Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 294 - 242: Being Targeted! _2

Chapter 294: Chapter 242: Being Targeted! _2

Wusun Country was a major nation among the Western Region Thirty-Six States, located on the southeast shore of Lake Balkhash and the Yili River Basin. The monarch of the country was Lie Jiaomi.

"I once went on a mission in the Chauncey Valley, the scenery there is very beautiful, but I have never heard of any large tombs or relics."

Elijah Hastings said while driving.

"We’ll see when we get there."

Sean Knight thought about the simple map in his mind.

"Boss, do we need to prepare tools?" Douglas Cooper asked.

"What tools do we need?" Sean Knight was unsure and asked.

"For finding treasure!" Douglas Cooper said matter-of-factly.

"...You got it wrong." Sean Knight said seriously. "Our trip this time is just to survey the terrain. Simply put, it’s to take a look at the geographic location of the ancient Wusun Country. As for finding treasures - that happens abroad. Let the archaeological personnel handle those things within the country."

Sean Knight was not being generous, but he did not want to commit any illegal acts.

The car arrived at Sayram Lake, and Sean and his team got off the car. They took a stroll around the scenic area and had a meal of cold water salmon. They met a tour guide who insisted on introducing the place as "Boleserim Lake, not Yili Sayram Lake." They learned something new and then entered the Fruit Gorge.

It was the season when wild apple trees and wild cherry plum trees were blossoming, so they enjoyed some great scenery.

The second day, they had already arrived in Chauncey.

As expected, the scenery was excellent, but Sean Knight went straight to find the curves on the map.

Sean Knight concluded that it was a mountain.

Shaertao Mountain.

That’s what the locals call it, and that’s how it’s marked on the map.

This was the first curve Sean Knight had in his memory.

But the next curve went abroad.

As mentioned earlier, Wusun Country was considered one of the larger nations among the Western Region Thirty-Six States. Its sphere of influence not only covered the Yili River Valley but also included the area southeast of Lake Balkhash that the old Yili people now refer to as Outer Yili.

Sean Knight was not reassured, so he drove into the plains and came to a section of Shaertao Mountain.

He climbed up the mountain and walked along the trail. Gradually, he fully aligned the mountain’s features with the curves on the map.

Over the course of more than two thousand years, the ground buildings might have changed, but the mountain would not have changed.

"Boss, what do you think those are?"

Douglas Cooper pointed to some faraway dirt mounds that looked like a row of circular shapes, each with a diameter of about ten to twenty meters, topped like they had been cut off, or even hollowed out.

Sean Knight was not sure either and looked at Elijah Hastings.

"Those are the earthen tombs of Mongolian nobles." Elijah knew, "But they should have been robbed already. I heard that a few years ago, the Cultural Relics Administration cleared more than twenty such earthen tombs, all of which were empty, with nothing left inside."

Sean Knight shook his head. It was to be expected.

In a place like Chauncey, which has an area of over 10,000 square kilometers but only has a population of more than 100,000, it is impossible to prevent tomb robbers from targeting these earthen tombs.

Such incidents were widespread throughout the country at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century.

"What’s that square thing?" Douglas Cooper asked again.

"Ancient city ruins," Elijah glanced and said, "The grasslands here are good, and it has always been a suitable summer pasture for nomadic tribes. From ancient times to the present, from the Sais to Daxia to Wusun, up to the Mongolian cavalry, all have stayed here. Leaving ancient city ruins is not uncommon."

Having found the right location, Sean Knight did not linger any longer in Chauncey. They had a meal of wild mushroom soup in the county town before driving off to Khorgos.

They planned to go from here to Kazakhstan.

A large portion of the map was on that side, and according to Sean Knight’s thinking, the Western Region Thirty-Six States should be part of their country’s territory.

Since the territory has been taken away now, why not try to bring back some of the findings?

In Khorgos, Sean Knight found a translator.

Krimson Winchester, a Kazakh native, graduated from Xinjiang University, working part-time as a translator.

