Chapter 607 Fearless (2/2)

In the end, Li Du arranged for his men to put up an act to deceive him, and so the 300,000 US dollars due to him had flown away!

However, he also didn't dare to trail Li Du too closely with his bids. He had suffered a loss during the last auction all because he had done so. Li Du was very rich and could be ruthless if he wanted to entrap someone.

The auctioneer didn't give him any time to consider. This was Las Vegas, and not Tucson where he could abuse his authority. The auctioneer pointed in the direction where Li Du was standing, and said quickly, ”Alright, alright, this guy has called for 3,000 . . . 3,000 . . . 3,000.”

”Three thousand one hundred!” Princeps nodded his head solemnly. The Tucson Brotherhood had decided to follow with the next bid.

Hans looked at Li Du, who nodded his head after a brief pause. Hans shouted decisively, ”4,000!”

At this, the scene got rowdier. More than a hundred treasure hunters crowded around them and began to watch the happenings:

”Hey, internal conflict within Arizona—a bunch of crap!”

”Isn't this a good thing? Let's hope that they spend all the money in their pockets!”

”Princeps, don't be discouraged and keep going! I heard that you lost 300,000 dollars because of this Boy Wonder!”

”Lost 300,000 dollars? Buddy, what happened? Tell me about it!”

Princeps wasn't about to follow on blindly. He couldn't tell the value of the storage unit. Four thousand dollars was quite enough. It was not worth it to him to continue taking the risk.

As nobody else had participated in the competitive bidding, Li Du acquired the storage unit.

Magic Hand asked curiously, ”What was it you saw that made you fork out 4,000 dollars?”

He asked Li Du. He knew who the brain behind this team was.

Li Du laughed. ”First, there are old-fashioned shipping tools in there, which could be items left by gold miners. Second, since there were people trailing me closely in the bidding, I gotta get rid of them early on.”

What he meant by the second sentence was that he actually wasn't interested in this storage unit but that he wanted to use the high price to dupe his opponents. He was, however, unsuccessful this time around.

After passing two storage units, he put in a bid again. This time, the price was raised to about 4,000 dollars.

Princeps stroked his mustache wordlessly and nodded. Someone behind him shouted, ”4,100 dollars.”

Li Du raised his eyebrows, slapped the photocopied colored page onto Princeps' chest and said, ”This unit's yours.”

A Tucson Brotherhood treasure hunter murmured, ”D*mn, looks like we got duped by him again!”

Princeps glared at him with his shady eyes, and that treasure hunter quickly shut up and gloomily ran off.

Li Du chose to bid for the remaining storage units. He discovered that the treasure hunters didn't back off easily upon defeat; they were instead willing to try and bid against him.

As they moved on, more people started to trail them in bids. He was not able to get hold of any storage units for less than 2,000 dollars. If he was really interested in any unit, he would usually bid up to 5,000 dollars so that his opponents would back off.

If the bid were below 5,000 dollars, the treasure hunters were willing to take the risk to challenge him.

If the bid were below 5,000 dollars, the majority of the treasure hunters wouldn't risk it. After all, they didn't have that much money.

It was also not an easy task for the Flagstaff treasure hunters to get hold of the storage units. Everyone noticed that Li Du would whisper to some of them when he wanted them to bid for a storage unit.

Under such circumstances, some of them kept a close eye on Olly, Turis and the rest, so as to put in competing bids.

After more than a dozen storage units were auctioned, it became more and more obvious what was happening. Olly got increasingly frustrated. ”D*mn, I never thought there would ever be a day when people put in competing bids against me—up against trash like me?”

Dickens said, ”Who said never? However, this feeling's pretty good. The control's in our hands, and it's great.”

The rest of them started laughing, but Hans couldn't see the humor in the situation. He said to Li Du, ”Obviously, it will be harder for us to make money in the future. More and more people are watching us.”

”I have other channels for making money,” Li Du said. ”Besides, even if they're watching us, I'll still get my hands on those valuable storage units!”