Chapter 2258: Chapter 2078: Artificial Gold River Among them. Not everything is pleasant and enjoyable. -Capture. -Conflict. -Injury. The treatment differs; you might be locked in a small dark room, but not for long, just a minor punishment, like drinking water for the elites within the bureau. Afterwards. There’s food and drink as well. Of course. There are serious frictions, like causing human fatalities in Myanmar; if they get serious, they’re absolutely ruthless---disappearance, and after a long time, no word. When asked. The other side only replies: Sorry, we haven’t seen this person. In short. ---Vanished into thin air. How exactly? In what way? It’s unknown. It’s likely they’re gone for good since, in recent years, none of the disappeared have returned. One word. Relentless! Utterly indifferent to the face of the United States or the CIA. Revenge? Thought of. But also fear the situation would escalate. Moreover. How to retaliate? Send subordinates to kill? Kill whom? How? Myanmar’s weapon control is among the best in the world, can’t exactly throw stones there. Stir up trouble? Possibly. Not like it hasn’t been done before. However. Those above aren’t supporting this plan. The United States, of the consortium now holds divergent views on Myanmar, unable to take radical measures. After all. If action is taken, superiors need to cooperate, and if those at the top are holding back, any cooperation is a farce, ending up half-baked, everyone leaving humiliated. So. Gradually. They’ve understood the bottom line, not crossing it, yet continuously achieving nothing, and repeatedly captured, has greatly diminished their confidence. Later. tons of gold emerged. Suddenly. They were dumbfounded too. What? Did it fall from the sky? They began urgent investigations, but as before, with little to show, operating in Myanmar as Westerners is exceedingly difficult. Impossible to disguise. Additionally. Their previous neglect left them with a pitifully small number of intelligence officers in Myanmar, later unearthed one by one, nearly blind. So. Unyielding. They used satellites to investigate. Very carefully, a gold mine isn’t like a roadside garbage can, it must at least occupy a considerable mining area and its peripheral facilities. Easily recognizable. Underground? Nonsense. To say that is to insult their intelligence; such a producing gold mine couldn’t possibly be hidden underground, absolutely impossible. Yet. After searching throughout the Myanmar Economic Zone, still nothing found. Now. Someone suddenly said ’East, South’, the man was puzzled, pulled out a map, no sign of a mining field here, only mountainous buildings. However. Mostly marked as Myanmar’s military facilities. Where? Tian Duan Mountain, never heard of it, is there such a mountain within Myanmar? "Investigate!" "Must find out quickly." "..." Several agents began analysis, the location given, open-book exam, still can’t find it, that’s not just shameful but dereliction of duty. One day later, nothing. Two days later, nothing. Three days. ... Four days. ..... Five days. ... Almost to the open day, still no certain location. "..." The entire department was dumbstruck. Similarly. They were met with a severe scolding, those above were furious, location given, such a large mining zone, couldn’t find it? Incompetent. Useless. Deadweight. ... July 18th. Evening. Dark clouds obscured the moon. Located in the legendary ’Tian Duan Mountain mining zone’, less than a hundred kilometers from Xin’an City, in deep mountains, difficult to reach. Only a single highway passes by. At the foot of the mountain. A row of buildings stands. Not tall. Mostly two or three stories, arranged in an orderly fashion, clearly well-designed, from above, seems like a small village. However. This is the true face of the ’Tian Duan Mountain mining zone’. "Boom!" A bolt of lightning streaks across the sky. July. The rainy season, rains every other day. Swish! A flash of light on the cement ground, a figure appeared, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, wearing slippers, leisurely strolling. "Not bad." Looking around, Tang Qing smiled. Initially. To find a ’cover’, numerous places were considered by the fighters, suddenly appearing massive gold mine, unseen by global satellites. Clearly too mysterious. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦 Thus. The current plan was born. Like Northern Europe’s underground river gold mine, since appearing above ground isn’t suitable, directly ’creating’ an underground river gold mine like Northern Europe seemed better. Concealed. And so, searching! searching! Finally. Found this place, within this mountain is a gigantic underground river, not rapid, with enough space upstream and downstream for transformation operations. Thus. An artificial underground river gold mine, fresh out of the oven. Soon after. Tang Qing entered the cavern. At this moment. The cavern’s surroundings were reinforced, like a concrete tunnel, and even decorated for tourist sightseeing, covered with red carpet. Upon entry. "Whoosh!" Cold winds swirling. All around. Several fighters stood upright, like the gate gods, advanced a hundred meters, terrain dipped lower, nearly ten meters below the entrance level. At this point. The sound of rushing water was audible. Another fifty meters forward. A massive natural karst cave appeared, cavern exceptionally large, area exceeding 3000 sqm, height roughly ten levels, extremely rare globally. And the platform. At the top of the karst cave. Looking down. "Whoosh, whoosh!" Illuminated underground water rippled continuously, aside from the subterranean stream on the right, upper-right had a water outlet, like a small waterfall. Similar to the Northern European underground gold river. Only. Northern Europe’s underground gold river had only a small waterfall, no subterranean stream, and upon discovery, indeed extracted substantial gold from the sediment. Not much. Less than ten pounds, but nonetheless gold. From the platform. Tang Qing quietly gazed downward, the entire karst cave brightly lit, with lights off, retaining only platform lights, looking down could make one’s legs tremble. Darkness. Enclosed. Waterfall. Easily incites imagination: Is something below the water? Suffice to say. There really is. Containing some small fishes inside, which formed a delicate ecosystem over unknown years, Tang Qing didn’t destroy it, even nurtured it. Currently. Due to the light, all submerged to the bottom, water very deep, funnel-shaped, deepest reaches sixty meters, with many small karst caves. Not without hiding places. Left of the platform, a plank road leading downward, for more authenticity, even an elevator was built, below several boats and motorboats awaited. Beneath the waterfall. A device identical to the Northern European underground river, currently non-operational, only a thousand meters upstream it connects to the Northern European underground gold river. Thus. Perfect. At most, wasting one teleportation node. This gadget. Plentiful in his possession, the system provided a hundred, using them extravagantly, ample surplus, here not considered a waste.