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Chapter Seventy-One: Gold

  Xiong Wanyi reluctantly went down the stairs, and after he went down, he shouted at the top: "Sun Baozi, if you want to shoot, just shoot, anyway I'm fine!"

  Seeing Xiong Wan Yi still jumping around, Sun Baozi laughed and shouted down: "Take good care of him, I'm sending Liu Bu down now. If anything goes wrong, just shoot!"

  After finishing, Sun Pangzi turned his head and took a look at Liu Butian, then shifted his gaze to Ximen Lian and said: "Officer, you work hard, go down the stairs in front of you and watch Liu Butian. Same words, as long as he makes any small movement, you shoot him."

  Then he said to Yang Tie: "Old Yang, you followed Liu Bu's body, after you all went down, we started walking down."

  As soon as Sun Baozi finished speaking, Liu Bu truly smiled wryly and said: "You really think too highly of me. In this situation now, let alone running away, I can't even move."

  Upon hearing this, Sun Baozi narrowed his eyes and said: "You've reminded me of something." After finishing speaking, he turned around to face Ximen Qian and said: "Sir, he can only move his feet, not his hands. If you see him using his hand to feel the wall on either side, then shoot. Don't hesitate, if he moves that hand, hit that hand."

  Liu Butian couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh at these words. Under the joint attack of Ximen Lian and Yang Xiao, Liu Butian was forced to retreat step by step into the basement. Sun Wuzi and others followed closely behind, and after two or three minutes, everyone gathered again in the basement.

  The five people first turned around in the basement, but didn't find anything unusual. They also didn't find any other exit here. The place they were in was a space of over 100 square meters underground, and there was no other exit except for the four walls and a staircase.

  Sun Baozi turned around in a circle and looked at Liu Bu, saying: "Old Liu, you said the basement can lead to the underground bunker. Now we're in the basement, but I don't seem to see an exit that leads there."

  Liu Bu smiled faintly and pointed to the wall at the end, saying: "That wall is alive. There's a mechanism near the right side, third row from the right, counting from bottom to top, the 25th brick is alive. Pressing down on that brick will make this wall turn around by itself."

  Sun Baozi looked in the direction Liu Butian was pointing and found the brick he mentioned. Upon closer inspection, this brick indeed didn't quite match the rest of the wall. Sun Baozi turned around to look at Liu Butian, then shouted to Xiong Wanyi who had already hidden behind the crowd: "Xiong Wan'er, come on! Go press it like Old Liu said. Don't worry, this time it's not about making you go downstairs again. At worst, if something happens to you, I'll avenge you again."

  Xiong Wanyi reluctantly walked to the wall where Liu Bu pointed, found the brick he mentioned, and pressed it hard. Suddenly, a "creaking" sound was heard, and Xiong Wanyi hastily retreated back to the group of investigators. Before he even returned, the wall surface slowly rose up, revealing two or three underground rooms. The five people went further in to check if there were any arrays set up inside.

  Taking advantage of the fact that the five rooms were still busy, Sun Baozi said to Liu Bu: "Old Liu, I'm not saying this, but such a big project shouldn't be yours, should it?"

  Liu Bu Zhen said, "I don't have that kind of skill... Inside is the gold vault from Liu Xiang's time..." When he mentioned the gold vault, Sun Baozi involuntarily glanced inside a few times, but saw nothing. Then he heard Liu Bu Zhen continue to say: "Now it's all gone... This place was previously discovered by a tourism company, and when they were renovating it into a tourist attraction, they found the things inside. I remember there were twelve boxes of gold, and over 500 boxes of silver dollars. The tourism company spent three nights secretly transporting those things away, afraid that news would leak out and local people would come to settle accounts. They deliberately made the scenic spot go bankrupt."

  When he heard that the gold and silver were all gone, Sun Baozi turned his head back with a lack of enthusiasm, looked at Liu Bu Zhen and said: "Old Liu, you didn't even move your heart with so much money? Not to mention me, but shouldn't you think of a way to take out one or two boxes of gold?"

  Liu Bu Zhen looked at Sun Wu Zi's faint smile and said, "I kept all twelve boxes of gold. The people from the travel company didn't even know how the gold was lost in the end, but they got more than 500 boxes of silver dollars for free, which is also a considerable fortune when sold. They didn't dare to investigate further, so they could only swallow their losses."

  Liu Bu smiled strangely and continued to look at Sun Bao, saying: "Xuan Hu is a small place, I simply can't find a way to spend money. Those twelve boxes of gold are basically untouched by me, one box is 400 catties, twelve boxes are 4800 catties."

