Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 245: Private Transaction
"This..." Dana looked embarrassed, "I'm just a team leader. I don't have the authority to sell the spoils privately..."
"But you are the top person in charge here, aren't you?" The Hound lowered his voice and winked at the other party secretly.
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Dana's eyes revealed a trace of struggle. He hesitated for a long time before he resolutely stretched out a finger and said, "I can only sell you one piece, no more!"
"One piece is fine, but can we choose one ourselves?" A smile appeared on the Hound's face - this was their real purpose: using the excuse of purchasing the stone tablets, they wanted Ke Lan to read the contents of each stone tablet dug out by the Polaris Hunting Group. Apart from anything else, as long as Ke Lan could decipher these documents, they would be the people on the Ark who knew the ruins best.
"Most of the stone tablets have been transported back to the Ark. The only ones stored here are those that were mined in the past week. Including the two we dug out this morning, there are only seventeen in total." Danner pointed to a house built with prefabricated metal panels not far away. "Everything is stored there. I can take you there to see the goods now... But I have to say in advance that you are prohibited from making rubbings, taking photos or recording videos."
"Of course, we know the rules." The Hound nodded.
Trophies such as documents, rubbings and photographs also have considerable value. If these things are sold by others or posted on the Internet, the purchase price of the originals will be greatly reduced. After all, for things like this, the most valuable research value is the Alpha text on them. As for the carrier of the text, there is actually nothing special about it.
Of course, except for the "stone tablet inside the coffin" that Ke Lan had touched.
Dana drove back all the hunters who had come to watch the fun, leaving only two trusted confidants, and took Ke Lan and the others into the room where the stone tablet was stored.
Seventeen stone tablets of various sizes were lying quietly on the ground. In order to prevent damage to the main body, the layer of ice wrapped around the stone tablets was not broken. According to Dana, they would pack these stone tablets together with the ice into customized foam boxes this afternoon, and then transport these trophies back to the Ark by a transport plane equipped with a freezer.
The Hound and Layton began to pretend to pick up the stone tablets, while Ke Lan took a step back and activated the ability of "time freeze" without being noticed by anyone. He swept his eyes across the surface of each stone tablet, trying to remember all the contents on it in his mind.
Just when Dana's face began to show a trace of doubt, Ke Lan finally spoke up. He pointed to a medium-sized stone tablet and said, "Let's take this one. I think it's just the right size, just right to be placed in the hall as a decoration."
"As for this piece..." Danner's eyes turned slightly, "I'm afraid it's not cheap..."
"Don't talk nonsense, just name your price." The Hound said impatiently, "Do you think we are short of your money?"
"One hundred and eighty, one million and eight hundred thousand credit points! This is the lowest price I can offer!" Dana said, gritting his teeth.
"This guy really dares to open it..." Ke Lan couldn't help but complain in his heart. As the number of stone tablets produced by the bottomless tiankeng is so astonishing, the official purchase price has begun to plummet. Not to mention this stone tablet that is less than one square meter, even the piece in the corner that is about the size of a door panel, the official purchase price will not exceed one million credit points.
The prices offered by some private research institutions of certain foundations may be slightly higher than the official purchase price, but not much higher. At most, it will be only 10% higher.
"One million and eight hundred thousand is one million and eight hundred thousand!" Hound and Ke Lan looked at each other, then nodded vigorously at Danner, "But we have an additional condition."
"What conditions?" Dana, who was secretly delighted, was stunned for a moment. He had offered a high price and thought that the other party would bargain a little, but he did not expect it to be so straightforward.
"Let me make it clear first, the transaction is limited to this stone tablet. We won't do anything like buy one get one free." Dana said warily.
"Of course I'm not asking you to buy one and get one free. The additional condition is actually very simple. I'll use the intelligence you gain from exploring this ruin as a bonus to the deal. What do you think?"
"As for intelligence, there's no problem..." Upon hearing the so-called additional conditions proposed by the Hound, Danner heaved a sigh of relief. Intelligence, at most, can't be bought for tens of thousands. Compared with this one million and eight hundred thousand business, this little money is nothing.
"What do you want to know? Actually, we don't have much information. After all, the actual exploration progress of this ruins is less than 20%..."
"I heard that many hunters who entered the ruins went crazy shortly after returning. Is this true?" Ke Lan opened his mouth and threw the king bomb directly.
Dana, who had been relaxed, was suddenly startled, and even his shoulders trembled involuntarily: "Where did you hear about this?"
"Since we chose this relic, we must have conducted a detailed investigation. Do you think we would not know about this?" the Hound asked.
"Well...well, since you all know about this...actually...actually there is nothing to hide..."
He subconsciously glanced at the door, then quickly said to his two confidants, "Go out and keep an eye on it. Don't let anyone get close to here."
"Don't the hunters here know about this yet?" Layton asked in confusion, "Is it necessary to guard against it so strictly?"
"Ah, this matter... How should I put it..." Danner suddenly sighed , pulled over a folding chair and sat down, "Actually, this is all the headquarters' idea... The hunters who are mining in the ruins are actually temporary workers who have just been recruited and have not yet been regularized. According to the regulations above, each of them will not work for more than three days and will be immediately transferred back to the headquarters... As for what will happen after they are transferred back, I don't know."
"So these hunters who went down to the sinkhole were deceived?" A hint of anger appeared on the Hound's face - although these deceived hunters had nothing to do with him, the actions of these large hunting groups were really too shameless. As a fellow relic hunter, the Hound easily put himself in the shoes of the deceived hunters.
If their own people were betrayed by them, the Hounds would definitely come and smash the headquarters of these hunting groups.
