On the edge of the turbid lake, hundreds of rusty iron chains were spread out on the grass that had been sprayed with insect repellent and snake repellent powder. These iron chains came from the edge of several other peninsulas deep into the lake, and their discovery also provided strong evidence.

Shiquan’s guess: The peninsula extending into the lake near this island is most likely land created by artificial landfills created by the Japanese nuclear recruitment forces during World War II.

Shi Quan casually pulled up a chair and sat down, "Now it has basically been confirmed that the previous guess is probably correct. Brother Huo, the rest depends on you."

"It's a small matter." Huo Heng reached out to call Jia Ya, "Contact legal affairs and buy this lake and the nearby land."

"Okay sir" Jia Ya bowed slightly, took out the satellite phone and walked a few steps away.

"Local tycoon..." Shi Quan's lips twitched. His original intention was not to let Huo Heng buy this place.

The excavation site a few hundred meters away was still in full swing, and it did not stop because of Huo Heng's sudden idea to acquire the land. The smelly mud was dug out bucket by bucket, and the monks who took off their cassocks each held a high-pressure

Water guns stood on the front line to help wash away possible treasures in the excavations.

Finally, a black stone stood out from the mud. When the huge digging bucket lifted it out, it accidentally left clear scratches on it.

"It's asphalt!" One of the monks bravely stepped forward and rinsed it off with water. After some inspection, he made his own judgment.

Waiting in the distance from the security team, a strong man covered in chemical protective clothing and gas masks walked out. He used the metal detector in his hand to scan the one-meter-high asphalt stone and revealed

He had a strange look on his face, and then pressed the intercom to send a signal.

Not long after, the helicopter originally parked near the tent camp took off and lifted the heavy piece of asphalt to the grass with wooden piers using steel cables.

"These recruiting beasts will definitely find a way." Shi Quan circled around the square asphalt block, "I just don't know what treasure is hidden in it."

“You’ll know if you open it”

Before Huo Heng finished speaking, Jia Ya had already called a few people and set up a temporary sealed tent with plastic sheets around the asphalt block. Four pale-looking monks with chains around their necks were sent in with saws.

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With the sound of sawing, the asphalt was peeled off piece by piece, and the entire volume was reduced little by little. Until more than an hour later, what was finally revealed was a wooden box with wooden boards nailed upright.

Upon seeing this, the onlookers hid in the club's deployed medical vehicle and waited until the positive pressure filtration system was turned on before allowing the monks, whose foreheads were covered in cold sweat, to continue.

In the hazy airtight tent, four monks carefully pried open the asphalt-soaked wooden box. When they saw the contents clearly, one of the monks couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then his vision went dark and he fainted.

This sudden situation not only startled the other three people in the tent, but also the people in the medical car felt their hearts sink.

Fortunately, the intercom promptly conveyed the situation inside, "Mr. Huo, there is a Buddha statue in the box."

"What happened to the one who fainted?" Jia Ya asked coldly.

"He... he seems to have suffered from heatstroke. It's too hot in here." The monk with the walkie-talkie said cautiously.

"Scared me." Huo Heng laughed and cursed, putting down the gas mask that Liu Xiaoye had just stuffed into his arms, "Send someone over to take a look, and if there is no problem, move the Buddha statue out."

Not long after, a safety reminder came from the radio channel, and everyone got out of the car one after another and surrounded the opened wooden box again.

This is a well-preserved golden Buddha statue, less than half a meter tall, inlaid with various gems. Even Elena, who has no knowledge of Buddhism, can tell at a glance that this Buddha statue is the same as those in Huo Heng's aerial Buddhist hall.

A style.

"Theravada Buddhism should be in the style of Myanmar or Thailand." Jia Ya reminded in a low voice.

Huo Heng nodded, "Brother Shi, are you interested? If so, this is yours."

"Forget it, let's put this in your Buddhist hall. There is no place for it in my radar station." Shi Quan waved his hand and rejected Huo Heng's kindness. The symbolism of this first unearthed treasure is huge. He

How could a guest claim it as his own?

Huo Heng did not continue to be humble. He turned to Jia Ya and said, "Choose a location farther away from here to set up three more tents. We will dig out the things later. After making sure there is no danger, we will put them into the tents one by one. I will

I don’t care what’s inside. Since Mr. Hu is not here, let’s bet together on who has better luck.”

"This is much more interesting than playing mahjong," Shi Quan joked with a smile, "Since Brother Huo is willing to play, I won't be polite."

"You're so polite, it was agreed in advance."

Huo Henghun waved his hand indifferently. This distribution method was originally agreed upon when the commission was confirmed. Moreover, to him, these golden Buddha statues were nothing more than a gold reserve.

