After Lincon returned to Sacred Court, he plunged into exploring the hidden characteristics of Eternal Garden's innate ability.
Regarding time-based abilities, the most difficult thing is actually how to correctly obtain the feedback brought about by time changes.
Because of its power, the negative effects it brings will also be very obvious.
Lincon started with the low-level Spirit Plant and explored the rules bit by bit, which allowed him to gain a lot of experience in the use of time abilities.
While he was studying Eternal Garden's ability, Ying and Luo Chiyou were already shopping around Inner City.
However, due to Harsh Winter, there are much fewer people on the street than before. Most of the businesses that are still open are businesses officially controlled by Longwind City.
For example, Rune Equipment Shop, or Longwind Daily General Merchandise. Another popular entertainment venue is Explosive Tavern.
The danger level of Harsh Winter in the first round and Longwind City has dropped to a level that even ordinary humans can completely accept.
In most cases, Longwind City officials will still delegate some work to others, which is mainly divided into indoor work and outdoor work.
Usually indoor work involves textiles and manufacturing, while outdoor work involves digging ditches frozen by snow or harvesting grain.
Overall, it is still much less than before the arrival of Harsh Winter.
Therefore, when there is nothing to do, those entertainment venues have become the places where the people come in and out the most.
Ying and Luo Chiyou were walking on the street. As Glacial Soul Butterfly flew around with Silent Ice Butterfly, the originally dense Ash Snow had become sparse when they fell to the ground.
In addition, the technology of Energy Research Base providing power through Ash Snow is now very complete, and Shattercrystal Lamp has also been rolled out on Outer City main street, so the scene of Longwind City Outer City is better than ordinary people imagine.
Sanitation workers swept the snow to the roadside, and soon Energy Research Base staff drove snow trucks to collect the snow, so the road was clean and not covered with snow at all, making it difficult to walk on.
She was wrapped in a thick white cotton coat, and the fluff on the brim of her hat trembled slightly in the cold wind. She walked in front, looking extremely cheerful with every step she took.
Luo Chiyou followed half a step behind, the collar of his dark coat raised up to cover half of his face, his eyes lazily scanning the shop fronts on both sides of the street.
Suddenly, Ying stopped and looked towards a shop.
This store just opened a few days ago and is not an official property of Longwind City. It is one of the few stores that is still open during Harsh Winter.
"Longwind Auction House----" Ying stared at the sign above the store and said slowly, "When I came here last time, I remember that there was no such store here."
Luo Chiyou raised his eyes and looked over, raised his eyebrows, and raised a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Peerless City's auction house actually opened to Longwind City, and named it Longwind Auction House. It's really interesting."
Ying turned her head and asked with wide eyes, "Do you know this store? Then let's go and have a look!"
She didn't know what "auction house" was, she just thought the words together were very novel.
During the few days when Lincon was busy at work, Luo Chiyou took her to visit Longwind City Inner City and Outer City, making her familiar with many affairs in the human world.
But auction houses had not yet appeared at that time, so when I saw a new thing like Longwind Auction House, I immediately became curious.
At this time, Hong Yun and Xu Lili were directing people to adjust the layout of the store.
As we all know, whether a store can be opened in a place depends not only on the location and the quality of the products, but also on whether it can attract people to come in.
Compared to Peerless City and Longwind City, this auction house is much smaller.
In the Protection Regulations originally signed by Zhou Qing and Xie Haitang, they promised to provide them with support such as capital loans and the purchase of foundations and facades.
This inspired Xie Haitang to want to open an auction house in Longwind City.
But before she even started to implement it, she received the news that Peerless City was in danger, so she immediately rushed back with her people.
But before going back, she handed over the establishment of the auction house to Hong Yun who was temporarily staying at Longwind City.
Hong Yun did not disappoint Xie Haitang. With her excellent conversation and communication, she secured the largest foundation for the auction house within the scope permitted by Protection Regulations.
Of course, compared with the Peerless City piece, it is pitifully small.
After all, it was in the fully developed Outer City main block. Without the official endorsement of Longwind City, she wouldn't even be able to get this land, and would have to go to the Temporary Subject resettlement area.
So Hong Yun gritted his teeth, decided to acquire this piece of land, and started construction of the auction house directly.
However, if you want to build or renovate a building in Longwind City, you must go through the supervision and review of the Urban Planning Bureau.
