Chapter 130 Gun Store (1/2)

Chapter 130: Gun Store

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After using the bug, Li Du wasn’t exhausted, but he was quite famished.

Alcohol could be converted into energy to replenish the strength that he had lost, so he hadn’t been completely joking with Sophie.

Of course, he couldn’t actually drink rubbing alcohol, since he still had a long life ahead.

There were lots of meat and wine. Americans were really wasteful; even in a low-income community, they had prepared lots of food, and at least half of it might go to waste.

Li Du went all out during the meal, bringing Ah Meow to sweep the plates. Sophie was astounded by the amount they ate.

”What’s up?” Li Du asked. ”What kind of expression is that?”

Sophie said weakly, ”I once thought of asking you out for a meal as a way of thanks for saving me, but from the looks of it, I need to find a different way.”

Li Du didn’t eat for free, and donated 1,000 dollars to the community hospital at the end of the meal.

A few days later, Hans sold off the Japanese Military’s Royalty papers, each roll for 500 dollars. With 15 rolls, that was a total of 7,500 dollars.

Li Du was quite taken aback when he collected his share. ”How did you do it? Those papers can’t be considered antique, right? 7,500 could buy them a paper machine. Who would be so dumb to have bought these papers?”

Hans said gleefully while sipping his beer, ”That’s skill, buddy. That’s how good Big Fox is.”

”Yeah, you’re really good,” Li Du had to admit. ”But I would like to know, who would be so foolish as to spend a few thousand dollars for a bunch of papers?”

”Many Japanese people, after migrating to America, to improve their status, claim that they are royalties. How to prove it? One of the best ways is to have items that the royalties used.

”What we have aren’t just ordinary papers, but napkins. They aren’t ordinary napkins either, but specially used by military commanders that were royalties. Some people bought them so that they could claim that these were papers left behind by their family. With that, it’s possible for them to raise their status…”

Hearing his explanations, Li Du was surprised and said, ”Using just some napkins to improve their status—the Japanese are really interesting.”

”The more people you meet, the more peculiar things you’ll know,” Hans said with disdain, thinking about his ugly past.

Li Du didn’t expect that these papers could sell for 7,500 dollars. In America, a second-hand BMW was worth about that much as well.

But Hans was on to something; there was nothing that was inherently valuable or useless. It depended on the right buyer.

As long as it was the right buyer, for example, to a person dying of thirst in the desert, a bottle of water could sell for 10,000 dollars.

There was also the machine gun that they had to sell. In early June, they were planning to attend an auction in Phoenix, and they brought the gun with them.

There was nothing much that was of value in that auction. Li Du bought an ordinary storage unit that belonged to a common household and made about 2,000 dollars from the furniture and appliances.

After selling the furniture and appliances, Hans brought him to a gun store.

The gun store was called ”Veteran’s World.” The renovation was old and quirky; the front door was fitted with a flintlock—a type of lock used on muskets—and was the handle of the door.

After pushing open the door and entering, he found that the inside was just like a supermarket, stuffed full of rows and shelves of merchandise.

In a supermarket, the merchandise were household items, snacks and beverages and the like, but this store was full of guns and their accessories.

Starting at the entrance, dozens of shelves lined the store, with each full of all sorts of pistols and rifles; submachine guns, automatic rifles, Carbines, and sniper rifles.

The walls were also draped with guns. The focus was on hunting rifles and shotguns. The pistols were mainly at the counter, from flintlock pistols to modern pistols.

Besides guns, there was also all sorts of accessories. Optical sights, aim assists, backpacks, hooks, straps, jackets, helmets, goggles, walkies, etc...

In one of the counter displays were tools for cleaning guns. It had cleaning fluids, gun oil, and brushes of all sizes.