Almost Missed a Good Thing

"Didn't you hear me? Put your guns down. I told you to put your guns down," Adolf, with a gun to his head, quickly ordered the mercenaries.

"No need!" Mark raised his hand and commanded his subordinates.

Unfortunately, facing Jack's threat and Adolf's reprimand, the mercenary leader Mark remained completely unfazed, wearing an expression that dared them to kill him if they wished.

Seeing Mark's expression, Jack knew he had lost the gamble. He could only reluctantly throw his gun to the ground and surrender again.

Perhaps Jack hadn't held out much hope for this gamble from the start. After all, Jack was an explorer who had traveled far and wide, seen all sorts of things and people. He knew that relationships purely maintained by money would crumble when faced with even more money. Moreover, this time it was two hundred and forty tons of gold; even brothers would turn against each other.

The only reason Jack had gambled despite knowing it wouldn't succeed was to save his own life. He knew that once the mercenaries found all the gold, they would have no value and their only path would be death.

Unfortunately, Jack didn't know that Hao Shuai, a cheater, was nearby. It would be difficult for them to die.

"There's still a lot of gold behind the passage. As long as you don't kill me, I'm willing to lead you to find it all."

Having lived for sixty or seventy years and fought in wars, Adolf saw Mark's expression and understood he was no longer valuable. He quickly found an excuse to trick them.

"I doubt you can pull any tricks, kid. You'll come with us. The rest of you, move the gold out," Mark said, pointing at Jack.

Forced into a corner, Jack had no choice but to follow Mark into the passage behind them.

At this moment, Adolf gave Hao Shuai a meaningful look, then subtly glanced at a red wrench on the wall.

Hao Shuai nodded silently, indicating he understood.

Once Jack and the other two had entered the passage, Hao Shuai instantly sprang into action, kicking away a mercenary leaning by the door, and then pulled down the red lever.

With a boom, the two gate controls for the gold storage room were shut. The mercenaries were trapped inside the room, while Jack, Mark, and one of his subordinates were blocked outside the other gate.

"What do we do now, Adolf?" Hao Shuai asked in a deep voice.

"There's a control room upstairs. Push me up, let's see how Flying Eagle is doing," Adolf explained, pointing to a staircase.

Knowing that Brother Long, with his "God of Furniture" attribute, was invincible as long as there were props, even if he got beaten up pretty badly, Hao Shuai wasn't worried about Jack's safety at all. He just wanted to quietly be a spectator.

"Ada, you three push Adolf up. I'll go see if there's another way," Hao Shuai instructed.

After Ada and the other two left with Adolf, Hao Shuai directly opened the gate and walked in.

Inside, the mercenaries, who were frantically searching for an exit, saw the door suddenly open and Hao Shuai walk in. They immediately grabbed their guns and started shooting at him, afraid he would close the door again if they didn't kill him.

When the gunfire stopped, the mercenaries saw an unbelievable scene: countless bullets were floating in front of Hao Shuai, as if time had stopped before him. They looked as if they had seen a ghost.

Hao Shuai, too lazy to waste words, moved his Psychic Power. The bullets floating in front of him instantly shot out, and the mercenaries were all hit and eliminated.

After dealing with the cannon fodder, Hao Shuai collected all the gold into his spatial storage. He didn't rush to find Adolf and the others, but instead took a tour of the room.

It was clear this place was used as the base's storage room. The entire storage room was very large; the two hundred and forty tons of gold only occupied a small portion of the space. The remaining area was stocked with a large quantity of famous German weapons and equipment, such as MP40 submachine guns and MG42 machine guns. The sheer number was enough to arm a light infantry division.

Looking at these well-preserved weapons and ammunition, Hao Shuai realized how foolish he had been, almost losing the bigger picture for the smaller one. He had been so focused on the gold that he almost overlooked these weapons.

He should have thought about it: with these weapons, he could go to any ancient world and have anything he wanted. The entire world could even be his.

After realizing this, Hao Shuai began to collect all the weapons and gasoline into his spatial storage, not even sparing the aerial bombs. Although Hao Shuai didn't have a plane, wasn't he himself a bomber!