In order to make the architectural style of Longwind City uniform enough, Urban Planning Bureau provided a total of three sets of architectural plans for Hong Yun.
They are the plan based on Iron Mushroom, the plan based on Ancient Tree, and the plan based on Crystal Orchid Giant Tree derivative materials.
Hong Yun hesitated for a long time among the three building plans, and finally chose the third plan.
The reason is very simple. Most of the buildings in the surrounding merchants use Iron Mushroom and Ancient Tree. The Crystal Orchid Giant Tree derivative material officially approved by Longwind City is not only safe but also distinguishable from the other two types, highlighting the difference between the auction houses.
Of course, the price is also the most expensive among the three plans.
Xie Haitang left her a sum of funds before she left. Together with the Longwind Currency obtained from selling the three carts of rare materials, it was enough to support the initial operations of a small auction house.
I have to admit that the designers of the Urban Planning Bureau are very good.
The image of the building is completely in line with the psychological expectations of Hong Yun. It is neither ostentatious nor restrained. While integrating the overall architectural style of Longwind City, it also incorporates many unique elements of the auction house.
The doors and windows all adopt the Crystal Chip structure that can be opened and closed, with extremely fine Runes lines embedded inside. From the outside, only a vague outline can be seen, but from the inside, it is completely transparent.
However, after the main body of the auction house is set up, they are responsible for the rest of the layout.
After several days of adjustments, Longwind Auction House is finally ready for trial operation.
Today is the first day of trial operation. Hong Yun made adjustments to some of the layout in the store with a nervous mood.
As an auction house, in addition to its fixed-time auction business, it also usually places items for sale in the lobby on the first floor.
However, since the three carts of rare materials they brought in were basically sold to the Longwind City official, there were very few things placed in the hall, and it was really hard to get rid of them.
They originally thought it would be a bad start, but no one expected that they had just finished adjusting when a customer came to their door.
Already.
Two figures, one tall and one short, appeared in front of the auction house.
The little girl in front had a delicate face and was wearing a white cotton coat. Her eyes were as bright as two stars, and she looked inside curiously.
The one in the back has a lazy expression, slightly curved eyelashes, a straight nose, and cherry-red eyes that are beyond the beauty of a normal human being. He is wrapped in a dark coat, and his eyes are scanning every corner of the store.
"Hello!"
Seeing a customer coming, Hong Yun immediately showed a warm smile and walked up quickly, "Today is Longwind Auction House's trial opening, do you two want to come in and take a look?"
Yingwai stared at the modest objects inside and asked something that made Hong Yun almost lose his balance.
"What does an auction house do?"
Hong Yun's smile froze for half a second, but she had been Peerless City and Auctioneer for so long that she had never seen any strange people.
She quickly adjusted the expression on her face and explained patiently, "To put it simply, everyone takes out the valuable things in their hands, and our auction house displays and sells them uniformly. Interested buyers can bid, and the highest bidder gets it."
"Of course----we will charge a certain percentage of commission from it."
Ying half-understood what she heard, and raised her face. "Then I can sell it myself, why should I leave it to you to sell it for me?"
Hong Yun responded fluently, "Auction houses and individual sales are naturally different. We will contact all mid-to-high-level ability users and power leaders in the surrounding human camps except Longwind City. If you sell the good things in your hand privately, you may only sell for five thousand or ten thousand Longwind Currency."
"But if you put it up for bidding on the platform we created, you might be able to get a price of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands."
"We can help you sell things at the highest value, and charging a small commission is natural."
When saying these words, Hong Yun's face did not turn red, and his heart did not beat. It was as if Longwind Auction House had occupied all the resources of Jiangzhou and even Northern Province and Lin Province next to it.
But in fact, given the small size of their auction house, if Longwind City officials plan to do it themselves, or if a powerful adventure group of a lower level does it, the influence of both will be far higher than what they have now.
The reason why I dare to say this is entirely to retain the two customers who finally came to the door.
Luo Chiyou snorted coldly, blinked his eyes, and said quietly, "Xie Haitang, what about that bitch? How dare she leave such a big thing to Longwind City to open an auction house to a Auctioneer?"
From the clothes of Hong Yun and others, she had already recognized that the group of people in front of her were originally from Peerless Auction House.
After all, she was also Heart Moon Fox, one of the Star Pavilion Eastern Seven Mansions. She had been with Peerless City for a long time, so she knew Peerless Auction House well.
