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Chapter 304 The Secret of the Treasure

In Liang Jin's fiery eyes.

I saw that what was inside those big wooden boxes was actually - stones!
Pieces of stone filled the wooden box.

Those countless wooden boxes were filled with stones!
Without exception.

This made Liang Jin a little confused.

He originally thought that these boxes should be filled with gold, silver and jewelry.

Why is it a stone?
"Could it be... some kind of precious mineral?"

Liang Jin knew that there were some places in the Western Desert that were rich in jade.

Some raw jade stones look very similar to ordinary stones.

Immediately, Liang Jin looked at it carefully.

He looked at the stones inside and out.

And yet...it's still stone.

It is just a common, ordinary, worthless stone in the Gobi Desert!
Now, Liang Jin was really confused:

"The so-called treasure is just a pile of broken rocks?"

"If they were just broken stones, why were they packed in wooden boxes? Why did they need military escort? Why were they hidden in this abandoned mausoleum?"

This left Liang Jin extremely puzzled.

Is a pile of stones worth all the time and effort?
Not worth it at all!

Why did those people do this in the first place?
Is there any profit in this?

Liang Jin couldn't see any benefit in it.

"Could it be that the real treasure is not buried in this abandoned mausoleum, but in some other corner of the Hidden Wind Valley?"

"Let me take a closer look."

Immediately, Liang Jin looked in all directions again.

But when he looked around, there was no sign of treasure at all.

This allowed Liang Jin to be certain that within a five-mile radius of the Cangfeng Valley, there was absolutely nothing hidden except this pile of stones.

This is strange.

Liang Jin frowned.

He looked at the dense crowds of treasure hunters at the foot of the mountain and couldn't help but feel sad for them.

These people traveled a long way here in search of the legendary treasure, but they had no idea that what they were fighting for was actually a pair of broken stones.

"Let's not even mention ordinary warriors and small forces."

"And do the leaders of the three major forces know that the treasure is stone?"

Liang Jin began to think.

He quickly determined that the three major forces in the Western Desert probably didn't know that the treasure was a pile of stones, otherwise they wouldn't have rushed to Zangfeng Valley so actively and diligently.

If anyone isn't enthusiastic enough about the treasure...

Cangdu!

Liang Jin seemed to understand.

No wonder Cangdu didn't care much about the treasure from the beginning.

Even after he heard the rumor of the treasure coming out of the world, he still traveled at a leisurely pace, and didn't even mind arriving at Cangfeng Valley last.

He must know the inside story!
It seems that the head of this investigation agency is not here for the treasure.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the dozen or so people under his command to carry the treasure back.

So what is his real purpose?
Cang Du never said it explicitly.

When he first met Liang Jin, he said that he was trying to find something lost in the palace.

Later he said that the purpose of his trip was to bring back the Western Desert Military Deployment Map that was stolen from the palace and to investigate the reasons behind it.

He certainly didn't say he came for the treasure.

But Liang Jin also believed that this kind of spy was good at mixing truth and lies, making it difficult to distinguish.

"Whatever their purpose is."

"Since I'm here, I can't go back empty-handed."

Liang Jin looked at the treasure hunters in the valley again.

To be precise, he saw human heads one by one.

This time, he must kill enough people.

Moreover, we must take over Quicksand City!

This is his purpose!
"Oh, they're fighting again."

"Will this continue from day to night?"

"It's human nature to be aggressive."

Liang Jin saw people fighting inside and outside Zangfeng Valley.

Among them, there were some forces that Liang Jin was not aware of, and people from the three major forces were also fighting.

When a lot of people gather together with nothing to do, conflicts are inevitable.

Especially they are a group of martial artists.

Then they will resort to violence at any time.

However, Liang Jin took a look and found that the real masters were all sitting on the Diaoyutai.

Most of those who were fighting and killing were warriors below the fifth rank.

They are like chess pieces, sacrificing their lives for something meaningless.

There were many dead bodies piled up at the foot of the mountain in the west.

These corpses were the warriors who died in the fights these days, or the bodies of the laborers and slaves who were responsible for the digging work.

So much so that the place almost became a mass grave.

During the day, you can see large flocks of vultures gathering there, eating the corpses that are beginning to rot.

Liang Jin sighed helplessly:
"How can I be absent from the fight?"

"Rather than dying in vain at the hands of others, it's better to die at my hands and gain some progress on my quest."

Liang Jin stood up and was about to join the fight.

But at this moment, his gaze moved slightly again.

Faintly, he saw someone in the distance.

That was the direction Liang came in.

When Liang Jin zoomed in, he actually saw three riders being chased.

And these three riders were actually Liang Jin's acquaintances.

"Why are they here now?"

These three people were none other than the Shali people who had once approached Liang Jin to buy information.

There were originally four people in this group of Shali people.

When Liang Jin was in Liusha City, he saw four people purchasing supplies.

At that time, Liang Jin thought that these four people should have arrived at Zangfeng Valley long ago, but he didn't expect that they would fall behind Liang Jin.

But now, only Aina and two other men named Hagang and Chiguili are left, and a man named Aslan has disappeared.

At this time, the three Shali people were injured and looked in a miserable state.

They were fleeing desperately on horseback.

Behind them, there were more than a dozen horses chasing them frantically.

"Who are these people chasing them?" Liang Jin saw that although the pursuers were wearing common civilian clothes in the Western Desert, their appearance and temperament were very different from those of the Western Desert people.

