nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 110 The Anomaly at the Bottom of the Rio Grande
As the fifth largest river in North America, the Rio Grande has a drainage area of ​​44.5 square kilometers.

The Rio Grande is not only the mother river of Colorado State, but also the largest ecological river in the Gulf of Mexico. Klein saw that a single-plank bridge that could have directly reached Nanshan was submerged by the blocked Rio Grande. The half-meter-wide river has reached a width of nearly 7 meters, and the depth of the muddy river bottom cannot be seen at all.

Seeing this, Klein also explained to Tao Xi helplessly: "If you must go to Nanshan to find Amar, this is the shortest way."

Tao Xi frowned as he watched the rapid current and rising water level on the river without saying a word.

Aksha turned his head to confirm with Roselle: "This was a stream before, right?"

When Roselle heard this, he turned his head curiously and asked, "How do you know?"

When Aksha heard Roselle's words, he stretched his hand into the river water to grab a handful of soil with confidence, and explained: "Look, I dug this handful of soil out of the river, if this If this big river existed a long time ago, the soil would not be kneaded together, because the geology of Antero Mountain is mainly composed of shale and supplemented by soil."

Tao Xi who heard this sentence suddenly said: "How can the upper reaches of the Rio Grande be blocked?"

Roselle immediately scolded angrily when he heard this: "It was a week after that carload of aquamarines was robbed! It was originally an ordinary small pool, and when the rainy season comes, that pool can still be Row on it."

"But shortly after the aquamarine was robbed, the water level in that pool rose rapidly in just one week."

When Aksha heard this, he immediately calculated the season of Antero Mountain and the water storage capacity of the Rio Grande with a serious face, and summed it up directly: "Recently, Antero Mountain is in the rainy season, and I guess it is a water pool. The silt accumulation there and the unimpeded river channel caused the embankment to burst directly and flooded the downstream area."

Tao Xi immediately asked back when he heard this sentence: "Didn't you say that Antero Mountain is mainly composed of shale and supplemented by mud? Why did silt accumulate there in a short period of time? There is a problem! There must be a problem there! We have to go there and have a look!"

After Tao Xi said this, he walked upstream along the river with the soaring water level without waiting for the other three people to express their opinions.

Instead, Aksha stared at the river in a daze, until Roselle turned around and called Aksha's name, then Aksha hurriedly followed.

The walk along the Rio Grande on Mount Antero is not difficult, and Tausi can occasionally see the ruts of some cars when he walks some sections of the road.

Klein saw Taoxi squatting on the ground staring at a rut in a daze, Klein immediately explained: "At the junction of the Rocky Mountains and the Antero Mountains, the Colorado State Government built a winding road. The government wanted to build a sanatorium at the junction of the two mountain ranges, but the state government was forced to abandon it because of the harsh environment of Nanshan. This road can allow some skilled pickup truck drivers to drive to the top of the mountain.”

"OK!" Tao Xi already had a basic judgment in his heart when he heard this, but he could only know the specific situation when he arrived at the pool.

When the sun was gradually setting, Tao Xi finally saw the small pool that Roselle described!

"what the fxxk!"

"Rosell! Are you sure you're not joking with me!"

"Is the small pool you mentioned so big?" Tao Xi pointed out that the basin that was originally surrounded by four mountains had been completely covered by a vast ocean. If Roselle told him that it was a reservoir, Tao Xi would believe it!

Klein was also stunned when he saw the situation here. As for Roselle, he picked up a dead fish that had already been worried by the river bank and didn't say anything.

What Tao Xi originally thought was whether those missing aquamarines were just under that small pool!

If the river wasn't very deep, Tao Xi might be able to go down to see what's going on, but when a small pool turns into a natural reservoir in just a few days, you just give Tao Xi 100 How dare he dare not go down!
Aksha, who had been silent all of a sudden, grabbed Tao Xi's collar and said in a low voice, "Would you believe me if I said that I once did a similar experiment in Professor Edmund's laboratory?"

