanted to clear the door for Santos.
Fortunately, Gothe asked Lan Wen to come back first and did not stay on the Fire Knife with him.
Because it is a pure struggle of interests, there is not even any polite greetings, no cutscenes, and it goes straight to the real thing: getting started.
There is no doubt that as a senior fourth-level mage with a complete ice heritage, Lan Wen's strength completely crushed the leader of the Iron Hook Gang who was also a fourth-level magician.
The opponent retreated in embarrassment with injuries, leaving dozens of corpses behind.
Apache was not polite. He hung these dozen corpses on the pier overnight, declaring his sovereignty over the pier, and making other forces who coveted the pier easy to weigh.
This encounter ended. Relying on Lanvin's power and the strength of the hunting fleet, Apache took over the dock smoothly and renamed it Ice Anchor Dock.
Gaode is quite concerned about the terminal. Not to mention the long-term benefits that the terminal can produce, just having one more stable shipping channel in his own hands is of great significance to the North.
Through this channel, the North can sell many goods that are inconvenient to sell in the Plantagenet Dynasty, without having to go through the inspection of Plantagenet port officials or paying customs duties.
It's just that at this moment, Gothe's mind is more focused on cooperating with Sarah.
Hence, he had no intention of paying more attention to matters at the dock. After confirming that everything was in order, he said decisively: "Everything is going according to the original plan."
h "You will take the Columbus back to Plantagenet immediately." His tone was decisive.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.
In order to leave no holes, you must first take off these shoes on your feet, so that your hands and feet will not be constrained when you act.
"But." Lan Wen hesitated.
"If I'm alone, I can leave at any time." Gothe didn't explain.
The method of leaving he mentioned was, of course, astral teleportation.
Gothe discovered yesterday that the energy of the astral teleportation mark on his palm was almost full.
This speed is one-third faster than the original charging time of forty-five days.
Obviously, it is after Yuga Tshila's upgrade that the speed of absorbing astral energy increases, thus greatly shortening the charging time of astral teleportation.
This alone was enough to make him feel that his hard work in collecting magic tree seeds was not in vain.
"My king, let the Columbus go back first. I will stay and follow you. I am the only one. Even if there is an emergency, I will be sure to take care of myself and will never hold you back." However, this time, Lan Wen, who had always obeyed Gaode's words, did not respond.
Gaode looked at the other party.
The other person’s eyes are firm.
Su Naifa assigned him the task of protecting Gothe after this trip.
No matter how many reasons there were, even if Gaode wanted him to abandon Gaode and evacuate first, he could not do it no matter what.
The sea breeze blew across the deck, carrying the salty smell of sea water.
Lan Wen straightened his back, facing Gaode's gaze, and never looked away.
Rather than obeying orders, he was more afraid of an accident.
"That's fine, then you can stay and act with me." Gothe pondered for a moment, and finally nodded.
Even without the cooperation with Sarah, participating in the auction in the City of Black Sails is a dangerous thing.
Having Lan Wen next to you can indeed reduce a lot of trouble.
If nothing else, it would be good to have someone to help carry that large box of gorse coins.
Besides, it shouldn’t be a big problem to hide one person in the huge Blue Flame Islands.
If something happens, as Lan Wen said, there is a high probability that he can take care of himself.
The decision was made, Eli became the temporary owner of the Columbus, and took the Columbus out of the ice anchor dock and returned to Plantagenet.
As for Gaode and Lan Wen, they set off for the auction house.
Standing in the crowded uptown area, Gothe looked up at the huge auction house that appeared in front of him, and couldn't help but marvel in his heart.
He also stayed in the Plantagenet Dynasty for more than a year. As the Plantagenet Dynasty was rich and powerful, he had seen many majestic buildings. Under normal circumstances, he would not be amazed by any of the buildings.
The reason for such performance is that the Blue Flame Auction House is so unique.
It is not as particular about design and art as the Plantagenet architecture, and it can even be said that it is not a painting style at all.
The Blue Flame Auction House looks like a giant beast that has been forcibly pieced together. The main frame is made of the keels of three scrapped giant ships. There are even scorch marks from cannonballs on the dark beams, and the broken parts are riveted together with bronze rivets.
The pillars supporting the entire auction house are twelve complete vertebrae of whales and sea beasts, each one as thick as two people hugging each other.
The gray-white bone surface has been eroded by sea wind and salt spray, but it still shows the majestic momentum of a sea beast. The joints connecting the tail fins are still retained at the top, and the craftsmen have carved grooves to support the beams.
The splicing of the walls is even more chaotic: scales of various sea beasts, cabins of sunken ships, broken stone carvings
The most eye-catching one is the dome of the auction house.
It is a huge octopus and sea monster suction cup film. It has been specially processed to be both tough and translucent.
In the center of the dome, a huge shark jaw hangs, with countless oil lamps strung between its sharp teeth.
