The people above were waiting for Zhu Yu to come up. And Gru looked at the snake from time to time, his eyes full of awe.
Croya couldn't help but lie down at the entrance of the cave and shouted:
"Zhu, are you okay?"
"Okay!" Zhu Yu's response came up, "Wait for me and I'll go up in a while."
"Then please pay attention to your safety." After receiving Zhu Yu's response, Croya no longer worried so much. She went to drag her backpack over and packed it up at the entrance of the cave.
Cao Dalong and Qin Fei had already packed their bags. One climbed up to the roof next door to see if there were any accidents, while the other started to prepare food.
Now that the sky is bright, the sun is shining down, and the moisture in the air is slowly drying out. Haruta Tomoko hides and goes to a shady place in the corner. She doesn't want to get tanned.
Ran Jie held the snake in one hand, and with the other hand he simply propped up half of the tent at the entrance of the cave to block the sun for Croya.
He won't think too much about Zhu Yu's love life, but Croya's current status is almost a quasi-proprietress, so she still needs to care about it.
Haruta Tomoko was a little envious and wanted to come over, but in the end she didn't.
She didn't want to bring trouble upon herself.
Now Haruta Tomoko has understood that these people are completely centered on Zhu Yu. If she wants to be taken seriously, she really can only start from Zhu Yu.
"Come, it's time to eat." Qin Fei greeted over there, "Drink some porridge first. Are you all hungry? You can continue working after you are full."
The aroma of the porridge filled the air, and everyone's stomachs were really growling - they had been in a panic all night, and the food they ate last night had long been digested.
Everyone has one, including Gru and Tomoko Haruta. At this time, Qin Fei did not distinguish between them.
After experiencing the snake disaster, everyone has become a small group and there is no need to differentiate.
Zhu Yu didn't know what was being done underground. After more than ten minutes of digging, he dug out two snake heads.
It looks like jade, is very hard, and emits a faint shimmer in the dark.
There was a little weird feeling, but Zhu Yu was not afraid.
It's not a living thing anyway.
The four snake eyes are red, as if inlaid with rubies.
However, looking at it, it is integrated with the snake head, and there is no trace of inlay at all.
After Zhu Yu admired it for a while, he continued to dig.
This two-headed snake statue is very similar to the snake he caught before, but it is a little bigger.
Zhu Yu even suspected that there was any connection between the two.
The dug pit became deeper and deeper, and the body of the two-headed snake statue was gradually fully exposed.
Looking at the two-meter-high statue, Zhu Yu sighed:
it's beautiful!
However, he did not continue to appreciate it, but put the things into the space, and then continued to dig - the eyes of the sky showed that there were other things in the pit.
With his clairvoyance, Zhu Yu soon dug out a round jade piece the size of a fingernail, which was somewhat similar to a Go piece, but slightly thinner and green.
In a short time, Zhu Yu dug out more than a hundred pieces.
After cleaning up, Zhu Yu came out of the pit, stretched his waist, looked around, and found no other suspicious things, so he shoveled a wooden fragment from the cave wall and started walking up.
Halfway through, he smelled the aroma of porridge, and then felt hungry.
Thinking that it must have been the work of Qin Fei and the others, Zhu Yu's steps quickened as he thought that he would be able to drink the fragrant porridge right away.
When the light in the cave brightened, Zhu Yu looked up and saw the entrance of the cave and the two heads at the entrance.
Ran Jie and Croya's.
"Zhu, you're here - great!"
"Boss, if you don't come up, Croya will go down..." Ran Jie joked.
Although Zhu Yu said it was safe down here, Ran Jie was still a little worried.
But looking at Zhu Yu's expression now, there's really no need to worry.
Ran Jie pulled it, and Zhu Yu got up to the ground and handed the small bag of jasper tablets to Croya:
"Look, this is what's underneath, and this..." He handed over the wooden fragment again, "There's nothing else."
A jasper disk looked as if it had been polished, very smooth and beautiful, and it attracted Croya immediately.
