Chapter 618: Water and Fire (1/2)

Chapter 618: Water and Fire

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Besides the Narwhals' teeth and balance springs of high-grade wrist watches, they also gained a corade furniture, a set of silverware, a safe full of gold and silver jewelry, andwhich, the Narwhals' teeth were the most valuable For centuries, people have always related the Narwhals' long teeth with mythical unicorns and believed that they possessed potent ical effects

Unfortunately, they were not in the right era In the European Middle Ages, this ”unicorn horn” orth 10 tiedly, Queen Elizabeth I of England had once kept a Narwhal's tooth worth 10,000 pounds, which could buy a castle in that era

Currently, Narwhals' teeth could only be used as ornaments and orth much less However, there were still a lot of people interested in theood price

Hans had asked a friend to help check and found that the Narwhal's tooth was rarely seen on the market The latest open sale was in the year 2005 where Oliver Tang, the er of a store in the north of Arctic Bay, Canada, used 75,000 US dollars to procure four Narwhals' teeth froion

Oliver placed a Narwhal's tooth inside a box and shi+pped it by boat to North Bay, Ontario, where it was auctioned off to an art dealer and collector for a total of 280,000 dollars

All in all, a Narwhal's tooth orth around 70,000 dollars in the year 2005 and taking inflation into account, a Narwhal's tooth would definitely be worth at least around 10,000 dollars at present

Right now, as Narwhals were much rarer and had already been restricted by the Arctic Council froher price if they handled it right

In the past, the beautiful sea creature could also be spotted in Canadian waters but was now rarely seen japanese whalers had, forin a rapid decrease in the number of Narwhals from 10,500 in 1986 to 1,500 in 2002

Today, if soo to the Arctic waters or the west coast of Greenland

In order to protect the Narwhals, the Arctic Council placed theovernment stipulated that local hunters were only allowed to hunt at most five Narwhals per year

Li Du took a Narwhal tooth as he needed to prepare a present for Sophie father's birthday

Regrettably, he was unable to personally attend the birthday party, which was today He initially planned to use a day and a half to clean up the storage units so he could hurry back in time

However, as God's plans supersede our own, Li Du was kidnapped He was not able to return as he needed to assist the Las Vegas police and Knight's group to solve this case

With no other alternatives, he called Sophie on the day of the birthday Poor Sophie, as still waiting for him to come, picked up the call and i, where are you at?”

Li Du replied helplessly, ”Sorry darling, I aas”

”Huh?” Sophie responded quickly before thoughtfully inquiring, ”The auction did not go smoothly?”

Li Du initially did not want to tell her about the kidnapping incident to avoid worrying her

However, after thinking about it carefully, he realized that even if he could hide the incident from her now, he could not hide it fro so close with him, would find out eventually Even if he didn't tell her, other treasure hunters would spill the beans

Further in one of Sophie's fa steady with her, so he needed a proper reason for not attending

As such, he told the truth ”Darling, I was kidnapped two days ago”

Sophie was taken aback and said, ”Are you playing withwhat she had to say, Sophie was already sobbing She obviously knew that Li Du would not use such news to play with her