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Chapter 219 Chapter 210
Wu Qing and Lao Ji are walking down the stairs.

"Sir, that's what happened. I have an old friend who worked for Sheng Guozu, the boss of Shengxiang Company, in the Sisco section. She is red like me..."

The Pacific Railway is being constructed on multiple sections at the same time, and "Xihong" is probably the attire of a god, a man, and a goddess, which are customary in various railway camps. Qing nodded,
"Well, I'm listening, you continue..."

"Yes, she is not the same false god that I believed in before. I wear a red belt and she wears a long red dress... But my old friend didn't say her name directly. I don't know what happened to the false god. Knowing that their false god will appear once every month, that is to say, there will be about half a month..."

Wu Qing put her thumb on her chin and thought for a while,
"Go and check again, as detailed as possible..."

Although Lao Ji and Xiong Hua regard themselves as gods, Wu Qing still doesn't know what's going on with him. The Chu Tongzi and Mordiggian who were killed before are just projections, which doesn't mean that he really has the will to wreak havoc Ability, this small thousand world's security force also has characters at the level of Jiuliangtian... The water must be deeper than what I have seen so far...

The Heavenly Father God in a civilized society hides the indescribable, and the tribal gods of the American continent have many tricks...

Lao Ji nodded a little embarrassed.It is very difficult for ordinary gods to live to his age, with mysterious eyes and sudden disasters are common.

Although after the tide of civilization swept across the civilized society, those old gods and tribal gods were actually suppressed, and their divine power was far inferior to before, but for humans, these cruel, bloodthirsty, capricious old gods are still terrifying exist.

Lao Ji was able to live for such a long time, relying on being cautious and avoiding other mysterious fields as much as possible... Even the king in yellow he worshiped before was carefully selected by him, belonging to the kind who doesn't care much about human beings. , but it is not particularly malicious to humans, and it only appears occasionally.

Lao Ji's expression was written on his face, Wu Qing blinked his eyelids after seeing it, "Just do what you can..."

Lao Ji was apprehensive and fearful, "I should do my best to do things for my husband..."

Wu Qing was about to speak a few words of comfort when he saw Xiong Hua surrounded by a group of people coming this way. The previous assassination made Xiong Hua panicky.

"Have a good meeting?"

"Sir." Xiong Hua took off his hat at Wu Qing, "There is news about a gold mine... The sudden meeting of those ghosts in the morning was about the gold mine, but they didn't say at the meeting that they were looking for a gold mine. Instead, I want to arrange some people to follow their exploration team and keep them on the road."

Lao Ji asked, "Then how did you know they were going to find a gold mine? Instead of estimating the route."

Hearing this, Xiong Hua glanced at Lao Ji,
"The railway line has been measured before the start of construction, and half of the Sierra Ridge has been dug before it can be estimated?"

Lao Ji blushed from the irony of the old man, and Wu Qing took a look before he refused to refute.

Xiong Hua added,
"And I have eyeliner on the steam train..."

Wu Qing looked at the carriage with the red lantern hanging at the end of the steam train beside the camp,

"There?"

Xiong Hua was taken aback, "Yes, Sha Kui's sister Yan Zhi is working there."

"You arranged it?"

"No, she did it voluntarily. When the siblings first arrived in San Francisco, Rouge was hit by a ghost driving a car. Fortunately, another ghost mechanic wanted to practice. She went to the operating table. Fortunately, the operation was successful. She So he and A Kui escaped, but the follow-up red coal lumps disappeared.

And for practice, it is impossible to use any good materials, she can't do any heavy work by herself, and Ah Kui is not suitable for business..."

Xiong Hua took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat, adding,
"For their brothers and sisters to eat, I have two beds, but after Yanzhi is transformed into a steam doll, she needs to spend four pieces of red coal a month, a few hundred dollars... After Akui followed me, Yanzhi was Went to work on the steam train... She is doing well now, and she gets money from both ends."

After finishing speaking, Xiong Hua watched his words and expressions.

Wu Qing smiled, "Don't be nervous, thank her for my backup gift later, and then talk about the gold mine."

"Yes."

Xiong Hua lowered his head and said,
"Rouge heard what Strobe and Dicky said. When a white ghost laborer was urinating by the river, he found a grain of gold sand from a crack in the stone, and found some more along the river. The ghosts speculated that the upper reaches may be There is a gold mine, and I plan to form an exploration team to find it."

