Wang Qiang, a programmer ground down by office life until he questioned the meaning of it all, wrote great code and lost his hair at an alarming rate. After one too many overtime shifts in the name of “blessings,” he finally snapped. To hell with KPIs! I'm going back to the village to lie flat! He promptly handed in his resignation and returned to the little mountain village where he'd grown up, dreaming of taking remote contract work and enjoying a carefree life by the brook, with spring in the air.
The dream was idyllic. Reality... was surprising too. After tidying up his ancestral home, Wang Qiang set his sights on an old warehouse piled high with junk. He only meant to clear some space, but beneath all the dusty odds and ends he uncovered “treasures” passed down from his grandfather's generation, or even earlier: a rusted pickaxe, a leaky wooden sluice, a heavy hand-cranked gold pan... Well, would you look at that. His ancestors hadn't been farmers, they were miners! Had the whole village descended from gold prospectors?
Curiosity got the better of him, and Wang Qiang began tinkering with the antiques. In a careless moment, a rusty piece of metal sliced his finger, and a drop of blood landed squarely on a nondescript, dusty gray stone nearby. In an instant, everything changed! Wang Qiang felt a strange warmth rush from the stone into his body. His mind buzzed, and the whole world seemed to take on a metallic sheen. Tiny flakes of gold scattered in the soil beneath his feet, gold grains resting in the streambed, even ore veins buried deep inside the mountainside... all glimmered in his “perception” like fireflies in the dark!
Lie flat? Not a chance! Looking at the junk in the warehouse and the “golden ideas” flashing through his mind, Wang Qiang slapped his thigh. This incredible fortune is chasing after me! With his ancestral gold pan in one hand and his newly awakened
I just read it and it was okay. Come on, please update more. I am obsessed with gold rush novels recently.
If you have a special ability and see that the gold sand is so bad, you only dare to give it four stars.