I'm Just Panning for Gold, What Does the Gold Price Drop Have to Do with Me?

Financial crisis, big salary cuts, fresh graduates fighting fiercely for a job paying only 1,200 yuan. Fresh graduate Chen Feng couldn't stand the gap and became a loafer at home, smoking and d...

Chapter 284 Gold is out!

This thing is really efficient; he'll have to get one when he gets back.

Chen Feng shoveled a few more times and threw the goods out. He carried the detector around in the pit, but the detector did not make a sound.

"Hey, the goods were gone, but you dug them up," the gold prospector said quickly.

Chen Feng walked over the mound of soil for a while, and the detector made a sound. He switched to a small shovel, pulled the detector over, and started walking over the soil.

The gold prospector also moved closer, staring intently at Chen Feng's shovel.

"Ooh-woo~"

When Chen Feng passed through the soil again, the detector went off, and the gold prospector was even more excited than Chen Feng.

"Holy crap, I've got it! What color is it? Is it gold?"

Seeing this, Chen Feng was both amused and exasperated. "Dude, you're really enjoying this, aren't you going to get to work?"

Chen Feng gently shook the shovel, then continued to pass it through the detector. After passing it back and forth a few times, Chen Feng started digging with his hands.

He quickly pulled out a small gold nugget. When the nugget came out, the gold prospector's eyes widened instantly, and a gasp of surprise rang out.

"Holy crap, it's back in gold! It really is back in gold! And it's such a huge amount! Dude, you're amazing!"

Chen Feng weighed the gold nugget in his hand, smiled slightly, and thought that the gold nugget was probably worth about two thousand yuan, which was not bad.

"My goodness! It's only the first day, and you've already found such a huge gold nugget. Doesn't that mean the championship is yours for the taking?"

The gold prospector looked at the gold nugget in Chen Feng's hand and said with envy.

He had panned for gold of this size before, but that was two months ago.

This kid landed a huge order right away; his luck is simply unbelievable.

"It's hard to say. This is a competition for over a hundred gold prospectors. There are always some people who are exceptionally lucky."

Chen Feng said something, put the gold nugget in his pocket, and looked at the gold prospector who looked incredulous with a smile.

"Dude, aren't you going to get to work? Are you just going to watch me shop around?"

"Oh my god, I was so focused on watching you that I forgot to do my own work. But I feel like watching you shop is much more fun than doing it myself."

The gold prospector grinned and left somewhat reluctantly.

He hadn't even had enough of looking at it and wanted to watch a little longer.

Before leaving, he borrowed a light from Chen Feng to light a cigarette before walking away.

"If I start a gold panning live stream, can I earn some extra money?" Chen Feng chuckled to himself, watching the gold panner's retreating figure.

Carrying the tools, I continued walking forward. After about ten minutes, the system beeped again.

Chen Feng looked around and saw that the goods were buried very shallowly, seemingly just on the surface.

After shoveling a few shovelfuls, Chen Feng switched to a small shovel and started digging through the soil.

After shoveling a few times, the detector went off. Chen Feng gently shook the shovel and started digging with his hands.

In no time, Chen Feng found a silver nugget.

This silver nugget is probably worth around forty or fifty yuan.

After putting the silver nuggets and the gold nuggets into separate bottles, Chen Feng tidied up and continued walking forward.

After walking for a few minutes, the ground became uneven, with something lying at an angle.

Chen Feng walked over and pulled it out forcefully, only to find that it was a rusty steel bar end.

Chen Feng threw the steel bar far away and started walking around. After walking for a few minutes, the system gave him a prompt.

After sensing the location for a moment, he realized the cargo was several meters away. He walked over, put down the detector, picked up a shovel, and started digging.

It can only be said that there is never a shortage of broken stones and tiles in the mine, and there are plenty here. Chen Feng first threw the surface stones aside, and then squatted down to start digging the soil with a shovel.

This pit was quite deep; it took Chen Feng a long time to finally reach the spot.

The dust that had been blown out had already been piled into a small mound. Chen Feng switched to a small shovel and squatted down, but he couldn't quite reach inside.

Left with no other choice, Chen Feng could only half-lie on the ground and start shoveling dirt with a small shovel.

After about seven or eight shovelfuls, the detector finally gave a response. Chen Feng got up from the ground, patted the dirt off his body, and started shaking the shovel.

After shaking it back and forth several times, a dark yellow, pointed object emerged from the shovel. Upon seeing this, Chen Feng subconsciously smiled and reached out to take the gold nugget out.

This gold nugget is quite large. Chen Feng wiped the dust off the surface, weighed it in his hand, and estimated it to be worth around five thousand yuan.

Satisfied, Chen Feng put the gold nugget into his bag and continued walking forward with his tools.

A few minutes later, Chen Feng's system beeped again.

He looked around, pinpointed the location, walked over, picked up a shovel, and started digging a hole.

As he tossed the broken stones and tiles into the air, Chen Feng plunged a shovel into the ground and scooped out a full shovelful of soil.

The pit wasn't that deep, and Chen Feng quickly finished digging it. Once he felt it was about right, he switched to a small shovel and started clearing the soil.

With just a few shovelfuls, Chen Feng found the goods. He lightly shook the shovel, and when there was still half a shovelful of soil left, he started digging with his hands.

A silver nugget quickly appeared in Chen Feng's hand, estimated to be worth seventy or eighty yuan.

Carrying his tools, Chen Feng continued walking forward, intending to finish mining this area first.

No one knows how long it took Chen Feng to finally pan for all the gold in the area. Unfortunately, apart from the first large piece of gold, Chen Feng didn't find any more gold; all he found were silver grains.

Chen Feng had no way to deal with this. It seemed that he had found the only gold in the area. He looked around and walked in a direction that looked good to him.

Meanwhile, an hour earlier, a man in camouflage overalls was sitting in a car, and he was the only one left in the car.

"Dude, this isn't enough, where are you even looking for?"

Li Kaichun was exasperated. Twenty minutes ago, the car had been empty, but he was still not satisfied and demanded that Li Kaichun keep driving.

"Just drive forward, but turn left a little. This place has bad feng shui." The man looked out the car window, carefully assessing the situation.

"Alright."

Li Kaichun couldn't say anything about this, since they had told him to just find any place, and that even if the man wanted to sit in the car all day, there was nothing he could do.

After driving for another twenty minutes, the man saw a scene, narrowed his eyes, knocked on the car window and spoke.

"Alright, that's fine."

Hearing this, Li Kaichun finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly stopped the car; he had wanted to go home for a long time.

"Dude, you've come all this way. It'll be hard for me to pick you up at noon. It'll take so long for you to come and go," Li Kaichun said, glancing at the time.

"You don't need to pick me up at noon, I brought my own lunch. Just pick me up in the evening."

The man got out of the car carrying his things, his eyes gazing into the distance, searching back and forth, as if trying to determine his location.

"That's alright then, take your time browsing, I'm heading back now," Li Kaichun said, turning the car around and driving back.

The man waved his hand dismissively, not even looking at him, his eyes only on the surroundings.

"This should be the first river point I drew."

He took out the map and checked it over and over.