Endless route

Chapter 19 19. Picture of the Immortal Mansion of Immortality

After asking the driver a few more questions but not getting any more useful clues, Zheng Yun and Song Wan went to other places to find the operators of these hotels.

The night is dark.

The dirt roads in the town are muddy.

There were people of other ethnic groups nearby. A girl like Song Wan seemed out of place in this environment and could easily be targeted, so Zheng Yun put a gun on his waist.

The operator lived in a renovated old tavern on the main street of the town. As soon as they walked to the door, they saw a few truck drivers coming out carrying beer, muttering that the food was too expensive.

Song Wan quietly translated all these conversations with little information to Zheng Yun.

She knew that these contents were probably useless, but she still translated them word for word, fearing that she would miss some details that she could not understand.

At this time, she felt like a little follower beside a detective. She would translate everything as long as she could, and then observe Zheng Yun's reaction to see if he discovered anything.

Zheng Yun looked up and down the tavern and carefully observed the building structure. Most of the houses in the tropical rain forest were stilted buildings, and the building materials were wood that can be seen everywhere.

Like the town of La Maine, this place has a purely Western aesthetic system. It is rough and solid with a focus on practicality. At the same time, it is wild and unrestrained and emphasizes freedom, which is consistent with the style of the gold rush period of the 19th century.

The two of them walked into the tavern, which still retained the layout of the old tavern. The environment was dark and smoky, and there were a few drinkers playing cards on the bar.

The owner of the tavern is a hotelier, a white man in his fifties, with a beer belly and a red neck, wearing a cowboy hat, sitting behind the bar drinking beer.

Zheng Yun asked Song Wan to ask as a tourist whether there was really a gold mine near La Maine Town.

This question attracted the attention of many people, and other people on the bar also looked sideways at the tavern owner.

The tavern owner answered, holding a beer.

Yes, a long time ago, there was gold in a river next to the town of La Maine, which attracted a large number of gold diggers. It was real gold mining, sifting and washing in the river, unlike now, where gold mining is all cold machines.

Translated word for word by Song Wan.

Where is the river?

Other drinkers followed up on Zheng Yun's behalf.

Zheng Yun frowned slightly. These local drivers have never heard of this rumor?

Northwest of the town of La Maine, it flows out of a mountain. It is said that there is so much gold in the river that it is unimaginable. It is all pure gold as big as a finger!

At that time, many people went to gold mining, and many people became rich overnight. But within a few years, the federal government was attracted, claiming that important minerals had been detected.

They came with tens of thousands of people and used large machines to mine. I heard it was uranium ore. Have you heard of uranium ore? It is the stuff used to make nuclear weapons!

The boss put down his glass and said excitedly.

It must be false. The so-called uranium mine is an excuse made up by the federation to monopolize the gold mine.

The gold mine has probably been dug out a long time ago, and there's not even a mouthful of soup left, damn large machinery.

The surrounding drinkers spoke one after another.

After Song Wan finished translating, she looked at Zheng Yun, with many questions in her eyes. She felt very strange.

A finger-sized piece of pure gold.

There is also a uranium mine inside.

She doesn't know much about geology. Mines within mines should be quite rare, right? Although it is comparable to the scale of the abandoned mine, it is still a bit strange.

That's not necessarily the case. The Federation withdrew after a few years of digging. I heard that something strange happened, and they even found many witches. They stopped digging after half of it, and they never dared to dig the Golden River!

I heard people say that there are a lot of corpses in the abandoned mines. It's not that simple to dig for gold. Anyone can dig for gold? You have to be blessed by the goddess of luck!

The tavern owner waved his hand.

Song Wan's tone fluctuated while translating. She quietly looked up at Zheng Yun and found that Zheng Yun's expression was wrong.

What's wrong? Song Wan asked quietly.

He knows La Maine Town and the abandoned mine very well. It seems that he is discouraging them from exploring, but look at the reactions of others. Zheng Yun looked to the side.

Song Wan looked at the other drinkers.

There was no trace of fear on their faces. On the contrary, each one of them was in high spirits. They asked for the specific location of La Maine Town. Maybe they would go and see it tomorrow.

No matter how many people die in gold mining, it will be difficult to affect the enthusiasm of those who come after them. The desire for money can suppress everything, because gold mines are the lottery with the highest probability of winning for them.

Do they have a problem?

Song Wan didn't understand, she thought it was normal. Before experiencing failure, many people felt that they were favored by God, even if they had never been favored before.

