HUN Chapter 122: Gold Mine Map?

The sound of rushing water stopped, and Lin Yu'an walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel.

His hair was still dripping, and his bare upper body showed distinct muscle lines, full of power.

Without looking at Emily on the bed, he walked straight to the window and pulled open the heavy curtains.

The midnight sun's light instantly flooded in, illuminating the entire room and also lighting up the calm and rational expression that had returned to his face.

Emily also sat up and went into the bathroom for a shower. In the bathroom, she remembered that article again, "Want to Make a Man Care About You? Acting Cute Is Just a Lower Strategy, This Mind Game Works Better." The first point it mentioned was: enhance attractiveness, grasp his needs!

She looked down and confirmed she couldn't see her own feet. The attractiveness aspect should be okay, no need for further enhancement.

So what were this man's needs? Right! Vigorous hormones! She had found his needs too!

Emily wrapped herself in a towel and confidently walked out of the bathroom. Looking at Lin Yu'an still by the window, she broke the silence, "Little man, what are you thinking about?"

Lin Yu'an didn't turn around, just looked at the forest outside the window and calmly said "Hmm?"

"Whether I'm a little man or not, don't you know? I wouldn't dare claim to match black men, but I dare say it's hard to tell who's better."

Emily was amused by his words and laughed, then continued staring at him silently, seemingly waiting for Lin Yu'an to say something.

After a long silence, Lin Yu'an continued, "The 300 Bitcoins in that hard drive, I'll help you keep them for now. I'll only take one-third as the price for you shooting at me. The other two-thirds still belong to you."

"I'll wait until the price rises to around ninety thousand dollars, then sell them in batches."

Lin Yu'an had thought about many things during the night. First, he gained a clearer understanding of his strength enhanced by the golden finger and decided he must control his power better in the future. He also figured out how to handle his relationship with Emily.

Since Lin Yu'an decided not to kill her, he didn't want to push her too hard. The combination of carrots and sticks was the safest approach, because this woman was definitely not as harmless as her sexy figure might suggest.

Then he could only gradually cool things down. If she didn't provoke him, he wouldn't threaten her to do anything.

Anyway, he had video that could threaten her, and according to America's twisted laws, she would never voluntarily go to the police.

Emily was very surprised by his decision to only take one-third of the Bitcoins. She had thought this man would naturally claim that huge fortune as his own.

She had prepared herself for losing both person and money.

A strange, complex emotion suddenly surged in her heart. She guessed this man didn't know the current value of Bitcoin, after all, no one doesn't love money! Especially windfall profits.

But that didn't make sense either, he had just estimated Bitcoin's future potential rise to ninety thousand dollars.

"Do you know the current value of these Bitcoins?" Emily's voice was somewhat hoarse.

"There are private keys for 300 Bitcoins in there! At current prices, that's over fifteen million dollars! Are you sure you don't want to take it all now?"

Lin Yu'an's heart stirred for a moment, but he still suppressed his greed. This amount of money wasn't worth committing murder and robbery for.

The NVIDIA stock he had purchased had completed a split in July, and his 3,333 shares had become 13,332 shares.

In just two months, the value had skyrocketed from 1.8 million dollars to 2.64 million dollars, and this was just the beginning!

Lin Yu'an turned around and looked at her, saying, "My reason for helping you is just neighborly mutual assistance, just like how Stan and George spare no effort to help me."

"Besides, last night you already offered your pledge of allegiance, didn't you?"

This sentence was like a knife, cutting through the veil between them and revealing the most naked transactional nature underneath.

Emily liked this directness, then remembered the tutorial: grasp his needs! The complex inner motivation driven by "grasping needs" compelled her to walk toward Lin Yu'an.

She gently embraced Lin Yu'an from behind, her face and softness pressing against Lin Yu'an's broad and warm back, whispering, "Thank you."

Lin Yu'an's body stiffened for a moment, but he didn't push her away.

Emily pulled him to the bedside. After she sat down first, her slender legs hooked around his waist from the side.

Lin Yu'an fell onto the bed, and her legs wrapped around him like vines, restraining and controlling him again.

Her breathing became scorching, whispering in his ear like orchid breath, "Since you're so generous, I don't mind paying another pledge of allegiance."

Lin Yu'an's just-established rational defenses crumbled again under the mature woman's active, skillful offensive.

Emily was at the prime age of a tigress, while Lin Yu'an had also abstained for nearly three months.

At this moment, they were evenly matched opponents meeting their match.

...

After the passion subsided again, both seemed much more relaxed. The tension and estrangement brought by the murder case seemed to have dissolved considerably in their sweat.

Emily lazily leaned against the headboard, took out a pack of women's cigarettes from the nightstand, lit one, and then slowly spoke, dropping an even bigger bombshell.

"Lin, actually, there's more than just Bitcoins in that hard drive."

Lin Yu'an's gaze was drawn by her words. He looked at Emily, waiting for her to continue.

"There's also a map." Emily exhaled a light blue smoke ring, her eyes becoming distant.

"An encrypted map that I can't fully decrypt, but I know the final location on the map must be near Wiseman. Behind it, there should be a gold mine."

"Gold mine?" Lin Yu'an's brow furrowed.

This word always carried legends of blood and wealth on Alaska's land.

Emily continued, "Yes, it was accidentally discovered by my ex-boyfriend's father during Alaska's great gold rush period, a placer gold deposit with supposedly very high gold content."

