"This..." Before the host could finish speaking, a chill suddenly swept over her. She looked toward private room twenty-two in terror, her eyes filled with panic and fear.
It was not just the host who felt it. An ice-cold, bone-piercing Elite Four pressure swept across the entire venue like an invisible wave.
Everyone around the auction platform clearly felt the chill as well. The previously warm auction hall dropped several degrees in an instant. People instinctively pulled their clothes tighter around themselves, yet they still could not dispel the cold that seeped into their bones.
"Please calm your anger, sir. This lot will end here. Consider it an apology gift for you." The middle-aged man had been handling matters related to the auction items in the back. Seeing the host in danger, he hurried toward the stage.
He knew full well that chaos could not be allowed to break out at the auction. Fine beads of sweat formed on his forehead, and he could only wipe them away lightly. With an anxious yet apologetic expression, he stepped onto the auction platform.
He first waved for the pale, trembling host to leave, then quickly bent at the waist and bowed toward Yu Hai's private room in apology. He also quietly ordered his subordinates to send the stone over.
"Heh." Yu Hai merely gave a cold little laugh. His voice remained icy, as though it carried endless frost.
He said nothing else, yet that soft laugh felt like a pardon to the middle-aged man. To him, it meant Yu Hai had tacitly accepted.
The middle-aged man immediately waved anxiously, urging the host to move faster and make sure the stone was delivered at once as an apology.
And so, that botched auction ended in a hurry. Suppressing her unease, the host personally