Chapter 22: Disguise Phantom
"Does our previous agreement still count?" The fifth hardcore player said, "If you bid for the three orbs at a low price, each of you will give me 200 copper coins."
"Of course, as long as the three of us can bid for the orb at the starting price of 300 copper coins, the extra copper coins will be yours." One of the bosses said with a smile.
"Well, I'll be waiting for your good news." The fifth hardcore player chuckled, waved to his friends, walked to a place a little further away and squatted down.
The two bosses stared at the guy for a while, then turned around and looked at me while I was taking the medicine without moving.
The dark eyes of the man who gave me the medicine were also looking at them.
Although the skeleton couldn't make any expression...but the three of them could guess that the other party was definitely cursing inwardly...
No one can tell whether the guy who verbally promised not to participate in the auction is really willing to continue to withdraw the bidding rights, or he is deliberately doing it in front of them to reassure them, and then secretly offer a price of 301 copper coins in the secret auction!
Let's take a step back and say that even if this guy is really willing to take the 600 copper coins and leave without the "Fraud Orb", there is a "Ga Luo" squatting next to him who also has the right to bid!
Jialuo did not sell her bidding right, but she was unwilling to leave and has been squatting here. At least it can prove that no matter how much money this female player has on her, she can definitely come up with the starting price of 300 copper coins!
In other words... no matter whether the fifth hardcore player puts on an act or performs, the three players who are really willing to pay for the gem cannot continue with the "harmonious" agreement.
As long as the conditions agreed upon by both parties are not met in this kind of verbal agreement, Gala will definitely have a reason to breach the contract and secretly make a bid during the secret auction.
Hidden bidding is not open bidding. If it is an open bidding, if the players who promised to give up the bidding rights change their minds and raise the price midway, they can still increase the price. In a hidden bidding, everyone has only one chance to bid!
If they continue to agree to only bid 300 copper coins, the two players with the right to bid will be able to take the deception orb by bidding 301, and they will not even be given half a copper coin as consolation money...
I took the medicine and sighed secretly. Obviously, it was impossible to save money.
The two bosses stopped talking, which showed that they knew that harmonious agreements were useless in secret filming...
But... there is still a chance.
After the two bosses looked deeply at the man who gave me the medicine, they returned to their original squatting positions and sat down.
There are three Fraud Orbs, and there is no direct competition between the three of them... Just bid higher than Gala and the fifth hard-working player!
I was nervously thinking about what would be the safest price to give me the medicine...
At this time, Miaobishenghua, who had been silent all the time, stretched out his finger and poked me to take the medicine.
When he was giving me the medicine, he lowered his head and saw Miaobishenghua hiding his hands behind his back and quietly making the number nine.
He tilted his head slightly to show confusion when he gave me the medicine.
Miaobishenghua turned his head and gestured for him to look in the direction of the fifth player who was the hardest-working player.
Give me medicine and turn your head silently.
The fifth hardcore player sat together with his three companions . The four of them kept whispering to each other, and no one knew what they were discussing.
Miaobishenghua poked me with his finger again and whispered in his ear, "I've seen the player's friends a few times. They are a small team of five players. They only received some copper coins sporadically in the early stage, and later they had to grind on their own. I just calculated that the number of copper coins they can get together should be around 800... Considering this group of people only used waist bags to pay and did not use backpacks, and they gave up easily when they saw the three of you carrying backpacks before, I think this possibility is more than 80%."
I trusted my friend’s judgment in giving me medicine and nodded immediately: “Okay.”
Although his copper coins were sourced from Vanilla Pudding, he still had to pay for every copper coin he spent, so it would be better if he could save more.
After waiting for a few minutes , Ranger Mentor Tuttle Joe entered the lower tent, took out five crumpled pieces of paper, picked up five small pieces of charcoal from the embers of the fire, and distributed them to five friendly players.
This ridiculous secret shot made all the players' eyes twitch...
The fifth player was a little confused when he received the paper. He probably never expected that this secret bidding would require handwriting in person, rather than inputting numbers through the pop-up window of the game system...
Then... this player simply stopped hiding anything and faced the scrutiny of the other four people calmly, and quickly wrote a number on the paper.
The player did not hesitate much when it came to bidding. There were three wealthy men with money in backpacks on the field anyway, so his chances were slim. He just had to write down the number of copper coins he could gather.
Including giving me medicine, the three rich men who originally planned to use money to drive this player away cursed inwardly - I knew you had no good intentions!
After receiving the paper, Jialuo sighed and wrote down her family assets as if she had done her best... She had been squatting there the whole time, really hoping to find a bargain.
