For Eric, this was a greatly beneficial trade, but he had no intention of telling the truth to Secretary Zhang. After all, human nature, and especially the greed trait was extremely difficult to defeat.
While this guy was serving Eric like he was his Ancestor due to his own interests, there was no knowing what he would do once he learned of the true value of the simple-looking rug.
The truth was that this piece of rug that the Auction House was using just to complete the interior design of the warehouse, was actually part of the hide of a Fire Qilin.
Since this rug was quite old, and had been stepped over, and used terribly for a long time, it had lost quite a bit of its special aura and energy.
Even then this was a great material for Eric who wanted to use this part of the Fire Qilin's hide in order to make a soft body armor for himself.
After all, the defensive ability of a mature Fire Qilin was beyond the imagination of normal people.