On the night of September 15th, Wei Ran, who looked tired, waited until his flight landed at Volgograd Airport, then turned on his phone and flipped through the accumulated unread messages and missed calls one by one.
According to Dalia's new regulations, whether he or Ji Ma, their mobile phones will be confiscated during the Hongqi Forest Farm. As for the reason... When will that crazy woman Dalia explain the reason to them? That is simply
Dreaming.
"Why did Herbert send so many messages?"
Wei Ran roughly browsed through the messages and dozens of missed calls sent by the other party, and dialed the other party while waiting for his luggage.
"Thank God, you are finally willing to turn on the phone!"
Herbert on the other end of the phone was particularly excited, "Victor, if you call back half an hour later, we will be preparing to board the plane and leave Volgograd."
“I was busy before”
Wei Ran said casually, looked around and then said, "I just landed in Volgograd, and I'm at the airport now. If there's time, we can meet and chat."
"Please wait a moment and don't hang up the phone."
After Herbert finished speaking, he covered the microphone with his hand, turned to the woman sitting next to him and asked, "Mrs. Amanda, Victor has appeared at this airport. Are you willing to see him now?"
Amanda hesitated for a moment, looked up at the flight information on the big screen, and finally sighed and said, "Let him come here to find me, Herbert, I hope you didn't lie to me, if he is not who you said he is at all.
If you can investigate what I want to know, there will be no need for us to cooperate again in the future."
"He sure can!"
After Herbert finished speaking, he immediately released the microphone he had been covering, switched back to German and said to Wei Ran, "My friend, come to the waiting room quickly, and do me a favor. There is a rich wife beside me.
He wants to investigate some things, so please agree."
"What are you investigating?" Weiran asked as he picked up the luggage on the carousel and walked towards the waiting room.
"Same as last time, it's still a treasure." Herbert spoke faster and explained, "But this time what we are looking for is not the treasure itself, but the expedition that went to find the treasure in the 1980s and never came back.
Team."
"Herbert, where did you get so many treasure clues?" Wei Ran asked the doubts in his heart as he walked away.
"I'm not interested in treasures."
Not surprisingly, this is the second time they have collaborated together, and Herbert is also quite candid, "But there are always people who are obsessed with treasures, right?"
"Like Mr. Charlotte?"
"certainly"
Herbert took a few steps away and said blatantly, "All I need to do is select rich people like Mr. Charlotte from the people who are obsessed with treasures, and then convince them to pay me some commission to help them.
Looking for the so-called treasure. As for whether the treasure can be found, I am not interested, as long as they are willing to pay the commission."
"So what happened this time?"
At this point, even a fool like Wei Ran knew that Herbert was probably an archaeologist who specialized in swindling among the rich.
"This client of mine has funded me to help him find the treasure for two years."
Herbert said bluntly, "But she has lost her patience recently, so I plan to make a final profit. Victor, if you think you can help her find the treasure, you can try next. I have discussed the investigation fee.
120,000 euros. If you can get this money in the end, just give me 30,000 euros in the end. How about that? Can the deal be done?"
"The share ratio is very fair." Wei Ran paused and continued, "As for whether we can close the deal, let's see what your client needs to investigate first."
"No problem, we'll meet you in the waiting room, I'll be waiting for you at the door." After speaking, Herbert simply hung up the phone.
When Wei Ran arrived at the door of the waiting room, Herbert said a few more words in German, then pulled him in and introduced Wei Ran to the man who seemed to be difficult to deal with in French.
Mrs. Amanda.
"Victor, this is Mrs. Amanda. She wants to ask you for help." Herbert and the other two people who did not understand each other shook hands politely, and then began to translate with peace of mind.
"Victor, my plane takes off in half an hour. I hope that within this half hour, we can reach an employment relationship that satisfies both parties."
Wei Ran glanced at Herbert and responded with a smile, "This is also the result I hope to see. Mrs. Amanda, please tell me in detail what you want me to do."
Mrs. Amanda waited for Herbert to finish translating and explained in a straightforward manner, "This matter dates back to the 1980s. My brother Leo was a gold prospector and was also a keen treasure hunter.
A second-rate explorer.”
This charming old lady waited patiently for Herbert to finish the translation before continuing, "As for the treasure, we have to start talking about it in 1988. I remember clearly that in the autumn of that year, a German came to me.
His brother hired him to go to Norway to search for gold mines.
But I remember clearly that my brother told me before setting off that what they were looking for was not a gold mine, but a treasure."
Having said this, Amanda opened the small bag she carried with her and took out a palm-sized photo frame and handed it to Wei Ran, "This photo was left by my brother before he set off."
Taking the photo frame, Wei Ran frowned after taking one look at it. This black and white photo was taken of a Mercedes-Benz truck produced in Germany during World War II. On the carriage of this truck, several German soldiers were relaying metal ingots one by one.
Throw it into the rear of the carriage, where there is a mine car that has been piled with many metal ingots.
The direction in which the not-so-large mine cart extended out was pointing to a mine hole diagonally deep into the ground. As for the mine entrance, there was a dense coniferous forest.
Unfortunately, the photo itself was not very clear, and it was in black and white, so there was no way to tell whether the metal ingots thrown into the mine cart were iron nuggets or gold nuggets.
Seeing Wei Ran raise his head, Mrs. Amanda immediately spoke and continued. At the same time, Herbert, who was sitting aside, continued to translate after taking the photo from Wei Ran's hand.
"My brother once told me before setting off that the metal ingots in this photo were gold plundered by Germany from the Soviet Union during World War II. The person who hired him to look for this gold was the one who took this photo.
Photo of the man’s son.”
Amanda sighed and continued, "Unfortunately, neither my brother nor the person who hired my brother came back. So Victor, I hope you can help me find clues to these gold treasures."
"I thought you were looking for your brother..."
Wei Ran waited for Herbert to finish the translation, murmured to himself, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "With all due respect, Mrs. Amanda, these metal ingots in the photo don't look like gold. If they were gold, this Mercedes-Benz truck wouldn't look like gold at all."
It can’t hold so much, and its tires have not been flattened, which means that these metal ingots are at least far less heavy than the same volume of gold.”
