Mountain Looting: Targeted by a Leopard at the Start-Chapter 69 - The Real Treasure in the River

Chapter 69: Chapter 69 The Real Treasure in the River!

Chapter 69 -69 The Real Treasure in the River!

Xu Yang zoomed out the drone’s camera.

He went to the location pinpointed by the Treasure Compass to check.

The item was relatively lower, and he needed to remove the pebbles to find it.

Xu Yang started to feel around beneath the stones.

He shoveled the stones away one by one.

The top layer was made up of clean pebbles piled up together, without much dirt, making them easy to move aside.

Further down, he could feel the riverbed’s silt.

Before long, he found the treasure located by the Treasure Compass.

When he took it out to look, he was immediately surprised.

It was an irregular gold grain the size of a fingernail.

“Damn, gold!”

Xu Yang exclaimed in shock internally.

Changbai Mountain is rich in products, not only in terms of animal and plant resources, water resources, but also in mineral resources.

For instance, the renowned Changbai Jade is one type of precious mineral resource from Changbai Mountain.

In addition, there’s gold.

Changbai Mountain does have Gold Seekers, who find a river, continuously scoop up the river’s silt with baskets, then rapidly shake it to clean all the mud off, and look for gold grains in the basket.

The gold grains are tiny bits that, when accumulated in large amounts, can also lead to earnings.

This work is tough and can be seen as a form of Mountain Rushing, but it should be done by professionals.

Moreover, one must know which rivers contain gold.

“I remember the gold was at Pijia Gully, where many people came during the Chuang Guandong era.”

“It’s also the Old Gold Creek where Zhu Kaishan once plied his trade.”

Xu Yang was reminded of a bygone era.

In those days, Northeast was the most prosperous place in the country.

Its rich products attracted many people.

The local Warlords could be considered big shots of their domains.

There were Gold Seekers here at that time.

However, in this era, finding gold in the river is extremely challenging.

Any real gold mines would have long been controlled by the government, which wouldn’t allow individuals to excavate.

Only gold panning in the river, a low-yield activity, has not been prohibited.

Xu Yang secretly pocketed the gold grain.

He did not reveal it on the live stream.

He certainly didn’t want the river swarming with people tomorrow, all of them there to pan for gold.

Not to mention the crowd would pollute and damage the environment; he also couldn’t disclose the location of such a treasure.

“There’s actually gold in this river!”

“Although not much, they are gold grains.”

“But if I came to pan for gold with a basket, I could also make some money.”

Xu Yang thought to himself.

For a moment, he even forgot about catching big-headed shrimp.

Considering he was still live streaming, Xu Yang turned the drone’s camera back.

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He took out a bag, zoomed the camera in, and started looking in the river.

Sometimes, when he turned over a stone, two big-headed shrimp would flit out swiftly.

Unfortunately for them, they encountered the top predator—the Horror upright ape—and their fate was sealed today.

[It really is a Mole cricket, haven’t seen one in a long time, they’re not cheap!]

[Bred ones are very expensive!]

[Indeed, they go for five hundred yuan a pound, and there’s not much meat!]

[Better to eat crayfish, crayfish are cheaper!]

Netizens in the live stream discussed amongst themselves.

Xu Yang was in high spirits.

He had found a piece of gold today!

Although it was just a small piece, roughly 20 grams in weight, it was valued between 8000 to 10,000 yuan.

After all, it was found gold.

And where there’s one piece, it indicates there could be many more.

There is no Changbai Jade in this river.

Buried under the stones and the muck are scattered gold grains.

The audience saw Xu Yang very happy, assuming he was delighted with the Mole crickets.

In reality, Xu Yang was happy about something else.

He wouldn’t disclose the matter of the gold, and even if panning for gold, he would definitely come alone.

A lone Gold Seeker in the deep mountains and dense forests.

Just thinking of this title had a carefree feel to it.

“There really are a lot of Mole crickets.”

“Good timing, I was planning to go to the mountain goods market this afternoon.”

“I’ll sell some then.”

“Today’s earnings should be around one to two thousand yuan.”

Xu Yang squatted in the river water, flipping over stones and quickly catching the big-headed shrimp into his bag.

Two Leopards lay on the bank, watching curiously.

They watched Xu Yang catch shrimp as if he were performing magic.

But Leopards never eat shrimp.

Xu Yang had seen a video of someone overseas with a domesticated Leopard; the owner put pork, beef, chicken legs, chicken wings, and raw shrimp in a plate.

