Chapter 147 The Book Auction (2/2)

Hans said, ”Alright, let’s go see. I hope your suggestion hits the mark.”

The novels section was the largest section. It was full of famous works like the Harry Potter series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Lord of the Rings, and a whole set of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park series.

The bug didn’t serve many purposes in such an environment. Although he managed to find some valuable books, the energy expense was too much. After searching for a short while, Li Du called back the bug.

Hans asked with anticipation, ”Buddy, did you find out which books have the most value?”

Li Du shrugged helplessly, ”I can’t really make anything out. We’ll just have to auction with our guts.”

A day later, the book auction commenced.

The auction this time had drawn a lot of attention. Borders had announced the auction on their website a month ago, and in June they started advertising in newspapers. A few hundred people had showed up!

When they arrived at the storage unit, Li Du was stunned by the crowd. People were elbowing their way around. ”Sh*t, this many people?”

Hans felt his scalp crawl. ”D*mmit. Seems like several school libraries have sent their people over. What do they want? These are just books, worthless books!”

Since they were already here, they could only obediently register and wait for the auction to start.

Li Du had planned to enter the storage again to check things out. Then, someone suddenly rushed over and shoved him, shouting, ”Son of a b*tch! You still dare come to Phoenix?”

Using the bug to manipulate time, he easily dodged the oncoming palm. Turning his head to see, he realized that it was the long-faced man, Anthony.

Li Du reflexively pushed Anthony away, and said, ”What—are you going crazy for? Is there something wrong with your brain?”

Anthony ground his teeth and shouted, ”You set me up! D*mn you, b*stard, you set me up! I’m going to kill you-you…”

His last word was meek because the expressionless Godzilla stood behind Li Du.

The security guard came forward to calm the situation down, and placed himself between the two parties. He warned, ”No quarreling, and even more important, no fighting! Or else we’ll kick you guys out!”

Hans pointed at Anthony and said to the security guard, ”Fellas, please recognize properly that this guy is nuts. He just came up and attacked us. We’re the victims here, okay?”

The security guard looked at Anthony with a grim expression. Anthony felt wronged and shouted, ”I was setup by him! I was setup by this d*mn Chinese man! Everyone be careful! This son of a b*tch specializes in setting people up! I’ve lost 50,000 dollars because of him!”

Li Du shoved him away and asked, ”What’s he going crazy about?”

There was a treasure hunter at the scene; he said with a laugh, ”Anthony had followed you and bid on a unit for over 50,000 dollars, right?”

”Right.”

”That unit was worthless, so he had a huge loss. Lucas, that dumb buffalo, went mad with rage, and forced Anthony to split the loss with him. This fella’ lost 20,000 dollars, so he keeps telling people that you set him up.”

Li Du couldn’t contain his laughter. ”Storage auctions always carry a huge risk. How can there be a profitable business without the chance of losing money? He’s an incomprehensible idiot!”

He glanced at Anthony with disdain, but the appearance of Anthony had created a positive effect as well: no one would dare to fight with him over the goods. Apparently, everyone was afraid of following in Anthony’s footsteps.

Li Du had some time on his hands, so he went inside to check once again.

This round, he found a problem!