Hearing that Luo Chiyou recognized the origins of himself and others, Hong Yun's heart skipped a beat, but he still maintained a decent smile on his face.
"This lady has great eyesight!" Her tone was neither humble nor overbearing. "Chairwoman Xie has temporarily left the affairs of Longwind City's auction house to me. If you want to find her, it may take some time."
Luo Chiyou stopped smiling and had no intention of continuing to make things difficult.
The reason why she spoke was just to let Hong Yun and others know that they were not laymen who could be coaxed at will.
Now that her goal had been achieved, she turned to Ying and asked, "Are you going to go in and have a look or are you planning to leave?"
Yingpu's big eyes flashed and she stepped into the door of the auction house.
"You're already here, and what the human said is quite interesting, so let's go in and have a look."
Luo Chiyou was helpless after hearing this. She didn't know if there was anything good in the auction house, but she couldn't resist Lincon's instructions to her, so she had no choice but to lazily follow her in.
Hong Yun narrowed his eyes upon seeing this, feeling curious in his heart.
She could see that the innocent girl in white clothes in front of her seemed to have a higher status than the woman behind her who knew their background.
What a strange combination.
The hall on the first floor is not large in area and is very compactly arranged. There are two rows of wooden booths on both sides of the wall, with about a dozen items scattered on them.
There are strange-shaped mutated ores, a small jar of blue-glowing liquid, and some remaining items from Old Era that look a little older.
Next to each item stood a wooden sign with a brief description written in pen.
Ying was not interested in those mutated items, but went to a display rack and took a fancy to a well-preserved camera inside.
She stretched out her slender fingers and pointed through the glass, and said in an innocent tone, "Can this thing really hold a person inside and preserve it forever?"
"The camera won't put people inside." Hong Yun smiled and shook his head, "It can just leave the person's appearance on the paper and freeze that moment forever."
"For example, it can record all the beautiful and happy times between you and your friends and turn them into photos. Even if your friends leave you temporarily, you can hold the photos to see what they look like up close."
Hong Yun said something unconsciously, but it just hit Ying's heart.
She opened her mouth slightly, and after a brief shock, she firmly chose the camera among several scattered items.
"Then I want it!"
The smile on Hong Yun's face deepened. Unexpectedly, business came to the door on the first day of the trial opening. This was undoubtedly a good sign.
She nodded and said, "The items during the trial opening period are not counted as auction items and will not be sold. You only need to consign one item to my auction house and it will be given as a gift to the customers who have transactions with us today."
Ying thought for a while and roughly understood the meaning of Hong Yun's words.
She tilted her head, and suddenly a powerful wave of energy filled her palm, and that energy gradually turned into a fruit the size of a basketball with a strange appearance.
This fruit looks like a pine cone, with layers of blue scales covering its surface and a ring of curly-like leaves on the top.
But that's not the most surprising thing. What surprised Hong Yun and other members of the auction house was that there were two curved dragon horns growing on both sides of the leaves at the top of the fruit.
What is going on?
Hong Yun I have been Auctioneer for so long, and this is the first time I have seen such a strange thing.
She looked at it carefully for a long time, frowned slightly, and finally raised her face and asked a question that everyone wanted to know.
"Is this thing for eating?"
Ying opened her eyes wide with a matter-of-fact expression.
"Of course it's for eating, and after eating it, even ordinary people who can't awaken their abilities can master the same abilities as those with abilities."
As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the auction house hall, and even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear and became audible."
Hong Yun's throat rolled and his voice trembled a little.
"Are you serious?!"
As if to confirm the authenticity of this sentence, Hong Yun quickly looked at Luo Chiyou.
Luo Chiyou was originally in a state of mind and didn't want to get involved in this transaction, but seeing Hong Yun's fiery gaze, she finally nodded.
Everyone suddenly took a breath and looked at each other in disbelief. Hong Yun raised his hand to catch the fruit handed over to him.
She said respectfully, "Dear distinguished guest, Longwind Auction House is willing to accept the commission and send you this fruit. We will do our best to complete the task you have given us."
"May I ask what the name of this fruit is?"
This is the first time someone has asked Devil Fruit's name in such a solemn tone.
Ying looked into Hong Yun's careful eyes, recalling in her mind Lincon's words to teach her to be polite to others, thought hard, and finally answered.
"It should be called Fish-Fish Fruit."