Mountain Looting: Targeted by a Leopard at the Start
Chapter 236 - 235: Treasure Hunt in Qinling, What Exactly is Hidden in This Mountain Range?!

Chapter 236: Chapter 235: Treasure Hunt in Qinling, What Exactly is Hidden in This Mountain Range?!

Xu Yang was running when he raised his phone and pressed the shutter button.

"Click!"

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Just like that, Xu Yang captured a selfie.

In the photo, Xu Yang’s eyes sparkled with excitement, and there was a slight smile on his lips.

After all, since he was taking a photo, he had to manage his expression well.

Behind him, the angry antelope lowered its head, its sharp horns aimed at Xu Yang, looking like a fierce machine.

Xu Yang was very calm.

He considered his options for dealing with the situation.

Even if he fell and the antelope charged at him, he could grab the tips of the horns and wrap them up quickly to greatly reduce the risk of injury from the horns.

Moreover, he wasn’t that easy to knock down.

After taking the photo, Xu Yang stopped taking risks. He suddenly changed direction and dodged to the side.

The antelope, not very good at changing direction, was thrown off by Xu Yang’s maneuver and continued forward for several steps.

The audience in the live stream fell silent.

Everyone had yet to react to Xu Yang’s selfie just moments ago.

Under such circumstances, a normal person probably would have been so scared that their brain stopped working, and their legs could have turned to jelly.

But there he was, not only running cheerfully but also pulling out his phone to take a selfie!

Was he playing around?

Was this the composure of a Changbai Mountain street wanderer?

The antelope, seeing its chase foiled, immediately turned around and charged at Xu Yang again.

Xu Yang’s reaction was quick; he found a tree and climbed it swiftly.

This was one of his signature skills.

Tree escape.

When facing a beast that couldn’t climb, climbing a tree solved everything!

The antelope, realizing it couldn’t catch him, circled the tree twice before storming off angrily.

"That gave me a scare!"

"This guy is really hot-tempered!"

Xu Yang couldn’t help but remark.

The chat in the live stream was boiling.

[Old Xu, are you sure you were scared? Weren’t you just taking a selfie?]

[This host is too awesome, what the hell!]

[Is he really not afraid to die?]

[Wait, Old Xu, what were you thinking just now?]

[Please, stop risking your life!]

The online audience was extremely shocked!

In the past, it wasn’t new for Xu Yang to be chased by wild pigs.

But that looked normal.

This time, facing the fiercer antelope and under life-threatening circumstances, he seemed to be playing a game.

Xu Yang glanced at the chat.

Seeing the continuous stream of shocked comments, Xu Yang laughed and said:

"Antelope don’t run that fast, and the terrain here is quite flat. It’s nothing."

"I actually thought about taking a joint selfie with the antelope, and it seemed like a good opportunity."

While speaking, Xu Yang opened his phone’s gallery to check the photo he had just taken.

The photo was perfect.

AI couldn’t even draw out this scene.

"It came out pretty well,"

Xu Yang said as he looked at the photo on his phone.

[Show us!]

[I want to see too!]

Seeing him like this, the online audience immediately clamored.

Xu Yang adjusted the drone’s camera, lifted his phone, and displayed the photo.

The contrast in the photo was extreme.

An angry antelope, a smiling human.

It looked quite comical.

"Like this, I’ll post the photo in the comment section of my first video. Anyone who wants it can just take it,"

Xu Yang said as he saw many people in the chat asking him to post the original photo.

He posted the photo in the comment section.

Soon, the photo began to circulate among people.

One guy, who knew about photography, even used the photo to enter a domestic photography contest.

This guy was pretty reliable; he entered under Xu Yang’s name and left the address of Xu Yang’s Farm.

Xu Yang wasn’t aware of this.

The photo was also especially popular online.

It became a symbol of being a boss.

He hadn’t expected his trip deep into the Qin Mountains to turn out to be so lively.

Xu Yang climbed down from the tree.

"One photo down, three more to go."

"This mission doesn’t mark the locations of the Qinling Four Treasures; I’ll have to find them myself."

"Let’s leave it to fate."

"It’s just a pity I didn’t trigger the mission when I encountered the Giant Panda earlier and didn’t get to take its photo."

"I’ll have to encounter it again!"

Xu Yang thought to himself.

But this time he planned to stay in the mountains for two days.

His backpack was loaded with a lot of supplies, and he wasn’t short on food.

After all, he wasn’t here to gather forest goods, so he could pack some extra stuff.

Xu Yang still had 10/10 uses left of his Treasure Compass.

He hadn’t used it even once.

Xu Yang decided to use the Treasure Compass for the first time to try out the geomancy.

He had heard that this location was full of tombs; the deep mountains had them too, and over the years, tomb raiders had visited countless times, sometimes leaving traces of ransacked sites.

Once the Treasure Compass pinpointed a location for the treasure, Xu Yang headed toward it.

The distance wasn’t far, about four hundred meters.

The map showed that the Treasure was buried 40 centimeters underground.

Seeing it was underground, Xu Yang had a feeling this wasn’t going to be simple.

