Chapter 715 The Auctioneer With The Iron Hand (1/2)

Chapter 715: The Auctioneer With The Iron Hand

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Li Du waved and released the little bug. The villa was not sitting on a large land area—at most 650-square-feet. There was a total of three levels above ground and a basement level. He estimated it to have about a dozen rooms—it would not be that tedious to check through.

After the little bug had gone in, he realized it was not that clear-cut.

There was supposed to be about a dozen rooms in the house, but it had been configured. Just like those subletted houses that he'd heard about in university where one house could be converted into five smaller ones.

In this way, a large villa had become a huge hive, packed with many smaller houses. Each house was full of stuff, more chock-a-bloc full than a grocery store.

Now, he understood why the community organization had chosen to auction the villa off like how they would carry out auctions for old houses. There were 50-60 small rooms, which could be sold to many people.

From the basement to the balcony, the entire villa had been completely transformed.

Except for a single toilet, kitchen, and bedroom, the other rooms in the house had turned into storerooms and were filled with stuff like storage units.

However, he noticed that the stuff in these rooms had been arranged both neatly and messily, which was very contradictory.

The pictures, posters, and images hung up on the wall were all neatly displayed. Some of the boxes placed on the table were also very orderly. It was the big items like old furniture and old appliances that had been placed in there haphazardly.

As he looked out at the grass patches and gardens outside the villa, he got a better idea of what was going on.

The plants on the grass patches and in the gardens were in a bad state; the grass grew wildly, and in some spots the ground was completely bare with no plants growing at all.

There were traces of heavy items having been on the ground, but nothing was there now.

Obviously, this was a case of ”no longer”—they had all been dragged into the house.

Li Du used the little bug's time reversal ability, and then he understood what had gone on.

Old man Viktor had kept the larger items he'd collected around the house until the people from the community organization took over. In order to attract the treasure hunters, they stuffed it all into the villa.

They had created the illusion that every single room was filled up, so as to arouse the treasure hunters' interest.

The little bug flew about in the villa, starting from the basement, and buzzed through the rooms until it finally found something it was interested in.

According to Li Du's observation, the little bug not only absorbed time capability, but also capability based on human effort.

The older the objects, and the more carefully preserved and regularly maintained, the more attractive the objects would be to it.

So it did not only absorb capability from antiques and artifacts, but also from common things that might have been loved by someone for years, such as ordinary watches and ordinary cutlery.

Many things in this villa attracted the little bug. When it flew into the first room in the basement, it went straight to a small box.

The small box, which had been placed in the cabinet, had been carved from a piece of yellowish-brown wood. It had an intricate flower pattern on it, as well as a mosaic made up of beautiful gems. It looked extremely valuable.

If the box was already so precious-looking, Li Du subconsciously guessed that there must be something treasured inside it, but it turned out to be a card-sized, leather identity document.

Several stamp marks could be seen on the document along with a motley picture. It looked like a black scallop and was discolored.