"Boss, we were searching just fine initially, but Aspergillus oryzae insisted he saw soone familiar and had follow along.
After we got here, he told that the other party was skillful, and that even if the two of us combined forces, we likely wouldn't be a match.
If we can't win, what else can we do but hide!
But as you can see, there aren't any places here to hide a person!
The old man looked around and, without another word, plunged into the water and started digging a hole, burying himself in the mud. I had no choice but to follow suit, and we've been squatted here for nearly half an hour now."
After hearing Lao Ha's tearful complaint, Xiao Feng turned to Aspergillus oryzae and asked, "Who are you following?"
"It's that old Daoist Pang Tong who killed three people in a row at the hospital that night," Aspergillus oryzae replied.
Xiao Feng didn't bother to ask him what he had seen, but instead questioned, "Why didn't you notify us and acted alone?"
In his view, like attracts like; Lao Ha is timid and afraid of issues, and even if Aspergillus oryzae is a bit stronger, it's not by much.
And since they knew they couldn't win, why not worry about being discovered?
Aspergillus oryzae smiled bitterly and said, "I tried to make a call to report, but as we shadowed him along the way, our phone had no signal, and borrowing the driver's phone was the sa."
"I can attest to that," Lao Ha chid in.
"The other party must be carrying so kind of device that releases electronic interference, but what would be the point?" Xue Nuofu mused puzzled.
"Perhaps it's to prevent the police from discovering him and thus call for more people to capture him," Hui Wu speculated.
Xiao Feng decided not to dwell on this point and continued to ask, "So did you discover anything on this tracking mission?"
"There were so discoveries." Aspergillus oryzae pointed to the trees across the way and said, "I saw Pang Tong get out of the car and take a shovel from the trunk, heading over there like he was about to dig sothing."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Feng's gaze sharpened.
Because the direction Aspergillus oryzae pointed was exactly where Hui Shiba had initially discovered Thunder Pattern Steel and that soil similar to 'non-Newtonian fluid'.
"Let's go take a look!" Without ti to think much, Xiao Feng gestured for everyone to follow him and swiftly headed towards the opposite side.
On the way, he briefly explained the situation, and the team understood why he was so anxious.
Upon reaching the other side, a pit three ters deep ca into sight.
Beside the pit was a small hole with a diater of five centiters and a depth of about thirty centiters, evidently made for tying a rope to facilitate climbing up from below.
The team looked at each other, speechless.
Xiao Feng's expression worsened, feeling as if he walked into a fog, everything around was a white blur, losing sense of direction.
Earlier, when acquiring the Thunder Pattern Steel and soil, no one considered searching the surrounding area for other treasures or further drilling.
Now it's a moot point whether anything was there or not. Even if there was, it's likely Pang Tong had already unearthed it.
But the question remained: how did Pang Tong know about this place?
By now, a re coincidence seed unlikely; there was undoubtedly a deeper reason.
As for Pang Tong divining this spot, Xiao Feng categorically refused to believe it—as mystical as that, he wouldn't have been raving mad in the hospital.
After so ti, Xiao Feng sighed and addressed Aspergillus oryzae: "Did you see what Pang Tong dug up?"
Both Aspergillus oryzae and Lao Ha shook their heads, signaling that they hadn't.
Xiao Feng smiled: "It doesn't matter if you didn't see anything. Overall, you both did a pretty good job this ti. I'll reimburse you for the new phone later."
Lao Ha and Aspergillus oryzae's eyes lit up with excitent, "Thank you, Boss!"
Yet Xiao Feng added: "Phones under two thousand yuan will be reimbursed."
The Martial Monks silently noted to themselves that Xiao Feng's miserly behavior was as consistent as ever.
Nonetheless, Lao Ha and Aspergillus oryzae didn't seem to mind; their original phones were only priced at nine hundred and ninety-nine yuan. Getting an upgrade to around two thousand was already quite good.
The two gathered so firewood, lighting a fire by the shore to keep warm while drying their clothes.
The Martial Monks gathered around the fire as well, while Xiao Feng and Xue Nuofu lingered near the pit, seemingly unwilling to give up.
"Bang!"
A dull sound rang out.
The team turned their heads to see that only Xue Nuofu remained at the pit's edge; Xiao Feng had disappeared.
Without needing to say, Xiao Feng must have jumped in to investigate.
"I think Feng-ge is wasting his energy; with a pit this big, Pang Tong has probably already dug up whatever he was looking for," Hui Qi assessed.
Hui Ba asked, "Do you know what Pang Tong was seeking?"
"No idea," Hui Qi shook his head.
"Then how do you know it's already been unearthed?"
"Isn't that just argunt for argunt's sake? If you were to dig such a large pit and ended up finding nothing, would you leave content?"
"What else would you do but leave? Keep on digging?" Hui Ba scoffed, "I suggest you speak less because your na isn't particularly appealing.
Hui Qi—bad luck—whoever sticks with you, it's like sticking with misfortune."
"Your na's any good?" Hui Qi retorted displeased.
Hui Ba replied smugly, "Of course, Hui Ba, Hui Ba, whoever takes along is bound to prosper!"
As they bickered, Xiao Feng thoroughly examined the pit's bottom.
The mud in the pit was moist, and grasping a handful of dirt, it clumped easily, and digging wasn't particularly laborious.
Like a child, Xiao Feng grabbed a handful of dirt from the pit bottom, squeezed it into a ball, then threw it aside, repeatedly going through this motion.
In truth, he didn't hold much hope of uncovering anything; it just seed like not trying to search would leave a knot in his stomach, an unresolved tension.
But having descended, surveying the surrounding soil, felt rather dull.
"Forget it, perhaps Pang Tong didn't find anything either. I ca down to take a look, while he excavated such a massive pit, putting forth far more effort."
Xiao Feng comforted himself internally this way.
Standing, he dusted off his hands, beckoned Xue Nuofu to drop the rope and hoist him back up.
Though it was within his capacity to climb out, his clothes would get dirty, and it wasn't worth getting caked in mud just to return.
Xue Nuofu dropped the parachute cord, expression unchanged.
This outco wasn't unexpectedly surprising; not uncovering anything was normal, finding sothing would be bizarre.
Xiao Feng glanced down as if decisively putting the matter to rest.
Then with that single glance, he noticed sothing protruding from the spot he'd dug about fifteen centiters deep.
"Hold on!"
Releasing the rope, Xiao Feng descended again, digging another two centiters around the protrusion and extracting it from the soil.
It was a cone-shaped object, about ten centiters long, resembling a nail.
Wiping off the surface mud, its color turned a pale yellow, akin to an old tree root.
Xiao Feng weighed it, convinced this item wasn't wooden, at the very least.
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