Chinese jade has no status, or is not recognized, in the world jewelry market.
In the eyes of Europeans and Americans, jade is not considered jewelry.
Of course, in the eyes of people like Zhu Yu, or in the eyes of people who truly understand jade, there is no need for European and American approval.
After all, when the Chinese were promoting jade culture, those white people in Europe and America...oh no, there were no white people in America at that time.
At that time, white people in Europe were still monkeys in the trees.
But later I gained the right to speak, and I was afraid that Chinese culture would occupy the world market, so I stopped playing with it.
Of course, it also has something to do with some people messing around in the current jade market in China. After all, there are many fake products, and they are divided into many categories that laymen don’t understand at all, which makes it easy for people to be deceived.
This jasper disc is not completely round, it has a little oval feel, but it looks very beautiful.
"You can take it and play with it." Zhu Yu confessed, then turned to take the porridge bowl handed over by Qin Fei and drank it in a big gulp.
Although I have energy in my body, I have worked hard all night and worked in a cave for so long in a humid environment. It is really comfortable to have a bowl of hot porridge to drink.
It would be better if I could take a shower again at this time.
It's a pity that I can only think about it.
After the meal, everyone had almost packed up. At this time, Kroya and Haruta Tomoko were already studying the bag of jasper discs.
Unlike Kroya who simply thinks this thing is beautiful, Haruta Tomoko, a Japanese girl, received orthodox Japanese education - that is, the cultural education that was passed down and evolved from the Sui and Tang Dynasties of China, and she is very knowledgeable about jade culture. of.
So her eyes seemed to be filled with little stars at this moment.
All she needed was to say to Croya, "Give me these jade pieces."
But Croya wasn't stupid either. Zhu Yu dug it out hard in the ground and gave it to her specially. Even if she didn't know its value, she wouldn't give it away casually.
So Haruta Tomoko talked openly and secretly several times, but Croya just didn't answer her.
"Okay, we are done wandering around the village, let's leave now." Zhu Yu picked up his backpack and said, "Let's go. Otherwise, if those snakes come back again, then we really have no choice."
Originally, Tomoko Haruta wanted to object. After all, this village had not been carefully searched.
But when Zhu Yu said that those snakes might come back, she immediately stopped talking, picked up her backpack and followed the team.
Ran Jie handed the snake to Zhu Yu and explored the path in front with his guide Gru, while Cao Dalong and Qin Fei finished at the back.
Although Gru was not the leader of the guides, the four guides had talked together before and knew where they were going next, so there was no pressure at all when leading the way.
Outside the village, they could still encounter sporadic snakes.
However, I don’t know whether it was because they were discouraged from the previous snake fight or because they were alone. After seeing people, these snakes basically burrowed into the bushes and escaped.
Because of the snake disaster, everyone was more careful when walking forward. Fortunately, we didn't encounter any large beasts along the way, and there were very few dangers.
Two days later, they came to a lake.
"This is the target area." Gru was very cooperative now. He found that Zhu Yu and the others were not as greedy or vicious as his leader said before.
They just came here to look for things. They did not damage the environment here, did not discriminate against their own beliefs, and were very polite to themselves.
This is already very good.
Gru felt that he should have a good talk with Master Dut when he went back. In fact, these treasure hunters were quite good.
He knew that he was a man of few words, but these people had divine snakes in their hands!
I think Mr. Dutt will also be very interested!
"This lake used to belong to a temple. Later, the water in the lake rose and most of the temple was flooded, and then it became empty." Since Gru was sent here as a guide, he is still very familiar with this place, "It turns out that The monks have all left.”
"When did it happen? Where did the monk go?" Zhu Yu asked.
"About thirty years ago?" Gru recalled with squinted eyes, "Some of the monks at that time went to other places to build new temples, some went to other temples, and some returned to secular life."
Gru was also well prepared. Although Dutt seemed to have found four people at random, at least he had figured out the information from Tomoko Haruta before sending these four people who knew the details as guides.
