Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 270 - 230: Unintentionally Benefitting_2

Chapter 270: Chapter 230: Unintentionally Benefitting_2

Jenny told Barnes what Sean Knight said, and Barnes was very stubborn. At this time, Barnes’ wife took out a box from the house and handed it to Barnes.

After thinking about it, Barnes handed the box over to Sean Knight.

Through Jenny’s translation, Sean Knight knew that the contents of the box were found by Barnes, and he hoped to use this as a token of gratitude to Sean Knight.

Sean Knight scanned the ordinary tea box using the Sky Eye, and then he was shocked!

Could it be that Barnes had already found the Treasure Land?

In the box was a small, gold-cast wooden fish. Even though it was hollow, the fist-sized golden wooden fish was exquisitely made, and the essence of the wooden fish was vividly depicted in just a few strokes!

Sean Knight asked Barnes without opening the box:

"Where did you find this? Can you find that place again? If you can take us there, I will give you 10,000 US dollars!"

Ten thousand US dollars, which is more than thirty-five million Mongolian Tugriks. Now the price of one kilogram of mutton here is only one or two US dollars, and the price of a sheep is only in the tens of dollars. Ten thousand US dollars would basically cover the loss of Barnes’ family.

Upon the translation, Barnes was almost dumbfounded!

He immediately nodded and then shook his head.

He then conveyed that he could take Sean Knight and the others there, but he really didn’t need that much money!

Sean Knight didn’t say much more, leaving Jenny and Webb Crete behind. He called for Douglas Cooper with a satellite phone to pick them up, and he drove away with Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington along with Battut.

Watching the direction where Sean Knight and his party were leaving, Jenny had her thoughts, but she couldn’t say anything.

After all, she wasn’t involved in this matter.

They drove only about ten kilometers before stopping on a slightly elevated ground.

"He said it’s here." In the walkie-talkie, Willow Taylor faithfully translated Battut’s words, even though she didn’t know what they were looking for.

In fact, Sean Knight had already activated Sky Eye and was scanning the area.

On the surface, this place was a desolate Gobi Beach with only rocks and sand of various sizes.

However, under the Sky Eye, beneath this Gobi Beach was a flat, stone foundation. This place used to be a gigantic building complex!

All that remained above ground was the foundation, as the rest had been completely destroyed.

Over time, the sands of the Gobi had covered up the traces of human activity, making it seem as if nothing had ever happened.

"Boss, is what we’re looking for here?" Elijah Hastings asked Sean Knight rather directly since they had known each other for a long time.

"Not quite, this should be an unexpected surprise." Sean Knight replied with a smile, "If I’m not mistaken, this place used to be a temple. It was destroyed by war or something. However, some things should have been left behind."

"A temple? It doesn’t look like it!" Elijah Hastings’ hometown also had historical relics, but at least there would be some steps or broken walls. There was nothing here.

Sean Knight took a shovel and dug down about thirty centimeters, revealing the flat stone slab beneath.

"Really!" Elijah Hastings was astonished, looking at the stone slab and then around, "There are no stone mines nearby. Building this must have cost a lot of effort back then."

"Back then, the whole Kalka Mongolian tribe believed in the Yellow Sect, similar to a whole clan system. Building temples and such was not a big deal." Sean Knight casually explained, but Sky Eye never stopped scanning.

Soon, he found what he wanted, and with bright eyes, Sean Knight said to Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington:

"Come on, let’s dig here!"

Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington had followed Sean Knight on treasure hunts before and knew his habits. If the boss pointed out a place, they would dig it up!

Barnes came over to help, stacking the rocks and sand they dug up on the side.

Soon, a square stone slab, one meter on each side, was exposed.

"Come on, let’s pry this stone slab up!" Sean Knight made room, "There should be something underneath."

While using the engineer shovel as a lever to pry, Elijah Hastings asked Sean Knight:

"Boss, you’re not really good at fengshui, are you? Like, the sixteen-word Yin-Yang Fengshui technique or something? How did you find things so accurately?"

Sean Knight had lied to foreigners several times, claiming that he knew fengshui. Elijah Hastings had initially thought that the boss was deceiving foreigners, but seeing Sean Knight find things so accurately time after time, he couldn’t help but doubt it.

"Intuition." Sean Knight smiled and said, "I have a keen sense of these things. As long as I can confirm what I’m looking for before searching, it becomes relatively easy to find. If it’s there, I can sense it pretty quickly."

Lincoln Harrington originally intended to persuade Elijah Hastings not to ask such sensitive questions, but seeing that Sean Knight didn’t dodge them, he didn’t say anything and joined Elijah in prying up the two-inch-thick stone slab.

A musty smell hit their faces. Both Lincoln and Elijah, caught by surprise, sneezed hard twice.

"There really is a hidden world here!" Elijah exclaimed, his eyes widened.

Below were stone steps with a very steep slope.

"Let’s go down and take a look." Sean Knight had already turned on his flashlight and went down.

The space below was not complicated, just two rooms. Inside, there were shelves with Buddhist scriptures, and outside were some Buddhist tools.

However, these Buddhist tools were all shining with treasure light - most of them were made of gold, silver, and gemstones!

For example, gold Buddha statues, copper Buddha statues, eaglewood Buddha statues, eaglewood beads with turquoise, copper incense burners, and so on.

There were dozens of items, big and small, creating a dazzling sight.

However, in Elijah’s eyes, he shook his head and said,

"Not impressive at all - not much gold!"

Sean slapped him lightly, saying,

"You must have seen so many gold products in the jungle that you feel these aren’t enough, right?"

"Hehe!" Having his thoughts exposed, Elijah touched his head and laughed, feeling embarrassed.

"Alright, stop looking and pack these things up." Sean said, "There’s more stuff here!"

"Really? That’s great!" Elijah’s face changed quickly, and he acted swiftly.

Although there were many items, their volumes were not large. There were folding storage boxes in the off-road vehicle, and they carefully packed these items into them.

Having been stored for so many years, the Buddhist scriptures were inevitably damaged, but they had no choice.

After packing, Lincoln and Elijah restored the stone slab and covered it with desert stones, making it look the same as before.

Sean led them to load the boxes onto the car, then looked around for a while and opened another underground vault.

After the musty smell in the vault dissipated, Elijah carefully went down first. Finding no danger, he told Sean,

"Boss, you can come down. There are indeed some good things in here!"

Sean went down, while Lincoln remained above, guarding. Barnes was also well-behaved, staying above and not trying to look inside.

This vault also had two rooms, and the space was larger than the previous one.

The outer room was piled with a large number of copper coins, although they were covered in green rust.

Sean didn’t care and went straight inside.

The inner room was smaller in space.

But now it was almost empty, with only two boxes, one large and one small. The large box contained dozens of silver ingots, which looked like 50-tael ingots. The small box contained gold ingots, only a dozen of them.

There were also two silver ingots and one gold ingot scattered on the ground. It seemed that the original owner left in a hurry, unable to take everything with him.

Elija didn’t come in, so Sean simply put the gold and silver ingots into the spatial realm, leaving only the boxes here.

He walked out and saw Elijah squatting on the ground, holding a handful of fragments.

Seeing Sean coming out, he said with a look of regret,

"Boss, these copper coins have all decayed. I grabbed a handful of fragments, sigh!"

"Alright, the harvest from those other items is good enough." Sean smiled and said, "Let’s go up."

Seeing Sean and Elijah come up empty-handed, Lincoln was a bit puzzled but didn’t say anything. He and Elijah filled the stone slab again together.

Elijah was still a little unsatisfied and asked Sean,

"Boss, is there any more?"