Chapter 11 Chapter 10: The Past of the Poker Bottle

In the early twentieth century, the United States experienced a period of rapid development after World War I. American explorers and expeditions could be seen all over the world. Nepal and Bhutan in Southeast Asia, small countries under the Himalayas, serve as a link to India. In the buffer zone with China, there are a large number of trade activities full of various smells, of which Americans account for a large part. There is a mixed cavalry team composed of Indians, Bhutanese, and Chinese resting in a post station. Various people are mixed in the post station, as well as French businessmen from North Africa, passing on some unidentifiable facts from the nearby border wars. false information.

In the Colts, there are four people who seem to be the core personnel.From the composition of these four people, we can see the composition of the cavalry.There are two leaders in the Indian team, one is Avi and the other is Kulipa. They are two brothers. The leader of the Bhutanese is called Nongchai, while the Chinese only has one, and his name is Dong Can. is a pseudonym. Dong Can, whose original name was Zhang, was a Chinese border businessman.Belongs to a member of a large Chinese family.Originally he had a cavalry team, but the route from Nepal to Tibet was cut off by the war in Sichuan.He is now carrying out some small border trades with Indians and Bhutanese teams.

Dong Can's goods are very special. These goods were actually of little value during the war years, but they still couldn't see the light. Many of them were shipped more than their value. Dong Can's trip this time was just to earn a commission for the goods he brought. Dong Can has a Tibetan-like face, which brings great convenience to his local activities.In the Himalayas, various forces are mixed, and it is quite dangerous for a single-handed businessman.Dong Can is a very shrewd person. He has done very well in this aspect, and he can often get away with using Tibetan. The horse team rested in the station for twelve days before gathering all the necessary supplies and waiting for the rare good weather.They entered the Himalayas and began to march towards China.

This is their friend who knows their last news. A cavalry team of 17 people, including seven Indians, nine Bhutanese, and one Chinese, disappeared in the no man's land in the Himalayas.This is actually a fairly normal thing. There are countless caravans who died in that area from ancient times to the present.However, they have caused high tension among the Indian authorities. There is no reason for this nervousness, of course, there must be a reason, but it is too early to say.The reason given by the Indian authorities at the time was that Avi and Kuripa were actually intelligence officers of the Indian authorities.They had a big plan on their backs, but suddenly both of them disappeared for no apparent reason.

Dong Can and his party must have entered the Himalayas and taken the wrong path.They didn't come out of any exits.Instead, he walked to the deepest part of the mountain, as if he died inside. However, the real situation is not like this.Ten years later, two Bangladeshi businessmen were discovered to be the two Indians back then. They died in a fight in Bangladesh. These two unlucky guys were beaten to death by the loser with a hoe while gambling.Their identities at that time were no longer poor businessmen on horseback, but a pair of very rich local brothers.At the end of this year, someone in Sikkim recognized that a low-key local rich man was the Bhutanese leader, the bald head.

Dong Can did not show up, but the appearance of the other three people clearly made the authorities realize that things were not that simple. The horse team back then did not seem to have died in the Himalayas. They seemed to be alive, and they changed their names and lived with another identity.Moreover, they all have a common feature, that is, they have become quite rich. It is said that when the authorities arrested the bald Bhutanese, the belongings of their family were transported by truck ten times and they were not finished. When the Bhutanese were interrogated, they told the whole story about what happened in the Himalayas.

At that time, after they went deep into the Himalayas, they encountered a particularly terrifying landslide at a junction, and they had to choose another way to move forward.At that time, there was a lot of wind and snow in the mountains, and they didn't realize that after several rounds, they returned to the landslide, and they all fell off the cliff beside the road while climbing. Anyone who has watched the documentary knows that the only way to walk that distance was on foot, and all the animals that could be used to carry luggage were connected by ropes, and the ropes were very carefully connected and knotted very well. same.And in sections that are too slippery, the rope must be untied.Dong Can and the others were wrong in their judgment of the road conditions, so when one person fell into the cliff, all the people were pulled down by the rope.

It was a tragic accident in which countless things happened, which cannot be recorded one by one.Because of the rope, the process of their falling on the cliff is very complicated. Many people were killed by directly hitting the rock wall due to inertia after being caught by the rope, and some people were directly strangled to death by the rope, which is very scary . This accident caused them to lose half of their people and livestock. After resting under the cliff, they found that it was impossible to climb up, so they wanted to find other ways to get back to the cliff. As a result, they walked directly into a place that they had never entered before. area, and found a strange place inside.

It was a valley, and the strange thing was that the snow in the valley was not thick.In the center of the valley, there is a huge sphere, as high as a three or four-story building. The upper part is covered by snow, but it can still be clearly seen that it is a large black metal ball below. And on the side of this big metal ball, in the thin snow, they found countless small metal balls about the size of eggs, thousands of them.These small balls are of different sizes, and with the cover of snow, it is impossible to count the number.If all the snow was removed, the Bhutanese would probably be the same as when children are playing naughty castles today.

They no longer remember who first discovered that some of these balls were made of gold.They collected desperately and exchanged all the goods for these golden balls. During the process of picking them up, they found that the balls there are made of many kinds of metals, such as copper, iron, and lead. It seems that all the metals in the world are here. Everyone is crazy, because there are so many balls, it takes patience to find the golden balls.Later, a robbery accident occurred, and someone was injured in the accident. Afterwards, they left the valley with untold hardships. In the end, there were only six people who survived. In addition to two Indians and a Bhutanese, there were two buddies and Dong Can.Dong Can was the only one among them who didn't take anything with him.At that time, his eyes were all on the big ball, as if his soul had been hooked, he was not interested in the gold all over the mountain.

The Bhutanese said that the huge black ball was just placed in the middle of the valley, and it looked man-made.But what is the function of the black ball placed there, and who placed it, he couldn't understand.All the metal balls are quite worn and oxidized, and they have been there for at least thousands of years. After the Bhutanese regained their freedom, they recorded all these incredible things.He wrote a book and made a lot of wild extrapolations in it.In it, he claimed that most of his wealth was earned by himself, and that the gold was just his starting capital. The gold balls sold by the two Indians have been found all over the world one after another. Some of them have been melted into other shapes or gold coins. There are only twelve left, which are still the same as when they were discovered.At that time, the Indian government bought these things at a high price, and these golden balls became "gold more expensive than gold".