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However, as old man Hu spoke, the expressions of the people from the factions below changed. They naturally understood the meaning behind his words. As they were shocked, a ruthless expression appeared on their faces.

After all, the people present hadn't come out from the mountains of corpses or the sea of blood. Even though they were all frightened by the blatant threat of old man Hu, no one showed the slightest sign of panic.

Meng Fan also nodded inwardly. If these people were placed in the army, they would definitely become one of the top figures. However, each of them had their own path to walk.

As he thought about it, Meng Fan also noticed the alert expressions on these people. Even the soldiers brought out by the Hu Old Man started to get restless and started to feel that something was wrong. He hurriedly said with a smile, "I said Old Man Hu!" When did you manage to get so broad? "

"Meng Fan!" However, even as Meng Fan's words left his mouth, the old man surnamed Hu's face darkened, and he let out a loud shout. His previously devoid of any light, now filled with rage.

Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you've cooperated with me. You can't meddle in the matters here. If you don't want to get into trouble, you better take care of yourself.

When he looked at Meng Fan, he didn't even try to conceal the threat in his voice. It was as if if Meng Fan dared to say something like that, then he would really do as he said and combine Meng Fan with those powerful people.

However, as Meng Fan and old man Hu spoke, the people from the other powers began to get a bit suspicious. From the very beginning, they had suspected that it was Meng Fan who had set up this trap, and after old man Hu had appeared, they had come to the same conclusion.

However, after hearing the conversation between Meng Fan and old man Hu, the suspicion of Meng Fan was dispelled. Meng Fan's hostility toward him had been dispelled, and the suspicions they had regarding him were dispelled.

The old man seemed to understand what was going on, and when he looked at Meng Fan again, his face couldn't help but change. It was as if the old man's expression was one of killing intent.

Meng Fan, on the other hand, turned a blind eye to old man Hu's performance, and acted as if he didn't see it at all. He glanced at the people not far from him and laughed in a low voice, "I really didn't expect all of you to be so foolish! When they said they wanted to auction Cheng Ying, you all believed it! "

"What?"

"What do you mean?"

The moment Meng Fan's voice fell, the crowd immediately burst into an exclamation. Even the old man surnamed Hu on the fifth floor couldn't help but change his expression a few times as he looked at Meng Fan in astonishment.

After all, the insider information Meng Fan had revealed really did have the right to surprise them. Considering the current circumstances, most of the people who came to participate in the auction were already dead. As for the remaining people, those who didn't come from the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, naturally weren't stupid people.

Meng Fan let out a light laugh as he walked to the center of the crowd. Looking at the bloody figure on the ground, he said in a low voice, "Shadow Bearing Sword, one of the top ten swords of the ancient era. Although we have never seen it, it's still something that has existed for thousands of years!"

As he said this, Meng Fan's voice paused for a moment. Seeing everyone looking at him with a puzzled expression, he couldn't help but chuckle. He bent down and picked up Chengying, who had been casually thrown onto the ground.

Meng Fan's action caused many of the surrounding people to become nervous. They tightened their grip on their weapons and were about to attack Meng Fan. Even old man Hu, who was standing on the fifth floor and watching the crowd from afar, couldn't help but become nervous.

"Relax! I'm just here to take a look! " Seeing the movements of the surrounding people, Meng Fan lightly stroked the Shadow Bearing Sword as he spoke. Then, with a flick of his finger, he actually rapped the Shadow Bearing Sword.

"Ding!"

A clear sound rang out as if there was some kind of curse, causing the surrounding people's expressions to simultaneously change. Even Meng Fan and the others raised their heads to look at the old man named Hu.

"How is this possible? This is steel? " Old Man Hu was also astonished. When Meng Fan's finger had struck the sword blade, he had already heard the change in the voice and could not help but exclaim out loud.

After all, the people present were all extremely intelligent people. If one were to talk about the familiarity of weapons, everyone would definitely talk about experts.

Because of these reasons, everyone could tell the material of the sword from the voice. According to modern technology, cold steel weapons were quite common. Even the kitchen knives of some families were made of this material.

Steel was a product of high-temperature purification of pig iron, even in modern technology. An oxidant was also added to it to refine the steel.

However, in the ancient times, there was no such material as steel. The so-called Hundred Refinement Steel was also the most ancient method of refinement. Although at that time, there was a batch of master craftsmen crafting weapons, they were all made from manpower.

Even if some weapons were as hard as steel, they were only close to steel. At the very least, no one could prove the existence of steel in the ancient era.

In this way, the origins of the Shadow Bearing Sword in Meng Fan's hand could be clearly seen.

