The legend of the huge treasure of the Guanlouya Kingdom has long been circulated in the West, and relevant records have been found in the Dunhuang collection of Nuanmen. After all, the ancient kingdom of Loulan occupied the transportation arteries of the ancient Silk Road, and it was not impossible to accumulate a large amount of treasure. However, most archaeologists have doubts about this book, because according to the time inference, because when the author wrote this book, the ancient kingdom of Loulan had already disappeared into the desert, and the author had never seen the treasures of the ancient kingdom of Loulan.

This suspicion continued for several years, until a Chinese archaeologist found the remains of some residents of Loulan who may have migrated to escape the epidemic by escaping the plague, and these remains contained a large amount of gold and silver belongings. Later, some painted pottery buried under the wind and sand was found in the remains of the suspected royal residence in the ancient city of Loulan, and these pottery had pictures clearly recording the wealth of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, thus gradually weakening the suspicion.

It was at that time that Roger began to pay attention to Gu Loulan, because Roger was also a slightly famous mercenary in the industry, so he was able to collect some information that was not known to outsiders, and soon knew who was an expert in Gu Loulan. In the past few years, Roger has visited the ancient city of Loulan with many archaeologists from the East and the West. Observing these archaeologists surreptitiously, he finally set his sights on Jefferson.

The reason why he paid attention to Jefferson. It's not because Jefferson is better than other archaeologists, but mainly because he found that Jefferson found and hid some unknown antiquities during his several expeditions to Guloulan, and some related articles published by Jefferson in his own country, he is almost certain that Jefferson should have found clues to the treasures of the ancient country of Loulan.

Under Roger's deliberate friendship. The ignorant Jefferson quickly took him as a close friend, and when he decided to form a solo expedition to Loulan, he was the first to think of him, hiring his team of mercenaries as bodyguards. As Roger had predicted, Jefferson soon found clues related to treasure in the ancient city of Loulan, an unknown animal skin with a map. Although he didn't know if this map was a treasure map of the ancient Loulan royal family, he could tell from the markings on the map that it seemed to indicate the location of a gold vein. Regardless of whether he can find the treasure of the Guloulan royal family this time, he will not wait any longer, because he knows that if he misses this opportunity, then his hope of getting rich once will no longer be realized, and both the treasure and the gold mine will belong to those big chaebols and big forces.

After dark, Roger gathered his men to a small sand dune and said, "I heard that old fellow say that there will be an archaeological team coming over in two days, let's do it tonight!"

"But the treasure hasn't been found yet, so wouldn't it be too early to do it?" one of his men asked.

Roger raised his eyebrows, a hint of displeasure flashed across his face, but he still explained: "Jefferson is not the best Loulan archaeologist, he is just lucky, we just need to get that treasure map, and then find a better archaeologist to crack the text in the map, and that's it." ”

Hearing Roger's explanation, everyone nodded slightly in agreement, and another subordinate stood up and pointed to another Swedish archaeological team not far from their station, and said, "Then what should they do? They are a lot more numerous than us, and if there is a conflict, they are only afraid of us."

Roger made a reassuring gesture, interrupted his companion, and said, "It's okay, the guys who protect those Swedes are all local thieves, I know a few of them, and I talked to them last night, and they are afraid that they are here for another purpose, and they will not care about our affairs." We don't want to provoke them then, and they won't provoke us lightly. Are there any other questions now?", Roger asked again pretending to be magnanimous, and seeing that no one was questioning, he ordered: "Tom, you are responsible for doing something in the meal later, so that the movement of the night is as small as possible, and we will do it tonight." ”

After giving orders to his men, Roger dispersed his men and walked straight to the largest tent in the station. When Roger walked to the tent, he suddenly heard the sound of talking coming from the tent, and immediately stopped, lowered his breath, and listened to the movement inside.

"Teacher, I think we should watch out for that Roger!" a soft voice sounded from inside the tent.

"What?" Jefferson was obviously thinking about something else now, and he didn't hear clearly for a while, hesitated a little, and asked a little puzzled, "Why?" Wilson, tell me your reasons. ”

The young man expressed his suspicions and said, "Teacher, when you found the animal skin map, I noticed that Roger's face was not right, and then he suddenly went to the camp opposite, and talked for a long time with the Orientals hired in the camp opposite, and when I came back, I asked him what he had talked about, but he was"

"Okay, Wilson, don't say it!" Jefferson suddenly interrupted the student's words, and said angrily: "Roger has already greeted me before going to the opposite camp, he is to avoid any conflicts between our two teams in the future when archaeology, and to discuss with each other in advance, it is not what you think." Wilson, I know you have a prejudice against Roger's men, but Roger himself is not at fault. He has a very good reputation in the industry, and I have worked with him a few times, and each time it has been a pleasure to work with. I've found that clue this time, and I don't want any accidents within us because of your conflict with those people, you know?"

The students were silent for a moment, and then said, "I'm sorry, teacher! I still reserve my opinion about those people, but I won't take the initiative to provoke them." ”

After saying that, the students did not stay in the tent anymore, turned around and walked out, while Roger took the first step and hid in the dark part of the tent, and waited until the students left, and after some time, he walked into the tent. He excused Jefferson for dinner. Then pretend to ask casually about the progress of the map. Perhaps it was the student's words that played a role, but Jefferson, who had always been talkative, only vaguely shifted the subject this time, and carefully put the map in his arms as if he were a thief, and put a pistol in his pocket when Roger was not looking.

During the meal, the atmosphere around me was a little strange, and the few people who were originally very talkative did not speak now, and the other uninformed people had some doubts in their hearts, but they didn't want to ask anything. At this moment, the guards on the outskirts of the camp suddenly shouted a few loud words, which sounded as if they were trying to prevent outsiders from approaching the camp, and it didn't take long for them to do so. I saw that the guard inexplicably brought the two Huaxia people into the camp, and then walked out again without saying anything.

As Roger was about to question why his men had brought outsiders in, the younger of the two Chinese suddenly said in English, "Excuse me!

Hearing this man's words, the doubts and dissatisfaction in the hearts of Roger and the others all disappeared inexplicably, as if these two should have been with them in the first place, and they didn't ask too much, and enjoyed the rich dinner by themselves.