Chapter 561 Bottleneck (1/2)

Chapter 561: Bottleneck

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After the auction had ended, Dickens and Lu Guan brought some men by to tidy up the two storage units.

The main storage unit to be tidied was the second one. In it were 30 to 40 boxes of books. Godzilla and Big Quinn worked hard tidying up the storage unit.

Charles Chalmers came over and took a look. After having seen nothing unusual, he walked over to the door of the first storage unit and sneered, ”Guys, did anyone realize the items inside are not a complete set?”

Dickens gave a surprised look and replied, ”Oh? Not that I know of.”

Li Du leaned against the door. He did not mind what was in the storage unit. As a matter of fact, everything was arranged by him.

From the beginning, Lu Guan, accompanied by Dickens, was instructed by Li Du to enquire about the furniture in the storage unit. Even the treasure hunters who were rushed over and the auction bids today were all single-handedly arranged by him.

With the intention of obtaining the magazines inside the storage unit rather than the furniture, he deliberately gave Charles the chance to organize a community storage unit auction.

He seemed rather exultant about the plan's success. As a matter of fact, from his perspective, the plan could have very easily failed. It would only have taken Charles contacting Dog Ears Rick for his plan to fail.

Fortunately, as he predicted, Charles was a petty man. In order to avoid having to loan his cousin money, he would not have informed his cousin of his storage unit's situation.

Otherwise, judging by Dog Ears Rick's experience, he could have easily deduced the visit by Lu Guan and Dickens was a trick. All it would take was for him to look at a few storage units to easily discover the complete set of magazines.

In Li Du's eyes, what he did was rather unethical. He had not planned to do it that way at first. He thought of officially purchasing the magazines for collection.

In the end, not only had Charles not given him a chance to do so, but Charles and Dog Ears Rick had also humiliated him. Left with no choice, he came up with the plan.

Having heard Charles' sarcastic question, Li Du looked around the storage unit and discovered what was missing.

An antique-looking furniture set was missing a couple of pieces. Originally inside were six chairs, one table and two small cabinets. However, one chair and a small cabinet were missing.

Dickens did not realize what was missing as he was only doing as instructed and had no idea what was inside the storage unit.

Li Du, having discovered the missing chair and cabinet, said, ”It's the furniture. The complete set of furniture has a problem, right?”

Charles coughed and smiled, ”Your eyes are very sharp, Chinaman. Yes, the furniture here is not a complete set. A chair and cabinet are missing.”

Dickens responded, ”F*ck, you actually removed a part of the complete furniture set?”

Charles laughed craftily and said, ”Don't be agitated, mate. Indeed, it was I who did that, but I didn't break any rules did I? All of you were not observant enough and did not discover there were missing pieces.”

Dickens was infuriated. ”You really are evil. Truth be told, I rarely call someone that, but you are evil!”

Charles was unfazed by his name calling. He opened his arms and said, ”What I did was open and lawful. It's your eyes that were not sharp enough. If you guys discovered the furniture set was missing two pieces, you guys might not have bid on it.”

The reason for his doing so was clearly due to a casual remark made by Dickens. Dickens remarked that the furniture set needed to be complete for it to be valuable or else the value would be cut in half.