Chapter 312: Spirit of Ecstasy
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Rambis was confused by Carl’s punch. He got upset and said, “Bro, didn’t you say to tell them?”
Carl yelled in exasperation, “Shut up! Would I really tell them that information? Idiot, stupid b*st*rd!”
Li Du couldn’t help laughing, “Hey, are you two here to put on a cody show? I’ll give you a suggestion: don’t be treasure hunters, go to Hollywood and act in codies.”
The treasure hunters guffawed at that comnt. But there were still people chasing Carl for an answer.
“What’s in the units? That thief can’t have dismantled the steering wheel, right?”
Soone joked, “It’s also possible that he took the Rolls-Royce car emblem. I read the news soti back that soone stole the ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ hood ornant of a Rolls-Royce.”
Carl’s face went ashen when he heard those words.
Most of the treasure hunters had a lot of world experience. In no ti soone caught on, “Oh God, Pablo got it right? It’s really the hood ornant from a Rolls-Royce?”
Carl waved grumpily and replied in a flustered manner, “Of course not! Don’t make wild guesses. How could it be the hood ornant?”
A treasure hunter said, “It must that hood ornant. You’re looking for that ornant!”
Carl stared at Rambis, who had ruined everything, gritted his teeth and yelled, “Scram! You stupid son of a b*tch!”
Soone teased, “If Rambis was the son of a b*tch, wasn’t his sister also raised by a b*tch? Carl, do you an you married a female dog?”
Carl’s face was livid with anger. He left without saying another word, paying no attention to anyone else.
Li Du asked, “What’s going on? Why is he so angry?”
Hans explained coolly, “If what they’ve guessed is right—that the units might contain the stolen hood ornant—once found, the ornant has to be returned to the victim.”
“So that’s how it is,” said Li Du, who now understood the whole picture. “Rambis is such an idiot. How could he reveal such information?”
The competition between the treasure hunters was very intense, and everyone wanted to see each other fumble in the face of misfortune.
If any storage unit contained stolen goods and it was found out by other treasure hunters, they would certainly report to the police.
Rambis had done sothing very foolish. They were now under scrutiny from the treasure hunters who had gone over to watch them pack up the units. If Carl found the Rolls-Royce hood ornant, they would report it to the police.
Hans went to pay and ca back to unlock the unit. “We have to find it quickly,” said Hans. “The ornant could be in this warehouse too.”
Li Du asked, “How much can a Rolls-Royce hood ornant sell for?”
Hans answered, “A new ornant can fetch 40,000 dollars. But it also depends on the material. The cheapest is copper, crystal is second, gold and silver are the more costly ones.
Li Du was startled. “It’s so expensive? Forty thousand dollars?!”
Well, when he had bought the BMW Z4, the car itself was around 40,000 dollars, and now he was being told that a hood ornant was equivalent to the cost of a BMW. It was a bit too much for him to accept, as he did not know much about luxury cars.
Hans shrugged. “Of course a Rolls-Royce hood ornant is that pricey. Bud, it’s the Spirit of Ecstasy, also known as the ‘Spirit of Ecstasy.’ It’s as well-known as the Statue of Liberty.”
“No wonder Rolls Royce cars are so expensive,” Li Du exclaid with his mouth agape. “D*mn, just a hood ornant can cost 40,000 dollars. What about the tires, steering wheel, and headlights? Are they more expensive?”
Hans laughed at Li Du, “No, it’s not like that. You are so adorable and silly.”
Li clenched his fist and said, “What?”
Hans hurriedly waved his hand and explained, “A Rolls-Royce’s hood ornant is considered to be its face and soul. It’s the most expensive hood ornant of all. The other hood ornants are cheap, such as rcedes-Benz’s usual hood ornant, which is only 200 dollars.
“The reason why the price gap is so huge is its creation process. The Spirit of Ecstasy needs to go through six processes for six days—each one is hand-made by craftsn. And even if it is made of bronze, they will gold-plate it, so it is expensive.
“I rember when BMW bought Rolls-Royce, they produced about 5,000 ornants a year, and before that, the production quantity was much lower!”
As Hans spoke, he took a tal chest off a shelf. The tal chest had a passcode lock, which he tinkered with for a while but still could not open it.
Li Du took a hamr and said. “Why bother trying to unlock it? Watch this!”
Li had not even finished speaking and he slamd the hamr on the tal chest; the door of the tal chest was smashed open.
Hans cried out, “D*mn it, don’t be so violent. What if—”
The door of the chest opened and the contents of it were unveiled.
Hans did not finish saying his sentence. He was halfway through talking and suddenly his eyes gawked at what was inside the chest, abruptly swallowing the other half of what he wanted to say.
There was a foam board inside the tal chest. On the foam board, there was a small gold statue sitting on it; there was an umbrella beside the statue as well.
That was what had attracted the little bug—Li Du had not known that Carl and Rambis knew about the Spirit of Ecstasy ornant. It was only after what Rambis had foolishly disclosed that he ca to know the whole story.
Carl and Rambis were unlucky. They had taken three out of the four units, so they had a 75 percent chance of getting the Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornant. In the end, they were unlucky with their odds.
Li Du was grateful for his good luck—this was an item worth 40,000 dollars!
Nevertheless, he could not let Hans detect any anomaly, and pretended to look astonished. “Oh God, Fly—”
Hans covered the tal chest right away and interrupted Li by shouting, “Oh God, fly out, God is flying out!”
Li Du looked confused. “What?”
Hans gave him a glare and spoke in a low voice: “We can’t let anyone know we’ve got this. Bud, quick, while Carl’s getting all the attention, let’s take advantage of it and leave now.”
They stuffed the tal chest into the Hellcat, and called Godzilla to co clean up the unit.
Apart from the Spirit of Ecstasy, this unit had no other valuables. All of the items were trash.
But Carl and Rambis were worse off. The three units they won were all garbage.
The most miserable part was that the treasure hunters thought that the Spirit of Ecstasy was inside one of their units. More than a dozen people huddled at the entrance of the unit and stared intently at Carl:
“Pal, you saw the Spirit of Ecstasy, didn’t you?”
“You don’t need to hide it. We won’t call the police. Take it out and show us.”
“Just now I saw Rambis packing up a box, I swear the Spirit of Ecstasy is inside there.”
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Carl beca so distressed that he roared helplessly, “Shut up, we didn’t get the d*mned hood ornant. We have nothing!”
Despite that, the treasure hunters did not believe Carl. Hans added fuel to the fire by saying, “Well, then you’ve gotten fake news, because our unit’s only a pile of trash. We’ve been fooled!”
When Carl heard this, he started to have a glimr of hope as he still had two more units to find the ornant. If the last unit won by Li Du and Hans did not have the ornant, then it would be in one of his.
However just as he opened the second unit, a police car ca in. The policeman walked out and said, “Soone reported that stolen goods were found. What happened?”
Carl cursed, “F*ck you!”
Rambis was enraged. “Who’s spreading rumors?”
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