The flow of people in the auction area is still relatively large; some are players from the Anti-Smuggling Team who randomly make a couple of bids, while others are passing Gold Diggers trying their luck with a quick bid.
Players who really stay in the auction area for a long time and want to participate in every bid are very few, and they will bid cautiously, concentrating their financial resources on a particular auction to avoid becoming the second-place trap.
Therefore, the situation in the auction area is relatively complex, and it is somewhat difficult for someone to see through it clearly.
After many rounds of back-and-forth bidding, the top two bidders paused briefly.
[1.『38,000 minutes visa time』]
[2.『34,000 minutes visa time』]
Finally, another player took the bait.
...
The auction area.
Li Chunsheng from Community 9 frowned at the big screen, clearly hesitating whether to continue.
He has enough visa time to continue bidding, but the problem is he cannot determine when the other player will give up.
At this point, both their bids have reached the Danger Zone, as other players attempting to bid have already withdrawn.
This is the last chance to cut losses.
If it can be confirmed that the final price will soar above 50,000, and he does not get first place, then cutting losses now, even losing 34,000, is still worthwhile.
Or maybe choose to make a big bid in the last 5 seconds of the third delay, and test his luck against the other bidder?
It’s a tough decision to make.
At this time, he heard a voice next to him say, "If I were you, I would give up now.
"Although the loss is not small, continuing will only lead to greater losses, this is heartfelt advice."
Li Chunsheng turned his head to look and found Cheng Yu standing beside him, smiling.
Although Cheng Yu’s expression was very friendly, giving an illusion of being harmless, no one dared to underestimate her and assume she was just a simple-minded girl.
Li Chunsheng frowned: "Are you bluffing me?
"Is the other player in the auction your person?
"If you can scare me off, your person can secure the 48,700 gold sand for 38,000.
"Since when does such a good thing exist in this world?
"At worst, in the last second of the third bid increase, we can try going head-to-head, I might not necessarily lose."
Cheng Yu slightly shook her head: "If you have already decided to do so, I certainly can’t stop you, but before that, I still advise you to carefully consider one question.
"Think about your psychological price limit, and what our psychological price limit is."
Li Chunsheng seemed puzzled: "You mean our psychological price limits are different?"
Cheng Yu nodded: "Definitely different, because our bidding purposes are different.
"You’re bidding for this gold sand just to pick up a good deal and exchange it for profit. In other words, you fell into a trap passively.
"Only when the visa time spent is less than the gold sand, you can gain a profit, otherwise, it’s purely a loss and doesn’t help you at all.
"But some other players are different.
"We bid for the gold sand proactively; therefore, even if we bid far above the actual price, it’s acceptable to us.
"Because what we want is not ’profit,’ but ’more Gold Coins.’
"I can lay it out for you, 48,700 gold sand, our psychological price limit is... 65,000 minutes of visa time.
"Which means accepting a premium of about 1.3 to 1.4 times.
"Can you accept this premium? If you can, then feel free to continue bidding."
Li Chunsheng’s eyebrows twitched, clearly, this number was far beyond his expectation, something he couldn’t afford.
If the other party is really willing to bid 65,000 minutes of visa time, it means that before the auction ends, he either gives a higher bid, or all his previous investments go to zero.
Cheng Yu continued: "Of course, you can also believe I am bluffing, playing tricks.
"But I can simply reveal some information to you to corroborate the truth of this statement.
"I need a lot of Gold Coins because I have actually formed a tight-knit group comprising players from multiple Communities, controlling all aspects from gold panning, trading, anti-smuggling, to auctioning.
"Through these aspects, we can gain excess profits, but at the same time, to maintain the operation of this group, we need a lot of Gold Coins to adjust the income in real-time.
"Therefore, Gold Coins to me are not just profits, but the Currency itself.
"Competing with us for large sums of Gold Coins is not wise.
"Think it over, if you still defy fate, you can continue to raise your bid, but I suggest you do so with the determination to raise it to 65,000, otherwise there’s no point."
Cheng Yu finished speaking and turned away.
Li Chunsheng frowned tightly, looking in the direction where Cheng Yu left, and around the venue.
What Cheng Yu said should be true.
The game has progressed to this point, and more than one group has emerged. These groups range from small to large, with different structures.
Smaller groups might simply be gaming partners from two different communities; but there may also be some larger groups, consisting of several or even a dozen players from multiple communities.
What Cheng Yu said really seemed to be true.
For Li Chunsheng, giving up the bidding might mean cutting losses in time, but in a moment it would mean that Cheng Yu’s bidder could grab the deal at an incredibly favorable price.
Time passed second by second, and there hadn’t been any changes in the bid on the big screen for a long time.
Li Chunsheng couldn’t make a decision for a long time.
And just then, a voice came from behind him.
"Want to get out of the situation? I can help you."
...
Cheng Yu returned to the resting area, near a corner of the Gold Panning Area C, as four players arrived one after another, reporting the current situation in various gold panning areas and trading areas.
Afterwards, Cheng Yu took out Gold Coins from her pocket and settled accounts with them one by one.
For Cheng Yu, she needs to pay attention to much information within the venue, so the players keeping a close eye on the bids at the auction platform are someone else.
While listening to other players’ reports, Cheng Yu also instinctively looked in Tang Qing’s direction.
Both of them are collecting Gold Coins, just in slightly different ways.
Cheng Yu prefers to directly use the auction mechanism to collect Gold Coins, while Tang Qing uses the inspection mechanism to buy Gold Coins from other players.
After listening to all the reports briefly, and giving a few simple instructions, everyone dispersed.
Cheng Yu returned to the auction area to check the final auction result.
At this moment, the countdown was nearing its end, and the bids from the top two had still not changed for a long time.
[1.『38,000 minutes visa time』]
[2.『34,000 minutes visa time』]
Cheng Yu looked in Li Chunsheng’s direction, and based on her estimation, Li Chunsheng would most likely give up.
However, when the countdown was nearing its end, something unexpected happened.
Li Chunsheng pressed a few times on the panel, and he still placed a bid.