Chapter 1383 What the Films Went Through (1/2)

The Kochena tribe had had that chief funeral tradition for generations, but in the era of the Chief Alisena, the tribe people had been in a difficult situation. Their territory was repeatedly invaded.

It had taken place a century and a half ago. At that time, the United States was still a barbaric place. Many white people took guns and rode on horses to chase the Indiana native people away from their ancestral lands.

In addition, the natives had lived in North America for thousands of years, during which time they had amassed a large amount of wealth that the white people coveted.

Many of the violent white people gathered into armed teams to invade the native people's territory. They robbed the natives of their treasures, of which gold and silver were the most popular.

There were gold mines in the mountains where the Kochena tribe was located. However, as the tribe was hidden deep in the mountains, white robbers did not loot them in earlier years.

However, time passed and the legend of the Kochena gold started to spread further. Many of the white invaders were tempted and hence, they launched an attack to rob the tribe.

Alisena, who was a tribal chief of that generation, had prepared for the worst. He had hidden all the gold and then led his people to abandon their land, to leave for somewhere deeper into the mountains.

Just as they had taken their leave, a photographer from the studio was coincidentally in the area. Having learned that the photographer was as a friend, Alisena did not give him a hard time. He had only lent the photographer's expertise to take some photos.

Those photos documented the life of his people and generation. The chief had wanted to keep the photographs for posterity.

When he realized the value of the photographed records, the chief thought about it, brought the photographer to the treasure ground and got him to take a few more photos.

Of course, the photographer was taken there with a blindfold. Hence, he did not know the exact location or the route to the treasure ground. It was only when they had arrived at the treasure ground that the photographer was allowed to remove the blindfold temporarily to take some photos.

At that time, the photographer had given the chief all the photos he developed. However, he brought the films back with him. Later, he had developed another set of photographs and passed them on to the media. Those were the yellowed old photos that Li Du was looking at.

The photographs had led to a local treasure-hunting trend. Everyone wanted to search for the Kochena gold using the landmarks captured in the photographs.

However, the photographed scenery did not include any telltale signs leading to the treasure. There were just some rocks and a few trees. There were countless similar photographs around, so using the photographs to search for the treasure was no different from searching for a needle in a haystack.

Finally, nobody made any discovery. As the Kochena tribe disappeared, the treasure, too, became a local mystery that was never resolved.

This information was not what Li Du had read in the newspaper clipping. He had found out about this from the internet. The legend of the tribal treasure had been circulating in Cleveland and other places for a long time, and there were many speculations about it online.

At that time, the photographer, too, was tempted by the gold. The studio had once organized a treasure-search team. Unfortunately, the photographer had been blindfolded as he was taken to the photo shoot site. He did not know the route to the treasure from the campsite. In the end, like others, they ended up with nothing.

Reading that information, Li Du rubbed his chin. Then, he used the time-reversal capability on the films in the box.

The photo was developed from the negative film. The film and the photographer had arrived at the gold treasure site from the camp. The photographer might have been blindfolded, but the film was not!

As time was reversed, scenes flashed before Li Du's eyes. The first of the scenes was when the film was being manufactured…

Taking down the number of that warehouse, Li Du smiled at Lu Guan. ”Our vacation is about to become more interesting. Let's go back and start the preparations.”

”What did you see in that warehouse?” Lu Guan asked curiously.

Li Du narrowed his eyes at him and said, ”Your prize money.”

Lu Guan's mouth stretched in a wide smile.

Late in July, the auction began.