Chapter 527

It was a crocodile about fifteen feet long, its olive-brown back and tail covered with scaly armor, revealing sharp teeth that were hideous and terrifying.

“Ow……” the huge crocodile hissed and lunged at Elsa Marin, who was leading the way.

Elsa Marin, glasses girl, Lilith were all frightened by the sudden emergence of a huge beast, turned around to run back, and a scream came out of their mouths, “Ah ……”

Glasses Girl was overly panicked, her feet slipped, and she fell.

Elsa Marin couldn’t dodge and crashed into her, also following the fall.

Just in this gap, the huge crocodile chased after her, opened its pouring mouth, and bit Elsa Marin’s right leg.

Even though Elsa Marin was accustomed to seeing wild animals, she was startled and panicked, and the strong flashlight in her hand waved as if trying to scare the crocodile away.

With a sharp pain coming from her right foot, Elsa Marin’s face showed a look of despair, she knew very well how powerful the crocodile’s bite was, she couldn’t hold on for more than a few seconds before her leg was broken, and if she took another death roll, she would be dragged into the waterhole, her body and bones were nowhere to be found.

“Ah ……” she let out a desperate cry from her mouth.

“Bang!”

A gunshot echoed in the cave.

Blood splattered in all directions.

“Ow ……”

The huge crocodile opened its mouth and let out a hiss of pain as its body kept struggling and rolling over.

“Bang!”

Another shot.

Blood splattered again.

The crocodile’s struggles also turned weak, seemingly having exhausted its strength, the crocodile blood stained the water pool red.

“Pfft ……” Another huge figure surfaced, its four short legs churning the water as it darted in.

The three women once again revealed a look of horror, Lilith and Cobalt dragging the injured Elsa Marin to hide behind Luke.

However, instead of attacking Luke and the others, this one crocodile rushed towards its companion and took a bite out of the injured crocodile’s body, followed by a death roll that stirred up the waves of the water pool.

“Bang Bang.” With two more shots in a row, Luke hit the second crocodile.

This cold-blooded animal ate even its own companions, and even if it didn’t attack the four this time, it was still a huge threat.

Luke was using a shotgun with huge power, that’s why he was able to kill the crocodile, if he was using a normal pistol, it would be hard to pose a fatal threat to the crocodile, instead, it might enrage the crocodile and make it even more crazy.

Two crocodiles colored the water pool red.

Soon, a third crocodile surfaced out of the water pool, again ignoring Luke’s four and choosing to tear into the corpse of his companion instead.

“Bang Bang.” With two more shots, the third crocodile was directly killed by Luke.

After a long time, the water pool calmed down before the three women relaxed.

Lilith took out her first aid kit and squatted beside Elsa Marin, concerned, “How are your injuries?”

Elsa Marin’s face was pale, and she didn’t know whether it was from being scared or losing too much blood, her voice was hoarse: “The leg hurts a little, it should be injured, but fortunately Luke shot in time, the crocodile hadn’t had the time to bite hard enough, and the injury wasn’t very serious.”

“I’ll help you heal your injury.” Lilith opened the first aid kit and took out scissors to cut open Elsa Marin’s pant leg, revealing the anti-snake leg guards inside, “It’s a good habit to alleviate your injury.”

Sparing the anti-snake leg guards, Elsa Marin’s leg was still injured, although there were no lacerations, but red indentations could be seen.

Of course, the main thing was that Luke shot in time, otherwise once the crocodile bites hard, the anti-snake leg guards could not prevent the crocodile’s huge biting force.

Elsa Marin revealed a look of gratitude, “Luke, you saved my life, thank you very much.

I don’t know how to express …… it.”

Luke said, “We are a team and you are my partner.

Recover from your wounds in peace.”

Lilith treated her wounds briefly and said, “There are no visible wounds, but the crocodile’s bite is incredibly strong, so it’s best for you to recuperate for a while.”

Elsa Marin said, “I’ll recuperate when the treasure hunt is over, but not now, just get me a crutch and I can still continue exploring the cave with you guys.”

Glasses Girl frowned, “Come on, you’re not kidding.

This cave is so dangerous, and there might be crocodiles in front of us, and we’re going to continue exploring?”

“These three all belong to the American crocodiles, they live in fresh water, logically, they shouldn’t appear on this island, this is very abnormal.” Lilith stroked her glossy chin and said, “My guess is that these crocodiles were most likely brought by the people who buried the treasures in order for them to guard them.

If my guess is correct, then the treasure is most likely inside the cave.”

Luke refilled the spare side magazine of his shotgun with bullets, “If you’re scared, you guys wait here and I’ll go ahead and explore.”

“No, absolutely not.” Elsa Marin and Cobalt said in unison.

Lilith said, “If you go and another crocodile appears in the waterhole, we’ll have to run away.”

Luke suggested, “Elsa is injured, I’ll send you out of the cave before coming in to explore the depths of the cave.”

