"Tut, they really weren't honest." Yu Hai clicked his tongue softly, curling a finger and snapping sharply.
The Gengar beneath him immediately understood. Dense Shadow Power surged around it, and a black curtain spread at a visible speed, blanketing the entire room in the blink of an eye.
The faint light that had originally filtered into the room and cast mottled shadows across the floor was completely cut off. The surroundings fell into silent darkness.
The darkness did not merely devour the light; it also formed an impregnable barrier, blocking all surveillance and eavesdropping and ensuring that no information from here could get out.
Only then did he turn slightly, his expression calm as he looked at Luo Yan with a faint smile. "This auction is a trap."
"A trap?" Luo Yan's face was full of confusion. He had gathered information about the auction from all over the place before this, yet he had not noticed the slightest sign of a trap.
Why had the boss declared it a trap the moment he arrived? Luo Yan could not help frowning, his eyes filled with bewilderment.
"Isn't it obvious?" Yu Hai said as he pulled a cigarette from his jacket pocket. With a light flick of his fingers, a lighter appeared in his hand. With a crisp click, a flame sprang up, its dancing glow instantly illuminating his faintly smiling face.
He took a deep drag, slowly exhaled a smoke ring, and chuckled. "The League has been cracking down this hard, yet an auction of this scale still popped up. Isn't that openly defying the League? If it's an auction the League has tacitly approved, then everything makes sense..."
"And there's the asset verification for the auction. You need at least fifty million in assets to enter. Any trainer who can