[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

It was to let the man run away without slipping.

The person who stole the box couldn't catch up, so Gu Ran simply put the box on the ground, and with a skillful hand, he broke the lock.

"Why did you open the box?" The fat man chased after him and saw that the box was wide open, and there were many things the size of a fist inside.

Gu Ran didn't speak, picked up something, weighed it, put it back, and asked, "Don't you feel anything strange around you?"

Zhang Qiling immediately looked in one direction with a serious look on his face. Following Zhang Qiling's gaze, Wu Xie and the others saw some villagers standing on a nearby hill with gloomy expressions.

Gu Ran picked up another thing from the box, and waved to the villagers on the hill from afar.

"Why are you provoking them?" Wu Xie was shocked, "We are on other people's territory, what if people from Chen Pi Asi find out, there are still Vietnamese here."

Gu Ran put the things back, shook his head and explained, "If you don't provoke them, they will live in peace? Although I don't know what Mute Zhang is hiding, I have a hunch that the water is deep here. If it is Chen Pi Ah Si's people, it's not a big deal, the old man is dead, and the younger ones don't dare to start a conflict with us directly.

Now that people have committed crimes against us, we can't be cowardly, at least we have to show an attitude, we are not easy to mess with, otherwise we will definitely be manipulated and walked away later, which will be very troublesome. "

"What Gu Xiaoran said makes sense, it's time to play psychological warfare." The fat man pointed to the box on the ground and said, "But my brother said that this thing is dangerous, so you just opened it right away?"

Gu Ran said: "This thing is not heavy enough, it should just be wrapped with a layer of iron sheet, and there are other things inside. According to my guess, even if it is dangerous, it is the thing wrapped in the iron slurry that is dangerous, otherwise dumb Zhang would not It’s just such a big lala hidden under the bed”

Zhang Qiling took a piece and weighed it, agreeing with Gu Ran's statement.

Although he didn't remember what he thought back then, if this thing was really so dangerous, he wouldn't have hidden it in Banai for so many years and didn't come back to find it.

It's one thing for Gu Ran to have the courage to open the tin box in front of others and be provocative, but it's another thing not to dare to go back to the wooden building to get other documents.After all, they still have to stay here for a period of time to find out what happened at the beginning. The help of the local villagers is indispensable. Naturally, they must grasp this measure.

Carrying the tin box back to Agui's house, Fatty and the others went to ask Agui's daughter about the matter. Gu Ran just stared at the tin box in the room, his mind blank.

Frankly speaking, Gu Ran has been through so many places, and there are very few things he has never seen. Even if many things are rare, he can analyze them based on experience, but he does have a half-knowledge of Zhang Qiling's possession. nothing.

Gu Ran had an urge to melt the outer iron sheet, but he didn't dare.

He could sense a danger.

Fatty and Wu Xie did not give up during the period, and went to Zhang Qiling's old house again, intending to sneak in and take out the documents and photos inside, but there were always a few old men outside the old house enjoying the cool and chatting, no matter how good Zhang Qiling's skills were , and there is no way to sneak in and take things out without anyone noticing.

The scorching sun was on his head, and he was tired of the sun, so the fat man simply suggested to find a stream to soak in the heat.

Just passing by Agui's house on the way, Wu Xie called Gu Ran who was staying in the house, asked a few villagers, and turned out of the village.

There were a few fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls playing in the stream. The fat man became excited when he saw it. He took off his clothes and went into the water. Wu Xie was also soaking in the water wearing sports shorts. Zhang Qiling was planning to enjoy the cool under the shade of the tree. But Gu Ran, with the idea of ​​good brothers wanting to be together, forced Zhang Qiling into the water.

Then Gu Ran saw the little yellow chicken underwear Zhang Qiling was wearing that the fat man had bought before.

To be honest, this is the fat man's daring to do this. Gu Ran has known him for so many years, and he has never done such a "rebellious" thing. He guessed that even the unscrupulous black blind man would not dare to do it.

Gu Ran only hated that he didn't bring his camera when he went out, so he couldn't record this historic scene.

Suffering from Zhang Qiling's amnesia not long ago, Gu Ran didn't dare to be too presumptuous, otherwise he would die laughing in front of Zhang Qiling.

Ever since he was cheated by Wu Sansheng, Gu Ran seldom had such a leisurely time, so he lay directly in the water with only one head on it.

After an unknown amount of time, Gu Ran heard the noise around him, as if something had happened, opened his eyes, and found black smoke rising from the village in the distance, the direction was exactly where Zhang Qiling's old house was.

Wu Xie and the others immediately got out of the water and ran towards the burning place. As soon as they got close, they knew that it was Zhang Qiling's house that caught fire, and the mountain behind it also caught fire.

