Chapter 579 So That’s The Reason (2/2)

Despite being a rookie, he was lucky. The last time he had discovered an opal and this time, when he returned to the national park, he had discovered a gem mine.

But he had been too careless, or maybe being a rookie, he had lacked experience. After discovering some boulder opals, he had busied himself with selling them instead of extending the rental on this plot of land.

Christopher and company, who had been monitoring him, hurriedly took over the land and discovered a large number of boulder opals. There were still boulder opals being found.

The box in front of Christopher filled with opals quickly. Earlier, someone had overestimated it to contain 100 pieces but now it was not an overestimation. Li Du gauged that there could be as many as 180 pieces of boulder opal in the box.

The hunters were not allowed to look for opals on this piece of land. Someone asked in a flustered tone, ”Hey Christopher, where's the boundary of this piece of land?”

They couldn't look for gems on this piece of land but they could look outside it. Although it was against the rules, unless security got involved, they should still give it a shot.

Christopher shouted, ”Haha, this here is all our territory, the entire national park is at our feet! Aha, we're gonna be loaded!”

”You son of a b*tch, tell us the boundary quick, or else we are going to start looking!” a frustrated man yelled out.

Christopher waved his hunting gun. ”Who's got the guts to? Who's got the guts to make a scene on my territory?”

A distinguished-looking black man around fifty years old walked over. He shoved Christopher and said, ”Don't you get so agitated, buddy. Calm down. Watch that gun of yours, don't let it go off!”

As he looked at the worked-up crowd, he added, ”God taught us not to be too greedy. We have got enough, we should leave.”

Christopher yelled, ”Leave? Cousin, what do you mean? Do you mean for us to give these d*mn gemstones away?”

The man licked his lips. ”We've gotten too many, Christopher. You know we can't watch over these. Let go quickly. That Chinaman did what's right—it's right to let go when it's time!”

Li Du became more and more confused. What's going on? These two *ssholes kept referring to him as ”Chinaman.” Were they asking for trouble?

Christopher looked at the jealous faces of the gem hunters around him. He seemed to become a little fearful and gripped the gun in his hand.

He gulped. ”How can I just give up the gems here? Just like that!? We rented this plot of land for three days and it's not even been one day. I can't give it up!”

A big, bearded man walked over and said, ”Buddy, rent it to me. You rented it for 500 dollars a day, right? I'll give you 1,000 dollars!”

”I'll give you 2,000 dollars!”

”Five thousand dollars!”

The hunters started to bid frantically. The mood heated up and got even more chaotic.

Suddenly, Li Du had a lightbulb moment—he finally understood what was going on!

There were absolutely no boulder opals on this plot of land. The boulder opals that they had were not from here. It was a scheme by Christopher and his friends to dupe the hunters into paying exorbitant prices for that piece of land!

He released the little bug to fly into the box in front of Christopher to check out the boulder opals in it.

Based on their appearance, they looked fine. The outer stones were pitted and ugly-looking while those in the middle were dazzling with brilliant colors.

The little bug flew into a gem, and there was the problem.

Over the past two days, Li Du had observed the inside of opals many times through the little bug's vision. The opal was a very beautiful gem: its material was clear and uniform, and it would be so from its exterior all the way to its core.

However, this boulder opal was not this way!