Chapter 310 Trench Mortar (2/2)
But that was only a possibility. At a regular auction, there could be treasure hunters following their lead and copying their bids. If the auction went this way, they would need to spend a considerable amount of money in order to win the unit.
Any bid amount could appear in a silent auction, for everything was unknown until the winners had been identified.
Li Du wrote 4,000 dollars on the bid sheet and slipped it into a small box.
He proceeded to walk to the 15th unit on auction. There were some old goods that were stored in chests and bags. Li Du made a bid of 2,000 dollars for this unit.
He estimated the bid price himself. The old goods could be sold for a slightly higher amount than 5,000 dollars. Even if someone else were to win this unit at a higher price, Li Du would not regret it either.
The 18th storage unit was filled with fishing equipment. There were fishing rods, outboard motors for boats, fishing chairs and many more items. All these items were exposed. The treasure hunters were going crazy over it.
Li Du and Hans had a discussion about this and decided to write down a bid of 5,000 dollars.
The Mercury brand outboard motor was the most worthy item amidst the fishing gear and equipment. This brand was the top performer amongst yacht engines; just one outboard motor alone could be sold for 5,000 dollars.
By the time the auction for all 28 storage units was completed, it was only 2 p.m. in the afternoon.
Li Du was ready to leave when Hans said, ”There’s still time. We can go to Memorial Storage for a look. There’s an auction there today as well.”
Hearing this, he frowned and knitted his eyebrows together. ”Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
They could have set off for the other auction long ago if Hans had notified him earlier. The remaining storage units after the unit of fishing equipment were worthless.
”I’ve been asking around for information on the units, but there was nothing good,” assured Hans. ”Also they’ve just started, we’ll be on time.”
The two of them quickly drove the Hellcat to the Memorial Storage Co. The two storage companies were quite a distance from each other—it took half an hour to reach their destination.
While they were on their way, Hans told Li Du that the number of storage units on auction were only four, which was a very small number. They could join in if the auction were ongoing, but there was also a possibility that the auction might have ended.
The duo was in time for the last unit when they arrived at the storage company. Li Du swiftly unleashed the little bug.
The last unit had almost entered the auction phase, as the treasure hunters there had completed viewing the unit. The auctioneer already had his hand held up, preparing to start the auction.
When he saw Hans and Li Du, he paused for a while and said, ”Those who have not viewed the unit please hurry up. The auction’s going to start soon—”
The auctioneer had not finished saying his sentence when a hurried voice was heard.
”Hey pals, we’ve completed the viewing, so the auction should start now!”
Li Du thought the voice sounded familiar; he turned and saw two familiar faces. It was Rambis and his mustached brother-in-law, Carl Huron.
When they were in L.A., due to Li Du’s courageous behavior, both of them were disgraced and in turn, spurned by both Phoenix and Flagstaff’s treasure hunters.
Li Du had not seen them for a while. He had heard that both of them were too ashamed to stay in the area and had left the state of Arizona to attend auctions from other places.
Obviously, the rumors were not true, for the two of them appeared right in front of him.
Not only that, Li Du had felt odd that these two fellows were still unfriendly toward him. Now that Li was a Hundred Thousand Club member, the two of them should dread to offend him.
Li Du looked at them, astonished and puzzled by their behavior. The little bug he had released earlier flew into the storage unit automatically and headed straight to a short and longish metal chest on a shelf.