The Lost Land of Gold

"Where is the mine?" Mu Sicheng asks.

Bai Liu's voice came out from the headset: "You break into the Gold Distribution Department and take a look, this department manages gold distribution, there should be maps and locations of gold mines inside."

"OK." Mu Sicheng responded, turned around and violently kicked open the door, the huge amount of gold dust that came to his face, Mu Sicheng quickly covered his mouth and nose, but still inhaled some, began to choke and cough violently, waved away the gold dust, half squinted, and walked into the Gold Hair Office.

The first floor of the Golden Hair Office is very open, as wide as a stadium, the height of the floor should be six or seven meters, the center of the ceiling is hung with a gorgeous octagonal ceiling, crystal pendants in the eight corners of the pendant, with ribbons in eight directions, connected to the ground, silk texture of the rosy-red ribbons covered with gold dust, the hall of the different shapes of the animals of the gold sculpture, a beautiful wheel, as if what the celebration is held The location of the festival.

Mu Sicheng took a good picture and transmitted it, Liu Jiayi gave a tsk, "A department that manages money is so romantically repaired, this country is really ......"

"Naive." Bai Liu's calm voice picked up, "Mu Sicheng, get close enough to take a picture of these sculptures for me."

"Good." Mu Sicheng leaned in close to take a picture of a gold sculpture of a dog to show Bai Liu, but as he did, he acutely sensed something was wrong, "This dog ......"

The dog sculpture, wearing a collar, with a wide open mouth and a well-defined fur, crouched on the ground and spat out its tongue, looking in a certain direction, as if waiting for its master, with eyes that could be seen to rotate in an arc, but stopped just like that, so lifelike that it was a bit frightening - it was no longer like a skillfully crafted sculpture, but like a real pet dog solidified in gold.

"Gold is not suitable for sculpture, because it is too soft, it is difficult to carve out very fine lines." Bai Liu's unhurried voice came over, "That's why general craftsmen don't purposely make gold sculptures either, because it's hard to produce fine products."

"So ......" Tang Er hit the question hesitantly, "the dog is likely ......"

"There are insufficient clues and information to be certain." Bai Liu skimmed lightly, "Mu Sicheng, don't touch."

Mu Sicheng stopped his hand that was about to touch and scratched his head, "How did you know I was going to touch?"

"What you must be thinking is that if this dog is a real dog being solidified, then it's most likely a monster, and as long as you unlock the monster book after you touch it and let the dog attack you, we will be able to determine the identity of this dog, right?" Bai Liu calmly asked back, "But have you ever thought that if this dog is really a monster, do you think that such a huge hair office will only have such a monster?"

"Be careful on your way up the stairs, don't run into any other statues."

Mu Sicheng paused for a moment as he looked to the stairs hidden behind him and slowly and carefully made his way over.

Behind him, the eyes of the golden dog, which had been motionless, slowly moved a little, and a drop of saliva rolled off its outstretched tongue, which turned into a golden droplet the moment it landed along its fangs.

There were also some animal statues in the corridor, a squirrel and bird on the window sill, and two cats on the porch, all of which Mu Sicheng carefully jumped over and took pictures of to send to the larger group to look at.

"How strange, why are there no sculptures of people?" Mu Ke asked contemplatively, "It's all animals."

"Maybe it's because no one is at the Golden Hair Office." Mu Sicheng looked around and replied, "There's a lot of gold dust on the front desk and stairs here, and things have been emptied out, so it feels like no one's been here for a while, and that dog before was a stray dog."

"That means that this Hairdresser's Office has been empty for a long time, resulting in a lot of stray animals taking up residence here." Mu Ke was thoughtful, "And then turned into golden eagles here."

Mu Sicheng kicked in an office door, pried open a desktop drawer, and rummaged through it to find a map, "I found a map of the mine, do you want me to look for other clues?"

"Not for now." Bai Liu ordered in a deep voice, "Come out first, it's not a coincidence that an animal would turn into a golden eagle here, don't stay in a place like this until you find out."

"Any drop in life and spirit values?"

Mu Sicheng flipped out the drop sharply from beside the windowsill and tapped on the system panel to inspect it, "None of them."

There was a moment of silence on the other side of the headset before Mu Ke's slightly puzzled voice came through, "None on our side either."

"So it's neither mental alienation nor a drop in life value, so how did these animals turn into golden eagles?"

"Is there a high concentration of gold dust in the DAC?" Bai Liu inquired.

"It's very high." Mu Sicheng replied quickly, "I choked as soon as I got in."

"It should be related to this thing." Liu Jiayi's voice came out, "We found some masks in the hospital on our side, but it's useless, these gold powders seem to be very fine, there's a feeling that they can be sucked in even with the mask on, in the hospital we found some information and summarized some information to talk to you about."

"A lot of the hospital's recent charts have been miners." Mu Ke explained calmly, "The miners here seem to have very high incomes, live in very nice wards and use the most advanced treatments, and looking at the notes on the charts, these miners have been using the best protections and techniques since they have been mining, and there have been no major problems, but after a certain point in time the gold minerals here started to decline, and the Gold Development Administration introduced a series of layoff strategies and the miners lost their jobs in large numbers and the people were very upset."

