American Manga Dimensional Trader

On the streets of Chicago in the evening, Josie stood in a mess in the wind.

Only a few hours after I got home, the car I just bought was stolen.

This was something he had never experienced.

In his previous life, he was in the safest country of Xia. He had never encountered such a thing as a car being stolen, and even rarely heard of it.

But the United States is different. Just in New York City, from January to March 2022, the number of car thefts will reach more than 2,000...

This will be the case in 2022, and you can imagine how rampant car theft in the United States would have been in the earlier 1940s.

So after buying a car, Josie, who was unsuspecting, was perfectly normal.

So what do you do when you find out your car has been stolen?

Call the police?

Josh looked at the patrolman on the road in the distance and shook his head.

Stop making trouble, car thefts in the United States, even after 60 years, have a low detection rate, let alone this era?

Moreover, the corruption of the American police in this era is very serious. They have no money and no power. Don't expect them to do anything at all.

Finally, there is a very important question, that is, the car that Josie bought at noon, and he didn't have time to register at all...

So even if Josie was upset, she could only be unlucky.

If you don't have a car, just walk!

Originally, Josh wanted to drive to see what fun places in Chicago at night, but now he can only go back to sleep and eat something nearby.

Without a car, Josie would never wander around at night in America in this era, and not even with a gun.

Soon, it was time for the second day.

I packed up and went out again. Instead of walking, I made an appointment for a taxi in advance and went to the grocery store yesterday.

When he entered the door, he found that it was not old Hawke standing behind the counter, but a young girl in her twenties.

Good morning, what do you need? The young girl asked enthusiastically when Josie came in.

Is old Hawke not here? Josie didn't say anything, but asked instead.

After all, old Hawke is the owner of the shop, and the girl in front of him can't be in charge of collecting gold.

You're looking for my grandpa? Wait a minute, he's working in the back, I'll call him. The girl didn't care about Josie's attitude, she turned around and entered the store. She was the granddaughter of old Hawke, who often Come to help, she is not uncommon for mysterious guests like Josie, and she has long been surprised.

Soon old Hawke came out, and when he saw Josie again, he couldn't help but be very surprised.

Meeting a young man again, or gold?

Yes, the price here is quite fair, so I decided to change more, but I don't know if you can eat it or not. Josie nodded.

Hehe, young man, I know what you're worrying about, but don't underestimate Old Hawk, this shop has been here for dozens of years. Although it doesn't look like much, there are a lot of valuable things here. Look Has it arrived? Although they are all second-hand goods, the gold you exchanged yesterday is not enough to exchange any watch in this cabinet. Old Hawk said with a smile, pointing to a watch cabinet beside him.

If Old Hawke didn't say it, Josie really didn't pay attention, but after taking a closer look at the watch case, he knew that what Old Hawke said was true.

There are not many watches in the watch cabinet, only seven or eight pieces, but each piece is very well preserved.

Although he didn't know much about watches, after all, he couldn't afford high-end watches in his previous life, but it did not prevent him from knowing the brands of these watches.

Patek Philippe, Rolex, Breguet... Although it is the 1940s, the value of these famous watches is now at least thousands of dollars - of course, the premise is that these are genuine.

But even if only half of it was true, it would be worth more than Josie's gold.

In this regard, Josie can only sigh in her heart that she has no knowledge.

120 ounces, the purity should be about the same! Since old Hawke was so confident, Josh didn't hesitate any longer. Just like yesterday, he took out a small pocket and put it on the counter.

12 gold nuggets with a total weight of more than 3.4 kilograms sounds like a lot.

But in terms of volume, it's really not much, after all, the quality of gold is there.

A 10-ounce gold nugget is no bigger than a Snickers bar.

So although Josie took it out of the system, it didn't arouse suspicion.

It's good, I want all of it, and it's the price of yesterday, how about it? Picking up a gold nugget and weighing it, Old Hawk said with a smile.

Yes! The price given by the other party is indeed relatively fair, and Josie will naturally have no objection.

Soon, the 120 ounces of gold were exchanged for $4,800.

When he got the money, Josie couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Putting a thick stack of banknotes into his pocket - actually directly into the system warehouse, Josh said goodbye to Old Hawk and walked out of the grocery store.

Turning two street corners, making sure no one is paying attention or following, then I want to call a taxi and go to the dealership to buy another car.

After all, as the third largest city in the United States, Chicago is still very large.

American public transportation is terrible again, and it is still very inconvenient to not have a car.

As for the theft of the car, Josie has also thought about it. When parking, he will find a place with no one, and then put it directly into the system warehouse. How can it be lost?

It's just that the taxi is not so good. Yesterday, he was lucky and waited for it as soon as he waited, but today he waited for more than ten minutes, and he did not wait for an empty car.

But just as he was waiting impatiently, a Ford car sped past him.

Although the cars of this era all look the same, Josie recognized at a glance the one he drove past, the one he had just bought yesterday and was stolen.

Because the rear of this car had a very obvious scratch when I bought it, which is exactly the same as the one in front of me.

Immediately, his brain became hot, and he chased after him.

Although the speed of cars in this era has long been more than 70 yards, but because it is in urban areas, and during the war, Roosevelt ordered that high-speed driving is prohibited, even the highway, the maximum speed can not exceed 35 miles per hour.

So the speed of the other party is not fast, that is, it looks like twenty yards.

With his youth, Josie held back her breath, but she didn't lose it in a short time.

However, as the car turned around the intersection ahead, Josie stopped.

Because the front is not a good place, but the immigrant area of ​​Little Italy, two blocks away, is Chinatown.

But unfortunately, unlike Little Italy and Chinatown in major cities in the United States in later generations, which are famous tourist destinations and bustling markets, areas such as Little Italy and Chinatown in this era are still synonymous with slums, not as black as isolated black. How much better is the block.

In the original memory, his parents also warned him not to be near Little Italy and Chinatown.

So now Josie is also quite hesitant.