nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 104 Gems are so easy to dig?

When Aksha heard the bullets flying past his head, he who was still talking eloquently turned pale with fright in an instant.

Akesha turned his head and glanced at one of the people in the pickup truck who jumped out of the back of the truck regardless of 21. Akesha also wanted to follow, but Tao Xi grabbed him Akesha, who was about to run away, yelled sharply, "You don't want to live anymore!"

Akesha turned his head and glanced at the person who just jumped out of the car and was shot directly through his left thigh. Seeing this scene, Akesha had long since lost his previous thoughts, and moved towards Tao Xi's arms vigorously. Drill in.

Tao Xi turned his head and glanced at another person who was a little older in the grade and asked, "Has Antero Mountain always been this chaotic?"

The man in the older grade glanced up at the six people who had already stood up from the road and replied in a low voice, "It's just a mess recently, but it won't kill us, just give us money."

Tao Xi didn't say anything when he heard these words, but carefully looked under the car.

The driver of the pick-up truck had already got out of the car, and Tao Xi paid 300 dollars for traveling in this car to reach the destination. When the black driver got out of the car, Tao Xi secretly said that he deserved it.

The black driver didn't seem very nervous, but skillfully took out a handful of dollar bills and a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

Although there were only six people coming up from both sides of the road, Tao Xi did not act rashly. He glanced around the straight dirt road from the corner of his eye, and it seemed that there were still people staring at the three of them.

This is Tao Xi's intuition of danger in the sewer for many years!

After collecting the driver's money, those six people sent a man to hold the AK to look around in the cab of the pickup truck. When he found that there was nothing unusual, he went into the truck and looked at Tao Xi and the three of them. glance.

Akesha had been so frightened that he lost the ability to think. When the man reached out and grabbed Akesha's chin, he was so frightened that Akesha fell directly on the carriage and kept waving his limbs.

But the person who came to check just left quickly after seeing Akesha's face.

Tao Xi came to a conclusion in an instant, the main purpose of these people blocking the way was not to ask for money, but to find someone!
After the robbers blocking the way left, the driver of the pick-up truck calmly walked to the back of the truck and said to the man whose thigh was shot through, "I told every one of you, don't Chaos! I will never pull you rookies again! What a bad luck!"

Although the black driver spoke harshly, he still skillfully took out an old medical kit from the car and bandaged him while sitting. When the man whose thigh was shot was simply bandaged the wound, the black man The driver did not let him sit on the bucket, but took out three dollar bills from his pocket and said to the three people sitting in the car: "We will be at the top of the mountain soon, and you can buy a seat for three hundred dollars." , let him sit down, if you don’t give him a good rest environment, he will definitely die, I believe you don’t want to be summoned by the police either!”

Soon there were four people sitting on the back of the pickup truck again, and it cost $300 to sit on the back of the truck and $600 to sit in the car!

The winding roads and dangers of Antero Mountain are well known in Denver, so drivers who can run the route here will charge a high price. It's not Tao Xikou, but Tao Xi is afraid that the driver will be cheated. If you are sitting in the back of the car and encounter danger, you can escape!

Seeing this, Tao Xi praised this extremely expensive black driver.

Seeing that those people had also left, Aksha didn't say a word, but smiled wryly at Tao Xi, and sat aside while covering his crotch with his hand.

Tao Xi, who had gained a little understanding, didn't say a word, but when the pickup truck was driving on the dirt road again, Tao Xi intentionally or unintentionally set a routine with the older person.

"How long have you been in this business!"

The older-looking person curled his lips in disdain: "The ancestral craft, when I was doing it, the entire Antero Mountain was full of hunters. How can there be these shitty Antero hunters now?"

"Then those people who just blocked the way are members of the Antero Hunter Gang?"

The old-looking man just wanted to answer, when the young man who sat on the back of the pickup truck from the car said to him with a displeased face: "Old Garp! The nearest Antero Mountain is not very flat. Don't talk nonsense, be careful you can't go down the mountain!"