“No need, my injuries are not very serious, I can continue to explore the cave.” After Elsa Marin finished speaking, she stood up holding onto the rock wall and tried to take a few steps forward, “It’s not a big problem.”

Lilith advised, “You shouldn’t hold on hard, it will cause the injury to worsen.”

Elsa Marin was unimpressed, “I’ve been crawling in the wild since I was a child, and I would continue to run and play after falling from a tree, this kind of injury is nothing to me.”

Since Elsa Marin said so, Luke and Lilith also no longer persuade, the four of them slightly rested and continued to explore the depths of the cave.

After walking forward for a few minutes, there was a fork in front of them, the left fork was connected to a pool of water, and the right fork was cut off from the pool of water.

Glasses Girl took a strong flashlight and shone it towards the right fork, “Let’s go this way, we shouldn’t encounter crocodiles.”

Although Luke had the ability to kill the crocodile, the width of the water pool was uncertain, if the crocodile suddenly lunged over and tore, dragging people into the water pool, it would still be dangerous.

The four of them discussed for a while, and finally decided to take the right fork.

Walked for about a few minutes, the front of another pool of water, the road is getting narrower and narrower, the people again alert, strong flashlight from time to time to the pool of water.

Luckily, there was no danger along the way.

About another ten minutes forward, the terrain becomes low, the pool of water will be the road ahead of the isolation, to wade in order to continue to move forward.

Looking at the depth of the water pool, the four of them once again muttered.

Lilith habitually looked at Luke, “What do you have in mind?”

Luke swept his gaze over the three women and landed on Elsa Marin, who was the closest to the crocodile just now, and the shotgun hit the crocodile, splattering blood all over her.

Luke crouched down and used his dagger to cut off a bloody strip of cloth from her pants and threw it into the pool of water.

It didn’t take long for the pool of water to churn, and several palm-sized fish swam towards the strip of cloth, opening their mouths to reveal sharp teeth, tearing at the cloth, and in the blink of an eye the cloth was parted with.

The crowd was stunned by the scene they had just witnessed.

Elsa Marin even exclaimed, “Piranha!

Luckily we didn’t go into the water, otherwise, with the crocodile blood on us, we would definitely be torn by the piranhas, and by then, not to mention the meat, the bones could even be bitten off.

These things are even more ferocious and bloodthirsty than crocodiles.”

The waterhole definitely can’t go down, although the piranhas are small in size, but they are in groups, they can’t be killed even if they want to.

The four of them could only turn around and return to the fork in the road, once again traveling along the waterhole inhabited by the crocodiles.

“Bang Bang!”

With two shots, Luke took out another crocodile that wanted to rise up and hurt someone.

The rest of the way was smooth, with no more crocodiles appearing in the waterhole.

The four of them turned into an expansive cavern, where the ground was higher and the water receded a lot, revealing a platform the size of a basketball court.

There was also a one-foot-wide, dozens-of-feet-long crack at the top of the cavern, connecting it to the outside world.

On the far right side of the cavern, a number of palm-sized cobblestones were piled up, blocking off a fork.

Luke walked over to the fork to check it out, and it was obvious that the cobblestones had been piled up artificially.

At Luke’s suggestion, the crowd peeled back the cobblestones, all moving with great care for fear of what dangerous animals might emerge from within.

After a few minutes, the crowd moved the cobblestones away, revealing a four-foot-high, two-foot-wide hole, with a strong flashlight shining inside, somewhat empty, the inside of the hole was larger than expected.

Luke, with his gun in both hands, shortened and was the first to enter the hole, his headlamp scanned the surrounding area, and was instantly surprised by the sight before him.

The hole looked like a curved crescent moon, with twelve crates stacked at the far end, each two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot high.

The crates were wooden, made waterproof, and had locks on them, Luke tried to move them, they weren’t big, but they were heavy.

The other three entered the cave one by one.

Glasses girl surprised, “These are the boxes that contain the treasure?”

Elsa Marin also looked excited and limped over to the chest to check, “There’s a chest here that’s unlocked.”

The crowd all gathered around, and under Luke’s signal, Elsa Marin opened the lid of the chest, and inside were neatly stacked silver bricks, all the size of a palm, exactly the same as the one found earlier.

The glasses girl jumped up excitedly, “Yay, it’s really treasure.”

Elsa Marin stroked the silver ingots in the chest and said with a trembling voice, “It’s unbelievable, I can’t believe I actually found it.”

Lilith’s pretty face showed a touch of smugness, and she resumed her usual arrogance, clasping her hands to her chest, “Don’t be too happy yet, open all the chests, if they’re all silver ingots, they won’t be worth a few dollars.”

Luke picked up the engineer shovel and directly knocked off the lock on the chest.

“Clank clank clank ……”

The locks were rusted and were easily knocked off.

