The next day, after breakfast, when Zach came over, Zhu Yu planned to take others out for a walk.
Elder Hassan had breakfast under the service of the two girls and was wiping his hands. Seeing Zhu Yu and the others were about to go out, he asked:
"Mr. Zhu, are you still going out today?"
"Yes. I want to find the location of the gold mine." Zhu Yu said frankly, "I believe it should be near the base. As long as you look carefully, you should be able to find it."
Hearing what Zhu Yu said, Hassan was really pleased. He suddenly thought of something and said:
"Recently I heard that some strange treasure hunters have come to the wasteland. Please be careful when you go out. Do you need me to send a few people with guns to follow you?"
"No need." Zhu Yu waved his hand, joking, it's hard to get rid of this Zach, how about a few more? Wouldn't that be more troublesome?
However, when he heard that another treasure hunter was coming, Zhu Yu asked Ran Jie and the others to check their guns and bullets so as not to be caught off guard in the event of a conflict.
Zach had already brought a newly equipped assault rifle and got into the car with great interest.
"Zach, this is for you." Zhu Yu took out ten gold coins and handed them to him, "It's not much, but it means something."
"Mr. Zhu, I can't ask for this." Zach waved his hand hurriedly, "I'm very happy to follow you out. Besides, you are a distinguished guest of our tribe. I really can't ask for this!"
Zhu Yu thought for a moment, put away the gold coins, took out a stack of red notes and handed them over and said:
"Then take this. I know this money can be spent in your market, so don't be too little."
Zach declined again and accepted.
Zach was very excited after accepting the money. When he knew that Zhu Yu was going to the base, he volunteered and said:
"I know where there are traces of digging. I can take you all around today."
With Zach, a local, leading the way, the rest of the walk was easy.
Although Zach could not provide specific coordinates, at least where Zhu Yu wanted to go, Zach could always take him there using the shortest distance and the most convenient way.
"There are traces of people staying here a long time ago." Zak pointed at a cave halfway up the mountain and said, "Before the war, some old people said that this was an ancient copper mine thousands of years ago, but later copper mining When it’s done, it’s abandoned.”
There are also some ores with green rust at the entrance of the cave, and some traces of human fire.
Although it was very hot outside, there was cool air coming out from the entrance of the cave.
"Want to go in and take a look?" Zach looked at Zhu Yu and asked.
"Take a look." Zhu Yu opened his eyes and found that there were indeed traces of human activity here - not recently, but probably a few months or years ago.
He raised his eyes and looked over. This place was only one or two kilometers away from the base. It was really possible.
After walking more than ten meters into the cave entrance, I felt like I had entered an air-conditioned room, and the sweat that had just appeared on my body dried immediately.
Zach even felt cold.
"Mr. Zhu, it's unlikely that there is a mine here, right?" He couldn't help tightening his clothes and said, "I can't see any signs of walking around..."
He really felt cold!
However, looking at the expressions and movements of Zhu Yuranjie and others, there was no change. Just like ordinary people, Zach was a little strange. Don't they feel cold?
After walking about two hundred meters in, Zhu Yu found that there was a shaft going down, but then there were no traces of human activity.
"Get out, it shouldn't be here."
The group of people retreated. Zach walked to the entrance of the cave and was basked in the sun before feeling that he was getting warm again.
However, he had just been exposed to the sun for two minutes and felt comfortable inside again, so he couldn't help but say:
"It's like an air-conditioned room inside. It's really comfortable. If you live here in the summer, it's actually not bad."
Zhu Yu said nothing and looked around.
He has looked at three sides of the base and found no problems.
Only the hilly plains to the south are left.
Zhu Yu never paid attention to that side, mainly because he subconsciously felt that there should be no gold mines on that side of the plain.
On the contrary, the possibility is greater in the mountains.
Now it seems that I may have made a mistake.
Now he is on the north side of the base. To go south, he has to cross the base.
