Phoenix was different in the United States from the Chinese. According to the Chinese, the name of a city represented the city. Even if there were smaller cities around it, they were still independent.
This was not the case in the United States. They preferred to use large regions to refer to a place, such as Los Angeles, New York, and Phoenix.
Scottsdale was not a small city, located southwest of Phoenix. The city had a population of about 240,000 people and a total area of 477.7 square kilometers, which was much larger than Flagstaff.
But like Tempe, the city was collectively known as Phoenix. They were part of the Phoenix region.
Compared to Phoenix itself and Tempe, Scottsdale's climate and scenery were better. It was a quality tourist destination and an ideal place for shopping.
Li Du had passed by the city many times before, but he had never observed it carefully.
In fact, it was a great city, with a typical western American style. The New York Times once described it as "the desert version of Miami's south coast."
He was not an American, so he only had a superficial understanding of many cities. But for treasure hunters, a superficial understanding was not enough.
Storage auctions had a lot to do with the environment, culture, customs, and people of the area where the storage units were located. This job was a test of one's foresight and knowledge. If one had a good understanding of the area, it would be of great help to the auction.
Li Du did not have to worry about this. Usually, when he attended an auction in a different area, Hans would introduce the area to him.
This time, Hans did not come, so the job fell to Lu Guan.
Lu Guan was very good at this. Without Li Du's request, he quickly started to introduce Scottsdale.
"First, let me introduce you to the Phoenix region. It is made up of a few towns …"
"Towns?" Li Du asked curiously.
Lu Guan shrugged and said, "Actually it's a city. But the Californians call us country bumpkins and say that our cities are all towns. So I actually used a joke to mock the Californians, hahaha."
Li Du was speechless.
"You can think of the Phoenix region as a family. Phoenix City is undoubtedly the daddy, Scottsdale is the fashionable big sister, Tempe is the college student, and Mesa is the big brother who likes to stay in the suburbs."
At this point, he looked at Li Du and said, "Do you know who the mother is?"
Li Du shook his head. He did not know.
Lu Guan said, "It's Flagstaff! Haha, because the Phoenix area was too hot, Mom couldn't stay there, so she went north to Flagstaff, haha! "
Li Du saw that he was smiling so happily and could only smile along with him.
"From my introduction, you should understand these cities, right? Phoenix has a strong economy and military force, so it's the father. Tempe has a lot of schools, so it's the younger brother. Mesa is in the wilderness, and Scottsdale is very fashionable. "
Li Du nodded. "I think I understand now. The city we're going to has tourism as its main industry, right?"
"Yay!" Lu Guan nodded heavily. "That's right. You can find ten people in this place, and four of them have jobs related to tourism! I saw on the news that it attracted more than 10 million visitors last year! "
Scottsdale's tourism market has great potential due to the large number of tourists. As we all know, New York has the most AAA five-star hotels and resorts in the United States. What's the second most?
Not Los Angeles, the City of Angels, not Houston, not Miami, which is known as the best tourist destination in the United States, but Scottsdale, which is not well known in foreign countries.
Among them, the pleasant climate is the main reason why Scottsdale's tourism industry thrives. The climate here is mild all year round, and the sun is abundant. There are at least 330 days of sunshine every year.
Under such circumstances, millions of tourists from the northeastern United States and Canada come to Scottsdale for their holidays every winter. It is considered an ideal place to relax and recuperate in the winter.
Relatively speaking, Scottsdale's winters are very warm, not to mention the summers. It is now the beginning of autumn, and the temperature is very high!
Listening to Lu Guan's introduction, Li Du knew what to pay special attention to when inspecting the storage units: tourist goods, hotel goods, and sports goods.
Scottsdale's golf was famous in the United States. There are hundreds of golf courses here, and this is a sport for the rich. Items related to the rich are always especially valuable.
When they arrived at the storage company, Lu Guan handed him a printed map of the storage units. The storage units that were going to be auctioned were marked.
At this time, a fleet of cars entered the storage units. Some companies rented a large number of storage units to store things.
Seeing this, he slipped into the fleet of cars and mixed in with the movers to enter the storage units.
The storage company was called Volcanic Rock. The storage units were all built with rocks. They looked indestructible, but they were probably not volcanic rocks. Li Du felt that the name had something to do with the local climate. It was really too hot!
Of the 11 storage units up for auction, five of them were connected, from the first to the fifth.
Li Du released the little bug into storage unit number 1. There was a row of neatly arranged toilets. There were at least 40 to 50 of them, and they formed a mountain range!
Seeing so many toilets, he knew the occupation of the storage unit tenant. They were probably used for hotel goods.
The items in the five storage units were arranged very neatly. There were toilets, tables and chairs, chandeliers, and all kinds of kitchen and bathroom supplies. However, there was something wrong with them — they were all rejected goods.
Li Du decided to leave. These five storage units were of no value to him. If he wanted to take down such storage units, he would have to pay a high price. There was no profit margin.
The sixth storage unit was number 38. Compared to the previous five, the distribution of items was very messy. It looked like they had been thrown in randomly.
Among the miscellaneous items, a metal box attracted Li Du's attention. Generally, the items stored in such boxes were more valuable. He directed the little bug to look at it.
The little bug entered the box. The first thing he saw were two thick iron pipes.
From the shape, it looked like a gun barrel. Some double-barreled shotguns looked like this.
However, regardless of the length or caliber, it was too much to call it a gun barrel. The gun barrel was 1.5 meters long, one centimeter thick, and the caliber was five or six centimeters …
Seeing the gun barrel, he gasped. Was this a double-barreled cannon?
The next layer of the box proved the identity of the iron pipes. This was a gun barrel, not a cannon barrel. Below it was a gun handle, trigger, scope, and other accessories. They were all super big!
Li Du had never seen such a big gun, nor had he heard of this type of gun. However, he knew that this gun was valuable and that he would have competitors.
Lu Guan's information was correct. There were guns in the storage units here. What he could find out, obviously many treasure hunters could also find out.
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