Chapter 156: The Giant Rat, Tears of Blood
Ren Zhong entered the inner room, put on a gas mask, connected the oxygen tube, slid down nearly fifty meters along a long hanging ladder, turned on the searchlight, walked forward more than ten meters, and reached an alloy door.
Three minutes later, the semi-senior Demolition Master Ren Zhong accurately completed all the operation steps, successfully unlocked it, and the door opened with a click.
Entering through the door, the inside was completely empty.
But this could not stump Ren Zhong.
He was no ordinary scavenger thief.
He came prepared.
Precision scanner set up.
Hot Melt Cutting Device set up.
Ten minutes later, Ren Zhong dug out a large box from underground.
The box was not locked and opened directly.
Inside were two items, a small palm-sized box, extremely heavy in hand.
Next to the box was a small booklet.
Ren Zhong first took the booklet, opened it, and found the content densely recorded with encrypted phrases, but the handwriting was different from Si Mawan's.
Ren Zhong speculated that these should be the relics of Hanyu's parents.
As for the box beside it, he weighed it slightly, very heavy in hand, and the Metal Analyzer could not penetrate it, revealing nothing inside.
But Ren Zhong could guess what was inside without opening it.
It must be related to the murder of Hanyu's parents, either a sample of Alien Ore or Alien Ore Extract.
This was excellent evidence.
He was a bit astonished.
In the previous timeline, when Si Mawan confessed before dying about Yang Bingzhong's plot to murder Hanyu's parents, it was the first time Ren Zhong had heard of Alien Ore.
Ren Zhong always thought it was just an ordinary treasure, worth at most tens of millions of points.
After all, a mine is just metal.
On Source Star, there aren't many things, but metal is definitely cheap.
Most Ruined Beast carcasses contain metal.
After witnessing the Chenhui Mine, metal in Ren Zhong's eyes was even more devalued.
With such technology, what metal do you not have?
But now, it seemed he completely underestimated the value of Alien Ore.
Something that Si Mawan would cherish and hide here, and use to bargain with Yang Bingzhong for years, couldn't be ordinary.
Further conjunction with the fact that Yang Bingzhong became overnight rich after the transaction in the previous timeline connected many details logically.
The value of Alien Ore probably exceeds imagination, with great implications, at least a regulated item equivalent to Source Stone, so much so that Yang Bingzhong had to feign moving to evade the inspectors of Chromium Carbon Town by splitting into two teams.
Hanyu's parents must have known its value, such that they dared not let Hanyu herself find out.
As for why the two adopted sons Lin Wang and Bei Lihui knew, Ren Zhong believed they were present when the item was discovered.
But unlike the treacherous Lin Bei siblings, Hanyu's parents, who lived in Starfire Town before the Yang Bingzhong era, were not so ruthless and did not choose to eliminate witnesses, unintentionally bringing misfortune upon themselves.
Or perhaps the Lin Bei siblings overheard by chance, in which case, there was no help.
Of course, all of the above was speculation, because Ren Zhong still could not understand why the discovery of the Alien Ore, made at least a decade ago, was only sold now when they were moving.
Such a hot potato should have been handled as early as possible.
Ren Zhong thought briefly before putting the box and booklet in his arms, returning to Room 144 on the ground, and left directly.
He did not damage the structure of Room 144, only barely covered the cut-out floor.
Perhaps someone would soon discover this precious site, but that was already unimportant.
He quietly returned to the "newlywed villa" Ma Dafu prepared for him and Ma Xiaoling and hid the box under the sink cabinet in the villa kitchen.
This was very safe; with Ma Xiaoling's nature, she wouldn't possibly have the skill to cook.
Ren Zhong then stuffed the booklet into his pocket and went to the guest room.
He did not use hypnosis but chose to sleep naturally, setting the alarm for six in the morning.
Re-entering the hibernation space, he opened the stock market.
Through the whole night, until just before the alarm rang, he completed building a position with a total amount reaching 4.15 million points, far less efficient than last time.
Because he spent a lot of time organizing memories, finding leverage again, and forcibly deepening his memory.
In the past, he only aimed at stocks that would rise and didn't care if they fell, so recalling Demon Stocks was easy.
But this time, he adjusted his target, needing to find a stock that would first steadily rise and then cliff-dive twenty days later.
This stock also had to be large enough to withstand the entry of ten billion-level capital.
The rise couldn't be too high, while it also had to have a steady increase lasting more than ten days.