Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

Chapter 1140: Climbing the Barren Mountain

 Two antiques were given as a gift, one more expensive than the other, and they were bought at a bargain price. Although Connor didn't understand antiques, he absolutely believed in Li Mo's appraisal ability. If he said it was an antique, it would be correct, and even the valuation wouldn't be much different.

 “What on earth was he thinking?”

 Connor became suspicious again after accepting the two antiques, but he couldn't live up to Li Mo's kindness. He struggled for a while before deciding to take a closer look and pay more attention.

The two of them visited all the remaining antique shops but did not find the third good thing. It can only be said that there is no mature antique market here. He had picked up several large pieces of jewelry on an old street when he was participating in a public auction in Myanmar. He even imagined that he would have the opportunity to visit other countries in Southeast Asia to see if there were any good opportunities.

“Mr. Li, let’s go have lunch first. What are your plans for the afternoon?”

"Mr. Connor, based on my experience in treasure hunting, generally the place where treasures are buried is either in the place that I am most familiar with, or in the surrounding mountains and lakes. Especially in mountains, the terrain is complex. If you can find some natural caves in them, He put many treasures inside, and then used explosives to blow up the cave, thus forming a secret cave. The Santiago Castle was once the place where the island country's troops were stationed. Since they have dug three feet into the ground and found nothing, then We’re going to use other ways to find treasure.”

Li Moyao pointed to the barren mountain and continued: "Let's go there to take a look in the afternoon."

Connor hesitated and said: "Mr. Li, there is a slum over there. The environment is harsh and the personnel are complex. Security work is not easy to arrange. If something happens, it may be very troublesome."

"So Mr. Connor, do you think there is no need to go to that place?" Li Mo smiled and said, "That's good, you don't have to follow me there together, I can just go there by myself. Since it's a treasure hunt, of course it's better to go there by myself." As long as we know the clues, we will eliminate the reasonable guesses one by one. If we find new clues, it means we have found one of the treasure places."

 Connor looked at the antique porcelain from China in his hand. Several thoughts quickly flashed through his mind. Finally, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make arrangements right now."

Li Mo waved his hand and said, "It's better not to mobilize troops. Just a few of us will go."

 Connor's face looked grim. He knew very well how chaotic it was over there. It was said to be a slum, but there were also several underground forces hiding there. They had all three poisons and had formed an industrial chain. Strangers would definitely receive special attention in the past, especially foreigners like Li Mo, who would stand out as soon as they appeared.

 “Okay, I won’t embarrass you.”

Li Mo patted him on the shoulder. It was best not to follow him. If he really found any clues to the treasure, he could figure out how to sneak away the treasure without anyone noticing.

Since it is a treasure hunt, it is natural that the underground forces over there cannot be alarmed. Otherwise, even if you are lucky enough to find the treasure, it may cause a large-scale firefight. But traveling without security is definitely dangerous.

“Mr. Li, I suggest you cancel your afternoon trip. You can choose another known clue to pursue.”

Li Mo turned around and glanced at Ji Tou: "Just the two of us will go there in the afternoon, and the others will be waiting outside."

  Stinging his head nodded.

 Connor's mouth twitched a few times but he still did not continue to dissuade him. He wanted to report this matter immediately, lest something big really happened and he didn't want to take the blame.

There are no Chinese restaurants nearby. If you want to eat authentic food, you may have to go back to the hotel or go to a Chinese town. There will definitely be Chinese food to fill your stomach.

Li Mo looked at the local delicacies on the plate and had no appetite at all. The same thing happened to Ci Tou and the others. He thought for a moment and said, "Zi Tou, let's go to the big supermarket to buy some bread and water or milk and make do with it. We will prepare some food in advance when we go out later."

 Hunting quickly stood up: "Yes, Mr. Li."

The outskirts of Manila are basically where people live in slums. Li Mo has only seen reports of so-called slums abroad on the Internet. Dirty and messy are not enough to describe the harsh environment here.

A wide avenue separates the rich and poor in the city. On one side of the avenue are high-rise buildings with constant police patrols, while on the other side are densely packed shacks with brick walls and tiled roofs. , slightly inferior is the wooden house, the worst is naturally the kind of dangerous house that may collapse at any time.

