Chapter 29

After seeing Little Sister off, Li Xiangdong went down to the basement hall to sort out his haul from the sea excursion. First, he retrieved the three wooden boxes and the pile of porcelain discovered in the South China Sea and placed them on the floor. He took five robot butlers out of his Storage Ring, and once their upgrades were complete, he instructed them to sort and place all the cleared items—except for the gold ingots—onto the storage shelves in an orderly fashion. Working simultaneously, the five robots quickly cleaned everything up. Li Xiangdong carefully counted the porcelain on the shelves, finding a total of 2,215 various bowls, dishes, and jars. There were also four giant clams, from which 28 pearls had been cleaned out. Every single one was quite large: the biggest measured 35 millimeters in diameter, twelve exceeded 25 millimeters, and the rest were around 15 millimeters across, though unfortunately not quite round enough. There was also a massive pile of crystal-like formations—whether crystal or diamond, he had no idea, and their value remained unclear. Too lazy to study them, Li Xiangdong simply left them on the shelves as collectibles.