Chapter 377: Chapter 375: The Intense Scent of Gold

“What’s wrong, mom?” Hua Bao, perched on Jiang Yan’s shoulder, suddenly stretched out a vine towards the direction of Yunding Tower.

After staring for a while, he saw nothing unusual.

Retracting the vine and scratching his head in puzzlement, he said, “Mom, I didn’t detect anyone or anything abnormal.”

“It’s nothing; I might have been mistaken,” Jiang Yan took a deep breath to calm herself and picked up the telescope to look towards Yunding Tower again.

“Mom, are you talking about those planks nailed to the glass windows?” Hua Bao finally noticed something peculiar.

Jiang Yan clutched the telescope tightly and swept the entire building from top to bottom, her frown deepening, “Yes.”

The part of the building exposed above the ground had its glass curtain walls completely covered with wooden planks.

At a glance, it was unusually eerie.

Jiang Yan had seen such reinforcement with wooden planks on buildings in television broadcasts before.

It was generally in coastal cities, especially those by the sea, when a typhoon was approaching, wooden planks were used to secure windows facing the sea.

Mainly to prevent the glass from shattering due to strong winds and waves.

After the apocalypse, when heavy rains came, floods happened from time to time, and some well-off families in Anming similarly reinforced their windows.

However, these planks, in extreme cold weather, were also one of the valuable and scarce warming materials.

After so long since the apocalypse, the fact that they were still intact without losing any was indeed suspicious.

If she remembered correctly, the Yaoben Base’s resource search team, whenever they went out to search for resources, they didn’t just hunt mutated animals or seek out sealed energy sources.

Often, they also searched for survivors and similar usable resources…

Additionally, if there were people inside, then had they noticed her before?

After all, she was quite conspicuous walking alone in the snow just now.

Hua Bao, sensing her thoughts, said, “Mom, shall I go take a look?”

It had upgraded now, and could move a bit further away from Jiang Yan.

Of course, it still couldn’t reach Yunding Tower, but it could get close enough to the edge of the building.

“Okay.”

Jiang Yan took a deep breath and watched as the transparent Hua Bao dashed out.

Soon, Hua Bao returned, “Mom, I didn’t detect any human presence, but I smelled a strong scent of gold!”

“Gold?!” Jiang Yan quickly recalled the map and layout of Yunding Tower in her mind.

The upper floors were business offices, with retail spaces on the first floor, and indeed, there were two relatively unknown rural banks.

The banks were not large.

But there might be a vault or suchlike.

Still, at least 50 floors of this building were buried under snow and ice.

If Hua Bao could smell it, it’s very likely that these gold deposits were in the areas exposed above the snow.

“Mom, shall we go take a look?” Hua Bao licked his lips, seemingly eager.

“Not for now; let’s wait. We’ll talk after it gets dark,” Jiang Yan said, then entered into Space immediately, “Stay outside and notify me immediately if there’s any new situation.”

“Yes, mom.” Hua Bao responded, his four vines vigilantly monitoring all directions.

The remaining eight vines quickly formed a cage, isolating and protecting the area where Jiang Yan entered Space.

Jiang Yan accessed Space and retrieved an infrared thermal imager she had used previously in Xiangcheng.

However, after checking the user manual, she decided against it.

The infrared thermal imager could not penetrate wood or solid walls…

Time swiftly moved to midnight.

Jiang Yan was just about to lower her guard and prepare to go to sleep when she heard Hua Bao exclaim, “Mom!”

“There really are people in this building!”