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153 Chapter 152, Tunnel and Crow
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Pierre, who had bandaged his wound, was holding the extremely pure ore, and under the envious eyes of several soldiers, he staggered on the road to leave New Austin.

The piece of ore obtained from Bill is not much worse than a football. After removing the impurities inside, it is no problem to exchange eight or nine hundred dollars in the bank.This also means that the money Peel can get after this trip is equivalent to the income of a worker who has worked hard for 20 years without eating or drinking.

Therefore, what Peel took away this trip was not a dead weight, but an opportunity to turn over overnight and change his destiny.

Who can not be envious, who can not be jealous,

Only Bill, who has saved at least three or four thousand dollars, will feel a little unacceptable if he takes money and gets soft hands.

Of course, there are still some people who are not even qualified to be envious or jealous, such as Li Jiayuan, Cai Maozai, and the group of Chinese workers who survived the police detectives in Heishui Town.

The identities of Peel and others are very innocent, and they can go directly to the bank with gold;
Although Arthur, Javier, Bill and others have been wanted by the police, they can easily exchange gold through the black market;

The Hei brothers have the court behind them, and Duan Wang has the Hongmen behind them, so there is no risk in their hands when the gold is in their hands;
Only Li Jiayuan and the others were left with nothing but a worthless arm and a life. When the gold nuggets were in their hands, let alone exchange for money, it was a blessing to be able to leave alive.

From them, Dai Pingan saw not only his own shadow, but also a familiar shadow, a shadow that had been dead for a long time.

Therefore, while equipping them with weapons and bullets, Dai Pingan also handed over the most important things to them.

The Hanging Cliff is located at the northernmost tip of Armadillo Town, close to the unclimbable mountains in the north of New Austin. After the rainwater flows through it all year round, a winding valley like a fishhook has been washed out.

On the north side of the winding valley, there is an unattainable cliff. At a height of tens of meters, a bottomless cave appears in the middle of the cliff.This is exactly what the Pacific Railway Company used the lives of Chinese laborers to dig a railway tunnel on the cliffs north of New Austin.

To excavate such a tunnel, the Chinese laborers first had to start from the flat ground and build a wooden bridge to the center of the cliff layer by layer to transport materials.Then on the cliff tens of meters high, holes are dug, explosives are buried, and tunnel excavation and excavation are carried out by means of blasting.It was not until the end that the rails for the trains were laid in the wooden bridges and tunnels.

During this period, they will encounter all kinds of accidents and dangers, from landslides to mine earthquake landslides, and each accident can take away several or even dozens of lives.In the face of these dangers that may occur at any time, the only safety measure that the Chinese workers can take is to carry a small cage when entering the tunnel.

In addition to pigeons and sparrows in the cage, crows and mice can also be placed in the cage, and they can all sense the imminent danger.They are the life insurance of the Chinese workers, and they are also the only early warning they can get in advance before encountering various dangerous accidents such as landslides, landslides, and mudslides.

As for whether there is time to run out of the tunnel after the warning, it depends on God's will.

Standing at the entrance of the dark tunnel, Dai Ping'an was holding a "God's Will" with a crow in his hand.

The gloomy tunnel has just been half dug, and a dull, damp and oppressive atmosphere is pouring out of the bottomless black hole in bursts.From a distance, the entire tunnel looked like a deep eye staring at Dai Pingan, more like the black mouthparts of a giant insect, trying to swallow the person in front of it in one gulp.

The crow in the cage kept flapping its wings.

Dai Pingan simply opened the small door of the cage and let it out to fly high.Unexpectedly, the crow flew back and landed on the cage after circling a few times in the air.

Dai Ping'an was not happy about it.

He placed the cage on the ground and took two steps back. The crow, who was restless just now, retracted its wings and obediently got in by itself.

In order to survive the danger for one more day, Hua Gong takes care of them more carefully than he takes care of himself. Therefore, even though Dai Pingan has detected a little danger from Dai Ping'an, the crows who are used to being fed are still unwilling to leave this place. No worries about food and clothing, but also trapped in a small wooden cage for a lifetime.

Ignoring the quiet crow, Dai Ping'an turned his gaze back outside the cave.

Behind him, a large iron pot was supported on the blazing charcoal fire. One person was stepping on the blower vigorously, while the other poured all the remaining gold into the pot.

There were gold bricks from the Clothesburg, gold coins from the Armadillo Bank, and blood-stained gold jewelry from James Langton's lair.The odds and ends can add up to ten or twenty thousand in the bank, enough to buy ten pastures in the vast west.

Lester on the side was holding the notebook in his hand, counting and calculating something, while Li Jiayuan led Cai Maozai and others to set up Maxim machine guns on both sides of the cave entrance, guarding vigilantly.

The blue tongue of fire licked the surroundings of the iron pot, and as the bottom of the pot turned red little by little, the gold in the pot also slowly melted, and finally burned into a pot of golden water that was shining with golden light but was overwhelmingly hot.

At this time, the people next to it will fill in the sand, stone powder, copper filings and other messy things, and then stir it vigorously with an iron rod until the light of the golden water is no longer dazzling.

Scoop out the golden water with an iron spoon, pour it on the ore piled up on one side, and then put the still hot iron spoon on the basin on the other side, let the remaining golden water fall into the water drop by drop, and condense into golden crystals. bead.

The ore dipped in gold water will be reburied deep in the nearby tunnel after cooling down. As for those valuable gold beads, they will replace the original lead pellets and be loaded into the bullets of the shotgun.

Time passed, and when the sun was westward, the golden water in the iron pot had been scooped up completely, and dozens of special shotgun bullets had been loaded and handed over to Dai Pingan.

Li Jiayuan and others who were guarding around also cleaned up the financial scene and pointed their guns at the foot of the mountain.Following the direction of their guns, Milton's cavalry escorted the two trembling teams to collapse onto the wooden bridge.

A group of dozens of escorts from the Pacific Railway Company, these guys who used to show off their might and can complete their work with only a whip, were now being escorted here with their hands tied up with hemp rope.

On the other side, seventy or eighty Chinese laborers headed by Uncle Han, after burying many corpses outside Closhang Fort, failed to return to the camp with the others, but were picked out of the crowd by roll call. Escorted here.

Although the rifle butts of the cavalry didn't tell everyone why they came here, it was enough to make them obediently obey.When they walked halfway, Uncle Han, who had been anxious all the time, couldn't help but staggered. From the face of Dai Pingan standing at the entrance of the tunnel, he thought of a terrible answer.

(End of this chapter)