Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

Bragg, Pete and Gulie got a real taste of riding the rags.

They felt that the giant beast under their feet was the mount of Poseidon, the god of the sea.

Only Poseidon is qualified to control such a giant beast.

"West, remember what I told you last time about my treasure hunt at sea, right? Now find some art experts and cultural relic experts to take people to Hawaii Island... Well, the things have been found, and now they need to be appraised and valued. ." Chen Zhao said.

Chen Zhao and West discussed it based on an income of 200 million US dollars.

To launder this money, you have to pay at least 25% in intermediary and handling fees.

Of course, this is done in the name of the association, and the association can get about 15% of it, which means that the actual fee paid to the intermediary is about 10%.

This is much lower than the intermediary fees of money laundering organizations, and it is within the range that Chen Zhao can accept.

But the income this time should not be that much.

Both Chen Zhao and Gu Lie estimated their treasure income this time.

The value of the treasure should not exceed $400 million.

Among them, gold is the easiest to sell, while the prices of artworks and collections will be relatively depressed.

This time they definitely need to be packaged and sold. Neither Chen Zhao nor Gu Lie can sell them one by one.

If they were put up for auction one by one, the value could be increased, perhaps to US$5.6 billion.

However, Chen Zhao and Gu Lie didn't have that skill, so the final value of the sale would only be half of the actual market price.

Chen Zhao couldn't say he was happy or unhappy.

Of course I was happy to find the treasure, but the benefits were not as big as expected, which made Chen Zhao a little disappointed.

In addition to the loss of the yacht, although Chen Zhao only spent 12 million US dollars to buy the Fali.

However, the actual cost of the yacht is at least 40 million US dollars, and the market price must also reach 60 million US dollars.

In other words, Chen Zhao's actual income, excluding this loss, is less than US$100 million.

Chen Zhao sat on top of Amon's head, holding the golden awl in his hand.

In Buddhism, the Dharma Protector Vajra holds a vajra cone or a vajra, which can send out thunderbolts and set off monstrous karma fire.

Chen Zhao tested it with magic power and found that there was nothing special about this diamond cone.

Originally, when Chen Zhao saw this diamond cone, his intuition told him that there was something special about this diamond cone.

But after trying it several times, I couldn't find anything special about the diamond cone.

This made Chen Zhao a little disappointed, and Chen Zhao put away the diamond cone.

At this time, Amon had left the range of Nanqi Island, and the sky was getting brighter.

Amon's speed is very fast, exceeding two hundred nautical miles per hour.

What is this concept?

It's basically the speed of an express train.

However, there were strong winds and waves at sea, and Gulie, Peter and Bragg still felt uncomfortable.

The novelty of the beginning is gone, and all that remains is boredom and pain.

Fortunately, Chen Zhao could always bring out food and water, so at least they didn't need to starve.

Early the next morning, everyone arrived at the waters of the Hawaiian Islands.

However, the four of them pretended to be shipwrecked and were rescued by nearby ships.

We arrived in Hawaii the same day.

"Pete, I hope the money you promised can be transferred to my account as soon as possible. If I don't receive the money before I return to Los Angeles, I will get it from you personally. Do you understand?"

"Of course...I understand."

Won't you pay the money you owe Chen Zhao?

Pete didn't think he was qualified.

What's more, it's only two million dollars.

He could afford it. After provoking Chen Zhao for a mere two million dollars, Peter had no idea how he would survive.

Bragg also left, but she didn't take a flight with Pete.

This journey made her very disappointed with Pete.

Chen Zhao stayed at Gu Lie's Pirate Hotel.

West arrived the next day.

At the same time, he also brought two experts.

From West's introduction, Chen Zhao learned that these two were appraisal experts working for a large auction company.

They are experts, not academics.

They would not ask about the origin of the appraisal, let alone say that this thing should be turned over to the state.

Of course, if possible, they will persuade the other party to hand over the collection to their company for auction, or sell it directly to their company.

The experts Gu Lie was looking for also arrived. Surprisingly, the experts Gu Lie was looking for knew each other from Chen Zhao's two experts.

And they are still colleagues, but they belong to different companies, so they probably have communicated with each other.

Gu Lie led everyone to the warehouse, where Chen Zhao and Gu Lie put all their gains this time.

Except for gold, because Gu Lie and Chen Zhao had already divided the gold in half.

The rest are all collections of the Big Belly family.

There are thousands of pieces in total, so identifying the origin and value of these things will be a very arduous task.

Some are intact, while others are severely damaged or have been corroded by sea water.

For Chen Zhao and Gu Lie, this is a huge loss.

Complete collections and damaged collections have different values.

And the value of rare and non-rare items is different.

Among this collection, there are also priceless collections.

But most collections may only cost a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars.

Maybe one or two are not of high value, but taken together, the value of this collection is still very high.

There is also a category that cannot be identified, that is, the calendar and age cannot be identified.

This type was specially selected. Chen Zhao and Gu Lie will get one piece for you and an equal share for me.

Three experts spent five days appraising the collection.

It's not that three experts appraised it together. The experts Chen Zhao and Gu Lie found appraised separately. Only on collections with price deviations would they conduct re-appraisals at the same time and confirm the value at the same time.

The resulting total value was $235 million.

Once you have a real price, it will be easier to allocate.

Chen Zhao and Gu Lie began to distribute the collection.

Then, under West's operation, all the collections were sold to the auction companies of two experts.

With the participation of the auction company, the money will be easier to handle.

However, this money is still invisible, and West still needs to find a specialized financial company to handle it.

Chen Zhao has learned accounting, and Chen Zhao doesn’t know how to operate it.

Anyway, Chen Zhao just needs to sit back and collect the money.

What makes Chen Zhao happy is that the income this time is not much different from expectations.

Chen Zhao expected an income of 200 million U.S. dollars, but now the collection he was assigned sold for 120 million U.S. dollars, plus nearly two tons of gold, it was almost 200 million U.S. dollars in income.

After deducting agency fees, there is at least about US$150 million.

Of course, Chen Zhao also had to count the lost yacht.

Just thinking about the yacht makes Chen Zhao feel very upset.