Free Web NovelThe second phase of the Team Clash event: selling treasures.
Fifty-four participants from nine teams each provided one item, and ultimately, three expert appraisal teams from the Sealed God Stage cross-selected 30 treasures they deemed most valuable.
These 30 treasures would then be put up for a special live auction.
A special live auction is an online live auction that many auction houses currently conduct.
It's similar to live streaming sales.
However, only members who have received an invitation and paid a fixed deposit can enter the special auction live stream room.
After a successful auction, the Sealed God Stage will immediately dispatch dedicated personnel to escort the auctioned item and facilitate the handover with the buyer. If any accident occurs during the escort process leading to damage or loss of the item, the Sealed God Stage will not only fully refund the auction amount but also compensate the buyer with 10% of the final transaction price in star coins.
Therefore, buyers do not need to worry about auctioned items from the live stream not reaching their hands.
Back to the event.
Team members who provided auctioned items will receive corresponding points based on the transaction amount after a successful auction. If the item goes unsold, no points will be awarded.
Similar to bidding, every 100 million star coins earns 1 point, and the seller also receives 85% of the item's final transaction price.
In other words, the Sealed God Stage takes a 15% cut!
"That's really dark," Mingxi sighed.
Zhou Fang: "It is indeed dark."
It's not that the Sealed God Stage's commission is too high; a 15% commission is actually quite common in today's auction world, with some unscrupulous auction houses even charging up to 30%.
But don't forget, this live auction is connected to the Team Clash.
To ensure their provided treasures are selected and earn high points, participants either offer genuinely valuable treasures, bid on their own items, or arrange for family members to bid.
And in such cases, the final transaction price will almost certainly be severely inflated, just like in the previous stage.
This is equivalent to spending a large sum of money to buy your own item, and then still having to pay the Sealed God Stage.
The person who came up with this event is definitely filled with black sesame.
They are so good at making money. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
No one in the team spoke for a while; they all went to select suitable items.
Mingxi genuinely had many priceless good things in her possession.
But some things were not suitable to bring out, for example, items obtained in the Mystic Mirage Sea basically cannot be seen by others.
Some she herself was reluctant to take out; they were all things Gold, Silver, and Blue liked now or would use in the future, so she had to keep them.
But she couldn't just pick any random item.
Someone like her, who wasn't planning to be a sucker and let the Sealed God Stage fleece her, and who didn't have family support, had to pick a valuable item that was high enough in value to ensure selection and would not go unsold.
After picking and ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) choosing with Guangguang and analyzing the pros and cons, she finally decided on the item to submit.
She took out the item and handed it to her exclusive attendant, Bai Ling.
Next, she just needed to wait for the expert appraisal team to evaluate and review it.
During the wait, the six team members chatted idly, probing each other.
They inquired about each other's identities, the items they submitted, and some even asked about the function of the hidden card Mingxi had obtained.
This event seemed to be a team-based competition, but from the fact that there was only one ultimate winner, it was clear that every participant was each other's opponent.
So, even though their team's atmosphere had always been quite good, in reality, they always maintained a distance and wariness towards each other.
At least after all the probing, aside from Zhou Fang, the forthright young man, Mingxi had no clue about the true identities of the others.
Even with Zhou Fang, Mingxi wasn't sure if he was the real Zhou Fang or a fake Zhou Fang.
Every single one of them was an actor. freewebnσvel.cѳm
However, she did hear them analyze a lot of information about their opponents.
"Andumali from the Goddess Team should be Yue Zhiguang; his voice is too distinctive, that vocal fry..."
Yue Zhiguang, seventh on the New Talent Rankings, and also a member of the Yue Family, a prominent family in Emperor Capital.
"Who Dares Touch My Cheese from the Male God Team should be Xia Zhizhi; that's her online name."
Xia Zhizhi, thirteenth on the New Talent Rankings, and the most beloved granddaughter of the highest-ranking official in the Dragonflower Country Yushou Center Alliance branch.
"Is there a possibility that Abyss Fish of Ghost Fire Youth is Lu Yun Shen? I heard his girlfriend is named Siyu or something?"
So Senior Lu is that mushy?
"If Lu Yun Shen is here, then Jia Xiaoxiao must be here too. I heard she's always been at odds with Lu Yun Shen; wherever he goes, she follows, constantly causing trouble for him."
Jia Xiaoxiao, third on the New Talent Rankings, also has an impressive background; it's rumored her father is a military bigwig.
From the conversations of these few people, Mingxi drew a very cruel and realistic conclusion.
Almost everyone currently in the top 20 of the New Talent Rankings comes from an extraordinary family background!
Only she.
Is an anomaly.
Actually, it's understandable.
The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that 80% of a country's wealth and resources are controlled by 20% of the people.
In this world, this law still applies.
20%, or even a smaller percentage, of people control the vast majority of resources in this world.
Children from prominent families not only possess abundant resources and receive better education but also have easier access to various opportunities.
Therefore, their growth will inevitably be faster than that of children from ordinary families.
Of course, this doesn't mean that children from ordinary families cannot be more outstanding than those from privileged backgrounds, but the effort and dedication they must put in, and the difficulties and obstacles they face, may be hundreds or even thousands of times greater than those faced by privileged children.
Unless they are like Mingxi, a cheat!
This is reality.
While Mingxi and her team were analyzing members of other teams, other teams were also analyzing their team.
"Zhou Fang always likes to be direct; it's not strange that he would use his real name. It's highly likely to be him."
"That woman Mama, I guess she's either Shen Linna or Li Zhen'er, with a foxy scent."
"Da Diao should be..."
"Then who do you think Wu Cai, who shares a name with Wu Cai, is?"
"Just a random passerby?"
"Could she be Shen Linna? I heard Shen Linna and Wu Cai used to be good friends, but after they awakened, they both fell for the same pet beast, and that pet beast ultimately chose to form a contract with Shen Linna.
Wu Cai immediately declared her estrangement from Shen Linna.
Shen Linna and her family were targeted by the Wu Family because of this. The Shen Family almost went bankrupt, but in the end, Shen Linna's brother, Shen Qing, turned the tide and barely saved the Shen Family.
However, since then, Shen Linna and Wu Cai have been completely at odds.
Could she intentionally choose such a name to disgust Wu Cai?"
"That's actually possible, then Mama is Li Zhen'er, right?"
...
The various teams kept guessing, guessing all sorts of things.
But in fact, the expert appraisal team's identification and selection did not take too long.
About a quarter of an hour later.
..."Dear guests, the 30 items have been successfully selected."
