Chapter 1144 1143. Telescope (2/5)

Chapter 1144 1143. Telescope (25)

Driving west along HWY-86 from Tucson, the whole road is a vast wilderness. Driving here, it is easy to experience the loneliness of being isolated from the world.

The highway stretches into the emptiest part of the Norland desert, where nothing but wind blown sand is there except for the ubiquitous green and white Border Patrol trucks.

On the third day after the auction in Nogales, a convoy of trucks appeared on the road, and Conrad sat lazily in the car.

The Führer was concentrating on driving, with a very unsightly expression on his face.

Conrad shot him a look and said, "Hey man, what's the matter with you, don't keep making such a bad face?"

The head of state said stiffly: "It's nothing, I'm fine."

Conrad crossed his hands behind his head, and he said leisurely: "We've already talked, man, you don't have enough money to take down that warehouse now, can't we cooperate?"

The Führer's forehead twitched a few times, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at Conrad and said, "Who said I don't have enough money? I have plenty of money..."

"You have plenty of money, and you still need to ask your subordinates to borrow money?"

The head of state shouted: "I'm not borrowing money. This is the rule of the Tucson Gang. Everyone invests together, and everyone earns money together!"

Conrad raised his hand to express his surrender, and said, "Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, you look forward to the road ahead and drive hard. Now, how far are we from Bullet Town?"

The head of state stopped talking, and stepped on the accelerator with a gloomy face, the huge truck rushed forward arrogantly, with a menacing aura.

Bullet Town is a small town in the west of Tucson City. It rose in the 19th century. At that time, a large amount of whiskey flowed into the town, bringing capital and people, and the town developed rapidly.

Just like the name, there are bullets in Bullet Town. When the western frontier culture was still popular in the 19th century, the cowboys in the town settled many disputes with six-shot revolvers and bullets.

There are many old western buildings in the town, and there are many corrals.

Unlike other places, the corrals in Bullet Town are not used to breed livestock to develop animal husbandry, but to provide duels for cowboys.

Historically, in 1881, there was a legendary shootout here. The Irving brothers and Herrid, nicknamed the doctor, formed a team to confront the McLeop brothers and Billy Clanton.

The six of them were powerful cowboys with great reputation in the West at that time. They were skilled in marksmanship and had bad tempers. In the end, because of conflicts, the two sides decided to settle the dispute with bullets.

This 3V3 shootout duel ended with the former winning. The McLeop brothers and Clanton were shot to death and finally buried under the Mount Kitt not far away. Now a cemetery has been built there, called the Gunners Cemetery .

The auction that the head of state was going to participate in this time was held here. Three days after the smuggled warehouse auction in Nogales ended, Bullet Town will hold a town government public warehouse auction.

After Conrad learned at the bar the day before that the Führer had obtained a high-value warehouse, he immediately became interested.

He went back to investigate, and it turned out that Hans took someone to drive away from Nogales, and only Li Du stayed here to clean up the warehouse.

Then, he tried every means to learn about the general information of the auction through a confidant treasure hunter next to the head of state, and locked the target in Bullet Town.

George Anthony's connections were not built. Conrad used his father's connections, and then searched from the internal information of the Warehouse Association, and found that the administrator of the public warehouse of the town government in Bullet Town was related to the head of state and was a cousin of the head of state.

In this way, after getting this information, he directly contacted the head of state and asked him what was going on.

Facing Conrad who suddenly came to the door, the head of state was very low-key. He said that he did not know about the auction in Bullet Town.

Conrad understood that he wanted to play tricks, so he went directly to Tucson and stayed with the head of state.

In the end, the head of state was going to participate in the auction, so he had no choice but to take Conrad with him.

The truck was galloping all the way, and the Kit mountain peak rose abruptly from the flat ground. When you saw the mountain peak, Bullet Town was not far away.

After entering Bullet Town, the head of state seemed to give up resistance, and he said to Conrad: "Listen, Conrad, this warehouse is very important to me. You know, I have lost a lot in order to deal with that Chinese guy with you. , I need to make money."

Conrad nodded sincerely: "Yes, I know."

The head of state breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "I also know that you need to prove your ability in front of your father, I will help you, and when I find a valuable warehouse in the future, I will contact you. This warehouse can't work, this one has to be mine of."

Conrad continued to nod sincerely: "I understand, it belongs to you, but you don't have that much money, don't you? Isn't it good for us to cooperate?"

Hearing this, the head of state punched the bridge and wanted to get angry.

But Conrad glared, and he became timid again, so he kicked the car dully and roared in a low voice: "I have enough funds, if someone hadn't tipped off that Chinese guy, I could have won it for a few hundred dollars." This warehouse!"

"What's in it?" Conrad asked immediately, "What news did he get?"

The head of state hesitated again and again, finally sighed in despair, and said, "Telescope, there is an obsolete astronomical telescope in the Kit National Observatory."

Conrad said disappointedly: "It's just an obsolete telescope? What's the use of this?"

The head of state sneered and said, "What's the matter? This stuff is worth millions!"

Conrad shrank his eyes and said in shock: "How is it possible?"

The head of state said: "This is a national telescope, a real optical cannon telescope. If it is new, its value can be multiplied several times! Now it has been eliminated, and it is temporarily put into the town government warehouse, which gives me a chance to pick up the leak!"

Mount Kit is surrounded by the most optical telescopes in the world. This is a sacred place for astronomical observation. The US government has installed a large number of telescopes of various types here. Every year, telescopes are eliminated and new telescopes are assembled.

After the car entered the town, a middle-aged white man who was a few years younger than the head of state received them.

When the three met, the middle-aged white man handed the mobile phone to the head of state, which contained some photos.

The head of state looked at the photo, and Conrad leaned over. The photo on the mobile phone was a warehouse filled with wooden boxes of various sizes. When the wooden box was opened, there were photos of parts of various large optical telescopes.

The middle-aged man said excitedly: "Cousin, you have to seize the opportunity. The observatory temporarily stored the telescope in the public warehouse of the town, but the observatory and the town government did not communicate well. The town government didn't know that there was such a precious thing in it. The Observatory is not aware of this auction..."

Conrad patted the head of state on the shoulder and said with a happy smile: "Of course, we will seize this opportunity, isn't it my brother head of state?"

"I have to go to the warehouse to check." The head of state was very cautious. He put down his phone and said, "Cousin Jeremy, you open the warehouse. I want to make sure that the telescope inside is okay."

The middle-aged man took down the key ring hanging from his belt, and he opened a warehouse, revealing a pile of boxes like those in the photo.

The Führer went to find a wrench and asked Conrad to hold a box. He pried the screws and opened the box lid.

Some handles and other parts appear in the box, which is still exactly the same as the one shown in the photo just now.

The head of state wanted to open another box, and the middle-aged man standing at the door suddenly said anxiously: "Hurry up, hurry up, come out, someone from the government has come to check the warehouse."

Conrad gave the head of state a hand and said, "Go, that's enough for now."