Standing at the edge of the pit and observing for a moment, the deputy minister from the German Ministry of Culture turned his head to look at Ye Tian, and then said in a deep voice:

"Steven, according to what you just introduced, this secret passage was destroyed and backfilled in the past hundred years, and those who destroyed this secret passage should be hiding some major secret.

Since it is a hundred years away, it means that this secret is not the treasure of the Knights Templar that you are looking for, so the agreement we reached before will have to be discussed again......"

Speaking of this, Ye Tian suddenly interrupted the other party, shook his head with a smile and said:

"Mr. Minister, there are some things that I didn't make clear just now, but I would like to add them now, so as not to cause some unnecessary misunderstandings, yes, this secret passage has indeed been destroyed and backfilled in the past hundred years.

However, it must be emphasized that this secret passage has existed for far more than a hundred years, and as far as I can judge, it has existed since the beginning of the establishment of the Temple Palace, but it is not known.

The people who destroyed this secret passage before should have discovered this very secret secret passage by chance, and it happened that they needed to hide some secrets, so they used this secret passage, and then destroyed it.

This passage has been around for more than 700 years, and it is clear that it has nothing to do with the Templar treasure that we are looking for, and it does not affect the agreement we have reached.

At the end of this secret passage, it is not known what secrets are hidden, whether it is the treasure of the Knights Templar or other treasures, or just empty joy, and the outcome can only be known by digging through this secret passage.

Even if the end of this secret passage is not a Templar treasure, but some other treasure, we have half of the interest in this treasure according to our previous exploration license agreement and industry practice.

The other half of the rights and interests belong to the owner of the Temple Palace, the Catholic Church in Berlin, for which our company does not covet it, and there are video materials throughout the exploration operation, and you are welcome to supervise it.

The Catholic Church in Berlin is a religious organization, and our Brave Explorer is a professional treasure hunting company, and the treasure exploration is of course left to us professionals, and you just wait for the results."

Hearing his words, the four Germans standing at the edge of the pit rolled their eyes angrily, and secretly complained to themselves.

Steven, a greedy and cunning bastard, is so fucking hateful.

Obviously, whatever is hidden at the end of this secret passage, treasure or whatever, even if it is only two gold coins, this bastard will snatch one of them!

Thinking of this, the four Germans couldn't help but feel a pain in their flesh, but they were helpless, and for a while, they couldn't think of how to refute at all.

"Bang ——!"

A sudden crisp sound came from the bottom of the pit, interrupting their thoughts.

Everyone standing at the edge of the pit looked at the bottom of the pit, and everyone's eyes lit up.

At the same time, Derek's excited voice came from the bottom of the pit.

"Steven, we've dug up the vault and walls of this passage, which are also made of granite, very strong, and still lead in the direction of the River Spree."

As he spoke, Derek scraped the ground at the bottom of the pit with the sapper shovel in his hand, then flashed two steps to the side and pointed to the position where he had just stood.

Following the direction of his finger, Ye Tian and the others saw at a glance the granite vault of the secret passage at the bottom of the pit, although it was only exposed a little, the outline was very clear.

The granite steps on which Derek and the others were standing were extending below the granite vault, and the distance from the vault to the steps was about one and a half meters.

And this secret passage is inclined downward extension, the angle is not small, with this height, even if a person with a height of more than one meter or eight enters this secret passage, there is no need to bend over, the space is completely sufficient.

"Wow, the specifications of this secret passage are not low, and it is hidden four or five meters underground, and I don't know what secrets are hidden at the end of the secret passage, and it takes so much effort?"

"Judging from the specifications of this secret passage alone, there must be a large space at the end of the secret passage, who would have thought that there is an unknown palace hidden in the depths of the underground of the Temple Palace."

There was a lot of talk in the basement, every voice excited and everyone looking forward to it.

Compared with the rest of the people at the scene, Ye Tian was relatively calm.

He carefully observed the situation at the bottom of the pit, and then said to the two company employees at the bottom of the pit:

"Derek, you guys come up and rest for a while, recover your mental and physical strength, and change two guys to go down and continue digging, I have a hunch that we are not far from the door of the treasure"

The two guys standing at the bottom of the pit did not refuse, and nodded in unison:

"Okay, Steven, we're a little tired too"

Then the two guys were pulled up and went to rest, and the two company employees who replaced them went down to the bottom of the pit to continue digging.

When they reached the bottom of the pit, Ye Tian immediately said to them:

"As you continue to dig down the steps, be careful, and with each step, scan the passage thoroughly with a pulsed metal detector, just in case.

If you dig along the secret passage for a while, you will be able to dig up the granite slab that blocks the secret passage, and once you have dug the slab, you will stop at once, and I will take care of the rest.

No one knows exactly what is going on behind that stone slab, there may be traps, and there may even be explosives buried there, which must be carefully explored and confirmed to be safe before it can be opened."

"Understand, Steven, don't worry, we'll be careful"

The two company employees who had just descended to the bottom of the pit nodded in response, and their tones were much more solemn.

Next, the two guys picked up the two sapper shovels at the bottom of the pit and began to dig further, but at a much slower pace and more cautiously than before.

As they kept waving their arms, the secret passage hidden deep underground gradually revealed to everyone.

Buckets of gravel and dirt were hoisted up the basement and then moved to another basement by the company employees above, like ants moving.

In a short time, the two company employees who were waving their arms at the bottom of the pit had disappeared from everyone's view, and they followed the secret passage that sloped downwards into the depths of the secret passage.

Fortunately, they are all wearing pinhole cameras, and their every move in the secret passage is clearly displayed on the handheld monitor and in front of everyone's eyes.

Soon, more than ten minutes had passed.

The two guys who were digging at the bottom of the pit had dug two or three meters along the secret passage, and were getting closer to the secret hidden deep underground.

The further down they dig, the less inclined the passage became, and the more space inside the passage became.

Naturally, the amount of excavation work has increased, and the speed of advancement has slowed down.

At that moment, one of the guys swung his sapper shovel again, plunging into the dirt in front of him.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a muffled sound came from the secret passage, reaching everyone's ears.

Immediately after, an excited voice came from the depths of the secret passage.

"Steven, I think I've dug up the slab that sealed this secret passage!"

Before the words could be spoken, a cheer rang out in the basement.

"Great! I finally dug up the treasure gate, but I don't know, what secret is hidden behind this stone gate, is it the treasure of the Knights Templar?"

"Wow! Looks like we're going to find another treasure and shake the world again, it's a perfect day."

When the cheers fell slightly, Ye Tian immediately said to the bottom of the pit:

"Come up, leave the rest to me, I'll dig it myself, if the stone slab used to seal the secret passage is tired, it will definitely not escape my eyes"

"Okay, Steven, let's come up now"

As he spoke, the two guys who were working in the depths of the secret passage retreated from the secret passage and appeared at the bottom of the pit.