Chapter 568: A thrilling little interlude

Immediately after, Wang An answered for Feng Chengmin and the three including Mu Xueli:

"You're right, Brother Wu; it was us being pretentious. Alright, we'll wait here!"

Wu Dong, upon hearing this, said with a smile: "That's right; we're not outsiders."

As they spoke, Wu Dong and Wang Shuai walked toward the gold egg pile one after another.

However, the posture of these two walking was very strange; every step they took, they had to stand on one leg for a while before taking the next step, and then stand for a while before taking a step.

And Zhang Shuya and the four including He Qiang each held one or two military knives, standing at the edge of the landmine pile, not walking forward, just watching these two nervously.

Although these two walked very slowly, the distance of the group to the gold egg pile was only about 40 meters, so in less than two minutes, these two successfully arrived at the gold egg pile.

From the sweat on these two people's faces, one could tell how nervous they were in these less than two minutes.

But thinking about it, it was understandable; one had to know this was clearing landmines, and clearing landmines with one's own life.

Although these two had undergone professional training, just as Feng Chengmin said:

"You've been trained, so the landmine won't blow you up?"

So, not being afraid was absolutely impossible!

When these two arrived in front of the gold pile, they clearly relaxed a lot, and everyone shouted almost simultaneously: "Awesome!"

After these two heard everyone's shout, they turned back and smiled pretentiously, and started doing even more pretentious things.

And the even more pretentious thing was—throwing gold eggs! Only seeing these two each pick up a gold egg casually, and then shout loudly: "Everyone get out of the way."

After these two shouted, immediately with a standard throwing action, they threw the gold eggs in their hands toward everyone.

It had to be said that these two threw quite far; the gold eggs crossed the boundary of the landmine pile, which was the shore of the lake before, and flew another six or seven meters before landing.

Of course, this distance could only be said to be a normal distance, because in China, the highest record for throwing a discus was over 60 meters.

But in the world, the highest record for a discus was over 70 meters.

The reason for saying it was a discus, not a shot put, was because the weight of a shot put was over 14 jin, while the weight of a discus was only over 4 jin.

And the weight of a gold egg was about 5 jin, so an adult man throwing over 40 meters wasn't actually difficult.

Furthermore, these two were both retired, and before retiring, they must have undergone professional training in this area.

Immediately after, these two, as if competing, threw the gold eggs out one after another at a very fast speed.

Wang An, looking at the gold eggs not far away, pointed to a slope that was clear up and down and said to Mu Xueli and Wang Li: "You two go and lead the horses over from there; there are quite a few gold eggs, relying on us to carry them up might be tough, too tiring."

Upon hearing Wang An's words, Feng Chengmin said to Mu Xueli and Wang Li: "I'll go with you too; the tree gap is too narrow, it's a bit strenuous for you two to lead 10 horses."

Wang An immediately said to the three including Feng Chengmin:

"You guys pay attention to safety; I always feel this place isn't simple."

Upon hearing Wang An's words, Feng Chengmin nodded and said with a heart full of worries:

"Yeah, I also always feel a bit strange, and can't figure out what's going on."

Wang An subconsciously looked around, then frowned, turned around and said to Zhang Shuya:

"Big sister, take the trouble to go with old uncle-in-law and the others; don't lead the horses, just watch from far away; by the way, look at the top of your head from time to time; if it feels wrong, just shoot."

Zhang Shuya was stunned upon hearing this, and asked a bit confusedly:

"Look at the top of my head, what's on the top of my head?"

Wang An answered casually: "There's an eagle over there; I don't know if it's a local or raised by someone; just watch it, don't take it too seriously."

When the four including Zhang Shuya and Feng Chengmin heard this, they looked over following Wang An's line of sight, and then Zhang Shuya nodded:

"Yeah, I know, anything else?"

Wang An looked at that eagle again, shook his head and said:

"No, just pay attention."

After Wang An finished speaking, these four people walked out of the crater.

Not long after the four including Zhang Shuya and Feng Chengmin left, all the gold eggs were thrown out by Wu Dong and Wang Shuai.

It was just that in the middle of this, a thrilling little interlude happened.

That was when Wu Dong was throwing one of the gold eggs, he used too little force, which led to the gold egg weighing about 5 jin falling into the landmine area.

Everyone knew that landmines, when stepped on, wouldn't explode; if one could keep stepping on them without letting go, they might not explode at all.

But the landmine hit by this gold egg, for some reason, exploded just like that very abruptly.

One had to know that because gold has a very high density, even if a gold egg weighs 5 jin, its volume actually isn't large; one hand could completely grasp it.

Furthermore, the shape of the gold egg wasn't a regular circle, so when it hit the landmine area, which was the wet and soft ground where soil and stones were mixed together at the bottom of the lake before, the gold egg was directly embedded, not even moving at all.

However, the landmine exploded! This explosion was no small matter, almost scaring the 6 people present to death! It was mainly because after this landmine exploded, two more landmines exploded immediately after!

Fortunately, the 6 people present were all afraid of death, so they all lay on the ground regardless of anything.

The three including Wang An, He Liang, and Ma Guoqiang were still okay, because the place they lay was still relatively clean.

But the place where Wu Dong and Wang Shuai were was the center of the lake where there was still accumulated water, so these two lay directly in the water nest.

And Sun Nian, this great beauty, was relatively unlucky, actually lying on a piece of minced meat!

This piece of minced meat, as long as one observed it slightly, could tell it was a person's heart, and a very complete and flawless heart.

It had to be said that a person's heart is actually truly quite sturdy; perhaps this is the origin of the term "heart of stone."

When everyone lay for a long time and didn't hear any more landmine explosion sounds, they stood up one after another.

Only hearing Wang Shuai in the distance shouting loudly to Wu Dong in a fit of anger: "Damn, what the hell can you do? This damn thing is completely chilled to the heart; is it uncomfortable?"

Due to the long distance, Wang An and the four didn't hear exactly what Wu Dong said.

Until Wu Dong and Wang Shuai returned to Wang An and the others, Wu Dong was still occasionally enduring Wang Shuai's nagging.

The temperature in this season wasn't very high, only over 10 degrees above zero, and fearing that these two would get a fever or cold because they were all wet, Wang An lit a pile of charcoal fire for these two in a mine tunnel, and let these two roast by the fire in this mine tunnel.

One had to know that in this deep mountain and old forest, if the body had any problems, it would be very troublesome.

Just as Wang An and the 4 were counting the number of gold eggs while putting the gold eggs into hemp bags, the four including Feng Chengmin and Zhang Shuya returned leading the horses.

But from the heavy expressions on the faces of these four, it wasn't hard to see that they had run into some bad things.

And what Zhang Shuya said next also confirmed the guess of Wang An and the four.

Only hearing Zhang Shuya say: "Xiao An, that eagle you mentioned before isn't a local; it's raised by someone."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 569 =====