Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 290 Local Conditions
"There should be a water source behind this collapse point." Liang En said after briefly checking the surrounding traces, "And judging from the rocks at the bottom of the cave, hundreds of tons of water can gush out from this place every day."

"It is indeed a gift from the gods to have a spring that can produce hundreds of tons of water every day in this kind of place." Mrs. Nell also said looking at the traces on the ground.

"But now it seems that some kind of change has taken place inside the mountain and cut off the water vein, so the whole valley has become completely desolate like it is now."

Obviously, the previous geological changes in this area are not just the little bit in the cave that we saw. Those gravels may also block the flowing water, so the drying up of the water source is most likely related to the changes inside the mountain.

And when the people brought by Mrs. Neil successfully cleaned up the gravel in the passage, a huge cave hall with many traces of running water appeared in front of everyone.

The reason why it is said to be huge is because the cave seems to be able to fit the small building in Liang En Ranch, and in the center of the cave there is a large pit that occupies more than half of the area.

"It seems that we have found the right place." The first time he entered the bottom of the big pit, Liang En saw something shining under the light of the flashlight at the bottom of the pit, and when he picked it up, he found that it was an otter engraved on it. gold ring.

On the whole, this ring looks real, and it even feels a little heavy on the hand.But what is a little strange is that the carving on it looks a bit rough, giving people the feeling that it is something that a layman carved out with a knife.

"That's right, this thing belongs to our tribe." After taking the ring and looking at it carefully, the old lady Nell nodded. "This was originally the personal item of the wizard back then, and it was thrown into the pool as a sacrifice."

"You can see that the otter above should have been carved by the wizard himself. The reason why he did this was to show his identity to the gods. If I'm not wrong, there should be items belonging to the Spear tribe nearby."

After hearing this sentence, Liang En continued to search, and found a rough-looking quartzite spearhead on the other side of the pool, and this was the wizard's token of the Spear tribe.

"That is to say, we have found the right place now?" Liang En said after looking at the completely dry pool and the two tokens, "But the water source of this pool seems to have been dry for decades."

"I think this is why we have sent people to search for it and failed to find it after more than half a century. After all, there is no water source, and this place is completely different from our legends." Old Madam Nell sighed.

"But I really didn't expect this place to be like this. I thought this place would become a jewel in our reservation."

For this old man who has fought for her tribe for half her life, she still hopes in her heart that her tribe can develop.

In fact, this time everyone was organized to search the Holy Land, apart from some religious needs, the most important goal was to find a valley full of vitality in the desert.

Because for the aborigines in the Gobi Desert, more than half of these reserves are, such a water source near the main road is very important.

"Then what should we do next?" Liang En looked at Mrs. Nell and asked, because the current situation has exceeded all their previous guesses.

According to their previous thinking, this operation is nothing more than two possibilities, either they successfully found this holy place and blocked the target, or they found nothing and returned empty-handed.

It's just that the situation this time is different from all of them before. They did find the Holy Land and captured the attackers, but the Holy Land disappeared due to changes in nature.

"Next, we're going to hold a ceremony here, a pacification ceremony." Mrs. Nell told Liang En what to do next.

"The task of this ceremony is to appease the local natural spirits, and then see if the ancestor spirits and the natural spirits can bring this place back to life."

"Of course, in addition to holding the ceremony, we also want to give you the status of a distinguished guest of our entire tribe, so I hope you can stay and participate in our next ceremony."

Naturally, Liang En would not refuse such kindness, and when he met Pierce and the others, he learned from Pierce how valuable this Indian VIP status was.

"Do you think it's just a simple title? No, this VIP status is not just a title." After learning that Liang En had become a VIP of the tribe, Pierce explained the situation to him.

"You know, Indian reservations have their own operating rules, and for this more traditional tribe, after you become a VIP of the tribe, you can get many rights that only tribe members have."

"To give you the simplest example, you can choose all the items sold by this tribe before others. At the same time, as long as your bid is similar to the market price, then you will get the priority to choose the item."

"For example, we can now buy authentic aboriginal handicrafts from them, and we can guarantee that they are absolutely handmade, not some kind of machine-made industrial products."

What Pierce said is a big problem in the current market. Native American handicrafts are indeed more attractive, but the problem is that most of those things on the market are industrial products.

Although ordinary people don't care too much about whether these things are purely handmade or machine-made, for the customers of the emerald thrift store, they come here to buy the most traditional handicrafts.

It's a pity that they didn't have a stable channel to obtain the supply of goods before, so even if they knew that someone liked these things, they could only buy them back occasionally when they saw good things.

So now that Liang En has become the distinguished guest of these Native Americans, he will be able to have a stable channel to obtain handicrafts in the future, and this time is very conducive to the next step of the development of the emerald thrift store.

"It seems that finding you as a shareholder of our store is one of the most important decisions our family has made." Having said that, Pierce patted Liang En on the shoulder and said.

"I can assure you that if those handicraft contracts can be negotiated, we will have no problem increasing our profit margin by another five points or so this year."

It may be because this ceremony is more important, so they stayed in the temporary camp at the mouth of the valley for two days before they were notified of the start of the ceremony. After receiving the notification, Liang En and Fan Meng were each wearing traditional aboriginal costumes The others walked towards the valley together.

It is a pity that neither Pierce nor Joan of Arc could participate in this ceremony, mainly because this ceremony has the nature of aboriginal religion, so the two devout believers of them would naturally be excluded.

Pierce regretted this fact, because he was really curious about what the traditional rituals of these Native Americans looked like, but he also knew that local traditions should be respected at this time.

As for Joan of Arc, she didn't feel any regrets about not being able to participate in such a ceremony. At least in terms of her beliefs, participating in this kind of religious ceremony that was different from her own belief made her feel a little uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)