Although it is said that curiosity kills people, curiosity is indeed a great driving force for human progress, and it is precisely because of the curiosity about the stars, the sea and the distance that human beings get out of the comfort of their homes and explore the unknown places in the distance. Although Wang Xingguo was suspicious, when Mr. Min told him that Dick had established an outpost, Wang Xingguo's adventure gene began to sprout.

Maybe there is a more important reason, Xia Ruobing really hopes to find the royal tomb of the Loulan royal family, there may be the key to unlocking the secret of Loulan, and Mr. Min is not wrong in his judgment, as long as Xia Ruobing agrees, Wang Xingguo will follow in Xia Ruobing's footsteps even if he has more doubts in his heart!

Two weeks later, Wang Xingguo and his entourage landed at the airport of a small Nordic country, and Dick had already arranged for someone to pick them up.

"How can there be such a poor and backward place in the developed capitalist world?" Chen Badai got out of the car and sighed.

Except for the neon mansion and gourmet champagne, no one would believe that there is such a bad traffic environment in a developed country if they hadn't come here in person. The group spent most of their time bumped in the almost roadless wilderness, and since leaving the airport, they haven't seen a single house along the way!

"It used to be the residence of the Loulan people, but then it was abandoned, and the old Citchell was rebuilt, and it is such a gathering place for humans within a radius of several hundred kilometers." Mr. Min said.

"Didn't you say that people had been buried in the mine with him a long time ago?" Chen Badai took a breath of cold air, which could make his dizzy head, which had been tossed for days, clear up a little.

"Oh, but in pursuit of the riches of the Zacher mines, there will always be people who have traveled far and wide to find this place, and then some people have never left, and have lived here for generations." Mr. Min explained.

The human quest for wealth is sometimes unbelievably tenacious.

"These people have lived here all their lives?" Chen Badai thinks that he is hard enough, but let him live here, or he will go crazy in a year.

"It should be said that most of them have lived for several lifetimes." Mr. Min laughed.

Chen Badai could only be stunned.

Dick rented one of the best houses in town as an outpost, and the town was still small on the surface, estimated to be inhabited by tens of thousands of people in its glory days, but now it is about a ghost town. Mr. Min said that there are still about 1,000 people still watching the diamonds here, and that Dick and his party have more than 20 people, which is undoubtedly a big deal for the town.

Knowing that Mr. Min brought the team to support, Dick personally went out to greet him, and saw Mr. Min greeting him affectionately, and the two hugged each other, Wang Xingguo felt that the relationship between the two of them was very unusual.

"Dick, how's it going?" After saying hello, before entering the door, Mr. Min couldn't wait to ask.

"Nope! None of them were willing to give out any information, but I'm sure someone here had discovered the mine. Dick said dejectedly.

When Wang Xingguo got off the bus, he had already noticed that those people in the town were looking at them with some hostility.

"We didn't manage it, but legally, it's still the property of the Zacher family! I am the only guardian of the red dragon. Dick was a little annoyed that the people of their land, who had taken away their wealth, were now outsiders.

Mr. Min comforted Dick a few words and introduced Wang Xingguo and others to him, and Dick felt a little out of shape at this time, and shook hands with Wang Xingguo and others. When he saw Xia Ruobing, his eyes lit up, and he didn't let go of Xia Ruobing's hand for a long time, and said, "Mr. Min, you know me too well, I knew that you would send an angel to help me." ”

This sentence was somewhat mindless, Xia Ruobing withdrew his hand a little embarrassed, thinking that it was better to get to the point, so he said: "Mr. Dick, although Mr. Min introduced some situations, you still know the specific situation best, I hope you can have no reservations about us." ”

"Will I have any reservations in the presence of angels?" Dick said with a smile.

"Hey," Chen Badai said quietly, stabbing the Sherpa "the second hoarding dog!" ”

"If you don't say a word, you'll die?" Sherpa said impatiently.

Chen Badai shut up and took a step back, and the provincial Sherpa came over with a slap.

Sure enough, when Dick introduced the situation, his eyes were the same as Corey's left and right from Xia Ruobing, which made Xia Ruobing a little embarrassed, and he could only avoid Dick's fiery gaze, but fortunately, Dick was also a nobleman after all, and he would not show his love naked like Corey.

Dick introduced the situation for more than an hour, but there was not much information available, Dick spent a lot of money to move a holographic map system to this barren land, but in these thousands of square kilometers of land, to find the mine is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the inhabitants here do not cooperate, they seem to have thought that they are the masters of this place, and Dick, the real master, is an outsider, an outsider who has come to plunder their wealth.