  At this point, Liu Bu paused for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice was extremely low, whispering in Sun Bao's ear: "I'll use these 4,880 catties of gold to buy my way out, how about it? That's twice the weight of gold, you can divide it among yourselves, and it will last for generations..."

  Before Liu Bu could finish speaking, Sun Baozi interrupted and said: "Alright! It's settled then. You give me the gold, and you can go wherever you want. But let's get one thing straight, it's better if we don't see you again after you leave this time. If we do meet again next time, that'll be a whole different story."

  Liu Bu Zhen did not expect Sun Bao Zi to agree so easily, he looked at Sun Bao Zi with some disbelief and said: "You... agreed? What about them?" Liu Bu Zhen glanced at the other investigators, these people usually got along well with Sun Bao Zi, let alone Xi Men Lian and a few others. They all understood Sun Bao Zi's thoughts, so they either looked up at the sky or stared at the ground in silence, tacitly approving of Sun Bao Zi's words.

  Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly that Liu Bu's breathing started to quicken. However, there was one person who couldn't be avoided, staring at him coldly. After exchanging a glance with Yang Xiao, Liu Bu took a deep breath and said: "All we need is you..."

  Yang Xiao heard that and turned his head back to look at Sun Bi Zi, saying: "I want half of the gold, you can divide the rest among yourselves."

  "Wait, what do you mean by half? How can it just be half? I'm not saying this because of me, but there's one of you and over a dozen of us. Can't we work out the math somehow? Old Yang, if you're going to calculate it like that, then it's no fun!"

  Saying that, Sun Baozi turned his face to look at Liu Bu Zhen and said: "Old Liu, this matter is off. You also saw it, once fifty percent was gone. The drop is too big, brothers I have no way to explain"

  Just as Bajie finished speaking, he heard Xiong Wanyi say from behind: "Four thousand eight hundred catties of gold, after dividing half, there are still two thousand four hundred catties left. Sun Dasheng, we ten or so people can divide it roughly..."

  "Big deal!" Sun Pengzi cursed, pointing at Xiong Wanyi and scolding: "Are you satisfied with just 200 catties? Can't you have some higher pursuit? We took such a big risk to let him go, is it worth it for just 200 catties? Xiong, shut up when you shouldn't be talking! Haven't you ever seen people who talk nonsense get punished?" Xiong Wanyi was scolded by Sun Pengzi and didn't dare to retort, finally he could only close his mouth and sulk in the back.

  After teaching Xiong Wan Yi a lesson, Sun Baozi looked at Liu Bu Zhen and said: "Old Liu, I'm not saying it's not worth it, but with just this little bit of gold, it's not worth us brothers taking such a big risk. But don't say we won't give you a way out, now there are two roads to choose from. One is that we take you back to the Civil Affairs Bureau and let Old Gao deal with you, and whether you live or die will depend on his word. Two is that you come up with some more money, not too much, just another 300-500 million would be enough. We can't just let us brothers take risks for nothing, right?"

  The dawn is right in front of him, how can Liu Butian not use all his strength to grab it? However, he really doesn't have any money left. Liu Butian was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and after thinking for half a day, he finally said: "Apart from those gold bars, I really don't have anything else. Why don't we do this, sell my house and the hot pot restaurant, and we can still scrape together one or two million. Apart from this, I really don't have anything else." The last few sentences Liu Butian basically spoke with a sobbing tone. Originally, he had several more chances to get rich, but at that time, he already had over 20 boxes of gold, so how could he still care about that little money? Now his intestines are all green with regret.

  Seeing that Liu Bu was no longer squeezable, Sun Baozi turned to Yang Xiao again: "At most one-fifth... forget it, considering you saved me before, I'll give you four-fifths. That's the final price! Three-fifths, or else I'll hand over Old Liu!"

  Yang Xiao blushed and smiled at Sun Baozi, but his words were not shy at all: "You're too fast, Hua Shuo! At first, I thought of agreeing when it was a quarter, but then you opened up three more. When my wife grows up, I'll let her thank you personally."

  At this time, the few people who went to explore the treasury also walked back. They had actually finished exploring long ago, but just as they were walking back, they heard Sun Baozi and Liu Butong haggling over a few thousand catties of gold. The few people from Wushi didn't dare to interrupt their conversation and only came out after the dust had settled.

  Wang Xiao Ran walked over and said to Sun Bao Zi, "There's nothing inside, what's left should be the curse in the underground shelter that Liu Bu Zhen mentioned. Sun Jue Chang, how much can we get each?"

  "Three-fifths of 4,800 catties of gold, excluding Yang Jiao, will be divided among us. You can calculate it yourself."

  Looking at the excited expressions of the investigators around him, Liu Bu sincerely smiled and said to Sun Bi: "Mr. Sun, can you let me relax a bit?"

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