Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 273 The Mysterious Compass

"Well, of course." Lao Yan promised: "We just listen to something new!"

Only then did Lao Sheng breathe out: "Actually, I saw something that day, but I didn't dare to say it, because all the valuable things in the forest farm were lost the next day. I'm afraid that if I tell them, they will think I stole it." You should also understand that there will be no strangers in this forest farm for half a year, just when I saw something weird, everything was stolen, and I couldn’t clean it even if I jumped into the Yellow River.”

We all expressed our understanding. After all, there are no coincidences in this world. Losing a job is still a trivial matter. In this era, reputation is more important than life. If someone in the family has a bad reputation, then the family will not have to live, so he has this concern. It's also very normal.

"That night, I really thought there was someone. When I got to the place where the voice came from, I didn't see anyone, but I saw something." Old Sheng said.

Lao Yan immediately asked him what it was, and Lao Sheng shook his head: "I can't tell, you should see for yourself."

After speaking, he took out a compass the size of a pocket watch from his pocket. Our faces changed when we saw this thing. Normal people seldom use this thing, and it is the most commonly used by tomb robbers, because it is not only easy to carry, but also has very high accuracy. .

"You picked it up?" Lao Yan took the compass over and rubbed it for a while before asking with a gloomy expression.

Lao Sheng nodded: "I didn't think much about it at the time. It wasn't until the next day that the big guy lost all his things, and I didn't think something was wrong! Someone must have owned it at the time, but I don't know where he hid it. I was also worried that they would come back and clean me up."

Lao Yan stuffed the compass into his arms: "Big brother, it's useless for you to keep this thing, why not give it to me, if those people find you, you can say that it's with me."

"Thank you so much." Lao Sheng didn't think that Lao Yan would help him, and didn't delve into the meaning of Lao Yan's words, so he was grateful at the moment.

Lao Yan didn't speak, but we knew that this was probably the gang of tomb robbers mentioned in the news. We didn't expect them to have entered Jiuhua Mountain two days ago, but we don't know if they have found the Nine-story Pagoda now?

The fourth girl, who had been silent since entering the room, suddenly said, "Can you take me to the place where you picked things up?"

"Of course." Lao Sheng rubbed his hands, propped up his body, and pushed the door out with the fourth girl. Lao Yan and I followed curiously, and Liu Hanqiu followed, not to be outdone. As for the others, they were caught Old smoke remained in the house.

In fact, this place is not far away, just one or two meters behind a row of wooden houses. After all, it is convenient to come out at night, and it will not go too far.

There is an empty yard behind the wooden house, and the yard is connected with bushes. If you don't have the guts, you don't dare to work as a forest ranger here at night.

The place where Lao Sheng picked up the compass was at the junction of the yard and the bushes. He took us to the place and made gestures: "I was standing here at the time. If there were people, I would definitely be able to see it, but it's just weird. , I didn’t see anyone at all. When I turned around to leave, I kicked something. I picked it up and looked at it. It was just shown to you. Actually, I didn’t know what it was, so I thought it was copper. Might not be able to exchange some money."

The more he said, the more embarrassing he became: "It's just that the more I thought about it, the more something went wrong. People who come to the forest farm to steal things are bold and not afraid of death. I'm afraid they will come to the door, and this thing will become a hot potato."

"Can we walk around alone?" The fourth girl gave the order to evict the guests, and Lao Sheng was not stupid, so he naturally understood it.

As soon as Lao Sheng left, Lao Yan lay on the ground, not caring that the ground was already frozen and could cause frostbite.

He knocked back and forth on the ground, muttering: "Strange, logically speaking, the compass must be worn next to the body, and it is usually not lost. If Lao Sheng did not lie, then someone must have been here at that time, just because When Lao Sheng came, he didn’t have time to get the compass.”

"You can hide people everywhere here, it's normal for Lao Sheng not to see it." Liu Hanqiu said disapprovingly, he thought Lao Yan shouldn't make such a fuss.

Lao Yan snorted: "Look at the surrounding environment yourself, and think about where Lao Sheng was standing at that time."

Liu Hanqiu casually glanced at it without paying much attention, and then his face changed, but he didn't say anything, Lao Yan snorted coldly: "Did you find out? With Lao Sheng's position at that time, he came over after hearing the movement, unless he would Otherwise, you have to stay where you are so you won’t attract attention. Lao Sheng didn’t say that he heard movement afterwards, so what does that mean? It means that the person really didn’t move at all!”

"But in such a place, why hide people?" Liu Hanqiu asked with a dark face, unwilling to be reprimanded by Lao Yan.

Lao Yan took out the compass from his bosom, and smiled: "Tomb robbers are best at digging holes."

"Stealing a hole?" Liu Hanqiu sneered: "It's such a big hole, old Sheng can..."

In the middle of the talk, he stopped himself first, and then said that if Lao Sheng didn't look carefully and it was night again, then it was indeed possible to ignore the robbery hole.Then wait for Lao Sheng to leave before sealing the robbery hole, no, it is also possible that after Lao Sheng left, he crawled out to steal things, and then used the robbery hole to escape.

I kicked the stones beside me: "No way, if it's really that group of people, what are they doing stealing the forest farm?"

"Confused the line of sight." The fourth girl suddenly said: "It may be that there is something they want in the forest farm, and the other party knows we are coming, so they confuse the line of sight and prevent us from knowing what they took away."

Following his words, Lao Yan also successfully found the robbery cave.In fact, it is not difficult to find. The other party blocked it with a stone without hesitation. At that time, Lao Sheng might have frightened himself, so he got away with it.

Lao Yan didn't agree with my words: "It's not that I fooled around, it's that it's dark under the lights!"

I followed his words, and then put myself into the situation and thought about it. Sure enough, if I were in Lao Sheng's position, then this stone would be the easiest to ignore.

Lao Yan moved the stone away, and a robbery hole that could accommodate one person suddenly appeared in front of us. Looking at the smoothness of the hole, the opponent should be a master.

"What is it that made them go to great lengths to steal it, and to steal it through a robbery hole?" Lao Yan rubbed his chin.

Before he could react, the fourth girl went straight down the robbery hole and disappeared in front of our eyes in an instant.

I asked Lao Yan if I wanted to follow, Lao Yan shook his head and said to see the situation, anyway, we can't keep up with the fourth girl's speed.

"It's really cold outside." Liu Hanqiu yelled, and Lao Yan directly made him unable to bear it and went back to the house to wait, but he didn't know why he didn't want to.

Lao Yan ignored him, hunched his neck and studied the compass, his face became more and more serious.

I thought there was something wrong with the compass, but Lao Yan shook his head and said that there was nothing wrong, but the patterns on it seemed familiar to him.

"Ahem, you've done this before, isn't it normal that it looks familiar?" I coughed twice: "Besides, don't we use this compass very often now, I just carry one in my bag."

"You brought a compass?" Old Yan's eyes lit up.

I looked at him strangely, the compass is our essential equipment, how could he be so excited?
Lao Yan didn't care whether I was surprised or not, and urged me to take out the compass quickly. I didn't know what he was going to do, but I went back to the house and took out the compass from the bag.

I just wanted to send it to Lao Yan, when I found that he entered the house, took my compass and the compass picked up by Lao Sheng and compared it carefully!

(End of this chapter)