Judging by that exorbitant price, perhaps this person was not in a hurry to sell the item... No, not necessarily. He might simply have been putting on a show to prevent anyone from deliberately driving down the price... But it also suggested that he was still some distance away from the three-month limit. Otherwise, he would probably have paid someone to take the item off his hands.
Alice shook her head and leaned back in her chair, but a strange thought suddenly popped into her mind: If I bought this item and Klein and I each used it for three months, would that count as exploiting a bug?
But the next person had already begun speaking, so Alice gave up on that dangerous idea.
After that, several more people proposed trades. Some succeeded, while others failed. Alice's gain was learning that the old gentleman's codename was "Eye of Wisdom."
At last, old gentleman "Eye of Wisdom" clapped his hands twice and said, "Let's Stop Here for today. As usual, leave one at a time, with three minutes between each person."
To prevent tracking? Alice realized. She watched old gentleman "Eye of Wisdom" arrange for the others to leave one by one, until only the two of them remained.
"Where did you learn that there was a Beyonder gathering here?" the old gentleman in front of her asked, his emotions unreadable.
"...Caspars." Alice honestly gave the true source of her answer.
Old gentleman "Eye of Wisdom" looked at Alice, seemingly waiting for her to continue.
"I had just arrived in Backlund and needed to buy some Beyonder materials. Since black-market arms merchants might have relevant leads..." Alice explained her unreliable reasoning.
Old gentleman "Eye of Wisdom" examined Alice for several seconds before slowly saying, "But you didn't buy anything."
"One reason