Chapter 222: The Boss of Galactic Aurora Collective is Impervious to Persuasion
The auction started soon.
The first items on display were some unimportant trinkets to warm up the crowd.
Catherine watched the items on stage while speaking with a cold expression.
"I'm guessing your last injury was also related to people from the Howard family."
Only people from the Howard family could know so clearly what Alexander valued and accurately use his mother's belongings as bait to lure him to the Heritage Storage Depot.
And only people from the Howard family were so eager for Alexander to have an accident and hand over all his power.
"Indeed. So I made sure those culprits and their entire families died."
Alexander's eyes still held some tenderness, but his words were exceptionally cold.
"Since Emilia's mother was my mother's good friend when she was alive, those people actually dug up graves to lure me to the warehouse. Since they love graves so much, I sent their whole families to reunite there."
Catherine nodded expressionlessly. "How kind of you."
This style was really quite similar to hers!
"Unfortunately, I haven't found key evidence that they made a move against my mother all these years."
Catherine raised an eyebrow. "That is unfortunate, but what you want isn't evidence."
Someone like Alexander, if he really wanted to make a move against someone, would he need evidence?
It's just that he's determined those people aren't the masterminds - he wants to find the real culprit behind his mother's death!
In other words, those few people from the Howard family can still barely survive now not because they're so capable.
It's all because Alexander still needs to use them to find the real villain behind everything.
The head of the Howard family with such powerful methods is no longer that child who could only hide in a closet, consumed by despair!
The host on stage smiled at the rows of silent private boxes below.
"This auction item is a warming jade. Distinguished guests, you all know the warming jade market has been quite good recently, and this piece of jade is top quality!"
The guests who had been uninterested before perked up when they heard this.
Many people had come today specifically for the warming jade.
A fist-sized piece of warming jade sat on stage. Under the auction house's revealing lights, the jade was flawless, transparent and lustrous, making people feel refreshed just looking at it.
Clearly a top-grade warming jade!
"I won't say much more - distinguished guests all know what this item does. Starting bid is three million dollars!"
Catherine wasn't interested in the item, but she was somewhat interested in whoever brought out this warming jade.
Alexander said softly, "Something from Galactic Aurora Collective?"
"Yes, but it was sold a long time ago. Even if it came from Galactic Aurora Collective, it has nothing to do with them now."
Warming jade of this quality wouldn't have been cheap even when it was originally sold.
Catherine glanced at the warming jade being displayed from all angles on stage and took out her phone to search for information.
Galactic Aurora Collective kept records of everything they sold.
Jade was different from other things - there wouldn't be two completely identical warming jades in the world.
She frowned at the information on the page.
"Why is the buyer him?"
Alexander glanced at the information on Catherine's phone.
【Tiberius】
"He bought it and now he's selling it again?"
Catherine nodded. "That's right, and I recently got a very interesting piece of news - the recent hype around warming jade prices is all because Tiberius has been pushing it behind the scenes."
In antique circles, it wasn't unusual to build momentum before selling an item.
But if Tiberius created such a big scene just to sell this one piece of warming jade, it didn't make sense!
A new message came through on her phone.
【Boss, those violins were all sold from the Harrison family's own antique market.】
【Gabriel is a regular customer at the antique market. We checked his communication records - he contacted Tiberius many times last month.】
Catherine frowned slightly. "I remember warming jade prices suddenly increased last month."
That month, Galactic Aurora Collective sold quite a bit of warming jade for good money.
"You think Tiberius deliberately hyped warming jade prices to make more profit?"
Catherine nodded.
"The Harrison family wouldn't dare openly sell inferior products. The quality of those few warming jades at the music store was too poor - if they came from Tiberius's antique market, Owen would definitely notice."
But if they colluded with others, that was different!
For someone like Gabriel, as long as there was money to be made, that was all that mattered.
Tiberius didn't have to take any risk and could get more money - by all accounts, he wasn't losing out.
The warming jade on stage was soon auctioned off for the high price of ten million dollars.
This price had completely exceeded the warming jade's actual value.
A new message appeared on Catherine's phone.
【Boss, Tiberius wants to buy more warming jade from us. Should we sell to him?】
Catherine quickly replied: "Don't sell."
【But Tiberius says he has some information we'd be interested in.】
【Looks like he wants to use that information to get us to give him a discount.】
Even Dubhe felt confused sending these messages!
What was this Tiberius thinking?
Galactic Aurora Collective never gave discounts!
【Ask him what information he has.】
After two minutes, Dubhe's message came through again.
【He says he wants to meet with you in person. The information is too important to discuss over the phone.】
【Then block him. Galactic Aurora Collective won't do business with Tiberius anymore.】
Dubhe smiled at the message.
This Tiberius actually wanted to use such tactics to control Catherine? Who knows what he was thinking.
Receiving the message from Dubhe, Tiberius wasn't surprised.
He smiled, his face completely calm, not at all bothered by this.
"I was joking. I just want to make friends with Galactic Aurora Collective's boss. After all, I was good friends with your previous boss."
Dubhe said nothing and told Catherine everything word for word.
【Boss, he's saying he knew our previous boss? I don't even know them!】
Catherine's frown deepened.
What was Tiberius getting at?
【Since they're old friends, let him work with the previous boss. I won't work with him.】
When Tiberius got this message, his expression started to crack!
Why was this current Galactic Aurora Collective boss so stubborn?
It seemed he needed to think of a new way to find out who was running Galactic Aurora Collective now.
Originally, Tiberius thought that as long as he hyped warming jade, Galactic Aurora Collective would definitely notice, but now it seemed the other party wasn't interested in him?
Tiberius frowned slightly. "Where did things go wrong? Is my plan not working?"
At the very least, what he did should have gotten the current Galactic Aurora Collective boss to pay attention to him, right?
Catherine put her phone on the table.
"What do you think of this Tiberius?"
"Not much. His brain especially isn't much - he's got problems."