Chapter 1292: A Strange Secret Passage
Shi Lei smiled slightly, walked over in two steps, and under the bookshelf, he saw a small black hole.
The entrance to the cave is very narrow, and only one person can barely go down, and even has to be of Shi Lei's stature, like Andre, after properly stuffing his calves, he was stuck at the entrance of the cave.
turned on the flashlight function of the mobile phone, and Shi Lei shone it down.
The flashlight function of the mobile phone is not strong, but it is enough for Shi Lei to see the ground, which means that the ground of the secret passage is only about one meter away from the floor on the first floor.
Even so, Shi Lei was still not careless, he sat on the edge of the hole, put his legs down, and then propped his hands on the edge of the hole, slowly letting his feet fall on the ground.
After stepping on the ground, Shi Lei did not immediately squat down, but left his head outside the hole, carefully observed, listened attentively, and after making sure that there was no sound, he slowly squatted down, and slowly walked forward in a squatting way by the light of the flashlight.
The ground obviously has a downward slope, and after walking about four or five meters, Shi Lei can already stand up straight in the secret passage.
But when I got here, the ground in the secret passage became gentler, no longer downward, and the space on both sides was much larger.
It was very dark in the secret passage, and Shi Lei could only rely on the faint light emitted by his mobile phone to move forward slowly.
There was a small bend ahead, and when Shi Lei passed through that bend, he was very surprised to find that on the wall at the bend, a thin nylon thread hung down, just like the pull wire lighting switch he had seen when he was a child.
Suddenly a sense of vigilance appeared in Shi Lei's heart.
According to André, the passage was built at least during the Napoleonic period, more than 200 years ago, when it was clearly impossible to have such a device as electric lights.
Shi Lei carefully touched the nylon wire, and he immediately determined that it was an electric light wire.
With a slight pull, the light came on......
Although he knew that this secret passage was by no means the one that Andre said, Shi Lei didn't think much about it, he felt that this secret passage might have been excavated by the ancestors of the previous owner of the winery, after all, the nylon electric light wire was at least decades old.
Only a little more cautious, Shi Lei turned the corner, and then, he saw a safe that was half a person high......
This time, he was even more sure that no matter whether there was the secret passage that André said in this castle, it must not be the one he said.
This is also a pit daddy, there are two sets of mechanisms in such a big castle. The most important thing is that this mechanism is extremely exquisite, if it weren't for Shi Lei's discovery of the abnormality of the rocking chair and the second card of the mechanical application, he would not have been able to walk here so calmly.
However, it seems that this tunnel was only excavated by someone a few decades ago, so the delicacy of that mechanism seems to have been explained. In fact, Shi Lei has always wondered how the ancients more than 200 years ago managed to make such a delicate application of magnetic fields.
The application of machinery is not only manifested in the investigation and destruction of mechanisms, but also has a deep understanding of almost all kinds of safes on this earth.
This safe is obviously a product from at least fifty or sixty years ago or even close to a hundred years, such an old product, completely mechanical, unlike the current new safe, many of which are already connected to the computer, and it is not so easy to crack.
Lying on the safe, Shi Lei gently turned the cipher disk, and the cipher disk made a slight clicking sound, but under Shi Lei's current ear power, what he heard was more than a clicking sound.
Without much effort, Shi Lei found all three sets of passwords, and then opened the safe smoothly.
At the same time, Shi Lei also realized that his ear power, in the case of sticking to the target object and cooperating with bone conduction or object conduction, is no less effective than a stethoscope.
The door of the safe creaked heavily, and as it opened, a lot of dust fell.
In the safe, Shi Lei saw a large amount of gold, and also saw a corner of the safe, stacked with a lot of cylinders, which were relatively old painting tubes.
After a slight glance, Shi Lei knew that this was probably not the calligraphy and painting work in the mission given to him by the black card, because the number was wrong.
The subject matter of the black card's task is twenty-three calligraphy and paintings, but here, there are as many as thirty-five painting tubes.
However, there are too many of them, maybe the information of the black card is not accurate enough, after all, it was at least fifty or sixty years ago, and it is normal for the black card to make mistakes.
Shi Lei took out a painting tube, unscrewed it, and poured out the contents of it.
When I opened it, it was not any of the twenty-three calligraphy and paintings, it was an oil painting.
In the lower right corner of the oil painting, Shi Lei saw the inscription, which was actually Monet, an outstanding representative of European Impressionism.
Shi Lei opened the second painting tube, there was still an oil painting inside, Shi Lei looked directly at the place where he signed off, it was still Monet's work.
After opening all the painting tubes one after another, Shi Lei was surprised to find that all the thirty-five painting tubes contained all Impressionist works, and it seemed that this collector had a soft spot for Impressionist works.
Among these thirty-five paintings, Shi Lei saw many familiar names.
Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, etc., are all the most outstanding representatives of French Impressionism.
Shi Lei frowned, this is too weird, in the safe, there is no task subject matter he needs, after all, the probability calculated by the black card is only twenty-three percent, but there is no Lafite wine king that Andre said, this is obviously too abnormal.
Moreover, this secret passage was only excavated less than a hundred years ago, which is too far from the more than 200 years ago that André said.
If this is a secret passage dug by the ancestors of the former owner of the winery, in order to treasure the impressionist paintings he has collected, and so much gold—the gold here is estimated to be at least more than 300 kilograms, and at the current price of about 300 yuan a gram, it is close to 100 million soft girl coins, more than 15 million euros.
It is just that the secret passage of two hundred years ago cannot be found, and the secret passage of less than a hundred years ago has no reason why its original owner should not tell his descendants.
Leaving aside the paintings of these impressionists, the gold alone was enough for the owner of the winery to squander for years, and there was absolutely no need for him to sell his winery. And even if it is sold, it is impossible not to take these things with them.
This means that the owner of the winery is unaware of the existence of these things, and André is even more unaware of them.
Shi Lei felt more and more that there was a big problem here.
It's just that for a moment, he can't think of what went wrong.
Let's start with the castle and the winery itself.
Shi Lei looked at his mobile phone, there was a signal on his mobile phone, and he immediately called Wei Bodhi.
"Can you locate my mobile phone?" Shi Lei asked directly.
Wei Bodhi was also concise: "It can be positioned." ”
"I'm ...... at a winery"