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Chapter 19 19. The Immortal Mansion of Longevity

After asking the driver a few more questions, without getting any more useful clues, Zheng Yun and Song Wan went to other places to find the operators of these hotels.

The night was dark.

The dirt road in the town is muddy.

There are other ethnic groups nearby, and a girl like Song Wan looks out of place in this environment and is easy to be targeted, so Zheng Yun put a gun on his waist.

The operator lived at the main street of the town. It was a renovated old tavern. As soon as the two walked to the door, they saw several truck drivers coming out with beer, muttering that things were too expensive.

Song Wan quietly translated these conversations without much information to Zheng Yun.

She knew that these contents should be useless, but she still translated word by word, for fear of missing some details that she could not understand.

At this time, she felt like a little follower next to the detective, as long as she could translate, she would translate everything, and then observe Zheng Yun's reaction to see if he found anything.

Zheng Yun looked up and down the tavern and carefully observed the building structure. Most of the houses in the tropical rainforest are stilted buildings, and the building materials are wood that can be seen everywhere.

Here, like La Maine Town, is a purely Western aesthetic system, rough and sturdy, focusing on practicality, while wild and unrestrained, emphasizing freedom, which is in line with the style of the gold rush period in the [-]th century.

The two walked into the tavern one after another. The layout of the old tavern was still preserved inside, the environment was dark and smoky, and there were a few drinkers playing cards at the bar.

The tavern owner is the hotel operator, a white male in his 50s, with a beer belly and red neck, wearing a cowboy hat, sitting behind the bar drinking beer.

Zheng Yun asked Song Wan to ask as a tourist whether there is really a gold mine near the town of La Maine.

This question attracted the attention of many people, and other people on the bar also looked sideways at the tavern owner.

The tavernkeeper answered with a beer.

"Yes, a long time ago, there was gold in a river next to the town of La Maine, which attracted a large number of gold diggers. It was real gold panning. They were sifted and washed in the river. Unlike now, gold panning is done by ice-cold machines."

Song Wan's word-for-word translation.

"Where is that river?"

Instead of Zheng Yun, other drinkers asked for follow-up.

Zheng Yun frowned slightly. These local drivers have never heard of this rumor?
"Northwest of La Maine Town, it flows from a mountain. It is said that there is an unimaginable amount of gold in the river. It is all pure gold the size of a fingertip!"

"At that time, many people went to pan for gold, and many people became rich overnight, but after a few years, they attracted the federal government, saying that they had detected important minerals."

"They have tens of thousands of people here, and they use large machines to dig mines. I heard that they are uranium mines. Have you ever heard of uranium mines? They are used to make nuclear weapons!"

The boss put down his glass and said excitedly.

"It must be fake. The so-called uranium mine is an excuse fabricated by the Federation to monopolize the gold mine."

"The gold mine has probably been dug out long ago, not even a mouthful of soup, damn large machinery."

The drinkers around spoke one after another.

Song Wan looked at Zheng Yun after translating, with many questions written in her eyes, she felt very strange.

Pure gold the size of a finger.

There is also a uranium mine inside.

She doesn't know geological knowledge, this kind of mine should be quite rare, right?Although it can match the scale of the abandoned mine, it is still a bit strange.

"That's not necessarily the case. The Federation withdrew after a few years of digging. I heard that some weird things happened, and many witches were found. They stopped digging after half of the digging, and they never dared to dig that golden river! "

"I've heard people say that there are many corpses in the abandoned mine. It's not that easy to dig for gold. Everyone digs for gold? It must be favored by Goddess of Luck!"

The tavern owner waved his hand.

Song Wan's tone fluctuated while translating, she quietly raised her head to look at Zheng Yun, and found that Zheng Yun's expression was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Song Wan asked quietly.

"He knows La Maine Town and the abandoned mine very well, and he seems to be discouraging them from exploring, but look at the reactions of other people." Zheng Yun looked aside.

Song Wan looked at the other drinkers.

There was no fear on their faces, but each of them was in high spirits. They asked about the specific location of La Maine Town, and they might go to see it tomorrow.

No matter how many people die in the gold rush, it is difficult to affect the enthusiasm of the latecomers. The desire for money can suppress everything, because the gold mine is the lottery with the highest probability of winning for them.

"Are they having a problem?"

Song Wan didn't understand, she thought it was normal, before experiencing failure, many people felt that they were favored by heaven, even though they had never been favored.

