"Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I am delighted to welcome you here for this auction. Please sit in your designated seats; our auction is about to begin. Today, we have four items up for auction. Please adhere to the auction rules. If you see an item you want, bid on it. We will conduct the auction with fairness, justice, and transparency."
A tall female host spoke on the auction stage.
"It's starting, it's starting," Zhao Shuai said excitedly, "First, please look at the first item."
The host spoke as she lifted the red cloth off the first auction item, revealing a transparent glass box on the auction stage. Inside the glass box was a spherical object resembling a black marble. Lin couldn't understand what this unimpressive 'marble' was.
