Zhu Lan blinked her starry eyes and smiled mischievously at Lao Sun.
This salesy expression greatly aroused Lao Sun's curiosity, "Speak quickly!"
"Gold detector!" The dimples at the corners of Zhu Lan's mouth slowly spread into a smile.
"It's not urgent, I didn't even bring it. Let's figure out the situation here first," said Lao Sun.
Zhu Lan pointed to the ground and said, "But what's the use of always studying the cement joints? We should focus on this wall and see if it has been excavated."
Although Lao Sun's ears were listening, his eyes returned to the ground and his tone of voice was very perfunctory.
"We divide the work. You look at the walls and I look at the cracks in the floor."
"Ouch!" Zhu Lan stamped her feet.
Lao Sun could only say: "You will know later."
Seeing the mysterious look on her master's face, Zhu Lan's appetite was whetted. But she also knew that Master would not make conclusions easily, let alone one without conclusive evidence.
After a while, the basement returned to silence.
The master and apprentice were each busy with their own tasks, studying inch by inch.
About half an hour later, Lao Sun suddenly said: "Yes, yes."
Zhu Lan, full of doubts, ran over.
Lao Sun was holding a flashlight to shine on a small gap under his feet, where there was scattered soil. Zhu Lan couldn't help but use a flashlight to shine it on small pieces of soil. When you pinch it with your hands, the soil breaks into pieces.
"Huh? It seems like the soil is missing!" Zhu Lan shined the flashlight on the surrounding cement floor again. As far as the eye can see, it is very clean, not even dusty. Look at the large horizontal and vertical dusty cement lines, which must have been swept away. Hey, I didn't notice these details just now.
"But who would come here to sweep the floor if they have nothing to do?"
"I don't know, it's too early to draw conclusions now."
After finishing speaking, Lao Sun stood up and cast his gaze towards the wall behind the hanging ladder.
"Hehe! It seems that this place has been excavated. As for the location-"
She repeatedly knocked on the cement wall, "Dong Dong!" There was a slightly dull sound.
strangeness! Why is the back so strong?
Zhu Lan beside her couldn't understand either, "Master, if this place has been excavated, there should be another space behind the wall."
Lao Sun turned to the other wall and raised his hand to knock on it as well. "Dong dong!" She walked to the cement wall facing the hanging ladder and tried the same thing, with the same result.
Now we reach the wall directly to the right of the hanging ladder. The wall is stronger than imagined. The knuckles of his fingers tapped against the cement particles, pain radiating from them. From an auditory analysis, the echoes from these three walls seem to be duller than the echoes from the wall behind the hanging ladder.
But it's just a seeming thing, and Lao Sun is not sure.
It seems that the wall behind is still solid, with soil from Xilang Mountain.
But if there is gold here, shouldn't it have been poached by Song Xiaofan? Now that the tunnel has been dug, why does there seem to be no space behind the cement wall? Could it be that all this is just Lao Sun's speculation?
"What's going on?" Zhu Lan felt that all this was a bit strange.
Suddenly, she stood up and said, "There is only one way to verify it."
She walked outside the basement entrance, contacted the director, and requested a gold detector to come over.
At dusk, the young man who delivered the detector finally came over. He handed the things to Lao Sun and left, saying that he could just return them afterwards.
The master and apprentice returned to the basement.
Lao Sun pointed the gold detector at the wall behind the hanging ladder and pressed the button to start the test. The wheel-shaped probe moved along the slightly protruding wall, but after a while, the tester did not emit any alarm sound.
This means there isn't any gold behind the wall at all.
Zhu Lan questioned the detector, "Is the quality of this thing good?"
"Professional gold detector, what do you think?" Lao Sun glanced at the detector, "It's fine within 1 to 30 meters."
Saying this, Zhu Lan became even more confused, "Is there really no gold behind it?"
"Who knows?" Lao Sun held up the gold detector and tried it again, going back and forth three times, but the instrument just didn't make a beep.
She could only aim the probe at the surrounding walls, but the results were the same.
"Forget it, let's get the big hammer over here." She walked out of the basement first.
Lao Sun took out his cell phone and asked Zhu Lan to wait where he was.
Zhu Lan thought there was a big hammer in the car, but a moment later, Lao Sun just stood at the gate of the villa and called Xiao Li, and then returned to the basement empty-handed.
The two could only stay in the basement temporarily until they fell asleep.
Not long after, the sun set and the sky became completely dark.
Later, the sound of empty footsteps came from above the villa, which seemed particularly clear at night.
The footsteps paused and seemed to turn a few times, and a familiar voice sounded, "Captain Sun, Zhu Lan, where are you?"
Oops, I forgot to tell Xiao Li! The master and apprentice looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh.
"We are behind the spiral staircase." Zhu Lan shouted loudly.
The footsteps got closer and closer, finally stopping in front of the basement entrance. The flashlight light swaying around came in, and finally the light settled on the suspense. Xiao Li's tone was uncertain, "Captain Sun, Zhu Lan, are you down there?"
"Come down and help!" Lao Sun smiled.
"Huh? How did you find this place? You came here in the middle of the night. The mountain is quite scary!" Xiao Li walked along the stairs to the end and approached them following the halo of the flashlight in the corner.
Ever since, Zhu Lan told him what happened.
"Hey! I didn't expect Song Hui, a greedy man, to be a thief!" Xiao Li sneered, holding a flashlight and a big hammer in his hand, and asked, "What's suspicious?"
Lao Sun pointed at the wall behind him and pulled Zhu Lan away.
"Okay, I'm going to smash it!"
Xiao Li picked up the big hammer in his hand, aimed at the circular outline and hit it hard. With a bang, a shallow dent was made in the cement wall.
With two bangs, the entire wall shook, but it didn't collapse. Every brick is still firmly in place, fine.
"Hey! This is strong enough!" Xiao Li gasped.
"I'll give it a try, you guys get out of the way." Lao Sun took the initiative to take the big hammer and smashed it with his hand.
Once, twice, the cement wall is still good.
Xiao Li said, "Is there really a solid mountain behind this?"
Lao Sun said: "I'll try again!"
After saying that, she continued to pound, and cracks finally appeared in the cement wall.
"There's something going on! Let me take care of it." Xiao Li snatched away the big hammer and mechanically smashed the wall.
I saw the cracks getting bigger and bigger, exposing the red bricks, and then, the bricks became dislocated.
"Bang!" The heavy hammer hit the wall violently, causing a small area of red bricks to tilt inward, revealing the dark unknown object inside.
"Work harder!" Lao Sun encouraged.
"Okay! Team Sun." Xiao Li was getting more and more strenuous, but he still had to continue swinging the big hammer.
I don’t know how many days of beating, my arm was so sore that I could hardly lift it. But the mission had to continue, so he gritted his teeth and continued to pound.
Finally, a hammer fell, and dozens of bricks were disconnected from the wall, crushing the things inside. There was no sudden thud, just the dull sound of bricks clinging to the unknown object inside.
Three flashlights shone into the exposed gap, and they discovered that a lot of soil had accumulated there.
This made everyone completely dumbfounded! "Is there really just dirt behind this?"
After a while, the attentive Zhu Lan suddenly shouted, "No, there are marks on the soil!"
