Chapter 562: A word awakens the dreamer

The reason Wang An was stunned while looking at the lake surface was that he suddenly realized something.

That thing was that everyone in the crater seemed to have automatically forgotten about this small lake filled with bright red blood-water.

Associating this with the explosion points of those landmines, Wang An subconsciously looked toward the places where no landmines had exploded.

After looking at these places, Wang An turned his head again to look at the explosion points filled with corpses, minced meat, and blood.

Immediately after, Wang An looked at the blood-filled lake surface, and then Wang An let out a "ga-ga-ga-ga-ga" laugh.

Wang An's laughter sounded like a drake calling, only the frequency of the "ga-ga" was slightly faster.

Finally, Wang An perhaps felt that laughing like this wasn't satisfying enough and upgraded it to a "ha-ha-ha-ha..." loud laugh.

To be honest, the environment was originally very quiet and oppressive, combined with the corpses and minced meat everywhere and the bright red lake water, yet suddenly they heard Wang An's very eerie laughter.

This led to everyone's eyes going straight the moment they heard Wang An's laughter!

It was mainly because in this situation, it was hard not to think of some eerie things.

For example, "evil spirits possessing the body," "wronged souls attaching themselves," or "undead seizing the body"... in short, everyone thought that Wang An was no longer Wang An; the real Wang An had already gone to see the Buddha! So, when Wang An wanted to tell everyone about his latest discovery, he found that everyone was looking at him.

The key was that everyone's eyes were very strange, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Wang An touched his face in confusion, looked left and right, and then subconsciously asked:

"What are you all doing? What kind of look is that? What did you see?"

It had to be said that Wang An was also good at asking, actually asking the four words "what did you see."

This made everyone's eyes widen even more the moment they looked at Wang An.

And the reason everyone was like this was because in the local area, phrases like "what's wrong," "what did you see," "is a spirit descending," or "is a maidservant being summoned" were all linked to eerie events, or rather, supernatural events.

Simply put, it meant those mysterious "gods, ghosts, demons, immortals, and monsters" had arrived.

So, when Wang An said these words, Mu Xueli said a bit stutteringly: "Brother-in-law, you... you just now, did you... get possessed? Are you sleepy now?"

The three words "get possessed" were a special local adjective, meaning one had been possessed by ghosts, gods, demons, immortals, or "unclean things."

It was somewhat similar to "being evil-possessed," but hadn't reached the severity of "being evil-possessed."

Interpreted in a scientific sense, it generally referred to mental aspects producing abnormalities due to various reasons, where one couldn't control oneself; all could be called "being possessed."

And the reason Mu Xueli asked Wang An if he was "sleepy" was because after a person was "possessed," their spirit would become very weak, and naturally, they would feel very sleepy.

When Wang An heard this, combined with everyone's eerie little glances, he was immediately furious.

So that was why everyone was looking at him like that; they thought he was finished.

Unfortunately, many things in this world were like this: when one or two people thought you had a problem, you could still argue, or make the people who thought you had a problem have a problem themselves.

But when everyone thought you had a problem, even if you clearly didn't, you still had a problem.

So at this time, one must never argue or explain anything, because the more you said, the more everyone would think you were more seriously ill.

And the correct approach was to divert everyone's attention; simply put, it was "changing the subject"! But it was worth noting that this "changing the subject" couldn't be done blindly; it had to have absolutely nothing to do with what everyone was thinking. Thus, Wang An just glared at Mu Xueli, neither taking Mu Xueli's bait nor ignoring everyone's eerie little glances.

Instead, he continued to say with a smile:

"Damn it, I finally know where they hid the gold. These grandsons are actually quite capable of thinking!"

After a pause, Wang An continued: "But we can't take it now; we have to wait a while. By the way, take off the grenades on your bodies."

Sure enough, Wang An's approach was correct, because as soon as Wang An's words came out, everyone's eyes looking at Wang An returned to normal.

Because Wang An's words were directly telling everyone why he had laughed so happily, so joyfully, and so... like an idiot.

Upon hearing Wang An's words, everyone was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Shuya immediately asked with a look of surprise:

"Xiao An, tell us quickly, where is it?"

Wang An looked at everyone with a smile and pointed to the small lake:

"Right in this water puddle."

Upon hearing this, everyone subconsciously looked at the small lake. After a moment of confused silence, their eyes one by one brightened up.

Very clearly, everyone had also figured out what was going on.

Wang An's words could be considered to have truly achieved what was called "a word awakens the dreamer."

Many problems were like this; when you were struggling to find an answer and couldn't figure it out, perhaps all it took was one sentence, one word, or even seeing some related object, and you would have a sudden flash of inspiration and think of the answer directly.

In this crater, everyone had searched everywhere they could, but they had uniquely missed this small lake.

And the explosion points of those landmines before were all on the shore, so very clearly, the purpose of these landmines was to protect this small lake.

Of course, saying it was to protect the small lake wasn't accurate; accurately speaking, the existence of these landmines should be to prevent people from getting close.

So why did this ore-stealing gang want to prevent people from getting close to the small lake?

Without a doubt, there were two answers.

The first was to prevent laborers from escaping from the lake after diving into it.

However, this answer wasn't very accurate, because this small lake wasn't deep, and wanting to swim away from the water without anyone knowing wasn't realistic.

The second was that there were important things in this small lake, and they didn't want people entering the lake for fear that the things inside would be taken away.

Thinking back to the poverty-stricken appearance of those gang members, each one guarding a gold mine yet having only that tiny bit of gold in their pockets, this was a very strange thing.

Based on these, it wasn't hard to guess that the gold harvested by the people of this ore-stealing gang had been hidden by them in this small lake.

One had to admit that the person who thought of this method to hide gold was definitely a master.

And having figured this out, it could explain why so many detonators and dynamite were piled up there so brazenly.

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