Haruta Tomoko was an afterthought, but Zhu Yu had actually seen it a long time ago.
But with the green snake in his hand, and the fact that there was already a better treasure in the space, Zhu Yu felt that he might be able to get some benefits from Dutt this time.
As for Tomoko Haruta, let it be.
Although the lake looked like a small lake, it was quite big if you had to go around it in a circle, so after arriving here, Zhu Yu chose to set up camp and make preparations first.
In order to prevent being attacked by snakes or other wild beasts again, not only did they choose a relatively high place to camp this time, but they also dug a trench around it.
Ran Jie and the others sprinkled insect repellent powder in the ditch. Gru ran into the woods to find some insect repellent herbs and put them into the ditch, which was a simple defense line.
Qin Fei and Cao Dalong cut down some branches, sharpened them, and made traps in the ditch to prevent sneak attacks from wild beasts.
After doing all this, Qin Fei and Cao Dalong prepared to cook together.
Among the three people who followed Zhu Yu, Qin Fei always played the role of chef and driver. Of course, he occasionally played a guest role as a sniper, etc., not counting.
Although there are two women in the team, if they are expected to eat, they will probably have to wait until tomorrow.
Gru was also very conscious and went to the jungle to hunt a deer. There are not too many carnivores in this jungle, so these small herbivores are still there.
Cao Dalong caught two big fish weighing three to four kilograms by the lake. The meal was generally rich.
Eating the grilled fish cooked in the new province, Zhu Yu said:
"After eating, let's take a rest and then go out to determine the location of the temple. Once we find it, send a signal and tell others. If there is any situation, send the signal in time and pay attention to safety."
Most people feel sleepy after eating. This is mainly because gastrointestinal peristalsis requires a large amount of blood after eating.
There is only so much blood in the human body. Part of the blood that usually supplies the brain goes there, and the brain will feel sleepy due to a short-term lack of blood.
Of course, that's not always the case, but most of them are.
This was the case for Kroya and Haruta Tomoko. After eating, they lay in the tent and wanted to sleep.
Zhu Yu didn't expect the two women to play a big role in this operation. He left Gru and Qin Fei to watch the tent and protect the two women.
The three of them dispersed to both sides of the lake and the shore, looking for traces of the temple.
Zhu Yu had asked Gru before, and his knowledge of the temple was limited to what others said, and he had never been there, so he didn't let him go.
The lake covers almost several thousand acres, which is comparable to the reservoir behind Zhu Yu's village.
Under normal circumstances, you can walk around the lake in half a day.
Now that there are two people together, Zhu Yu feels that two hours is almost enough.
If I could find it earlier, I might be able to come back sooner.
Anyway, today is just a stepping stone. According to Zhu Yu's plan, even if he finds it today, he doesn't plan to explore it today.
The small lake is a drinking place for many wild animals. You can see paw prints and hoof prints of animals everywhere near the water. There are also some birds hovering at low altitude on the lake. Occasionally, a fierce one plunges into the water, and when it comes out, it has already filled its mouth. There is a fish in his mouth.
What surprised Zhu Yu was that some waterfowl just caught fish and then suddenly sank into the water and never got up again.
There are actually big guys that can eat birds in this lake!
Zhu Yu walked around the lake while admiring the scenery on the lake. His pace was very fast - mainly because the scenery here was not attractive enough to make him stop and take a look.
The eyes of the sky were opened, the lake was quite deep, and no suspicious buildings were found near the shore.
However, the scattered metal objects that occasionally appeared in the lake let Zhu Yu know that there had indeed been activities here.
Then continue to look for traces of human activity.
If the eyes of heaven are there, then it is cheating.
When Zhu Yu saw the metal objects in the lake and the sunken man-made objects, such as wooden boats, he found that according to the direction he was walking in, there were fewer things as he went forward, so there was only one possibility: this was not where the temple was. Location.
After all, the closer to the temple, the more traces of people's activities there should be, and the more things sinking into the lake.
