1143.Telescope (2/5)

Driving west from Tucson along Highway HY-86 is a wilderness that makes it easy to feel the loneliness of being isolated.

The highway stretches into the emptiest part of the Nolan Desert, where there is nothing but windblown sand in addition to the ubiquitous green and white border patrol trucks.

Three days after the auction in Nogalis, a convoy of several trucks appeared on the road, and Conrad sat lazily in the car.

The Führer was driving intently, and the expression on his face was very unsightly.

Conrad glanced at him and said, "Hey, brother, don't keep pulling a stinky face, what's wrong with you?" ”

The Führer said stiffly: "It's nothing, I'm fine." ”

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

The Führer's forehead stirred a few times, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Conrad and said, "Who said I don't have enough money?" What I have is money......"

"You have money, and you have to borrow money from your subordinates?"

The Führer 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 in surrender and said, "Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, you are optimistic about the road ahead, drive well, now, how far are we from Bullet Town?" ”

The Führer stopped talking, slammed on the accelerator with a gloomy face, and the huge truck scurried forward with a fierce momentum.

Bullet Town is a small town west of Tucson that rose to prominence in the 19th century, when a large amount of whiskey flowed into the town, bringing money and people to the town.

As the name suggests, there are bullets in Bullet Town, and when Western pioneer culture was still popular in the nineteenth century, the town's cowboys settled many disputes with six-shot revolvers and bullets.

There are a lot of old-fashioned western buildings in the town, as well as a lot of corrals.

Unlike other places, the corrals in Bullet Town are not used to raise cattle for animal husbandry, but for cowboys to duel.

Historically, in 1881, there was a legendary shootout where the Owen brothers and Helled, nicknamed the Doctor, formed a team to face off against the McLoupp brothers and Billy Clanton.

All six of them were well-known cowboys in the West at the time, and they were like gods and hot-tempered, and finally because of the conflict, the two sides decided to settle the dispute with bullets.

The 3v3 shootout ended with the former winning, with the McLoupp brothers and the Clanton group being shot dead and buried at the foot of Kitt Peak, not far away, where a cemetery is now built, known as the Gunslinger's Graveyard.

The auction was held here, and three days after the auction of the smuggling warehouse in Nogalis, Bullet Town will hold an auction of the public warehouse of the town government.

The day before, Conrad was immediately interested when he learned at the bar that the Führer had obtained a warehouse of high value.

He went back to investigate, and Hans drove away from Nogalis with someone, leaving only Li Du to clean up the warehouse.

Then, he managed to learn about the auction through a confidant treasure hunter next to the Führer, and targeted Bullet Town.

George Anthony's connections are not covered, Conrad used his father's network resources, and then inquired from the internal information of the storage association, and found that the public storekeeper of the town government in Bullet Town was related to the Führer and was a cousin of the Führer.

So, having obtained this information, he contacted the Führer directly and asked him what was going on.

Conrad came to the door out of nowhere, and the Führer kept a low profile, saying that he didn't know about the auction in Bullet Town.

Conrad knew he wanted to play tricks, so he went straight to Tucson and stayed with the Führer.

In the end, Yuan wanted to go to the auction, and he had no choice but to take Conrad with him.

The truck drove all the way, and the peak of Mount Kit abruptly rose from the flat ground, and when you saw the peak, the town of Bullet was not far away.

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

Conrad nodded sincerely, "Yes, I know. ”

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

Conrad continued to nod sincerely: "I understand, it's yours, but you don't have that much money, do you?" Aren't we good working together? ”

As soon as he heard this, the Führer punched the bridge and wanted to get angry.

But when Conrad glared, he was timid again, so he could only kick the car and roar in a low voice: "I have enough funds, if someone hadn't sent a message to that Chinese Yankee, I could have taken this warehouse for a few hundred yuan!" ”

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

The Führer hesitated, and finally sighed in despair and said, "Telescope, there is an obsolete astronomical telescope from the Kitt National Astronomical Observatory in it. ”

Conrad said disappointedly: "Just a telescope that has been eliminated? What's in it? ”

The Führer sneered: "What's there? This thing is worth millions! ”

Conrad's eyes shrank and he was shocked: "How is it possible? ”

"This is a national telescope, a real optical cannon telescope, and if it is new, it can be worth several times!" Now it's been eliminated and temporarily put into the town government warehouse, which gives me the opportunity to pick up the leak! ”

There are the world's largest number of optical telescopes around Mount Kit, an astronomical mecca where the U.S. government installs a large number of telescopes of various models, and every year it is expected that telescopes will be phased out and new ones will be assembled.

After the car entered the town, they were received by a middle-aged white man a few years younger than the Führer.

The three met, and the middle-aged white man handed the Führer his phone, which contained some photos.

The Führer looked at the photo, Conrad leaned in, and the photo of the mobile phone showed a warehouse, filled with large and small wooden boxes, and when the wooden boxes were opened, there were photos of parts of various large optical telescopes.

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

Conrad patted the Führer on the shoulder and smiled happily: "Of course, of course we will seize this opportunity, isn't it my Führer's big brother?" ”

"Gotta go to the warehouse." The Führer was 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 takes off the keyring hanging from his belt, and he opens a warehouse, revealing a pile of boxes identical to those in the photo.

The Führer went to find a wrench and let Conrad hold a box, he picked up the screws and opened the lid.

Some of the handles and the like appeared in the box, which was still exactly the same as the one shown in the photo above.

The Führer was about to open another box again, and the middle-aged man standing at the door suddenly said anxiously: "Hurry up, come out quickly, someone from the government has come to check the warehouse." ”

Conrad gave the Führer a handful and said, "Go, that's enough for now." ”