Back at the Food and Medicine Hall, business was still as good as usual. Without the troubles caused by Art Trading Corporation, there were more and more customers in the Food and Medicine Hall.
Thomas calmly came to the lounge on the third floor, where Pisces, one of the Twelve Golden Zodiacs, had been waiting for a long time.
“Commander, the latest actions of the Art Trading Corporation that you asked me to investigate have yielded results now.”
“Say it…”
“There will be an auction tomorrow, and the Art Trading Corporation is going to embezzle all of them. It will take all the goods by coercion and sell them to foreigners at an expensive price to earn the price difference.”
It was not what people would do.
Thomas asked, “What goods and who do they belong to?”
Pisces replied, “It is a group of privately collected cultural relics. All of them are precious Summer Land’s cultural relics! They belong to a big trader, Gael Conway. In the past few decades, Gael has collected a large number of Summer Land’s cultural relics, and they are all preserved in his private exhibition hall. They are in the Conledge Mansion… Lord Vedastus is eyeing this batch of goods. He is going to embezzle them all and sell them to foreigners. This is simply an act of insulting our ancestors. Both people and gods will be angry.”
“Whether it is out of morality or out of revenge, we have reasons to keep these goods.”
Thomas agreed with this. But how to keep this batch of goods was a problem.
Thomas asked, “The so-called coercion method… I am afraid that Lord Vedastus also gave Gael a Heart Eater so that favonovel.com would fall under his control, right?”
“Yes,” Pisces nodded affirmatively.
It was an old trick.
Gael was being controlled by the Heart Eater, so favonovel.com was willing to pay any price in order to survive. He would not even want to keep a single piece of the hard work favonovel.com had collected all his life.
Thomas asked, “What is the market value of this batch of goods?”
Pisces said, “We conservatively estimated it to be at four billion dollars, but Lord Vedastus plans to spend five hundred million dollars to take all the goods back. The so-called auction is just a mere formality. Because other than the Art Trading Group, no other company dares to bid against Lord Vedastus.”
Four billion dollars was an exaggerated number. But for Thomas, it was not unacceptable.
Thomas laughed wickedly and said, “Isn’t Lord Vedastus trying to give us a cold shoulder by avoiding and ignoring us? Well, then I’ll give favonovel.com some trouble and force favonovel.com to take action.”
“Pisces, get ready. We’ll go to Gael’s house immediately.”
“Okay.”
***
About an hour later, Thomas and Pisces came to Gael’s house together when it was getting dark.
Gael knew this man.
For a wealthy businessman like Gael, who traveled all year round, his eyesight and knowledge were very important. He stayed in Central City a few months ago, and favonovel.com knew Thomas’s ability well. He just did not expect that a few months later, favonovel.com would meet Thomas in Celandine City.
Gael had a lot of wealth, but favonovel.com was still incomparable with Thomas. He did not understand why Thomas would suddenly come to him.
The servant brought two cups of tea and placed them in front of Thomas and Pisces.
Gael asked with a smile, “It’s my honor to have a big shot like Mr. Mayo in my house. I simply wonder what is the purpose of your visit this time?”
Thomas took a sip of tea and did not intend to beat around the bush. He said straight to the point, “Mr. Conway, I heard that you are going to hold an auction tomorrow to auction off all the cultural relics you have collected over the decades?”
Gael’s expression changed, and favonovel.com looked very unhappy. Yes, favonovel.com was selling them, but favonovel.com was reluctant about it and had been forced to do so.
