nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 111 Hey!you sit on my feet

The four people who had barely slept all night looked at the water that reached their ankles nearby. Tao Xi swallowed and asked, "Are you sure there won't be mudslides or anything like that?"

Aksha looked around and looked at the place where the embankment broke not far away, and replied seriously: "Only the river will be diverted, and there will be no great danger. After the thunderstorm season, this natural reservoir will be a good place." Hydroelectric power plant!"

Hearing these words, Tao Xi suddenly thought of the power plant under his name.

When the group set off again, they didn't want anything except the necessary water and food. To be on the safe side, Tao Xi took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Roselle: "Take this business card to The Hilton is looking for a man named Robert Adams! I need him to arrange a helicopter that can take us back, you know?"

Klein glanced at the head up on the business card and immediately retracted his gaze.

Klein was afraid that his brother would not do a good job, so he whispered when Roselle left: "I know you have taken a fancy to an apartment. If this matter is settled, I think you can bring my sister to live in it." In a sea view room in Hawaii!"

Roselle glanced at Tao Xi when she heard what her brother-in-law said, and replied in a low voice, "I don't know if I have money, so I can still fall in love with your sister!"

After Roselle finished saying this, he ran away in the opposite direction to Tao Xi's group, and Aksha couldn't stop laughing "hahahaha" when he heard this sentence.

Akesha was at the forefront of the team. Although Klein was the guide in the mountains, after heavy rains and river changes one after another, Klein's role was no longer significant.

Their next goal should be to find Amar first or find the location of the oil field stolen by Bastian along the traces of someone's life. Whether they can find it is unknown, but Akesha's confident expression is still Let Tao Xi entrust him with the position of guide.

The direction Akesha leads the team is the southern mountain of Antero Mountain.

After climbing mountains and mountains for several days in a row, Tao Xi admired the physical fitness of Aksha, a college student. Although he couldn't hold on to it several times in the middle, he was still under the pressure of Tao Xi's mouth full of "gems" and "dollars". Persevered.

The closer the group got to the south, the sparser the surrounding vegetation became, and the original muddy dirt road was gradually replaced by sand.

"Look at the location where we are now is the unique shale basin of Antero Mountain! The surrounding area is high and the middle is low. Because of the altitude of Antero Mountain, there is no rain all year round, so this caused the scenery we saw. .”

Tao Xi pursed his dry lips and pointed to a few withered banyan trees not far away and said: "We all know that your learning ability is great, but I think we need to rest in the shade, Let's start again around four o'clock in the afternoon!"

"Okay! Listen to you, you're the captain! I'm the guide." Akesha had a very clear position on himself, but Klein staggered behind the two of them with a backpack full of drinking water and food on his back. .

Because of the drought, Tao Xi strictly controls the drinking water. In order to prevent the other two people from getting sick, Tao Xi insists on simply boiling the water from the reservoir every time. As for the food, there are some Tao Xi. The fish and the few beef caught in that natural reservoir dried up.

As soon as he got under the tree, Tao Xi smelled a foul smell nearby. Instead, after smelling the smell, Klein went around with a vigilant face and kept checking around.

Aksha wasn't that particular about it, he just found a fallen banyan tree and squatted over it.

"Hello~"

"Say something! Hey, hello! I told you that you have to respect me! My name is Aksha."

Tao Xi, who lowered his head to make a fire, looked up at Aksha, who was squatting under the banyan tree talking to himself, and muttered in a low voice: "Climbing the mountain is stupid!"

"Hello~"

"Huh~" The arrogant Aksha closed his eyes and casually pushed away some things under his buttocks and continued to rest.

"Go away!"

The arrogant Aksha stood up as if his tail had been stepped on when he heard this, and said to Tao Xi: "This place is so big, why can't you go over there? I have already worked hard enough for you Alright, okay!"

Tao Xi, who had just lit the fire, held the ceramic jar in his hand and glanced at the bewildered Akesha, ignoring him.

Seeing Tao Xi like this, Aksha suddenly reacted, the voice that spoke just now seemed to be right next to his ears!

The fine hair on Aksha's back stood up in a "swish", and he slowly turned his head to the back with his body stiff, a stinky man tried to show a scary expression and said to him: "Hey! You are sitting on my feet!"

Aksha looked down, and saw a left leg covered in maggots hanging on the ground in a 180° opposite direction, and the thing that had been talking to him just now was pressed under the banyan tree and could not move.

"what!!!"

"Tao Taoxixi. Devil!!!"

Klein, who heard Aksha's scream, rushed back quickly, and Tao Xi, who was holding a stone in his hand, squatted in front of him and looked at this poor man with a puzzled expression.

"Amal?!!"

"Are you Amar?" Tao Xi looked at this miserable man with surprise on hearing Klein's address to this man.

It seems that only the neck can move normally now. When Amar heard that someone recognized him, Amar just smiled reluctantly: "Can you save me first? Let's talk about other things?"

Two arms were dislocated, the left leg was fractured, and internal injuries are not yet known.

This is what happened to the legendary gem hunter [Amar] who was exalted to the altar by his subordinates in the past. Akesha held the ceramic jar in his hand and fed him fish soup bit by bit with a look of disgust.

Tao Xi saw that Amar didn't even spit out his thorns when he drank the fish soup, and there was an expression of wanting to laugh but embarrassed, but Klein sat there pretending that I didn't know you well. far away.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Amar clapped his throat with the newly connected arm with a painful expression on his face. Seeing Amar's appearance, Aksha picked up the enamel jar his father left him and hid aside. .

Instead, Tao Xi comforted: "Eat slowly, don't be killed by a fishbone instead of being crushed by a tree!"

"Heh, cough cough, it's good that I can live!"

