Unfortunately, everyone was just ordinary NPCs without X-ray Vision. They could only touch and shine lights on the jade roughs, hesitating for ages without making up their minds, too afraid to make a move lightly.
Ye Chen also headed toward a nearby stall with fewer people. He pretended to hold up a jade inspection flashlight and carefully examine the rough stones, while actually controlling the X-ray Vision in his left eye with his mind and inspecting every jade rough on the stall.
Hmm... They were all genuine, but none of them were worth looking at. They all had pretty outer skins meant to fool people. Looks like there really were plenty of traps here.
Seeing Ye Chen's refined clothes and extraordinary bearing, the stall owner immediately recognized him as a wealthy customer. He became much more respectful and enthusiastic, chattering away as he energetically promoted several jade roughs with decent-looking skins.
Naturally, Ye Chen understood him, but he pretended not to. The stall owner was spouting nothing but bullshit meant to deceive people, and Ye Chen could not be bothered to respond.
The local guide, assuming Ye Chen did not understand, eagerly translated for him.
Ye Chen remained silent. After casually handling two jade roughs, he prepared to check out another stall.
When the stall owner heard the guide speaking Chinese, his excitement grew even greater, his eyes practically gleaming.
But seeing that Ye Chen had little interest in the jade roughs on display and was about to move on to the next stall, the owner became anxious.
The stall owner took several jade roughs with small cut windows from a locked cabinet and placed them on the stall. In broken Chinese, he said to Ye Chen, "Don't go! Look, look at this good stuff."
Then, the stall owner chattered