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8.84% My life as a Tomb Raider in Nanyang / Chapter 10: First Deal

Chapter 10: First Deal

"In the meantime, Sam, I need you to come with me to meet the buyer for what we have on hand," Amy Lee said, and I followed her.

With Bobby now conscious, I felt all the stress lifting off my shoulders.

When you feel relief and lighthearted, your mind tends to wander off.

The Jeep was parked under the sun, and it was warm and stuffy inside.

Amy Lee couldn't stand the heat, so she unbuttoned two buttons on her shirt and used the slack to fan herself.

I couldn't help but peep at her; her breasts were nicely hugged by a white lace bra, jiggling a little whenever she fanned.

She noticed, shook her head, then grinned and turned towards me.

I quickly turned my head, pretending to look out of the car window.

"Oh, I get it," she smirked as if she had figured out something very important. "You're still a virgin!"

She started laughing uncontrollably, her body bent forward, with her head and one hand across the steering wheel, and the other hand hitting my arm.

I twitched a bit but stopped for a moment when I saw gravity doing its work.

Amy Lee sensed that I had frozen, looked down at her cleavage, realized it, and sat upright.

"What time is our appointment?" I quickly asked to change the topic.

"Relax, we have more than enough time," she said sheepishly, giving me a questioning look before deciding to let me off this time.

It took an hour for us to reach our destination.

A huge bungalow with a luxurious garden at the front was located right in the heart of the city.

When our Jeep approached the gate, two armed security guards stopped us.

Amy Lee rolled down her car window, reached into the glove compartment, took out an envelope, and passed it to the security guard.

The security guard read the document in the envelope, spoke into his walkie-talkie, then waved for us to enter the compound.

The electronic gates slowly opened, and our Jeep moved in.

I could see all the different ornaments among the plants.

They were antiques; among them were Ming Dynasty flower vases and Qing Dynasty stone statues.

The owner of the bungalow must be an avid collector.

Finally, our Jeep parked at the car park, and servants were ready with umbrellas to shelter us from the sun.

A man dressed in butler attire then led us into the house.

I felt like a kid in a candy store.

There were display cabinets with all sorts of antiques inside.

Coins, porcelain plates, copper swords—you name it, and you could see it.

If I didn't know better, I would have thought I was in the Museum of Pontianak.

"Welcome, Miss Amy. And this is?" A fit middle-aged man in an army uniform greeted Amy and asked who I was.

"One of my team members, a disciple of Groundhog Liu."

"Groundhog Liu? Then this young man must be good." The man shook hands with me as he spoke.

"Sam, this is General Warianto, in charge of the region. Show him the sample."

I took out some of the copper coins and jewelry from the tomb, then laid them on the table.

Gen. Warianto took some of it and passed it to his butler.

The butler inspected the items carefully, then nodded to Gen. Warianto, indicating they were genuine.

"How much are you asking for?" Gen. Warianto asked as he opened a bottle of whiskey and poured a glass.

"USD $500K," I said, always asking for more first to shift the burden of guessing to the other party.

"That's a bit too high. But I can see now, you truly are the disciple of Groundhog Liu."

Gen. Warianto took a drink from the glass.

"Well, it's our first time meeting, and I do wish to make a good impression. USD $350K, how's that?" I smiled and offered a 'discount' of $150K.

As my Shifu says, if you're in someone else's territory, don't overplay your hand.

"Deal. When can I receive the rest of the goods?" Gen. Warianto agreed.

Of course, he knew the goods were worth at most USD $200K.

Knowing that I understood the power dynamics and respected them was good enough for him.

Amy Lee then coordinated with him on the payment.

I went over to the Jeep to get the remaining items.

The butler checked the remaining items and gave Gen. Warianto a thumbs-up.

And so, my first deal was completed.

Why was I eager to sell off the goods?

My Shifu always says, we are not collectors. Get the money as soon as possible.

If not, you'll be caught one day, and prison time awaits.

"Check your bank account," Amy Lee said as we traveled back to the hospital.

I took out my phone, logged into my banking app, and saw the account balance had increased by USD $30K.

After splitting the USD $60K profit among the six parties, I had to share the profit with Bobby.

Not bad for our first tomb.

I was happy and eager to share the good news with Bobby.

"Hey, Bobby, check your bank account. There's a surprise for you," I said with a wide grin.

"Let me see…." Bobby logged into his banking app and sat straight up in bed.

"$30K?! Sam, I'm okay now. Let's go make some money. There are still many antiques inside," Bobby exclaimed with excitement.

"Quiet… you want to get us into trouble?

"You can discharge if you want to, but don't come crying to me when you miss the gentle and beautiful nurses who took care of you in the hospital."

"I've fully recovered; let's go." Bobby swung his arms around, showing that his hands had fully recovered.

Amy Lee agreed and went to arrange Bobby's discharge.

With Bobby back, the team got back to business immediately.

After replenishing essentials, we drove to Mandor and waited for nightfall again.

Having tasted how profitable tomb raiding can be, my eyes filled with determination.