But now it's the opposite, and that's telling.
Zhu Yu simply walked back - he started from the camp and walked clockwise from the left hand direction facing the lake, Ran Jie walked counterclockwise, and Cao Dalong went to search in the woods on the shore.
Now he returned and walked towards Ran Jie. Zhu Yu guessed that Ran Jie's side should be the focus and the best place to discover the temple.
But Ran Jie never sent a signal, which made Zhu Yu a little confused.
Gru and Qin Fei were a little confused when they saw Zhu Yu coming back.
Qin Fei stepped forward to ask, but Zhu Yu waved his hand and went to the lake.
Because there were still some bushes by the lake, they couldn't see clearly where Ran Jie had gone.
Zhu Yu opened his eyes and could see the traces of Ran Jie's walk.
The number of animals coming here is obviously more than the previous place I walked through.
This made Zhu Yu couldn't help but guess, could it be because there used to be a temple here?
After passing through the bushes and crossing the stream, slowly, a road with short grass appeared beside the lake in front.
Yes, it should be over here!
Zhu Yu felt happy, stepped on this road, and strode forward.
Then he saw the collapsed shed on the roadside, the shoes lost in the grass, and... Huh?
A bayonet!
Zhu Yu recognized it, this must be Sanba Dagai's bayonet!
The bayonet was extremely rusty, and the tip was broken.
The bayonet was thrown into the grass on the side of the road, and there should be blood stains on it.
As for whether it was broken during the battle or afterward, there is no way to find out.
But with this bayonet, Zhu Yu suddenly felt that the treasure Haruta Tomoko mentioned could actually be found.
After all, I owed too much debt when I was young, so it would be nice to be able to make up for it now.
Zhu Yu walked forward excitedly, and then he saw a figure.
In other words, two figures, but at this time Ran Jie was swaying, then suddenly sat down on the ground, and finally fell completely to the ground.
The other one was a monk. When he saw Ran Jie falling to the ground, he began to bend down and reached out to press Ran Jie's head.
"stop!"
Zhu Yu was startled. If he pressed this button, maybe Ran Jie would no longer be Ran Jie if he died, right?
He didn't believe that Ran Jie could be easily persuaded to lie down on his own initiative!
That guy must have used a conspiracy!
He shouted, and an automatic rifle appeared in his hand. At a distance of two hundred meters, Zhu Yu could be roughly called a sharpshooter!
But just as he was aiming, the monk smiled at Zhu Yu, and suddenly his figure faded and disappeared!
Zhu Yu didn't believe that people could really disappear out of thin air!
He opened his heavenly eye directly and immediately saw that the monk was still in his field of vision, but he took two steps back and was about to retreat!
"boom!"
Zhu Yu shot immediately!
The monk had also been watching here. When he saw Zhu Yu holding a gun, he naturally became afraid and turned around and ran away.
It was by running that he avoided Zhu Yu's shot.
Seeing the monk running away, Zhu Yu didn't fire again. He was concerned about Ran Jie's safety and immediately got up and ran over.
When Zhu Yu ran to Ran Jie, he saw that Ran Jie's eyes were closed tightly and his eyes were rolling around, so he knew that he must have fallen into a nightmare or hallucination and did not wake up!
Looking towards the direction where the monk ran away, there was indeed a large building over there.
Monk Temple!
Zhu Yu glanced around and found no monk. Knowing that there would be no harassment or danger for the time being, he shook Ran Jie hard!
Ran Jie was originally enchanted by the monk, but now he woke up after being shaken by Zhu Yu.
Seeing Zhu Yu, Ran Jie's first words were:
"Boss, be careful, there is a monk who is... dangerous!"
Zhu Yu nodded at him, knowing that this treasure hunt might still be a little troublesome.
This monk is not simple!
At this time, Cao Dalong and others who heard the gunfire also ran over.
Seeing the temple building over there and Ran Jie sitting on the ground, Cao Dalong also raised his pistol.
Who dares to touch the boss and boss?
(End of chapter)