Even so, there are no empty houses in those dilapidated houses. Sometimes three generations live in a small dilapidated house. Young people among them either go to the city to do some hard work during the day, or they do dirty work with underground forces to earn some hard-earned money to support their families.

But most of them stay in the center of the slums, seeking shelter from underground forces and living a life of darkness.

Coming with Li Mo and Ci Tou was a soldier who was in his twenties. He was very good at Spanish and English. With him, he could translate at any time.

Li Mo and the others stood on the road and looked at the slums opposite. They were thinking about finding another way up the barren mountain when they saw two women walking past them, exuding a strong smell of perfume. , is a low-quality perfume that smells pungent.

One of the women, who seemed to be a child, actually stuffed something into Li Mo's hand, then winked at him and did not leave. Instead, she stood two meters away and looked at the three of them with a smile. .

Li Mo looked down and saw a business card with messy words written on it that he couldn't understand.

 “Xiaolu, what do you mean by this?”

Xiaolu, the security guard and translator, took it and looked at it, then couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Li, they are in that kind of business, and there are various price levels written on it. The cheapest one is four hundred pesos, and the most expensive one is four hundred pesos." Eight thousand pesos.”

Li Mo frowned slightly. He saw many young women stuffing business cards here openly, and many people responded to them by directly hugging a woman's waist and following her to a secret place for transactions.

“Mr. Li, everything is organized here. I saw a few men staring this way.”

Li Mo had already discovered the men that Zhu Tou was talking about. No wonder Connor doesn't want to come over. Even if there are police patrolling here all the time, they don't care about such things at all. You can only mean that some underground force controls this place.

"let's go."

Li Mo plans to walk along the path around the barren mountain to see how the mountain is, and then consider walking through the slums to the top of the mountain. They had not walked more than ten meters when they saw the woman who had given him the business card before chasing them in a panic.

“Mr. Li, she shouted and asked if you could help her once?”

Li Mo stopped and turned around to look. The woman's face was still childish, and her eyes were full of panic and fear.

 “How do you need me to help you?”

 Xiaolu quickly translated. The woman looked pleading and raised four fingers with trembling hands.

"She asked if she could give her four hundred pesos, otherwise she would not only go hungry but also get beaten up tonight. Mr. Li, we are not familiar with the place, especially those in this industry. Each of them has a thousand-changing faces. , don’t be soft-hearted because of her pitiful appearance, otherwise more people will definitely come to ask you for money.”

Li Mo looked at the woman's face, and then said in a deep voice: "Give her three thousand pesos, and then ask her to call three rickshaws for us. We can't keep walking on our legs."

Xiaolu had no choice but to translate, and sure enough, the woman's face showed a look of great surprise, and she saluted Li Mo repeatedly to express her gratitude. Soon she took the money and ran away, and within three minutes she saw three human-powered tricycles rushing towards her.

The woman also came over and said a few words to Xiaolu.

“Mr. Li, she said that she can pay one hundred and fifty pesos per hour for each rickshaw. She also said that these three people are her brothers and cousins, and they will not cheat.”

Li Mo hummed and said: "Give them each one hundred and fifty pesos first, and then pay them when the time comes."

Seeing that their employer gave them money first, the three young men smiled happily and invited the three of them to get in the car.

There are small roads connecting them at any time, and three cars are moving along the road at the foot of the barren mountain. The slums here are so big, rolling up and down halfway up the barren mountains.

About an hour later, Li Mo and the others were standing by the lake. This lake is backed by barren mountains. They walked most of the way around to get here. The lake is huge and overgrown with weeds. There are also many sheds here that have been leaked, and old people and children can be seen coming in and out from time to time.

The environment here is even worse, mainly because there are so many mosquitoes, and there is a faint smell coming from the lake.

Li Mo sighed secretly, and once again understood deeply why Connor was unwilling to set foot here. Compared with the living environment in the city, this place was absolutely hellish.

Scanning all the way, nothing was found. The next step was either to evacuate, or to go through the slums and climb to the top of the barren mountain to investigate the situation.

