"AKA Hotel has another name. It's the Gambling Stone Hotel. All the big fields have long-term rooms in the hotel, specially for the regular guests and the VIPs of the fields.
"Xie Lao Hou's field also has long-term rooms in AKA Hotel. I know which ones. He must be in one of them. I reckon that if Lu Da You and his gang want to bring Da Mao to him, they will meet in one of them.
"We have to find a way to find out which room they are in. We can't just barge in. During the public auction, some of the hotel rooms are used as back-up warehouses for the field. There are jade stones stored in them, and there are military police guarding them. If we barge in, they will think that we are robbing jade stones, and the military police can shoot us on the spot!"
Zhong Da Pao told Li Du what he knew, helping him understand the general situation of the hotel and Xie Lao Hou's background.
The car drove to the entrance of the hotel. Li Du slapped a US dollar bill on the driver's head, indicating for the car to stop there. He had temporarily hired the car.
The driver turned around and said, "Boss, a hundred dollars. I don't have much change. Can you give me a small change?"
Li Du said, "The rest is a tip. Wait here and don't move."
The driver waved his hand and said, "Master Pao's friend is my friend. No tip, just give me some money for my hard work …"
Zhong Da Pao kicked the side of the car. "Hey, don't be so wishy-washy. If Master Li gives you a hundred dollars, just accept it. Buy some meat for your child. Don't just let your son eat it. How skinny is your daughter? "
The driver smiled. "Daughters have to get married eventually."
Li Du asked Zhong Da Pao to wait there while he got out of the car.
Because of the public auction, many Chinese had come over the past two days. There were even more Chinese staying in AKA Hotel. He was dressed luxuriously, so when he walked into the hotel, no one questioned his identity.
The hotel had six floors. It was like a tube-shaped apartment in China, but it was luxuriously decorated. The corridors were carpeted, and the walls were covered with golden wallpaper. There were also armed soldiers on duty on every floor.
Zhong Da Pao had told Li Du that Xie Lao Hou's long-term room was on the fourth floor. Li Du took the elevator up to the fourth floor and released the little bug to look for Xie Lao Hou.
There were more than ten people in the elevator. Other than him, the others were all in pairs. The old men were hugging the scantily clad women with heavy makeup. One look was enough to tell what kind of relationship they had.
In the elevator, the old men groped the girls, and the girls didn't stand on ceremony. Some of them even took off their underwear and giggled. The atmosphere was charming.
Li Du did not like the atmosphere. He was about to take the stairs when the elevator reached the second floor. Master Dao, whom he had met in the morning, appeared!
The space-time bug had entered the fourth floor, so he did not notice the situation on the second floor. Master Dao's appearance was very sudden. He saw him immediately, but Master Dao did not see him, because he was in the corner of the elevator, surrounded by men and women who were flirting.
Master Dao did not pay attention to him. After entering the elevator, he stared at the sexy girls lecherously.
Li Du shrank back and the little bugs split into two groups. One group flew through the rooms on the fourth floor while the other returned to the second floor.
The space-time bug had only passed through a few rooms on the fourth floor when it found Xie Lao Hou. He was sitting on the sofa in the room, smoking. There was a shelf on the carpet around him, and there were ores on the shelf.
When the elevator reached the fourth floor, Master Dao walked out first. He did not expect Li Du to find the hotel so quickly, so he was not prepared.
Li Du continued to hide in the corner. The elevator continued to go up and he got off on the fifth floor.
He found something on the second floor. Lu Dayou and the others were in room 0226. Da Mao was there too, frowning and shrinking into a ball.
This way, Da Mao had not fallen into Xie Lao Hou's hands. Things were easy to deal with. He planned to call Zhong Da Pao and ask him to bring people up to room 0226 to snatch Da Mao.
He was about to recall the space-time bug on the fourth floor. The space-time bug flew through a piece of ore, and then Li Du was stunned.
After the space-time bug entered the ore, he saw an intoxicating green!
During this period of time, he had been in contact with jade, and his ability to appreciate jade had greatly increased. He could tell what a piece of jade was like just by looking at it.
When he saw the jade in the ore, he was stunned. The crystal clear jade was green in color, as if it had been washed by water for thousands of years. The rough stone could not hide its amazing spiritual energy. The jade glowed with a pleasant light. With just one look, Li Du's eyes were captured by it!
Subconsciously, the name of the jade appeared in Li Du's mind: Dragon Stone Type!
Previously, he had obtained a piece of imperial jade. That was top-grade jade, but not top-grade jade. Above imperial jade, there was an even stronger jade, and that was the Dragon Stone Type!
The Dragon Stone Type was the top-grade type of jade. In the Burmese jargon, it was also called the "Agate Type." In Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, to express their admiration for this stone, they called it the Dragon Stone Type.
From a professional point of view, this type of jade had a few characteristics. The green color was completely integrated into the jade, the colorless root, the color block, the integration of earth and water, it was more than translucent, and there was little fluorescence.
In the jargon, the Dragon Stone Type was old, the color was positive, the color was strong, the root was colorless, and there was little fluorescence.
If any of these characteristics appeared on a piece of jade, its value would soar, let alone when they were put together. That was naturally priceless!
Naturally, it was difficult to put together so many extreme characteristics. Each piece of Dragon Stone Type was rare. Hpakant had produced tens of thousands of pieces of jade, but there were only a few Dragon Stone Types.
The appearance of each piece of Dragon Stone Type jade would cause a stir in the world's luxury goods industry. If this jade appeared in the Middle East, it would cause a bloodbath.
This type of jade was too precious. The combination of the type and color was perfect. The base did not eat the color, and the color did not eat the base. The color was evenly integrated into the base, and the color was not thick or light.
If imperial jade was the emperor of jade, then the Dragon Stone Type would be the god of jade. As its name implied, the dragon's head was nowhere to be seen!
This was the highest-grade type of jade. It could best reflect the limits of jade's beauty. There was once a jade master who said that as long as a person was given a piece of Dragon Stone Type, even a village girl would be full of luxury and elegance.
Li Du's heart jumped. Even with his vast knowledge, he had to pinch his palm with his fingernails to make sure that he was awake.
Fortunately, the pain in his palm told him that this was not a dream. He had indeed encountered a piece of Dragon Stone Type that only appeared once in ten years!
Seeing a piece of Dragon Stone Type jade was the lifelong dream of many stone gamblers!
He had wanted to inform Zhong Da Pao to bring people to the second floor to snatch Da Mao, but the appearance of the Dragon Stone Type made him change his mind. Xie Lao Hou obviously did not know that he had such a treasure in his hands. Since this guy dared to snatch someone from his hands, Li Du was not going to hold back!
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