"If we find the mine, we will find the tomb of the king, but now we have nothing but those diamonds, and only the clue of the legend remains." Dick was resentful, and mentioned several times that this was his own land and that he could expel these people if he wanted to, but in reality Dick had nothing to do with them.

Resentment is just a sentiment, but it has no effect on finding the mine, and on the contrary, it can become an obstacle, since these people have lived here longer, and in this sense, Dick and the others are indeed out-and-out outsiders.

"I'm sure those red diamonds must have come from here." After Dick finished introducing the situation, he took out a delicate box from his pocket, and there was an uncarved diamond the size of a pigeon's egg in the box, Xia Ruobing's eyes were attracted to it, this is a blood-red diamond, at first glance, it will be mistaken for a bloodstone or ruby, but if you look closely, the light emitted by this diamond under the light is not similar to a ruby.

Dick handed the diamond to a few people and circulated it, and after Wang Xingguo read it, he gave it back to Dick, who closed the box and said, "This kind of red diamond has only been produced in that mine, and there is no place in the world." ”

"Hear Mr. Min say that the person who sold this diamond is dead?" Wang Xingguo asked.

Dick was a little frustrated when he heard this, and only replied after a while: "Yes, two years ago there were such diamonds on the black market, the quantity was not large, mixed in the diamond trading market, I learned about it by chance, I bought this one, and then began to look for the first-hand person who sold these diamonds, but something interesting happened," Dick sold a pass, glanced at everyone, and continued, "This first-hand seller, his name is Walla, and he is from this town. ”

"Huh?" This result was unexpected, Xia Ruobing and the others were surprised.

"But the strange thing is that when I found him, although he promised to pay a lot of money, Walla never talked about the origin of the diamonds, and he extorted a full 10 million dollars from me!" Dick gritted his teeth and said, "And then, he really died!" ”

"How did he die?" Wang Xingguo asked.

"Drowned. But I learned from other sources that Walla was suffering from a chronic illness, and maybe Walla knew that her time was running out, and she was said to have spent her last days desperately enjoying and splurging and then one morning, dying in the hotel pool," Dick shrugged, "There are some peculiar things about Walla, such as inexplicably blinking rapidly, lack of concentration, sometimes hallucinating, sudden mania and aggressiveness, although the autopsy report given by the doctor said that it was related to his heavy use of psychotropic drugs... … But I don't think so. ”

"Why?" Xia Ruobing asked, these symptoms are indeed typical symptoms of psychotropic drugs.

"Because my ancestors also had this kind of symptom in their family, but at that time, psychotropic drugs had not yet been invented." Dick said.

Although Dick's words were understated, Wang Xingguo felt an inexplicable feeling, and he felt that there was not a simple thing behind this matter.

"What's even weirder, we've been here for two months, and when we asked the residents about Walla, they all flatly denied that there was such a person." Dick said again.

"They're trying to hide something, or maybe Walla isn't from here." Wang Xingguo asked.

"Not really. He's a guy here, but everyone seems to be keeping it a secret. Dick said that in Wang Xingguo's view, this clue has little value.

"Well, since this was once the residence of the Loulan people, according to the traffic conditions at that time, the mine should not be far from here, which can reduce the difficulty of our search." Chen Badai felt that this kind of thing of Chen sesame rotten grain was not good, so he hurried to find the mine, and maybe he could find a few diamonds from it.

"Oh...... That's where the difficulty lies, according to family records, the town was built far away from the mine in order to keep it a secret. ”

"How far?" Chen Badai felt that the problem was serious.

"According to the situation of mules and horses as a means of transportation at that time, the miners here need to walk at least a week from here to the mine." Dick said.

"A week?" Chen Badai's eyes widened.

"Wealth eats away at people's conscience, and in order to protect the royal tomb and the mine, our ancestors spent a lot of thought, and no one knows the exact location except the guardians of the royal tomb." Dick said this, full of reverence.

"For example?" Xia Ruobing asked, she was a little curious, because no matter how much the secret is kept, there will always be a time when it leaks, and there were so many people living here, and there was no leakage at all.

"Every time they go to the mines, they have to wear this special mask." Dick pulled out a mask from under the table, a mask that could breathe but not see anything.

"Every time I set out at night, every miner would wear a mask like this, and the only thing I could see was my ancestors and mules and horses."

"Oh my God! It's really hard to keep it a secret! Chen Badai said with emotion.