Chapter 1273: Catching Soone
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Long before the mammoths were around, there used to be rhinoceros living in the Siberian region. Hence, sotis, the mammoth ivory hunters would excavate rhinoceros horns by chance.
As the years went by, the rhinoceros’ horns would turn into sothing that was between fossil and bone. It had no ornantal value and carried a faint sll. By external appearance, it looked like it had been carved out of wood.
However, it was in fact very valuable. Its unit price was much higher than that of ivory. In Southeast Asia countries like Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and other places, the rhinoceros horn was used as folk dicine, and its price was comparable to gold.
One would need more luck to be able to find rhino horns than mammoth ivory. There was not much use for experience. That was because the horns were simply too rare and every ti soone found one, it had been purely thanks to luck.
The ivory hunters did not think that Li Du and his people had located the rhino horns by luck, however. The group had looked as though they were focused and knew what they were doing. In the afternoon of the sa day, they had gone to another location and found a mammoth carcass.
With those two rhino horns and two mammoth tusks, Li Du’s team returned again and made even more money that day.
Seeing that, the ivory hunters beca anxious. The things that Li Du and his group had excavated should have been theirs instead. Although they did not know where all the horns and ivory were, the hunters assud that they would eventually have found them. Now so outsider just ca and snatched them away.
Li Du went to the bar again for a drink and the hunters ca to talk to him. “Hey, mister. You’re really lucky. You’ve found a good number of tusks, didn’t you?”
After scanning the few n, Li Du did not speak but continued to sip his drink with a smile.
The mammoth ivory hunters exchanged a look. Then, one of them said, “We’ve checked so of your background, mister. You guys are all rich people, filthy rich. I don’t understand why you guys co here to work so hard and earn comparatively little money.”
Li Du finally spoke up. He said, “We did not co just to excavate ivory. We are here to look for one b*stard. Once we find him, we will leave. But while we are at it, it’s not a bad idea to take the chance to hunt for so ivory.”
Beside him, Steve smiled. He said, “No one would say that they have too much money. It’s never a bad idea to make more money.”
“Who are you guys looking for?” Soone quipped. “Perhaps we can be of help.”
Soone around them whispered, “Black Snake. They are looking for Black Snake from the Prayer gang.”
“What’s the Prayer gang?” an ivory hunter questioned.
“It’s one of the gangs that has been ford recently,” soone else answered. “Black Snake started it. Obviously, he had offended soone when he was in Arica. Now, these people are here for him.”
There was no reason to hide anything. The mammoth ivory hunters were aware that if soone from afar ca looking for a person, it must be for revenge. Hence, they would unite. After all, most of them had co to live in Siberia after making trouble sowhere else.
Besides them, there were also so people who just made a living hunting ivory. These people, usually locals, have not committed any cris or made any trouble. They were in this line of work just because of the prospect of making good money.
Now that they knew about Li Du’s actual motives, the mammoth ivory hunters left.
They were people with their own principles. They would not gang up with outsiders to deal with people like themselves. Instead, when people of their own kind were in need, they would extend help.
Li Du continued to excavate ivory in the surrounding taiga. After so ti, perhaps because they were getting better at using the machine, they managed to excavate more and more ivory. Every day, they were able to dig up four, six or even eight tusks.
That caused the ivory hunters to turn anxious. In that span of ti, Li Du had excavated the number of tusks that far exceeded what they could excavate in a year!
Besides, they witnessed Li Du’s machine getting more accurate. It managed to help them locate deposit after deposit and they dug hole after hole. All the mammoth ivory seed to have been excavated.
The ivory was not an infinite resource. Once it was excavated, it would be gone forever.
Finally, an ivory hunter could take it no longer. At the end of March, Li Du received a text and there was an address: Naval Marshall Street No. 56, Unit 4002.
Naval Marshall Street was a main street in Krasnoyarsk. Number 56 was a hotel, right next to the local governnt and police station. It was considered to be in a pri location.
Li Du read the text and called for Brother Wolf and the rest. He got Brother Wolf to check out unit 4002 of the hotel that night, to see what the situation there was.
That night, they received information on the unit. Brother Wolf sent a series of photographs to him, taken through the window. He managed to capture the image of a man. It was Jonas Malone!
Therefore, Li Du’s plan had succeeded.
That place was the territory of Jonas Malone. He had been living there for over ten years. He must have made many connections locally. It would have been hard for Li Du and the rest to locate Malone by themselves, given that the ivory hunters were so united.
Besides, Malone was now practically a local. Once he realized that there were people looking for him, it would be easy for him to hide.
It would be much harder to rely on money alone in their search for Jonas Malone. The ivory hunters had principles and would not betray their own people for money. That is, unless the other party offered an amount too huge to reject. After such a betrayal, the hunters would move to another place far away. Otherwise, they and their family mbers would be punished severely by fellow hunters.
However, the hunters still had to rely on the mammoth ivory for survival. Once the trade was destroyed, their mode of livelihood and their ans to feed their families would be gone.
The presence of Li Du was threatening their trade. Amongst them, soone could take it no longer and ended up helping Li Du.
Hence, the key to the issue was not money, but survival.
If Li Du had offered re money, it wouldn’t be sothing the hunters needed strictly to survive. However, Li Du was now threatening their trade, and if the hunters did not help him, they would go bust.
With that piece of news, Li Du started to make his plans.
The next day, he continued to excavate ivory as before. Of course, those deposits were excavated from the source of the Podkannaya Tunguska River.
At midnight, when the small city retired to bed, Brother Wolf made the arrangents and they launched their plan to capture Jonas Malone.
First, they drove a pickup truck to a designated spot below the hotel building. Then, Brother Wolf brought his people, together with Ah ow and Ah Ow, and they went up to the fourth floor to arrive at unit 4002.
Big Ivan picked the lock of the door with ease and sniped off the electric circuit of the hotel. The entire hotel suddenly fell into darkness. Then, Brother Wolf got his people to knock the door down and they rushed in, wearing their infrared night vision glasses.
The process of knocking the door down was rather challenging. There were things placed on the other side of the door against an intrusion, and there was also an alarm on the door. Once the door was forced open, the alarm would go off.
However, the alarm worked on electricity. As the circuit was broken, the electricity did not flow and the alarm had lost its function.
In addition, there was a huge dog inside. Once the door was pushed open, the dog would bark. The barking was especially loud and clear in the quiet night.
Ah Ow pounced and brought down the big dog. It bit and tear at the dog, scaring it to retreat until it crouched on the ground, whimpering in pain.
There were two people in the room and both of them were lying in bed, sleeping deeply. They had not woken up despite the creaking of the door and the growling of the animals.
They had ordered take-out for their dinner. Brother Wolf had intercepted the order and laced the food with tranquilizers that were much more powerful than regular sleeping pills.
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