Chapter 173: Covert Investigation

Agent Lily glanced at Cedes, who nodded, and Lily said, "These are scans of a personal letter from Benjamin Franklin to the editor-in-chief of the New England Newspaper, written in 1722 by a man named Sycos Dugood."

Agent Lily searched the computer for a moment and said, "I found that these letters were secretly written by Benjamin Franklin to his brother when he was fifteen years old using Sycos Dugood."

Director Seiders looked at the scans in his hand with his eyes, and after half a ring, asked the people around him, "What is the use of these letters, and why is Ben Gates keeping these letters here".

The people around them shook their heads after thinking about it, and there was no clue that these letters had anything to do with the founding declaration, and Cedes looked at his men and the church, and saw that they were all at a loss, and finally could only look at William.

William shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not an expert in archaeology and history, but I can take a look, Director Sedes, maybe I can find something."

Without much thought, Cedes nodded and reached out to show William the letter in his hand, but the church next to him immediately stopped:

"NO, you can't read, Eddes, William's memory is very good, he can remember what he has seen at a glance, I don't know what these letters are for, but I know that it must not be shown to William,

Now it seems that the Templar treasure is probably real, otherwise Ben Gates would not have been so desperate to steal the declaration of statehood, Sedes, don't forget that the treasure is hidden in the United States, even if we don't know where it is now, but we can find it slowly, you say, Edus, don't forget that William is from England."

Edus himself is a member of Freemasonry, and has always heard of the legend of the treasure, but there has been no clue or written record, no one knows where the treasure is hidden, and the big people have never cared about this legendary treasure,

But this time Ben Gates's deathless behavior made him a little suspicious of whether the treasure really existed, but just like the church said, it doesn't matter if you can't find it, as long as the treasure is in the United States, so Cedes nodded,

"You're right, church," he asked, turning to William, "William, you are so curious to see the letter in my hand, you must know something, can you please tell us something?"

William rolled his eyes at the church guy, "Of course I know, but I can tell you what good I have."

Cedes saw that William's face was full of upset, he didn't look at anything, but he said that he knew, Eders subconsciously thought that William was talking nonsense, and said to his subordinates: "Have you found Ben Gates's relatives, first find his parents' residence, Ben Gates may go to his parents' place."

"I found out, sir, Ben Gates's parents have been divorced for many years, his father lives in Pittsburgh, and his mother Victoria lives in New York."

Said happily: "Well done, let's go to Pittsburgh, church you call the secret agents in New York and ask them to find Ben Gates's mother"

The church nodded, "No problem".

"Okay, guys, let's go, go to Pittsburgh, I have a gut feeling that Ben Gates will go to his father", Cedes clapped his hands and shouted, "Get moving, guys, we're already 1 hour late to Ben Gates, maybe this guy is already at his father's house".

William whispered to the church that followed him, "It's shameless", "Thank you, you too",

William and the church smiled at each other, and William then asked, "Why don't you call the Secret Service or the Bureau of Investigation in Pittsburgh for help?"

It took an hour to find out where Ben Gates's parents were, and you agents who are used to the outside world are not as efficient as the Bureau of Investigation in the United States, so wouldn't it be faster to find Ben Gates by letting the Bureau of Investigation take over?"

The church looked around him a few times and whispered, "No one knows that the Declaration of the Founding of the State has been stolen, and no one dares to make it known to everyone, otherwise tomorrow the newspapers will be full of news attacking the current Governor,

The chief manager is not having a good time, and the head of our secret service will not be having a good time, and the above will not let this situation happen, so we can only investigate it quietly, and as for the investigation bureau, if you have paid attention to the news before, you can understand that the relationship between some people is not very good."

"Well, needless to say, I don't care about that, I'm just worried that by the time we get to Ben Gates's father's house, Ben Gates may have slipped away",

William said he was worried but secretly happy in his heart, no wonder it was these people from the church who took over the case and went to Pittsburgh later to talk to him.

When the crowd drove a dozen cars to Pittsburgh, it took almost an hour and a half to reach Ben Gates's father's house, which was indeed a bit inefficient.

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An hour ago, Riley parked his car in front of an ordinary two-story wooden house and looked around cautiously, "It doesn't seem to be a problem, Ben, the Secret Service shouldn't have found this yet."

Ben Gates nodded, "Riley drove the car to the side wall of the house, I'll get out of the car first to see how it goes."

Ben Gates, who got out of the car, didn't notice that there was a black pickup truck parked around the corner a few hundred meters away from him, inside which a pair of sharp eyes were looking at them, and the owner of the car also had a headset on his ear, and the owner of Ben Gates and Riley could see and hear every move of these eyes.

When Ben Gates was sure that there was no ambush, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked to his father's door and pressed the doorbell.

Not long after the door opened, John Wick heard an old voice in his headphones saying, "Hey, Ben"

"Good evening, father"

Pat Gates looked at his son with a smile on his face, and asked angrily: "How can you have time to come and see me, old man, Ben, you won't ask me about the treasure again, if that's the case, you don't have to come in, I'll tell you everything I should have told you, don't bother me with the treasure again."

Ben Gates hurriedly reached out to stop his father Pat Gates from closing the door, and prayed: "Wait father, I found Sherlock, I know what Sherlock is, it is a ship, I dug it out myself".

"What? What did you find," Hearing Ben Gates find Sherlock, Pat Gates's excited tone trembled, "Ben, have you found the treasure?"

Seeing that his father was so excited, Ben Gates hurriedly said, "Calm down, father, let's go in first."

"Okay, come in," Pat Gates stepped over to let Ben Gates and Riley into the house.

John Wick in the distance received a text message from William before, and was waiting for the opportunity to grab the bucket in Ben Gates's hand, seeing the three people entering the door, John Wick took out the M1911 under his arm to check the situation of the robbery and quietly drove to the side street on the side of Pat Gates's house.

After listening to Ben Gates' voice and confirming that there were three people in the room, John Wick opened the car door, put on his hood and gloves, and walked to Pat Gates' house through the night.