This is only twenty kilometers away from La Maine Town. Do you think he might be from La Maine Town? Zheng Yun looked at the tavern owner again.

Ah? Song Wan exclaimed softly.

Zheng Yun did not explain, and took Song Wan out of the tavern, returned to the hotel where they lived, walked into the room on the first floor, and then told Song Wan what he thought.

In chronological order, the following things may have happened on this land.

During the early colonial period, the resources here were not explored, and dark slaves lived in isolation until the ancient Orientals came here to do some magic.

During the gold rush, the gold mines here were discovered by adventurers at the time, attracting a large number of gold prospectors, and the town of La Maine was born at that time.

In the early part of the last century, gold mines attracted the attention of Western countries. After exploration, gold ore uranium was discovered, and a major accident occurred during the mining process.

Finally, now, the legend of the gold mine still exists and spreads in a small area, attracting many modern explorers, and eventually died in the depths of the abandoned mine.

That's a blanket statement.

Most of the issues do not require in-depth study and cannot provide help in finding Liu Ming. We only need to find the reasons for their disappearance now.

Liu Mingdemona's identity is actually similar to that of the modern explorer in the abandoned mine.

Their purposes and actions, and even the causes of death and disappearance, are generally similar and can be speculated as a whole.

What's the purpose of killing them?

Who would have this motive?

Zheng Yun rubbed his temples and said so much in one breath, also sorting out his thoughts.

Is the West covering up the abandoned mine accident?

Song Wan frowned, and a chill rose up her back. She leaned closer to Zheng Yun subconsciously, always feeling that someone was peeping behind her.

Probably not.

If they were to take action, they could completely fill up the mine and make the town of La Maine and the abandoned mine disappear from the map. This town would not even exist.

Zheng Yun shook his head in denial.

The party responsible for the abandoned mine accident may take action, but this responsible party should not be the West. There is no need to accuse them, and there is no need to accuse them unjustly.

Because if it were the West, they would be more ruthless than they are now, and the hotel owner would not have the opportunity to say those words to lure people to La Maine Town.

What else could it be? Song Wan trembled, biting her lower lip hard and asked.

Motives and purposes...

Zheng Yun was muttering in his mouth, and suddenly turned his head to look at Song Wan beside him, and changed the subject and asked:

What do you think our ancient ancestors discovered here?

I do not know.

Song Wan's expression was helpless and pitiful.

Zheng Yun sighed silently. In the end, he could only guess in the direction of gods and ghosts. He now had a very outrageous idea and had a chance to explain everything.

Maybe there is no gold mine here at all!

The river where gold prospectors found gold nuggets should be the lower reaches of the underground river in the rift valley cave.

Liu Ming has said before that the rock formations in the waste mine are not gold mines, but rather another ultra-high-value mineral that uses cooling tubes to freeze the rock formations.

It's obviously not a gold mine.

But there are gold nuggets flowing out with the river.

This question may seem unbelievable, but it actually has an explainable answer. There may be an ancient oriental building deep in the rift valley cave.

Because of its age, this ancient building was corroded and damaged by river water. As a result, the gold nuggets hidden deep in the cave were washed out of the cave and flowed outside.

Possibly a tomb.

It could be something else.

My adoptive father once told a story about an immortal cave. Legend has it that an immortal was buried in the cave. In order to bury her with her, gold filled most of the cave...

Although this guess is outrageous, it is a reasonable guess based on the claims of gods and ghosts, and can continue to be extended.

Ancient cave buildings are related to immortals and demons.

There is a secret beyond recognition.

This secret caused Demona to turn back several times as if she was obsessed, also led to the death of a large number of explorers, and even caused an accident in the abandoned mine.

Think of this.

Zheng Yun took out his mobile phone.

On the ancient sea map in the basement, several continents of W-06 were drawn. Zheng Yun had seen it before coming here, but because the shape of the coastline did not match the actual map, he put it aside for the time being.

But now he has no choice.

He had to take out the chart again to see if there were any relevant clues on it.

The sea map is called the map of Changsheng Immortal Mansion.

Combined with the Ming Dynasty Triton's waist card.

It is likely that this ancient building is recorded on it.

He didn't have any reference points before. He couldn't even tell the east, west, and west, and he couldn't find the place names on the map because it was inaccessible and not part of the country.

But now, he can first look for place names related to fairy monsters, and then compare them with the local paper map to see if they match.