When Qin Siyang and his companions arrived at the Soaring Flight Hotel, passed the isolation barrier's verification, and stepped into the venue, they were immediately engulfed by a wave of noise.
The hotel's enormous ground-floor exhibition hall, together with the square outside, formed the trade fair's basic venue.
The place was packed shoulder to shoulder, and the air was thick with a mixture of odors from all sorts of strange materials.
There were no elegant private booths or strict rules of etiquette. Sequence Ability Users gathered in small groups, some sitting directly on the floor with cloths spread before them, displaying faintly glowing crystals, oddly shaped God Remains, or unknown liquids sealed in glass bottles.
To keep their dealings private, people everywhere had activated Conversation Shielding as they haggled.
Others shouted out the items they wanted to trade and their prices like street vendors.
"Come take a look! Fresh Shadow Leopard claws! The top choice of tools for sequences with Invisibility skills! Easily pierces armor below Tier Two! Trading for top-quality healing medicine!"
"Exclusive-formula Giant Stone Pharmaceuticals! Hardens your skin like rock for ten minutes after drinking! A lifesaving essential! Trading for the development technology for any Tier Three Item!"
"Buying! Paying top prices for Snake-Scale Orange taproots! Better rates for bulk quantities! Cash, supplies, or information-all negotiable!"
Shouts rose and fell, and the scene bustled like a pot of boiling water.
Without seeing it firsthand, it would have been hard to imagine that these people shouting at the top of their lungs, spittle flying, were all prominent Sequence Ability Users in the Safe Zone.
It seemed the Safe Zone's Sequence Ability Users had truly been looking forward to a large-scale trade fair like this for a long time.
Security personnel in matching uniforms stood like nails driven into the