He Yi saw that it was getting late. After washing up, he went to the living room.
Silver Willow waved at him and said with a bright, energetic smile, "Yo, you're up?"
"I ordered takeout. Let's eat together."
He Yi saw hamburgers, fried chicken, fries, cola, chicken wings, and other food spread across the table.
He was just about to say something.
When someone knocked on his door.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
He Yi was startled. Could it be that he had woken the landlord in the middle of the night yesterday, and the landlord had finally come to make trouble for him today?
"Open up. Gas inspection."
"Oh, coming, coming."
Without thinking much of it, He Yi hurried over to open the door.
Silver Willow, meanwhile, kept eating a chicken wing as he looked up toward the entrance.
Three people stood outside.
One of them had rapid breathing and unsteady footsteps. He sounded like an ordinary person.
The other two had strong breathing, yet deliberately slowed it to conceal their presence.
They didn't sound like ordinary gas inspection workers.
They sounded more like trained fighters.
Had word gotten out after only one night?
It seemed that auction house's confidentiality measures weren't very good.
Then again, the auction house was surely already promoting that piece of black jade. An A-rank spirit artifact that provided both defense and concealed one's aura—while the former was easier to come by, the latter was extremely rare, much less an artifact with both properties.
Once the auction house released the news, a large group of people eyeing that black jade had probably already begun making their move.
For an auction house to open a shop in a place like Ancient Creek Town, where every inch of land was worth a fortune, its backing