Beauty Comic Plane Trader

On the streets of Chicago in the evening, Josie stood messy in the wind.

Only a few hours after returning home, the car I just bought was stolen.

This was something he had never experienced before.

Mainly in his previous life, in the safest country of Xia, he had never encountered such a thing as a car being stolen, and he rarely even heard of it.

But the United States is different. In New York alone, from January to March 2022, the number of car thefts reached more than 2,000...

This is true in 2022. You can imagine how rampant car theft would have been in the United States in the 1940s.

So it was only natural that Qiao Xi, who was unprepared after buying a car, fell into the trap.

So what should you do next if you find out that your car has been stolen?

Call the police?

Josie looked at the patrolman on the roadside in the distance and shook his head.

Stop making trouble, the detection rate of car thefts in the United States is not high even after 60 years, let alone this era?

Moreover, the corruption of the American police in this era is very serious. Without money and power, there is no hope that they can do anything.

Finally, there is a very important problem, that is, the car Qiaoxi bought at noon did not have time to register...

So no matter how unhappy Qiao Xi is, she can only be unlucky.

If you don’t have a car, just walk!

Originally, Josie wanted to drive to see what "fun" places there were in Chicago at night, but now she could only eat something nearby and go back to sleep.

Without a car, Josie would never wander around at night in America in this era, not even with a gun.

Soon, it was the next day.

I packed up and went out again. Instead of walking, I booked a taxi in advance and went to yesterday's grocery store again.

After entering the door, I found that the person standing behind the counter was not Old Hawke, but a young girl in her twenties.

"Good morning, what do you need?" Seeing Josie come in, the young girl asked enthusiastically.

"Isn't Old Hawk here?" Qiao Xi asked instead without saying what he meant.

After all, Old Hawke is the owner of the store, and it is impossible for the girl in front of him to take charge of collecting gold.

"Are you looking for my grandpa? Wait a moment, he is working in the back, I will call him." The girl didn't care about Qiao Xi's attitude, turned around and entered the back of the store. She is the granddaughter of Old Hawke and often

Come over to help. She is not uncommon with mysterious guests like Qiao Xi, and she has long been used to them.

Soon Old Hawk came out and was very surprised to see it was Qiao Xi again.

"Meet young people again, or gold?"

"Yes, the prices here are quite fair, so I decided to buy more, but I don't know if you can afford it." Qiao Xi nodded.

"Haha, young man, I know what you are worried about, but don't underestimate Old Hawke. This store has been here for dozens of years. Although it doesn't look big, there are a lot of priceless things here. Look

Have you arrived? Although they are all second-hand goods, the little gold you exchanged yesterday is not enough to exchange for any watch in this cabinet." Old Hawk said with a smile and pointed to a watch cabinet nearby.

Old Hawk didn't say anything, so Josie really didn't pay attention, but after taking a closer look at the table cabinet, he knew that what Old Hawk said was true.

There are not many watches in the watch cabinet, only seven or eight, but each one is very well preserved.

Although he doesn't know much about watches, after all, he couldn't afford high-end watches in his previous life, but it doesn't prevent him from knowing the brands of these watches.

Patek Philippe, Rolex, Breguet... Although it is the 1940s, the value of these watches is now at least thousands of dollars - of course, provided that these are genuine.

But even if only half of it is true, its value will exceed the gold held by Josie.

Regarding this, Qiao Xi could only lament in his heart that he was ignorant.

"120 ounces, the purity should be about the same!" Since Old Hawke was so confident, Josie no longer hesitated. Just like yesterday, she took out a small bag and put it on the counter.

12 gold nuggets, with a total weight of more than 3.4 kilograms, which sounds like a lot.

But in terms of volume, it’s really not that much, after all, the quality of gold is there.

A 10-ounce gold nugget is no bigger than a Snickers bar.

Therefore, although Qiao Xi took it out of the system, it did not arouse suspicion.

"The things are good. I want them all. How about yesterday's price?" He picked up a gold nugget and weighed it. Old Hawk said with a smile.

"Okay!" The price offered by the other party was indeed relatively fair, so naturally Qiao Xi had no objections.

Soon, these 120 ounces of gold were exchanged for 4,800 US dollars.

After getting the money, Qiao Xi couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Putting the thick wad of banknotes into his pocket—which was actually put directly into the system warehouse—Josie said goodbye to Old Hawk and walked out of the grocery store.

After turning two corners to make sure no one was paying attention or following me, I wanted to call a taxi and go to a car dealership to buy a car.

After all, as the third largest city in the United States, Chicago is still very large.

Public transportation in the United States is terrible, and it is still very inconvenient without a car.

As for stealing the car, Qiao Xi also thought about it. When parking the car, he looked for a place where no one was around, and then put it directly into the system warehouse. How could he throw it away?

It's just that taxis are not that easy to hail. Yesterday he was lucky enough to wait for one, but today he waited for more than ten minutes and still didn't find an empty taxi.

But just when he was waiting a little impatiently, a Ford car sped past him.

Although the cars of this era all looked similar in appearance, Qiao Xi still recognized the one he drove past at a glance. It was the one he had just bought yesterday and was stolen.

Because there was a very obvious scratch on the rear of this car when I bought it, which was exactly the same as the one in front of me.

Immediately my mind got excited and I chased after him.

Although the speed of cars in this era had long exceeded 70 miles per hour, because it was in an urban area and Roosevelt issued an order prohibiting high-speed driving during the war, even the maximum speed on the highway could not exceed 35 miles per hour.

Therefore, the opponent's speed is not very fast, that is, it is only about twenty yards.

Thanks to his youth and holding his breath, Qiao Xi managed to follow him within a short period of time.

However, as the car turned an intersection ahead, Josie stopped.

Because the place ahead is not a benign place, but Little Italy, which is already in the immigration district. Two streets further, there is Chinatown.

But unfortunately, unlike Little Italy and Chinatown in major American cities in later generations, which are famous tourist destinations and bustling markets, Little Italy, Chinatown and other areas in this era are still synonymous with slums, no better than the segregated black

How much better is the neighborhood.

In the original person's memory, his parents frequently warned him not to go near Little Italy and Chinatown.

So now Qiao Xi is quite hesitant.