At noon on the second day after discovering the wing of the Junkers 52 transport plane, Wei Yan drove an armored pickup truck and pulled three 200-liter iron barrels specially used to hold drinking water before the believers held their second daily service.
The water pump and a large barrel of diesel that had been kept in the cargo bucket were quickly driven to the water source 30 kilometers away from the camp.
"Is this guy so resistant to religious beliefs?"
Edward joked in a dumbfounded way that after getting along with each other for the past few days, he had discovered Wei Ran's behavior. Basically, except for the two weeks of dawn and evening, Wei Ran would be ten to fifteen minutes earlier in the other three weeks.
Leaving the camp, and every time the young man always found a variety of reasonable reasons.
"Maybe the God of this desert has no intention of reaching a deal with Victor," Saleh teased noncommittally, and then asked proactively, "What about you? Mr. Edward, do you want to go out for a walk too?"
"I'll forget it." Edward waved his hand, "I can't do such a rude thing, even though those aborigines are pagans to me."
"What a coincidence. To them, you are also an infidel who should be buried in the sand and baked to dry." Saleh said, raising his arm and pointing to his tent, "Let's go, Mr. Edward, in my tent."
There was also a bottle of high-end wine bought on the black market in Alexandria, which we secretly drank."
"This is an offer I can't refuse," Edward said, and happily followed Saleh into the tent.
While these two old guys were preparing to drink with each other while the "pagans" were worshiping, Weiran also stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. Under the guidance of the navigation, he drove the off-road vehicle straight to the coordinates he passed yesterday.
point.
Less than half an hour later, when the navigation indicated that they had arrived at the destination, Weiran immediately stepped on the brakes.
"This damn place..."
Wei Ran complained expressionlessly. It was almost the hottest time of the day, and the temperature outside the car had even exceeded 50 degrees. Even though he deliberately put on thick hiking boots before setting off, he was still unprotected here.
After standing on the unobstructed sand for less than two minutes, he felt the heat coming from the soles of his feet.
Not only wasting time, he got into the back compartment as quickly as possible and pulled out an inconspicuous black plastic box from the back of one of the airline seats.
What was contained in this box was not a weapon, but a civilian metal detector produced in Russia.
In fact, Weiran entrusted Ji Ma to help prepare this thing long before the truck pallet was transported to Egypt. After all, no matter what, if he wanted to help Edward find his grandfather's colleagues in the desert, he would definitely use this
thing.
Braving the scorching heat, Wei Ran assembled the metal detector, drank a bottle of cold Coke, and then started to search for possible gold in the high temperature with the metal detector.
I don't know if it was luck or the coordinates provided by the metal book were accurate enough, but within ten minutes, the metal detector emitted a strange beep.
Seeing this, Wei Ran looked at the direction in which he was looking vigilantly, and then immediately threw the metal detector aside, drove the pickup truck over to block the scorching sun, and opened the door to let the air conditioner in the car blow out as much cold air as possible.
Then he took off the shovel fixed to the side of the cargo bed, hid in the shadow of the car and started digging hard.
As a shovelful of dry yellow sand is thrown aside, the surrounding sand begins to slide toward the center. Often when two or three shovels are pushed down, the sand next to them piles up very high, but the dug areas look like they have not been dug before.
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Seeing this, Weiran also lost his temper. He picked up the metal detector and scanned it again. After confirming that he had not found the wrong location, he got directly into the cargo hopper and inserted the hose into the cargo hopper before setting off from Matruh Port.
The iron bucket was already filled with fresh water.
He took the other end of the hose and sipped it hard. After a while, the warm and even hot fresh water flowed out from the middle of the water pipe and was accurately poured around the location to be dug.
Estimating that half a bucket of water had been put in, Wei Ran hung the hose on the car door, picked up the shovel again, and started digging.
Although this method of fixing the sand with water was extravagant, it was extremely effective. Soon, he dug out a sand pit nearly one meter deep. At the same time, the heat taken away when the water in the sand evaporated also made him feel a lot more comfortable.
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He continued to dig hard with the shovel, and the tremor coming from the tip of the shovel immediately made him realize that he must have dug something.
He picked up the hose again and poured water on it. Under the wash of water, Wei Yan also saw what was buried underneath.
It was a wooden box that wasn't too big, and there was even a thin iron sheet with desert-colored paint on it.
Looking around again, Wei Ran vigorously waved the shovel in his hand and cleared away the wet yellow sand around the box as quickly as possible. Then he threw the shovel out and used all his strength to move the wooden box.
come out.
Unexpectedly, the weight of the box was much lighter than he expected. Not only did Wei Ran almost twist his waist, but the wooden box almost fell out of his hands because of his excessive force and was thrown out by him.
