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As everyone knew, theseto hii, "You can call the police, but I believe the police will prove h I didn't find any clues, ht when the , there was a tent put up outside—there was bound to be some traces left behind

Li Du found a torn piece of tent fabric and a broken tent pole He beckoned Ah Ow over and let her sniff them He then covered her eyes and ot anxious and said, "Are you trying to destroy the evidence? Stop him!"

Li Du sneered, "I think you're actually afraid thatwill unearth azed at hi can find the ether," Li Du said, "then she will be able to find them"

The man with the ponytail nodded "Well, let's take a look at what you can do If you fail, then we'll tell the police about you destroying evidence"

Brother Wolf burned the tent fragn to her to look for these things

Ah Ow started by taking a forceful sniff; her little body wandered up and down, before running a few steps further and then she howled at the ground below her

Li Du dug up the gravel and found another tent fraght Not this one"

Ah Ow blinked and continued sniffing She then dashed off eastward

She ran in sround to find the scent left behind by the tent and theabout two miles, she entered an ore hut

This was a scenic spot; the stone hut had been built by the local Native Aate house, which was a cultural icon of the United States' heritage

The stone hut she found was not a cultural icon, but a featured scenic spot In order to protect the huts, their doors were usually locked to prevent people froroup of the In the uessed that thein here"

Ah Ow kept howling at the hut, and wandered about excitedly in front of the door

Li Du released the little bug into the house Indeed, there was nothing in there—it was coround, a space in the ground appeared before his eyes—in it were some machines and tents

He had found the emstones

There was a box in the corner of the base flew into it, he saw a piece of soft and delicate black velvet inside—the brightly-colored fire opals had been placed on top of it!

The previous night, six machines had been used to search for the fire opals The returns were pretty good—there was a total of 40-so sizes in the box

Their quality was not bad, and on average, even better than those Li Du had found He estimated their haul to be worth a few million dollars or as much as tens of millions of dollars

This was quite a common occurrence; when optical machines were used to search for opals, they were only able to find good quality opals Turbid opals were not sensitive to light, and were usually destroyed like stones

Using the little bug to find opals was much more exhaustive than this But with this way, all were found and excavated

This was one of the reasons national parks prohibited the use of e in a lot of theeemstones with poor quality would be destroyed