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Chapter 11: Kurnawan

Mandor, Tomb site.

We hid ourselves and our Jeep in the bushes.

The dark night had helped us stay unseen in the bushes.

"Hehe…$30K." Bobby grinned looking at his phone.

The light from his phone shone on his face, making it seem as if his head was floating in the dark night.

He had been looking at his bank account balance whenever there was time to do so.

I rolled my eyes and said: "Bobby, there's more to come, stop doing that like a hentai, you'll expose us."

He wanted to refute me but seeing that Sea Snake Fang was giving him a hard stare, he quickly obeyed and turned off his phone.

Suddenly we heard some loud "Vroom….".

Car engines roared and broke the silence of the night.

Sea Snake Fang waved with palms facing down, signaling everyone to stay put.

These cars might just be passing by.

Just as the lead car nearly zoomed past the patch of clearing for the tomb, it stopped.

The rest of the convoy did the same.

The car engines stopped roaring, and the night went silent again.

There were three cars and out came six men.

They seemed excited, looking around as if searching for something.

Their leader walked around stepping hard on every inch of the clearing, then he stopped and pointed to the spot where he stood, our freshly covered soil from a few days ago.

I squinted hard and looked at the leader carefully.

My eyes adjusted to the dark, then slowly from the dark silhouette to the shape of his face, finally a familiar face emerged.

To my surprise, it was the Snooker Parlor boss!

He must have gotten information from the Bomoh about the red worm.

From that information, that's when he started to follow us.

Bobby realized it was him at about the same time, his face turning red with anger as he wanted to confront the boss.

Sea Snake Fang quickly held him back, whispering to us: "We can handle them later, but let this be a lesson to you."

On an expedition you can never know who will sell you out, or try to cut you; you have to be cautious at all times.

In this case, I was still inexperienced and just went to the Snooker Parlor boss because he was friendly.

These people were what we called opportunity diggers, disorganized and didn't know how to cover their tracks.

Most of the time they either end up dead due to backstabbing or end up rotting in jail until their eventual death.

The party of the Snooker Parlor boss took out shovels and got to work.

Slowly they were about to dig down to the tunnel we had dug earlier.

When all of them disappeared into the tunnel, Sea Snake Fang motioned Kurnawan to follow him.

Yes, they were amateur enough to not have a lookout.

I figured the party of men were just hooligans the Snooker Parlor boss had gathered.

"Let me go too, that bastard, how dare he." I whispered to Sea Snake Fang.

He hesitated for a while, then nodded and said: "Just don't get in our way."

"Come, let's go." Kurnawan smiled as usual and got into the tunnel.

I'd always wondered what Kurnawan's specialty was; Amy Lee wouldn't have him in the team if he was just doing lookout duties.

I was about to find out.

When we reached the area where we had bombed the heck out of the stone wall.

The Snooker Parlor boss's party was busy gathering the worthless vases and coins.

"Siapa kamu? Kenapa kamu di sini?" (Who are you? Why are you here?)

Kurnawan tilted his head, smiled as he drew out two Kerambits (knives shaped like claws) from the pocket of his khaki pants.

All of them laughed at the sight, pointing at Kurnawan, as if they were saying, look at this university student trying to act as a killer.

After a while of sneering, the Snooker Parlor boss had enough and gave his order.

One of the men then came rushing towards Kurnawan swinging his spade.

Kurnawan bent his body, dodging the spade coming from the side.

He then stepped forward, and with a smooth motion across the man's neck, the Kerambit's blade slit the throat of the man.

The man clutched his neck and gasped for air.

Blood kept oozing out of his neck.

The man's eyes stared at Kurnawan in disbelief, wondering how this university student could be such a killing machine.

After a moment of utter shock, the rest of them came at Kurnawan.

Sea Snake Fang joined in from there, his snake-like movement and his palm strikes were too much for the hooligans.

I could see Kurnawan taking them down with precision.

A slice through the thigh, stabbing into the kidneys and his favorite neck slit.

Chills went down my spine when I saw him smiling all the time.

After a few moments, all of them were dead.

It was then that I realized there was no way back for me.

The door to a normal life had been closed.

We all paid our price years later; there's no running away from justice.

Kurnawan wiped the blood off his Kerambits with the cloth of one of the deceased.

He then went up to inform Amy and the rest that the coast was clear.

Amy Lee, Firecracker Tan and Bobby came down moments later.

When Bobby saw all the dead men, he started to throw up uncontrollably.

Even though he was always involved with unsavory characters, killing a party of 6 men was not something he had seen before.

With his body half bent, I patted him on his back trying to soothe him, "Bobby, I didn't know this would happen. I'm sorry to bring you into this."

"Did you…?" He looked at me warily, hoping for an answer.

"No, I didn't do anything. Kurnawan and Sea Snake Fang did."

Upon hearing my answer, he took some deep breaths, took out a cigarette, lit it and smoked to calm himself.

"Good, now let's go for the money!" He put his hands across my shoulders, reminding me what we were here for.

Yes, money.

Nothing else matters.


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