"Boss, what are we going to do over there?" Krimson Winchester, who was tall, strong, and handsome, and twenty-three years old, was very eye-catching.

"Consider it an adventure, or a kind of tourism," Sean Knight vaguely replied.

"Well, do we have a specific destination?"

Krimson Winchester was very dedicated.

"First, take us to the area opposite Chauncey, and then we’ll decide when we get there."

"Oh, that’s... Xilingol." Krimson Winchester knew the other side very well and immediately knew the place they were looking for.

This ’gol,’ and the Soviet-style ’gol’ they had named places at the time, meant the same thing, but the transliteration was different.

After crossing the national gate and arriving on the Kazakh side, Krimson Winchester rented a car for Sean Knight and his friends and headed straight to Xilingol.

Having driven around for half a day, they finally arrived, and Sean Knight asked Elijah Hastings, who was driving, to slow down as he carefully compared the surroundings with the map.

It had to be said that the Russians had a fierce eye for the territory back then.

The land they had taken from China was almost entirely flat and full of plains.

It was an excellent place for both grazing and farming.

Sean Knight went all the way to the Sumubai Farm and looked at Mount Gideon on the China side from there, experiencing a truly different feeling.

However, this feeling lasted only a moment before disappearing.

Finding the treasure came first.

The curves on the map represented mountains or rivers, and the landmarks on the Kazakh side were not obvious. It took Sean Knight a long time to find another prominent landmark by comparing the mountain from Chauncey with the confluence of two rivers.

More than 2,000 years later, the confluence of the rivers might have changed. So Sean Knight did not let his guard down and walked back and forth along the river for a few kilometers before finally confirming the location.

Now, with the help of the Sky Eye, he could see the traces of the river underground. As the area was rich in aquatic grass and the ground was flat, there was no change in the course of the river.

If this were before, Sean Knight would have been anxious about treasure hunting.

But since he had been to the jungle and Mongolia, he knew that treasure hunting was not as easy as it used to be on the islands.

Being able to find treasure so quickly was due to the help of Sky Eye.

Many treasure hunters spent years searching, so his daily calculations were quite astonishing.

However, treasure hunting should not be rushed.

The surrounding area was mostly farmland, growing wheat. The local people passing by were quite curious about them.

This was another country with an area larger than China’s West Province (2.72 million square kilometers, 1.1 million more), but with far fewer people (a population of less than 20 million).

Saying that the land was vast and rich in resources was no exaggeration.

And unlike West Province, half of its 1.6 million square kilometers was desert - after all, the first and second largest deserts in the country were here. The remaining land consisted of three mountain ranges, with not too many plains.

Here, it was almost an endless plain!

Thinking about it, the loss was enormous.

The five of them continued searching until the afternoon when Krimson Winchester found them a place to stay in Xilingol County.

The food here was not really to their liking. In comparison with China, the area lagged behind by about 20 years in development.

The Kazakh side knew that if they wanted to develop, they needed talent. So they had been working hard to attract Kazakh people from all over the world, especially those from China.

Indeed, some people had moved here to settle down.

However, when it came to living here, at least in terms of food, Sean Knight and the others could not get used to it.

Mainly because there were too few styles and materials available.

The main vegetables here were tomatoes, meiko, potatoes, and peppers.

Rye bread and pickled meat were famous, but not everyone liked them.

However, since they had come out, there was nothing they could not bear. The next day, the five of them continued further in a car.

Upon reaching the depths of the plains, Sean Knight came down to investigate the terrain.

He didn’t know what Lie Jiaomi might have hidden here.

But since he found the map, it wouldn’t hurt to try to find it.

Krimson Winchester was also puzzled, not knowing what this young boss who hired him was looking for.

If one were to mention ancient tombs, there were actually some earthen tombs nearby, but it seemed that the boss hadn’t given them a second glance.

What could there be to find on this plain?

After searching the area for nearly an hour, Sean Knight returned and prepared to get into the car, when Elijah Hastings whispered to him:

"Boss, someone’s got their eye on us!"