Chapter 10 The past of the stuffy oil bottle

　　In the early 20th century, the United States experienced a period of rapid development after the "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, served as links to India. In the buffer zone with China, there is a large number of trade activities full of various smells, of which Americans account for a large part.

　　There is a mixed horse team composed of Indians, Bhutanese and Chinese resting in a post station. There are various people mixed in the post station, and there are French merchants who came from North Africa. False information.

　　In the Colts, there are four people who seem to be the core. From the composition of these four people, we can see the components of the horse team. There are two leaders in the Indian team, one is called Avi and the other is called Kuripa. They are two brothers. The leader of the Bhutanese is called Nongchai, while there is only one Chinese. His name is Dong Can. is a pseudonym.

　　Dong Can, whose real name was Zhang, was a Chinese frontier businessman. Belongs to a member of a very large Chinese family. He originally had a horse team himself, but the route from Nepal to Tibet and Sichuan was cut off by the war. He is now doing some small border trade with Indians and Bhutanese teams.

　　Dong Can's goods are very special. These goods were actually of little value during the war, but they were still invisible. Many of them were shipped more than their value. Dong Can's trip was just earning commissions for the goods he brought.

　　Dong Can has a face that resembles a Tibetan, which brings great convenience to his local activities. In the Himalayas, where various forces are mixed, it is quite dangerous to trade alone. Dong Can is a very shrewd person, he is very good at this, and he can often get away with using Tibetan.

　　The horse team rested in the inn for twelve days before gathering all the necessary supplies and waiting for the rare good weather. They entered the Himalayas and started heading towards China.

　　This is their friend who has their last news.

　　A group of seventeen horses, seven Indians, nine Bhutanese, and one Chinese disappeared into the no-man's land of the Himalayas. This is actually quite a normal thing. I don't know how many caravans died in that area from ancient times to the present. However, they have caused high tension in the Indian authorities.

　　There is no reason for this tension, 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 Curripa were actually intelligence officers of the Indian authorities. They were carrying 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 took the wrong path. They didn't come out of any exit. Instead, he went to the deepest part of the mountain, as if he had died inside.

　　However, this is not the case in reality. Ten years later, two Bangladeshi businessmen were found to be the same two Indians. They died in a brawl in Bangladesh. These two unlucky people were killed by the loser with a hoe when they were gambling. Their identities at that time were no longer poor businessmen on the revolving horses, but a pair of very wealthy local brothers. At the end of this year, someone in Sikkim recognized a low-key local rich man as the Bhutanese leader, the bald man.

　　Dong Can did not appear, but the appearance of the other three clearly made the authorities realize that things were not that simple.

　　The horse team that year did not seem to have died in the Himalayas. They all seemed to be alive, and changed their names and surnames to live in another identity. Moreover, they all have one characteristic in common, that is, they have become quite rich.

　　It is said that when the authorities arrested the bald Bhutanese, their property was trucked ten times without finishing.

　　When Bhutanese were interrogated, they told the whole story of what happened in the Himalayas.

　　At that time, after their group went deep into the Himalayas, they encountered a particularly terrifying landslide at an intersection, and they had to choose another road. There was a lot of snow in the mountains at that time, and they didn't realize that after a few turns, they returned to the place where the landslide had collapsed, and they all fell off the cliffs beside the road while climbing.

　　Anyone who has watched related documentaries knows that at that time, if you wanted to walk that road, you could only walk on foot. All animals that could be used to carry luggage were connected with ropes, and the connection of the ropes was very careful, and the knots were also very good. Not the same. And in sections that are too slippery, the rope has to be untied. Dong Can and the others were wrong about the road conditions, so when one person fell into the cliff, all the people were pulled down by the ropes.

　　It was a tragic accident in which so many things happened that it was impossible to record them all. Because of the ropes, the process of falling on the cliff is very complicated. Many people were killed by the inertia of the rope after they hit the rock wall directly. Some people were strangled directly by the rope, which is very scary. .

　　This accident caused them to lose half of their people and animals. After resting under the cliff, they found that it was impossible to climb up, so they wanted to find another way to get back to the cliff. As a result, they walked directly into a place they had never entered before. area and found a strange place inside.

　　It was a valley, and it was strange that the snow in the valley was not thick. In the center of the valley, there was another huge sphere, three or four stories high. The upper part was covered with snow, but it could still be clearly seen that it was a large black metal sphere below.

　　On the edge of this big metal ball, in the thin snow, they found countless small metal balls about the size of an egg, with thousands in number. The size of these small balls is not ~, 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 play Naughty Castle today.

　　They can't remember who first discovered that some of the balls were made of gold. They collected desperately and exchanged all the goods for these golden balls.

　　In the process of picking them up, they found that the balls there are made of many kinds of metals, copper, iron, lead, it seems that all the metals in the world are found here.

　　Everyone went crazy because there were so many balls and it took patience to find the golden ball inside. Later, there was a snatch accident, and someone was injured in the accident.

　　After a lot of hard work, they left the valley. In the end, only six people survived. In addition to two Indians and one Bhutanese, there were two guys and Dong Can. Dong Can was the only one among them who didn't take anything away. At that time, his eyes were all on the big ball, as if he was hooked, and he was not interested in the gold that was full of mountains.

　　The Bhutanese said that the huge black ball, placed in the middle of the valley, was man-made at first sight. But what is the role of this black ball over there, and who placed it, he cannot understand. All the metal balls are quite worn and oxidized and have been there for at least thousands of years.

　　After the Bhutanese were freed, all these incredible things were recorded. He wrote a book and made a lot of unrealistic inferences in the book. Among them, he claimed that most of his wealth was earned by himself, and that the gold was just his starting capital.

　　The golden 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. Only twelve are left, which are still the same as when they were discovered. At that time, the Indian government paid high prices for these things, and these golden balls became "gold more expensive than gold".