As planned, at noon, the fishing boat arrived at the port of Manila.

According to the number of people counted when they were on the ship, the crew was divided into two groups, and those who are willing to return to China will go to Manila International Airport to buy the nearest flight back to China now. Unwilling to return to China, Li Huan asked Li Ang to book the best hotel in the local area, and gave a subsidy of $500 per person per day, so that they could wait for the second start of work on the spot.

Not to mention that after Li Huan's arrangement, most people are ready to wait for the start of the flight in the Philippines with peace of mind. This is a bit different from Li Huan's plan at the beginning, he thought that most people wanted to return to China to recuperate after experiencing this thrilling natural disaster, but he didn't expect that more than half of them stayed in the end. But this is also a good thing, the more people who stay, the smoother it will be when the time comes, and there is no need to re-recruit people, if too many people leave, then the crew may have to re-recruit people. After the crew was arranged, the manpower was freed, and Li Huan got on the helicopter again and flew towards the next place.

He's going to Kabgao.

Capugao is an important town in the northern Philippines, a mountain town deep in the Middle Cordillera Mountains. The town is small because it is located deep in the mountains, with only more than 2,000 people living here – just north of the mighty Abulu River, about 25 kilometres west of Cabugao, is the famous Scarpo Mountain in the Central Cordillera, the highest peak in the Central Cordillera at 2,354 meters. Overall, the scenery around this small town is beautiful, and it feels like a paradise.

This hidden spot in Kabgao is located in a river valley about 10 kilometers west of the small town of Kabgao, which is formed by the island's river, which washes down from the highest peak, and is surrounded by high mountains more than 1,000 meters above sea level. After Li Huan and his party got off the helicopter, they searched for about an hour before they found a small cave hidden by various vines and plants, but unfortunately, the entrance of this cave has obviously been dug up - the Japanese army left a lot of treasure spots when they retreated in the Philippines, but as we all know, most of them were dug up by the Citigroup army later, so it was expected that they would be in the air.

However, given the size of this small cave, there must not be many treasures hidden in it, and it is estimated that a ton or two of gold is already very good - but it doesn't matter, there is a city called Laoag that is not willing to be here, and there is a hiding place.

The hidden spot described in the map is located at the mouth of an island river, surrounded by mountains and facing the sea, and appears to be an important fishing city. Although the city is surrounded by mountains and sea, the city is not a port city, and the largest wharf in the whole city is the fishing boat wharf near the mouth of the sea, which is densely packed with small wharves that dock a large number of fishing boats, and most of the Filipino fishermen who often enter the South China Sea to fish illegally are from this city. The fishing city is just over 50 nautical miles away from the nine-dash line of the South China Sea, so fishermen here often enter the South China Sea in small boats to fish. In addition to the fishing industry, the city also has a well-developed farming industry, and from the air, the ground is full of rice and corn fields, as well as a large amount of tobacco plantation, and in general, the city is a typical mixed city of agriculture and fish.

In total, less than 100,000 people live in the city.

The main part of the city is on the north bank of the Laoag River, and there is not even a single building over ten floors in the city, but at first glance it is mostly two- or three-story buildings, and the urban planning is so poor that it looks more like a large slum......

The map stolen from the treasure hunters of the Sunset Note shows that the hiding place is located in the main town of Laoag, and this location is very close to the Laoag River, only less than 200 meters away. Before coming, Li Huan had already set a location for this location according to the satellite map, but unfortunately, this location was also blocked by a huge building. This huge building is a shopping mall, square, almost 70 meters long and wide, and it is considered the largest shopping center in Lawagne.

The main city of Laoag is full of dense buildings, and the helicopter Li Huan and their helicopters are not even easy to find, so under Li Huan's instructions, Li Ang simply parked the helicopter directly in the new city on the south bank of the Laoag River, where there are many flat places, but Li Huan and they still need to walk along the No. 2 Highway Bridge to the north bank of the river.

Luckily, the mall is right next to the north bridgehead of the Highway 2 bridge, so you don't have to take a long detour.