When arriving at the base, Ran Jie suddenly said:
"Boss, there is someone in the base!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several people running out of the base, two with guns in their hands, and two with metal detectors in their hands.
Seeing Zhu Yu's car, the other party's face was very wary.
"Mr. Zhu, do we want to go in?" Zach was not afraid at all. This is their territory!
"No, go around." Zhu Yu didn't want to cause trouble or cause unnecessary misunderstandings, "Go to the south."
Zach was a little unwilling, but he still listened to Zhu Yu's words, opened the car window, shouted a few words over there, and then drove to the south of the base.
The few people watched Zhu Yu's car leave. When they saw the car go away, they felt relieved and finally returned to the base.
However, they still stayed alone and were on guard in the direction facing Zhu Yu and the others, probably because they were afraid that Zhu Yu and the others would try to counterattack.
All this was seen by Cao Dalong who was sitting in the pickup truck.
The south is mostly flat land, with occasional hills. Looking at the overall environment, it looks like an alluvial plain created by floods from the north.
The car drove to the highest hill and stopped.
After getting out of the car, Zach said:
"Originally, several tribes near us planned to reclaim this place into cultivated land. However, the land here is barren and lacks water, so nothing can be grown, so we simply gave up." Zhu Yu looked around and found that there were no car marks here. Young man then said:
"Let's come down and take a walk. It's not safe here, so we won't divide into groups. We'll go around in a circle before talking."
This area looks flat from a distance, but when you walk in, you will find that there are still many stones.
A few people walked leisurely, and Zhu Yu came to a place with many rocks and stopped.
There are many ruts and human footprints nearby, and there is even loose soil on the new road nearby that was dug out by cars.
Zhu Yu walked to the middle of the stones. He touched the stones and opened his eyes.
These stones were actually newly moved!
This is interesting!
Zhu Yu looked deeper and saw what he wanted!
Under the stone, there are obvious traces of being excavated and then filled!
I just don’t know if the landfill here is abandoned after being found to be worthless or is it a gold mine that has not yet been mined?
The Tianyan's field of vision continued downward, and when it reached more than 20 meters underground, Zhu Yu finally saw something different.
Below, there is indeed a bifurcated mine!
And the bottom is very spacious, and a truck can be driven in.
However, because a steel frame support structure is used at the entrance of the passage, even if a car drives over it and there are stones pressing on it, it will not collapse.
Zhu Yu walked along the direction of the underground passage for a while, and then felt that it was too deep and could not see.
He bent down and began to search around here.
Soon, he found several rocks covered in dust.
In Zhu Yu's eyes, these seemingly inconspicuous stones contained very tiny gold powder——
This is gold ore!
Zhu Yu is basically sure now.
Next, the final step that needs to be determined is to see if there is enough gold ore down here for the tribe to mine.
If there is not, then there is no need for Zhu Yu to say this. If there is, then his plan can be implemented.
Because it is still unclear how much ore is left in it and whether there is anything else.
Zhu Yu walked around and then made a decision.
He came to the top of a certain mining tunnel - where he could no longer see the place.
However, Zhu Yu estimated that there should be a mine deep down, so he planned to dig deeper.
Seeing Zhu Yu take out a short-handled shovel and start digging deeply, the others immediately got their tools and started digging.
However, Qin Fei did not move. He stood on a high place with a gun and began to observe the surroundings, acting as a scout.
The soil was quite hard, but it was not a problem for Zhu Yu and the others.
Zach followed along and dug excitedly - he also dreamed of seeing the same situation as yesterday and being able to dig out something.
But there are no ruins here, so how could there be anything hidden?
Of course, Zach was just wondering, not doubting.
Soon, I dug down more than two meters, and the soil was already a little moist.
But there are also more stones.
Four people dug a large pit that was almost two meters in diameter and two meters deep, and was heading towards three meters.
"We have to dig so deep where we are, and it's time to get out of the water."
