Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 79 - 74 Ling Snake_2
Chapter 79: Chapter 74 Ling Snake_2
Chapter 79 -74 Ling Snake_2
The people from the Joint Security Bureau stared at the snakeskin, while the police focused on those gold bars.
The package left clues; fingerprints and DNA were extracted and compared to the database, quickly locking onto the target.
Feng Yi moved little in the two days he stayed there, mostly lying down. Other team members, like Wang Wentao, were busy organizing records or starting to write papers, while Feng Yi slept beside them.
Steve told him about the progress of the case investigation.
“The package was left by a pair of brothers with the surname Tian. However, the gold bars belonged to their grandfather.
“Their grandfather was involved in a gold theft case more than thirty years ago. I don’t know the specifics, only that the old man took the gold bars back to his hometown, but before he could sell them off, the whole village had to relocate. He didn’t dare to take the items out, so he found a place to secretly hide them, marking the spot to ensure he wouldn’t forget, and even drew a map in a notebook he had with him.”
“Their ancestors were all local mountain people, living in that small village surrounded by vegetation that we passed by.
“After their grandfather moved away from the village, he died not long after in an accident. No one knew about the gold bars.
“A while ago, the two of them heard about the scientific expedition team on the internet, and learned that Nan Chong scientific research base had been collecting information on the Nan Chong mountain range and the surrounding flora and fauna.”
Feng Yi knew this.
The Nan Chong scientific research base feared that if the climate changed again, the unknown endangered animals in the mountains would go extinct, so they tried to collect as much information as possible and then establish the inspection route, assigning additional tasks to each squad.
When it came to understanding these forests, the base certainly couldn’t compare to the mountain people who had lived there.
For example, ancestral stories…
Like where something divine was seen, which pool had a monster, which cave had a giant snake that ate people, and so on. Those mythologized and exaggerated tales provided some clues for the expedition team to seek out whether there was an endangered animal or a new species that needed protection and rescue.
“Recently, those two brothers learned that someone from their village sold what they saw as a load of nonsense for 500 bucks, and it got them thinking.
“A story they had heard since childhood until they were sick of it, was nonsense to them now, but it was worth selling for 500 bucks. Simply put, it was like selling scrap.”
“They too came across their grandfather’s notebook while rummaging through old belongings, thinking for sure the old man must have hidden something.”
Steve expressed his amazement as he spoke.
“Their ancestors lived in the mountains, and although the two brothers were not familiar on their own, they could know more from some image files passed down. For example, where there were shortcuts or concealed paths, things others didn’t know about.
“The two successfully bypassed the forest rangers and surveillance, snuck into the former village site, and based on their grandfather’s hand-drawn map, dug up the gold bars, but…”
Steve’s tone changed, somewhat schadenfreude.
“On the way back, the younger one was bitten by a venomous snake. Although they had brought some medicine, it couldn’t be delayed for long, and they might have to call for help. The older one hid the gold bars in a tree, then took the younger to get medical treatment.”
Steve spread his hands.
“You know what happened next. Oh, about that snakeskin belt, there was actually one for each of them. They were vain but didn’t have much money, so they had someone help them buy two imitation belts that were hard to identify as fakes.
“They had been proud of those belts for a long time, and had never been exposed when wearing them out.
Now, people from the Joint Security Bureau are waiting on the sidelines.”
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In the hearts of those two brothers, they had not lost to anyone this time, only to a snake.
If it weren’t for the snakebite, they wouldn’t have hidden the package holding the gold bars and sought emergency help.
If not for the snake, the scientific expedition team would not have discovered the package in the tree.
They had hidden it so well, with the belt pattern and the fabric color of the package both inconspicuous. How could it have been discovered under normal circumstances?
They even wondered if there really was a Nan Chong spirit snake?
Of course, they racked their brains but would never have thought that what led to their exposure would be a knockoff.
Soon, news about the incident was reported.
Linked to an old grand theft gold case from many years ago, it had been so long that many had forgotten or never heard of it. Upon seeing this news, people searched for the old gold theft case, combining the information reported and the analytical (and imagined) logic line they came up with, they started to comment and incidentally trampled on those two brothers a few times.
After being passed on by word of mouth and carrying some legendary color, self-media harvested a wave of traffic.
Related topics were trending hot searches.
When Cheng Si woke up today, he saw more news about Team South 6: “…”
Under those news articles, many of Cheng Si’s fans tagged him, saying he had missed another big event.
From those news reports, Cheng Si could tell that nobody on the scientific expedition team really wanted to appear in this kind of news coverage, but…
I am willing!
Seeing the trending topics and push notifications for news discussions on various platforms, Cheng Si felt like his heart was bleeding.
What a loss!
Trembling hands covered his chest, lips quivering.
“Why did I have to mess with that cobra!”
Cheng Si’s assistant entered the room and saw Cheng Si clutching his chest.
“Brother Cheng, Brother Cheng! What’s wrong with you!”
After hearing Cheng Si’s murmurs, the assistant consoled, “Brother Cheng, just let it go and take it easy.”
Who could’ve predicted that a cross-circle news story would come out just as the expedition was about to end?
After all, only a minority kept up with the expedition’s updates, but with today’s report, the number of people discussing it increased dramatically, and many even claimed the Nan Chong mountain range definitely had spiritual snakes!
Otherwise, how could those two be so unlucky, getting into trouble with snakes at crucial moments twice?
Even Cheng Si’s assistant believed this.
There must be spiritual snakes in the Nan Chong mountain range!
Even Cheng Si fell for it!
If Cheng Si hadn’t provoked that cobra, he’d be showing his face on the national channel by now!
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To cooperate with the investigation, the expedition team was delayed for two days.
During these two days, Feng Yi found it inconvenient to search for food alone.
Feng Yi sat on the ground, staring blankly into the distance.
A frustrated roar echoed silently within him:
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But soon, good news arrived.
Professor Zhou received a weather warning and made a decision.
“The weather in the coming days is not suitable for fieldwork, and there’s not much left of our journey, so we are going to end our survey early. We will leave on the rescue team’s helicopter in a bit.”
Feng Yi: !!!
His exhilaration was visible to the naked eye.
Quickly, he ordered ten boxes of beef jerky on his phone!
He could eat them as soon as he got back!
Before boarding the helicopter, Teacher Lei looked back at the forest and took another set of photos.
Surrounded by clouds and mist, broad-leaved vegetation concealed the silhouettes of creatures living between the mountains, only revealing their vitality to those who ventured into the forest.
“The mountains hide many secrets, most of which may never be known to humans. Only the water, plants, soil, and stones of the mountains remember them, but they will not tell anyone on their own.”
Teacher Lei turned to Feng Yi, “So, will you come back to explore the secrets of the mountains next year?”
Feng Yi: “…”
No thanks, I won’t be coming!!