The helicopter slowly landed on the embankment on the south bank of the Laoag River with a loud roar, attracting a group of tattered little ones to watch from a distance, and some adults were also attracted to it. However, after seeing two sturdy foreigners get off the plane with a charming woman, these adults hurriedly shouted at these children and drove them away from here. It's not that these adults are afraid of Leon and them, although Lawag is a city dominated by fishing and farming, but this city is also a famous tourist city in the Philippines, and a large number of foreign tourists come here every year, and then depart from here to enter the Central Cordillera Mountains, so every year, a large number of rich people come here or take yachts or helicopters, and the locals are used to seeing it.

was really the first to jump off the plane and help Li Huan and Yu Ting open the plane door, Li Ang was dressed too strongly.

The assault rifle on the back, the pistol on the leg sleeve, at first glance, does not look like a good person. After the crew was settled, Agata and Rovisha also came with them, although they did not carry assault rifles, but they could be seen from a distance with bulging bags in their waists, and they brought a lot of weapons at a glance, and they didn't look like tourists when they looked horizontally and vertically. And their dress is very different from that of the army, so they can only be personal bodyguards. The people who can be protected by such a strong bodyguard must be big shots. These locals were afraid that these children who didn't know the depth would offend this big man, so they drove these children away. Not only the locals, but even a policeman on a bicycle was attracted by the helicopter, but after seeing the fierce Li Ang, as well as Agata and Luo Weisha, as well as Li Huan and Yu Ting who got off the plane, this one didn't even ask, turned around and left on a bicycle.

"The city is even more dilapidated than San Fernando. Yu Ting got off the plane and looked around curiously: "Let's just park the helicopter here, won't there be any problem? I don't think this is the place to park the plane." Well. Aren't we going to do it secretly? Wouldn't it attract attention by helicopter with such fanfare?"

"Miss Yu, don't worry, absolutely not, although Lawag looks even more dilapidated than San Fernando, in fact, there are often rich people from abroad who come here for vacation. In the 17th century, the Spaniards chose this place as the preferred landing site, so in fact, the people of Laoag are the most open in the whole of the Philippines. Leon said.

Considering that the security of this place is not too good, Luo Weisha left behind to guard the helicopter, and Li Huan took the rest of the people along the 800-meter-long Highway 2 bridge leisurely across the roaring and raging Laoag River, and it took more than ten minutes to reach the north bank of the river.

To the east of the north bridgehead is a palatial cathedral called St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral, the largest and oldest church in Lasag, more than a century later than the one in San Fernando, but much larger and more ornate than the one in San Fernando. Before coming, Li Huan had inquired about this church, so he knew that this church was not built by the Spaniards, but by Citi, and it was located on the north bank of the Laoag River, and outside the church gate was the north embankment of the Laoag River. Originally, a large area of the surrounding buildings belonged to the church, but with the development of time, many buildings on the north side of the church were bought by private individuals, and now only the main body of the church and a room on the west side of the church are left.

It's like the huge shopping mall where the hidden location is located, the site of which used to belong to this church, but was later bought by a private owner and a huge shopping mall was built here.

In fact, before he came, Li Huan already didn't have much hope here, if the land was not sold, Li Huan believed that the treasures should continue to be buried there, but it has been changed into a huge shopping mall, especially this shopping center has two underground shopping malls, this is not easy to say. It is estimated that even if there is a treasure buried there, I am afraid that it was dug up when this shopping center was built - after all, there are no buildings in this world, and where the foundation is not laid first, especially on this kind of island, the foundation must be very strong, and the only way to build a solid foundation is to dig down desperately.

If there was any treasure buried under this shopping mall, it must have been dug up in the process of laying the foundation for the construction of the shopping mall.

But since he came here, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, Li Huan would also feel unwilling.

Li Huan did not enter the church, but led people straight into the second basement shopping mall of the shopping center, and at the same time launched a variety of observation modes for Xiaofei, and also launched his own spiritual exploration, under such an exploration, sure enough, Li Huan was a little disappointed - nothing. On the contrary, it was Yu Ting and Naagata, and they couldn't move when they got here. It seems that whether it is a strong business woman or a fierce female special forces, she will lose all resistance in the face of the magical sport of shopping.

If that's the case, let them go shopping. The security conditions in this shopping mall look very good, and you can see security personnel wearing security uniforms everywhere, so Li Huan told the two women to let Agata protect Yu Ting, and he took Li Ang out of the shopping mall himself.

