novelraw Chapter 9: Heaven Knows, Earth Knows, You Know, I Know, Su Yuan Knows
Chapter 9: Heaven Knows, Earth Knows, You Know, I Know, Su Yuan Knows
As one of the managers of the underground black market, Sun Laoliu was quite famous among the super wealthy circles.
The young man was seeing for the first time how respectfully Sun Laoliu behaved, even bending his waist while answering the phone.
"What kind of extraordinary big shot is this?"
The young man swallowed hard. Without a doubt, the person calling must have incredibly powerful connections.
Those who could enter the underground black market were all from the wealthy class, but someone who could make Sun Laoliu treat them like this probably had status and position at the level of the big boss himself.
The "big boss" the young man was thinking of referred to the true owner of the underground black market.
Sun Laoliu was only one of the managers of the underground black market, simply put, the 'manager' who publicly ran the black market.
As for the true owner... the young man had never even seen him, only heard that such a person existed.
It was precisely because of his existence that the underground black market had been able to survive until now.
Otherwise, given the black market's activities—trading numerous prohibited items and such—it would have been shut down by the authorities long ago.One minute later.
Under the young man's watchful gaze.
Sun Laoliu slowly straightened his back and hung up the landline phone.
"Uncle Sun."
Only then did the young man dare to speak.
He was distantly related to Sun Laoliu, which was why he addressed him as 'Uncle Sun'.
"Immediately send someone to storage locker number 56 in Zone C of the adjacent shopping mall and retrieve what's inside." Sun Laoliu didn't elaborate but immediately issued the command.
"Yes."
The young man nodded, then promptly passed on the order.
Ten minutes later.
A suitcase was placed before Sun Laoliu.
Sun Laoliu carefully opened the suitcase.
Inside were arranged various jade artifacts, antiques, and similar items.
Sun Laoliu immediately brought out numerous pieces of equipment and began appraising them.
Having reached the position of underground black market manager, Sun Laoliu's treasure appraisal skills were absolutely top-notch.
No matter which dynasty an antique came from, he could determine its authenticity with just a few glances.
Very soon.
All the jade, antiques, and jewelry in the suitcase had been appraised.
Sun Laoliu took a deep breath and commanded again, "Prepare thirty million worth of Xia Country bank investment gold bars, pack them into this case, and return it to storage locker number 56 in Zone C."
"Oh, and send several people to deliver it."
Sun Laoliu reminded.
Thirty million worth of gold bars would probably weigh two to three hundred jin.
One person might not be able to carry it alone.
"Okay."
The young man nodded.
After everything was completed.
Sun Laoliu finally plopped down into a seat.
"Uncle Sun."
The young man looked over with eager anticipation.
"Are you wanting to ask about the identity of the person who called earlier?" Sun Laoliu glanced at the young man.
"Yes."
The young man watched Sun Laoliu.
"Some things—knowing too much isn't good for you."
Sun Laoliu said, his tone carrying a subtle warning.
"Uncle Sun, I was wrong."
The young man's face paled.
"Go on for now."
Sun Laoliu waved his hand and said no more.
Closing his eyes, he barely managed to suppress his agitated mind.
"That one... hasn't visited the black market in a long time, has he..."
Sun Laoliu's thoughts surged. The real-world identities of black market members were secrets to others.
But in the eyes of Sun Laoliu, as the black market manager, he knew about seventy to eighty percent of them.
Only those dozen or so highest-level members—Sun Laoliu didn't know their true backgrounds.
He could only confirm them through their membership sequence numbers.
The big boss had specifically instructed that when dealing with the highest-level black market members, they must fulfill their requests as much as possible.
And the one who had just called was one of the underground black market's highest-level members.
......
Outside the milk tea shop.
Su Yuan hung up the phone and casually deleted the call record.
Thirty seconds later.
The young woman who had just bumped into Su Yuan walked out of the milk tea shop holding a cup of milk tea.
Su Yuan passed by her, seamlessly returning the pink phone without leaving a trace.
From start to finish, the young woman never knew her phone had been away from her for a minute.
Borrowing the young woman's phone to call Sun Laoliu, the underground black market manager, was also to conceal his own information.
After all, Su Yuan's phone was linked to his real-name identification.
Using his own phone to make this call would definitely leave traces.
Of course, Su Yuan using the young woman's phone to make this call.
Wouldn't have any impact on the young woman herself either.
This was also the answer Su Yuan had obtained in advance from the gray mirror.
......
"Tsk tsk, the identity of a highest-level member is really useful."
Su Yuan thought to himself.
Normally, even with the help of the underground black market, if Su Yuan wanted to liquidate these jewels and antiques, he would have to do it through transactions.
That is, Su Yuan would have to wait for buyers. In that case, the timing would be hard to predict. Involving twenty to thirty million worth of jewels and antiques with unclear origins...
Waiting half a year or even a full year would be quite normal.
However, with the privileges of a black market highest-level member, he could directly trade with the underground black market itself.
First, let the underground black market take these jewels and antiques, get the money in hand, and then the black market could slowly sell them off themselves.
This was also the fastest method the gray mirror provided for liquidating the jewels and antiques.
As for how to obtain the highest-level membership?
The underground black market only ever recognized membership sequence numbers.
As long as one could state the membership sequence number, they were the corresponding member.
Of course, each member's sequence number was absolutely confidential. Besides the underground black market managers, only the member themselves knew it.
One could say, heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know.
But from now on, after "heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know," we'd have to add "Su Yuan also knows."
Possessing the gray mirror that could answer any question, as long as Su Yuan wanted to know, nothing in the world held any secrets from him.
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"About time."
Su Yuan checked the time and headed again toward the underground storage locker area of the adjacent shopping mall.
As he reached the entrance, Su Yuan glanced at the surveillance camera at the door.
There were over ten contact points for the underground black market. The reason Su Yuan chose this particular one.
Was because he knew in advance that this afternoon, the surveillance lines of this shopping mall next to the black market contact point had been chewed through by stray cats.
Resulting in all surveillance equipment being disabled for three hours.
Before Su Yuan placed the suitcase into the storage locker, the mall's surveillance had already failed.
Besides Su Yuan himself, no one knew he had ever come to this shopping mall.
Arriving in front of storage locker number 56 in Zone C, Su Yuan retrieved the locker code from the bottom of the locker, smoothly opened it, and then lifted out the suitcase.
Compared to when he had put it in, the case full of jewels and antiques had now been replaced with standard Xia Country bank investment gold bars.
This was what Su Yuan had instructed Sun Laoliu to do.
With these bank investment gold bars, as long as they remained unopened, they were no different from cash. When exchanging them for money at gold shops, there was no need to verify their authenticity—the bank itself was the biggest guarantor.
"Time to go."
Su Yuan pulled the suitcase along, not exiting through the mall's main entrance, but instead leaving quietly through the employee passageway.