After driving along the river with many forks and bends for nearly half an hour, the motorboat finally stopped at the shore of a river port. It was completely dark at this time, and the sounds of frogs and birds were particularly clear at night.

"Get off the boat."

Chen Ying no longer had the same friendly attitude towards Aunt Jiao as before, and spoke harshly all the way, "Since you are here, don't even think about running away. If you dare to run away, I will kick you into the river and drown you."

Aunt Jiao was now regretting her decision to leave, but it was no use regretting it any more. She was afraid of being killed by them, so she had no choice but to follow them obediently with her luggage on her back.

After they got ashore first, Gong Linglong took out a cloth belt from the space, hung it on the willow branch next to her, and then immediately followed.

About three minutes after they left, the boat that Lu Jingchuan was on arrived. He assigned tasks to the people accompanying him and followed them alone.

There were many marks along the way. There were arrows carved with a dagger on the tree trunks, mud drawings on the stone slabs, and arrows made of cut branches in some places. Lu Jingchuan followed these instructions and moved forward quickly, and soon caught up with them.

After walking for about twenty minutes, the man led Chen Ying and the others to the entrance of a village at the foot of a mountain.

There are many local dogs in the village. Because of the arrival of outsiders, all the dogs in the village are barking, and oil lamps are lit in each mud house one after another.

Gong Linglong took a look from a distance and had a hunch that this village was not simple. She saw the man saying a few words to the sentry at the village entrance, asking him to pass on the message. The three of them were waiting at the village entrance. She immediately took advantage of this opportunity to walk back and go to meet Lu Jingchuan.

"Linglong."

After walking a distance, Gong Linglong appeared and walked around, and Lu Jingchuan, who was hiding in the dark, immediately called her.

"Brother Jing, you came so quickly."

Gong Linglong had been distracted and paying attention to what was behind her, so she didn't notice any trace of him and thought she had lost him.

"Linglong, what's going on up ahead?"

Lu Jingchuan had the same intuition as her, always feeling that the village ahead was dangerous, so he stopped following after reaching this point.

"The village ahead is not a simple one. There are people guarding the gate, and there are many local dogs inside. The three of them are waiting at the village entrance now. Someone went inside to report."

Gong Linglong explained the situation to him and added, "Brother Jing, don't act rashly. Arrange for the others not to come over and check the terrain. I'll go in and investigate the situation first. I'll come back to find you in an hour. We'll meet under that poplar tree."

She pointed in the direction of the tree, then disappeared again and hurried to the village entrance.

When she arrived, the messenger had just returned, and Chen Ying and the other two followed him into the village.

This small village looks very ordinary from the outside, no different from other villages, but inside there is a guard post every ten steps. The people on guard are dressed like ordinary farmers, but their eyes are very sharp and they all have weapons on their waists. It is obvious that they are not real farmers.

Chen Ying followed the man intently. Aunt Jiao walked at the back. She was so frightened that she was trembling with fear and didn't dare to speak. She followed Chen Ying closely.

"Stay here tonight and don't leave this room. If you move around, I'll give you a peanut."

Chen Ying took Aunt Jiao to a simple earthen brick house, warned her, and then followed the man.

The village was not very big. The man took Chen Ying to live in another mud brick house. He did not talk about business with her. After settling her in the room, he returned to his own residence.

With no one to lead the way, Gong Linglong had no choice but to search around the village and record the approximate number of houses, population, and weapons and equipment in the village on paper.

"Huh? Why are there so many people guarding this place?"

Gong Linglong was standing at the back entrance of the village. There were eight people standing guard with weapons.

"There must be something going on in the back mountain."

She took immediate action, swaggering in from the intersection they were guarding and following the footprints on the path.

After walking for about three minutes, we found four guards guarding the second checkpoint. They were standing at the entrance of a cave, which looked like a natural cave from a distance. Standing at the entrance, one could faintly hear the sound of clanging blows.

Gong Linglong did not waste any time and quickly moved towards the cave entrance, heading straight for the heart of the mountain where the sound was the loudest.

"Gold mine!"

When Gong Linglong saw the ore smelting machines and the gold being smelted hidden in the belly of the mountain, she was shocked, but soon calmed down, quickly counted the number of people here, and then ran quickly in the caves that were connected in all directions to check.

An hour later, Gong Linglong, breathless, arrived under the poplar tree where she had agreed to meet Lu Jingchuan. "Brother Jing."

Hearing her voice, Lu Jingchuan felt relieved. When she appeared, he immediately pulled her down and asked, "Linglong, you haven't been discovered, have you?"

"No."

Gong Linglong shook her head and pointed to the dark mountain ahead. With a serious expression, she said, "Brother Jing, this mountain is a gold mine. Thousands of people are mining and refining gold in it right now."

"What?" Lu Jingchuan was shocked.

"There's a natural cave behind the village. The cave is the entrance. There are 70 or 80 guards in the village, all armed with guns."

"There are over a thousand people working overtime in the cave day and night. There's a complete set of industrial equipment for smelting ore. They're all wearing hand guns. They must be an army."

"Also, there are three ammunition depots in the cave, filled with explosives and bullets. The three combined are as big as a military hospital."

"There's also a large cave filled with refined gold. I roughly estimated there are about two thousand boxes of gold, all of which are standard gold bars that they refine."

"Another cave holds nearly 100,000 kilograms of grain and vegetables. The rooms in this village ahead are filled with grain and coal. There might be more in the cellar, but I haven't had time to carefully verify the quantity."

As Gong Linglong spoke, she pulled out a detailed map and handed it to him. "Brother Jing, I haven't finished my search yet. I've only checked half of it. You can look at it here first. I'll finish the other half and then meet up with you. If you want to take action tonight, you have to redeploy and be sure to send more people."

"Linglong, I'm going back now to report the latest intelligence. We need to regroup the team. We agreed to meet here in two hours." Lu Jingchuan made arrangements.

"good."

Gong Linglong nodded in response, looked around, and said, "Brother Jing, they must have set up sentry posts in this outer circle, you have to be careful."

"Linglong, you guessed right, there are sentry posts outside."

Lu Jingchuan has been busy for the past hour. He has searched the surroundings thoroughly and found three secret sentry posts. He plans to deal with them before taking action and not move for the time being to avoid alerting the enemy.