Tomb Raiding: The Bloodline of Dragons and Snakes, Starting from the Kunlun Divine Palace

"Mr. Wu is a responsible person, I admire him!"

"To do business, you have to be able to take things on and let them go!"

Chapter 4: The Technological Treasure Hunting Tool, the X-ray Machine

"Hehe, everyone, don't rush, I'll take my time choosing." Big Gold Tooth took his detector and checked them one by one.

His detector is called an X-ray detector.

It's a modern CT scanner, but a miniature handheld model imported from Germany.

It looks about the size of a small flashlight.

After losing money gambling on jade for the past six months, Big Gold Tooth learned from Tom, a foreigner who was a partner in high-tech tomb raiding, that Germany had such a detection instrument.

I even tested it in TOM's lab, and it really did distinguish the quality differences between the raw stones.

That's why I spent 10,000 yuan to buy this treasure appraisal tool!

Ostensibly, it's for detecting flaws when buying antiques, but in reality, they want to use this high-tech tool to make a fortune by gambling on jade.

Unfortunately, the owners of jade gambling shops are all very cautious, and they usually stop him from using the device when they see him take it out.

So he never had a chance to use his skills.

But because of this, he became even more convinced that this was definitely a legendary treasure appraisal tool that dominated the jade gambling world today!

All the raw stones are now labeled for easy identification.

Big Gold Tooth first picked up a lucky number, 88, a rough stone that looked cracked and had a rough outer skin.

Upon closer inspection, although the exterior was covered with textures, the interior was relatively clean, with only minor cracks and large ones.

Big Gold Tooth smiled slightly, made a mental note of it, and then looked at the others.

Soon, he took a liking to number 44 and held it in his hand to weigh and examine it.

Even without X-ray detectors, he was an expert in antique appraisal, so his knowledge of jade was naturally superior to that of the average person.

However, gambling on jade involves a large element of gambling, and there are countless instances where knowledge cannot overcome luck.

That's why there's such widespread participation.

"Hey, why did Mr. Jin choose number 44? Isn't 44 unlucky?"

"You don't know anything! The pronunciation of 4 in musical notation is 'fa' as in 'dore mifa'!"

"Death and wealth are not contradictory! Making a fortune from a burial pit is a characteristic of our antique world!"

"That makes some sense!"

Everyone was talking at once.

The piece of jadeite rough with the gold tooth in his hand is a frog-skin jadeite from the Hpakant mine.

It can be seen that the sand grains on the skin are very compact, the skin is very thin, and the flesh has been exposed in some areas.

This indicates that the seed is quite old.

There are many areas with floating color on the skin, and the colored areas have a high water content, indicating that the color has definitely penetrated.

"Even without an X-ray, I can guess pretty accurately. It seems Wu Yutian really came here to spend money like a baby today." Big Gold Tooth chuckled to himself, but just to be on the safe side, he scanned him again with an X-ray machine.

After confirming that there were no cracks inside, I felt reassured.

"Big Gold Tooth, stop dawdling! By the time you finish choosing, it'll be dark! I brought the money!" A short, fat man with a gold chain around his neck was nicknamed Gold Chain.

He was flaunting a wad of cash in his hand, which was probably a whole ten thousand.

Gold Chain and Big Gold Tooth have always been mortal enemies at the jade gambling den. Half a year ago, Gold Chain lost a lot, while Big Gold Tooth won a little.

But in the last six months, Big Gold Tooth has been losing all the time, while Gold Chain has been winning frequently.

He didn't believe in any high technology and carried around a lot of consecrated ritual objects he had obtained from Tibet, believing that spirits would help him choose jade.

"Alright, alright, I'll choose number 44!" After briefly looking at the other stones, Big Gold Tooth felt that this one was pretty good, since it was free anyway.

"Let's invite Mr. Shi Zhongyu to appraise it!" Seeing that everyone had held their breath and quieted down, Wu Yutian decided not to use the megaphone anymore.

Shi Zhongyu sent one of his men, Shi Tianci, a professional jade cutter, to cut the jade for everyone.

Shi Tianci first examined the material, using a regular flashlight to analyze its internal structure.

Then cut the stone into slices.

Because of the crack, the first cut was made along the crack to avoid damaging the whole structure.

After the first cut, the color, crack distribution, and translucency of the jade material became clearer.

Then start cutting from the worst position.

