Chapter 176: Chapter 175: The Advantage Is Mine

[Little Xu Station Chief, he’s lying!]

The Bactrian camel let out a loud, deep bellow.

[When my partner and I were loading things, we heard them talking about crossing the border, European buyers, and hiding things in crafts to confuse others.]

Xu Ying squinted her eyes upon hearing this.

It was cross-border smuggling of cultural relics; these people were truly audacious.

They would sell their country’s cultural treasures overseas just for money.

“Tsk, lying is not a good habit.”

Xu Ying’s eyes were sharp and menacing as she glanced at the tomb raiders: “You were clearly planning to hide the items in crafts, take them to Outer Mongolia, and then sell them to European buyers from there!”

“Still not telling the truth?”

The tomb raiders turned pale at Xu Ying’s words. This woman seemed almost like a deity, knowing even this?

They couldn’t quite grasp how much this woman knew about the situation, and at this point, they didn’t dare to gamble on whether Xu Ying knew the truth or not.

[How dare you lie to our Little Xu Station Chief, take the needle!]

Upon learning that these guys were still lying and being dishonest, the desert golden scorpions raised their tails, and with a swift motion, the stinger pierced the ankle of the lying tomb raider.

“Hiss——”

Seven or eight desert golden scorpions stung one after another, and the lying tomb raider felt as if he was about to ascend to heaven.

Another desert golden scorpion, seeing it was late and there was no place by the tomb raider’s feet, aimed its stinger toward the tomb raider’s crotch, frightening the raider into kneeling with legs tightly clamped.

“I’ll confess! I’ll confess everything!”

“Ancestor, please get these things away quickly!”

His lower body was about to be ruined, about to become disabled, and there was no overcoming it even if he talked tough.

“The antiques stolen from the tomb were indeed mixed with imitation crafts, transported to Outer Mongolia, and then air-shipped to Europe.”

The tomb raider said with a crying face: “Now the first batch of antiques is probably already at the border crossing.”

Deputy Yang and others looked grim upon hearing this, taking out their phones to report to a superior: “What is the batch number of the export goods packed as crafts?”

The tomb raider shook his head, looking helpless: “We don’t know, we’re just the small errand boys.”

Xu Ying sternly asked: “Where is your boss now?”

The tomb raider shook his head vigorously like a rattle: “We don’t know, he directs us from a distance.”

Seeing that these people really didn’t know, Xu Ying asked again: “Where did the other five camels go?”

The tomb raider answered honestly: “Our transport SUV got a flat tire, and by chance, one of the brothers found a group of Bactrian camels, so we tied them up to carry the goods.”

“We tied up six Bactrian camels, and one of them, the one near you, escaped halfway.”

The Bactrian camel weighed between five hundred and eight hundred kilograms, allowing them to carry more, capable of loading two hundred to three hundred kilograms of goods.

Historically, Bactrian camels on the Silk Road have been recorded to carry three hundred and fifty kilograms, needing frequent rest.

The tomb raiders felt these Bactrian camels were quite handy for transporting goods, but didn’t dare to say it out loud: “After we used them to carry the goods, we just left them in the desert.”

Xu Ying continued to ask: “Which direction did you take the camels?”

The tomb raider: “After we transported the goods from the tunnel, we headed southwest with the camels, until we handed them over to the vehicle sent by the boss.”

Xu Ying: “How long did you walk?”

The tomb raider: “We walked and stopped for roughly a day and a night.”

Xu Ying: “How much did they carry on average?”

The tomb raider: “On average, each carried about one hundred and fifty kilograms, plus the three of us riding them, urging them to travel overnight without letting them rest…”

From the perspective of protecting the camel’s health, it is appropriate for them to carry no more than 25%-30% of their body weight.

The greater the load, the shorter the distance and slower the speed they can travel each day.

When camels aren’t carrying loads, they walk at about six kilometers per hour, similar to a human brisk walk.

Xu Ying calculated in her mind.

The tomb raider finally said: “After unloading, they just collapsed in the desert, we were in a hurry, so we ignored them.”

[tui——]

After hearing the tomb raider’s words, Mountain Peak spat a gob of spit onto his face.

Camels spit when they feel threatened or annoyed.

The spit consists not only of saliva but also of partially digested grass mixed with stomach acid, which has a very pungent smell.

The tomb raider sprayed by Mountain Peak closed his eyes in pain, having no choice but to bury his head in the sand.

[tui——]

Mountain Peak indiscriminately attacked all the tomb raiders present; camels can control the direction of their spit, reaching up to two meters away.

All the tomb raiders received Mountain Peak’s baptism, each turning pale green, thoroughly disgusted.

Mountain Peak snorted through his nose: [You villains!]

“Getting spat on is just a cheap lesson for you.”

Xu Ying took out a folding basin from the sand motorcycle, took out a 5-liter water bucket from the storage box, and poured water into the plastic basin.

She patted Mountain Peak’s head: “Come, your mouth must be dry from scolding? Have some water, you’ve worked hard.”

“We’ll take care of finding the other camels now~”

Facing Xu Ying, the once aggressive Mountain Peak immediately became gentle and harmless.

[Thank you, Little Xu Station Chief~]

Mountain Peak lowered his head and gulped water, and before long, the water in the basin was gone.

A Bactrian camel can drink sixty to eighty liters of water in ten minutes, their humps store fat, not water.

During metabolism, camels can produce metabolic water, so they lose weight when deprived of water.

The connective tissue under a camel’s skin can absorb a lot of water, and after drinking, their body temporarily swells up, somewhat like a sponge.

Camels have a strong survival ability, able to live seven to ten days without drinking in a hot desert.

It’s been five days, and there’s a high probability those exhausted camels are still alive.

Just unsure if the excessive load and overwork will ruin their health?

“We must quickly find the other five camels.”

Xu Ying drew a rough diagram on paper, “These camels probably traveled forty-five kilometers southwest.”

Deputy Yang: “We’ll send a helicopter over!”

“No worries, I have a more flexible approach!”

Xu Ying shook her head, her gaze on the armored vehicle’s top: “Could I borrow your loudspeakers?”

“Of course!” Deputy Yang enthusiastically invited Xu Ying into the armored vehicle, “Come on, I’ll show you how to operate it!”

Xu Ying was flattered: “I can get on the armored vehicle?”

Deputy Yang was both amused and bemused by this: “You already have a military medal, what can’t you do?”

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