Chapter 520 We’ve Been Duped (2/2)

As the leader of the Tucson treasure hunters, it was easy for him to mobilize several trucks.

Li Du assigned the trucks to the Flagstaff treasure hunters and got them to hurry up with clearing everything.

Although there was much work to be done, all of them still crowded around the entrance of unit 10 and stared at the wooden planks with curiosity.

”What's everyone doing here?” Li Du waved his hands. ”Get to work.”

”Come on Big Li—satisfy our curiosity,” Dickens said with a grin. ”What's inside this unit?”

”Yeah. What treasure inside here is worth you going through so much hassle to get it?”

”I heard that they put up a show with Max Conrad. D*mn, I wasn't there to see it just now. What a pity!”

Indeed, what had happened earlier was a ruse. Ted Karmel was actually Max Conrad, his new subordinate, the guy who liked to be called ”Lu Guan.”

The items inside the unit were valuable in Li Du's eyes. He couldn't take it lying down that the Tucson Brotherhood had taken it using their dirty little tricks. Since yesterday, he had racked his brain on how to take it back.

The chance came when the Tucson Brotherhood had decided to teach them a lesson by vandalizing their trucks. Making full use of the incident, he arranged for Lu Guan to put up the show, which managed to fool Princeps and get back unit 10.

As for how he'd gotten ahold of the information about the previous owner: he had found it yesterday when he went to make payment after sending the little bug into the safe of the company. Their customer information was all in there.

Li Du laughed at their remarks. ”Everyone's so curious. Is anyone able to tell what these make? It's right in front of you.”

The group shook their heads; nobody could make out what all the wooden planks were for.

If Li Du hadn't seen the blueprint, he wouldn't have been able to make out what they made either. He had destroyed the blueprint after Princeps took the unit from him so they wouldn't know what the wooden planks and the pieces of wood were for.

He touched the pieces of wood and said, ”If I'm not wrong, this is a mobile giant—a siege tower!”

Yes, the information on the blueprint proved that the pieces of wood, when assembled, formed a siege tower.

Siege towers were mostly made on the site of the siege and could be constructed into various sizes.

Li Du could not tell the exact size of the siege tower from the blueprint. But judging from the number of wooden planks used for assembling the tower and the metal plating and the animal hides used for protection, the tower was huge.

Li Du had used the little bug's Relive The Past ability on the wood. This had also proved that the siege tower had been around for a long time. When assembled, it had a height of over 30 feet, which was enormous.

The group of treasure hunters looked at each other in disbelief upon Li Du's reply. ”Siege tower? This is a siege tower? How do you know?”

”If you knew about siege towers, you would be able to identify them too,” Li Du laughed. ”Look at these. When you combine these pieces of wood, they become a protective chamber.”

The wood for assembling the chamber was the wood Lu Guan had said was for building the cottage.

It was no wonder Princeps had been taken in by this unit. The siege tower's basic structure was the protective chamber, and that was similar to a cottage. Of course, that was a trapezoid cottage, as there were other structures above the chamber.

Li Du stopped talking. It would be better to show the assembled siege tower to them.

Princeps was really frustrated. A young black man beside him spoke with hesitation: ”Princeps, we've been duped.”

When he heard that, he almost vomited blood.