"It's only [-] kilometers away from the town of La Maine. Do you think he might be from the town of La Maine?" Zheng Yun looked at the tavern owner again.

"Ah?" Song Wan whispered.

Zheng Yun didn't explain, and took Song Wan out of the tavern, returned to the hotel where they lived, walked into the room on the first floor, and then told Song Wan what he thought.

"Arranged in chronological order, the following things may have happened on this land."

"In the early colonial period, the resources here were not explored, and the dark slaves lived in a closed life until the ancient oriental people came here to engage in some gods and gods."

"During the gold rush, the gold mines here were discovered by adventurers and explorers at that time, attracting a large number of gold prospectors, and the town of La Maine was born at that time."

"In the early part of the last century, gold mines attracted the attention of Western countries. Gold and uranium mines were discovered after exploration, and a major accident occurred during the mining process."

"Finally, now, the legend of the gold mine still exists and spread in a small area, attracting many modern explorers, and eventually died in the depths of the abandoned mine."

"That's a general statement."

"Most of the issues don't need to be studied in depth, and we can't help finding Liu Ming. Now we only need to find out the reason for their disappearance."

"Liu Ming Damona's identity is actually similar to the modern explorer in the abandoned mine."

"Their purpose and actions, even the causes of death and disappearance, are roughly the same, and can be guessed as a whole."

"What is the purpose of killing them?"

"Who would have this motive?"

Zheng Yun kneaded his temples and said so much in one breath, also sorting out his thoughts.

"Is the West covering up the abandoned mine accident?"

Song Wan frowned tightly, and felt a chill on her back, she subconsciously leaned closer to Zheng Yun, always feeling that someone was peeping behind her.

"Probably not."

"If they do it, they can completely fill the mine, make the town of La Maine and the abandoned mine disappear from the map, and even this town will not exist."

Zheng Yun shook his head in denial.

The party responsible for the abandoned mine accident may have done something, but the responsible party should not be the West. There is no need to blackmail them, and there is no need to wrong them.

Because if it is the West, they must be more ruthless than they are now, and the hotel owner will not have the opportunity to say those words and lure people to La Maine Town.

"What else could it be?" Song Wan shuddered, biting her lower lip hard and asking.

"Motives and purposes..."

Zheng Yun muttered to himself, then suddenly turned his head to Song Wan who was beside him, then changed the subject and asked:
"What do you think our ancient ancestors discovered here?"

"I do not know."

Song Wan had a helpless and pitiful expression.

Zheng Yun sighed silently. At the end, he could only guess in the direction of gods and ghosts. Now he has a very outrageous idea and has the opportunity to explain everything.

Perhaps, there is no gold mine here at all!
The river where the gold diggers found the gold nuggets should be the lower reaches of the underground river in the rift cave.

Liu Ming said before that the rock formation of the abandoned mine is not a gold mine, but a cooling pipe used to freeze the rock formation, another ultra-high-value mineral.

Obviously not a gold mine.

But gold nuggets flowed out with the river.

This question seems unimaginable, but in fact there is an answer that can be explained. In the depths of the rift valley cave, there may be an ancient oriental building.

Because of its age, this ancient building was corroded and damaged by the river water, causing the gold nuggets hidden in the depths to be washed out of the cave by the water and flow outside.

Possibly a burial.

It could be something else too.

My adoptive father once told a story about a fairy cave. It is said that a fairy was buried in the cave. In order to be buried with her, most of the cave was filled with gold...

Although this guess is outrageous, it is a reasonable guess based on the theory of gods and ghosts, and it can be extended further.

The ancient karst caves are related to fairy monsters.

Hidden a secret beyond cognition.

This secret caused Damona to turn back several times as if she was fascinated, and also caused the death of a large number of explorers, and even caused an accident in the abandoned mine.

thought here.

Zheng Yun took out his phone.

On the ancient sea chart in the basement, several continents of W-06 were drawn. Zheng Yun had seen it before coming here, but because the shape of the coastline did not match the actual map, it was put on hold for now.

But now he has no choice.

He had to take out the chart again to see if there were any relevant clues on it.

The chart is called Changsheng Xianfu map.

Combined with the waist card of Ming Dynasty Triton.

It is likely that this ancient building is recorded on it.

He didn't have any reference before, and he couldn't even tell the difference between southeast and north, and he couldn't find the place names on the map, because this place was so inaccessible that it didn't belong to the country.

But now, he can first find the place names related to the fairy, and then compare it with the local paper map to see if it matches.

(End of this chapter)