Glasses Girl couldn’t wait to open the chest, “Silver, silver, silver, silver again ……”

Glasses Girl rubbed her hands together and took a deep breath before continuing to open the box, “Silver, gold jewelry, gold bricks, gold bricks, gold bricks, we’re rich!”

In total, there were twelve boxes, six boxes of silver bricks, three boxes of gold bricks, one box of gold jewelry, and two boxes of pottery.

The glasses girl asked with a trembling voice, “How much can these things be worth?”

Luke roughly estimated the weight of the gold bricks and said, “These gold can be worth tens of millions of dollars even if they are sold at the gold price, these silver bricks are less valuable, less than one percent of the gold price, and as for the pottery I don’t know much about it.”

The spectacled girl bowed her head, pinched her trembling fingers, and wondered what she was counting.

Elsa Marin sat down on the floor, leaning her body against the chest, and not knowing whether her legs were weak or whether they ached.

Lilith was also full of joy, what she was most interested in was not the gold bricks, but the box of pottery, taking out a pottery mask and playing with it carefully there.

This time, Luke was surprised to find the treasure successfully, but also a little unexpected, although this is not the first time he found the treasure, but this time the value of the treasure is too much higher than before.

Lilith put the clay pot back into the chest and said, “Guys, I don’t like this cave as much as you do, so, should we think of a way to transport the treasure back to the yacht first.”

Elsa Marin said, “These twelve crates together weigh thousands of pounds, and the roads on the island are not easy to travel, so it is indeed a problem to transport these treasures back to the yacht.

Moreover, it’s already afternoon, even if we don’t carry the treasure back to the yacht, it’s still getting dark.

We’re not familiar with the island’s situation, so if we carry the treasure at night, it’s likely to be somewhat dangerous.”

Lilith said, “You’re right, it’s true that we can’t take all the treasure with us, but we can take some of it first.

The pottery is the lightest in these chests, so we can just carry it back, and it won’t be too much of a burden on us.”

Lilith looked at Luke again, “What do you think?”

Seeing that Lilith valued those pottery jars so much, Luke couldn’t help but be a little curious, however, in front of the glasses girl and Elsa Marin, he couldn’t ask too many questions and said, “I have no opinion.”

“OK, let’s do it then.”

There were a total of two crates for pottery, but since it was their first time on the island, they were carrying more equipment, which was already heavy in itself, and couldn’t carry much.

Lilith took out the pottery from one of the crates and packed it into three separate backpacks in order to prevent the pots from bumping into each other.

Afterwards, the four of them prepared to leave the cave.

Glasses Girl glanced at the box containing the gold nuggets with some fondness, “Can I take a piece away first?”

Lilith was unimpressed, “Sure, as long as you’re not afraid of getting tired.”

“No, I feel all energized right now.” The glasses girl ran back to the case containing the gold nuggets and took one out with both hands and put it in her side pack, “God, I love this sinking feeling, it feels so happy.”

Lilith shook her head, “It’s a little early for you to be talking about that, we have a rugged stretch of rainforest to get through.”

Having found the treasure, the atmosphere on the way back was much lighter.

As they passed by the body of a slain crocodile, another American crocodile appeared, tearing into the body of its companion with a big bite.

Without the fear they had before, the crowd all looked at Luke in unison.

Luke pulled out his shotgun, “You guys go ahead and leave, I don’t want to splatter you with more blood.”

Lilith was concerned, “You be careful.”

After saying that, the three women quickly left the cave, as if they didn’t want to see the bloody scene again.

“Bang bang.”

Luke fired two consecutive shots at the water pool, I don’t know whether it was due to physical exhaustion, the accuracy of the shot was a bit poor, only hitting the tail of that crocodile, the painful crocodile rolled over in the water pool, but the injury was not serious.

Luke didn’t shoot again and turned around to leave the cave.

Luke met up with Lilith and the others outside the cavern.

Lilith said, “We just discussed, although the north shore can dock the yacht, the road in the rainforest is more difficult, and carrying thousands of pounds of treasure through the rainforest is even more difficult, so we are going to continue exploring the south shore of the island for a while.

If the path on the south shore of the island is good, the treasure will be transported from to the south shore, via kayak to the yacht.

What do you think?”

“Let’s go.”

Afterwards, the group explored towards the south side of the sea island, but after not much distance, the group returned.

This was because the road on the south shore was very rugged and muddy, and in some places one could even sink one’s foot into the mud.

The crowd could only follow the original path through the rainforest and return to the north shore of the island.

After returning to the yacht, the crowd simply ate dinner and rested.

Although the treasure had been found, most of it hadn’t been able to be transported back to the yacht, and it wasn’t appropriate to celebrate.

In addition, after running around all day today, the four of them were really a bit tired.

The night was cloudy and dimly lit, and it seemed like it could rain at any time.

Two o’clock in the morning.

A figure appeared outside the yacht’s cockpit, and after observing the surrounding, he entered the cockpit and picked up the maritime satellite phone ……