Zhang Qiling rushed into the fire immediately, wrapped in mud and ready to climb in.

He is obsessed, Gu Ran knew it was impossible to stop him, so he found a few buckets of water to prepare, not long after, Zhang Qiling rolled out from the gap between the high-rise building, covered in white smoke , Gu Ran immediately poured water on him.

Zhang Qiling was expressionless, and said coldly: "It's all gone, it's full of kerosene smell, even the floor is burnt through."

Gu Ran sighed, he had expected this result early on, but he didn't expect the other party to attack so quickly.The people who came to snatch the boxes, the people who stared at the high-rise buildings, and the people who set fire to the houses, it was obvious that they were a coherent thing. Gu Ran can guarantee that even if they really found something valuable from the fire , the other party must have a backhand.

Obviously, apart from the box of iron bars, there are other secrets in Zhang Qiling's previous residence, which some people don't want them to investigate.

The moment Gu Ran saw the mountain fire, he judged the intensity of the fire, knowing that even if he broke into the fire, he would never be able to rescue anything valuable, so he didn't move.

From the present point of view, the relationship between this village is far more serious than that of Dou before, at least no one has ever stopped their investigation before.

Gu Ran pondered for a while, and after sending Zhang Qiling and Wu Xie to the village health center for treatment of burns, he found a place with a signal and sent a message, asking the black blind man to check on Banai.

Gu Ran had an intuition that this should be a clue.

Gu Ran's only hesitation is that he doesn't know who is making the shot, whether he simply prevents them from continuing to investigate Banai in depth, or plotting against them themselves. In other words, Gu Ran is not sure whether the other party will threaten them. life.

After returning from the village clinic, Fatty and Wu Xie complained a lot. For the sake of safety, the four of them simply lived in the same room. With Gu Ran and Zhang Qiling around, even if someone was sneaking around at night, they could still be on guard.

Things didn't go well here, but it went well after asking Agui to find the old guide who took Chen Wenjin to the mountains. Agui took Wu Xie and the others to the old guide's house the next day.A Gui described Wu Xie and the others as members of the government, so that the old guide might be more cooperative.

The fat man didn't look like he came from the government, so he went out to buy sulfuric acid—he wanted to melt the iron with sulfuric acid to see what was inside.

At first, Gu Ran and Zhang Qiling didn't want to melt the iron, after all, this thing had unknown dangers, but now that there was a wildfire, the original clue to Zhang Qiling's residence was broken, so they could only start with this only box of iron.

But I didn't expect that there was an accident when I went to find the guide the next day.

The old guide was a hunter. He had gone into the mountain the night before and hadn't come back yet. The old man's son saw that the three "government people" who came with Agui had been released as pigeons. I didn't even bring a gun, so I definitely didn't go hunting, and I'll be back later.

This is their only clue now, and they can only wait. While Wu Xie and the others were waiting, another middle-aged man came from the door, speaking in a Beijing accent, and it was said that he was the distant nephew of Papa Panma.

As soon as the middle-aged man came in and saw Wu Xie and the others, he wondered, "Is there a guest?"

Papa Panma's son replied: "Yes, they came to see my papa too. These three are from the government."

According to what he said, the middle-aged man came to find Papa Panma to buy something, misunderstood that Wu Xie and the others were Papa Panma's new customers, and joined forces to deceive him.

The middle-aged man asked Wu Xie: "Which unit do you belong to? I am familiar with the people in this town, why haven't I seen you?"

This was a very rude question. Gu Ran took out his pocket and threw out a certificate to the middle-aged man, with a very bad tone: "He's from Beijing, where do you want to see him?"

The middle-aged man glanced at the certificate, handed it back to Gu Ran in a hurry, apologized, and then turned his head and said to Papa Panma's son, "Okay, then you are trying to persuade your dad, my boss's price is not low. , keep that thing, if you don’t bring it with you when you die, what’s the use, right? Don’t be stubborn, it’s definitely a bargain if you sell it, it’d be nice to give the old man a few years of happiness with that little money.”

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After a few words of persuasion, the middle-aged man left in a hurry, and then Papa Panma's son explained to Wu Xie and the others that this man used to spend his days in Beijing, but later he came to Guangxi to collect antiques with some kind of boss. He took a fancy to a piece of broken iron that Papa Panma picked up from the mountains before, and wanted to sell it before, but now he changed his mind not to sell it.

Gu Ran's heart moved, Pan Ma was Chen Wenjin's guide back then, if the things Zhang Qiling collected were related to Chen Wenjin's archaeology, the broken iron of Pan Ma was probably the same as that box of iron blocks.This seemingly worthless thing, someone out there charged a high price?

There is only one possibility, the person who wants to buy something knows the inside story.

Antique dealers outside would know about things that even Gu Ran didn't know about, and they definitely had a lot of background.