As the authorities, getting the organizers of the Debao Grand Hotel auction to cooperate was very simple. If they had not been trying to catch the illicit-money lord behind the scenes, once they confirmed that the auction items he had sent were fake, they could have canceled those lots outright. This was a legitimate auction. If counterfeits appeared and word got out, it would badly affect its reputation.
Likewise, the illicit-money lord's side did not want anyone to bid away the auction items they meant to circulate internally. They were using these items to launder money. Once the items were taken by someone else, there would naturally be no way to launder anything. On top of that, if someone noticed during the process that the auctioned items were fake, they would file a complaint. Once the complaint succeeded, the next auction would not accept their items anymore, and they would no longer be able to keep laundering money.
"I'll take it. One million Mora." As the auction continued, after seeing the signal Yelan gave, Paimon immediately raised the paddle in her hand. Paimon was very interested in this sort of thing. She had never had the chance before, but now the chance had finally come.
"Two million Mora." Someone immediately raised the bid.
"Three million Mora." Paimon continued raising without the slightest hesitation. After all, to her, today's bidding was just a game. She could bid however she wanted, as long as she was higher than the other side. Of course, this "however she wanted" was not completely without limits. For something at the million-Mora level, it was impossible to casually push it up to ten million Mora.
In the end, Paimon took this auction item for five million Mora. After that, all the other related lots were taken by