Chapter Forty-Nine: The Asking Price
Charlie turned around, sat down again, and sneered, "Aren't you not interested? ”
"Hehe, I'm only not interested in fakes, but for the real thing, hehe, I still have to take a closer look." Sauber said with a smile on his face.
Pretend to be a big-tailed wolf with me, you're still a little tender. Charlie said, disdainfully opening the lid and proudly taking out the crystal clear skull.
The mysterious blue light emitted from the skull captured Sauber's heart at once.
"Wow, that's beautiful." Sauber held the skull in both hands, and looked upside down, praising it.
"Friend, since I came to Daxiguo, I have seen no less than dozens of skulls, what amethyst, citrine, turbid, crystalline, all of them, but this one, fucking must be genuine, because other skulls do not have this kind of luster and transparency, let alone the divinity it exudes."
"You still know the goods." Charlie squinted at him disdainfully.
"But has this skull been scientifically identified?" Sauber asked uneasily.
I've known you had this trick for a long time.
Charlie said that as long as it is an antique, it has a heritage, and the value is much higher than that without inheritance. There are many handicrafts and fakes circulating on the market like this skull, and the only effective way to prove that it is not a handicraft or a fake is to get a scientific identification certificate.
Charlie took out a certificate from the box and lit it up: "Of course there is, you see, this is the appraisal certificate." ”
The certificate was beautifully made, plasticized, and stamped with a few red stamps, which looked like it was real.
Sauber took the certificate, examined it carefully with the eyes of an expert, and said convincingly, "It is indeed genuine." Okay, you make an offer. ”
"A million gold coins." Charlie stretched out a finger and said with a flat face.
Charlie is a veteran bidder, and when bidding, he must be quiet, his face is flat, he is not smiling, and he must first calm the other party in terms of momentum.
"What, a million?" Although Sauber is a veteran bargainer, he was still stunned by this price.
"Love or not, you don't want it, some people want it!" Charlie continued to press, he knew that the screws had to be tightened at this time, and he could not relax a little.
"Uh, can you lower the ...... So...... A little bit? Sauber's face turned pale, and his heart was visibly weak.
"No! This is a hot commodity, and there are very many people who want it now, and the market is bullish all the way. In a few days, it won't be this price, maybe it's possible to double it by one or two, three or five times. ”
The underworld asking price is indeed a science, and many people just don't know how to ask for it, so they suffer a big loss. In fact, no matter what kind of commodity is handled, the price is nothing more than this principle, and you can make several times more money, but as a result, because of your courage and caution, or your conscience and morality, or your lack of enough confidence, or your embarrassment that the lion opens its mouth, you will be slaughtered. When I regretted it afterwards, there were no tears in my tears.
The situation froze, and the two did not speak for a long time, staring at each other with wide eyes, competing with each other's eyes.
In the end, Sauber couldn't hold it anymore, and said: "That's it, your price, to be honest, I really can't afford to pay, I have to go back to Shangfeng for instructions, because my country's princess appointed me, I have to ask her for instructions, you wait for my news, okay?" ”
"Yes, three days at most, no more, people don't wait, I will shoot on the fourth day."
"Well, three days is three days. Still here, one hand to pay the money, the other hand to deliver. So saying, Sauber stood up and walked out the front door.
Charlie sat still, with a sly smile on his face: This cunning guy still wants to calculate me, it's really blind. Charlie just deliberately said a time limit, which is to test the other party, because it takes five days to take a boat from Atlantis to Greece, and it takes five days to go back and forth, he said three days, and the other party actually agreed, what does this mean? It shows that the other party is not going back to Greece at all, but intends to plot against him behind his back, or rob, or steal.
Charlie decisively picked up the suitcase, went out of the nightclub, hailed a taxi, and drove in the direction of East Main Street. He kept an eye on the inverted mirror all the way, and sure enough, he was followed by a taxi, sneaky and unhurried.
Arriving at the entrance of a mall, Charlie shouted, "Stop." ”
The taxi braked suddenly, and Charlie jumped out of the car and went headlong into the mall. After running for a while, he quickly burst out of the back door, jumped into another taxi, and shouted, "Big Bag." ”
The taxi started quickly and drove at high speed under Charlie's constant urging. He looked back at the street, and there was no one following him, so he was relieved.
"Sir, it's here." Said the taxi driver.
Charlie paid the fare, carried the suitcase, and got into an apartment building.
He took the elevator up to the fifteenth floor, which was the home of one of his close friends, and he knocked on the door, and his friend was a little surprised, but still let him in.
