Chapter 563: The source of happiness

One could imagine that regardless of the reason, as long as the detonators and dynamite were detonated, there would definitely be no human life left in the entire crater!

And with everyone dead, there would basically be no one left who knew there was gold in the small lake.

Even if one or two people who knew the situation remained, it was actually of no consequence.

Because people are greedy; a secret like there being gold in such a lake would be kept as tightly as possible, so they would try their best to find a way to claim all this gold for themselves.

So those detonators and dynamite were just placed there casually; a small part was for convenience of use at any time, but the most important purpose was to silence witnesses.

Of course, even if the secret of the gold was discovered by others, there were still landmines guarding it.

Although, if things went as expected, there should be a safe path to take the gold from the lake, but the people who knew this path were definitely that tiny handful of people.

So, knowing the secret of the gold was useless; for example, those poor ghosts guarding the laborers definitely knew there was gold in the lake, but knowing it, they could only watch.

Because landmines, once buried in the ground, were truly not a simple thing to completely clear.

Furthermore, these poor ghosts were very likely checking and balancing each other, and whether there was another group of people balancing things among the laborers was also uncertain.

In summary, one could know how awesome the person who designed hiding the gold in the lake was; they were simply a genius.

Unfortunately, they ran into someone like Wang An who didn't play by the rules, and most importantly, Wang An and the others had a large number of grenades! So, the purpose of Wang An wanting everyone to prepare the grenades was because Wang An wanted to use brute force to overcome everything, using grenades to detonate the landmines, thereby forcefully removing all the hidden dangers of the landmines.

The ultimate goal was to take all the gold away.

Seeing that everyone had figured it out, they started looking around, searching for suitable locations to throw the grenades.

Grenades, although theoretically having an effective kill radius of 6 meters, would still hurt people even at a distance of 20 meters due to the flying shrapnel.

So the throwing point for these grenades became a very critical place; they couldn't blow themselves up while throwing grenades!

Just before everyone found a position, Wang An continued: "Let's wait a while before throwing the grenades. We must first find a way to drain the water in this lake; otherwise, just relying on feeling around, who knows when we'll find it."

Upon hearing this, everyone felt that what Wang An said made sense, so they turned their eyes to the lake's outlet.

After a simple observation, everyone picked up the shovels and pickaxes previously used by the laborers and walked toward the direction of the small lake's outlet.

Because they were afraid of the existence of landmines, a few grenades flew over first.

It had to be said that the only thing that could defeat landmines was perhaps grenades.

Just as the explosion sounds of a few grenades rang out, the sounds of two landmine explosions followed.

A few more grenades were thrown over, but only one landmine was detonated.

It could be seen that although there were landmines at the outlet, the quantity wasn't large.

After clearing the landmines, the group followed the places where the grenades and landmines had exploded, walking around to the outlet.

The reason for this was that only places that had been bombed had the greatest certainty that there would be no more landmines.

Soon, everyone started digging on the left and right of the outlet. Although there was strength in numbers and the digging speed was fast, Wang An still felt the water drainage speed was a bit slow, so after pondering, he said to everyone: "Let's not dig like this; it's too slow. Everyone just dig a narrow pit one and a half shovel-lengths deep; the distance between pits shouldn't exceed one meter. After a while, we'll just throw grenades into the pits; that'll be much easier."

It had to be said that the method Wang An thought of was truly quite good.

After all, the power of a grenade was limited; if a grenade were allowed to explode on the ground, the damage to the ground would be truly limited.

Even if it could blow out a pit, the pit wouldn't be very large.

But if a grenade exploded in a deep pit, and most importantly, in a very narrow pit, the effect would be completely different, not at all inferior to drilling holes in ore and burying detonators and dynamite when mining.

Furthermore, the distance between the pits was very close, so as long as they bombed pit by pit, this geographical location would soon become a large deep trench.

After Wang An finished speaking, everyone figured out the key point, and praises for Wang An followed.

Zhang Shuya was heard praising:

"Not bad, little brother; this method is good. Big sister will give you credit, ha-ha-ha."

Wang An smiled modestly upon hearing this and didn't take Zhang Shuya's bait.

Wang Shuai immediately laughed and said: "Not bad, Xiao An, worthy of being my brother from another mother; this brain is truly useful, much stronger than me, the big brother, ha-ha-ha..."

Wu Dong also laughed: "Can't say otherwise, Xiao An is too excellent as the Gold Gang leader; he can think ahead of everything."

At this time, Feng Chengmin had basically recovered; although he didn't speak, he looked at Wang An and nodded with satisfaction.

Very clearly, Feng Chengmin highly approved of Wang An, his niece's husband.

He Liang and Ma Guoqiang also echoed:

"Xiao An is capable, very capable."

Mu Xueli and Wang Li didn't have much reaction, mainly because in their eyes, Wang An was omnipotent, so no matter what high-end things Wang An did, it was normal.

Only Sun Nian looked at everyone and Wang An with a smile, not knowing what she was thinking.

After hearing everyone's words, Wang An said very modestly but actually very smugly: "That's a must; just stay with me, and all you have to do is get rich."

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha"

Just as Wang An finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

Fortunately, what Wang An said was the truth, so no one said a word of rebuttal.

After laughing, everyone started discussing again, and the topics they talked about were all related to the gold that hadn't appeared in the lake yet.

Just like that, the oppressive atmosphere from before completely disappeared amidst everyone's chatter and laughter.

It could be seen that at this time, everyone's minds were filled with gold; as for the blood-water in the lake and the minced meat washed over, they were directly ignored.

It had to be said that gold was the true source of all happiness; as long as the gold was in place, all negative emotions would cease to exist! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 564 =====