Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 463
He took a breath every time he said a word, but this didn't prevent him from scolding me bloody, and I didn't dare to return a word.

I was indeed impulsive yesterday. There is nothing wrong with my admiration for the fourth girl, but there is a problem if I can't figure out my weight because of my admiration.People at Miss Si's level, even if something goes wrong, I won't be able to save her, instead it will become her burden.

Lao Yan hates iron but not steel... This is the first time he has said so clearly that he wants me to take his place, and it is also the first time he has expressed such great disappointment to me.

I didn't know what to say, I only said I knew it after he finished scolding, and I would never be so impulsive again.

"Okay, you take care of it." Old Yan exhausted all his strength, and walked out slowly with the support of Professor Xu. I felt sad for a while when I saw the somewhat stooped look.

After Lao Yan left, I was preparing to reflect on my behavior when someone appeared by the door again.

Because I was lying on the bed, I only felt the shadow of a person, so I said impatiently: "Okay, I'm going to rest."

"Then you have a good rest." The indifferent voice came, and I was stunned. When I got up hurriedly, I saw the fourth girl was about to go out.I hurriedly called her to stop, but didn't know what to say, so I asked her if she was okay after holding back for a while.

The fourth girl couldn't help laughing, she didn't go out, but pulled a chair and sat by the bed, and asked me what I heard that night.

I scratched my head, and finally chose to tell the truth. There is really nothing to hide, after all, even if I heard it, I still can't figure out the story of the year.

The fourth girl didn't say anything when she heard the words, she was silent for a while before she said: "Why did you follow me that night?"

"I, I..." I blushed a little, and said the reason embarrassingly: "I'm just a little worried about you."

The fourth girl sighed slightly, reached out and patted my shoulder, and said softly: "Chang'an, you are a good seedling, and I agree with Lao Yan's decision to let you take charge of 701! Don't let everyone down with emotions."

My eyes are slightly sour, and I'm not a fool. I understand what she means, but I just can't do it.

"Miss Si, am I really going to make you look down on me like this? You don't even want to try."

The fourth girl had a strange look on her face, she stared at me and said, "It's not because of you, even if it's someone else."

As soon as I was about to say something, she quickly interrupted me: "Take a good rest and don't think about it! I'm very happy that you can worry about me, but we are destined to have no other involvement."

She said this so heartlessly, she left the door without giving me any chance to get up, I just held back the words stuck in my throat, and didn't know what to say for a long time.

She walked for a long time before I fell back on the bed in frustration. I couldn't feel the tingling pain on my body, I just felt empty in my heart--is it over before I started?

But the mission of 701 will obviously not stop because of my loss. After recuperating on the ship for a full week, Lao Yan opened the door of my room and said that if my injury is not serious, the team can set off tomorrow.

"Did you find something?" I saw something wrong from his expression.

Lao Yan looked solemn, and said that he had observed the topography of the island in the past few days and found that the island was sinking.

"As we predicted when we set off from Fengshou Village, although the speed is extremely slow, it is indeed sinking. You should be aware that such an isolated island in the ocean is prone to water accumulation in the tomb. If it sinks further, many national treasures will be lost. Seeing the light of day again..." Old Yan said.

I immediately said that my health was fine, and I could leave anytime.

Lao Yan made arrangements as soon as he heard it, and asked everyone to bring their equipment and set off at dawn the next day.

Standing on the island again, my heart was a little heavy. I came up to this island twice and returned with bad luck, and almost died once. I really can't get high.But I didn't get too depressed, because the fourth girl came with us this time.

Kunbu took out a few packs of black powder and distributed them to us, saying that it was the Miaojiang Bidu Powder he had taken the time to prepare in the past few days, so everyone could take it as a precaution.

It seems that what happened with Yazai and Laoyan last time got him interested, and he specially prepared an antidote to deal with it.

Except for the fourth girl, everyone else took a pack and took it. After all, we were caught off guard by the previous few times.

"Lao Yan, go there and have a look." The fourth girl narrowed her eyes and looked at Dongfang, then raised her hand and said.

I looked in her direction, and saw a black smoke rising into the sky, connecting with the sea and sky!
It was dusk at the moment, and the sea water was reflected red by the sunset. The scenery was so beautiful that people were intoxicated, but the black smoke soaring into the sky forcibly destroyed the beautiful scenery.

Lao Yan rushed quickly behind the fourth girl, and I and Yazai followed behind. Professor Xu and the others stayed where they were, and returned to the boat quickly if anything went wrong.

The place where the black smoke rose was actually not too far from where we parked the boat. In addition, it was relatively close to the sea and there were not many bushes on the road, so we arrived in less than 1 minute.Siguniang and Lao Yan had already started to check around a five-square-meter forest that had been charred and blackened.

"It's man-made." The fourth girl picked up a sticky thing and sniffed it under her nose: "This is a cloth soaked in gasoline. It hasn't been burned yet. The person should still be nearby."

I asked strangely: "Who would set fire around here?"

And looking at the scene, a firebreak was deliberately dug around, just to burn the five square meters, so it was obviously not an accident.

The fourth girl touched a pile of ashes from the ground and rubbed them in her hands, the ashes slowly flew out from between his fingers.I wrinkled my nose, and suddenly said with a serious face: "It smells like corpse oil, could it be murder and destruction of corpses?"

Lao Yan patted me on the shoulder speechlessly, and said that the island is surrounded by high seas where few people come. If you throw the corpse directly into the sea, it will be eaten by fish and there will be no bones left. Wouldn’t it be better than burning it with fire?

With the posture of soaring black smoke into the sky, it can be seen dozens of sea miles away, but it will cause some unnecessary troubles at that time.

I asked Lao Yan to sniff it carefully, and he also said strangely that it was indeed the smell of corpse oil, but the smell was very heavy, and it didn't seem like it was burnt from a new corpse, so... According to his speculation, there may be something under it. Corpse!

"Chang'an, go and call Professor Xu and the others over, get some shovels and other tools from the boat, and dig up all this area!" Lao Yan ordered excitedly.

I ran away immediately, and came back with Professor Xu and a group of people within ten minutes. The fourth girl and Lao Yan had already cleaned up the ashes, and it looked much clearer. Randomly inserted a few places in several square meters.

I noticed that some of her branches were inserted deeper, but some were shallower, and some were just standing on them lightly. I was so confused and didn't understand what she was doing.

Soon I knew what she was going to do. After inserting all the branches in her hand, she beckoned: "Dig according to the depth I inserted, Chang'an boy, you two watch, absolutely don't go any deeper. Don't be superficial, understand?"

(End of this chapter)