RPAGF Chapter 779 So, if you want to get rich, first suppress the bandits!
Chapter 779 So, if you want to get rich, first suppress the bandits!
"Ask quickly! If... if it really is there... then... then it matches! It all matches!"
The old geologist's voice trembled, and finally, he couldn't hold back his turbid tears, which rolled down the deep lines etched on his face.
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Upon seeing the old man's tears, Jiang Xia felt a surge of anger rise from the bottom of his heart and rush to the top of his head!
You fucking... how dare you make this old man, who has measured the land of our motherland with his own two feet and exhausted his life searching for mineral deposits, shed tears! You fucking die!
"Old Wang, didn't you always boast that you could trim a fly's eyebrows with a bullet? This is only about a hundred meters away. Can you use your treasure to blow up that infighting bandit?"
Jiang Xia pointed fiercely at the old man Wang's "beloved concubine" that was thrown in the corner of the armored vehicle.
Yes, that's right. It's that 14.5mm naval-specific twin-mounted machine gun. Before setting off, Jiang Xia saw that Lao Wang's eyes were practically gleaming as he looked at the gun, and thinking there was still room in the car, he let him take it.
Old Wang squinted, examined it for a while, and finally shook his head helplessly: "This thing is powerful, but in the dark, you can only see a shadow moving around. If you sweep it over, it will probably blow up Liu the Scarface and that woman together! I'm not sure I can accurately target them!"
"What if you could see him clearly? Although not like during the day... could you guarantee that you could blast him out with just one or two shots?" Jiang Xia took a half step forward, his eyes shining brightly.
"Of course! As long as the bullseye is in my field of vision, my hand has never shaken!"
Jiang Xia immediately had an idea. He turned around and gently patted the old man's hand: "Old Li, don't worry. We'll take down that bandit leader in a bit, and then we can ask him slowly. Although I don't know what you want to know about Black Bear Valley, I'm sure we can find out."
After calming the old man down, Jiang Xia didn't linger. He turned and climbed into the back of the armored vehicle, bending down to pretend to rummage through a storage box in the corner. The moment his hand touched the bottom of the box, his fingertips brushed against the cold metal in the storage compartment. The next second, he quietly pulled out something wrapped in old canvas, the canvas still faintly smelling of the sea.
Remove the canvas, and what's inside is revealed: a large, oddly shaped device, brimming with exotic technology.
It has a long, thick, periscope-like monocular tube made of heavy metal with a military green anti-slip paint finish, but the paint has many wear and scratches, and even a noticeable dent.
A more bulky, highly integrated battery box is connected to the back of the lens barrel, but there are obvious signs of corrosion at the interface of the battery box, and the outer shell is even somewhat deformed.
"What is this...?" Old Wang's eyes widened when he saw this thing.
"I've been so busy I'm practically running around, I haven't had time to tinker with it. I was originally thinking of bringing it to the 'laser gyroscope' project team on my way here so the experts there could take a look..."
Yes, this is the Bald Eagle night vision device captured by that naval soldier; more accurately, it should be called the AN/PVS-1 "Star Mirror".
When the naval leaders came to Jiangxia last time, they couldn't find anything good, so they just brought this thing with them.
Jiang Xia swatted away Lao Wang's curious hand that he instinctively reached out, and quickly inspected the damaged battery box.
"Tsk, it's been soaked in seawater, the original battery is ruined. This foreign thing is delicate, it uses a few small batteries, it's not compatible with the big thing in our car."
But could this really stump the little ahoge?
"Hehehe, spare interfaces are really great. We should continue this glorious tradition!"
Jiang Xia rummaged through his toolbox and found pliers, a screwdriver, a short piece of resistance wire, and several wires of different colors. Carefully prying open the damaged battery box, he bypassed the complex, corroded internal circuitry and directly located the positive and negative terminals of the power supply line leading to the lens barrel.
Then, two wires were led out from a spare low-voltage test interface on the "ground penetrating radar" control panel, with a short section of resistance wire that he had bent into shape with pliers connected in series for precise current limiting.
"Little Jiang, are you sure you can handle this?" Engineer Chen felt a pang of heartache watching Jiang Xia torment his "son".
"A man can't say no!" Jiang Xia didn't even look up, took out a few strength pills and swallowed them. After wrapping all the connection points with black tape, he turned on the scanner and took a look.
"It's done!" Jiang Xia breathed a sigh of relief. Although the temporary modification looked a bit crude and crude, with the wires temporarily connected like a spider web, the function was restored!
He beckoned to Old Wang, "Come closer and look! Look through it! It'll be just like daytime at night!"
Well, as it turns out, Jiang Xia's statement this time was a bit exaggerated.
What Lao Wang saw through the eyepiece was not a world as clear as daytime, but a strange, hazy green light.
The field of vision was somewhat narrow, as if looking at the world through a thin tube, surrounded by large, blurry, dark green shadows.