After all, mountain products don’t grow that deep underground.

"40 centimeters isn’t too deep, at least it’s not a grave,"

"What is that thing buried in here?"

"The treasures in Qinling are a bit strange."

Xu Yang thought to himself.

Then, as usual, he said that the connection was a bit poor and he needed to adjust it, then he turned off the live stream.

The drone was temporarily put away, placed on the ground.

Then, Xu Yang picked up a shovel and began to search in the ground.

This was deep in the mountains, rarely visited by humans.

The mountains stretched on, covering a vast area.

No one knew Xu Yang was excavating here.

The feeling of digging for treasures was still quite thrilling.

Especially for the treasures buried in the ground.

Xu Yang kept digging deeper, and soon, he reached the treasure that the Treasure Compass had located.

The contents completely surprised him.

First was a rotted wooden box that no longer held its original shape, only some fragments could be picked up from the ground.

Then in the middle of the box, buried in dirt, was a dirty small porcelain bottle.

The bottle was about the size of a water cup, filled and wrapped with dirt.

Xu Yang carefully used his hands to scoop away the dirt bit by bit, fearing that he might damage the small bottle.

A look of shock crossed his expression.

"A porcelain bottle?"

"In the mountain, buried a porcelain bottle?"

Xu Yang could hardly believe it.

He had searched for treasures in Changbai Mountain many times, having spent over half a year.

The only time he found a jade ornament which was part of a belt, he was quite surprised then.

Now, on his first treasure hunt in Qinling, he found a small porcelain bottle.

Xu Yang didn’t know much about archaeology; he didn’t know which dynasty the porcelain bottle was from.

He could only make out that it was a solid color, somewhat leaning towards dark blue.

Xu Yang did know the stories of Qinling.

The only mountain range in the country oriented east to west, starting from Kunlun, where the Yangtze River and Yellow River converge, it has been considered a place where dragon energies gather since ancient times.

This area had also seen the most capitals built through the dynasties.

It is even called "Eight Hundred Miles of Qin, Ten Thousand Ancient Tombs."

Just this phrase alone could make one imagine how many stories happened within Qinling.

Countless.

Those who built tombs, tomb raiders, usurpers, treasure snatchers.

All these happened in the ancient ages when the rule of law was not well established, and technology was not advanced.

Countless treasures passed through human hands within this context.

"This small bottle was even stored in a wooden box, no doubt someone buried it here."

"Probably meant to hide it here, to find again later."

"It could be to prevent others from finding it, or maybe a member of a tomb raiding gang wanted to keep it for themselves."

"Maybe they even left a treasure map for their descendants."

Xu Yang held the small bottle in his hands, speculating about the story behind it.

But these were now known by no one.

Using the Treasure Compass, in deep Qinling, he had found this bottle.

Xu Yang looked around.

If anything was unique here, it was probably an ancient tree, at least a century old.

The trees deep inside were primary forest, not secondary forest, and hadn’t been cut down.

So, they still retained the traces of time.

"This giant tree could serve as a reference point."

"If I hadn’t dug it up myself, I wouldn’t believe it."

"Something like this buried deep in the mountains."

Xu Yang examined the bottle carefully, talking to himself.

He did nothing more.

With no tools on hand and no way to clean it, forceful cleaning might cause damage or scratches.

Xu Yang might not understand antiques, but he could guess that this item must be quite valuable.

Keeping it as a collectible wouldn’t be bad.

"So many years have passed with no one coming to find it, it must be unclaimed."

"Buried under the ground for who knows how many years, it’s time it saw the light of day again."

Xu Yang wrapped the bottle in a towel, double-layered it, and secured it inside his backpack to protect the bottle as best as possible.

Seeing it was about time, Xu Yang decided to find a spot to set up his tent.

He planned to stay in the mountains tonight.

Qinling had a very high number of wild animals, but not many were dangerous to humans.

Venomous snakes, insects, wild boars, antelopes, pandas, and black bears, among others.

There were no tigers or brown bears here, so Xu Yang wasn’t afraid.

So, he settled down in the mountains.

Tomorrow he would have more time to rush the mountain.

While the live stream was still off, Xu Yang used the Treasure Compass once more to locate the treasure.

The treasure was a kilometer away.

Xu Yang hurried there, and upon careful observation, the treasure was about half a meter underground again.

"Goodness, underground again."

"Qinling is surely Qinling."

Xu Yang recalled finding wild ginseng or other mountain goods in Changbai Mountain, sometimes even gold or Lingzhi.

Coming to deep Qinling, however, the findings had been buried underground both times.

It was truly outrageous.

Xu Yang thought that perhaps this time, it was another ancient artifact.

So he started digging.

When he uncovered the treasure, he was a bit astonished himself.

It was several large bones buried underground.

Xu Yang was indeed puzzled.

Digging up bones was typically what Little Black at Xu Yang’s Farm did.

Now, why had he ended up doing it!

"Bones?"

What had the Treasure Compass found here!"

"This is just ridiculous!"

Xu Yang couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time.