Charlie pretended to have escaped from prison and came here to avoid the limelight, and when he came up, he gave a friend a lot of money, and of course his friend understood him very well, and he had good food, drink, and hospitality, so that he could spend three days in peace.
On the afternoon of the third day, Charlie came to the same box of the "Love Sea Nightclub" on time, and Sauber appeared with a smile.
"I said, Mr. Sober, you see that I am a little bully, right?"
"Hey, where, where, where is this?"
"As the saying goes, if you don't hit someone in the face, if you scold someone, you won't expose it. I just warn you, don't take me for a fool! Okay, now straight to the point, did you bring your money? ”
Sauber's face was red and white for a while, and finally he had to nod awkwardly, and said, "I brought it, but one million gold coins need to be packed in five large bags, the amount is too large, and one person can't lift it at all, you see, can it be replaced with gold bars?" ”
"It's okay to buy gold bars, how many are you going to swap them into?"
"In the normal proportion, I'll give you fifty."
"Well, yes, did you bring the gold bars?"
"Now there are only twenty, and the rest, I'll have them delivered now."
"Yes."
Sauber made a phone call and told his men to send thirty gold bars. Then, opening a suitcase, he took out twenty gold bars from the box, placed them on the table, and pushed them over.
The gold bars were in good condition, and Charlie knew at a glance that they were hard goods. He put on a gold bar with a straight face, lit a cigarette and waited.
Soon there was a knock at the door, and a man came with a box and handed it to Sober, who took out thirty gold bars and gave them to Charlie.
Charlie snickered in his heart: What do you say to go back and ask for instructions, all fucking liars, they have already prepared a huge amount of money, just to buy a crystal skull.
Charlie opened the box, took out the crystal skull, and solemnly handed it to Sauber.
Sauber held his skull in his hands, his hands trembling a little, his facial muscles throbbing, his eyes shining with golden light, and now his dream goal was finally achieved.
After Charlie's disappearance, Richard immediately learned that the Crystal Skull had been stolen by Charlie. He fell for Charlie. How profound the lesson was, he couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred, and he must not give the slightest trust to this kind of hooligan ruffian in the future. But the matter has come to this point, there is no way back, he can only use the magic mirror lighter to monitor Charlie's whereabouts and movements at all times.
In the past three days, Charlie has been in and out of the nightclub several times, and Richard has seen it with a magic mirror. This afternoon, he also saw the scene of Charlie trading skulls with a foreigner.
He returned to the MIA headquarters and reported the stolen skull to his boss, Spoo.
Spo didn't reprimand Richard, nor did he blame him too much, because he knew that Richard did his best, but he was deceived by that villain, and it was also an unintentional mistake.
Spo muttered, "What the hell did Charlie want to do stealing the skull?" ”
"In my judgment, Colonel, Charlie stole the skull in order to sell it at a high price and make a profit. Who is the most profitable to sell to, of course, it is the most profitable to sell to foreign spies. ”
He didn't want to tell what he saw in the mirror. His artifact is not easily revealed.
"Well, that makes sense. Recently, it has been discovered that many foreign spies have infiltrated the territory of Atlanta and engaged in many covert deeds. ”
Thankfully, Spo was prescient. Just a month ago, when the special investigation team was first established, he set up a special detachment to be responsible for setting up a reconnaissance system.
This reconnaissance system is a systematic project: First, dozens of cameras are installed at the immigration points of railway and bus stations, and the faces of inbound passengers are secretly photographed, and the photos are matched with their arrival cards, so that there is a file of a person's appearance, name, age, nationality, and other information. This is the first and most important level, no matter what nationality you are from, which organization sends a spy, you will always have to go through immigration to enter the city of Poseidonia. In this way, the most original information of a person is captured.
Second, dozens of cameras are installed in major hotels, guesthouses, travel agencies and other places, and all guests who stay at the hotel are secretly photographed, and then the photos taken are compared to find out the trajectory of their movements.
Third, dozens of cameras are installed in major nightclubs, dance halls, cafes, restaurants and other entertainment and eating places, and they are also secretly filmed to grasp everyone's activity information.
Fourth, a special person is responsible for hand-held shooting, and follows and swims in places with more tourists such as major road intersections, parks, and playgrounds, so as to grasp more information about the characters.
Who will take these pictures, of course, the people standing at the counters, or the managers of amusement parks and entertainment venues.
Who of these people doesn't want to have some extra money every day, so this candid network was quickly established.
Soon, a large number of photos were secretly taken from various shooting spots, and Spo set up a special agency to classify, archive, compare, and analyze these massive photos, especially to identify people's faces, and find out those who appear most frequently, and these people are the objects of close surveillance.