Chapter 844 Soaking in the Hot Spring and Digging for Crystals
Slender and powerful fingers slowly ran down the jade-white back. The soft but powerful fingertips seemed to be playing a country blues with a soothing rhythm. every muscle fiber along the way.
Tighten, relax, tighten again, and relax again. The friction between the fingertips and the skin brings a burning feeling. The effect of rose essential oil amplifies this touch, making people's nerves tingle. It jumps repeatedly between soreness, numbness and comfort.
“Ah~~~” An imaginative moan sounded in Hannah’s mouth, which made Jiejie’s pretty face turn red as she pretended to study humbly.
“From the trapezius muscle down, go around the raised scapular spine, clasp the deltoid muscle, and use your knuckles to press the infraspinatus fascia on the upper side of the teres major muscle with slight pressure.”
There was no fluctuation in Jack's serious explanation voice, as if there was not a youthful and graceful body under his palm, but a prop simply used to demonstrate his massage techniques.
No way, the state of a sage is like this. Emptiness is form, form is emptiness. Sometimes, even if the body has not reached its limit, the mind still needs a moderate rest.
The female governor, whose life was saved by the FBI, gratefully gave a generous gift and invited everyone in the wanted criminal team to enjoy a whole week's hot spring vacation.
The hot spring bathhouse they are currently in, which is completely imitated in the European style of the 18th and 19th centuries, itself has a history of two to three hundred years.
As early as the late 19th century, the country's rich and famous came here, believing that the mineral-rich hot spring water here had miraculous curative effects on various diseases.
Several presidents at the time, including several presidents at the time, regarded this place as a healing resort, and even allocated funds to research the efficacy of hot spring water.
However, the FBI only enjoyed the three-day vacation before saying goodbye and leaving. After all, they got tired of taking baths and massages for a long time. After a brief discussion, they found a better place to take a vacation.
Places with hot springs are usually more geologically active, which also means rich mineral deposits. For example, less than an hour's drive from Hot Springs is another famous attraction - Crater of Diamonds State Park.
I don’t know who came up with such a gimmicky idea to develop a diamond mine with no commercial mining value into a park.
Visitors only need to pay a US$10 ticket to dig in the mud for a whole day with tools. If they really find diamonds, they can take them away directly.
Of course, the target of Jack and others is not those small stones that are hard to find and worthless. They have a bigger and more sparkling target, another well-known mineral in Arkansas, natural white crystal.
Although Aubrey has long retired from Wall Street, he still has a lot of stocks on hand, including a mining company called "Avant".
This mining company owns multiple crystal mines in Jesseville County, Arkansas. Some of the mines can be collected for a fee, but some of the mines with huge output and high-quality crystal are not open to the public.
As a small director of this mining company, Aubrey certainly has some small privileges, such as taking everyone to a crystal mine that is not open to the public.
Natural crystal is actually natural glass, also known as quartz. When silica crystallizes perfectly in the natural environment, it is called crystal. After gelation and dehydration, it is called agate. After the water-containing colloid solidifies It's called opal.
Obsidian, which was inlaid on wooden sticks as weapons by the Mesoamerican Aztecs, is also a kind of quartz stone, also called volcanic glass.
This thing that looks like the original version of the "chain sword" was regarded as an exclusive weapon by the famous "Jaguar Warriors" because of its heavy weight, and was named "Maquawit".
The content of perfectly crystallized prismatic crystals in nature is actually not low, but some people are superstitious. The so-called natural crystals can absorb negative energy has been widely circulated.
Jack suspected that Aubrey proposed this journey just to make Alice, who believed in this theory, happy. However, as we all know, women are like dragons in European and American mythology, and they are always attracted to shiny things. interested in.
Since Hannah and Jiejie also showed great interest, he naturally would not spoil the fun. Although it was really hard to walk through the deep pit dug out by the excavator in the reddish-brown mud, the girls bowed their heads when they saw large pieces of natural white crystal scattered all over the ground. Ke still let out a warm cheer when he got it.
Jack was also very knowledgeable. After all, he had never seen this kind of crystal mine in his two lifetimes. He dug up a piece of high-purity white crystal as big as a fist. After washing off the soil on it, he could see through it. On one side, you can clearly see the lines on the palm of the other side.
Although I know that this stuff is not very valuable and most of it can only be used as industrial raw materials, you can still find some gem-grade raw ore if you look carefully.
Due to different geological conditions of formation, natural crystals will be mixed with different minerals and coatings, resulting in the formation of some unique cracks or colors inside. Anyway, the better it looks, the higher its value.
Led by the girls, everyone spent the whole day digging enthusiastically. A whole pickup truck was filled with all kinds of weird natural crystals that were as big as fists, thick as arms, and even the size of volleyballs. They were about a ton. Many, they were all dragged back to the mine factory.
He picked up a high-pressure water gun and rinsed it. As the soil on the surface was washed away, and watching these natural glasses emit charming colors under the light, Jack had a more intuitive feeling about the high-quality mining area that Aubrey mentioned.
According to the workers in the mining area, although the natural crystal itself is indeed just a cheap gemstone, the white crystal produced here is of very good quality, and an ordinary fist-sized piece can be sold for three to four hundred dollars.
If it is in good condition, for example, if the inner contents are special, it can easily be sold for seven to eight hundred dollars or even thousands of dollars.
Jack picked out a few pieces that he liked at random, and thought it would be a good idea to take them back and carve them into a wooden shelf to display them.
Since we were out for "team building", we naturally had to eat and drink. After a busy day, everyone had a big appetite. Everyone packed up their favorite harvests and drove to a campsite by the river.
Traveling with rich people saves worries. Aubrey found a party company in advance. They had arranged everything at the campsite early and were just waiting for guests to come.
The best steaks from Texas in the west, crayfish and smoked duck from the "Pelican State" (Louisiana) in the south, paired with peach wine and fresh peaches from Georgia in the east, three The state's specialties serve the FBI together.
Although everyone knew that Aubrey was spending a lot of money, they all ate with peace of mind, because they were just accompanying guests, and the host and guest were Alice, who was still fighting with Aubrey.
Although it is not clear why this guy who claims to have intimacy phobia suddenly fell in love with Alice, a single mother, looking back at the previous relationship between the two, it is not impossible to see the clues.
As early as the "Collar Bomb Incident", the two of them had experienced the test of life and death together. When Alice's life was hanging by a thread, in addition to Jack, the busy protagonist, Aubrey was with her almost the whole time. around her.
It seems easy to understand that a "suspension bridge effect" occurred during this period. After the wanted criminal group was officially established, it was normal for everyone to get along day and night, and some secret feelings slowly grew.
Anyway, Jack had no position to care about this kind of thing. He even deliberately comforted Jubal, who was a little worried about it, in front of Aubrey.
If the two finally get together, there is nothing to say. Anyway, Alice's position is almost equivalent to that of back office, which will not affect anything. Just don't be too public within the FBI.
What's more, it's still early for the two of them to talk about marriage, or even whether they will get married. Nowadays, there are many couples in the United States who do not get married but live together for the rest of their lives.
In case of a split, it would be easy, just kick Aubrey away. He is a wealthy retired Wall Street man. He came to the FBI purely to pursue his ideals. It doesn't matter which department he works in.
(End of this chapter)