Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 485 - 340: Virtue Like This

Chapter 485: Chapter 340: Virtue Like This

Kathy recovered quickly and soon took over the newly acquired fixed assets from Sean Knight for integration.

She also discussed with Sean Knight. In light of Bondi’s incident, Kathy planned to sort through the assets under Sean’s name during the integration process to avoid similar incidents in the future.

Sean Knight agreed, but his attention had already been diverted to another matter.

"Silicon Valley Bank went bankrupt?" When Robert sent this news to Sean Knight, Sean didn’t find it particularly special. "What does it have to do with me? My money isn’t in their bank."

Upon saying that, Robert paused for a moment and soon realized:

"I’m not reminding you to withdraw money; you don’t even have any to withdraw. I wanted to tell you that a few Chinese people have deposited their money in Silicon Valley Bank, and now it’s gone.

When these people came from China, they not only brought money but also some things with them. Now that the money is gone, they want to sell those things to make some money..."

Sean Knight immediately understood.

At the time, many people in the domestic market had profited from illicit practices, both legal and illegal. Of course, some people managed to escape capture. With so much money taken away, if they deposited it in the wrong place, it would not be easy for them to continue living a luxurious life in the future.

Some of them, like Sean himself, who had obtained treasures from a container, had used their power to illicitly obtain such things from China.

They would use these items as collateral and then sell them or donate them when necessary.

Someone had done this once before, and millions of people in China had cursed him. However, they didn’t care at all.

Already so selfish, how would they care about the curses of irrelevant people?

"Oh? What do they want to sell?" Sean Knight asked.

"Antiques, mainly Chinese artifacts."

"That could be interesting... I might take a look." Sean Knight didn’t commit fully, "If it’s genuinely good, I might purchase."

"Alright then, I’ll send your phone number to the other party," Robert said, and Sean consented.

Sean Knight was genuinely interested. After all, his money came easily, and he earned foreign cash. Being able to exchange this money for Chinese cultural relics could be considered as spending money where it’s needed.

However, he didn’t expect that some people were just despicable, not doing decent business, and preferring to engage in disgusting tricks.

That was a story for later.

After agreeing with Robert, Sean Knight told Kathy about the matter and planned to have Kathy arrange a meeting with the other party to see if doing business was possible.

Kathy was delighted to get such an opportunity, so she contacted the other party.

"The other party said that there are a lot of cultural relics in this batch, and they are of high grade, so they hope to meet and talk with you in person." After chatting with the other party, Kathy reported to Sean Knight, "I told them that you are also Chinese, and their expression was a bit weird..."

Sean Knight had a vague feeling of unease.

Among those who had left, not a few wanted to enjoy an uninterrupted and unfettered life.

But some were accustomed to kowtowing and bootlicking. Hearing that the person they were dealing with was Chinese, the other party might not be so happy with their intentions.

Sean Knight’s guess was somewhat correct. While Kathy was reporting to him, in another villa in New York, a Chinese man was arranging matters with his female assistant:

"Leave the original batch of items brought over tomorrow and take out ten items from Storage Room 2."

As the assistant dealt with the man’s intrusive hands while panting, she asked:

"Boss, isn’t Storage Room 2 where the expert said there were items of questionable authenticity? What if we get found out when we take them over?"

"I’ve checked already." The boss’s hand showed no signs of stopping, and it continued to advance. "That buyer is just a bumpkin who somehow got lucky and found a treasure, now rich.

He wants to buy some Chinese artifacts this time — do you think his young eyes can tell? Don’t worry!"

The assistant didn’t have the heart to care about worrying anymore, and in a short while, she succumbed.

Both sides agreed to meet at a hotel. It was quite normal — for the first meeting, neither side trusted each other, so they might as well meet at a place they both trusted.

The hotel provided meeting rooms specifically for negotiations. Robert’s side had booked the venue, where there were meeting rooms for displaying the items.

When Sean Knight arrived with Elijah Hastings, the other party hadn’t arrived yet.

Initially, Sean had planned to call Kathy over, but since the other party was Chinese, he decided to bring Elijah along instead.

After a five-minute delay from the scheduled time, the other party finally arrived.

A middle-aged Chinese man, dressed as a successful person — in other words, in a suit, with his hair meticulously combed.

Three people accompanied him — a beautiful female assistant and two bodyguards who were also carrying two boxes.

Seeing that Sean Knight was already seated, the other party smiled apologetically:

"I’m really sorry, traffic jam on the road, my apologies... It’s you?"

Sean Knight had already noticed that the man was Number Eighteen from the auction!

This was awkward!

Sean Knight looked at Number Eighteen with a semi-smile, not speaking.

He was getting a little angry by then — logically thinking, the other party was short of money and asked him to buy the antiques!

How could the other party be late? What did that mean?

Did they look down on him?!