Chapter 225 Business Iceberg (1/2)

Chapter 225: Business Iceberg

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Forty-five storage units; two days; 26 hours. Finally, all the units had been sold.

The two consecutive auctions had gone until 10 p.m. each night. This was the toughest auction that Li Du had participated in; he was almost left with no strength!

Of course, it was not that he was physically weak and lacking in fitness. The main cause was due to using the bug for extended periods of time, coupled with the unfamiliar humid weather and the battle of wits against Frank’s team. All of that combined led to his mental exhaustion.

The good thing was that the auction had ended, and there were plenty of treasure hunters who looked like they were in the same state, so the others didn’t notice his exhaustion.

Seeing the treasure hunters sighing as they left, Hans boasted, ”Everyone’s stamina is much weaker nowadays. When I first entered the business, in Alaska, I participated in a storage auction for military products. Now that would really take the life out of you!”

”Speaking of that,” Olly said, ”it seems that we’re preparing to move our troops out of Iraq? During Obama’s elections, he had promised that one of his first priorities would be to do that.”

During the presidential elections, Obama made use of the promise to end the war as part of his campaign.

Exhausted, Turis said, ”Hurry up and pull out the troops, d*mn it. My brother is in Iraq; every day we’ve been praying for his well-being!”

”Really, why did George Bus—that idiot—start the Iraq war? He wasted two trillion dollars, and for what?”

”And he’s left a dark mark on history. If the criteria were by which leader loved to fight the most, he would surely have his face on Mount Rushmore.”

”Yeah, there’s also that d*mn Afghanistan war—when will we be able to pull out from Afghanistan?”

Li Du kept silent. Two years ago, China had organized their first Olympics; his country was in a peaceful, joyful era.

Coming to America, and gaining more experience, he could begin to understand the wisdom in the decisions made by his home country.

Expending one’s military forces in external countries would quickly drain a nation’s own funds. In comparison, quietly developing one’s economy and national power was a wiser choice.

Hans said, ”We’ll have to wait. In a short time frame, pulling back isn’t possible. Even if they pulled back and organized an auction for the military products, it would be done in Iraq instead. Without enough connections, we wouldn’t be able to get in.”

Interested, Li Du asked, ”They would organize an auction? Making money with the risk of leaking confidential information—is it worth it?”

”They wouldn’t lose any confidential information,” Hans said. ”They will check multiple times to ensure that the stuff is irrelevant before auctioning them out.

”Also, also, military storage auctions aren’t the kind you can just fool around in. Many of them, you would have to spend several hundred thousand—even up to millions—to get in!

”Think about it, buddy. It’s not chump change. A few hundred storage units would be auctioned out during military storage auctions. You could potentially earn up to billions of dollars!”

Li Du was taken aback. ”Storage auctions are actually such a big business?’”

”What you’ve seen is just the tip of the iceberg.” Hans patted his shoulder. ”If you go underwater, you’ll say, ‘Sh*t! The iceberg is huge, it’s terrifying!’”

As they chatted, they went back to the truck, and then swiftly returned home to rest and replenish their strength for tomorrow.

According to the storage auction rules, at the end of an auction, the treasure hunters would only have 24 hours to clear out the units.

A Hollywood movie company storage facility was unlike regular storage companies. A regular storage company would be generous enough to extend the time-limit that the treasures hunters had access to the unit for. Storage units for Hollywood movies would be reused immediately, and thus the time left to the treasure hunters was short.

The sky had its first, faint glow of the day. Li Du, Hans, and Godzilla groggily woke up to rush toward the storage facility grounds to begin working.

They had purchased only two units, but due to their larger sizes, with just Godzilla helping them, it would be difficult to finish clearing everything out in one day.