Only a small portion of the members who came here for the auction had been invited directly, like Ye Qiyan.
Many of the rest had bought ordinary membership invitations with Train Coins after the Black Market spread word of the auction among various organizations and guilds.
For Train Conductors who normally could not buy any high-level items on the system's Trading Platform, this auction was, in a sense, a very important opportunity to grow.
Granted.
If they had hundreds or thousands of Train Coins, they would be better off upgrading their trains directly.
But the vast majority of the Train Coins these people held had been exchanged from local currency earned in cities through means other than traveling the Wasteland.
The Train System classified these as "mundane" and "ordinary."
For Train Conductors without powerful backing, this was the safest way to obtain Train Coins.
Besides, most of the people who came to this world were merely ordinary Extraordinaries brought along by Train Conductors.
They were crew members aboard the trains, as well as the foundation of the Extraordinary structures of some ordinary factions. Their strength varied, but without exception, lacking an upgrade option, they desperately needed to buy what they needed from this Black Market.
Word spread that the auction had been postponed by a day.
Rumors claimed that it was because the people of the City of a Thousand Stars utterly despised the Black Market.
The Black Market was called the Black Market not because its transactions were particularly shady, but because that was how the City of a Thousand Stars, the largest city of human Train Conductors and ostensibly the strongest official faction, had classified it.
This place did not exist legally.
That was because the City of a Thousand Stars did not recognize any trading organization that