There was a big hole in the middle of the quaint room. The floorboards were cracked and the tables and chairs had all fallen into the room downstairs. Only one chair was left hanging upstairs!
The man with the slicked-back hair's eyes widened. The people beside him shouted, "F * ck, how did this happen?"
The auctioneer looked at the room and realized that the floorboards were broken. For safety reasons, the room had to be sealed and could not be auctioned.
He closed the door. The man with the slicked-back hair looked at the door number and then looked inside. He pushed the door open and shouted, "That's impossible. How did this house collapse?"
The treasure hunter beside him shrugged and said, "This kind of building is an old-fashioned wooden building. The partitions are not strong enough. Haven't you seen the news of partitions breaking?"
Philadelphia was an old city and there were many old buildings. These old buildings were mostly made of wood. Of course, there were reinforced concrete in the partitions, but after a long time, they were not strong enough.
In such an old city, problems with buildings were not news. The American government had also been thinking of ways to demolish and avoid such risks.
The man with the slicked-back hair was dumbfounded. He stared at the treasure hunter and mumbled, "No, it shouldn't be like this. Why did it suddenly collapse? When did it collapse? "
"Didn't you see the situation in the room downstairs? Some things fell down. Obviously, it's the problem with the dilapidated house upstairs, "another treasure hunter said.
The auctioneer waved and said, "Next, next. Let's move on to the next round of the auction."
The man with the slicked-back hair quickly took out his phone to make a call. Li Du could hear that he was about to cry. "Hello, Dr. Saatchi, this, this, we've seen this room before. D * mn it, it suddenly collapsed …"
Of course, the room did not collapse on its own. Li Du had used some tricks and was opportunistic in dealing with this matter.
However, he was only retaliating. Curator Saatchi's side was the one who had cheated first.
Last night, he had taken a detour to another street and released the little bug. Then, he saw Saatchi, the man with the slicked-back hair and the others enter the museum.
After entering the museum, they went straight up to the second floor. Then, Saatchi pointed at the room and said something to the man with the slicked-back hair and the others.
The little bug had no hearing, but its vision was good. Through the little bug's vision, Li Du could clearly see where Saatchi was pointing at when he pointed at the room.
A solid wooden table!
A person's subconscious often revealed a lot of information. For example, at that moment, Li Du realized from Sird's subconscious that this old man knew something was fishy about the table.
There was something inside this solid wooden table. Just like what he had seen in the prison warehouse, someone had dug open the inside of the table and hidden a hard book inside.
At first, Li Du admired people like Dr. Saatchi. He thought that the old curator was the kind of scholar who was willing to live in poverty and was obsessed with learning. Now it seemed that he was not.
Li Du was not stupid. After connecting the dots, he quickly deduced what was going on.
Someone in the museum had hidden a very valuable book. They might have wanted to ship it out, but for some reason, they never succeeded.
Dr. Saatchi knew where the book was. He had reported the book missing. When the museum was about to go bankrupt, he decided to keep the book for himself.
However, this book was very conspicuous. If he were to secretly get his hands on it, he would definitely be involved in a lawsuit if it was exposed in the future.
So he changed his mind. He used his power to send the museum, which had been checked by the government and the bank, to the auction stage. Then he used the treasure hunters to bid for the room and find a way to get the book.
Li Du did not know what method he would use to whitewash the antique book, but the other party must have an idea. Otherwise, he would not have tried so hard to arrange this auction.
Unfortunately, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Li Du saw all of this.
When he saw that Dr. Saatchi was playing a trick, he did not hesitate to counter it.
Dr. Saatchi brought the treasure hunter with the slicked-back haircut to see the room and confirm the location. Then they left.
In order to make sure that his deduction was correct, Li Du asked Brother Wolf to follow the man with the slicked-back haircut to investigate his identity.
The identity of the man was just as he had thought. He was a local treasure hunter from Philadelphia. He would definitely attend the auction tomorrow and was determined to get this room.
So Li Du sent out the little bug to absorb the time energy on the floor. It absorbed with all its might, destroying the floor and the concrete layer of the partition.
In this way, when the wooden floor and the concrete layer had lost the time energy and become rotten, they could no longer bear the weight of the solid wood tables and chairs.
In the dead of the night, when no one knew what had happened, the tables and chairs on the second floor fell to the first floor with a loud crash.
The development of today's auction was just as he had guessed.
The man with the slicked-back haircut did not understand the museum at all. Otherwise, when he saw the broken ceiling of the room downstairs and the falling tables and chairs, he would have thought of the situation upstairs.
Last night, he had only followed Dr. Saatchi to get his bearings in a hurry. He knew which room he wanted to bid for, but he did not know what the surroundings of the room and the downstairs looked like.
The auction was still going on. Dr. Saatchi rushed over. He stood outside the door of the big office on the second floor and, like the man with the slicked-back haircut, was stunned.
"Downstairs, the exhibition room downstairs was won by someone?" Dr. Saatchi asked in a panic.
The man with the slicked-back haircut stammered, "I didn't notice, let me help you check …"
"Check my a * s!" Dr. Saatchi flew into a rage and shouted, "The auction is stopped! The auction is stopped. There are construction problems in the building. The auction is canceled! "
The auctioneer and the treasure hunters were unhappy. They had spent nearly a day, and it was just after Christmas. How could they waste such precious time?
Facing the crazy Dr. Saatchi, the crowd did not hold back.
"This is not a reason to stop the auction. You have no right to manage the things inside now."
"Hey, Dr. Saatchi, I respect you very much. I have been here and seen the animal and plant specimens inside, but I have to remind you that according to the law, the things inside have changed owners."
"Don't worry, Mr. Doctor, this museum will not collapse for the time being. Fortunately, it is bankrupt. If such an accident happened while it was still in operation, it would be really troublesome. "
Dr. Saatchi waved his arm and shouted, "I don't care, stop the auction, it has to be stopped. The things inside still belong to the museum. You can come to the auction again in the future …"
Li Du calmly showed the receipt and said, "Sorry, we have already paid. According to the law, this auction is a transaction, and the transaction is now over."
The treasure hunters nodded one after another. Dr. Saatchi suddenly looked hopeless and murmured, "Oh, d * mn, how could this happen!"
Li Du asked curiously, "Mr. Doctor, it seems that something happened here that you can't accept? What's wrong? "
Dr. Saatchi showed a smile that was uglier than crying and said, "The museum room collapsed. I have worked here for more than 40 years, and I feel terrible!"
Mr. Li was suddenly in awe. "You really have admirable integrity!"
After saying that, he found a place where no one was looking and spat. It was disgusting to say such things that went against one's conscience.
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