Chapter 431: There's Gold Underground

The sky is vast and blue, the wilderness boundless; the wind blows the grass low, revealing cattle and sheep.

Lin Feng sat on a hillock, a blade of grass between his teeth, gazing out at the endless prairie.

At the foot of the hill stood a dozen or so yurts, with sprawling herds of cattle and sheep.

It was already evening; the sun was about to set.

Some herdsmen rode horses, cracking long whips, driving the cattle and sheep into a circular enclosure.

By late October, the cattle and sheep had grazed all summer on fresh grass, grown fat and strong, ready for winter.

At night, bonfires sprang up one after another.

By the fire, herdsmen were roasting whole lamb on a grill.

Some tourists and herdsmen gathered around the fire and began to dance.

The scene was filled with a lively atmosphere.

An Qi brought a plate of roasted mutton to the hillock and handed it to Lin Feng.

"Why are you sitting here?"

An Qi asked casually.

Then she sat down beside Lin Feng.

Lin Feng shook his head. "I don't like crowds."

It's true he dislikes crowds; above all, Lin Feng dislikes places with many people.

His sense of smell is too keen; when people press together, the mix of odors is truly unbearable to him.

An Qi said nothing more, cupping her cheeks, staring blankly at the scene below the hill a hundred meters away.

Suddenly the wind picked up.

Then a low thunder rumbled from the sky.

It's going to thunder and rain!?

Now the weather is turning cold; this should be a rare sight on the grassland!

Lin Feng immediately rose, and he and An Qi returned to the tent.

Dozens of vehicles were parked nearby.

Not only Lin Feng's group, but other tourists as well, numbering over a hundred.

The other tourists stayed in yurts, while Lin Feng and his companions had been living in their own tents all along.

The tents had been set up long ago.

More than ten tents were spaced about twenty meters apart.

Lin Feng's tent was the farthest away, more than meters from the others.

There's nothing to be done; his hearing is too sharp.

When he's close, his ears always pick up strange noises.

Xu Jing and his gang were worn out from playing by day, but full of energy at night.

Having anticipated this, Lin Feng had also prepared earplugs.

"Boom~"

"Hiss~"

The thunder outside the tent was loud.

Even with earplugs, Lin Feng could hear the rumbling thunder.

The key point is that it's only thunder and wind, no rain.

The clouds in the sky lowered, a flash of lightning, and outside became a bright world.

Lin Feng unzipped the tent door and curiously looked outside.

Each flash of lightning made Lin Feng feel the immense power of nature.

After a while, Lin Feng closed the tent, placed his hands behind his head, and shut his eyes.

The thunder and lightning seemed to draw nearer, the ground trembling slightly from the booms.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in from outside.

Lin Feng opened his eyes and looked.

In a flash of lightning, he saw An Qi.

After entering the tent, An Qi lifted the covers and slipped into Lin Feng's embrace.

"I'm afraid of thunder!"

An Qi spoke with a terrified expression.

Lin Feng didn't know whether An Qi was genuinely afraid of thunder or just using it as an excuse to come over.

Over the past nearly twenty days, they were just one step away from this.

"Fragrant..."

Lin Feng said with a smile.

An Qi said: "I just took a shower when a clap of thunder scared me…… Are you afraid of thunder?"

Lin Feng replied calmly: "I'm not afraid of thunder, but I'm afraid of being struck by lightning."

"Won't lightning strike the tent?"

An Qi wrapped her arms around Lin Feng's neck, looking tense.

Lin Feng smiled: "Don't worry! The tent's top is metal, directly connected to the ground, forming a lightning rod."

An Qi said: "It's already late October, and yet there's thunder here—how strange!"

Lin Feng chuckled: "Maybe someone nearby did something heinous, and the Thunder God and Lightning Mother are coming to catch him! Or..."

"Or what?" An Qi asked.

Lin Feng's mouth curled up, "Or maybe there's a female demon that specializes in sucking men's yang energy! An Qi, you say it's you?"

An Qi widened her eyes, "Great! You actually called me a female demon! I'm gonna bite you!"

After saying that, she really opened her mouth wide and bit Lin Feng.

As it turned out, this woman was just like Qi Yao.

Lin Feng felt that this month he had been offending a tiger.

Boom~

Another clap of thunder.

Lin Feng hurriedly pushed An Qi away..

Now she knew An Qi was truly afraid of thunder.

Because her teeth would sometimes go out of control when the thunder sounded.

Lin Feng wryly said, "If you're scared, you can do something else to distract yourself."

"Aren't you already distracting yourself?"

"But you can't do it like this paper!"

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then said, "Do you remember that article I had you read when we just left Yanjingcheng?"

An Qi's face flushed, and she nodded slightly.

Lin Feng gave a hehe laugh, "Want to learn again?"

An Qi's mouth curled up, "This requires cultivating the mood, you know!"

Several minutes later.

An Qi was practicing voice acting.

Boom~

A clap of thunder.

Lin Feng suddenly frowned, then covered An Qi's mouth with one hand, "Wait!"

An Qi looked at Lin Feng, puzzled.

Lin Feng turned over and pressed his ear to the ground.

A few minutes later.

Boom~

Another clap of thunder.

This time Lin Feng heard it clearly.

From underground came a series of echoes.

Lin Feng closed his eyes, judging the underground space's direction, size, and shape from the echoes...

Several minutes later, through the echoes triggered by the thunder, Lin Feng constructed a three-dimensional stereoscopic image in his mind.

The last time, when digging up gold buried by the little Japanese in Myanmar, a master named Wei Wu had demonstrated this skill.

But compared to Lin Feng's hearing, Wei Wu was far inferior.

Afterward, whenever he thought of this, Lin Feng would train himself, using his hearing to judge the size, position, etc., of various spaces.

Over this year, with occasional training, Lin Feng has accumulated a great deal of experience.

Boom~

Another clap of thunder sounded.

Lin Feng heard the sound of metal objects colliding.

It wasn't ordinary metal, but gold!

At a depth of over three hundred meters underground, there was an irregularly shaped subterranean space, several hundred meters long and tens of meters wide.

Inside lay a huge amount of gold!

"What's wrong?"

An Qi finally couldn't help but ask.

Lin Feng let out a breath and lightly said, "I heard a strange sound coming from underground."

An Qi gave a faint smile, "You're just looking for an excuse to distract yourself."

Lin Feng: "Um..."