Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 144 - 143: Mutual Deception and Competition

Chapter 144: Chapter 143: Mutual Deception and Competition

Not only did Sean bring his backpack, but he also managed to pick up his package with some effort. He smiled at the others and headed into the forest.

Watching Sean’s back, Andrew mumbled:

"Foolish!"

Many people heard it, and Sean heard it too, but he just smiled.

Andrew, the old fellow, wasn’t that bad.

Brown looked deeply at Sean’s back, gestured to the bodyguard next to him, and then said loudly:

"Alright, I’ll assign the tasks now. Louis, you lead the team to collect and label these gold and silver wares, pack them up, and take them back to the camp.

Team Leader Andrew, let’s discuss new search areas for you—given this treasure, the previous areas are now useless.

We need to use this lake as the center and radiate outwards. For now, I’ll mark your current area as a low priority. The treasures have already been found, so there probably won’t be any more. Start searching from the other areas..."

Louis was the expert who had previously distributed the gold and silver wares. He responded, and then began taking out the appropriate items from his backpack to label and pack the gold and silver wares.

As the pace quickened and the distance increased, Brown’s deliberately loud voice slowly became inaudible. Sean looked back and saw that everyone was out of sight. He sped up, walked several hundred meters, emptied the gold and silver wares from his backpack and package into the spatial realm, loaded some supplies that didn’t weigh much, and started to run fast.

Andrew and the others went to search the areas designated by Brown, while one of the bodyguards who had received Brown’s hint earlier stopped his work, turned around, waved at another bodyguard, and quickly headed in the direction Sean had gone.

Looking in that direction, Brown muttered:

"Foolish!"

As soon as the two bodyguards disappeared into the forest, Brown said to Louis:

"Alright, speed up, try to finish within an hour, and we’ll return to base as soon as possible."

Clearly, Brown was confident in both the directions Andrew and the bodyguards took, so now he was only concerned about the treasures already at hand.

Looking at the hundreds of gold and silver wares, Brown shook his head and said:

"Not enough, far from enough!"

He even thought that these treasures might not be the ones his ancestors had buried.

But he never told anyone that he had bought the entire forest, so technically all the underground treasures belonged to him.

It didn’t matter whether the treasures were dug up now or later, there was no hurry.

But he was currently short on money, so that’s why he recruited treasure hunters to dig for treasure here. Otherwise, like tourism and exploration, he would do it himself.

By the time Brown returned to his base and waited until nightfall, the two bodyguards still hadn’t come back, which he found strange.

His two bodyguards were retired US Special Forces who had received professional training. Protecting him wasn’t even their specialty; their strengths were gunfights and assassinations!

As for Sean? Brown knew his background—he was just an ordinary young man who had never served in the military and hadn’t received any special training. Judging from his condition earlier, he shouldn’t have been able to walk more than two kilometers!

Logically, the two bodyguards should have returned before him, right?

So why haven’t they returned yet?

A possibility occurred to Brown:

"Could it be that these two killed Sean, took the treasures, and left?"

Instantly, Brown felt that he might have guessed the truth!

"Two bastards!" He immediately picked up his satellite phone, called the security company that had hired the bodyguards, and asked them to keep an eye on the bodyguards’ families.

If the other party really did something like this, they would go back to pick up their own families first!

As a major customer of the security company, Brown’s request was taken seriously and acted on immediately.

However, there was still no news. Brown thought about it, then decided to leave with the treasures that had already been dug up.

He didn’t realize that this decision saved him from disaster!

After replacing the contents of his backpack, Sean quickly set up some false tracks in the forest, then climbed a big tree, pulled out his semi-automatic rifle, and aimed it at the path he had taken.

Sure enough, not long after, two bodyguards arrived, one behind the other, holding guns and wearing exoskeleton armor, walking cautiously and searching.

Sean aimed his gun at the one in the back.

He remembered that this one seemed to be Brown’s bodyguard team leader.

Having adjusted his aim, Sean fired a shot!

Without the slightest hesitation!

Sean knew that once these two found him, they would shoot him without any hesitation!

The gunshot echoed in the forest, but was quickly absorbed by nearby objects, not spreading far!

The bodyguard in the back was shot in the chest and fell instantly!

The one in front immediately took cover behind a tree and whispered his teammate’s name.

There was a distance of fifty to sixty meters between them, and the enhanced sensory Sean heard it clearly.

There were many trees around, and Sean could tell that the bodyguard in the front had not yet locked onto his position—he only knew the general direction.

Sean even saw the glimpse of his exposed calf.

As for the bodyguard Sean had knocked down, he was already inhaling and exhaling.

The bodyguard in the front called again twice but got no response. He began to panic and signaled with his pistol.

Sean aimed at his calf and fired a shot.

Hit, the bodyguard screamed and rolled twice. At that moment, he had determined Sean’s direction and was trying hard to hide behind the big tree.

But Sean had already moved to another direction, using the horizontal branches of the tree, aimed, and fired.

The man fell to the ground, silent.

Sean walked carefully towards them with his gun, finding that both of them had their eyes open, but there was no movement.

Seeing the bloodied, incomplete corpses of the two, Sean felt a bit sad.

But he didn’t regret it.

If it happened again, he would do the same.

He roughly estimated the distance between himself and Brown’s location to be about three to four kilometers, so the gunshot might not have traveled that far.

So he still had time to dispose of the bodies.

After burying the two bodies in dug pits and keeping their exoskeleton armor, Sean tried to make the surrounding area chaotic. Then, he changed directions to head towards Brown’s base.

If Brown sent people to attack him, it would be impolite not to return the favor. Sean did not plan to let him go.

However, when he arrived at the base, he saw the bodyguards loading up the car. Then Brown, protected by a group of people, got into the car. The convoy left the base, turned onto the highway, and went back the way they came.

Sean knew that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve his goal.

Such a pity for those treasures...