When Hao Shuai finished his "scorched earth" policy and arrived at the control room, Peach and the other two were looking down through the observation window, while Adolf was operating the control console.

Hao Shuai also came to the observation window and saw Jack below, under Adolf's coordination, beating up Mark and the other guy like a 'flying superman.' The scene was incredibly comical, and Hao Shuai almost burst out laughing.

In the end, Mark and the other guy were tragically trapped behind the exhaust fan. Brother Long had once again defended his title as "God of Furniture."

Seeing Jack victorious and the three women upstairs constantly shaking their hips, Hao Shuai couldn't stand it any longer. He picked up the microphone and shouted, "Stop playing around, the base is about to explode, hurry up and come up."

A moment later, Jack arrived at the control room and looked at the countdown on the console. "Why would a perfectly good base explode?" Jack asked, confused.

"Uh! We were just worried about you and wanted to help. We didn't know there were so many buttons, and we don't understand them, so we just pressed them randomly, and ended up hitting the self-destruct mechanism," Ada and Elsa said, standing at the back of the group, as meek as quails.

Jack gave the two girls a helpless look and couldn't be bothered to scold them. It wasn't the first time Jack had been tricked by the two girls on this journey.

"What do we do now?" Jack, completely helpless, looked to Adolf, who was most familiar with the base.

"The only way now is to blast through the ventilation shaft in the laboratory. That's the weakest part of the base," Adolf said, pointing to the opening above the laboratory.

"Oh~~ Using the wind force?" Jack suddenly understood.

It took ten minutes for Jack to climb up to the opening and set the explosives. Hao Shuai and the others loaded the box of gold outside the gate, preparing to take it out later. Fortunately, they thought there were still mercenaries inside the gate and didn't dare to open it, otherwise, they would have discovered it was empty.

When everyone was ready, Ada said, "Adolf refuses to leave."

"I will not leave. I should have died forty years ago. I want to be with my old friends. I want to stay here. Goodbye!" Adolf's lonely words came through the microphone.

Adolf was determined to stay. Hao Shuai and the others had no choice. They went to the ventilation opening and each grabbed their boxes full of gold. Hao Shuai and Jack also had two boxes hanging around their necks.

At this moment, the entire base began to sound the alarm, and Adolf activated the fan. As the wind force increased, Jack and the others were blown flat against the wall, their faces contorted, and the gold in their hands scattered on the ground. Only Hao Shuai held his four boxes of gold steadily.

Boom! When the wind force reached its maximum, Jack detonated the explosives in the ventilation shaft, and the outlet was opened.

Whoosh

Whoosh

Jack and the other three were instantly blown out through the ventilation shaft. Hao Shuai, due to the heavy load, was still below, but he hadn't intended not to be blown out. Instead, he flew out directly with the gold.

After flying out of the base, Hao Shuai pretended to be flustered and fell from the air. Jack was already waiting for him.

"Hurry up, take a box of gold each and run! This place is about to collapse!" Hao Shuai, not wanting Jack to ask too many questions, directly handed one box of gold to each of them, took down the two boxes from his neck, and took the lead in running.

Jack and the others took the gold without much thought, immediately following Hao Shuai as he took off running.

After running a hundred or two hundred meters, Hao Shuai and the group stopped, turning to watch the rumbling sounds erupt behind them. Before long, the entire sand dune collapsed.

"Now no one will be able to find the gold!" Ada murmured to herself.

"At least we didn't run for nothing, right?" Hao Shuai patted the box on the ground.

Jack and the others had originally intended to return the gold to Hao Shuai, as he had risked his life to retrieve it. However, Hao Shuai stated directly that he wasn't short on money and that he was only out for the thrill of exploration. He divided the gold among them, one box per person, keeping two boxes for himself.

With a box of gold each, Jack and the others felt their trip hadn't been in vain; the adventure was worth it.

On the way back, with Hao Shuai occasionally providing water and Peach leading the way, they didn't suffer as much as in the movies. They quickly exited the desert and returned to Spain.

Upon arriving in Spain, Hao Shuai found Jack and told him he had some family matters to attend to and needed to return home.

After bidding farewell to everyone, Hao Shuai went into a deserted alley and simply vanished from this world.