Chapter 85
Munn Storage Center.
Two days later, Luke came here for the third time.
Boret came out to greet him in a trot, more attentive than seeing his own boss.
Luke came here three times, and there were two incidents in the storage center.
In case of any further trouble, the business of the storage center is still not done.
“Officer Luke, do you have a mission today?”
“Like I said, just here to participate in the warehouse auction.”
Boret mentally muttered, that’s what you said last time, and what happened?
Thompson, that guy who had the tough guy on his lips all day, was pissed off and cried, and I heard he was almost hospitalized.
If you want to organize that again, who will dare to shoot and buy a warehouse in my place in the future.
“Officer Luke, if you really have any assignments, just let me know and I’ll do my best to cooperate.”
“Relax, I’m here to get rich just like the treasure hunters present.”
Boret was still uneasy, but what could be done?
Get rid of Luke?
He couldn’t afford to be offended.
The LAPD wasn’t a person, it was an organization.
“Boret, you don’t have to be so polite, just go about your business, it’s not the first time I’ve been here, I know the rules of the auction.”
“See you later.” Boret left, he had to organize the auction as soon as possible before anything else went wrong.
Ten minutes later, the auction house officially started.
Boret was still the host of the auction and opened the door of warehouse 236, “OK, everyone is an old friend, so I’ll make it short.
You can only stand at the door, no probes, no tools, and you can’t enter the warehouse.
The auction will start in a minute, and the highest bidder will win.”
There were a lot of people standing around the warehouse, last time Luke tried to get close to the front row and wasted a lot of effort to squeeze in.
This time was different, the people around him consciously made a path.
Luke looked around, most of them were familiar faces.
Standing in the doorway for a while, he couldn’t make out the clutter, to be honest.
Before he came, he had watched a few warehouse treasure hunting videos and learned some shallow common sense.
Warehouses with safes were prioritized.
Warehouse things are not in the old and new key is the grade of high and low, which represents the owner of the warehouse family and status.
Don’t underestimate the odd collection, find the right buyer can definitely make a fortune.
These ideas in his head over again, a minute of time is almost up, neither saw the safe, but also can not distinguish the grade of these old furniture.
After all, he was still just a rookie, stuck in the theoretical stage.
“Time’s up, let’s start the bidding, Warehouse 236 starts at 100 dollars.”
A fat white man with a waistline that may exceed his height shouted, “$150 dollars.”
“One hundred and fifty dollars a time, is there anyone with a higher bid?”
Luke waved his hand, “$200 dollars.”
“Have an eye, this warehouse is really good, worth looking forward to, anyone else want to raise the price?”
The crowd looked at me, I looked at you, none of them answered.
“$200 once, $200 twice, $200 three times, Mr. Luke, congratulations, this warehouse is yours for 24 hours.”
“Wait.” Luke felt something was wrong, this warehouse shouldn’t be that bad, am I the only one looking at it?
“Why don’t you guys call the price? I’m here today as a private person, not as a cop.
I’m here to get rich just like you guys.
Borrett, I think you should call the price again.”
Boret readily accepted good advice, “Two hundred dollars a time, any more calls?”
The fat white man hesitated for a moment and called again, “$300 dollars.”
Luke continued to call, “$350 dollars.”
“350 dollars once, 350 dollars twice, 350 dollars three times, any more calls?” Borrett scanned the crowd and hammered out, “Mr. Luke, congratulations, this warehouse belongs to you.”
“Thanks.” Luke felt that the price was quite reasonable, at least one person had called the price.
Boret greeted, “OK, everyone, let’s not disturb Mr. Luke from organizing the warehouse, let’s go to the next warehouse.”
“Wow……” the crowd dispersed.
While walking, they were also talking about something.
It was as if they were discussing the strategy for the next bidding.
Luke stood alone, you guys are going to regret this.
He put on his gloves and mask and got to work.
The first thing was to move everything out and find anything of value.
It was mostly old furniture, couches, lamps, toolboxes, fishing rods, old televisions, radios, etc., and Luke had a feeling that these things weren’t more than a few years younger than he was.
They might have some value at a yard sale, but they were worthless to him.
Dumping out the contents of the warehouse, he found a black leather travel bag in the corner of the warehouse that looked textured and heavy to pick up.
The zipper is stuck on a small buckle lock, because it has been placed for too long has rusted, Luke directly from the toolbox out of the pliers to clip off the buckle lock, the copper zipper is still usable.
After pulling it open, the eye is full of green bills.
Luke roughly counted, a total of seven piles of bills, each pile of about 10,000 U.S. dollars, a total of 70,000 U.S. dollars.
He has been psychologically prepared, but still hard to hide the joy in his heart: “Fuck, I am now a rich man!”
Luke rented a truck, pulled all the items to the second-hand market, and packaged them for sale at a price of one thousand dollars, the warehouse brought him a total of 71,000 dollars in income, and the bidding for the warehouse only cost 350 dollars.
That was a much better deal than buying scratch-offs.
With the money, Luke paid off his car loan first thing, principal + interest totaling $4,500.
After paying off the car loan, it felt like a shackle had been removed from his head, and the whole person was much more relaxed.
After that, he paid David back a thousand dollars.
David was preparing the money to bail out Lindsay and Luke wanted to lend him ten thousand dollars, but David declined.
It was almost the beginning of April, and David was about to get paid, as well as the prize money from the painting, which David was able to get a portion of.
Though it might not be a big share, it would still be enough to cover the bail, and he didn’t want to borrow money from his coworkers for that kind of reason.
It would be burdensome.
Luke had a major meritorious performance in the ‘Telson Manor disappearance case’, and the bonus was definitely going to take the lion’s share.
But everyone was a team and couldn’t eat alone.
After paying back the money, Luke still had about sixty-five thousand dollars left, and with the bonus for the oil painting coming soon, he now had quite a bit of money at his disposal, so it was time to improve his life.
He is ready to rent a house, living in mom’s house or Daisy’s house is not a long-term solution.
A man should always have a nest egg of his own.
Many years ago, he used to fantasize about having a big villa of his own, with a separate theater, so he could watch movies at home at any time.
The yard is paved with green lawn, and occasionally invited friends to have a small barbecue at home.
It would be perfect if there was a swimming pool in the yard.
Before it was just a thought, Luke is now rich and can totally turn his dream into reality.
“Buzz ……”
A cell phone vibration rang, interrupting his fantasy.
A text message from his mom, Linda, had only one sentence, “Family gathering at 5:00 p.m. You know the location.
Don’t be late!”
Luke didn’t want to go and had to go.
In the country, always heard people say that the United States family concept is not strong, to the Los Angeles realized that the locals also focus on the family, just a little different from the country.
On Saturdays, parents would take their children out to play.
Many families get together on Sundays to have a barbecue, drink a little wine, brag and chat.
In his last life, Luke had little contact with his relatives, and the only serious get-togethers were during the New Year, and the rest of the time he was busy with his own business.
Now that he often had to attend family gatherings, he was in turn a bit uncomfortable and still needed time to adapt.