Chapter 824 Backfilled Tunnels (1/2)

Chapter 824: Backfilled Tunnels

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

During the mine's handover procedures, the original owner of the mine, Muller, kept grumbling, ”Buying this d*mn mine is the biggest mistake I have made in the past ten years of my life. The biggest mistake!”

Li Du asked, ”You owned this mine for ten years? How much did you buy it for then?”

Since both parties had already signed the agreement, Muller was not afraid of Li Du pulling out of the agreement, so he spoke truthfully, ”At that point in time, I spent 250,000. A whole 250,000!”

Li Du smiled and said, ”In that case, it was pretty decent. Two hundred and fifty thousand turned into 800,000. That investment is still considered decent.”

Muller responded in a displeased manner, ”Decent? How is it decent? Ten years ago, one could buy a beautiful seaside villa in Sydney with 250,000. Now? What can 800,000 buy? You can't even buy a villa for 1,000,000!”

Muller's purpose for returning to Sydney this time was to buy an apartment. Having worked day and night in Lightning Ridge for ten years, he was no longer focused on getting rich. He just wanted to go to Sydney and live a simple and relaxing life.

Due to Australia's large landmass and small population, most Australians were mainly gathered in a few large cities. In Lightning Ridge, there were a lot of people who planned on going to Sydney to buy an apartment after mining gemstones.

With the transaction completed, the number 408 mine belonged to Li Du.

After purchasing the mine, Li Du first ran to the riverbank with Lu Guan, Godzilla, and the others to catch small lobsters.

Ah Meow and Crispy Noodles were not fond of getting close to the river, while Ah Ow, who had been hurt before, stayed far away from Li Du and his group after seeing the small lobsters that they had caught. As such, Ali was the only one hopping next to Li Du.

Being herbivores, kangaroos ate various types of plants while some would also eat fungus. Although the type of food that small lobsters ate was complicated, they were also fond of eating plants.

Therefore, the tender seaweed found on the riverbanks was shared between both animals. As Ali had not completely gotten off milk, and its small mouth was very picky, it could only eat extremely tender seaweed.

As such, when Ali reached the riverside, it began hopping around to search for tender seaweed.

Since the small lobsters, who were also fond of eating tender seaweed, were not stupid, Li Du gradually discovered that there were usually a lot of small lobsters living in the areas where Ali searched for seaweed.

This discovery allowed him to have a much easier time catching the small lobsters. Seeing that it was able to help Li Du, Ali was elated.

After carrying a box of small lobsters back, Godzilla and the others began working hard to clean them while Li Du prepared the ingredients.

A Toyota pickup truck drove into Li Du's mine. Having finally found a means to show off her capability, Ah Ow, with her ears straightened, rushed towards the truck and barked at it.

A middle-aged man, who was approximately 40 years old, exited the pickup truck. With a tall burly physique, large sunglasses, a full beard, and a gold chain around his neck, he looked like those gang bosses in gangster films.

Despite that, he kept a very low profile. After getting out of the truck, he extended his hand to Li Du and said, ”Hi, mate. I'm Marcos Randy, your neighbor!”

Li Du pointed to a mine in the west and asked, ”Is Randy's mine yours?”

In addition to the numbers given to the mines in Lightning Ridge that were approved by the authorities, the mine owners would also give their mines all sorts of nicknames.

Marcos nodded. ”Yes, that's mine. Further down west, the mines Randy Two and Randy Three are mine. I have three mines here.”

Li Du shook his hand and smiled. ”Multimillionaire?”