Chapter 1365 Chapter 1365 - Acciden (1/2)

From the time he learned about the Tiger Tank, Li Du had thought that that piece of information was exclusively acquired by Lu Guan. In the past, the information that Hans had given him was valuable and could not be obtained by ordinary means.

In the end, it turned out that what Lu Guan had told him was common knowledge.

It was at this point that Li Du felt how important Hans had been. While Hans – that b*stard – always seemed to be flaky, history had proven that others were even less reliable and trustworthy than him.

As everyone knew of the existence of the Tiger Tank, it would be even harder to try and land that warehouse at a low price. After all, the tank was a giant monster. It was eight to nine meters long, about three meters wide, two and a half meters tall, and weighed more than fifty tons!

Disappointed at this turn of circumstance, Li Du gave Lu Guan a scare – he sliced off a big chunk of the grilled beef that Lu Guan had on his plate. Frightened, Lu Guan pleaded, ”Boss, you won't take my life just because of this, right?”

”You still have the cheek to say that?” Li Du snapped and glared at him.

As they had taken dinner early, night had yet to fall after they finished eating. Li Du decided to check out the warehouse that night.

He had known that there would be only 45 warehouses. Typically, with his powers, he would have only tried to gain information on the day of the auction. However, now that he knew that everyone else was aware of the Tiger Tank's existence, he felt that it would be better if he checked out the situation beforehand himself.

To be prepared for the worst, he wanted to think of solutions in advance, before problems cropped up.

Li Du first went to the bankrupt warehouse company, which was where the legendary Tiger Tank warehouse was located. The company was situated in the north of the Tucson city and spanned about thirty to forty acres. Its name was Combat Squadron Storage Co., Ltd.

As the area occupied was large, it encompassed many warehouses.

The warehouse company had been set up in the 60s and 70s of the previous century. At that time, the economy in America was stable and prosperous. It was common for people to change their jobs or move house. It was also during that period that technology made great leaps and everyone started to replace their appliances and furniture. There had been a great demand for warehouses and many of the warehouse companies expanded quickly at that time.

Hence, the warehouse of that era were designed to be very close and dense. In one area, warehouses of different sizes were all clumped together wherever they could fit to max out space.

During those days, the more warehouse there were, the more money the company could make. However, today the warehouse trade was in decline. People had less need for storage.

As a result, a problem occurred. In the current era, the more warehouses a company kept, the more money was spent on maintenance fees. There were fees for modifying the warehouse space, getting rid of mold, working new walls, replacing the doors, etc. In addition, the company also had to keep security guards and pay them a regular salary.

That created a basic existential problem for the old-fashioned warehouses. They had to tear down and rebuild the warehouses or declare themselves bankrupt as it was hard for them to adapt to a new era and continue making profits.

However, Li Du felt that this warehouse company had gone bust not because it had been poorly managed. Instead, it was because the city was developing and so the boss decided to sell the land to make money.

Plots of land around the warehouse company had been selling like hotcakes. It was because Tucson was aggressively developing new town areas. Hence, land was valuable. Once a plot was cleared for building, there would be plenty of money to be made.

When the car arrived at the door of the old warehouse company, Li Du released his two little bugs.

There were more than two hundred warehouses in there. Because of the bankruptcy status, most of them had already been cleared out. There were thirty-odd warehouses, however, that had not been claimed by their owners. Those leftovers warehouses would be cleared and sold during the upcoming auction.

Out of those warehouses, eleven were big-sized. Li Du felt that the Tiger Tank monster must be in one of them.

American warehouses usually had universal sizes. They were split into five different size categories: super-sized, big-sized, medium-sized, small-sized and mini-sized.

The big-sized warehouses spanned 200 square meters. The medium-sized warehouses were slightly above 100 square meters, and the small ones spanned 50 square meters. The mini ones were slightly over 20 square meters.