Auctioning a Catwoman

How am I supposed to get some music?

Long Jie frowned. It seemed difficult, yet somehow simple.

That evening, Long Jie did not have the Tianshui Battle Team train. Instead, he called Shui Bing'er over and headed to the market with her.

"Why did you... suddenly ask me out?" Shui Bing'er's face reddened. Did this count as a date?

What do I do? I never even said yes to him. How could he just do this...?

Though her heart was in turmoil, Shui Bing'er still followed Long Jie to the market.

There was a small town beside Heavenly Water Academy. The town had a market that was neither particularly large nor particularly small. Today and tomorrow, Long Jie and the others would look for music here.

First, they needed something capable of recording sound!

Long Jie looked at Shui Bing'er and said with a smile, "Don't you think your dances are missing some music? The moonlight is beautiful tonight, so let's see if we can find something that can record music!"

"Something that records music?" Shui Bing'er froze, then immediately thought of something. Taking Long Jie's hand, she pulled him in a certain direction.

"Come with me. I know where there is one!"

The two wove through streets and alleys, soon arriving before a massive building. Three large characters above its entrance stood out conspicuously!

Auction House!

"Auction Houses always sell all sorts of strange yet precious things. Maybe we can find it here!" Shui Bing'er smiled at Long Jie as she introduced the Auction House.

"This is the Seven Treasure Auction House, an enterprise of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Its reputation is guaranteed!"

Long Jie nodded, but quickly frowned again as he thought of something. He hurriedly asked, "Then... do we have any Gold Soul Coins?"

When it came to money, Long Jie was the poorest!

Shui Bing'er was also stunned. You were the one who asked me out, and now you were saying you had no money?...

"Use mine!"

She took out a gold card from her bosom and handed it to Long Jie without the slightest reluctance.

Long Jie paused slightly. After hesitating, he did not take the gold card. Instead, he said, "I have the corpse of an eight-thousand-year soul beast in my Storage Device. I can sell it!"

It was the corpse of the Stone Armor Bear. He had kept it in his Storage Device without selling it!

"All right! But tell me if you don't have enough!" Shui Bing'er smiled. Since Long Jie did not want it, she would not force him.

After entering, Long Jie first handed the Stone Armor Bear's corpse over to the Auction House for auction. However, after examining it, the Auction House hesitated before offering five thousand to buy it outright.

Long Jie hesitated briefly before selling it. Five thousand Gold Soul Coins was already a lot!

After receiving the Gold Soul Coins, the two arrived at the auction venue and waited for the auction to begin!

"Sorry to keep you waiting, friends. I'm Xiao Hua, the Auction House's host. Please take care of me today!"

A beautiful woman with a graceful figure stepped onto the stage, dressed as a Bunny Girl. For no apparent reason, she said that, then bent over at a ninety-degree angle.

In an instant, her magnificent assets were displayed before everyone. Most of those present were men, and they could not help but suck in a breath.

Now that was impressive. From now on, they would buy everything at the Seven Treasure Auction House.

Even Long Jie, who had always been serious, could not help sucking in a breath. If a hand had not suddenly appeared at his waist and ruthlessly twisted the flesh there, he probably would have wanted another look.

"Does it look good?" Shui Bing'er's lips curved upward, but her eyes were icy as she stared at Long Jie, as though he would be dead the moment he dared say yes.

Long Jie naturally understood what she meant. For the sake of his life, he could only yield and say, "It looks... like a shameless girl. Dressing like that is truly disgraceful..."

"Tch, you don't mean that. The clothes we wear every day aren't any different from that, are they?" Shui Bing'er rolled her eyes at Long Jie. Sure enough, men were all no good.

"How could they be the same?" Long Jie argued. "Those clothes are art. When you wear them, they are sacred and majestic. But when she wears that outfit, it only looks vulgar..."

"Hmph! Double standard!" Shui Bing'er snorted again. She acted as if she did not want to hear Long Jie's explanation, but inwardly, she was already delighted!

"Stop arguing. It's starting!"

Helpless, Long Jie could only shut his mouth and look toward the stage.

"All right, without further ado, let's welcome today's first auction item!" Xiao Hua stood on the stage and introduced the first item with a serious, focused expression.

Several people pushed forward a huge cage covered with black cloth. No one knew what was inside.

"Are you all curious about what's inside?" Xiao Hua smiled, thoroughly stirring the curiosity of everyone present. Even Long Jie could not help looking toward the black cage.

"I won't keep you in suspense!" Xiao Hua smiled and tore away the black cloth, revealing a Catwoman inside.

The Catwoman looked to be seven or eight years old, petite and adorable. She had a pair of cat ears atop her head and a cat tail behind her, looking exactly like a human whose martial soul had transformed her into a beast.

"What? They're actually auctioning off a human?" Long Jie was startled. In his eyes, the person locked in that cage was a living, breathing human being!

Why was she being auctioned? Aside from her ears and tail, what made her any different from a human?

In an instant, Long Jie's face darkened. What was wrong with these people? Did they not see Catwomen as people?

Seeing the change in his expression, Shui Bing'er could not help becoming concerned. She looked at the Catwoman above with a trace of curiosity.

Unlike Long Jie's anger, the other men were extremely excited. Though the little Catwoman was young, she was exceptionally cute. Those with strange preferences could buy her and have some fun...

And those without strange preferences could raise her up first, then have some fun... They had heard that Catwomen were bigger down there than other women. They did not know whether it was true.

The many men below stared maliciously at the Catwoman above, their eyes filled with greed.

The little Catwoman above was frightened and shrank into the black iron cage, not daring to move.

Seeing that she had piqued everyone's interest, Xiao Hua smiled and said, "I don't need to explain the uses of a Catwoman. Let's begin the bidding directly. The starting price is three thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"I bid three thousand!" Long Jie called out almost instantly.

Xiao Hua merely smiled at this. So young, yet he already had such tastes. How interesting.

Shui Bing'er, seated beside him, frowned and her face darkened. She was nearly angry enough to leave.

She thought Long Jie was like the others, coveting the little Catwoman's body.

But after thinking it over, Shui Bing'er still chose to trust him!

"Three thousand five hundred!" Very soon, a pot-bellied middle-aged man spoke with a lewd grin, raising the price by five hundred.

Long Jie frowned and was about to bid when a thin middle-aged man wearing glasses called out in a gloomy voice, "Four thousand!"

After that, all kinds of people began bidding. The price quickly rose from three thousand to seven thousand, yet it was still not over. Everyone continued to bid, and the price kept climbing, showing just how tempting the Catwoman was to them!