Chapter 1176: teorite Hunter
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Ford brothers intended to get to know Li Du but had no intention of talking to him
about teorites.
When they talked about teorites they only talked about the difficulty of looking for those and the places they have searched before, but never about the purpose of looking for teorites and how they planned to use them.
As it happened, Li Du did not care much.
The search for a fifth dinsion, the crossing of ti and space, looking for the origin of life, and so on, seed unreliable and pointless to him.
Anyway, he would not spend his energy, money and material resources to do this kind of thing. He would rather make money and build a comfortable living area wherever he liked, like these people.
He believed that both Steve and the Ford brothers had money to burn and that for them, taking risks and exploring these so-called unsolved mysteries could be a source of inspiration.
Steve had called the Ford brothers to co and study the teorite.
Inspired by the find, they decided to go to the area where Li Du discovered it to investigate and see if they could unearth another piece.
Newman invited Li Du to go together, and Li Du readily agreed. He was quite interested in the teorite hunter’s work and thought that if he could find another eight to ten pieces like this, the sum in his bank account could start growing again.
As long as there were no big storms in the warm Antarctic season, life was quite comfortable.
The sun was shining brightly outside, seabirds were flying over the camp, and Antarctica was in the midst of another annual life cycle.
After lunch, they went on a dog sled ride along the glacier to see the natural wonders of the ice sheet. The flat ice sheet was dotted with many uplifted icebergs, which looked magnificent.
After a day, they reunited with Steve and headed back to the beach in the sa direction as yesterday.
The Ford brothers had more n, and there were fourteen to fifteen people in total, including both of them.
After the two parties t, Newman gave Li Du a brief introduction. The people that they brought along were hired, professional teorite hunters.
While Li Du had so free ti the day before, he checked so information on the industry online.
teorite collection was a historical pursuit. From the beginning of ancient China, ordinary people and royalty alike began to collect these extraterrestrial ntos.
In dieval Europe, people were even more curious about teorites and paid more attention to collecting them, but for many years, few teorites were found. Only in recent tis, the hunt for teorites beca more successful.
The reason why modern people found more teorites was not because more teorites have landed on earth in modern tis, but because it beca easier for people to identify them.
With the developnt of the space industry, humans could travel beyond Earth and retrieve samples from other planets in the solar system. With the reference of these samples, it was easier to identify teorites.
This comparative geological analysis helped scientists understand the structure of other planets in our solar system.
teorites were valuable both as collectors’ items and pieces of historical and scientific value, and their rarity added to their worth.
Most teorites and local rocks on earth were very similar, so they were generally difficult to identify, and the probability of finding teorites was very small. Even experienced teorite hunters could take several years to find one.
Finding a teorite could make a hunter’s fortune, but many teorite hunters have worked for years without finding one, and often ended in giving up.
Therefore, teorite hunters were as rare as teorites themselves.
The people who could persevere in this pursuit were wealthy ones or those who have been lucky enough to find a teorite before. They needed, at least, to have enough to maintain dostic expenses, enabling them to continue in this field.
Because the number of hunters was small, teorite hunters had great pride and would often look down their noses upon each other.
When Steve arrived with Li Du, the teorite hunters did not co forward to greet them, and just remained lazily sitting in their sled.
The Ford brothers did not seem to feel very kindly disposed towards them. Newman said coldly when he saw Li Du approach, “This is Mr. Li, who has just discovered a piece of teorite weighing more than five kilograms. As far as I know, he is a layman in this field. I don’t understand why supposed experts like you guys have not found anything yet.”
Li Du could understand his feelings. Feeding these teorite hunters was not free.
They were highly paid even they did not find any teorites.
In addition, because they ca to work in the Antarctic, which was a dangerous area, their salary was doubled.
In other words, the Fords had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for these people and did not get anything in return. Soone straight as Newman would definitely be mad.
The Fords were big Arican capitalists who were willing to pay their workers, but they had to produce value to offset the costs. They would definitely be unhappy if the person they employed did not give anything in return after being generously paid, like the teorite hunters.
A hunter took off his fur hat to show his hairy beard. He said touching, his hair, “Boss, it takes luck to get a teorite. We discussed this clearly earlier. And we worked in the Arctic and Siberia previously, this is a new place for us and we are not familiar with it.”
When Li Du heard that they had worked in Siberia and the Arctic, it occurred to him that he and Steve had made an appointnt to go to the Arctic together. Maybe I should talk to these people and gain so experience.
Newman rolled his eyes and went to discuss the search plan with Steve. The hunters sat lazily again, so of them smoking and puffing.
“The Antarctic ecosystem is very fragile. It’s not easy to deal with pollution here. You'd better not smoke,” warned Li Du as he walked towards them.
The hunter gave him a cold look and said, “Pollution? Could the pollution caused by a cigarette be as much =as your capitalist factories produce in a second?”
“Mind your own business. Your luck might ensure that you find a stone, but it won’t guarantee that you’ll avoid my fist,” said another big man with an evil grin.
Brother Wolf walked out from behind Li Du with a cold expression, ready to teach this big fellow a lesson.
Li Du did not an to co across as hostile, so he laughed and said, “Hey, I am not a capitalist, I am now a teorite hunter, just like you.”
A big fellow gave him the finger and laughed scornfully. “Like us? Wow, we are honored to have the sa job as a millionaire like you. But do you know anything about teorites? You think that finding a rock by chance makes you a teorite hunter?”
Li Du stroked his chin. The n looked wild, and it would probably be difficult for him to get any information about Siberia from them.
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