Tuttle didn't bother to care about how the undead had played tricks in such a short time. He collected the five pieces of paper, pasted them on the notice board in order of numbers, and announced the results expressionlessly: "The top three winning bids have been announced. Undead friends who have made bids, please bring your copper coins to trade immediately."
He didn't need to shout, the players present, whether they were bidding or just watching, had already gathered around...
The two notes at the top had exactly the same bid, both 1,001 copper coins, which was obviously the price offered by two bosses.
The third person bid 901 copper coins, which was for me to take medicine.
Fourth place, the fifth hardworking player with the ID "Only hard work can win"... bid 801.
When he found out that his bid was only 100 copper coins less than the third place, he waved his fist vigorously and cursed unwillingly.
"Forget it, Jiang Wei, if you can't get it, then you can't get it." The player's friend also sighed and patted his brother on the shoulder. The five of them had really tried their best to collect 800 copper coins.
Only those who work hard can win. I turned my head and glanced at the person who got the Fraud Orb with only 100 more copper coins than him. He gave me medicine and left with his friends without saying anything.
The fifth bidder, Jialuo, who bid 342 and couldn't even touch the edge of the orb, looked at the three successful bidders with resentment: "You rich guys are really too much. You don't even give others a chance."
"Hahaha, sorry." Give Me Medicine was in high spirits. After the two bosses in front of him traded the orbs, he immediately came in front of Tattle and poured out the coins in his backpack.
After getting the orb, give me the medicine and put it around my neck immediately to activate the skill on the accessory.
Amid the exclamations of "Wow" from the onlookers and the hardcore players who gave up their bidding rights, Give Me Medicine changed from a weird skeleton wearing a cotton T-shirt and shorts, a waist bag and a backpack on his back to a golden-haired man with a sturdy build and a capable outfit similar to riding clothes.
"Ahahahahaha, am I handsome, Huahua, am I handsome?" While taking the medicine, he looked down at his bulging chest muscles and was ecstatic.
"So handsome, so handsome! He can even be the protagonist in an American tough guy movie!" He gave a thumbs up.
"Damn, brother, why do your chest muscles feel so real? Aren't you supposed to be just a shriveled skeleton?" A player couldn't help but stroke the chest of the person who was giving me medicine.
“Is this true? Isn’t it just an illusion?… Damn, he really has pectoral muscles!” Seeing this, the players next to him followed suit.
"Hey, hey, stop touching me!" I hurriedly waved my arms to push away these guys who had no idea what politeness was.
"Holy crap, this ass feels so good!"
"Where the hell are you touching?!"
The two bosses had not originally planned to try it out on the spot, but when they saw that the effect of using the accessory skill on me after taking the medicine was so amazing, they curiously tried it out.
Then... one of the two bosses turned into an elderly man with a slicked-back hair and a dignified face and a typical general temperament, and the other turned into a burly, bodybuilding female warrior.
"Damn you, you're an old man?!"
"Oh my god, how can you become a woman?!"
"I chose a female character... Damn, this illusion follows the gender chosen by the player?!"
"Ahahahaha, stop talking in that manly voice, I'm dying of laughter!"
The players who were surrounding me to give me medicine quickly...surrounded the boss who chose the female character.
"The phantoms all wear the same clothes? Can I change their appearance?"
"Fuck, this figure can be included in a biology textbook!"
The boss who plays the female character can't see it anyway, and doesn't care how inconsistent it is for this female phantom to match the man's voice. He is quite happy to be watched: "Wait, let me see... I can change my appearance. There is a second-level skill in the accessory skill, with three options."
The boss performed a costume change on the spot. In a flash, she changed from a female warrior in tight riding clothes to a female warrior in a gorgeous and elegant long dress.
“Holy shit, hahaha, he looks like a cross-dresser, hahaha. Or a muscular version of a cross-dresser!”
"This chest muscle is amazing, so fucking hard—"
With a "swoosh" sound, the player who rudely hit the female boss' chest with his bone claws was shot in the head and disappeared in white light.
"Nimmah hi hi hi?!"
The players surrounding the female boss quickly retreated in horror.
Outside the crowd, Tuttle put down his longbow expressionlessly and said coldly: "Anyone who is rude to a lady will die!"
A group of players: "..."
Female boss: “…”
"The NPC is a feminist?! No, this guy is actually a man?" a player screamed.
"No, no, I think this ranger mentor just wants to find an excuse to kill the players. He has never shown any mercy to female players who are working as bricks here, and he is still ruthless when killing female players." Some players were smart enough to see through everything.
Tattle snorted coldly, disdainful of explaining to this bunch of dirty undead... Anyway, Yang stipulated that as long as these undead did something against the rules, they would be killed on the spot, and he would never miss the opportunity as long as he found one!
Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try, these hateful undead spirits cannot be completely killed. They will reappear alive and kicking after a while, which really makes people feel restless when they think about it.
It's not the first time that the Ranger Instructor kills someone with an arrow when they disagree with him. After being shocked, the players still do what they have to do. They are very jealous of the female boss's ability to "change into" a gorgeous dress and can't wait to reach out to their friends: "Let me play with it, too, let me play with it, too."
"Oh, okay." The armored warrior who had just switched to the second gear of the accessory skill and was about to give me medicine immediately stopped the skill, took off the gem necklace and handed it to Miaobishenghua.
Miaobishenghua excitedly activated the equipment skill that appeared on the skill panel after wearing the accessories...
Then, she turned into a super muscular lady with wider lateral development and more toned than the phantom of the female boss...
Before Miaobishenghua recovered from the shock of discovering that her arms were thicker than other people's thighs, she noticed that the players who were originally standing next to her, including my friend, were all distancing themselves from her in fear...
The daring players couldn't even get away from the ugly zombie NPCs. This abnormality immediately gave Miaobishenghua a bad premonition, and he couldn't help but tremble and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you so far away from me?"
"Nothing, nothing." He kept at least two meters away from me while giving me the medicine and quickly shook his head.
"Nothing? Then why are you still backing away?"
"It's... really nothing." It seemed that I couldn't bear the medicine. I turned my head away stiffly, not daring to look directly at the brilliant writing.
Wonderful writing: "..."
She slowly turned her head and faced Sister Jialuo.
As a lone ranger player who was able to find ways to collect more than 300 copper coins, the strong girl Gala couldn't help but retched.
Wonderful writing: "..."
She couldn't accept that her game character, Phantom, was so ugly that it was even more terrifying than a zombie NPC. She could only think that there was something wrong with the accessory skill, and hurriedly switched to second gear.
In a flash, her phantom default riding suit turned into a gorgeous dress of the same style as the female boss.
The players who retreated more than three meters away made sounds such as "Ah!" and "Fuck!", screaming and retreating tactically. Some covered their eyes with their hands, some turned their heads away, and some just turned around and ran.
The two bosses who were originally interested in experimenting with changing clothes looked at this side in horror from a considerable distance...
Boss No. 1, who was originally dissatisfied with the fact that his phantom was an old man, showed a sympathetic expression...
"It's poisonous!" Miaobishenghua screamed as she took off the deception orb and forcibly ended the disguise illusion on her body.
Then... Miaobishenghua dragged my friend to give me medicine, and I ran to find vanilla pudding with a frown on my face.
Qin Guan wanted to play a warrior and not a knight. Besides, as a poor 18th-tier anchor, he was very aware of his financial strength and would not have any unrealistic fantasies about the Undead Horse... But because there was a player in his small team who had worked hard to gain the reputation of a Knight Instructor, and a rich man who wanted an Undead Horse came to him because of his ability to recruit people, so now that the result was about to come out, he was also squatting on the construction site of the Knight Instructor.
After the auction of the Deception Orb was completed, a fourth player who had gained reputation appeared on the Knight Instructor's side. The bosses and onlookers waiting nearby were all nervously staring at the few people who were making the final sprint.
Miao Bi Sheng Hua ran to the place and put the Fraud Pearl around Qin Guan's neck without saying a word.
"Congratulations, you've successfully grabbed the orb." Qin Guan happily looked at the equipment information, "Do you want me to try it out?"
After confirming that using equipment skills would not cause the orb to be bound, Qin Guan activated "Disguise Phantom".
In a flash, Qin Guan changed from an ordinary, aged skeleton into a super domineering beauty with a wolf back, a wasp waist, slender and toned limbs, and big wavy hair.
She has a more muscular body than Gal Gadot, a more aggressive temperament than Gal Gadot, and a more beautiful appearance than Gal Gadot.
"I'm sloppy ?!"
Not to mention the wonderful writing and give me medicine, the players who were originally only concerned about who would win the Undead Horse Flower also turned their eyes over and shouted in ecstasy when they suddenly saw Tong Liya sitting among them while eating fried noodles at a roadside stall.
“Why?” Miaobishenghua burst into tears, “I don’t accept it——!!”
In the town hall, Yang Qiu, who couldn't bear to continue watching the female player crying loudly for cheering for the "Alien World" game and even delaying her own quest, quietly exited the matrix surveillance.
"I didn't expect that..." Yang Qiu awkwardly made himself a cup of milk tea, "The camouflage phantom can only be processed based on the user's own appearance conditions, and the prototype is still the prototype of the soldiers who died in the ancient battlefield... At the beginning, a row of female skeletons were given to you two to choose from. The man chose the most beautiful one, and the girl chose the most terrifying one. Who could have thought of this..."
