Chapter 498: Traitor
"Got it! Someone's been dug up! ”
The patriarch immediately ran over, and when he saw a corner of the clothes that were buried under the ruins, he hurriedly commanded his men to come and dig them.
"Slow down, slow down, slow down!"
"Don't pull, slow down!"
"Don't drag! Lift it slowly! Lift it up, yes, lift it, put it slowly, put it slowly! ”
After a while, Xiao Yan and the three of them were carried out one by one, looking at Xiao Yan and the three lying on the ground, the patriarch closed his eyes and shook his head helplessly, "Carry it away!" ”
At this moment, a person said weakly: "Patriarch, they don't seem to be dead yet. ”
"What?"
The patriarch pushed aside the people standing in front of him, stretched out his hand and put it under Xiao Yan's nose, and then put his hand under the noses of Huangfu Nan and Tuoshe and tried them respectively, and then his face was overjoyed.
"Quick! Go get a doctor! They still have a breath! Fast! Carry them to my room first! ”
As soon as the order was given, everyone took action, carrying people and inviting doctors, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
"Patriarch, they are fine, as long as they are frightened, just take a rest, I'll go and prescribe some soothing medicine for them, drink it and sleep, and they will wake up soon!"
"Excellent! Go for it! ”
The patriarch looked at Xiao Yan and the others who were lying motionless on the bed with a weak breath, and shook his head helplessly.
Here, as soon as the patriarch walked out, over there, a figure quickly flashed in, looked at the sleeping Xiao Yan and the others, and reached out and took out a jade bottle.
"Don't blame me, you have to blame your life for being too big, you can't die like this, in that case, I'll give you a ride!"
As he spoke, he pulled off the cork of the jade bottle, and as soon as the cork was pulled, a foul smell wafted out, just smelling this smell, he could guess what was contained in it, he held the jade bottle in one hand, and was ready to pinch Xiao Yan's chin in the other.
Bang~!
The jade bottle was thrown to the ground at once, and the green liquid inside flowed out quickly, forming countless foams on the ground.
"You...... You...... You're not faint? ”
Xiao Yan sat up slowly, "If I faint, won't you succeed?" ”
As he spoke, Xiao Yan got out of bed with his shoes on, and approached this person step by step, "Say!" Who sent you? Why kill me? ”
The man stepped back step by step until he was back to the wall, "I...... I ......"
At this moment, the door was opened from the outside with a "bang", and I saw the patriarch break in with a large group of people, pointing at the person who had been forced into the corner by Xiao Yan and yelling.
"Traitor! It turned out to be you! You assassinated the envoy! Say, did you also do the case of the loss of the spirit stone? ”
The man kept shaking his head, "I didn't!" I didn't! ”
"Are you still quibbling? Hurry up and recruit from the truth! ”
As he spoke, the man gritted his teeth, and a stream of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Be careful, he's going to take poison!"
The sharp-eyed Huangfu Nan saw this scene and immediately reminded him, but it was still a step too late, Xiao Yan held his body that was about to fall, and held his pulse with one hand.
Then he turned his head and shook his head at Huangfu Nan and Tuoshe, "The poison is too strong to be saved." ”
When the patriarch saw this person dead, he said angrily: "Such a scum, scum, it's not a pity to die!" Then he immediately smiled at Xiao Yan and the others, "Fortunately, the three adults were alert, they didn't fall for his plot, and they also helped us find out the traitor. ”
Facing the patriarch's words, Xiao Yan disagreed, "It's too early for the patriarch to say this, I think the patriarch should take us to see the place where the spirit stone is excavated first, right?" ”
The patriarch was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "It should be, it should be, three adults please!" ”
Then under the leadership of the patriarch, Xiao Yan and the three came to the entrance of a cave, and now as soon as they saw the cave, Xiao Yan and the others had a trace of resistance from the bottom of their hearts, for fear that it would be another trap, the patriarch saw the hesitation in the eyes of Xiao Yan and the others, so he said with a smile.
"Don't worry, three adults, this is just an ordinary cave, so let's do it, I'll show you the way in front, don't worry, I won't joke with my life."
Speaking of this, if Xiao Yan and they still hesitate, it would be too stingy, besides, they came here to investigate the loss of the spirit stone, if they were so timid, how should they investigate?
Following the footsteps of the patriarch, Xiao Yan and the three of them walked into this cave, originally Xiao Yan thought that this cave was as dim as the previous one, but he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the cave, he found that there was a hole in it, and deep rut marks could be seen everywhere on the spacious passage, which showed that there were often cars coming in and out here, and on both sides of the passage, there were countless night pearls, illuminating this passage as if it was day.
As you walk along, you can still meet some people pushing carts full of large stones passing by from time to time.
"Hello Patriarch!"
"Hello Patriarch!"
"Well, hard work, hard work!"
On the way, the patriarch kept greeting the people who were pushing the cart, and the patriarch pointed to the stones contained in the cart like Xiao Yan and they introduced.
"These are the original stones of the spirit stones, that is, the spirit stones that have not been polished and processed, I believe that the adults should have seen various grades of fire spirit stones, and those fire spirit stones were extracted from these stones just now."
Fire Spirit Stone?
Xiao Yan and the three of them were stunned, they naturally all knew about the fire spirit stone, it was because they knew that they knew more about the preciousness of the fire spirit stone, any piece of fire spirit stone could be auctioned for a sky-high price in the outside world, but they didn't expect that there was actually a fire spirit stone mine here? No wonder the Xiao family is so rich, even Xiao Yan is a little moved in the face of such a fire spirit stone mine, let alone those thieves?
After visiting the mining of this fire spirit stone mine, the patriarch took Xiao Yan and them to visit their fire spirit stone processing base, a fire spirit stone, from being mined, to the final forming, the middle has to go through more than a dozen steps such as polishing, opening the light and so on before finally forming the fire spirit stone we see on the market, each step in the middle, there is a special person to take care of it, to prevent someone from guarding and stealing, the final formed fire spirit stone will be placed by the patriarch and the supervisor in a treasure house, Then there will be a special person to transport these formed fire spirit stones back to the headquarters on a regular basis.
Each link in the middle has a special person to handle, it stands to reason that there should be no scene of theft, right?
"Patriarch, may I ask, how did you first find out that the spirit stone was stolen?"
The patriarch recalled: "It should have been a year ago, at that time, it was the day when the above sent people to collect the spirit stones, and we took people to the treasure house as usual, but when we loaded the spirit stones in the treasure house one by one, we found that it did not match the spirit stone data on the ledger, but the data gap was not very large, so we didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was the wrong number when we entered the warehouse."
But after that time, the number of spirit stones in shortage each time is more and more, more and more, and finally the shortage reached half of the total, which attracted our attention, and then after our investigation, we did not find anything abnormal, but each time the spirit stone was handed in less and less, which has caused the dissatisfaction of the headquarters, and the headquarters even wants to withdraw our mining rights, you know, this mining rights are related to the survival of our whole clan, we really have no choice, so I wrote to the headquarters, hoping that the headquarters can send someone to check, Give us back a clean slate! ”