CHAPTER 246: CHAPTER 246: STRANGE AUCTION ITEMS

Ye Ningwan thought that the so-called underground auction was just a small auction.

After all, it’s the black market, how big can it be?

But it was only when she got here that she realized the scale was far beyond her imagination.

There are three floors in total, each of which is very big and luxuriously decorated.

The first floor is just an ordinary guest seat, like an ordinary auction.

The second floor has separate rooms without doors, but although you can’t see the whole picture inside, when you come up, you can still see the guests inside through the door.

The third floor is the one they are on.

Each floor has a one-way glass door.

You can see outside clearly from the inside, but from the outside, you can’t see what’s happening inside.

This means that their identities are confidential, at least not too many people will know.

The auction is very large in scale, and besides the guests, there are also many service staff on site. The security visible is already plenty, not to mention how many more are lurking in the shadows.

Trying to make a move here would be harder than reaching the sky.

"It’s not easy to make a move here," Zhan Hanjue said.

Ye Ningwan nodded.

However, she never intended to make a move and rob here.

She still had some moral integrity. It would be best to buy, but if she couldn’t, she wouldn’t rob.

Wangyue said regretfully, "What a pity, I thought we could grab it."

Ye Ningwan: "..."

So just now, Zhan Hanjue wasn’t talking to her but to Wangyue?

How did he know Wangyue wanted to grab it?

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the auction site. This auction is hosted by Mr. F. Let’s give a round of applause to thank Mr. F for his tremendous support, which made this auction possible. Everyone, applause."

"Clap clap clap clap."

The applause at the scene was like thunder.

Ye Ningwan frowned and muttered softly: "I didn’t expect formalism to appear everywhere. Even in such a black market, there’s this love for formalist talk."

"Who is this Mr. F?" Wangyue asked.

Ye Ningwan shook her head: "Who knows, using an alphabet as a code, even his own mother might not know."

"Our first auction item today is a Qianlong-era black background green-colored curling plum vase. As everyone knows, porcelain from the Qianlong era is exquisitely crafted and has a very high aesthetic value. This plum vase was even praised by Qianlong himself, which shows its high collectible value. Today, we are lucky to have it here with a starting bid of one million. Now, everyone start bidding."

With the sound of a gavel, the bidding started.

Although Ye Ningwan and the others were on the third floor, they could see the scene below clearly.

In the auction rooms, there are also large screens to see more closely.

The vase is quite beautiful.

However, Ye Ningwan didn’t have much appreciation skill, so she just took a simple look.

Zhan Hanjue asked, "Do you like it?"

Ye Ningwan shook her head: "No, this thing is a million, if it were placed in the room and accidentally broke, it would be heartbreaking, it’s better not to put it."

"A million won’t buy it," Zhan Hanjue said.

"What? It has to be more expensive?" Ye Ningwan was surprised.

Zhan Hanjue said: "Previously, a plum vase similar to this one appeared in Hong Kong and eventually sold for 2.5 billion Hong Kong Dollars. Converted to RMB, it was as high as two billion. So how could one million buy it."

Ye Ningwan was shocked, two billion for a vase?

Are they crazy?

"You mustn’t press the bell randomly, we don’t need it," Ye Ningwan quickly guarded the bell to prevent Zhan Hanjue from impulsively ringing it.

Ye Ningwan said, "I’m not interested in it. Since you don’t like it, I won’t buy it."

"Why would you think I like these?" Ye Ningwan muttered.

Zhan Hanjue coughed lightly: "Back then, the Ye Family was very fond of collecting these, so I thought you might have inherited some of it."

"Then you thought wrong, I didn’t inherit any of it, I’m completely uninterested," Ye Ningwan immediately clarified her stance.

Sure enough, the price kept going up.

Soon, it rose to a billion.

Ye Ningwan shook her head constantly on hearing this, simply stopping to think about how much money it actually was.

In the end, this vase was won by a guest on the third floor for 1.5 billion.

Compared to the Hong Kong auction, it already cost much less.

Zhan Hanjue said, "I now understand the significance of this black market, no wonder so many people come here. Here, you can successfully bid for much less money than outside, and you don’t need to pay taxes."

"So shady," Ye Ningwan said.

The first auction item was sold.

Next was the second item.

The second item was a piece of jewelry, said to have been worn by a princess, and it looked resplendent indeed.

However, Ye Ningwan suspected that it was most likely stolen by a tomb raider from a grave.

Zhan Hanjue asked again if she wanted it, and she shook her head immediately.

"I’m even less interested in things from dead people."

This auction item didn’t fetch as much money, ending at eighty million.

But this price was already very high.

After all, with an unclear background, selling for so much money. No wonder so many people become tomb raiders even knowing it’s illegal.

If they don’t succeed, they might lose their life, but if they do and with good luck, it’s enough for a lifetime of food and drink.

The third auction item turned out to be a big cage.

When the big cage was pushed out, Ye Ningwan and Wangyue both frowned.

"How can they auction something alive?"

With such a big cage, they thought it must definitely contain some kind of fierce beast.

Ye Ningwan suddenly thought of Zhan Hanjue also raising some wolves and quickly glanced at him.

The thoughts of wealthy people are really strange.

They can’t openly keep them, so why trade wild animals.

However, when the cloth over the cage was uncovered, Ye Ningwan and Wangyue both exclaimed.

"It’s actually a person?"

They both exclaimed in unison, eyes wide open.

Indeed, inside the cage wasn’t a wild beast but a person, a living person.

A very beautiful girl.

The girl had long, silky black hair and wore clothes that only covered her private parts, her snow-white skin exposed, making many men at the scene stare.

The girl looked outside in terror. She was extremely beautiful, with an ethereal beauty like an elf accidentally fallen to the mortal world.

And she didn’t look very old, about fourteen or fifteen years old.

She looked outside in terror.

And because of her pitiful and frightened expression, many men present couldn’t help but feel a destructive desire.

She was indeed an earthly beauty.

From the first call, it was much more expensive than that vase.

The bidding started directly at three million.

Immediately, someone on-site raised the bid, and after one person did, another followed suit.

The bid increased by a million at a time, quickly reaching fifty million.

Though compared to the vase and the jewelry, her price was still relatively cheap.

However, those two things had collectible value. The money spent, sooner or later, could be returned.

If this girl was successfully auctioned, everyone knew clearly what she would become.

"I want her," Ye Ningwan said.