With the first harvest, Jia Ya immediately arranged for people to speed up the acquisition of this land, and at the same time made preparations to allocate more excavation equipment from nearby oil fields.

About an hour later, the second excavation site also yielded results. However, the asphalt block that was dug out this time was a cylinder, which was not only lighter in weight, but the sound of water could even be faintly heard when shaking.

This sudden accident dampened everyone's excitement. You didn't even need to guess what kind of terrifying thing was inside. As the excavator turned up and down more carefully, more and more cylinders of asphalt were pulled out.

The silt soon piled up a hill over two meters high nearby.

"Brother Shi, it's time for us to leave."

Huo Heng looked at the news coming back from the excavation site and made a decision without hesitation, "As the saying goes, a gentleman will not stand under a dangerous wall. Regardless of whether we are considered gentlemen or not, if this dangerous wall really falls down, we will not choose to stand under it."

Who is the person."

"Brother Huo is right."

Shi Quan looked regretfully at the other peninsulas that had not yet had time to be excavated and the direction of the first excavation point that had just yielded results. He suppressed the curiosity in his heart and agreed to Huo Heng's suggestion. He still remembered what Huo Heng had said to him.

, when the reclining Buddha in his temple was dug out, he was holding a ring in his arms and he was so angry.

This is something more deadly than nuclear radiation. After all, nuclear radiation can be monitored with a Geiger counter. If the value is wrong, leave immediately. But biological and chemical weapons are different. By the time they are detected, most of them are already too late.

Not to mention anything else, when they accidentally broke into an abandoned Soviet-era biochemical virus laboratory in Siberia, just a warning sign made them self-isolate in the barren mountains for a week!

And this is one of the main reasons why serious professional diggers are rarely willing to dig up war treasures abandoned by the nuclear army. Throughout World War II, even the trouble-provoking Germany was not like the Japanese who couldn't afford it.

Wage a biological and chemical warfare frantically on the frontal battlefield.

This is no longer a question of whether the war is cruel, but a question of the bottom line of mankind. It is true that poison gas was used in the German concentration camp in World War II. Shi Quan even found a preserved gas in a villa in the small town of Andermatt, Switzerland.

Experimental data. But there is a difference between "massacre" and "indiscriminate killing" after all, and this difference is the huge gap between "humans" and "non-humans".

At the excavation site, various construction machinery continued to chant hoarsely, and the tents at the lakeside camp still existed. However, six Tatra expedition vehicles had already lined up in a long queue and quietly left this lake that hides countless secrets.

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The one who left before them was Huo Heng's helicopter. The two parties returned in different directions. The club's convoy followed the logging road in the jungle back to Balikpapan Port and randomly found a car wash.

After cleaning up, we sailed back into the enclosed cabin of the icebreaker.

After Huo Heng returned to the yacht by helicopter, he followed the channel back to the dock and parked next to the icebreaker. Although he left the operation site, it did not affect everyone's enjoyment of the discovery of the treasure belt through the images transmitted back in real time by the on-site staff.

Come surprise.

The asphalt blocks dug up from the first excavation site were continuously opened, and the thick asphalt wrapped the wooden box, protecting the various Buddhist treasures inside extremely well.

Gold Buddha statues of different sizes and emerald Buddha statues of various colors and shapes are among the most discovered.

In addition, there are more than a dozen boxes of well-preserved Buddhist classics and a small number of ornate treasure boxes inlaid with gold and silver. According to Jia Ya, these treasure boxes are likely to contain relics.

And in Huo Qiang's original words, "Those are just bones or stones that were not burned out because the temperature was not high enough. There is nothing strange about them."

The first excavation site is still producing Buddhist treasures from time to time, and the remaining excavators that have re-buried suspected biological and chemical weapons have moved to another adjacent peninsula to work again.

Unexpectedly, this time the excavator only dug down to a depth of three to five meters and began to harvest. However, what was dug out this time was not asphalt, but large and small stones. Originally, these stones did not cause any problems.

All the attention of the people around was sent directly to the lake by bulldozers to strengthen the water retaining dam.

But when an excavator accidentally smashed one of the rocks open with too much force, even Huo Heng, who didn't care at first, subconsciously stood up!

Looking at the wisps of green exposed by the cracked stone on the screen, Huo Heng handed the teapot to Jia Ya beside him, and murmured to himself in surprise, "How can this little devil be such a thief? He actually figured out how to use jadeite."

It’s a shame they thought of filling the lake with mines!”

"Is this jade mine?" Shi Quan looked confused. He had only heard of it but had never seen it before.

"The best place to stay is the jade mine," Huo Heng sighed. "It's just like scraping the ground three feet away. Let alone the jade mine, I wouldn't be surprised if copper ore is dug out here."
Chapter completed!