Cao Dalong chatted while digging.
"Stop for a moment." Zhu Yu glanced down and said:
"You guys go up first, and I'll take a look first."
With an increase of three meters, Zhu Yu could already see things in the underground mine.
Then he saw something that surprised him.
It turns out that there is something like this in here?
What did Lao Mei do before she left?
But this did provide Zhu Yu with an idea.
Carrying the short-handled shovel to the ground, Zach asked curiously:
"Mr. Zhu, did you find anything?"
"No." Zhu Yu waved his hand, "Okay, we are almost exhausted. Let's find a shady place to rest."
Ran Jie and the others thought it was normal. If Zhu Yu needed to tell them, he would naturally tell them. If he didn't need to tell them, there was no need to say it.
They were used to it, but Zach wasn't used to it.
But given his status and being difficult to ask, he felt very uncomfortable.
Several people left the hole there and got into the car.
Qin Fei also returned to the car from the reconnaissance position. Zach drove the car north, drove to the side of a mountain, and stopped in a shady place.
"Take a rest and eat something." Zhu Yu said, "Let's look for other places next."
That's true, but Ran Jie and others who are familiar with Zhu Yu actually already know that Zhu Yu already has a definite idea.
In the afternoon, Zach drove them around to other places, mainly to the south. When it was getting dark, the group returned to the village.
Hassan was not in the big courtyard, but Zhenluona waited for the maid to see Zhu Yu and the others coming back, and immediately began to prepare washing and food for them.
Zach drove away and left, while Zhu Yu and the others washed and ate.
After eating, he said to Jenrona:
"When Elder Hassan comes back, tell me that I have something to discuss with him."
When he said this, Jenrona nodded - Zhu Yu was speaking Chinese, he was just testing, but he didn't expect Jenrona to understand!
what's going on? You understand, but you still pretend to be dumb every day? Or really dumb?
Jane Luona probably knew what Zhu Yu was thinking and hurried out.
Half an hour later, Hassan hurried back.
Zhu Yu guessed that Jenrona contacted Hassan through some method, and then Hassan came back.
"Mr. Zhu, are you looking for me?" There was expectation and doubt on Hassan's face.
"Yes." Zhu Yu invited Hassan into the room. At this time, Jenrona came in and brought tea to Hassan.
"I think I've found the location of the Old American Gold Mine."
"Really?" After listening to Zhu Yu's words, Hassan stood up excitedly and even overturned the tea that Zhen Luona gave him.
Jenrona hurriedly stepped forward to clean it up. Hassan didn't care at all. He picked up the cup and put it on the table. He also realized his gaffe, adjusted his mood and said:
"Mr. Zhu, I really didn't expect you to really find..."
In fact, Zach had already gone over to report to him.
According to the process described by Zach, Hassan felt that Zhu Yu returned empty-handed again today.
But he didn't care much about it. After all, it was so big here that it was impossible to find it all at once.
I just didn’t expect Zhu Yu to say that he had found it!
"Really." Zhu Yu said, "We looked for a place outside today, and we are basically sure. In addition,"
When Zhu Yu said this, he looked at Hassan and then at Jenrona before continuing:
"And I'm basically sure that there are also supplies in that gold mine. The supplies that haven't been taken away from the base should be more than the supplies in the cave we found before..."
"Really?" Elder Hassan stood up excitedly again this time!
This time I was even more excited and almost overturned the table!
He couldn't help but be excited!
After all, the dozens of tons of supplies previously have not been completely processed yet!
Some of those materials have been exchanged for food and daily necessities and distributed to the people in the tribe.
Most of them are exchanging things with surrounding tribes. Hassan has been busy with these things these days.
After all, those new weapons and various tools are real hard currency. Which tribe in the surrounding area doesn't want them?
Hassan made a rough calculation and found that just these dozens of tons of supplies could allow everyone in the tribe to live comfortably for two years!
