Directed by Jiang Zhuoyuan and starring Liao Fan, Chen Feiyu, Su Ke, Lu Xiaolin and other suspenseful adventure dramas ,"Gold Rush" is being broadcast on Dangbei Film and Television, and smart TV downloads can enjoy large-screen dramas. The drama is based on Lai'er's novel "1986 Gold Rush Horror", the original novel is full of thriller suspense, full of many "strange and chaotic" things, and the gold diggers are still in a chaotic time and space. After being adapted into a play, these controversial contents were deleted, only the framework of the original work was used, and the ending naturally changed.
On the border between China and K, there is a gold mining area called Simuchang, where gold prospectors must hunt for more placer gold before the rainy season in order to make money. Wu Jianchao (Liao Fan) is a local gold boss who protects the safety of Chinese gold prospectors while accumulating enough placer gold in order to retire early and "go ashore". But just before Wu Jianchao washed his hands, the placer gold accumulated for several years was touched away, and behind all this was a mysterious gold dealer nicknamed "Owl".
In order to find his own placer gold, Wu Jianchao embarks on the road of investigating the truth, and in the process, he meets Chen Baojin (Chen Feiyu), who comes to track down the truth of his brother's death. One looking for something, the other looking for someone, the two did not know at first, their purpose was the same, causing Wu Jianchao's placer gold to be stolen, and the death of Chen Baojin's brother, are all the organizations called owls, between Wu Jianchao and Chen Baojin's brother, there is still an unknown past.
The placer gold accumulated by gold diggers generally has three ways to cash in, one is to sell to the "company" at a price of 28 yuan a gram, the other is to sell it to the gold dealer "owl" at a price of 50 yuan a gram, and the third is to take it out for exchange. Because the commission in exchange is far less than the actual value of placer gold, many gold prospectors try to hide gold and prepare to take it out for money. Chen Baojin's brother is one of this group of people, because of the secret storage of placer gold, was killed by the "owl".
A sudden "washing" made the hard work of the gold diggers in vain for a season, and everyone made a desperate bet and decided to go to the old gold field of Sister Ridge to make a final attempt. The old gold field has been abandoned for 10 years, but no one dares to enter the gold panning, there is a terrible reason, and no one who has gone in the past has survived. After the crowd went deep into sister ridge, the shadow of death accompanied them, and they also encountered a series of supernatural phenomena: goats with long eyes, mysterious stone man sculptures, and various strange diseases...
The adventures of sister Ridge in the old gold field allowed Wu Jianchao and a group of people to discover the truth about the death of gold diggers in the past 10 years, they did not die naturally, but were killed by people. Chen Baojin also learned the secret between him and his brother from Wu Jianchao's sentence: "I can't survive without your brother". Faced with the choice between friendship and life, the brother chose friendship, alone to lead the killer away, and exchanged his own death for Wu Jianchao's life.
After going deep into the sister ridge, the clue of the "owl" gradually surfaced, and it turned out that the golden boss of the four wooden fields, Lao Shan (Su Ke), was the "owl". Lao Shan arranged for someone to steal Wu Jianchao's placer gold, and also arranged for the charming woman Ah Qiu (Lu Xiaolin) to sneak into Wu Jianchao's side and report the situation at any time. After Wu Jianchao and his party entered Sister Ridge, Lao Shan also arranged for mysterious killers to infiltrate and kill the group to seize the placer gold in their hands, as they did ten years ago.
In the finale, Wu Jianchao was unfortunately infected with the plague, and in order to repay Chen Baojin's brother's life-saving grace, he chose to lure away the killer and let Chen Baojin leave alone with his companions. Before Chen Baojin escaped from Sister Ridge, he was abandoned by his companions, but fortunately met Wu Jianchao, who was in a desperate situation. Chen Baojin left Sister Ridge with Wu Jianchao, who was infected with the plague, and sent him to the hospital for treatment, waiting until Wu Jianchao was well before returning to his original place.