Chapter 2: Treasure Hunting
It's summer, and Dawson City is close to the Arctic Circle, and there is a polar daylight phenomenon, which can reach 18 hours of daylight.
Smelting the gold into gold bars, knocking out the silver metal and impurities on the surface, and then taking out the gold in the safe stored before, Mo Fan stopped Holke: "Let me drive the car." ”
"Zhang Dong drove your car out again...... You Chinese have such good energy. Holker, an American, was a little resistant to borrowing a car, but he still gave the car keys to Mo Fan: "Pay attention to safety on the road." ”
Mo Fan shrugged his shoulders: "Zhang Dong bought a car, it is the model you have been looking forward to for a long time, Wrangler." ”
"It's nice to be a kid without family constraints, I don't dare to spend money like you. Holker's pickup truck is very old, and he had the idea of changing it early on, but he has always been very frugal to support his three children to attend prestigious schools.
Mo Fan smiled: "Let's go, leave me some food." ”
“OK。 ”
Mo Fan had more than 200 ounces of gold in his hands, worth nearly 300,000 Canadian dollars, and it was not safe to stay on the construction site.
Driving on the potholed mining road, Mo Fan opened the window and lit a cigarette......
Deno Gold Mining is the largest gold mining company in the region, with only a few dozen miners, and is a 10-minute drive away. The doormen here all knew Mo Fan, so they drove the car in without registering his name.
"Hey man, I'm ready to go back to sleep if you don't come back again. Seeing Mo Fan coming, Roger, the manager of the mine, took the initiative to greet him and hugged Mo Fan.
"The car almost broke down on the road, so weigh it up. Mo Fan took out the gold bars in the bag and yawned.
“OK…… 228.42 oz. The price of gold has fallen so much lately that I can only give you a price of $1,243 per ounce. ”
"No problem, the most important thing is that the money arrives immediately. ”
"I'll transfer you money right away. ”
Gold is much cheaper to sell to gold mining companies than to sell it outside. Mo Fan didn't care too much, seeing the transfer text message coming from his mobile phone, Mo Fan signed the contract and returned to the mining area without much stop.
The Grand Forks gold mining area, with its crooked dirt roads, lined with piles of tailings and the wooden huts and sheds where the long-abandoned gold prospectors lived, is a sign that the glory of the past has now declined. The tailings are overgrown with weeds, and the area returns to pristine wilderness, a remote tranquility......
The old pickup truck crushed the thick slag laid on the road, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Suddenly, the car made a gurgling sound, and the engine turned off instantly.
"!"
I just said that the car almost broke down on the road, but it was just a random excuse. I didn't expect the car to really break down.
The road from the Aldena mine to the Deno Gold Mining Company is about 14 kilometres, just halfway through. There are no homes living in the area, and the nearest gold mining area is about 5 kilometres away...... If the car breaks down, it's hard enough to walk back.
Mo Fan jumped out of the car depressedly and checked it, but fortunately it was not serious, it was the clamp of the oil inlet pipe that had fallen off.
It's really an old pickup truck, with more than 900,000 miles on it. The clamp snapped and the inlet pipe fell off.
Mo Fan found the toolbox, barely fixed it with wire, and was about to try to see if he could still start the car, when the barking of the little milk dog came from the forest on the side of the road......
Mo Fan hurriedly walked over and took a branch to remove the grass.
It's a little husky, a newborn husky, and his mouth is still pink.
“……”
"How can there be a dog here?"
"There is no one living in a 5-kilometre radius...... Could it be a dog that was deliberately discarded?"
The newborn puppy has not yet opened its eyes. Mo Fan could pick it up with just one hand......
Picking up the surrounding grass, Mo Fan carefully held the dog in the palm of his hand: "It's so big, can you feed it?"
"Poor little one. ”
The dog was abandoned here, probably the work of trouble-disgusted gold diggers.
Mo Fan looked around and made sure there was no one.
"The car doesn't break down early or late, it just breaks down here......" Mo Fan sighed, looking at Xiao Hashi arching in his palm, the little guy was very hungry, and began to suck with his fingers. Just as he was about to leave, Mo Fan accidentally kicked a bulge on the ground, and when he looked closely, it was a bone...... Human bones.
It should be a human skull, Mo Fan was startled, and goosebumps suddenly exploded all over his body.
The bones have long been blackened, and the people who have been dead for a long time.
Mo Fan was depressed and wanted to leave quickly, and when he saw the human bones, he was inevitably stunned, but suddenly found that there was a corner of something peeking out of the ground next to the bones. Mo Fan kicked a corner, it was a square iron box, and it had already decayed. Mo Fan's kick directly smashed the box......
The iron box was rectangular, about 20 centimeters wide, and Mo Fan dug it out of the dirt. The box is quite heavy, about a dozen kilograms.
Mo Fan easily 'tore' the box, and inside was a notepad wrapped in oilskin paper. The belly armor of the two turtles under the notebook, the abdominal armor is yellow and black, with many spots on it, and it is incomplete, and there are strange runes engraved on it - is it an oracle bone inscription?
It's a bit similar to the oracle you see on TV.
Under the oracle bones, two thick pieces of brownish-red rust on the epidermis. Gold itself is not susceptible to corrosion, but it has a very strong chemical affinity with sulfides, which is easy to adsorb hydrogen sulfide acid gases in the air and present dark colors such as orange, brownish-red and other colors on the surface. Thick rust on the gold bricks, which takes a very long time......
There is also a bead under the box, which is round, smooth, and blue, like the color of a cloudless sky in the Yukon, very clear. If you look closely, there seems to be water flowing in the beads, which seems to be a modern handicraft thing......
Mo Fan was excited, and he didn't pay attention to the sharp cut on the edge of the iron sheet of the box on the back of his hand, this bead completely attracted Mo Fan, and after playing for a long time, Mo Fan looked at the bones on the ground, but he didn't notice that the blood stuck to the bead along the fingers. In Mo Fan's palm, the beads emitted a faint light, Mo Fan suddenly felt his head dizzy, at this moment, his spiritual power seemed to be linked to another world, as long as his mind moved, he could travel through the past......
Mo Fan hurriedly shook his head, came back to his senses and found that the bead in his hand was gone, but as soon as his mind moved, it appeared on his hand again.
"This ......" Mo Fan's heart set off a terrifying wave, and he couldn't calm down at all.
Born in New China, he grew up under the red flag and received a materialist education since he was a child. At this moment, the bead disappeared and appeared and appeared in Mo Fan's hand, appeared and disappeared, only changing with his own thoughts, which made Mo Fan cry out in disbelief, wondering if he was dreaming, and slapped himself twice.
"Not a dream......"
A car came from afar, and Mo Fan hurriedly returned to the car and hid the iron box......