Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1276 - 638

Chapter 1276: 638

After collecting all these items, Sean Knight didn’t bother with the silver ingots scattered on the ground; he quickly crawled out of the hole, then released the sand to bury any traces behind.

There were still many sand dunes in the surrounding area, but no other dune contained similar items—they were all genuine sand dunes, albeit artificially moved as well.

Seeing nothing else, Sean Knight immediately took out the car and drove toward the boundary.

After driving for dozens of kilometers, Sean Knight saw lights ahead. He had been driving in the dark, so when he spotted activity, he immediately turned off the car’s engine, retracted the car, and slowly made his way over there.

After walking more than one kilometer, he encountered numerous cars—on this side of the borderline, there were occasional gunshots.

Sean Knight guessed that they were probably capturing people trying to illegally cross the border.

This was not a way through; he needed to find another place.

Then he saw a group of people being marched over, guns pointed at them by rough men who forced them to kneel with their hands on their heads.

When someone immediately resisted, they were shot dead by someone right behind them.

The kneeling people loudly recited something, which Sean Knight couldn’t understand, and then he heard the armed men swearing violently and beating them with their gunstocks, likely to stop their recitations.

After that, those dozen or so kneeling people were all killed by the armed men!

Although Sean Knight had his suspicions, it was too far for him to intervene in time even if he had wanted to rescue them.

And with at least dozens of armed personnel over there, he clearly couldn’t overcome them.

Filled with anger, Sean Knight turned and walked in another direction.

That area was not a peaceful zone, but rather the battleground of two warring sides, which Sean Knight had previously tried hard to avoid.

When he had passed by on the road earlier with Elijah Hastings and others, seeing those civilians killed hadn’t made as clear an impression on him as it did now. The feeling was now extremely strong!

After distancing himself from that place, Sean Knight took out the car again and drove toward the boundary—he crossed directly through the highway, found a place to rest in a pile of ruins for a daytime, and set off again at nightfall.

Two days later, he arrived at the border of the warring sides.

There were still people guarding it at night, but that wasn’t an obstacle for Sean Knight.

He found an unguarded spot, slogged through the iron wire mesh, and got to the other side.

Soon after, he saw the low buildings where civilians lived.

Through Sky Eye, he could also see crying children, elderly people, and injured adults.

However, there were very few men.

Sean Knight walked about several hundred meters into the civilian area. When people heard the noise and came to look, many others remained at home.

Upon seeing Sean Knight’s Chinese face, someone said something to him, but he didn’t reply, as he couldn’t understand them.

He smiled and nodded to the person, and then walked away.

The place wasn’t peaceful, and occasionally shells from the other side would fly over, exploding not far away, followed by screams.

Sean Knight knew he couldn’t prevent many things from happening, so he moved to the corner of the civilian area, where there was a space almost leveled by bombardment.

Looking around to ensure no one was watching, Sean Knight took out the old-fashioned rifles, machine guns, submachine guns, bullets, and other things he had retrieved from beneath the sand dunes.

To make them conspicuous, he even opened the boxes and took the weapons out of the boxes, placing them on the outside.

At least 1000 guns were displayed.

Then there was food.

Tens of tons of food placed here were quite a sight to behold.

After that, Sean Knight quickly left the area.

A few hundred meters after his departure, he heard exclamations from behind.

Perhaps the locals had discovered the things he’d left there.

After making drops at two other locations and leaving swiftly, Sean Knight made his way to the seaside.

He took out a small yacht from the spatial realm and began sailing into the depths of the sea.

The harvest from this trip was too much, and Sean Knight felt the need to give back a little.

The yacht reached the coast of another country before dawn, where Sean Knight withdrew the yacht and went ashore with his backpack.

Compared to the previously visited civilian areas, this was a scene of peace.

Such a profound contrast.

It was evident this had once been a tourist area, but now it was sparsely populated, and it was unclear whether it had been affected by the neighboring country’s war.

At daybreak, Sean Knight contacted Elijah Hastings and the others.

"Boss, we’re so relieved you’re okay," said Elijah Hastings excitedly upon receiving Sean Knight’s phone call.

"What happened to Captain Wang and his family?" Sean Knight asked.

"The platoon leader and his sister-in-law went back to China, and Wang Tianlei ran away midway," Elijah Hastings revealed a surprise that felt unexpected yet somehow expected to Sean Knight.

"Well, let’s meet up at the Oil Base then," Sean Knight said. After experiencing the war-torn country, he felt he could no longer take risks and planned to regroup with Elijah Hastings and his crew before returning to their country together.

As for Captain Wang and his family, that was another matter altogether.

He had done all he could.

A day later, Sean Knight arrived at the Oil Base, which had changed significantly.

The courtyard had been enclosed by many new buildings, with numerous locals hawking their wares nearby. Seeing the Chinese face, they hawked their goods with even more vigor.

Sean Knight was still some distance away when he saw Elijah Hastings and the others coming to greet him.

Seeing the armed team members guarding the base, a sense of security spontaneously arose in Sean Knight, allowing him to relax completely.

"Boss, I’ve heard that in recent days there’s been a change between the warring parties. It’s said that those who were oppressed got a large quantity of weapons, and their opponents suffered losses," Douglas Cooper said to Sean Knight.

Sean Knight feigned ignorance:

"What do you mean? Has a country provided them assistance?"

"Boss, wasn’t it you?" Douglas Cooper directly asked.

"What’s that got to do with me," Sean Knight waved his hand dismissively, "I don’t know anything. I’m just a foreign tourist, what would I know?"

Hearing Sean Knight’s words, both Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington laughed.

Douglas Cooper went on to say:

"Boss, you can’t be unaware. The Bureau Chief is our object of admiration! That tone, haha. I knew it. The opponents are all using old-fashioned rifles. Getting such a large supply isn’t easy!"

"Haha, don’t think it’s me. I know nothing!" Sean smiled and joined in the laughter.