Walking out of the shopping mall with Li Ang again, looking at the magnificent red-roofed and white-walled cathedral dozens of meters away to the south, Li Huan couldn't help but sigh. Why didn't Mao bury the treasures under the church because of the defeat of the Japanese army? If that were the case, the treasures would have been preserved. Li Huan shook his head slightly, and was about to take a look around here, but subconsciously let Xiao Fei's handset switch to scanning mode and scan the church as a whole.

It's okay if you don't scan, Li Huan jumped when he scanned it.

Under the infrared and thermal mode, nothing was displayed on Li Huan's virtual screen, but when Xiaofei's handset switched to the spectral scanning mode, Li Huan suddenly saw a bright light about twenty meters underground in the church. Spectral scanning is very accurate, everything in nature has its own spectral characteristics, and what Li Huan analyzed on the virtual screen is the characteristics of a clump of crystals.

"Hmm, what's going on? This spectrum is like a gem, is it buried in the ground......" Li Huan's heart moved slightly: "Xiaofei, you can do another deep spectral scan to see." ”

This sudden discovery lifted Li Huan's spirits, and then he realized that the treasure was most likely not placed in that damn shopping mall - maybe the person who drew the map at that time deviated the coordinates a little bit, and Li Huan and others followed the coordinates to find it, and it must be this shopping center that they found. In fact, if it weren't for this map, the shopping mall and the church would have been chosen by Li Huan, and Li Huan would definitely have gone directly to the church, he was wrong, he believed in the "military map" in his hand too much.

It's no wonder that the maps of that era, even if they were military maps for combat, could not be accurate to 100 meters without the help of satellites, and if it was a meter-by-meter measurement on land, it was possible to find a reference, but at that time when the Japanese army retreated, behind the ass was the landing Allied forces, where did they have time to measure meter by meter? The distance between the shopping mall and the church is actually not far, if you think about it carefully, in terms of the character of the Japanese people, of course they can't let go of such a magnificent church, in World War II, this church is probably the best building in the local area, Li Huan doesn't believe it, they put such a good building and don't requisition, they don't believe in Jesus Christ, they believe in their Amaterasu!

"The points marked on this combat map are wrong and biased! The treasure is definitely not buried under the shopping mall, but under the church!" Li Huan's mind was racing, and he immediately realized that this possibility was extremely high. You must know that the Japanese army retreated in a hurry, and it would not be measured so accurately when retreating, which is simply certain.

Li Huan looked at the church motionlessly, and saw the boss standing there looking at the cathedral after leaving the gate of the shopping mall, Li Ang immediately picked up the assault rifle precisely to protect Li Huan, and anyone who tried to get close to Li Huan in vain would be scared away by his eyes - he didn't know what was wrong with his boss, but Li Ang understood that the boss never did things for no reason, and now the boss didn't know why he "paused", probably thinking about something important, so Li Ang had to take on his responsibilities.

Li Ang is now equivalent to the second layer of qi refining, coupled with the temperament that has been crawling on the battlefield for a long time, the eyes must be certain, and the timid ones dare not look at him at all, so that the people who enter and exit the shopping mall are far away from the two of them.

After a long while, seeing that Li Huan really didn't react, Li Ang asked quietly, "Boss, boss, are you okay?"

This voice pulled Li Huan back from his contemplation, he looked at Li Ang, then at the church not far away, and said with a slight smile: "I'm fine, let's go, let's go to the church to have a look." ”

After being with Li Huan for a long time, as soon as Li Ang saw the boss showing this smile, he immediately realized that the boss seemed to have made a big discovery, so he asked quietly: "Boss, do you see something?"

"Well, I did see something. Li Huan said as he walked briskly towards the church, "It's just that I can't be completely sure yet, so let's divide the work for a while......" Li Huan hesitated slightly, as if he was thinking, "Li Ang, this church should be a Protestant church, right?"

Leon nodded.

"Well, after going in for a while, you pretended to be a Citigroup tourist, found the pastor of the church and told him, saying that one of your predecessors died here in the past when he was defending the Philippines and fighting the Japanese, and you came to the Philippines this time to find the ashes of this senior. Then you ask the pastor if his ashes can be buried in the crypt of the church, if he is a devout believer. Li Huan said: "There is no disaster here, so I can't donate money like before, and this is always a church, it is not good for us to break through forcibly, this is the easiest way, you pretend to be a tourist to go in and pay respects." ”

Li Ang's eyes flashed, and he nodded thoughtfully, "Boss, there is an underground space here, how did you find out?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I naturally have my own way, I can only tell you that it is very likely that this place has a lot of treasures hidden underground, just like the Catholic church in San Fernando. So, we need to be sure. ”

"Alright, I'll leave this matter to me! I'll make sure to enter the catacombs!"

