The auction house in Suotuo City stood beside the Great Soul Arena.
Ning Rongrong led Jiang Jiu and the others inside with practiced ease.
With a father who liked to drop by the auction house whenever he had nothing to do, Ning Rongrong had gone along plenty of times. She knew the layout and procedures of places like this inside and out.
She found a receptionist to guide them. Then Ning Rongrong took the three masks the female receptionist handed her and passed them around.
"Brother Jiu, is there something you want to buy?"
Once they entered the actual auction area, Jiang Jiu and the others found seats. Ning Rongrong turned to him and asked.
"Let's have a look first."
It was Jiang Jiu's first time in a place like this.
There were far fewer people in the auction hall than he'd expected, and people came and went quite freely.
"Generally speaking, don't they have a list of items up for auction?"
An antique was being auctioned on the stage, and people in the hall were bidding on it. Jiang Jiu wasn't interested.
"That's only when there are big-ticket items. Normally, it's like this—the items depend entirely on what sellers have brought in recently," Ning Rongrong explained.
"So it's a matter of luck?"
"More or less. But if the auction house gets something good, they'll advertise it in advance. For example, if they get a Soul Bone to auction off, they'll make it the headlining item at a large auction, and sell other things at the same time."
"So most of the time, the items up for auction are pretty ordinary?"
That didn't mean they sold cheaply. The antique Jiang Jiu had no interest in had still fetched a pretty good price. It just wasn't worth anything to him, and