"No, no,"
Several elderly people waved their hands repeatedly.
"No, no, the country has saved us and allowed us to see the light of day again. We old bones are already satisfied and will not ask for anything more."
"We have other things to do."
As he spoke, he glanced at the young men, clearly trying to avoid them.
Lin Zhengde initially lacked patience, but seeing the sincerity and pleading in the old man's eyes, and noticing that he was wearing glasses, even though both the temples of his glasses were patched, he softened a little.
“Come with me,”
A colleague gestured to the young soldier on guard to keep an eye on those men with unfriendly eyes.
"Speak, what is it?"
The group carefully examined Lin Zhengde's epaulets and felt slightly relieved.
The elderly man with glasses grabbed Lin Zhengde's hand.
"Comrade Regiment Commander, they are all spies left behind by the invaders in the country. They say they are looking for some kind of gold."
We were captured and forced into this place to do hard labor by accident. We tried to escape a few times, but in these deep mountains, we were all scholars, and we could always hear the howls of wolves and the roars of tigers, so we gave up.
Lin Zhengde frowned.
"What exactly do you want? Are you deliberately stalling for time?"
The unshaven man next to him shoved his glasses aside.
"See? I told you you were too long-winded. You've been going on and on without getting to the point. Let me do it."
This person sounds like they have a fiery temper, and they talk a lot.
"Comrade Commander, we are a few geology students who were working in a coal mine in the provincial capital, but we ended up here due to an accident."
But they didn't know that they only treated us as laborers and didn't supervise us strictly. Over the years, while we were working, we weren't idle either. With the help of their equipment, we didn't lose our skills. There should be a gold mine not far ahead."
"A gold mine?"
Regardless of whether what they said was true or false, Lin Zhengde couldn't hold back and his expression immediately changed.
"Are you telling the truth? You're not just trying to fool me?"
"Hey, how could that be?"
Glasses smiled wryly.
"We've studied for so many years, hoping to go to the coal mines and put our expertise to use, but alas!"
However, one thing is not very advantageous for us: the location is more biased towards the neighboring country, with most of it already beyond the border and only a small portion within our territory.
That's actually quite difficult.
During this period of diplomacy, it was agreed that both sides would be wary of each other's neighbors, and minor border skirmishes continued.
To be honest, there weren't any major wars. From a national perspective, there was communication and exchange, and the country wasn't completely closed off from the world.
On the surface, they appear to be friendly neighbors, but in private, they all want to gain the upper hand.
Lin Zhengde, as a public official and the person in charge of border defense, needs to pay even more attention to this issue. If a conflict is initiated first, he will not be in the right.
"This is the largest quantity, and the purity is also very high. If we can really mine it all,"
Lin Zhengde knew what the second half of the sentence meant without needing to say it.
Lin Zhengde was in a dilemma. Jian Dan didn't have those worries. What kind of benevolence and morality could he talk about with this kind of neighbor?
In her view, anything that was unclaimed could be hers.
Seeing that they were still talking to Lin Zhengde, she rolled her eyes, climbed down the tree, told Shen Jianguo, and quickly left quietly in the direction they had indicated.
At the same time, he also took the metal detector with him.
Gold beckons ahead, and simple, joyful steps seem to take flight.
After walking for more than an hour, we found the correct representative feature and confirmed that we were almost there. Only then did we slow down and get the detector into working mode.
Soon, in less than half an hour, the detector issued a piercing warning, and the red light began to flash incessantly.
My heart jumped into my throat; I was completely stunned.
"Wow! It really is!"
What followed was a burst of ecstatic joy. Along the way, she had also figured it out: even if it really was a gold mine, in this location, if she wanted to mine it quietly, she would inevitably have to argue with the neighboring country.
Driven by greed, not to mention that such a large sum of money is actually within their own country, how could they possibly let the opportunity slip by?
Moreover, this is a deep mountain, a real deep mountain, the territory of wild animals. They have to be extremely careful and prepared every time they come. It's actually quite unrealistic for them to come here to mine.
Rather than letting other countries benefit, she might as well take them all and offer them to the country later, or simply move them to the country's territory, so that they won't have a suitable reason to cause trouble.
It sounds nice, but Jian Dan can't just manually mine one shovel at a time. She can only take the whole vein at once, but she's never actually tried that before.
When she received things before, although she didn't have to touch them, they were still on the same plane. This time, with an unknown distance between them, she wasn't really sure what to expect.
But having found them all, she wasn't willing to just give up.
There were already many people and conflicting opinions today, so who could testify to the spot where the detector was beeping the most? She placed her hand on the ground, about to act, but then quickly got up and ran back to the edge, to the spot where the detector had just beeped.
"Be careful, it must be deep. Don't bury me in there again."
Squat down, place your hands on the ground, and take a deep breath.
"receive!"
Um?
No response?
"Collect! Collect, collect, collect!"
There was still no response.
Jian Dan was a little disappointed. She couldn't accept it like this?
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