The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian church, so although this church looks much larger than the Catholic church in San Fernando, the interior of this church is much more modest than the Catholic church. After all, because of the doctrinal gap, the interior decoration of the Catholic Church and the Christian Church is also very different. But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, both belong to Christianity, but in China, because of the translation, Protestantism is called "Christianity", and Catholicism should actually be called "Roman Catholicism" correctly, and the other of the three major schools of Christianity is Orthodox Christianity.

In fact, the difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism can be distinguished from the interior decoration of the church. The interiors of Roman Catholic churches, or Catholic churches, are mostly opulent, with painted walls, glass, and domes. In contrast, the interior of the Protestant church is much more modest, and it is said that the interior of the church is made very plain because the believers are afraid that they will not be distracted by the gorgeous decoration of the church and cannot wholeheartedly believe in Christ Jesus. In addition, the head of a Catholic church is often referred to as a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is often referred to as a priest.

However, the two types of churches also have something in common, that is, there are three kinds of relationship between the church and the burial chamber, whether it is Catholic or Protestant. The first is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the burial chamber is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the floor of the church.

In the first type of burial chamber, most of the burial chambers are for ordinary believers, while in the second type of burial, most of the burial chambers are for some important people in the believers, and as for the third type, that is, the kind where the coffins are placed directly on the floor of the church, they are extremely important people who have made great contributions to the church, and it is possible to enjoy this high honor after death. Of course, not all churches have catacombs. Some of the churches that were built very early were not able to build underground burial chambers under the churches due to the limitations of the construction technology or local conditions at that time. This is the case, for example, of the Catholic church in San Fernando.

And this St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral, one is because the construction time is only a century old, and the construction technology has long been no problem. Therefore, according to Li Huan, after Xiao Fei controlled the submachine to do geological scanning and imaging, there was a large and deep underground tomb under this church, with three floors and a depth of nearly ten meters.

Even Li Huan, after entering the underground crypt of this cathedral, couldn't help but feel a little surprised by the grandeur of this church. It is a miracle that this church was built around 1900, and that such a huge three-story basement could be built more than 100 years ago, and that the Philippines is also a country with many earthquakes, so it is a miracle that this church has been able to remain intact for more than 100 years.

Soon, Leon completed his task perfectly, in fact, it is very simple to complete such a task, no matter what the reason, it is not comparable to the promised large sum of money. Leon simply talked to the high priest about his thoughts, and then promised that if the church allowed the ashes of his predecessors to be buried in the catacomes, then he would donate $300,000 to the church, but he needed to go down and see the catacombs first. There is money to make the grinding ghost, although the 300,000 dollars have not yet arrived, but even the promised 300,000 dollars, immediately asked the high priest to allow Leon to take two people down to see the catacomb.

That's 300,000 U.S. dollars, almost half of the amount of donations this church receives in a year! How can such a big donor be easily offended? Isn't it just to go down and see, what is there? There are all the places where the coffins are stored below, and what is there to look at in the gloomy?

So the archpriest sent someone to lead Li Ang, the big gold lord, into the underground tomb, of course, Li Huan followed Li Ang as an entourage this time. There is still a big gap between the thinking of Westerners and the thinking of Easterners, for example, there is a complete difference in the perception of cemeteries. In the thinking of Oriental people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery, the better, the difference between yin and yang, the living cannot be too close to the dead, otherwise something big will happen.

In the eyes of Westerners, the cemetery is a sacred place, and most Westerners build their homes near the cemetery in order to be protected by their ancestors. In the church, the burial chamber is built directly under the floor of the church. Although Li Huan doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in Huaxia since he was a child, and he has heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods.

