He put away the cash and followed the waiter upstairs to check into a business room that cost $5 a night. The next morning, William checked out of the hotel and got into a taxi. In the taxi, he complained in Spanish about the hotel. The driver understood and recommended a hotel. William took a taxi and entered a hotel. When he checked in, he gave a personal check for 100 dollars. When the other party checked in, he used the excuse of calling his colleagues to inform them. He took the cash and went to the place where he made the call.
A few minutes later, he pretended to hang up the phone and walked to the door to ask the doorman for the address of the hotel he stayed at yesterday. Then, he left with a suitcase with an apologetic expression. His question to the doorman soon reached the lobby manager's ears.
The manager immediately understood that William was embarrassed, so he did not ask him. As for why William left when the rooms were almost ready, he knew that the other crew members must have already checked into the hotel that was competing for business. However, it was not surprising that William, who was the co-pilot, would be affected by the captain.
The lobby manager's dissatisfaction was directed at William. At the same time, he hated the non-existent captain and the hotel that William had stayed in yesterday. William had visited 31 hotels in one day. Other than spending 100 dollars, he had received 3,000 dollars in cash.
Unfortunately, although Rio was also a tourist city at the moment, its scale was completely incomparable to that of the future. There were not many high-end hotels for him to withdraw money from. Going to a mid-to-low-end hotel was not in line with his identity as a captain, and they might not accept foreign checks.
At night, they enjoyed a seafood feast at the most famous beach in Rio. Their eyes swept back and forth on the beach that was four to five kilometers long. From time to time, he would see a Latino girl with an explosive figure. He wanted to stay for a few days to relax, but after thinking about it, he went to the airport for safety reasons and took a short-distance flight to Sao Paolo, Brazil's largest city. Then, just like in Rio, every time they entered a hotel, they would exchange 100 dollars first.
However, this time, he didn't find an excuse to not get a room. Instead, he wasted the ten dollars deposit and stayed in an ordinary hotel room for half an hour before leaving for another hotel. Doing so would greatly dispel the hotel's suspicions. When the hotel found out that he had left without checking out, it would be at least a day or two later. By then, he would no longer be in Sao Paolo. In two days, after visiting 30 hotels, William left Sao Paolo with 2600 dollars and went to the third largest city in Brazil, which was the city of El salvador that he had lied about before.
He earned another 2600 dollars and left. He only had 10 checks left in his checkbook, but he had 8200 dollars on him. In a week or so, he had earned a year's income for a middle-class family in Los Angeles. In the rich district where he and Frank worked part-time, the best house was about 300,000 dollars, and the medium house was 80,000 to 150,000 dollars. A house in a middle-class community was only worth between 10,000 to 50,000 yuan. In other words, if rich countries like Argentina and Chili visited, they could directly buy a 200 square meter three-story villa with a large lawn. If he set his sights on the bank, his income would double or triple. Money was so easy to earn that he didn't know if he should stop.
As for jewelry, coffee, furs, and so on, he still had to go back to America to sell them. He would have earned several times more money in this time. While waiting in the airport for the plane to fly to New York, he saw all kinds of airplane toys hanging on the floor-to-ceiling glass in the toy store in the mall of the airport.
Coincidentally, there was a Pan Am Blue Earth logo on the rear wing of a 707. When he saw this, William was stunned for a moment. Then, he walked into the toy store happily and spent five dollars to buy this toy plane that was obviously much more expensive. Then, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and walked into the airport's bathroom. He closed a partition door and immersed the toy plane into the water tank. Ten minutes later, the water-soaked Pan Am logo was easily torn off by him and pasted on a blank check.
He put the check in a novel that was used for entertainment and pressed it at the bottom of the suitcase. Then, he broke the toy plane with one hand and left the bathroom with the suitcase. He threw the broken toy plane into the trash can. They walked out of the airport and checked into a hotel next to the airport.
William followed the doorman into the luxury room. He took out a five-dollar bill and said to the doorman, whose eyes were shining," I need a printer, and it has to be a multi-functional magnetic ink printer." The doorman hesitated and said," Normal typing is fine, but magnetic ink typing…"
It was normal for customers to borrow a printer. The only problem was that the magnetic ink printer was usually used to write checks. The only one in the hotel was always in the finance room and rarely lent out. However, this was Brazil. When William handed the five-dollar bill to the doorman and placed a ten-dollar bill on the table, the doorman immediately understood what he meant. The magnetic ink typing machine was placed on the table, and the ten-dollar note was his.
For the sake of money, this was nothing.
To William, as long as he did not exchange his fake paycheck in this hotel or in El salvador, with the outdated communication system, it would take months or even a year for the doorman to know about it. At that time, the doorman would not be able to clearly recall his appearance. Half an hour later, a different model of a normal typing machine appeared in front of him. The doorman who took the ten dollars on the table asked obsequiously," Do you need me to show you how to operate it?”
" Mm." William nodded. Five minutes later, he sent the doorman away with shining eyes. He even put aside the thought of forging a check. He found a piece of paper and a pencil in the drawer of the desk in the guest room. He traced the Italian logo on the typing machine and carefully put it in his shirt pocket. Then, he called the front desk of the hotel and asked them to check the flight time to Rome.
He lay on the bed excitedly and cursed himself for forgetting to make the handmade object. Of course, the Eaglejam Nation had handmade products. However, if the country was too highly industrialised, many craftsmen would be squeezed out of business. In Italy, where craftsmanship was popular and the degree of industrialisation was not high, it was very easy to customize a custom-made printer with special requirements. And this 10-year-old hand-made typing machine in front of him was the best proof.
Or, for the sake of confidentiality, he could figure out the principle of the typing machine first, find a few craftsmen on the grounds that the parts were damaged, and finally assemble it himself.
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