The lamp oil is made from refined sea animal fat. When it burns, flames of different colors will appear, making the five large iron characters of "Blue Flame Auction House" flicker.
It is such a "Pinduoduo" auction house. When put together as a whole, it does not appear messy at all, but pieced together to create a wild beauty that is unique to the city of black sails.
At the gate of the auction house, there were more than a dozen doormen standing to maintain order. They were all dressed in black attire and had a gun holster on their waist, revealing the barrel of the magic gun.
The posture of this group of people is not neat, but their eyes are fierce, and they are undisguisedly ferocious as they sweep through the crowd
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that these so-called "gate guards" are basically a group of pirate mages who have temporarily taken off their pirate uniforms.
Gothe tightened the black robe that he wore tightly - this was a specially prepared costume, equipped with a hood that was wide enough to cover most of his face, and wrapped his whole body tightly. With the [Disguise Technique], he could perfectly conceal his identity.
Normally, this kind of dress is very conspicuous in other places. In the Plantagenet Dynasty, it may even attract the attention of the city guards for questioning.
But in a chaotic place like Black Sails City, this kind of disguise to hide oneself is really normal.
Gao De took Lan Wen towards the door of the Blue Flame Auction House. As soon as they stepped on the steps, two doormen immediately stopped in front of them: "Tickets."
Gao De handed over the tickets from the Embroidered Anchor Gang.
Whether it is the gift tickets distributed to the major forces in Black Sails City or the tickets for public auction, they are all in this unified format, and even the thickness of the paper and the texture of the emblem are exactly the same.
They checked the tickets just to check whether they were genuine or not. It was impossible to know the origin of the tickets.
In fact, they are not interested at all in whether the ticket was snatched, bought or how it came from.
Soon, the two of them checked the tickets and handed them back to Gaode, "No problem, you two, please come in."
Gaode collected the tickets and slowly walked towards the door of the auction house with a huge sense of novelty.
Including his past and present lives, this is his first time participating in an auction.
The novelty is certain, but for some reason, it was clearly his first time participating in the auction, but he seemed to have participated in it countless times. Many auction scenes automatically appeared in his mind:
The treasure that others noticed was auctioned at a low price, but I successfully missed it!
No one dared to provoke Zhang San, who was bidding against him, so I directly raised the bar and raised the price crazily! Shocked the whole audience!
The treasure that everyone snapped up turned out to be mine!
There is even a side story where someone happened to kill someone on the way back from the auction, and then the fisherman profited.
Gothe patted his head to stop all the nonsense in his mind.
In this auction, there are two important things to do, and you must have a correct mentality.
As soon as Fang walked into the door, a smell mixed with cedar incense and cold metal hit his face. It was completely different from the salty smell outside the door, as if a door separated two worlds.
Following this, Gaode's eyes lit up.
The entrance is a spacious hall with a magic crystal lamp hanging from the dome and huge light curtains inlaid on the four high walls of the hall.
The edge of the light curtain is outlined in bronze with a pattern of entangled sea snakes, slowly scrolling the information about the lots of the first day's auction.
Compared with the list of auction items that comes with the ticket, the items listed above are undoubtedly much more complete and richer, presumably because of the addition of new items added during this period.
And when Gaode glanced at the light screen on the left, he happened to catch a glimpse of a new line of words appearing out of thin air, which was a temporary addition of new auction information.
Obviously, the efficiency of Blue Flame Auction House is much higher than expected, at least the auction information is updated very timely.
At the end of the hall stood two lion-head pillars carved from the keels of sunken ships. Two corridors were separated between the pillars. The dark red carpet was embroidered with an anchor chain pattern intertwined with gold threads, leading to the auction hall where human voices could be heard faintly in the depths.
There is also a narrower corridor under the walls on the left and right sides.
There is an ebony sign at the entrance, with "Appraisal" written in gilded letters on the left, and "Send for auction" on the right
There are two attendants standing next to each corridor.
Gaode's eyes paused on the word "appraisal" for a moment, then he walked over.
The attendant standing at the entrance of the corridor on the left immediately bowed to greet him: "Sir, do you need to appraise the treasure for price evaluation for auction?"
"Can any treasure be included in the auction?" Gothe asked in a deliberately lowered voice.
"Of course not," the attendant explained: "Our Easter Day auction is held for a limited time, only seven days, so there are certain threshold restrictions on the items sent for auction, and some ordinary items need to be screened out to be worthy of the distinguished guests coming from all over the world."
“In the first three days of the auction, the treasure you want to send for auction must be evaluated by our appraiser and estimated to be worth more than 200 gold before it is allowed to be sent for auction. The auction threshold for the next three days is 500 gorse coins. As for the last day.”
He paused and continued: "The auction on the last day is the finale. Only truly rare treasures are auctioned. Only items with an estimated value of more than 1,000 gorse coins are eligible to enter."
(End of this chapter)