Chapter 1600: 1600. Surprise
Without Anderson and Anthony and his son getting in the way, Li Du enjoyed the rest of the time.
After the party, he exchanged contact information with Capoli and Joel, and agreed to continue looking for places to play in the future. They found a common hobby, which is hunting.
After an agreement was made, everyone separated, and Li Du was going to prepare for the next offshore auction.
He fell asleep early at night, and all the treasure hunters invited went to bed early, because there will be a tough battle starting tomorrow, and there are more than 2,000 containers!
At eight o'clock in the morning, Li Du, Bell, Magic Hand and others took their assistants to the Seattle pier, preparing to join the team of treasure hunters and head to the sea giant ship together.
The Port of Seattle is a famous large-scale cargo port in the United States. When they arrived at the dock, they first saw countless large-scale loading and unloading equipment, various shore cranes, container door cranes, heavy lifts, slewing cranes, tugboats and roll-on-roll-off facilities. The steel giant stood tall on the shore.
To go to the port, first pass through the port area, where there is a vast open-air storage yard with a total area of 140,000 square meters, a total warehouse capacity of 700,000 tons, and a shed area of 300,000 square meters.
The main space of the port is given to the container terminals, which cover an area of 1.4 million square meters, the largest of which is Harper Island Pier 18, with a water depth of 15 meters.
Their destination is Pier 18, where the insurance company's yacht is docked.
In addition to ships, there are also trains parked on the pier. This pier is the core area of the port and is connected to the railway battlefield. In this way, containers can be loaded directly from container ships to double-decker container trains, which expands multimodal transportation.
Seeing the huge steel containers being put into the special train, Li Du exclaimed: "This is completely mechanized operation? I didn't even see a single person!"
"Don't underestimate the Port of Seattle. There are many terminals here that are fully automated, and it is the place with the highest automation penetration rate among ports in the United States." Bell said, pointing to a tower crane that seems to be operating automatically.
It is also for this reason that the insurance company chooses to dock the yacht at the most automated pier. There is no one at pier 18, so when the treasure hunters appear, the reception staff can easily spot them.
After Li Du and his party walked on the pier for a while, someone greeted them. After checking their documents, they were sent to the cruise ship.
Insurance companies are very rich, and there is huge room for profit in this industry, but this time with Hanmao Group, they suffered serious losses, and urgently needed to stop losses through container auctions.
The luxury yacht docked at the pier itself belongs to the insurance company, and there is an exclusive logo of the insurance company on the hull. Every receptionist is dressed in suits and leather shoes, which looks very high-end.
When Li Du and others arrived, it was already very close to the agreed departure time. This was the peak period for people to arrive. They had just boarded the ship, and people arrived continuously.
Bell has a wide range of contacts and connections, and he has good reviews in the circle of treasure hunters everywhere, so this has become his home field. He is constantly wandering on the yacht, and almost everyone smiles when they see him, even Someone brought him a gift.
In contrast, Li Du's reputation is much worse. There are legends about him in the circle of treasure hunters everywhere, but there are not many good things in these legends, because he rose too fast, made too much money, and those who envy and hate too much.
In a word, there are many people who are popular right and wrong, especially when he became popular too fast and too fiercely.
It was very interesting for Bell to be a friend. He not only went to meet acquaintances by himself, but also brought Li Du with him, recommended Li Du to these people, and kept saying good things about Li Du.
Aiwujiwu, for Bell's sake, most people also showed kindness to Li Du.
Li Du is the kind of person who respects me as much as I respect you. As long as no one provokes him, he can show Chinese elegance and humility to his heart's content.
So, after following Bell for a while, he won a lot of friendship. After chatting with him, some treasure hunter tycoons directly confessed that his real person was very different from the rumors.
Another person came onto the boat. Bell took a look and shook his head: "Where are these friends? It's very strange, I haven't seen them before."
Li Du, who was chatting with several treasure hunters in Montana, followed him to look. He just looked casually, because he felt that since Bell didn't know them, it was even less likely that he knew these people.
As a result, he turned his head and looked, his eyes immediately straightened!
There were two people who just got on the boat, a man and a woman. He didn't know the man, but he was very familiar with the woman next to him: cool and elegant, with a slim figure and a heroic figure. This is Luo Qun!
He thought he was wrong, so he rubbed his eyes subconsciously, but he looked again after rubbing, yes, this is Luo Qun, the Luo Qun who said he was traveling around the world!
At this moment, Luo Qun was following the middle-aged man, she remained silent, occasionally showing a slight smile, consistent with the usual image of a high-cold police officer.
I don't know what tricks she used, but the middle-aged people around her obeyed her advice, kept running back and forth, and brought her drinks and food.
Li Du didn't know what she was doing, so he pretended to pass by unintentionally, and said in a low voice, "Hey, let's be surprised, let's see who I am?"
Luo Qun turned her head to look at him in surprise, and asked, "Hi, sir, have we met before?"
Li Du was taken aback by these words, he looked carefully at the girl in front of him, it was Luo Qun, but why did Luo Qun talk to him like this? Did this girl lose her memory?
Li Du took a breath and asked, "Sir? I'm Lao Li, don't you remember? Did you encounter any accident while traveling around the world, which caused your brain to go wrong?"
After he finished speaking, Luo Qun rolled her eyes: "You just lost your mind. Of course I know you are Lao Li, and you know that I know you are Lao Li. Then you still ask 'Who am I?' It's unnecessary!"
Hearing her speak, Li Du rolled his eyes helplessly, "No problem, this is Luo Qun, the hot-tempered little policewoman he was familiar with is back again.
Looking at Luo Qun, he said helplessly, "Please, young lady, I was just joking with you, well, let's not talk about that, why did you come to participate in the sea auction? Are you also a treasure hunter?"
Luo Qun squinted at him and said, "Yes, aren't you surprised?"
Li Du was astonished and said, "But didn't you go on a round-the-world trip? Why did you suddenly appear and become a treasure hunter?"
Luo Qun said: "I've traveled around the world, and I've also become a treasure picker. Why, what's the conflict?"
Li Du smiled wryly: "No conflict, no conflict, you have the final say."
Luo Qun snorted, and said, "Forget it, I won't tease you anymore, to tell you the truth, I didn't come here to participate in some bullshit auction, I came here to find you!"
Li Du asked strangely: "To find me?"
Luo Qun said: "Look down, there are a few people on the pier ready to come up, let's see who they are."
Li Du stood on the side of the boat and looked down. Four or five men were smoking and laughing together. When he saw these people, he suddenly trembled!