The auctioneer's voice echoed through the room, announcing the opening bid: "The starting price for the reagent is one million dollars, with a minimum increase of one hundred thousand dollars per bid."
Instantly, the wealthy attendees began murmuring amongst themselves.
"One million dollars? Even a full-body medical treatment wouldn't cost that much."
"This bio-reagent has only been proven effective in the lab; it hasn't been fully validated in clinical trials. This feels like a gamble."
"The extent to which it can slow aging is too vague. It's hard to make a decision."
There was a ripple of apprehension, yet one thing remained certain: anything that made it to this auction was guaranteed to be genuine. Whether its value would be recognized was for the bidders to decide. This was the
