allonlinenovel Chapter 1225 Even Robbing Money is Tiring
Chapter 1225 Even Robbing Money is Tiring
Li Shaoyi never imagined that carrying valuable things would be tiring. He remembered back in the 21st century, someone said that if you threw 1 million in front of you, you could unleash your superhuman strength and carry it away. Now, Li Shaoyi wanted to pull these people over; the value of the stuff here was countless times 1 million. If you could carry it away, you'd be amazing.
Take this box over there, for example. It's full of gold bars, and some other things too. It took four people to carry it in; it weighed nearly 200 kilograms. How far could one person carry it?
These kinds of boxes are the most common and ordinary here, so Li Shaoyi obtained the most of these precious metals. Of course, this stuff is the real hard currency in this era; banknotes and other valuables are all neatly arranged on the shelves next to him, with all kinds of banknotes, but most of them are foreign currency, since the legal tender is worthless now.
As for boxes and boxes of silver dollars, there were even more of those. I don't know if these foreigners were genuinely rich or just pretending. Even a single large box of these things would only be worth twenty or thirty thousand silver dollars, but they still piled up so many. Some people's boxes were more valuable than the contents inside.
Of course, we're here to rob, so we can't be picky. Therefore, Li Shaoyi basically packed everything up, then used the system space's functions to take everything out, and finally kept putting the boxes back in their original positions. This would buy us some time.
Of course, they had to destroy everything before leaving, otherwise they wouldn't be able to dispose of the stolen goods and cover their tracks. According to the robbers' logic, in the end, they would either burn it down or blow it up.
When foreigners entered Beijing, they looted our Old Summer Palace, and in the end, didn't they burn it down? They said all the things that were lost were burned, but who doesn't know the truth? But we still have to do it. Li Shaoyi has to return it to them in a similar way.
Previously, Li Shaoyi had felt sorry for the Marines outside, since they would likely be swept away in the explosion. But now, seeing all this money, he felt no pity whatsoever. "You guys have been plundering our land for decades! Why is our country so poor? Isn't it because of all this money you've plundered? If this money were distributed equally among all the people in the country, it would feed them for several years!"
Thinking of this, Li Shaoyi realized that the soreness in his legs that he had felt earlier was now completely gone. He had to speed things up; in the current situation, they couldn't afford to lose even a single thing. Each box was worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.
After looting one warehouse, they needed to find a way into another. Li Shaoyi returned to the small window; they had to follow the original route. It was a slightly overcast afternoon, and many people had gone to sleep after eating, so they weren't worried about anything happening. With hundreds of people watching, what could possibly go wrong? Besides, all those valuables inside were incredibly heavy.
According to their thinking, at most one or two items would be stolen, which would definitely be the work of our insiders. As long as we prevent insiders from getting in, it would be virtually impossible for outsiders to take anything from inside. When they formulated this security strategy, they had already considered all of these possibilities.
Unfortunately, some notorious bandits possess system spaces, so they are not within your scope of consideration. Li Shaoyi worked tirelessly for 40 minutes without rest, but this was only half the battle. At this point, Li Shaoyi was already prepared; if he were discovered, he would have to detonate the bomb prematurely.
When the inspectors came in, they simply walked around to see if the boxes had been touched. If no one had moved them, it was considered fine. Li Shaoyi, lying on his high perch, watched the inspection from below; it was a mere cursory glance.
If he had known it would be like this, he wouldn't have been so worried. After these people left, Li Shaoyi calmly resumed loading the goods, as if it were his own warehouse. Anyway, another inspection wouldn't be until an hour later. Those people did give it a cursory look when they came in.
The three large warehouses took Li Shaoyi nearly two hours to inspect. Twice, people went in to check, but unfortunately, they only came to take a look and didn't open the boxes. If they had opened the boxes, the port's alarms would probably have gone off.
Since they were already there, and the warehouses nearby were also piled high with goods, and there were heavily armed Japanese soldiers standing guard at the entrances, Li Shaoyi figured he couldn't leave empty-handed, so he followed suit and entered the Japanese warehouse.
This was actually a Japanese munitions depot, about 200 meters long and 70 meters wide. It contained everything imaginable; enough to equip an entire Japanese division.
Although Li Shaoyi looked down on the Japanese equipment, many of our domestic resistance armies were even worse off in terms of weaponry. It would be unfair to them if we didn't take it. So Li Shaoyi began his search once again.
There are a total of 16 large warehouses on the Bund. Li Shaoyi has nothing better to do now, so he goes to look for them one by one.
The three warehouses were where Westerners stored their precious metals and money.
The two warehouses were Japanese munitions warehouses, and the two warehouses were Japanese grain warehouses.
The remaining warehouse was also filled with a huge amount of goods, practically everything imaginable. If you wanted to open a department store, this inventory would probably be enough to keep you running for decades without needing to restock.
When they had finished looting the last warehouse, the alarm finally went off. However, this alarm didn't come from the Westerners' warehouse, but from the Japanese arsenal.
A Japanese army unit was ordered to retrieve their supplies, but upon opening the warehouse door, they found a vast space completely empty. Normally, it was crammed full, leaving no room to even step. Now, the entire warehouse was utterly bare, not even a mouse in sight…