Although the man called Old Garp had an unconvinced expression when he heard this sentence, he still held back the words that followed.

The young man who stopped the old Garp from talking later turned his head to Tao Xi and Akexia and said: "I don't care if you two are here to make money or do other things, it's better not to talk too much, just keep quiet Mouth to go home safely!"

Seeing this, Akexia quickly nodded obediently, but Tao Xi didn't make a sound but looked at the huge platform not far from Antero Mountain.

There were a lot of cars parked on the platform, but few of them were valuable. Occasionally, one or two people walked towards the path on the mountain with shovels and pick handles.

"Hey! It's so troublesome!" Old Garp let out a sigh of relief when he saw the destination, but the young man jumped off before the car stopped. Tao Xi followed the young man's back, the young man Instead of walking towards the top of the mountain like everyone else, he burrowed towards a dense bush.

Old Garp snorted softly when he saw this: "Bain is a good boy! He just eats and eats all the time! Big things will happen sooner or later."

Instead, seeing that the destination was approaching, Aksha kept moving towards Tao Xi and whispered, "I and I will follow you. You don't have food, but I have it. And I have a tent. My father is a gem hunter. I will Dig for gems!"

Seeing Akesha's appearance, old Garp just grinned his big yellow teeth and said, "You're not stupid!"

Instead, Tao Xi passed the pickaxe in his hand nonchalantly: "Help me carry it! I am responsible for your safety, and you are responsible for my food and drink."

"it is good"

The black driver who stopped the car seemed to have not stopped because of the wounded. When Tao Xi and Aksha got out of the car, the black driver turned around and left.

Tao Xi, who got out of the car, turned his head and saw that the people in the car started to leave separately. Tao Xi then looked at the nervous Aksha standing next to him and said, "Let's go! They're all gone, you still don't want to leave." ?”

"Let's go. Where"

When Tao Xi heard Akesha's answer, he almost raised the shovel in his hand and pointed it at his head: "Digging for gems! Aren't you here to dig for gems?"

After hearing these words, Aksha realized his purpose. He first got into a bush and changed into a pair of brand new pants, then took out an old-fashioned compass from his backpack and said cautiously: "I, I, really You can dig gems! But...you have to promise not to hurt me!"

Tao Xi looked at Akesha who had gradually calmed down and began to think about his own safety, patted him on the shoulder seriously and replied: "Let's go! You trust me, and I trust you too."

"Since your father taught you how to dig gems, he must have taught you how to protect yourself when you encounter danger."

"Oh! Yes!" Aksha seemed to have thought of something. He took out a notebook wrapped in kraft paper from the backpack on his back and muttered: "There is a Grande at the intersection of Antero Mountain and Rocky Mountain. He, if you do anything to hurt me, I can run south along the river!"

With a forced smile, Tao Xi tilted his head and said, "Okay! Then let's go!"

Tao Xi saw some innocent Akesha helplessly shook his head and followed behind him, but he had to say that Akesha did have two skills in recognizing the way.

With a map on paper and an old-fashioned compass, Akesha actually led him to a canyon.

"Hahahaha! I just said it! My father taught me the right things. I was lucky enough to see my teacher give me a sample here when I was a sophomore." Aksha excited Tao Xi While lowering his head, he picked up the stones on the ground and explained various professional knowledge to Tao Xi, but Tao Xi didn't care about these and kept looking at the surrounding environment!
I don't know if it's because of the map in Akesha's hand or because of the route, but Tao Xi didn't see the so-called "gem hunter" along the way.

"Why didn't we see anyone along the way?"

"Oh! It should be due to the South Platte Mining Company. I heard from my teacher that the South Platte Mining Company has been more serious about excavating gemstones in the Antero Mountains in the past six months. Coupled with the application of large-scale machinery, Let those gem hunters drill farther into the Rocky Mountains."

Taoxi simply made up some geographical knowledge before setting off. The Antero Mountains are the Rocky Mountains!