But with that, everyone's gazes naturally turned to the old man named Hu. After all, he was the one who organized this auction, and now that something like this happened, everyone felt that it was naturally the old man named Hu who planned it.

"How is this possible? Hehe! I wanted to ask you how you could have done it! Shouldn't you explain it to us? " However, when he faced the old man named Hu, Meng Fan suddenly grew more aggressive. His eyes were fixed on the old man named Hu, and he laughed coldly as he asked the question.

Seeing the astonishment on old man Hu's face, Meng Fan was secretly pleased. After seeing old man Hu's current appearance, the feeling of having been under someone else's control for a long time instantly disappeared.2

As far as Meng Fan was concerned, working with him wasn't really a big deal. However, the old man's interference, as well as old man Hu's disobedience, made Meng Fan very unhappy. That was why something like this had happened.

"Meng Fan!" You tricked me? The shadow you gave me was fake? You're still asking me what's going on? " At this moment, old man Hu was extremely astonished, so he no longer hid anything. He glared at Meng Fan and shouted.

After all, things had already reached such a stage. Even old man Hu didn't want to carry that title behind his back. If he could, he would rather Meng Fan hadn't checked on Cheng Ying, and nothing more would happen.

From his perspective, if this figure was real, and they took it out to auction, and the people from outside the city caused chaos and casualties because of the competition, it had nothing to do with them. Even if he killed everyone at the scene, it was within common sense.

After all, so many people had died at the scene. As a national institution, it was its place to intervene in such matters.

However, if Cheng Ying was a fake, then it would be certain that they had plotted all of this in secret, and the people from these powers would be killed here, and all the trouble that they spoke of would be solved.

Between the two, one was forced to take action while the other was proactive. The gap between the two sides was obvious enough. Even if they were in the same country, they couldn't talk to the outside world, much less the people from other countries.

After all, these people all had foreign identities. Even if they were vicious people, no country would want their people to be killed in other places!

At this time, Meng Fan's expression remained the same as he faced old man Hu, as if he wasn't affected at all. Instead, he looked around and continued, "I've never cheated you before. Although we're in a cooperative relationship, you don't need to frame me like that!"

With a frown on his face, he looked coldly at the old man named Hu and continued, "The shadow that I gave you back then was real. I gave it to you because I believed that you were powerful, but I never thought that you would only take out one copy for auction!"

With that, Meng Fan casually threw Cheng Ying to the side. The anger on his face intensified. It was as if the old man surnamed Hu had once killed his father and stolen his wife.

And at this time, after Meng Fan had thrown out the shadow that had been deemed to be a fake, someone immediately picked it up and began to carefully observe it.

"Meng Fan!" Don't you dare talk nonsense! " However, the old man surnamed Hu had already lost his reason due to anger and angrily shouted.

Old Man Hu was quite angered by Meng Fan's words. He had never imagined that Meng Fan would do something like this.

From the very beginning, he had only considered Meng Fan to be an ordinary person with outstanding martial prowess. He had never imagined that Meng Fan would have so many tricks up his sleeve. Now that he thought about what had happened, even though he had experienced many things, he felt a headache coming on.

In order to confirm whether the Shadow Sword was real or not, they had done a series of tests. Although they were unable to confirm that this sword was the so-called Shadow Sword, they had also obtained the fact that this sword was thousands of years old from the metal test.

To old man Hu, this was enough to prove the identity of Cheng Ying. After all, even if this sword wasn't Cheng Ying, it was undoubtedly a priceless ancient sword.

After that, they returned the sword to Meng Fan. That was why Meng Fan had been so reassured that he hadn't been on guard at all before the auction had begun.

However, after the second time he obtained a shadow, Old Man Hu saw that it was the same as the previous time, so he didn't do any more tedious tests. He directly put away the shadow and knew that the auction was about to begin, so he took it out from the safe to auction.

Although this was an auction, in old man Hu's plan, he had never thought of auctioning Cheng Ying off. He had only used this sword as bait, but now that he discovered that this sword was actually a fake made of modern steel, even with old man Hu's endurance, he still had the impulse to spit out blood.

"F * ck!" It's really a fake, we were tricked! " Although they were foreigners and did not understand the antiques and ancient weapons of the country, they were very clear on the modern weapon materials. With Meng Fan's reminder, it was naturally not a difficult task to strengthen this sword.

After all, most of the reason why people believed that the sword was real before was because they knew that this auction was planned by the dark organization. When they took out Cheng Ying, these people only looked at him from a distance and didn't personally verify whether he was real or fake.

However, things were different at this moment. After recognizing that the figure was fake, many people were already secretly trying to figure out something. At the same time, a majority of them were furiously looking at the old man named Hu.

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