Chapter 81

The Flying Bar.

Luke ordered two whiskeys and handed one to David next to him.

“Why did you remember to buy me a drink.”

Luke clinked glasses with the other and took a sip, “I want to borrow some money.”

“How much?” David put his glass down, seemingly unsurprised by this.

“A thousand dollars.”

“No problem, any more than that and there’s nothing I can do.”

“WHY, you don’t pick up girls and spend them?”

David drained his glass, “Lindsay.”

“She asked you for money again.”

David shook his head, “I’m trying to bail Lindsay out and am getting the bail money ready.”

“You’re her bondsman?”

David nodded.

“Do you think she can change?”

David ordered two more whiskeys, “I don’t know.”

“If she violates her bail, not only will the bond be forfeited, but you’ll be liable, so think about it.”

“I don’t have a choice, she worked as a cop, if the inmates at the jail know ……

she’s my wife, I can’t do nothing.”

“How much bail is still missing?”

“Just mind your own business, I’ll take care of the bond myself.”

“How much is missing?”

“Ten thousand dollars.”

Luke took a sip of his whiskey, “Do you still love her?”

“No…… but it’s my duty to take care of her.”

The American warehouse industry is popular.

The reasons for this are complex, and there are two main aspects.

One is that the United States does not have a domicile system, mobility is greater, many people do not like to buy a house, renting a house to move is too much trouble, so the warehouse rental industry has emerged.

Beyond a certain time, the owner of the warehouse did not pay the rental fee, the warehouse is legally regarded as ownerless, the storage company can dispose of their own.

One more thing, the United States has a detailed garbage classification law, and it takes a lot of money to dispose of garbage.

Many families in order to save money to deal with garbage, will rent a warehouse specifically put garbage with the expiration of the non-renewal of the pot dumped to the warehouse company, so the auction of more than 90% of the warehouse is worthless or even have to pour money to deal with garbage.

It is also this uncertainty that the warehouse company will be dealt with in the form of auction.

If you shoot the warehouse, you must completely empty all the things inside, including garbage, can not just take the valuable things and leave the garbage, or will be blacklisted.

The warehouse company also saves a fortune on the cost of disposing of the trash.

More than a thousand storage warehouses across the United States every day to hold public auctions, so the birth of a lot of “professional warehouse auctioneer”.

Unlike Luke, who takes his chances.

Many treasure hunters are in the second-hand business, so that the items found in the warehouse can be sold through the channel to get the maximum value.

After nine o’clock, Luke arrived at the Munn Warehouse Center.

There were quite a few people gathered in the warehouse, chatting in groups.

Luke didn’t engage in too much communication with them, he didn’t buy the warehouse by auction based on experience, but based on the system, which could almost be said to be a sure thing.

In other words, if he relied on experience, it was too late to make a temporary move, he was definitely no better than the treasure hunters who relied on this industry for their meals.

At ten o’clock, Boret, the experience of the Munn Warehouse Center, came over, “Gentlemen, welcome to the Munn Warehouse Center, those who want to participate in the warehouse bidding please go to the office to pay the $100 cleanup deposit.”

The crowd lined up in two rows to pay the fee and Luke stood among them.

Borrett saw Luke nod his head in greeting and the two didn’t exchange much.

Luke also saw an acquaintance, Thompson, during the fee payment process.

The two belong to the enemy of the narrow road, who do not treat who, Thompson next to a middle-aged man, the two muttered also do not know what to discuss.

After the payment of fees, Boret brought the crowd to an open space: “Gentlemen, this company is entrusted by the District Court, will be five rent arrears of private warehouses in accordance with the law of public auction.

After winning the bidding, the bidders will be able to obtain ownership of the warehouses within 24 hours, owning all the property inside the warehouses.

After 24 hours, the right to use the warehouses and the proceeds of the property in the warehouses will belong to our company.

Gentlemen, if there are no questions, the auction officially begins.”

Boret led the crowd to the outside of Warehouse 94 and opened the warehouse door, “The old rules, you can only stand in the doorway and watch for a minute, no probes, no tools, and you can’t enter the warehouse.

The auction will begin in one minute, and the highest bidder will win.”

Luke stood in the doorway and looked in, the warehouse door is three meters wide, the warehouse items are stacked very scattered, a variety of miscellaneous items, can only see the outermost layer of the items, the inside of the things are covered.

The first time to participate in this kind of auction, also do not understand this inside the precepts, is to follow the blind look.

He saw a familiar wooden box through the gap, the box was gray with a blue carving, probably because it had been stored for too long, the color had faded a lot.

But he was certain that he had indeed seen a similar chest before – in the ‘disappearance of Telson Manor’ dossier.

It was most likely one of Mrs. Anna’s missing cases.

There were still two parts of the loot from the Telson Manor disappearance case that hadn’t been recovered – part of it was the painting that was worth ten million nothing.

The other part was the jewelry that Tony had acquired and, of course, could have been sold long ago to get high.

Luke also did not rashly reveal his identity, although this box is very similar, but it may not necessarily be, in order to avoid making a mess, he is prepared to shoot first, to see what items in the box.

Boret’s voice came to mind next to him, “Gentlemen, one minute is up, today’s auction house officially begins.

Warehouse 94 starts at $100.”

“One hundred and fifty dollars.” An old man in a cowboy hat shouted.

“Oh, this generous gentleman is bidding $150, $150 once, is there a higher bid ……”

“Two hundred dollars.” Luke called the bid.

The old man in the cowboy hat called the bid again, “$250 dollars.”

“The bidding is fierce $250 dollars a time, is there a higher bid, look at what’s in the warehouse, it definitely won’t let you down ……”

Luke raises the bid, “$300 dollars.”

“Wow wow this gentleman has a good eye, he’s raised the price again ……”

Thompson waves his hand, “$400 dollars.”

“Oh, it’s Thompson, an old friend of our company, there shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t recognize him.400 dollars a time, is there any bid higher ……”

Luke shouted again, “450 dollars.”

“500 dollars.” Thompson continued to call out the price, and shrugged at Luke, “SORRY, I’ve got my eye on this warehouse too, didn’t mean to take it personally.”

Luke smirked, “Just a reminder, what’s in this warehouse is not yours to get.”

“You’re not minding too much, oh, I almost forgot, you’re a cop.” Thompson still couldn’t get over what happened that day, his son looked at himself differently since that admission.

He regretted it.

Regretted that he didn’t fight Luke that day, even if he lost, at least he was still a hero in his son’s mind.

He wanted to make amends.

“Badges don’t work here, this does.” Thompson shook the green bill in his hand.

A smirk appeared on Boret’s chubby face, this was the scene he was hoping for the most, the bidders could fetch a better price once they had friction between them and were fighting each other.

“500 dollars once, 500 dollars twice, there is no one to bid a higher price ……,” Boret looked at the old man with the cowboy hat, and then took a look at the next Luke.

In the end, Luke gave up on the bidding.

He had found clues to the case in the warehouse, and bought it because he wanted to facilitate the investigation without affecting the normal bidding of the warehouse.

But the situation was different now, Thompson was competing with himself.

He had to get involved in the case, and Luke couldn’t help him.

In fact, taking himself out of it may not be a bad thing for Luke.

If the warehouse doesn’t have Anna’s missing belongings, that warehouse may not be worth much.

If there are Anna’s missing belongings in the warehouse, they are stolen property and no one can take them with them.

Great joy and great sorrow.

Thompson will cry a lot ……