On the way back, Chen Feng's system finally gave him a prompt.
"Damn it, I've been waiting for you so long, brother!" Chen Feng perked up and started drawing circles.
As he drew, Chen Feng muttered to himself.
"If I could find a piece of gold as big as an angle iron, I'd go home right now and it would be enough to live on for the rest of my life."
However, Chen Feng did the math in his head and realized it wasn't enough. Eight catties of gold, after deducting losses, would only amount to a little over a million, which wouldn't be enough for the rest of his life.
"Damn it, I'm getting too cocky. I haven't even found ten grams of gold, and I'm already thinking about eight pounds of gold." Chen Feng couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Ooh-woo~"
The sound of the detector pulled Chen Feng back from his wandering thoughts.
He placed the detector on the ground, took out a small shovel, and began to work through the soil.
Two shovelfuls later, the detector went off.
However, this time, without the detector's prompting, he saw the grayish-white silver grain with one corner sticking out.
"Worth twenty yuan? It's a bit small, but even a small fly is still meat." Chen Feng pursed his lips and tossed the silver coin into the bottle with some disdain.
If his companions heard this, they'd probably be ready to die.
Damn it, it's good enough that we have the goods at all, and you still complain that it's too small?
We didn't even get the little ones!
Just as Chen Feng picked up the detector and took a few steps, his system issued another notification.
"What the hell?"
Chen Feng was surprised that this thing was actually continuous, so he happily continued to draw circles.
Holding the detector, I probed back and forth within the circle, and finally, in a slightly recessed area, the detector went off.
"Ooh-woo~"
"Damn, you even prepared a trap for me, huh?"
Chen Feng took out a small shovel, squatted down, and started digging around in the pit, not even bothering to shovel anymore.
You know what, after rummaging around for a while, he actually managed to pull the goods out.
"Look at this, isn't it ridiculous?"
Chen Feng grinned and pulled the silver nugget out of the soil.
This one is bigger than the previous one, weighing about four or five grams.
He took out the bottle, threw in the silver nuggets, and then put the lid back on.
Holding the detector, Chen Feng continued walking forward.
He thought he had explored the area thoroughly, but unexpectedly, after walking a dozen meters, the detector went off again.
"Holy crap, I've messed things up, haven't I?" Chen Feng chuckled, continuing to draw circles on the ground.
It would be better if we couldn't walk back all day. If we keep squatting on the ground digging at the hole, we'll probably dig out so much stuff that it won't fit in two bottles.
Then, using a small shovel to shovel through the soil, several shovelfuls were shoveled before the detector finally sounded.
To be honest, it's not easy to explore after it rains.
Normally, a light shake of the hand will remove a layer of sand, but this time you have to scrape it off bit by bit by hand, making your hands black with soot.
After peeling off several layers, Chen Feng felt something hard with his fingers. He reached out and pried it open, and a flat silver piece appeared in his palm.
"It's quite a unique design, bro," Chen Feng chuckled, tossing it into the small bottle.
Chen Feng continued walking forward, hoping to get a four-way shipment, but unfortunately the system didn't respond after walking for a long time.
He turned around and around, unwilling to give up, but the system still didn't respond, so he had no choice but to give up.
It seems there were only three items in this place, and he took them all.
After wandering around for a while, they finally got back. It was almost ten o'clock, and only Huang Fei and another companion were by the car.
They were both somewhat surprised to see Chen Feng walk back.
Chen Feng doesn't like exploring close-up areas, so why did he come back today?
"What are you doing back here? Are you hungry?" his companion asked loudly.
"No, we found a great treasure, we'll bring it back first." Chen Feng said before getting into the car.
Upon hearing this, his companion's eyes widened. The "treasure" Chen Feng mentioned must be extremely valuable. He walked back with a face full of curiosity.
Upon hearing this, Huang Fei eagerly ran to the car, wanting to see what he had found.
Once they got on the bus, they saw Chen Feng squatting in the aisle, taking out a large piece of angle iron from his backpack.
"Holy crap, it's huge! Where did you find it?" his companion exclaimed in shock.
They've been searching for so long, and they've never seen such a large angle iron before.
After all, when the mine was abandoned, the valuables were sold off first by the insiders, and then by the miners.
Next came the elderly men and women who collected scraps. By the time it was their turn, there was really nothing left. Finding even a piece of steel bar weighing one or two ounces was considered extremely lucky.
Such a large angle iron is practically like winning the lottery.
"It was right over there. It took me ages to pry it out. I never expected it to be so big and so heavy."
"We'll deal with that after we get it back," Chen Feng said, tossing the angle iron into the car, taking a bottle of water out of his bag, and taking a swig.
This time it was much easier.
"How much is such a big piece of iron worth?" Huang Fei had never cared about these things before, so he didn't know the price.
His companion came up, weighed the angle iron in his hand, and said, "It'll probably cost ten or eight dollars."
"Oh, I thought it would be several tens of dollars, why are you so excited?" Huang Fei immediately lost interest upon hearing this.
After all, any piece of silver would be worth that price, so in his eyes this piece of iron was nothing special.
"Heh, you've got quite the nerve. It would be nice to find this stuff every day. Do you think you're Chen Feng, able to get your hands on goods every single day?"
"My companion said, somewhat speechless."
Huang Fei is a newcomer with a biased view; he doesn't understand at all what the living environment of gold prospectors is like.
They thought everyone was like Chen Feng, able to sell anything they wanted.
"Stop talking! I've been searching all morning and haven't found anything, just some wire and iron blocks. Chen Feng, did you find anything?"
Huang Fei asked somewhat discouragedly.
"I found it, it'll cost a couple hundred yuan." Chen Feng didn't say much more, as it would seem like he was deliberately provoking Huang Fei.
Little did they know that even a hundred or two would be enough to provoke Huang Fei quite a bit.
"What the hell? You've got a hundred or two hundred of these, let me see it!"
Huang Fei, who was sitting in the car seat, was so shocked by these words that he stood up immediately.
"One or two hundred? You've already found so much at just ten o'clock?" His companion was also very surprised and looked at Chen Feng.
"That's all." Chen Feng took out the silver bottle, not the gold one.
"Holy crap, this is just a little bit? This is quite a lot! How much is too much?"
"This is nothing compared to what I've got."
Seeing the several silver coins in Chen Feng's bottle, his companion couldn't help but take out his own silver bottle and say something.
The silver bottle he was holding contained only a pitiful silver grain, which weighed a little over a gram.
Chen Feng's bottle contained more than 20 grams. When the two bottles were placed side by side, the difference was so stark that it was unbearable to look at.
"You have at least one spot, but I didn't see a single spot!" Huang Fei sighed as he looked at the two bottles.
The worst part is yet to come.
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