The next morning, bright and early.
Jack was woken up by Lu Hao’s knocking on the door. He opened the door sleepily and yawned, “What’s up!?”
“You forgot? Ada made an appointment for you to meet her at the library at ten o’clock.”
Lu Hao pointed to the clock on the wall, which showed that it was already nine thirty.
“Damn it!!”
Thinking of Ada's grumpy face, Jack suddenly woke up and hurriedly washed up, “You going too?”
“I'm not going. The little bit of desert knowledge that Ada is temporarily teaching is something I’ve already memorized by heart.”
“You're not going, why did you get up so early?”
Jack poked his head out of the bathroom, his eyes full of suspicion.
Lu Hao grabbed an apple from the fruit basket on the table, wiped it, took a bite, looked at Jack with a smirk, “You forgot about the blonde girl yesterday? I made an appointment with her to learn German today…”
“You’re going to hit on her!?”
“Why?”
Lu Hao chewed the apple, his mouth full of juice, he mumbled, “You’re allowed to learn geography with Ada, but I’m not allowed to learn foreign languages with the blonde girl?”
“That's learning? I’m embarrassed to even point it out.”
“I’m paying for it.”
“You little… watch out for the police, don't call me to bail you out at the police station.”
Jack left a “curse” with a hateful look, and then embarked on his high-intensity confrontation journey with Ada.
And Lu Hao, with a Polaroid camera in hand, also embarked on his journey to find clues to the golden treasure, taking a taxi to the Plaza Mayor.
Lu Hao got out of the car and strolled around the plaza, during which he saw Taozi setting up his stall, playing the Tao Xun in his original spot, but he didn't go up and disturb him.
“Hi~"
As he was strolling, the blonde girl he met yesterday suddenly appeared in front of him, waving her hand enthusiastically in greeting.
Lu Hao glanced up and noticed that two small tails were following behind the blonde girl, they were the two Arab fools he had tricked yesterday.
“My name is Lu Hao, what is your name, Miss?”
“Ilsa!!”
The two of them met and briefly introduced themselves. Lu Hao suddenly looked behind Ilsa, and when Ilsa looked back in confusion, he unexpectedly embraced her.
“What are you doing!?”
Ilsa reacted, she was furious and tried to resist, while Lu Hao whispered, “Ilsa, someone is following you.”
“What!?”
Ilsa was stunned.
“There are two Arabs with headscarves behind you who have been following you. Didn’t you notice at all these past few days?”
“Don't look around, you'll scare them off.”
Lu Hao hugged Ilsa, whispering his information to her.
“Following!?”
Ilsa's beautiful eyes widened. She remembered that she had been harassed by phone calls these past few days, saying things like “let her offer her gold”, “the forgotten people of God”, “revenge on them”, “kill her” and other nonsensical threats.
“What should we do now?”
Ilsa secretly looked back and found that there were indeed two Arabs openly stealing glances at her. Moreover, she was familiar with these two. She had often seen them these past few days, but she had been living an ordinary life and had not realized that they were following her.
Now that Lu Hao had reminded her, she immediately realized something was wrong.
“Don't be nervous, let’s pretend to be a couple, put our arms around each other and turn to a corner, then take advantage of the situation to ambush them and knock them out.”
Lu Hao leaned into Ilsa's ear and whispered his plan to her.
“Uh, uh.”
Ilsa forcibly endured the itchy feeling of the warm wind blowing on her ear and nodded in agreement.
Then, like nothing had happened, they walked arm in arm towards a corner with fewer people. After passing a corner, Lu Hao pulled Ilsa against the wall, hiding, listening for sounds from behind.
“Where did they go?”
“Keep up, don’t let her get away.”
The two Arab fools saw that Ilsa had suddenly disappeared and rushed forward anxiously, completely unprepared for Lu Hao's ambush.
After they passed the corner, Lu Hao suddenly struck. He was generally skilled in martial arts, but after undergoing three body enhancement fluid transformations, he could now achieve superhuman strength.
With the advantage of surprise, he attacked from behind and quickly knocked them both out.
Lu Hao pressed down on one of the Arabs and questioned him, “Hey, it’s you? Say, who are you? Why are you following this lady?”
“We are the forgotten people of God, this time we are here to reclaim what belongs to us.”
“Gold? You mean this lady stole your gold?”
“It’s the gold her ancestor hid, she’s the granddaughter of Hans’ aide-de-camp, she must know where the gold is hidden.”
Lu Hao got the key information, kicked them twice to make sure they fainted, then quickly bent over to search their bodies.
He found some pesos and a pistol on them.
Lu Hao picked up the pistol and recognized it at a glance - a Colt M1908 pocket pistol, only the size of a palm, designed by Browning and manufactured by Colt.
“Gun!?”
Ilsa's eyes widened, she instinctively covered her mouth, she didn't expect the people following her to carry a gun.
This was beyond her imagination.
“Wearing a piece of cloth on their heads, either they're terrorists or they’re rich. These two obviously aren’t rich, so…”
Lu Hao didn’t finish his sentence, but his meaning was clear.
“What should I do?”
Ilsa was full of worry.
“Why are they following you?”
Lu Hao casually put the pesos and pistol in his pocket, stood up, and pointedly guided Ilsa to reveal the secret of the golden treasure.
Ilsa thought back to their confession, and suddenly realized, “They’re after the gold my grandfather hid.”
“The gold that the German army hid in the Sahara Desert in the latter part of World War II!?”
Lu Hao “surprised” himself by following Ilsa’s lead.
“You know?”
Ilsa looked at Lu Hao suspiciously. Lu Hao shrugged and explained, “Actually, my partner and I came to Madrid because of this gold. The United Nations, for some subtle reasons, asked the Earl to entrust us with the task of retrieving this gold. My partner and I are now evaluating the risk of this commission to see if we should accept the UN's commission.”
“The UN's commission!?”
Hearing that Lu Hao was officially commissioned, Ilsa suddenly relaxed.
Compared to terrorists, Lu Hao and his partner were more reassuring as official personnel.
“Let’s go look at the house first, then we’ll talk about this later…”
“Okay, follow me.”