"Xiaolu, tell them that I am very interested in mountain climbing. If they are willing to take us up, we will pay an additional five hundred pesos per person."

Xiaolu hurriedly talked to them, and the three of them nodded naturally. This young man, who was obviously the eldest among the three, made a bold move. The speed became faster when we returned. The three pedaled very fast and took care of the three bosses. Today each of them had an income of 800 pesos, which was equivalent to their income in the previous four or five days.

Although they don’t understand what’s so interesting about this barren mountain, as long as they can make money, they can do whatever they want.

 The three of them opened the way in front, and Li Mo and the others followed slowly behind. When we entered the slums, we saw many children playing. Many boys were still naked. The girls were a little better, but their clothes were also very shabby.

Looking at it all the way, Li Mo couldn't help but sigh at the strength of his motherland and how lucky he was to be able to live in this greatest era.

The environment was harsh, and the smell around them was even worse. Li Mo couldn't imagine how they could survive in such an environment, as stubborn as Xiao Qiang.

With great difficulty, everyone passed through the slums and continued walking along a path towards the top of the mountain.

“Mr. Li, they said that you can go directly to the top of the mountain by following this mountain road. When they were children, they often ran to the top of the mountain to play, but then many people died on the top of the mountain, so they stopped playing there.”

 “Dead people? Why do people die?”

"They can't explain clearly. In short, in the past 20 years or so, during the rainy season, thunder and lightning suddenly erupted from time to time, bombarding the top of the mountain. Some people went up and encountered bad luck before they could escape. Over time, basically no The locals went up again. But the weather is very good today and there will be no thunder and lightning. If it is rainy, they will definitely not take us up to play."

Li Mo and Ji Tou looked at each other. This phenomenon should be a natural phenomenon. There must be something on the top of the mountain that can easily cause thunder and lightning. Just like the lightning rods on top of tall towers or ancient buildings around the world, they can cause such lightning phenomena.

But in this place, I am thankful to God if I can survive starvation. How can I have the opportunity to go to school and learn about such a natural phenomenon?

 Li Mo looked up and looked at the mountain road in front of him that stretched all the way to the top of the mountain. He didn't have any uncomfortable premonitions. He shouldn't be so unlucky to encounter a sudden thunderstorm.

With great difficulty, six people finally climbed to the top of the mountain. It was said to be the top of the mountain, but in fact it was not the kind of flat top, but the top of the mountain with many strange rocks. Li Mo saw at a glance that many strange rocks had black spots on them, which should have been caused by thunder and lightning from the sky.

“Mr. Li, there doesn’t seem to be anything special about these strange rocks. How can they be like lightning rods to attract lightning from the sky?”

Chatou looked at a few strange rocks and touched them with his hands. He felt very strange.

Li Mo glanced at his eyes and took in everything within a hundred meters of the top of the mountain with his clairvoyant eyes. Go, there is definitely something weird here, because he saw that almost every strange rock had a steel bar artificially embedded in it. The part that comes out at one end is polished.

In addition, the mountains here are high and the clouds in the sky are low, so thunderstorms can easily occur.

 But who is so boring as to embed a steel bar in the strange rocks? This is definitely not normal. It was obviously not done by people from the ghetto here, nor could it be done by official people. And what is their purpose for doing this? It can't be for fun.

Li Mo's eyes flashed slightly, and his clairvoyant eyes penetrated underground. This penetration finally revealed the situation. There was actually a hole in the middle of the strange rocks higher up. The entrance to the cave had been blown down, and there was nothing unusual about it from the outside. After all, it was all stones, but it couldn't catch Li Mo's eyes.

The cave was blown down to a depth of about five meters. Going deeper still leads to a cave with a downhill structure extending toward the center of the mountain.

This reminded him of the cave treasures found in China, and then his clairvoyant gaze kept penetrating downwards, and finally entered another huge natural cave. The darkness could not stop his strange eyes, and he discovered boxes of things placed along the cave wall.

 Gold!

diamond!

 Various gold, silver, jade jewelry and many antique works of art.

 (End of this chapter)