"Are you kidding me?"
Wei Ran cursed and threw the leaky wooden box aside, and then he saw three gold bricks placed side by side!
grass!
Wei Ran immediately bent down and picked up one of the bricks. When the hot sunlight shone on the gold brick, the dazzling light reflected made him involuntarily squint his eyes!
Before he placed the gold brick on the sand, he immediately saw the eagle emblem and swastika stamped on the gold brick!
Breathing heavily, Wei Ran suppressed his excitement and took out the two extra pieces, and then discovered that there were two slightly deformed gold bricks underneath!
"etc..."
Wei Ran held up a piece of gold brick that seemed like he needed to take a small blue pill to straighten his back and his eyes widened. Although the hardness of this thing is not as good as steel, after all, the thickness is there, allowing it to bend into this shape.
, could it be because...
After a moment, Wei Ran's face showed an expression of sudden realization. He clearly remembered that before the plane made an emergency landing, a wooden box once escaped from its restraints and flew out of the cabin due to the violent turbulence of the plane...
Could it be this box?
Wei Ran threw away the bent gold brick in his hand, picked up the first piece he took out and turned it over. As expected, there were two clear depressions on the back. It was obvious that this was due to the collision with the brick when it fell from a high altitude.
The two gold bricks below were caused by the collision. At the same time, these two depressions also verified Wei Ran's guess just now.
"Why isn't it the nine boxes of gold that Felix buried?"
Wei Ran felt a little regretful at first, but then he became excited again. After all, these are five gold bricks weighing 10 kilograms each!
After thinking about it, he moved the five gold pieces into the cargo bucket, unscrewed the lid of the 200-liter oil drum as quickly as possible, and wiped the gold bricks randomly with the hem of his T-shirt, one by one.
He stuffed one in.
"Last time I stuffed gold nuggets and gold coins into a 20-liter oil drum in the desert. This time I stuffed gold bricks into a 200-liter oil drum. I wonder what good things I would stuff into a tanker truck next time in the desert.
Get in!"
Wei Ran muttered as if nervously. After tightening the lid, he immediately buried the broken wooden box back. At the same time, he also shoveled dry sand from the surrounding area to bury the scene. Then he got into the cab of the armored pickup truck and said:
Driving in the direction of the water source, I secretly wondered whether the plane or the other nine boxes of gold buried at the other coordinate point.
If it was a plane, he could only get a reward of 500,000 euros from Edward, but if it was an additional 450 kilograms of gold, how many 500,000 euros would it be?!
Wei Ran shivered involuntarily, and his eyes subconsciously moved to the tattoo on the tiger's mouth of his left hand. Gradually, his breathing, which was a little heavy due to excitement, gradually calmed down.
He still remembered the conclusion written on the metal book: "The most terrifying thing in the desert is thirst. What is more terrifying than thirst is lies and murder born of greed."
"Forget it, it's time to be content."
Wei Ran let out a long breath, and the madness in his eyes was replaced by calmness and calmness. No matter whether it was an airplane or gold buried at another coordinate point, if he concealed its existence for the 50% possibility, and
What’s the difference between the old Felix?
"It's time to be content, it's time to be content, greed can kill people!"
Wei Ran comforted himself over and over again. The 450 kilograms of gold were certainly valuable to him today, but if he really lost his true heart for them, it would really be more than worth the gain. After all, people can live for gold.
But you can’t live just for gold.
After figuring out the key, Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator again and rushed to the water source that he had visited at dusk yesterday.
Under the scorching sun, he stepped on the wooden board left here yesterday, threw the water pump into the iron bucket that was already filled with fresh water, turned on the switch of the water pump, took off his clothes, and washed it happily.
A cold shower that was not consistent with the temperature here also extinguished the last trace of greed remaining in my heart.
More than an hour later, when he returned to the camp with three large buckets of fresh water, the members of the nomadic tribe had already completed their routine worship and were gathering in groups to enjoy a sumptuous lunch.
Even the little follower, Abba Abba, was sitting in the cab of the truck originally driven by Soliman, imitating the sound of the engine while enjoying the driving skills that he might never use in his lifetime.
For these aboriginal people struggling in the desert, they did not know that there were 450 kilograms of gold bricks hidden in the desert, but correspondingly, their way to obtain happiness was also extremely easy - as long as they filled their water bladders
It would be enough for each of them to receive a crumpled apple in the truck bed on the way to Soliman. For Aba Aba, perhaps a steering wheel that can turn is enough.
Correspondingly, for Edward, who probably knew that 450 kilograms of gold were hidden here, it seemed that every minute and every second before he found the plane or even found the gold made him suffer more than anyone else.