Sure enough, the result was similar to what Big Gold Tooth had predicted.

There really was jade inside!

Unfortunately, the luster is only moderate after it is cut open, since X-rays cannot reveal the internal luster or the content of microscopic impurities.

"Elder Shi, could you appraise this piece of jade and tell me how much it costs?" Wu Yutian asked Shi Tianci to hand over the cut jade to Senior Shi Zhongyu.

"Two thousand yuan, RMB." Shi Zhongyu held up two fingers and said calmly.

To him, it was just ordinary jade, enough to make a pair of bracelets.

Of course, the finished bracelet would sell for over four thousand, which was only affordable for wealthy families in this era.

"How could it only be two thousand? This is top-quality jade!" Big Gold Tooth complained.

"It's alright, Elder Shi is just helping with the appraisal. Whether you sell it or not is up to you. You can take it back and store it." Wu Yutian made it clear that he would not force anyone to buy or sell.

"Save my ass! Sell it, sell it! Use it as capital to buy four more accounts!" Big Gold Tooth rolled up his sleeves, ready to make a big splash.

"Why is it him again? It's my turn!" the man with the gold chain complained.

"Yes, yes, it's my turn!" The others also got anxious and pulled out cash one after another.

In Panjiayuan, many people who appear to be ordinary passersby or even poor people secretly carry a considerable amount of cash.

They'll take advantage of any opportunity to make money by finding a bargain.

"Don't rush, don't rush!" Wu Yutian urged. "To be fair, each person can only buy a maximum of 30 numbers, and can choose a maximum of three numbers at a time. Then you have to wait in line for the next customer to buy!"

Wu Yutian reiterated the importance of a fair and just order.

"I'll buy thirty!" The man with the gold chain took out another stack of money, counted it, and took out about half of it, adding it to the previous ten thousand, making it exactly fifteen thousand.

"Alright, thirty gold chains! First in line!" Wu Yutian took the money and lined them up according to the order of payment.

The shop assistants helped with taking notes and maintaining order.

Soon, other people also bought numbers and lined up.

"I want thirty numbers too!" Big Gold Tooth also took out a whole stack of money from his bag.

"Ten thousand won't buy you thirty accounts. With the two thousand you just gave me, you can still buy 24 accounts in total."

"Okay, 24 it is. Arrange my turn earlier."

Big Gold Tooth was afraid that someone else would get to eat the best stuff first.

In less than ten minutes, all 100 numbers were sold.

People lined up to gamble on jade, with each person allowed to select a maximum of three rough stones each time.

Big Gold Tooth looked completely confident of victory.

Chapter 5: Acquiring Big Gold Tooth (Supplementary Notes, Bonus Chapter Rules, Data Request!)

In the end, the rough stone that Wu Yutian bought for 50,000 yuan indeed yielded jade worth over 60,000 yuan, most of which was sold to the jade shop "Stone Jade". Some people also took some home themselves.

But what Big Gold Tooth couldn't understand was that he was a professional antique dealer, aided by an X-ray detector.

In the end, they lost everything!

After spending all 10,000 yuan in cash, they ended up buying a rough stone worth less than 2,000 yuan.

"It's over, it's over!" Big Gold Tooth was about to cry. "This is the money I borrowed from Gao Liwang today to go to Old Wang's house to collect the jade pendant!"

The loan shark offered a 1% daily interest rate for short-term loans, but Big Gold Tooth was skilled and daring. He had arranged for Old Wang's jade pendant to be bought for 1 yuan in cash. A foreigner could pay 3 yuan for dinner tonight, repay the loan shark 1 yuan, and still make a pure profit of 1 yuan.

Business was bad recently, I lost a lot gambling on jade, and I even spent money to buy this X-ray detector.

If the loan shark doesn't pay back his money for even a few days, his small shop could go bankrupt at any moment!

"Come on, bro, just had a bad day. I told you not to believe in those foreign things, but you wouldn't listen," Wu Yutian said, handing Big Gold Tooth a bottle of soda to comfort him. "Look at that gold chain, with some kind of luck charm, and he made a fortune!"

The gold chain was bought for 15,000 and sold for 24,000, making it a huge success.

"Damn it, where did he buy that luck talisman? I want some too!" Big Gold Tooth slammed the X-ray detector to the ground and stomped on it until it was smashed!

“I heard that he goes to Tibet every year, so he must have gotten it there.”