The Leopard ignored the shrimp in disdain and ate everything else clean.

Otherwise, Xu Yang would also use shrimp to feed the two leopards.

It’s rare to see leopards eat fish.

This is somewhat different from other cats.

Perhaps it’s because leopards simply don’t like water.

Xu Yang searched along the riverbank and caught a full bag of mole crickets.

“It’s not easy to find so many mole crickets, you might not believe it, but these creatures are quite delicate—if someone washes clothes upstream, a large number of them could die downstream,”

“They really do die just like that.”

“The river water must be especially clear.”

“Many people are trying to farm mole crickets, but after so many years, no one has succeeded in farming large ones, they just sell them small…”

“The small ones go for over a hundred per jin, while the wild big mole crickets are five hundred per jin.”

“You can’t raise them in an artificial pond, and aquariums won’t work either.”

“It has to be this kind of natural and clear river water.”

Xu Yang explained to everyone.

There are many videos online of people catching mole crickets by going to the rivers in the mountains in the summer.

There’s almost no farming them.

But as long as the water flow is clean and the environment suitable, mole crickets reproduce quite quickly.

It’s all about picking the right place.

Seeing that he couldn’t find any large mole crickets, Xu Yang once again chose to use the Treasure Compass.

The compass scanned a radius of 3 kilometers with the river as the center.

The second treasure location was very close, about 200 meters away, upstream in the river.

The positioning was still in the river.

Xu Yang turned the drone camera to shoot footage of the leopards and then walked up the bank toward the upstream direction.

He arrived at the located spot and began probing downward.

Flipping over stones, his hand delved into the sand and mud, stirring it up; after stirring up the top layer of silt, he grabbed a handful of sand and mud.

He took it out, spread it in his palm, and gently brushed away with his other hand.

Before long, he brushed out another pea-sized grain of gold.

This river indeed had gold.

The Treasure Compass’s positioning pointed to the largest pieces; normal gold grains were about the size of sand, of high value when accumulated.

Xu Yang put the gold in his pocket.

Gold truly gave a great feeling.

Even though it was only worth a few thousands of dollars, it felt more exciting than mountain ginseng worth ten thousand.

Xu Yang felt as if the river he was stepping in was becoming prosperous.

He mentally named this river “Golden River.”

From now on, it would be one of his spots.

People who often did Mountain Rushing, all have their own spots.

Xu Yang had his mushroom spot, fern spot, and pine mushroom spot.

Now, he had a new gold spot.

Changbai Mountain really was filled with treasures everywhere.

Having used the Treasure Compass three times, Xu Yang decided to use up the remaining two chances in one go.

The next moment, two treasure locations in the river were marked.

Xu Yang inconspicuously made his way over, probed around, and found two more gold nuggets of similar size.

There really was gold in the Golden River.

He could find some time to scoop some up.

He would use the method of sifting through sand, sifting out a little at a time.

However, this was quite a labor-intensive job, akin to earning a hard-earned salary.

Additionally, this place could be used as a spot to clear compass uses.

Sometimes Xu Yang was too busy to enter the mountains for five days straight, and leaving the compass uses unused was a waste. He could come here to quickly clear the uses.

Consider it a guaranteed treasure-hunting spot.

Seeing that he already had a basket full of golden mushrooms and a big bag of big-headed shrimp,

If he found anything else, he wouldn’t be able to take it with him.

Xu Yang decided to head back.

He went to the shore, put his shoes on, and patted the two leopards.

The female leopard still felt quite plump, her body was thick and warm; her diet seemed quite good.

And indeed, leopards here really didn’t lack for food.

“Let’s go, it’s time to head home,”

Xu Yang carried the basket on his back, took the bag, and started walking back.

The little leopard immediately followed with quick steps.

The female leopard also wobbled along behind him.

At that moment, the female leopard appeared relaxed and in high spirits.

Today was indeed a happy day.

No need to hunt to provide milk, no need to take care of the little one, and even got to take a leisurely walk.

Simply perfect.

Feline animals are especially restless when young; little kittens, tiger cubs, lion cubs, and leopard cubs are all like that.

That’s why in families that have cats, sometimes the mother cat will hand off her babies to the owners to look after them.

She can’t manage it alone at all.

Having someone else’s help can give the mother cat some relief.

The female leopard was thinking along the same lines.

Following Xu Yang, she too got to relax.