"That is to say, they may not be able to find it? Even if they find it, they have to wait for them to mine for a while?"

Xiong Hua said without hesitation,
"The ghost who found the gold sand is called Old Joe. He used to be a miner in the Imperial Gold Mine, and he was accompanied by a native Shoshone Indian. He is familiar with the terrain and will definitely find it."

Then he moved to Wu Qing's ear, wrapped his palms to keep the voice from leaking out, and whispered,
"The first grain of gold that the miner Old Joe found was the size of a grain of rice, and the largest gold he found along the way was as big as a broad bean. It is very likely that it is a large crystal rich gold deposit..."

"I want a few Chinese workers to accompany me, when will I start?" Wu Qing narrowed her eyes and asked.

Xiong Hua raised his eyebrows calmly, and asked for instructions, "Do you want to travel by yourself?"

"Ah."

The evil god in another camp will not show up until the end of the month, and before that, Lao Jiduo still needs to inquire; the water from the North Sea and the West Sea does not know when it will arrive.Wu Qing is very free now, so it's okay to take this trip.

And if it is really a large crystal rich gold mine, Wu Qing is confident that her moon beads can smash the rocks and get gold directly, no matter how much it is, it is better than waiting...

Wu Qing asked,
"Have you speculated where the gold mine might be, and how far is it from here?"

Wu Qing needs to estimate the time.

Unexpectedly, Xiong Hua said awkwardly,

"The distance is not very clear. I didn't expect that the master planned to do it himself. The location is guessed by the miner Old Joe. It may be... on the east slope of the upper reaches of the American River flowing below the Sierra Ridge..."

Xiong Hua clapped his hands,
"Golden River Valley."

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Inside a cave in the Sierra Nevada Butterfly Forest.

In the dark stone cave, two strange figures in purple funeral vestments like shrouds surrounded the stone table. They wore silver skull masks, and it was impossible to conceive their faces.

The dancing torch not only illuminated the two people, but also clearly illuminated the coffin made of leather on the stone table. The leather was shiny and black, as if the corpse had been stored for many years.

If Lao Ji was here, he would probably recognize this as the priest of the Skeleton Cult who believed in Mordiggian (the king of ghouls).

Suddenly, the torches stuck on the wall burst into flames, and the two priests looked down at a stone ghost mask they placed under the stone table.

The stone ghost face, composed of hundreds of crushed stones, with white die teeth and dull eyes, is in the style of the Aztec Empire, an ancient civilization in Central America.

The stone ghost face twisted its shape under the firelight, its eyes were agile, and after a while it became a vivid human face.

An old man with a bald head, his face seems to be painted with various dyes, and he wears a golden wicker crown inlaid with feathers. He said in strange English,
"Your Wild Miller missed and he died."

A corpse priest screamed,
"Impossible, he has the favor of the Lord..."

"He was killed like a dog." Shi Guimian repeated, "It's different from what you're investigating, Xiong Hua has a superior by his side."

Another skeletal priest asked angrily, "Didn't you divination before Miller's action? How did you brag to us before? It's as accurate as the calculation result of the difference engine."

"He belongs to you, why do you want me to do divination? And it wasn't you who told me that Miller was very powerful?"

The two Tibetan corpse priests sang in unrelenting harmony.

"Is this the only ability of the contemporary [Quesarcoatl-Totec] High Priest of the Aztec Empire?"

"Don't think too highly of them. After all, the Aztec Empire was destroyed 300 years ago, and there are only less than 1 people left. They didn't even predict their own demise. It's too sad!"

The stone ghost's face is half a smile but not a smile,
"First of all, Aztec is a title for slaves. If you have any respect, you should be called Mexica;

Secondly, the Aztecs are just a branch of our Shoshone people. They went south to Central America to establish an empire, but it doesn't mean that we Shoshone people will be willing to take their light.

Instead, they made us miserable, so I forgive you for calling the Aztecs scornful, since that's what I called them after all.

In the end, you took the initiative to find us, so if you still want to continue to please your gods and stop the wave of civilization sweeping the world, just listen to me obediently, or I will kick you out..."

Shi Guimian closed his eyes, and the two Tibetan skeleton priests breathed a sigh of relief when the black and white pupils opened again.

"My people are looking for the next location and will inform you later."