"After his father died, he had been preparing to mine this gold deposit, coming to Alaska multiple times to scout. He also found that guy you killed as a partner, planning to mine it together."

"Initially investing in Bitcoin was to avoid taxes and raise funds for initial equipment. Unexpectedly, Bitcoin kept soaring, and both men's hearts changed, turning from cooperation to mutual wariness."

"One thought they should sell the Bitcoin to buy mining equipment, the other thought they should continue adding positions... You know the rest of the story."

She extinguished her cigarette, "The reason I've been staying in Wiseman, ostensibly running a veterinary clinic, is actually to continue searching for that gold mine."

After hearing all this, Lin Yu'an felt somewhat absurd.

Bitcoin, gold mines, murder, treasure hunting... He seriously suspected he had been reborn into a parallel world and accidentally triggered some melodramatic American TV series plot.

This entire incident, from occurrence to conclusion, was filled with ridiculous elements, yet upon closer thought, had some damned reasonableness to it.

"After all this time, do you have any clues?" Lin Yu'an asked.

"Nothing at all." Emily shook her head helplessly.

"I've been trying to decrypt the map, but I can't do it. I don't dare find password decryption experts, so I can only keep exploring around Wiseman."

"The only clue now is a selfie photo of my ex-boyfriend, with background scenery that must be near the gold mine!"

Lin Yu'an decided not to think about these complex matters for now.

"Alright, let's talk about this later."

He looked at Emily, his expression becoming serious and earnest, "Now, we need to discuss our relationship."

He said solemnly, "Emily, I'm already married and have two newborn children."

"So everything that happened last night was just an accident, a means to solve a problem."

Upon hearing this, Emily unexpectedly laughed, laughing with captivating charm.

"Don't worry, Lin."

She stretched lazily, carelessly displaying her perfect curves.

"I never planned to fall in love with you. I'm just a mistress whose secrets you control, who can't betray you. My only goal now is to find that gold mine!"

"To achieve true financial freedom! By then, maybe I'll be the one throwing money at you to free myself from your threatening control."

Her words were half-joking, half-serious.

Lin Yu'an immediately understood her meaning.

Between them, they were secret lovers, a relationship bound together by a murder case, or rather "accomplice allies."

Lin Yu'an secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He liked dealing with intelligent women.

He then dropped an even more shocking decision on Emily.

"Very well, then I need to introduce you to my wife."

"WTF? Are you crazy?" Emily was completely stunned. She sat up abruptly from the bed, looking at Lin Yu'an in disbelief.

"You want to introduce your... accomplice mistress to your wife? What are you thinking?"

Lin Yu'an's expression remained unusually calm, "Calm down, Emily. My wife grew up in a large Mormon family. Her concepts are completely different from the worldly concepts we understand."

He looked into Emily's eyes and said seriously, "I don't want any lies or secrets from her. Rather than making you a hidden accomplice mistress, I'd rather put everything on the table."

"I trust my wife. She has enough rationality and magnanimity to understand and handle all this! This is the best way to avoid bigger misunderstandings and troubles in the future."

Emily looked at Lin Yu'an's sincere eyes and fell into long silence.

After thinking for a long time, she finally nodded.

"Alright, Lin. You really are crazy."

She laughed self-mockingly, "But I don't seem to hate your crazy plan. At least I don't have to really become that kind of bitch who destroys other people's families, right?"

This definition again stirred a strange feeling in Emily's heart.

"Alright, I have to go."

Lin Yu'an glanced outside the window. The midnight sun had risen higher, and he knew he had already wasted too much work time.

He put on his jacket, preparing to leave.

"Leaving already?" Emily's voice carried a trace of barely perceptible laziness and reluctance to let him go.

"I still have over a hundred logs waiting for me to process, and a home waiting for me to build."

Lin Yu'an's answer was calm. He walked to the door and turned back to Emily, saying, "These next few days, just live normally, don't act abnormally in any way. Contact me immediately if anything happens. You know my number."

Emily didn't say anything more. She just walked barefoot from the bed to stand in front of him.

She reached out with both arms, wrapped them around his neck, stood on her tiptoes, and pressed a gentle, lingering kiss with coffee fragrance onto his lips.

This kiss no longer carried the probing and transactional nature of last night, but had a trace of a woman's attachment to a man.

After the kiss ended, she pressed against his ear and whispered in an alluring voice only the two of them could hear:

"I hope... to see you on this bed again tonight."

Lin Yu'an's body stiffened again, and the desire that had just calmed down was stirred up again by her soft words.

He could clearly feel the softness and warmth of the body in his arms.

He took a deep breath and, with strong willpower, forcibly drove away those romantic images from his mind.

Lin Yu'an felt this woman was sick, her mental state seemed somewhat abnormal, very much like someone with Stockholm syndrome who had developed dependence on their captor.

He gently pushed Emily away, his eyes regaining clarity.

"We'll see how things go. I have a lot of work to do." He just repeated this sentence, then resolutely turned around, opened the door, and quickly walked out.

Listening to the footsteps outside the door, Emily looked at her empty hands, the corners of her mouth curving into a meaningful smile again.

This man was like the most unruly wild horse, but she seemed to have found the reins that could control him.

The Chinese internet really had things that Google couldn't find! This Lily Emotional Network was a treasure trove of a website!

Lin Yu'an didn't know what strange websites Emily had found. He quickly walked out of the cabin, his somewhat heated mind gradually cooling down.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by the familiar engine roar, he drove his Zongshen three-wheeler, speeding toward his own forest land.

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