"I won't argue, I won't rob, can you help me call the police and send me to the Denver County Police Department?"

Seeing Amar's miserable appearance, Tao Xi murmured in his heart, you are not stupid, you can only get effective medical treatment and free meal tickets if you go to prison with your appearance!

"Did you know that a robbery of 3600 million is likely to keep you out of prison for the rest of your life?"

"I can't help it! I was cheated by Bastian. If I want to live, I have to surrender!" Amar looked at the sky with a blank expression when he heard Taoxi's questioning. Said.

When Klein heard Amar's words, he said straight away: "Stop pretending! He won't send you to the Denver County Police Department. He's here to investigate Bastian. You tell me everything you know. I said it, he will send you down the mountain! Whether you surrender yourself or continue to run away is entirely up to you!"

Hearing this sentence, Amar opened his mouth and spit at Tao Xi: "Oh! You're acting, I won't frown even if I live or die!"

"Don't look at me being fooled by Bastian to do all the dirty work for him! But you will be like me sooner or later, Bastian is a black-hearted capitalist!!!"

You can't stop talking good things, and you're a hero here. Tao Xi is not used to his stinking problem!

"Slap!" Tao Xi raised his hand and slapped Amar. Seeing that Amar was still staring at him with a cold face, Tao Xi slapped him backhand.

"Your leg has already started to turn blue, if you don't want to become a lame in the future!"

"I advise you to tell all the things you know, otherwise even if you want to go to prison, your life in prison will not be easy!"

Amar's eyes obviously turned when he heard Tao Xi's words, but Amar still didn't say anything.

With a heavy sigh, Tao Xi turned around and said to Klein and Aksha: "Okay! Amar is worthless, we can go. Since Amar is here, the location of the oil field should be the same." Around here, Akesha is not wrong!"

Amar rolled his eyeballs again when he heard this sentence, this time he didn't say anything but quietly stared at the actions of Tao Xi and the others.

When Amar saw that these three people actually finished drinking the fish soup and wanted to leave.

Amar shouted into the sky: "Insurance! It must be insurance! Bastian has a history of cheating on insurance. I think he and that damn professor must have done this case together. They must be short of money! They In order to solve my unstable factor, they must have placed their people in the Denver County Police Department, if I surrender, I will die!"

Tao Xi frowned and recalled Bastian's net worth. According to normal principles, an oil smuggler should not be short of money!

Aksha seems to have seen Tao Xi's question: "If the natural reservoir there is simply converted into a [hydroelectric power station], the cost he needs is about 1200 million US dollars, but the value of the water conservancy contract rights of the Rio Grande is not worth it." Cheap! The 1:100 model of the research institute is based on the [hydroelectric power station] template to deduce the modeling!"

"wow~"

"It seems that your teacher and that Bastian boss are very ambitious!"

Tao Xi quickly recalled the interview Bastian received on the radio. The reason why he stopped doing aquamarine mining business in the end was because the Colorado state government began to implement Contract system!
Then it seems that everything is clear, the reason why Bastian set up such a big game is nothing more than to defraud the insurance fee!

For gemstones worth 3600 million, general insurance companies and security companies will compensate 1.2 times the actual value!
The reason why Bastian made such a big commotion was that he was afraid that the insurance company would refuse insurance and other problems. If the Denver County Police Department and the State Police Department did not catch Amar, the biggest suspect!

The insurance premium will naturally go to Bastian. When the natural reservoir and oil field are obtained, Bastian will suddenly become an energy tycoon!
When the mineral development right of Antero Mountain and the right to use the [hydroelectric power] of the natural reservoir are obtained, Bastian can still find a way to retrieve the gemstone worth 3600 million US dollars from the reservoir!

As for the report letter, Tao Xi guessed that it was probably sent by Professor Edmund!
After all, Edmond Rapp was Bastian's technical support from beginning to end. Without Edmond Rapp's technology and research, there would be no successful transformation of Bastian, a gem merchant.

The matter was already obvious, nothing more than Bastian saw that the matter was about to succeed, and he wanted to swallow all these results by himself!

And a university professor can't ask the outside world for help after doing something wrong, all he can do is hide in a corner where no one knows and secretly report others!

Seeing that the case has gradually become clear!

Tao Xi also has a key witness and the technical support of Aksha, why can't Tao Xi borrow the power of the Adams family to eat a piece of cake in this matter?

Thinking of this, Tao Xi unconsciously looked to the sky to see if there was a helicopter looking for him!
At the beginning, Tao Xi's plan was just to let Adams Jr. take over the oil field and help Dalton Jr. solve Bastian's troubles!

But as Tao Xi got deeper and deeper, Tao Xi found that this matter was full of cheating and conspiracy, and it was really not that Tao Xi violated professional ethics, but because the cake was really too big!

If Adams Jr. represented the Adams family, wouldn't everyone be rich?

Tao Xi, who was humming, snapped his fingers to Akesha and Klein behind him and said, "Take Amar with you! He is the key to our fortune!"

"And we can retreat too!"

"Edmond Rapp is definitely not hiding on Antero Mountain. You have also seen how dangerous the environment here is. He is a university professor who can live here for a week. He is amazing!"

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and the gem Taoxi has found it!

Tao Xi also knew the biggest secret in this matter. What Tao Xi needs to do next is to sit on the helicopter to locate the oil field and contract all the surrounding areas of the land.

Then his task is accomplished.

As for how Dalton Jr. explained to Bastian, that was his business.

Bastian can drink a pot just for the illegal extraction of oil, not to mention the fact that Bastian is suspected of threatening the safety of other people's property and cooperating with others to defraud insurance.

Taking out any of these things at random is not something Dalton can bear.

(End of this chapter)