Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 276 - 233: Sudden Harvest and Midnight Screams!_2

Chapter 276: Chapter 233: Sudden Harvest and Midnight Screams!_2

Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings continued driving towards the mountain.

After experiencing the robbery incident, Sean told Lincoln to be extra careful and not to do anything risky, focusing primarily on their own safety and Douglas Cooper’s security.

Willow Taylor served as a translator for the whole trip, lightening her workload considerably.

With more help, they were able to make progress quickly; by the time Sean and Elijah left, Grant had already begun to excavate the Blue-tailed Dragon skull fossil.

As they arrived at the location where the robbers ambushed them yesterday, Sean noticed signs of carnivores, possibly wolves.

However, the robbers had cleaned up pretty well, leaving nothing for the wolves. They must have come after smelling blood, only to find nothing left.

"Let’s continue," said Sean, stopping the car, and they both moved up the mountain with their guns and shovels.

By noon, they still hadn’t found anything, and Sean was starting to feel discouraged.

Elijah, cooking lunch, tried to cheer him up:

"Boss, let’s just treat this as a leisurely trip. Honestly, I’ve been to the Gobi Beach before. But I never came to such a desolate place where we could freely hunt. I think experiences like this might become rare in the future."

Surprisingly, Elijah was optimistic, so Sean decided to treat it as a holiday.

They already had some decent loot, but to Sean, it was a matter of recovering lost treasures.

"Boss, think about it, this time our trip is much safer than the last one," Elijah handed Sean a pack of self-heating rice and continued, "The dangers in the last adventure never seemed to end. This time, apart from the robbery and the sandstorm earlier, it’s been pretty smooth. I’m almost not used to it - it’s too comfortable!"

Hearing that, Sean couldn’t help but laugh: "What do you mean by that? Are you looking forward to more danger?"

"Not exactly," Elijah said, waving his hands, "Who wouldn’t want peace and safety?"

"Actually, this is the normal state of treasure hunting. There are inherent dangers, but last time was a special case."

With that, Sean’s mindset shifted to a more peaceful outlook.

After eating, the two cleaned up their garbage and continued forward.

The terrain ahead became higher and steeper, making their ascent more challenging.

Suddenly, Sean’s Sky Eye flashed a golden light, making him stop on the spot.

"Up ahead..."

Upon hearing the voice, Elijah also stopped.

"Boss, did you find something?"

Sean steadied himself, looking ahead.

Without activating Sky Eye, everything in front of them appeared normal; a 15-degree slope, like a tongue sticking out of the mountain.

However, near the mountain, it suddenly became vertical.

Using Sky Eye revealed a buried cave beneath the slope, containing two rotting horse carriages, human and horse skeletons, and gold and silver mixed in the soil!

It was right here!

Looking at the terrain, Sean began to understand.

At the time, the convoy transporting gold and silver was hit by a sandstorm and sought refuge in the cave.

Unexpectedly, they encountered a mudslide or landslide, which pushed the mountain section along with the cave down, burying them.

Subsequent sandstorms altered the landscape again, making it difficult for anyone to find it - who could’ve known that they were almost buried underground?

Actually, the closest bones and gold and silver were only about forty centimeters from the surface!

After searching for so long and nearly giving up hope, how could Sean not be happy upon finding it?

Activating Sky Eye again, his excitement suddenly died down!

He hadn’t noticed before, too focused on the gold and silver.

Now, when he looked again, he saw large and small holes surrounding the gold, silver, and bones!

The largest hole even reached fifty centimeters in diameter!

It was gigantic!

Fortunately, it seemed to be quite old, so he couldn’t tell if the creatures living there had come to eat the corpses of the people and horses or had simply ended up there accidentally.

Looking as far as Sky Eye could see, Sean didn’t find anything in the holes. Relieved, he pointed to the area and said:

"Alright, the things I want to find should be right here."

He began digging with his shovel.

"Boss, want me to help?" Elijah asked cautiously.

"No need, you keep watch," Sean replied, "I can handle it myself. It’s not too much."

He planned to put the excavated items into his spatial realm.

Remembering the incident with the robbers, Sean decided to be more cautious.

Elijah Hastings agreed and, carrying his gun, went to a high point to keep a watchful eye.

Sean quickly dug up an irregular piece of gold.

It must have been a piece of gold ornament collected by those people at the time. The crude melting process had formed it into this shape. However, its craftsmanship was quite rough, which is why it looks like this.

Sean put the gold chunk into his backpack and continued digging.

He soon found several silver ingots and then a decayed box.

Without opening it, Sean directly stowed the box into his spatial realm. Actually, the Sky Eye had already scanned it, and inside there were several golden ingots and a beautiful jewelry box - although it has already rotted now.

While digging and counting, Sean dug up a total of twelve boxes of gold and silver, with gold being the majority.

The silver items were mostly silver ingots or exquisitely made silverware.

However, this landslide, by the force of nature, had destroyed most of these exquisite silver items.

It took more than two hours for Sean to clean up the treasures in the two horse carriages.

There were some scattered pieces that were washed too far away or buried too deep. Sean didn’t have the energy to search for them all.

He also dug up several curved knives from under the ground. However, they were heavily rusted.

As for the skeletons, Sean had no sympathy for these men who had Han people’s blood on their hands.

In the end, he only left a few silver ingots and gold chunks as samples in his backpack, and then began burying the rest.

At this time, Elijah ran down to ask:

"Boss, is the excavation over?"

Sean nodded.

"Then leave the rest to me, and have a drink of water," said Elijah.

Sean didn’t refuse and sat down to drink water and rest.

Elijah didn’t completely refill the hole, only pushing the soil back to the entrance of the hole. Covering the entry was enough. Otherwise, the task would be too large and impossible to complete.

On the way back, Sean didn’t say a word.

Is it really over?

It’s so sudden, he wasn’t prepared for this!

However, thinking about it, let it end as it is.

Actually, it’s pretty good.

Next, they just had to wait for Grant Kenneth to finish excavating the dinosaur fossils, and Sean and his team could leave.

When they returned to the campground, the sky had already darkened.

There were about a dozen more tents nearby - all for the workers. Giant pots had been set up, and a rich aroma of meat filled the air, while the light of the fire shone on the smiling faces.

Their wages here were settled daily, so those who got paid were delighted.

When Sean returned, Grant Kenneth excitedly reported:

"Mr. Knight! Our progress today was remarkably fast! I’ve temporarily named the skull of the dinosaur Blue-Tailed Dragon, Golden Spear. It’s almost intact! I believe there must be more of its bones nearby!"

"Then you keep up the good work," Sean waved his hand. "Take care of the dinosaur skull and don’t let it get damaged."

After saying that, he entered the tent, mainly because he was exhausted.

Although he had much greater physical strength than an average person, Sean did the work of more than five people that afternoon!

When they first got their hands on the treasures, they were excited. Now, as the adrenaline wore off, only fatigue remained.

At some point, a sudden scream broke out in the camp!

"Ahhh—!"

The scream was cut short!

However, everyone was awakened!

Sean was the first to wake up, and the gun was in his hand immediately. Then he charged out of his tent!

The shouts were coming from the tents of the Mongolian workers. Sean saw Elijah, Lincoln Harrington, and others coming out too!

And Douglas Cooper, on Night Watch duty, was already over there!

"What’s going on?" Sean asked.

"Someone’s gone missing!"