chsdbacks Chapter 473 A Strange Smell
Chapter 473 A Strange Smell
"What am I afraid of!"
Old Fang was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage like a dog whose tail had been stepped on.
"Old Fang, look at you, what's all the excitement about?" Meng Guizi continued to provoke Old Fang.
"How did I get excited?" Old Fang was still unconvinced.
"Old Fang, Old Meng, you two shouldn't go to the secret vault. Just wait here. We don't know what's behind that door, and we might not be able to protect you then!"
Li Donglin interrupted their argument.
"No!"
Both of them spoke at the same time, disagreeing with staying where they were and waiting.
"Old Fang, Old Meng, I'm letting you two stay here for your own good!" Li Donglin advised.
"Donglin, it's unreasonable for you to let Lao Fang stay while I stay, isn't it? I have tiger bone bracelets and tiger tattoos. I may not be able to help you, but I definitely won't hold you back!" Meng Guizi said.
"Why should I be allowed to stay? I'm not afraid of dying, and I'm not staying here anyway!" Old Fang retorted.
Li Donglin looked at Lao Fang, then at Meng Guizi, and said, "I'll say it again, I'm not even sure what's behind the door myself. I can't guarantee your safety once we go in!"
"We know!" they both nodded at the same time.
"Alright, since you don't want to stay here and wait, then come down with us!" Li Donglin didn't try to persuade him any further and nodded.
As the saying goes, good advice is hard to persuade a damned ghost. These two are so insistent on entering the secret vault, so let's go!
I've figured it out; these two are definitely up to no good.
Before they went inside, Li Donglin gave each of them a few more talismans, which was more than enough.
The rest of us also prepared the ritual implements and other items, ready to take action at any time.
After they were ready, Li Donglin and Blind Zuo pushed open the steel door.
The moment the steel door opened, a bone-chilling cold swept over us.
Shining a flashlight inside, you see a downward-sloping slide.
"Follow me!"
After waiting for a while and seeing no ambush, Li Donglin, as before, took the lead and walked ahead with a powerful flashlight.
The passageway was about three meters wide, and it was damp and cold.
"If the gold is hidden here, how can it be transported out?"
After taking a couple of steps, Long Nier asked with some curiosity.
"There's definitely more than one entrance. Back then, after the Japanese brought the gold here, they blew up the passageway above!" Li Donglin said.
"It exploded, why?" Long Nier asked.
"When the secret vault was set up, the Japanese were already on the decline, or rather, they had already realized they were going to lose!" Li Donglin said.
"These secret vaults were the Japanese devils' escape route, funds they prepared for their future resurgence!"
"If there's a future, it doesn't matter how well this gold is hidden. But if there's no future, then naturally we'll do whatever it takes to hide it and make it as difficult as possible!"
"So, blowing up the main entrance and leaving this small passage hidden in the chimney is just perfect!"
As we spoke, we reached the end of the passage, where another iron gate appeared before us.
"Fourth Brother!"
After shining the flashlight on the iron gate for a moment, Li Donglin nodded to the blind man on the left. The two exchanged a glance and exerted their strength simultaneously.
The iron gate creaked open slowly with a jarring groan.
As the iron gate opened, that familiar chill swept over me again. I instinctively gripped the Demon-Slaying Seal and shone my flashlight forward.
Inside is an arched underground palace the size of a football field, with all four walls made of cast steel plates and concrete.
These are not the key points. The key point is that in the very center of the underground palace, there stands a golden mountain built of gold bricks.
Under the bright light of a flashlight, Jinshan shone with golden light.
"Grass!"
Looking at Jinshan, I subconsciously swore.
Although we've made a lot of money over the years, the money on a check and seeing a mountain of gold are two different things.
The impact was simply too great.
"Damn it, there really are five hundred tons of gold!"
"Gold Mountain, Gold Mountain!"
Like me, Meng Guizi and Lao Fang were also impacted.
Unlike the rest of us, Li Donglin remained quite calm.
"It tastes wrong!"
Just then, Long Nier gently nudged me.
I sniffed, and apart from being a bit chilly, I didn't notice anything wrong.
"Chirp! Chirp!"
Xiao Ba then called out.
"Xiao Ba said there's a fishy, cold, and slippery smell inside!" Long Nier said.
"Chirp!"
Little Ba nodded, tilted its head and stared at the golden mountain for a while, then barked twice more.
"Xiao Ba said she smelled a familiar scent!" Long Nier translated.
"What kind of aura is that?" Li Donglin asked.
"Chirp! Chirp chirp!"
Xiao Ba barked once, then barked twice more.
"Xiao Ba said there seem to be long worms inside!" Long Nier said.
"Chirp!"
Just as he finished speaking, Xiao Ba chirped again, waving its little paws at Jinshan and making a series of chirping sounds.
"Xiao Ba is right, there are cold-blooded reptiles inside. She said she remembers the taste and that she was almost swallowed by those reptiles when she was a child!" Long Nier translated.
"reptile!"
Fatty Lin muttered to himself, then said in a deep voice, "Snakes? Could it be that the Japanese devils have turned this place into a snake pit?"
After saying that, he looked down at the compass.
I took a look too. The compass needle wasn't turning, but rather wobbling back and forth. Judging by the degree of bending, it looked like it was about to break.
"Brother Li, what should we do?"
After looking at the compass for a while, Fatty Lin asked a question.
"Don't go in yet!"
Li Donglin, holding a powerful flashlight, scanned the interior space inch by inch, muttering, "Normally, there should be an infant ghost guarding the vault outside, and an Onmyoji inside. Why haven't I seen any Onmyoji? Are they waiting for us to go in, or are they planning something?"
"Chirp!"
Just then, Xiao Ba pointed at Jinshan and called out twice.
"Xiao Ba said there's something in Jinshan, not a person!" Long Nier said.
There are many possibilities for what is not human, but judging from what Xiao Ba just said, Jinshan is most likely hiding snakes.
"What is that?"
Just then, Meng Guizi pointed inside.
The mountain of gold bricks has gaps, and the place Meng Guizi is pointing to is the left side of the mountain.
Through the gaps between the gold bricks, a figure could be vaguely seen inside.
"Who's there? Come out!"
Li Donglin thought for a moment, then shouted sharply.
The person remained motionless, unchanged.
Li Donglin thought for a moment and said, "I'll go take a look. Don't move!"
"Brother Li..."
Just as Fatty Lin and I were about to speak and say we should go together, Li Donglin waved his hand and went inside first.
"Let Donglin go by himself, it's fine!" Blind Zuo added, and even stopped us for a moment.
We still believed in the blind man on the left. Since he said he was fine, we didn't do anything.
Come here!
About three minutes later, Li Donglin waved to us.