Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 505: More valuable than gold

Chapter 505: More valuable than gold

Time flashed by like the snap of a finger and many changes took places in the families. For one, Chi Rui proposed to Rize and she accepted, the peep star was the first to break the news of the engagement. Phoenix television followed this up the following day by having the new couple sit down for an interview on tea with the princess but hosted by a temporary guest since Rize could not interview herself. The ratings of that episode went through the roof, because many people were eager to know even more details about the relationship than what had been shared by NBTV, the national television station and the royal family’s official weibo page.

Secondly, Phoenix magazine was released selling four hundred thousand copies within three days. More copies had to be printed because of demand and eventually the sales totaled to one million and two hundred fifty thousand. It was extremely good for a start up magazine.

Thirdly, Phoenix television was doing successfully well and Chi Lian was nominated for an award as the most outstanding upcoming business personality of the year.

Chi Wei returned home from the military base more joyful than he had been when he went away which made grandpa Wang walk around with a secret smile on his lips.

For the old master of the Jun family however his friend’s smile was a source of irritation considering the fact that his oldest grandson did not return home even once in all those weeks. He was running out of excuses to give the Jiang’s about the sudden disappearance of their daughter’s husband.

As for Chi Lian she had traveled to F city three days ago to finally pay a visit to that almost depleted gold mine. It had been two days of searching, digging and tunneling out of curiosity but all she found so far were thirteen bars of gold. If this was what the system meant by a small mountain of wealth then it had to be broken. Today was her last day of digging before she would turn around and leave.

The gold mine was in an old town named Pindanshan, from the 1800’s to the early 2000’s the town was lively. Back then it was filled with life in the form of people, businesses, markets, it boasted of a population of about eight million people. Because four gold mines were sitting on the land in this town, roads were constructed, hospitals and schools. Mining companies provided jobs and the standard of living in the town was not bad, Pindanshan was voted one of the best places to live in F city five years in a row from 1998 to 2002. Happiness filled this golden town but nothing lasts forever, as with many minerals in the ground, the gold reserves started to dwindle and the companies started pulling out, one at a time. Eventually all the companies left and because they were the main source of employment in the town, the unemployment level went up suddenly at once.

More people moved out of Pindanshan to find jobs, fancy hotels and restaurants closed and the town became deserted. The population of Pindanshan today was roughly around one to two million people. Most of them worked in the local shoe factory and water factory. There was also a clothing manufacturing company a few minutes out of the town which employed others but as for the mines, they were abandoned and sealed off completely.

Some even had warning signs at the entrances, telling strangers and children to stay away in case the mines were inhabited by dangerous animals.

Chi Lian’s presence here was noticed by some of the people that lived close to the mines but no one paid her much attention. If there was another idiot here willing to kill herself in the search for non existent gold it was not their business. Everyone knew that the Pindanshan mines were empty, many documentaries had been shot in this town to prove it.

She was watching a machine digging at a spot that T4 specified, she decided that it was her last dig spot before she would wrap things up and return home. Digging for a few bars of gold due to T4’s insistence that there was wealth here were beginning to sound ridiculous.

"Don’t you trust me anymore?" T4 asked her.

"No." she replied sullenly.

These mines were full of cobwebs, insects, bats_, so many bats. If they were blood sucking bats and had the ability to sense her she would be dead already. Navigating the dark passages to reach this point had not been fun, it was easy thanks to her skills but it was not fun.

"If I get one more gold bar I will come into that system and rip your cords out." she threatened T4.

"Too bad for you that I don’t have cords." he responded.

"Then I rip out anything else.’ she amended, "One more T4 I swear."

The digger stopped, indicating that it had found something or met a wall it could not go through.

"You should check now host, what you find might surprise you."

"Another bar of gold." She said sarcastically. Still, her feet moved to the spot and she shined the very bright torch in her hands at the spot. There was a hole where the digger stopped so she squatted down and carefully peeped inside. She hoped that there was no sleeping creature whose home she would be invading and end up with her face mauled off.

"You scanned the environment, right?" She asked him.

"I am not an amateur host I am monitoring the entire environment. Nothing here is of any danger to you."

Drawing in a deep breath, she pushed her forward slowly, and looked into the hole. There was another space inside which surprised her. ’Did someone dig from the other end?’ She asked herself. Half of her body could easily fit into it so she crawled inside and ended up on the other end of the wall. If the company which owned this mine did not stop digging perhaps they would have found this abnormality.

"Is this some sort of underground bunker or a secret passage?" She asked T4. The space inside could fit three to four people and she could count five old wooden chests in the empty space. It was obvious it had been dug by a human coming from the opposite way of the gold mountain. She followed the tunnel and ended up at at a place where old wooden bits were lying on the ground. She touched them and dropped them down again. "Do you know where this leads?" She asked T4.

"To the surface but over time the entrance has been filled with soil which hardened."

"Is the wealth in the mine related to the wooden chests?" She asked him. From the looks of things someone had probably dug a tunnel, come down and buried these things here. They looked very old so she guessed that maybe it was done at a time when no one knew that the mountain contained gold. She turned back the same way she had come and sent the wooden chests to her storage space.

"They could be more valuable than gold." He told her.

"Can I go now?" She asked T4. "Or is there anything else to find?"

"No we can go home, you can spend the national liberation day with your family as you wanted."

On her way out of the mine, she gave the gold bars to the old man that repaired shoes in a booth close to where she parked her car. He was the only one in the town that spoke to her, urging her to be careful when she said that she was here to take a few pictures of the mine and he had faithfully kept an eye on her car without her asking. "Sell them secretly immediately." She told him. And then, she drove away leaving behind a bewildered old man with twenty bars of gold. The extra seven came from her, a gift for his kindness.