The absent-minded Tao Xi "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" for a long time but didn't respond to Akesha.

Seeing that Tao Xi ignored him, Aksha was not in a hurry. Instead, he walked around the invisible natural reservoir. When Aksha came to a spring, he pointed his hand at the dry spring. After fiddled with it a few times, the spring began to ooze water.

"Tausy!"

"Would you believe me if I said that the formation of this natural reservoir is man-made?"

Tao Xi frowned and looked at Akesha again when he heard this sentence, Akesha bravely looked at Tao Xi and shouted loudly: "Rosell! That small pool in the days when the water level suddenly rose , does it often thunder here?"

Roselle and Klein looked at each other in surprise when they heard these words, and nodded to Akesha tacitly.

"Tao Xi! I don't know what you are looking for, or who you are looking for!"

"But I can be sure that the formation of this natural reservoir is man-made, and the thunder heard by Roselle and Klein is because someone exploded the water outlet in the underground cave near the water pool, causing the water level here to rise."

"Because I saw a 1:100 model of this in [Edmond Research Institute]!"

Aksha seemed to be afraid that Tao Xi would not believe him, so he went to a large willow tree hanging on the water and said, "It's right here, right here, there is a 3-meter-deep cave here! I've seen it!"

"If you want to find something, you can go in here and have a look."

Hearing these words, Tao Xi glanced at the wooden boat that was dragged aside and had its bottom cut through by someone, and then looked at the position of the big willow tree, and suddenly realized that the water level of this natural reservoir would be most suitable if one person was left nearby. At that time, it was entirely possible to hide the 3600 million aquamarines here.

Who would doubt that a sudden natural reservoir could hide a $3600 million aquamarine?
Aksha didn't know that Tao Xi had so many psychological thoughts, Aksha still said to Tao Xi emotionally: "As for what you just thought, it was just that someone hid something at the bottom of the pool, your idea is not valid of."

"There are many karst caves at the bottom of the pool, and 40% of the Rio Grande is an underground river. Do you understand? Those karst caves are uncontrollable factors! God knows when the water level of the underground river will rise and those things will be swept away!"

[3600 million aquamarines were robbed] and [Tao Xi, the godson of the blood gang, left the California base camp and went to Denver County in person] These two things made Klein's head buzz like a curse.

His brother-in-law Russell also reacted, and kept looking at Klein and blinking.

When Klein saw his brother-in-law's dead appearance, he knew that he had committed an old problem!
"You'd better take back those thoughts you shouldn't have!" Klein hinted at Roselle with an inaudible voice, but Tao Xi didn't notice the movement here, but walked up to the huge willow tree and took a look. He asked Klein again, "Do you know there is a hole here?"

"I don't know. It used to be just a small pool. I usually don't pay attention to the environment above my head."

Russell rolled his eyes at Tao Xi and muttered in a low voice: "Yes, yes, yes, there was once a homeless man who died in that hole."

Tao Xi turned his head again and walked near the destroyed wooden boat and saw a series of footprints. The owner of the footprints looked fat and tall, and he was also left-handed.

Because his left footprint looked bigger and deeper than his right footprint, Tao Xi followed this series of footprints to a gap formed by two large stones.

There is not only household garbage but also a bonfire in this gap, Tao Xi reached in and touched the temperature at the bottom of the bonfire and whispered: "It just rained yesterday! This bonfire was at least three days ago! "

"Okay! I think we should take a short rest here tonight. We will continue to head towards Nanshan tomorrow. Amar is a very important clue!"

Tao Xi was lying on the huge rock looking at the blue sky, the natural reservoir not far away was rumbling down to vent his river water, and Aksha was still dangling on the river bank not far away.

Instead, Roselle took over the tasks of setting up tents and boiling water for daily use, and Klein swayed around under the rock where Tao Xi stayed.

"Ask whatever you want!"

After hearing this, Klein swiftly climbed onto the rock of Taoxi and asked in a low voice, "Are you looking for those 3600 million aquamarines that were robbed?"

