“The door is open!!”
As the door opened, everyone became excited. This not only meant they had found gold, but also that they could escape.
“Lu Hao, you’re amazing.”
Elsa jumped up in joy and hugged Lu Hao's face, giving him a big kiss.
Whoa, there's an extra reward.
Lu Hao chuckled. "Everyone, don't celebrate yet. Let's go inside first. The mercenaries will catch up soon."
Everyone agreed with Lu Hao and worked together to push open the heavy iron door. They saw an elevator inside.
Lu Hao instructed, "Let’s close the door again to prevent the mercenaries from chasing after us. They don’t know the password, so they won't be able to open it for a while."
“Wait, what if we get trapped inside the base and can't get out?”
Aida was worried.
“You’re thinking too much. First, the base door can be opened from the inside. Second, with the mercenaries’ nature, they’ll blow the door open before you starve or die of thirst.”
Hearing Lu Hao's analysis, everyone agreed and, without bothering to remove the keys, they closed the iron door again, doing their best to prevent the mercenaries from catching up to them.
“How did you get so much information in such a short time?”
As they rode the elevator, Jack asked in admiration, "You even found out the password to the base door. Your intelligence gathering skills are incredible."
“Thanks for the praise.”
Lu Hao smiled and joked, "If my skills were that bad, how could I be your Asian Eagle's partner? How about it? Do you concede now?"
“I concede!”
Jack remembered the first time he met Lu Hao, Lu Hao was already familiar with the information about the indigenous tribe, allowing them to easily steal the tribe’s gem.
So, Lu Hao was indeed very good at gathering information.
With such a partner, he would be able to find treasure more easily in the future.
Unbeknownst to Jack, he had unconsciously come to see Lu Hao as his partner, not someone he had to take on an adventure because of a bet.
Lu Hao's performance along the way had completely earned his recognition, qualifying him to be his Asian Eagle's partner.
Everyone stepped out of the elevator, entered through a small door, and immediately saw countless wooden boxes piled high inside.
Lu Hao immediately saw a mountain of gold covered in canvas on the platform at the end of the warehouse.
“Open it and see if it’s gold!”
Seeing so many wooden boxes, Jack and the others realized that the boxes might contain the gold they had been searching for so hard.
Crack~
Colonel Bird and Colonel Banner took an iron bar and pried open one of the wooden boxes. In an instant, countless golden bars came into view.
“It’s gold, it’s really gold!!”
“So much gold.”
“More than two hundred tons of gold... if you make gold bricks out of it, you can build a small room.”
Seeing so much gold, Aida and the others couldn’t take their eyes off it. Their eyes shone, and they were very excited.
They had finally found the legendary gold.
This was probably the most gold they had ever seen in their lives.
Lu Hao glanced at the wooden box, walked straight towards the platform, grabbed the canvas and pulled it open. A burst of golden light immediately flashed in the warehouse, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
“Wow…”
Golden Legend!!
Aida and the others were speechless as they looked at the mountain of gold bricks piled high on the platform.
The wooden boxes contained small gold bars, while the platform was piled with large, thick gold bricks.
“So much gold… we’re rich, we’re rich.”
Aida was dazed. She was so stimulated by the amount of gold that her nerves had gone numb.
Although she had already known that there were two tons of gold in the base, seeing it in person was a truly shocking experience.
“Two tons of this is mine!!”
Jack mumbled to himself.
“How are we going to get all this gold back!?”
Colonel Bird and Colonel Banner were stunned for a moment before immediately realizing the key issue.
“Yeah, how are we going to move all this gold back!?”
“More than two hundred tons of gold, we’ll be dead from exhaustion before we could move it all, not to mention we are in the middle of a desert and have to face the mercenaries chasing us.”
Everyone scratched their heads, their faces full of worry. With their physique, they could only move a couple hundred pounds of gold back, they couldn’t take any more back with them.
Lu Hao was also thinking about how to transport the gold.
His original plan was to move the gold out bit by bit, like ants.
He had a storage ring, which could easily carry dozens of tons of gold in and out of the desert.
He just needed three to four opportunities, and he could empty the entire base of gold.
However, those mercenaries were clearly not going to give him that opportunity.
【Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the task - Golden Treasure. You have obtained a Golden Treasure Box x1. Do you want to open it?!】
At a critical moment, the system’s mechanical prompt sounded in his mind.
Lu Hao’s eyes lit up. This sound was like music to his ears right now.
“Open it!”
【Ding, the Golden Treasure Box has been opened. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Unlimited Martial Arts (Grandmaster Level) x1, Gem Identification Technique (Grandmaster Level) x1, Body Enhancement Liquid x1, and Storage Ring Space + 10 cubic meters!!】
“Ten cubic meters of space expansion!?”
Lu Hao's eyes lit up. According to his calculations, the density of gold is 19.26 grams per cubic centimeter, which means 1 cubic meter is 19.26 tons.
Right now, Lu Hao’s storage ring had a space of 2 cubic meters. If it increased by 10 cubic meters, it would have 12 cubic meters.
In other words, his storage ring could hold almost two hundred and forty tons of gold if it was full.
Of course, the account can’t be made like this.
First, his storage ring contained a large amount of water, which was the source of life and could not be easily discarded.
Second, gold is not in a liquid state, so it's impossible to fill the entire storage ring.
So, after all the calculations, his storage ring could probably only hold around two hundred and twenty tons of gold.
And this was assuming he emptied some of the miscellaneous items in his storage ring.
For example, the large missiles he had just collected could no longer be placed in the storage ring.
Thinking about this, Lu Hao immediately made a decision. He was already satisfied with being able to get over two hundred tons of gold. He would leave the rest for the mercenaries as a burial gift!!
Moreover, when the people from the United Nations came to dig it up later, he would have to leave some of it for them as a reward for their hard work. If they dug for so long and couldn’t find a single gram of gold, they would suspect him, which would be bad.
Lu Hao looked at the mountain of gold in front of him and told himself he wasn’t greedy.
He would only take two hundred and twenty tons of the two hundred and forty tons of gold.
Not greedy at all.