According to what Zhu Yu said, if there were more supplies, wouldn't the entire tribe be distributed?
He couldn't help but be excited!
Now he is the only one in charge in the tribe. Although Elder Kaman has not been executed, the people in the tribe, especially those whose family members have died, have greater opinions on Elder Kaman.
Hassan really didn't want Kaman to be executed. Although the two of them had their differences, they had been fighting together for many years and had helped each other when they were young.
If he wants to prevent Kaman from being killed, he must do more to make the lives of the tribesmen better and divert the attention of the tribesmen.
Now that Zhu Yu said this, wasn't it just to give him a pillow when he fell asleep?
"Then...then..." Elder Hassan ignored the table this time and asked excitedly: "Then...Mr. Zhu, can you go dig that cave tomorrow?"
In fact, he already knew what Zhu Yu and the others had been through today, and he could naturally guess that the location of the cave was most likely on the flat land south of the base.
"Okay, I will take everyone there tomorrow." Zhu Yu nodded, "This matter needs to be done as soon as possible. We also saw treasure hunters at the base. It will be troublesome if they get there first."
"Yes, yes, I will inform people now, tomorrow morning... no, early tomorrow morning, we will set off!"
Elder Hassan didn't want to stop for a moment. If it wasn't dark and inconvenient, he even wanted to set out now to dig out those things and transport them back!
Janelona silently packed the things on the table, while Elder Hassan didn't want to stop for a minute and left in a hurry.
Zhu Yu said to Jenrona:
"You should also sleep early."
At this time, two cars drove to the place where Zhu Yu and the others were digging during the day.
Looking at the two-meter-large pit on the ground, there was nothing in the pit and nothing outside the pit. This time, someone still jumped in.
Someone else went down with a metal detector, but found that there was nothing underground - of course, if he had been a few meters higher, he should have been able to detect something.
It just didn't look like there was anything here, so I hurried up again.
"What do you think Zhu Yu is doing? Suddenly a big hole was dug here. Is there one here too? Or has something been dug away?"
"No. Our drone observed it from a high altitude. When they left, there was nothing in the car."
"What will happen?" The leader was also confused.
"If there's nothing, don't worry about it. As long as he doesn't leave, it must be that he hasn't been found yet, so we can just follow him." Those who had previously objected to following Zhu Yu now looked away, "Wait until he leaves, or we observe him Find the treasure and then take action!”
Others agreed with this view, so several people got in the car again and left here.
In the base, the treasure hunters found nothing in the end and left angrily.
Early the next morning, Narona got up and prepared water for washing and food for Zhu Yu.
When Zhu Yu got up, there was a lot of noise outside the yard. Apparently the tribe residents were ready.
Zhu Yu couldn't wait any longer. After washing up under the service of Zhen Luona, he ate something in a hurry and got into the pickup truck driven by Zach.
This time Hassan was also in the car.
What surprised Zhu Yu was that there was a big truck in the tribe!
The truck is open-top and looks like 70% new. It seems that it was bought in the past two days.
When the car was about to start, Hu Guanghui also squeezed into the car, looked at Zhu Yu, and asked:
"Mr. Zhu, I heard that you found something hidden by Lao Mei again? That's amazing!"
"You need to dig it out first to be sure." Zhu Yu said, "Let's take a look and then talk."
"Well, I think it's definitely fine!"
The convoy left and headed south of the base. The residents of the tribe carried guns and tools, and they were all very excited.
They have already tasted the sweetness of the materials in the cave. It is said that there are more things this time. How can they not be excited?
When the car arrived at the destination, the piles of rocks, the sun had just emerged.
"Just dig under these rocks, this area!" Zhu Yu circled the location.
The people in the tribe immediately started digging.
After about an hour, the mouth of the mine was dug out.
At this moment, the man sent out by Elder Hassan to guard suddenly sent a signal.
There is a situation!
(End of chapter)
