Chapter 173
Since Demetrius had already said as much, Leon wasn’t about to go sticking his warm face to a cold backside. After finishing watering his crops, he went over to check his mailbox.
It was completely empty. Not a single letter. That gave Leon a bit of a headache.
He’d been looking for the payment envelope for the two gems he’d shipped last time, but clearly, they were still somewhere along the road to being sold.
Leon figured that Lewis would probably deliver it along with the batch of goods sold yesterday, so he didn’t dwell on it. He glanced at Demetrius fiddling with instruments near the cave, then hopped on his bike and left the farm.
As for whether Demetrius might suddenly act on some deep-rooted racial instinct to do a “zero-cost acquisition” on his farm once he left, Leon wasn’t worried in the slightest.
If Demetrius really dared to try that, Leon reckoned he could get himself a nice big house out of it. After all, the value of the loss wasn’t about how much Demetrius took, but about how much Leon decided to charge. Whether Demetrius agreed or not wouldn’t matter.
The value of a local scientist was nowhere near that of a farmer who could produce high-quality crops. Leon was certain someone would step in to handle the matter on his behalf.
Still, it was most likely just a fantasy. No matter how much Demetrius disliked him, the man was highly educated. He hadn’t even dared drive straight in to modify the cave—he’d gotten out of his vehicle to personally ask Leon for permission to enter. Someone like that doing a “zero-cost acquisition” would be downright bizarre.
Leon headed south—towards the Coal Forest. His chat with Linus yesterday had given him two reasons to be here.