"After that, probably some time later, the date on the medical records is about ten years ago, there was a sudden explosion in declining gold minerals, an increased demand for miners, and many mines hired miners in large numbers."

"But that's when the probability of miners developing occupational diseases greatly increased."

"From the medical records over here, it seems to be a disease of hardening of the organs, at first it was thought to be a perennial miner's occupational disease like the previous one, but then it was found out that something was wrong, and no matter what medication was used it could not alleviate this hardening of the organs, and there was a huge increase in the number of miners suffering from the disease, and those who were seriously ill even coughed up some kind of golden-red powder."

Liu Jiayi said, "We speculate that it should be blood-stained gold dust."

"Exactly." Mu Ke nods, "It would have been around that time that Georgia, the Grand Wang Zi here, raised the heresy claim that the surge of gold mines was due to heretical influences and demanded that they be shut down and turned over to the Heresy III Bureau for processing, causing an outcry."

"So, on the day Georgia insisted on handing over the mine, all the people went to the mine to stop it." Bai Liu calmly continued, "The people of the Gurolian nation did not trust the Heresy Handling Bureau of unknown origin, and they could not understand Georgia's choice."

"Even his father, the king of the country of Gurolum." Tang Er hit with a long, complicated sigh in his voice, "also went to stop him - we found a newspaper with the biggest headline calling for everyone to stop Georgia, and gave him the title [Treasonous Great Wang Zi]. "

"They said Georgia was destined to be [a godforsaken man], and he would have been sixteen at the time."

"No wonder I didn't see a single person on the street, so they all went to the mine." Mu Sicheng realized, and then asked with some distress, "But the points marked on the map of the mining area are too many, there are seven big mining sites, which place is it?"

"There should be something else recorded on the DAC's map of the mining districts." Bai Liu asked, "Does it say anything about the recent increase in the amount of minerals extracted from each of the mining districts?"

"Yes." Mu Sicheng replied.

Bai Liu: "Go to the mine with the biggest increase recently."

"Let's see ah ......" Mu Sicheng searched carefully for a flip, "Ah! Mine 13."

"Okay, you go there first, keep quiet, we'll follow you closely." Bai Liu calmly ordered, "Don't clash with Georgia's large force until I arrive."

Mu Sicheng: "OK!"

13 Mining.

Standing on a high, steep hill covered in gold dust, through which some of the black mineral soil could be faintly seen, Georgia lowered her eyes to the deserted railroad tracks and mine cars at the foot of the hill - once the busiest mining area in the country, with more than 3,000 runs a day, and railroad tracks running all the way to the center of town, below the King's Castle. King's Castle below.

After a long winter break, the first mining took place each year at the beginning of spring, and excited miners drove their carts out of the caves, across the snowy plains, and transported them below the King's castle.

Everyone would grind the first load of gold mined into gold dust and scatter it joyfully under the castle, celebrating with him and his father, who stood atop the castle, the arrival of another carefree, fairytale spring in the Land of Gold.

What an extravagant memory, that he was laughing with them at that moment, the pupils of his eyes reflecting all the gold dust falling from the sky - for a long time he thought that this was what the arrival of spring looked like.

Mining trucks will transport gold to the Gold Development Bureau in a steady stream, the Bureau will plan to obtain the gold, to sell and trade materials, they will collect information, unified planning, calculating every month, every year to sell gold, control in a range that will not make the outside world of the devaluation of the gold, to exchange to the whole country can be happy life of the material.

The Golden Hair Office is the outlet for the foreign issue of the Gurolum Kingdom, the only place in the entire Gurolum Kingdom to communicate with the outside world, known as the [Window of Gurolum], and was once the most respected institution in the entire country.

Georgia, who once worked here and relied on his ability to reach the position of Deputy Director of the General Administration, had access to a lot of core secrets, and it was through this window that he learned of the existence of the Heretic Authority.

Georgia, at the time, did not approve of the GAO's approach and questioned the chief, who was older than his father and had managed the GAO for half a century, "Why didn't you leave a portion of that as a contingency reserve when you were planning for gold?"

"The gold issued to nationals and foreign shipments could be appropriately reduced."

"Why should we keep it?" The General Director of the General Administration looked at him full of doubt, "Your Highness Wang Zi, we need to use the gold we mine to make the best life possible for each of our nationals as much as we can, by leaving so much gold they won't be able to live as well as they could."

"But ......" Georgia Clenching his fists, he lowered his head, "Gold, there's always going to be a day when it runs out."

"Haha, how could that be?" The Chief Chief laughed up in the air as if he had heard a great joke, "The waters of the Guro Sea will dry up, and the paddy fields of Gurolun will wither, but only the gold-"

"-is inexhaustible and inexhaustible."

"That day will not come." The Chief Administrator looks at the somber looking Wang Zi and winks playfully, "Hey, Your Highness, the future King, cheer up, is it the gold and gold dust mined from this year's spring caravan that didn't fall to you?"

The Chief Minister patted the silent Georgia on the shoulder and said with a loving smile, "Don't say such things as reducing the amount of gold issued to the nation, the people of Gurolund love you so much, they would all cry out in sadness if they heard that."