"Yes! I accepted Bastian Lang's employment, and I am helping him with a very difficult matter now."

Klein was taken aback when he heard Tao Xi's answer. Tao Xi is the godson of the Blood Gang!How did he end up working as a group of private investigators?But don't ask what shouldn't be asked, Klein knows this truth.

"What about gems? What about gems?"

Tao Xi turned over nonchalantly when he heard Klein's words, but Tao Xi's action startled Klein.

Tao Xi looked at Klein, who was acting defensively, and laughed directly: "Okay! Don't worry, what you should take will not be missed, and what you shouldn't take, even if you take it, you will not lose it." Lifeless flower! I am the most reasonable person!"

Klein was overjoyed when he heard this, and Tao Xi pushed Klein who was close in front of him away and said disgustedly: "You are [Saixi] in the underground boxing match in Los Angeles! Can you have some dignity? If you have the time, you should think about where Amar will hide!"

The night gradually deepened, and raindrops began to float in the night sky again. The four elders curled up in the tent and no one spoke.

The water level of the reservoir outside rose again. Fortunately, Roselle set up the tent on top of the two rocks at the suggestion of Tao Xi, and the rumbling sound of the natural reservoir was louder than during the day.

"Tao Xi! Tell me about your plan! The three of us here know the ins and outs of the whole thing. I hope you can share everything you know with me, so that I can use what I have known in the past Go find the clues you want!"

Tao Xi poked his head out of the tent, glanced at the heavier rain and sighed helplessly: "Actually, the matter is very simple, if Akesha remembered correctly, the 3600 million aquamarines must have been hidden there! And Aksha's mentor, Professor Edmond, was also involved in this matter, as for whether Bastian is a victim or not, I don't know!"

"We need to find Amar first! Then find Professor Edmond!" Tao Xi said while sharing all the information and photos in his hands with the three people.

"Bastian and Professor Edmond have an interest relationship. At first, I thought that those gems that were robbed were robbed by [Antero Hunter Gang], but I don't think you look like this. You even Like a poor man who was framed!"

"So I still need to find out who did this case. The most suspected one is Professor Edmond, but I don't know his motive."

After Tao Xi finished speaking, he gave Akesha a meaningful look, and Akesha blinked innocently without making any excuses.

The 1:100 model of the laboratory is there. Although the small pool has become a natural reservoir due to the terrain, there is no evidence of explosives, but that model can send Edmond to prison, but there is no evidence yet. People associate that model with this case.

"And as far as I know, Bastian has an oil field near the Antero Mountains! This oil field is not registered in Colorado State!"

When Tao Xi said this, the other two people in the tent were shocked, but Akesha was not surprised at all.

"Professor Edmund has published many papers related to oil in SCI journals in the past two years. The most meaningful one is called [Oil Shale Conversion of Kerogen to Synthesize Crude Oil]. This paper was released When it came out, it attracted a lot of interest from geologists and oil companies."

"Shale oil is the main distribution method of oil fields in the United States, and Colorado happens to be the most widely distributed area of ​​shale."

"However, no large-scale shale oil fields have been discovered here. Professor Edmond happens to be a professor at the University of Colorado. In recent years, he has often made some outsourcing reports near the Antero Mountains. The release of this paper Attracted a lot of interested people!"

"I'm not surprised that you said this."

Tao Xi patted Akesha on the shoulder with such an expression, and Klein next to him suddenly shouted: "Fxxk! I think I may know where the oil and Amar are hidden! Amar was killed last year. In June, I helped about 6 small Mexicans to smuggle here, but no one knows where the small 40 people were sent to! Do you think it is possible that nearly 40 stowaways were sent to that oil field!"

Tao Xi couldn't help but smile when he heard Klein's words, and Roselle muttered in a low voice, "Do you think it's possible that Bastian stole these gems himself? Bastian planted the robbery of the gem on Amar's head in order to kill people!"

(End of this chapter)