novelraw Chapter 365 - 176: Jiang Yi’s Favorability Increased, Meteorite Acquired! (Three-in-One)
Chapter 365 - 176: Jiang Yi’s Favorability Increased, Meteorite Acquired! (Three-in-One)
After unloading the truck, he took a stroll around Jiang Jianjun and Yang Wenyan’s dormitory.
The dormitory had a bunk bed left by a former tenant, just perfect for two people to sleep in.
The bedding on the bed was partly brought by Jiang Jianjun and Yang Wenyan.
Another part was bought by Jiang Jiaqi in the afternoon when she took them shopping.
After chatting with the family of three for a few more sentences, Jiang Tao finally drove towards Xiaoshanhe Urban Village.
The meteorite worth 880,000 in the water pit hadn’t been obtained yet.
He was somewhat uneasy about it.
The sooner it’s in his hands, the sooner he can set his mind at ease.
After parking the car at the village entrance, Jiang Tao first went to Pang Dongdong Supermarket in the urban village to buy a cheap set of work clothes and a pair of tall black rubber boots.
He changed out of the new clothes he was wearing.
He was going to head down the mud pit soon, and he couldn’t bear to get dirty in the outfit Xu Li had bought for over 5,000 yuan.
A set of work clothes plus a pair of rubber boots only cost about 200 yuan in total; if it gets dirty, he can just throw it away without feeling bad.
Around 7 p.m., when the sky had already darkened, Jiang Tao once again arrived at the edge of the water pit.
In his field of vision, near the center of the water pit, a pale blue light was shooting straight up from the bottom of the pit.
During the day when he observed it, the marker wasn’t that obvious, but at night it became very conspicuous.
Seizing the moment when no one was paying attention to him, Jiang Tao ran down the roadside and charged to the bottom of the pit.
Under the dim light, he stepped cautiously towards the place marked by the blue light column.
"Damn it, we’re worth over ten million now, still have to do this kind of dirty and exhausting work ourselves."
As he walked toward the blue light column, Jiang Tao muttered to himself, reluctantly.
If his nephews were here, he could hand this dirty and tiring work over to them.
When it comes to his two nephews, Jiang Tao is totally at ease.
Splash, splash, splash...
"Hiss, it’s really damn cold."
It’s only late March, not even April yet.
In Beijing, the temperature is only about four or five degrees early in the morning and late at night.
Though the ice has melted, stepping into the water pit in rubber boots, his hands and feet felt icy cold.
But for 880,000, Jiang Tao can endure this little hardship.
Splash, splash, splash...
After about three minutes of cautious stepping, Jiang Tao arrived at the spot marked by Brother Tongzi, near the blue light column.
[Would you like to spend 6,666 yuan to retrieve the target item hidden here?]
"..."
He had come this far, but Jiang Tao didn’t spend the money to retrieve the item right away.
What if the meteorite isn’t buried too deep and he could grab it with a reach?
That way, wouldn’t he save over 6,000 yuan!
Thinking of this, Jiang Tao bent over and reached into the mud in the water pit.
After groping for about ten minutes, he came up empty.
In the end, somewhat unwillingly, he chose to spend 6,666 yuan to extract the item.
[Detected other observers nearby, extraction failed, please try again later.]
"Who the hell likes to watch the excitement..."
Jiang Tao cast his gaze toward the shore, at this moment he was already sixty or seventy meters from the bank.
Plus, it was already dusk, and the dim light made it impossible to see the people on the shore clearly.
Likewise, if someone on the shore was looking into the pit, they probably couldn’t see him clearly either.
But Brother Tongzi’s hint indicated there were observers, preventing him from extracting the item.
There was nothing he could do but patiently wait.
He extracted his feet from the water pit, finding a relatively dry spot to stand.
[Detected other observers nearby, extraction failed, please try again later.]
"Who the hell has nothing better to do than watch over here? It’s so late, don’t they go home for dinner!"
At this moment, Jiang Tao experienced what it means when time drags like years.
For the sake of this meteorite, he hadn’t even had dinner yet.
Today, he truly felt what the legendary hunger and cold was like!
[Please try again later...]
[Please try again later...]
In just five minutes, Jiang Tao tried no less than a hundred times.
Finally, on the 101st attempt, with a splash, a black stone no bigger than a palm, but shaped a bit like a heart, emerged from the water.
Jiang Tao reached out and caught the stone in his hand.
Clearly, this should be the meteorite mentioned in today’s report, from the distant region between Jupiter and Mars’s asteroid belt.
Black and rough to the touch, it looked quite ordinary.
"Something this small, worth 880,000?"
Holding the meteorite up to his eyes for a closer look, Jiang Tao couldn’t figure out much.
He pocketed the meteorite and started to retrace his steps back.
Under the night sky, people hurried along the riverbank with no one paying attention to his unusual actions.
After climbing ashore and returning to the car park at the village entrance, it was already past 7 p.m.
Quickly changing out of the work clothes and rubber boots, Jiang Tao donned his clean and decent casual outfit once more.
He took the meteorite out of the work clothes pocket and put it in a wooden box.
He’s not planning to keep it; tomorrow he’ll take some time to visit Pan Garden, to see if Zhang Bo’s family would be interested in buying it.
After securing the meteorite, Jiang Tao drove home, arriving a little past 7:30 p.m.
He had already called Xu Li and told them not to wait for him to have dinner, just to save some for him.
"Honey, you’re back. It’s quite late today, you must be tired. The rice is kept warm in the pot. Let me heat up the dishes for you."