But because it is easier to excavate some more valuable smoked stones in the Antero Mountains, the Antero Mountains are more popular with these gem hunters. Over time, the Antero Mountains have been separated from the Rocky Mountains.

There are a lot of things in Aksha’s backpack, tents, bright flashlights, compressed biscuits, beef jerky, sleeping bags, etc., as long as he has the equipment for survival in the wild, Tao Xi, who only carried a shovel and pickaxe on his back, felt a little ashamed .

"If you didn't have so many things on your back, I would definitely choose that old Garp!"

Aksha was not angry when he heard Tao Xi's blunt words, but simply squatted on the ground and shoveled a handful of soil, and then replied with a smile: "Hahaha, yeah!"

"I'm very happy that you can choose me! If my father didn't need a sum of money for medical treatment, I wouldn't use my scholarship to buy these things. My family is not very rich, and I still want to continue my studies." A professional master's degree, and I plan to specialize in oil exploration in the future."

"I heard from the teacher that it's very profitable. My mother has always wanted to have a study of her own. My father has never been a gem hunter on Antero Mountain. He really hopes that he can have a forklift that belongs to him. , so that he can continue to make money.”

While wielding the pickaxe in his hand vigorously, Aksha sincerely chatted with Tao Xi.

Tao Xi looked at Akesha who was serious about digging stones, he looked like a person, but there was something a little different, Tao Xi didn't speak any more, but just waved the shovel in his hand to cooperate with Akesha.

"Huh~"

Aksha suddenly stopped the pickaxe in his hand and turned to look at Tao Xi, Tao Xi also stopped the shovel in his hand.

One stone after another was pulled away by Akesha, and a hollow hole appeared in front of the two of them, and several hexagonal columnar crystals were inserted into the hole together.

"Is this gem so easy to dig?" Tao Xi asked in surprise when he saw the hexagonal columnar crystals in Akesha's hands, as if they had been smoked.

Frowning, Aksha stared at his big eyes and muttered in a low voice: "It shouldn't be! According to the plan, we need to dig to a depth of at least 3 meters to see gems!"

After saying this, Akesha hurried to another place and started digging.

Tao Xi also found a random place and waved the shovel in his hand to dig. The more Tao Xi dug, the faster the movement of his hand was, and the movement of Akesha's hand at the side also became faster.

Only gems can make a chatter shut up, and only gems can make Tao Xi, a money fanatic, work so hard.

In the early 80s, the price of a piece of natural aquamarine was very high, because the difficulty of mining and the distribution of veins were not as industrialized as gold, and many processes and excavations required manual work to complete the final steps.

The price of a gram of natural aquamarine can even be compared to a gram of gold.

The smoky stone they unearthed just now is worth at least 4000 US dollars. Of course, they are motivated to work, but as the two dug deeper, Tao Xi once again discovered a [gem nest].

Tao Xi, who stopped his movements, took out three smoky stones from inside this time!

Tao Xi turned his head and glanced at Akesha who was still digging at the same place just now. Tao Xi didn't say anything but changed to another place to continue digging. Tao Xi didn't have his father's ancestral craftsmanship and professional knowledge like Akesha. Instead, he randomly found a place he found pleasing to the eye and continued digging.

a smoked stone
Three smoked stones.
a smoked stone
Soon the sky became dark, and a mist gradually began to float around the canyon, and the position Akesha chose gradually allowed a person to stand in it.

Tao Xi looked at the nearly 20 grams of gemstones in his hand, randomly picked out a piece and put it under the moonlight to look at it.

"Aksha! Are you sure your father didn't earn any money when he was a gem hunter?"

Hearing this sentence, Aksha stopped waving the shovel in his hand, and fell into the memory. It took a long time for Aksha to seriously answer: "I remember when I was young, my father dug the biggest [ Gem Nest] was only 7 grams, when my father made a necklace for my mother and bought me a Disney toy car."

When Tao Xi heard this sentence, there was a question mark on his forehead!

"But look at me!"

"Why are gems so easy to dig?"

(End of this chapter)