The basement is a brick and stone structure, and arches are formed between the thick masonry columns, which bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the buildings above, and the four walls of the basement are not the walls that Li Huan imagined to be ground with cement, but also brick and stone walls. This made Li Huan feel very strange, the cathedral itself is located by the river, it is said that the groundwater level should be very high, building a basement in this kind of place, if it is not waterproofed, the basement will have been flooded by the groundwater that comes out.

But there was nothing wrong here, even in the third basement about ten meters underground, except for feeling very wet and cold, there were no water stains in the basement.

"Could it be that there are waterproof measures inside the wall?" Li Huan thought about it, then shook his head, and cut off the idea of thinking about it again. He's not an expert in architecture, and he's not here to study the basement structure of this church, he's here to hunt for treasures, and if you don't understand this mess, you can't figure it out. Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is also full of shelves made of dense masonry buildings, on these masonry shelves, there are sarcophagi one by one, and the lid of each sarcophagus is carved in the shape of a person, Li Huan knows that this humanoid carving is actually the posture of the person in the coffin.

The cathedral covers a large area, so the area of the underground crypt is not small, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagi on each floor. With so many sarcophagi densely placed together, with the clammy and cold air here, there is really a chilling feeling.

If it were in normal times, Li Huan would not have come to this kind of place with enough food, but this time he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped paying attention to these sarcophagi, but walked towards the place suggested by spectral analysis.

The priest who came down with him went back on the second floor under the pretext that something was wrong, it seems that even the pastor of the church is reluctant to come to this kind of place, and it is estimated that the priest is also very aware of the situation below, except for the sarcophagus is a sarcophagus, there is nothing to see at all, even if he doesn't have to follow these three people, he is not worried that these three people can cause any trouble below. This priest didn't follow, which greatly facilitated Li Huan's actions, so after coming to the third floor, he only walked to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement with a slight delay, because the abnormal spectrum came out from this position.

This church has been around for more than a hundred years, so the sarcophagus in the basement has long been full, even in the northeasternmost corner of this third floor. But by this point, Li Huan had already arrived at the location of the anomalous spectrum that Xiao Fei had explored. To Li Huan's surprise, these treasures were not placed in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but in the walls!

Obviously, after the Japanese army occupied Laoag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for them. However, after the surrender of the Japanese army, the treasures that were too late to be taken away were hastily hidden in the basement of this cathedral by the routed army in the middle of retreat. However, in order to prevent these treasures from being discovered, the rout army did not put the treasures in those sarcophagi, but in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, they chiseled the walls of the basement, dug out an additional basement, and then put the treasures inside, sealing the walls of the basement from the outside.

In this way, there are sarcophagi and walls outside as cover, and it is estimated that no one would have thought that there are a large number of treasures hidden in this location!

If Li Huan hadn't asked Xiao Fei to scan it with the machine and found those abnormal spectra, he wouldn't have thought that there would be treasures hidden in this kind of place!

Obviously, the defeated Japanese army knew very well that even if they were defeated, after the Citi people retook the Philippines, they would not have any doubts about this ancient church. Because of faith, it is too late for those Citi people to protect these churches, so how can they destroy these churches? Therefore, it is safest to hide the treasures under the home church. It is estimated that there are not a few routs who have this idea, otherwise there would not be a large number of treasures buried under the Catholic church in San Fernando. And these treasures hidden under these two churches were indeed not discovered by the Citi people. Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of these two hiding places has not been leaked, Li Huan is even sure that the defeated Japanese army will definitely not tell this kind of hiding place, after all, this kind of place hides a large number of treasures, and it is very likely that they were collected from several places and hidden.

This kind of hiding location is estimated to be very little known even for the high-level bigwigs of the little devils.

I just don't know how the sunset notice got such accurate news back then, and even the coordinates and locations are marked. It's a pity that the Sunset Society spent a lot of effort to get these hidden locations, but they didn't have time to dig up, but in the end, they were all cheaper than Li Huan.

"There are treasures buried under the two churches, does that mean that the defeated Japanese army of the year is walking according to this idea, and the burial places are similar, so there are not only these two churches where treasures are buried? Maybe there are also a lot of treasures buried under some churches in big cities such as Manila and Cebu? Well, this possibility is actually very large. Do you want to wait until you have a chance to visit the churches in the big cities?"

Li Huan touched his chin and thought, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly......

Obviously, as long as it is something from the sunset, as long as there is an opportunity, he doesn't want to leave a single coin for the other party.