Chapter 879 Big Brother’s Pride (1/2)

Li Du thought that Conrad was a bit foolish. He had just made the worst decision. Bell had tried to be the middleman. Conrad had two of the best options. The first was to give Bell respect and give up bidding. This way, Bell would have owed him a favor. The second option was to keep his dignity, not give Bell respect, and fight Li Du all the way. In the end he chose a third option. He increased bidding and made Li Du furious. Only then did he quit bidding.

This meant that not only did he not give Bell respect, but he also did not successfully defeat Li Du by winning the storage unit. He had wasted his energy and pissed off someone at the same time.

Of course after he gave it some thought, perhaps that was not the case. In Conrad's eyes, he had made the best decision. He had given Bell respect when he quit bidding, and in the end, he had made the price even higher. Even though he could not defeat Li Du, he could piss him off.

Princeps gave him a thumbs up. ”Well done, Conrad. This is the first time I have seen this Chinaman at a disadvantage.”

Conrad hummed. ”If it wasn't for that saint who stood up for him and because I gave him respect, partner, don't even think the Chinaman could walk away with that storage unit!” His tone was domineering, and his words were full of pride.

Princeps continued giving him a thumbs up, and he looked very impressed. However, the other people of the Tucson Brotherhood saw this, and many of them immediately lowered their heads. With their own big brother kneeling and licking a young outsider's boots, it had made these tough men feel deeply ashamed.

As the gang walked towards the next storage unit, Hans asked Li Du, ”What was in the storage unit just now?”

Li Du said, ”You saw it. It's a bunch of case files.”

”What use do you have for those?” Hans pondered. ”Any valuable cases would never be chucked away. The things in there must have been exposed.”

Li Du said, ”Who knows? I will take a look. Maybe the government and police station missed out on some useful things in there.”

Following that, he had not joined in bidding on any of the storage units, but he had become the strategy adviser for the Flagstaff treasure hunters. He kept on evaluating each storage unit, and then told everyone about it, letting them decide for themselves.

This way, even though he did not get much reward, the treasure hunters of Flagstaff had all acquired something. They made money when they followed him, and they would be even happier to follow him in the future.

It was now afternoon, and everyone was a little spent. The mini and small sized storage units were finished. Now, auctioning the medium size storage units had begun.

The area of medium sized storage units was around 100 square meters. These storage units began to have larger sized items such as cars, machines, or complete sets of office supplies, home furniture, and so on.

The first storage unit was opened. There was a series of motorcycles inside. Conrad's eyes lit up after taking a look, and he was waiting by the storage door as he stroked his chin.

Li Du had already looked through the unit with the little bug. This storage unit was not bad. There were some motorcycles that were quite well kept, especially the series of bikes displayed out front. There were Harleys, Dodge Tomahawks, a Yamaha V-Rex, and other branded bikes.

These bikes all had labels from the police station. They were probably confiscated bikes from illegal street racing or recovered stolen bikes, and nobody had come to claim them, so they ended up in this auction.

The motorcycles were valuable, but Li Du did not want to partake in the auction. As everyone knew that this storage unit was valuable, they would keep on bidding, and this type of storage unit would not result in much profit.

The weather in Phoenix was very hot. Li Du ran to some shade he had found as Lu Guan went to buy cold drinks and ice cold beer. The gang stood together to drink beer as they watched the auction. Big Beard Carl walked over, and Li Du tossed him a bottle of ice cold orange juice.

He put down the orange juice and took a bottle of Carlsberg instead. He laughed. ”The men of Flagstaff will only drink beer forever. We don't drink girly drinks like juice.”

There was a bottle of juice in Li Du's hand. After he heard what Big Beard Carl had said, Li Du said, laughing, ”Assh*le!”

Big Beard Carl asked, ”Brother Li, what do you think of this storage unit?” A group of treasure hunters gathered around, waiting eagerly for his answer.

Li Du said, ”This storage unit is valuable, but as everyone can see, there are at least 100 people interested in it. Everyone knows its value, so it is not possible to get it at a low price, and that means it is going to be difficult to earn more.”

Big Beard Carl sighed regretfully and said, ”Forget about it then.”