Chapter 29 Metallurgical Caves

The desire for profit is probably the state I am in now, but this desire is completely uncontrollable. I have to say that people's love and worship for gold has really melted into their bones and has become a kind of nature and instinct.

Some people may refute that, after all, there are always some 'noble people' in this world who treat money like dung, but I have to admit that in front of this pile of gold, I am just a vulgar mortal. My desires are infinitely magnified, and I can't wait to leave this hellish place with all this gold immediately, and I don't care about anything, what friends are moral, what courtesy, righteousness and shame, all fucking fuck out.

This terrible thought lasted for a long time, but fortunately, when the excitement subsided, I gradually regained my senses, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, feeling extremely ashamed of the idea that I had just left Lin Qiao'er and the Taoist priest behind. But even so, I still can't get enough of this gold.

Yang Mengqing's face became flushed with extreme excitement, I guess my face should be similar, subconsciously licked her lips, and asked her, "These gold...... What to do? ”

She looked at me, and there was desire in her eyes, but she was quickly suppressed by another rational emotion, and said in a firm tone, "Take it first!" As long as you help me find Abba and Auntie, I don't want any of this gold! ”

I looked at her with some surprise, and found that her eyes were sincere and her expression was firm, and I knew that what she said was true, and I couldn't help but be impressed by her. But her words did make me moved, I nodded, and said to her, "Don't worry, I will help you, we will bring these gold bars first, as for what to do, we will talk about it later." ”

Yang Mengqing looked at me gratefully and nodded incessantly. We knew it wouldn't be wise to stay in this damn place, but for the next half or half an hour, we were all wondering how to take this crate of gold. This thing is no better than others, although the volume is not large, but it is deadly heavy, in terms of color and weight, the purity of this gold brick is extremely high. I really don't know how these people got this pure gold, even if there is really a gold mine in Yushugou, it is not easy to refine this kind of pure gold, and I haven't heard Yang Mengqing say that there is a place for gold refining in Fengyang Town?

There were a total of thirty gold bricks in this box, and each one was exactly the same size as the one I picked up on the high platform, about a kilogram, and thirty pieces were about thirty kilograms.

It took me a lot of effort to take such a heavy thing away. I first emptied the backpack, picked up the gold bricks one by one and stacked them neatly in the backpack, and then picked out the useful things in the backpack before and put them in until I couldn't hold anything at all. I tried to lift it, at least more than 40 kilograms, and when I carried it on my shoulders, it almost crushed my waist.

Fortunately, I am usually diligent in exercising, my physical fitness is good, and after adapting to the weight, I feel that there is no problem in walking normally, but if I want to run, it is a little enough.

Yang Mengqing didn't have a backpack, so he couldn't help me share the weight, so he could only hold a shotgun for me. When everything was done, I made an OK gesture to her, and as the two of them were about to go up the ladder, there was a sudden fluttering sound from the high platform, and then a terrible baby howl came through the rock tunnel, it was the strange bird.

In an instant, the faces of both of us changed, and it was impossible to return the same way, so I hurriedly beckoned: "Quick, enter the mine!" ”

In a hurry, I didn't have time to think about which way to choose, so I randomly chose the mine tunnel on the side of the water and drilled in. There was no light in the mine, and after walking for a while, the light shining into the cave gradually disappeared, and the road ahead was pitch black, and the cry of strange birds kept coming from behind, but fortunately, the sound stayed in the cave and did not follow the mine.

We all breathed a sigh of relief, but we didn't dare to stay. I took the camera out of my backpack and turned on the night vision mode, and the situation in the mine was immediately displayed in the lens. Yang Mengqing was already in college in a big city, and his knowledge was wider than that of a Taoist priest, so he recognized what it was at a glance, and shouted in a low tone of adoration: "Wow! Night vision, this guy also has night vision function, so advanced! ”

"Of course, you don't want to know what I'm doing!" I'm a little proud that cameras are not unusual in big cities, but there are very few with night vision, and most of them are only available to outdoor enthusiasts and some people who do interviewing and recording work.

Yang Mengqing grabbed my hand, and the other hand held a shotgun as a precaution, and the two of them walked slowly towards the depths of the mine.

After walking nearly 100 meters, I gradually heard the sound of water coming from the left side of the mine, and I listened close to the rock wall, and found that the sound of water was coming from the side of the rock wall, and I thought that it was almost the end. Sure enough, after walking about ten meters or so, the front suddenly opened up, and there was light shining overhead.

I looked up and saw that at the end of the mine was a flat, wide riverbed, paved with pebbles the size of pigeon's eggs. The clear underground water veins flow through the riverbed, and when it reaches this position, it is just a sharp bend, and the river washes the rock wall on the other side, and there is a huge circular gap in the rock dome more than 20 meters above the river bay, which connects to the outside, as if it has been washed by the perennial pouring of flowing water. The sunlight shines through the opening, which is why the light appears in front of you.

Yang Mengqing was fascinated by the spectacular scene in front of him, and couldn't help but walk out, I was worried that there might be danger, so I hurriedly followed out. As soon as I walked to the bend, I realized that this was actually a cave, but the scale of this cave was so large that it gave people the illusion that it seemed to be out of the cave. The gap that let in the sunlight was large, but the rock walls on both sides were so smooth and vertical that it was impossible to climb out, and it was impossible to climb out of it.

The other side of the riverbed was still pitch black, with no end in sight. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and I was so tired from carrying a forty-kilogram weight on my back that the two of us rested on the bank of the river for a while, and then continued to look for a way out of the cave.

However, just when I thought I would have to walk a long way to see the other caves, I suddenly noticed that there were many huge furnace-like things in the camera lens, and there was a lot of noise coming from inside, and the sound sounded like the movement of a large diesel generator.

I was extremely confused, and the two of them hurriedly walked over, and when I walked in, I realized that the steel frames, which were three or four meters high, were really furnaces, and there were many blasting equipment and some modern smelting equipment that we could not understand the purpose of the furnace at all. I was completely blown away by the big guys, and the most awesome thing was that the loud noise was none other than three large diesel generators, one of which had stopped working, but the other two were still working.

At this time, the speculation that there was a gold mine in Yushugou and that the townspeople were stealing gold mines was confirmed, but I didn't expect these awesome guys to move a full set of smelting equipment directly to the depths of such a complex karst cave.

I can't imagine that there are such crazy people in this world, and it's no wonder that those guys have to kill Taoist priests and spend so much money, if they are found out about smelting gold because of an outsider, it will be really infuriating.

There was a stream of water near the location where the furnace was erected, which should be the one I saw in the outermost part of the cave just now, the huge cave where the water flow and the furnace were originally separated by a layer of rock wall, but in order to use the water flow to achieve cooling or some other purpose that we don't know, these people actually dug a large hole about five meters long and about three meters high in the rock wall about ten meters above the ground, broke through the barrier between the cave and the flowing water, and then built a ladder with stones, which was connected to the place where the big hole was located from the ground.

Because the bottom of the large cave is higher than the current, the flow of water does not flow into the cave where the furnace is located, but only provides easy access to water, and there are many small wooden boats on the stone steps, some of which contain stones, although the color is not clear, but it is clear that the gold ore was mined. In this way, if the gold mine is located just upstream of the current, the wooden boats can be used to transport the gold ore.

I was dumbfounded by all this, and I had to admire the person who designed it all, what a fucking genius!