Karma!With the sound of crushed stones twisting, the stone ghost's face returned to its original shape.

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In another cave in California, an old man wearing a golden wicker crown inlaid with feathers and a feathered cloak puts down a stone ghost mask in his hand.

The tan face of a typical Native American Indian is painted with red, blue, yellow, and green paints, like a rainbow, and there are folds on his hairless head. He is quite old.

He is the high priest of the Shoshone who just talked to the priest in the Butterfly Mountain Cave [Kesarcoatl-Totek]

It wasn't his original name, but it's been his since he became high priest.

[Quesarcoatl] is the name of the god of wisdom in the Aztec Empire and the Shoshone people. The god of wisdom is an ideal model for priests, but the only great priest who can bear the name of the god of wisdom is two.One of them was this old man, Totek.

He had previously blamed the corpse priest, but he did not refute the doubts about the divination ability of the Shoshone people.

But it does not mean that the divination ability of the Shoshone people is "pathetic", on the contrary, it is extremely accurate...

Take the destruction of the Aztec Empire, as mentioned by the priest of the hidden bones, as an example.

The Aztecs and the Shoshones shared common ancestors, common beliefs, and spoke similar languages. At a certain time in ancient times, they were both called Shoshones.

For the Shoshone, the Aztecs are the Shoshone who went south, a branch of the Shoshone, and it can even be said that the land of Nevada occupied by the Shoshone is the Aztec The ancestral land of people.

But when the Aztecs went south to separate their families, they took away most of their clansmen, the attention of the gods, and the fate of their ancestral land.

That's why the Shoshone hated the Aztecs, but it's also arguably a stroke of luck.

(The Shoshone people will be used uniformly in the following, and the Aztec name will be used only when it is absolutely necessary.)
Before the civilized society came to the American continent, the Shoshone people were the masters of the western part of North America, with the continuation of five eras.

The previous four prophecies that were all efficacious were not mentioned. It only said that the [Four Earthquakes] era began in 1276 AD and was dominated by the Aztecs. The high priest at that time used astrology to divination the Aztec Empire. Will be destroyed in the earthquake, which is why it is called the "four earthquakes" era.

At that time, all the Aztecs (Shoshone) were secretly preparing for the earthquake, strengthening their houses, and hoarding food, but what they didn't expect was that when the earthquake really came, all the people were surprised. people's expectations.

In 1519, the cavalry of the Spanish colonists rode their horses and landed on the banks of the Almendares River in what is now known as [Havana]. At the same time, the colonists also brought... cannons.

The heavily armored Spanish heavy cavalry with their horses galloped through the Central American rainforest, and the residents of the capital of the Aztec Empire [Teotihuacan], ten kilometers away from the battlefield, only felt Like an earthquake.

The guns brought by the Spanish conquistadors, the Franc machine gun, a rapid-fire gun with an iron rear-mounted smoothbore cannon, rained shells on the city, causing landslides and ground cracks, and houses collapsed.

The capital of the Aztec Empire [Tenochtitlan] was destroyed in the "earthquake" in this way, and a large number of people were massacred.In this way, the Shoshone, whose population was so sparse that there were only more than 1 people left, became the main branch again.

So the Shoshone's prophecy was originally very accurate, no less than a technological product [Steam Difference Engine]... Yes, it was very accurate...

The high priest Totek looked gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking, until a member of his tribe came to him,
"Master Sacrifice, what happened, why are you frowning..."

The high priest Totek came back to his senses, looked at his confidant, his brows were tightly frowned, showing majesty,
"Actually, before the Wild Miller of the Skeleton Religion went to the white artificial site to assassinate the white man's dog-legged Xiong Hua yesterday, I did a divination..."

"Didn't you say you didn't do it... What was the result?"

High Priest Totek said, "Happy astrology!"

"How come?" The other party exclaimed.

"Maybe it's because yesterday was the five unlucky days. It doesn't matter. White people have their differential engines and their manifest destiny, but Nevada is our ancestral land, and the gods will bless us... Well, you are here for a reason." What needs to be reported?"

"Oh..." The group came back to their senses, accepted the high priest's explanation, and said, "Xipei and the others have already found it."

"Then, go tell the Skeleton Religion where it is."

The clansman nodded, picked up the stone ghost face on the ground, and spoke to the stone ghost face,
"On the eastern slope of the upper American River, in the Gold River Valley."

(End of this chapter)