Li Du tilted his head and looked at him. With a pleasant expression, he said, "Buddy, you just have to go against me, right? You're purposely picking on me, aren't you? "
Hughes spread his hands with an innocent look and said, "No, I'm not a person. If you think I've violated you — why don't you hit me?"
Godzilla clenched his fists and was about to attack when Brother Wolf stopped him.
Li Du pointed his finger at him and said, "You're trying to provoke me. You've succeeded. Listen up, b * stard, get out of my territory. I'm getting impatient."
The employee with the ponytail said, "Mr. Li, you have to clear your name. Even though I don't want to say it out loud, everyone here knows that you're the biggest suspect."
"Why?" Li Du stared at him.
The man with the ponytail said, "One, you drove here. Two, you've gained a lot, a lot more than usual. In Arizona, if your cow gives birth to ten calves at once, we think you've stolen someone else's calves. "
Li Du said, "Alright, you guys can be suspicious all you want. But if you want to search my safe, you'll have to call the police and get them to come with an arrest warrant."
The Indian man frowned and said, "Sir, we don't have to make such a big fuss. If you didn't do it, are you willing to help us find the culprit?"
Li Du sneered, "Do I have that obligation?"
The Indian man said, "Maybe you don't know that we have a right. If we think a tourist is a threat to the safety of the national park, we can keep him out!"
This sentence hit Li Du's soft spot. His expression froze for a moment and then he started to think.
Yes, the national park had this right. Not just the national park, but other public places in the United States also had this right. If they thought someone was a threat to public safety, they could ban him from approaching.
He couldn't leave this place. There were still countless opals waiting for him inside. According to his estimation, the fire opals in the entire national park were worth tens of billions of dollars!
If he could dig them all out, he wouldn't have to worry for the rest of his life.
Therefore, he thought for a moment and said, "Alright, I'm willing to help you find the culprit behind this."
"It's you, right?" a hunter said sarcastically.
Li Du couldn't be bothered with him and said to the Indian man, "Can you take me to the scene? I need to know what's going on. "
The Indian man waved his hand and said, "My pleasure."
Following the staff, the group of people either drove or rode motorcycles northwest.
The national park covered a large area, but not all of it was made up of rocks. Some areas were made up of mud, while others were made up of rocks. There were also fire opals in these areas, but they could not be mined.
Fire opals in the rocky beach could be taken out by picking up gravel, but opals in the ground or in the mountains would have to be dug out by digging a mine.
After driving for more than ten kilometers, another gravel beach appeared in front of them.
Both the east and west sides of this rocky beach were petrified forests. Some petrified trees were as tall as ten meters and one meter in diameter. They were like stone towers that reached the sky. It was a spectacular sight.
In such an environment, even if someone operated the machine, the sound would not travel very far.
Every so often, there would be some broken ores and scattered stone powder on the rocky beach. This was all the work of the machine.
Stephen's cousin, Brendan, and sister-in-law, Alicia, had also arrived. Li Du asked the two of them, "What's the process of using a machine to find fire opals?"
Brendan said, "As you know, the brightness and quality of the gemstones are different from the ores. There are many machines that can filter them. For example, using intense light to find fire opals through the degree of reflection, or using a centrifuge to separate different ores.
"The former is usually used. The machine has a conveyor belt, and people use a shovel to shove the ores onto the conveyor belt. The machine will cut the ores into pieces. At the same time, under intense light, if there is a fire opal, it can be found through the reflection."
Hearing his explanation, Li Du said, "Wouldn't that shatter the fire opal?"
"It won't shatter, only be cut. But even if the fire opal is cut into pieces, it is still valuable and can make a lot of money," Brendan said.
The machine cut up a large pile of ores in one go. If no opal was found during the process, it would continue working until the ores were crushed into powder before moving on to the next batch.
That was the reason there was a lot of stone powder here. At the same time, there were also some crushed stones here, which meant that they had found fire opals. After finding fire opals, the machine stopped working and moved on to the next batch of ores.
Alicia looked at the piles of ore fragments and muttered, "D * mn it, they found fire opals, and not just one or two pieces, they found quite a lot."
Basically, every pile of crushed stones represented a piece of fire opal that had been produced.
Entering the crime scene, the Indian man looked at him and asked, "Did you find anything?"
What could Li Du find? This was a rocky beach, and cars driving on it would not leave any traces. Therefore, they all knew that the violator had hidden the machine, but they did not know where it had been hidden.
However, this was relative to sight. Li Du had other means to use.
He released the little bug, found a pile of crushed stones at random, and used the ability to turn back time.
The first thing that appeared in front of him was a desolate rocky beach. This was something that had happened one or two hundred years ago. He progressed quickly and reached the final stage. Then, he saw what had happened last night.
Last night, a few machines had been working there. Someone had set up a big tent, and the machines had been operating in the tent. This way, the noise and light had been blocked.
What made him depressed was that because the machines produced a lot of powder when they cut the stones, some of the people working there were wearing big masks and windproof glasses. Therefore, he could not see their faces clearly.
Like watching a video with a lagged frame, he watched it carefully, scene by scene.
Finally, he found something. Although these people were wearing masks to block the dust, some of them were using their phones to take pictures of the opals they had found, and some were making phone calls.
The replay was very clear, and the number displayed on the big screen of the phone was also very clear.
Li Du took out his phone and quietly dialed the number to see who it was. In the end, after entering the number, a name automatically popped up: Owen.
This was the number of Owen, a jeweler whom he had worked with previously. Obviously, this matter was related to him.
The phone became a clue. It was a Samsung phone with a large screen, and the model number was Galaxy Nexus.
The reason why Li Du was so clear was that this phone had been released not long ago, and Samsung had been advertising it for the past few months.
Therefore, he released the little bug to shuttle between the pockets of the people, specifically looking for this phone.
The first person he looked for was Hughes. Firstly, Hughes had been pestering him. Secondly, this phone had just been released to the market and was very expensive. The people who would buy it in the United States were mainly electronics enthusiasts.
Coincidentally, Hughes was an electronics enthusiast, which could be seen from his love of playing with flying machines.
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