He had to constantly and slightly turn his head and the instrument to scan a larger area. The central area of the image was relatively clearest, where distant car headlights could be distinguished as a swaying bright green halo, while the surrounding moving figures appeared as blurry, green silhouettes.
"Hey! I can't see his expression clearly, but I can see exactly where that bastard is jumping around! Damn it, if I say I'll slap his head, I definitely won't hit his neck!"
"Judging by its expression? Be content. It's only because the moonlight is good tonight, with no clouds, that it can see so 'clearly' with this little bit of starlight and moonlight. If it were a pitch-black, rainy day, this thing would just be a slightly brighter fire poker."
"Alright, if you can see clearly, hurry up and get on with it!" Seeing that it was working, Jiang Xia immediately and happily began to disassemble the Soviet-made optical sight with a simple crosshair that was originally mounted on the left side of the 14.5mm machine gun's mount, intending to replace it with a night vision device.
"Okay..." Old Wang responded subconsciously, but then suddenly realized what he meant and his voice rose sharply: "Hurry up and send a ghost!"
He grabbed Jiang Xia's hand as he was unscrewing the screws: "Little rascal! It's no use just letting me see it! I still need to zero the gun, which takes time!"
"Reset? Reset what?" Jiang Xia stopped what she was doing and looked up, looking completely bewildered. "The C button on the calculator is for resetting, right?"
"Damn it!" Old Wang nearly fainted, his voice strained as he shouted, "Calibration! Calibration! If this thing's aiming isn't aligned with the trajectory of my gun barrel, how am I supposed to shoot?! Pointing east and shooting west, are you trying to scare the crows?!"
"Tsk, you should have just said you wanted to calibrate it... My eyes are my ruler!"
"Pah! This is a matter of life and death! You unreliable person, let me do it!"
Old Wang really didn't believe that this clueless kid who had barely even touched a gun could handle such a delicate task that involved life and death and the success or failure of the mission. He believed that the experience and feel of a veteran gunner were essential.
While the group was busy, the situation on the other side of the field changed again.
……
Sun Laowai hid behind Liu Daba, pulling his leader back a few steps until they were against a low wall. He saw that the soldiers opposite him didn't even glance at the gleaming gold ingots on the ground; their cold gun barrels were fixed on him. His anxiety grew.
"Hey! You cops over there... Don't say I'm dishonest! See that? Gold on the ground! And this woman! I'm admitting defeat today! How about you give me these in exchange for my life? We'll go our separate ways!"
Chief of the Guard Cheng didn't want to waste his breath and was only focused on finding a shooting angle, but these two were like weasels asking for directions, almost becoming sentient. They were like two rotten plasters stuck to the hostages, one huddled on the hostage's left side and the other behind, leaving no gap for him to pull the trigger.
But listening to Sun Laowai's shameless words, Chief Guard Cheng almost laughed out of anger:
"This gold was stolen by you. It belongs to all the people! You're offering stolen goods that don't even belong to you in exchange for your own dog's life? There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
Liu the Scarface suddenly got angry and retorted, "Bullshit! That was us... digging it up with all our might..."
Before he could finish speaking, Sun Laowai poked him in the back with the butt of his gun, silencing him.
挖？
Chief Guard Cheng raised an eyebrow, glanced at the gold dust on the ground, and then at Liu Shicai, who had been helped up again.
"Yes...they dug it up...I called them over not to divide the loot, but to...to mix the gold dust they dug up with the gold I brought from the factory..."
"Mix?" Chief of the guards didn't quite understand at first.
“The gold produced in the factory is too pure, and the markings are too new. I… I don’t dare take it out directly… for fear of being exposed…” Liu Shicai explained breathlessly, “But if I mix it with these gold dusts, mixed together… it will look like dirt stuff panned from an old mine. Then… it won’t be so easy to arouse suspicion…”
……
Meanwhile, inside the armored vehicle.
Old Wang lay prone beside the machine gun, the green crosshairs of his night vision goggles already firmly locked onto half of Old Sun's body.
The guy was quite tall; the low wall exposed his head. But he was incredibly slippery, constantly swaying his head left and right, as if trying to avoid being shot.
Well, it really works that you can avoid it.
They didn't dare to fire until they saw the chief guard.
but……
He didn't know that there's a type of big BIUBIU that can blow up walls.
Old Wang's thick fingers gently pressed the bolt as he adjusted his breathing.
Jiang Xia sat upright in the driver's seat, listening to the on-site conversation coming through the microphone, and couldn't help but mutter a complaint under his breath:
"Good heavens... Are people this honest about 'counterfeiting' these days? They're actually mixing real gold and silver into it?"
"Wait a minute...dug it themselves? From the ground? They...they discovered a gold mine? Right here!"
Heixiazigou?
Jiang Xia glanced distractedly at the old man next to her who was crying.
“I’m ready! One shot is enough!” Old Wang said behind Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia nodded emphatically to Old Li, who was holding the radio. As soon as the old man shouted the word "Action," Jiang Xia stepped on the gas and sped off.
“Boom…”
Gunshot!