Most of the local people in the Western Desert have deep eye sockets, high nose bridges, thin lips and tall stature.

The pursuers were short and stocky, with large, round heads, broad faces and high cheekbones, flat noses and thick lips. They had thick mustaches on their upper lips and only a small tuft of hard beard under their chins.

Their facial features are not like those of the Western Desert people, nor those of the Shali people, nor those of the Daqian people.

It's more like...

People from the Black Dragon Dynasty!

Liang Jin couldn't help but feel moved.

He suddenly remembered that Cangdu had said that the real enemy he was going to face this time was a prince of the Black Dragon Dynasty - King Tuxie.

The attack that Cangdu and his party encountered when they first entered the Western Desert was carried out by a peak fourth-grade warrior under King Tuxie.

Among this group of pursuers, the strongest one is indeed a peak-level fourth-grade warrior!
This fourth-rank subversive warrior rode on horseback, looking at the three Shali people fleeing in front of him with a playful expression.

He could have easily hunted down these three.

But he acted with the ease of someone who was playing with his prey, as if he wanted to enjoy the pleasure of torturing his prey before killing it.

It feels like being on safari!
Liang Jin touched his chin:
"What's going on?"

"A treasure not only attracted the three major forces of the Western Desert."

"It even attracted foreigners like the Shali Kingdom and the Black Dragon Dynasty."

"It seems that we might be able to get some information from these Shali people."

"After all, I can't just watch my old client being hunted down, right?"

After Liang Jin thought for a while, he flew down from the top of the mountain.

He returned to the camp, mounted a fast horse and headed towards the distant battlefield.

……

at this time.

In this chase in the Gobi Desert.

Aina, Hagang and Chiguili were riding their horses at full speed.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Arrows kept coming from behind.

Every time this happened, Chi Guili would wave his beast-patterned steel arm shield to block all the feather arrows.

"Ayina, we can't escape if we keep going like this!"

"You go! Ha Gang and I will stay here to hold them off!"

Chi Guili couldn't help but shout anxiously.

Ha Gang also nodded in response, and it was obvious that he had the same plan.

Aina looked back.

Her pretty wheat-colored face was filled with anxiety and ferocity.

She drew out the two scimitars from behind her waist and said angrily:
"There is no escape!"

"These Black Dragon Dynasty people are playing tricks on us. We might as well fight them!"

Her eyes stared angrily at the sinister man among the pursuers behind her.

It was only the powerful aura emanating from this person that made her feel overwhelmed.

Upon hearing this, Ha Gang hurriedly advised:

"But if you die, how will we explain to your father?"

Ayi Na turned her head and said angrily:

"Are you cowards?"

"You two aren't even afraid of death, so are you afraid of facing my father?"

The word "coward" is a very insulting word in Shali.

Ha Gang and Chi Guili also felt humiliated when they heard this.

For the sake of dignity, they immediately replied:
"Why don't you dare?"

"If we want to die, let's die together!"

The three men stopped running desperately and quickly slowed down, then turned their horses' heads towards the pursuers behind them.

soon.

A dozen pursuers rode up on horseback and surrounded the three men.

These pursuers had extraordinary auras and were obviously warriors.

Among them were two fifth-rank warriors.

The man in the lead with a sinister face was actually a fourth-rank warrior!
His skin was pale, as if shrouded in the gloom of years without sunlight, devoid of any color. His eyebrows, like twisted black lines, slanted into his temples, their tips slightly raised, revealing an indescribable sinisterness.

"Ayina, why don't you run away?"

"Just keep running."

He pointed at Ayi Na and said jokingly:

The fingers on his hands were long and dry, like chicken claws.

Especially the nails are trimmed to extremely sharp points, with a cold metallic luster, as if a slight stroke can cut through human flesh and leave a fatal mark.

Ayi Na said coldly:

"Hu Yandi, if I die, my father will never let you go!"

The man called Hu Yandi snorted disdainfully upon hearing this.

His purple lips also showed a lewd smile:
"Ayi Na, my beauty, how could I bear to let you die?"

"We in the Black Dragon Dynasty have the custom of kidnapping brides."

"So I'm going to take you back as my bride."

"As long as we two get married, your father and my father can work together to achieve great things!"

The Black Dragon Dynasty's marriage system consists of two types: marriage by kidnapping and marriage by betrothal.

The marriage engagement system was learned from the Daqian Dynasty. Before a young man and woman get engaged, the man has to propose to the woman. If the woman's family agrees, the engagement can be completed.

Bride kidnapping is a traditional custom of the Black Dragon Dynasty and is much more barbaric.

Simply put, bride kidnapping means that if a man falls in love with an unmarried woman, he will bring people to kidnap the woman and take her home to get married.

Once a marriage is successfully kidnapped, it is protected by law and morality.

Both sets of parents will also accept this result.

When Ayi Na heard this, she said with disdain:
"Hu Yandi, you are such a disgusting bastard."

"I'm going to cut off your dick and feed it to my dog!"

When Hu Yandi heard this, his already sinister face became even gloomier.

He was too lazy to continue talking nonsense, so he raised his hand and said to his men:
"Go and deal with those two men."

"I tamed this fierce horse, Ayi Na, myself!"

A group of men immediately rode their horses and rushed towards Ha Gang and Chi Guili.

Ha Gang and Chi Guili roared wildly, trying to protect Aina.

Hu Yandi stared at Aina with lustful eyes.

He raised his index finger and grinned:
"My beauty, do you believe it?"

"I can tame you with just one finger."