Chapter 347: Finding the True Chamber of Secrets
The smell in the room was unpleasant, but Chen Xu didn't have time to wait until the smell dissipated before entering, and before he set off, he had already considered that the secret room was closed all year round, and the air inside must be very choking, so he prepared a sufficient number of gas masks in advance to protect against these gases.
After putting on gas masks, several soldiers carried travel bags into the secret room, and pulled the scattered gold and jewelry into the bags, looking like robbers who had gone to rob a bank and entered the vault.
The wooden boxes with a very delicate appearance were also sent out, worried that there were hidden weapons and poisonous gases in the boxes, which were sprayed out in the narrow secret room, and the soldiers had nowhere to hide.
So the wooden box was moved to an open yard, and opening it in such an open environment could at least minimize the danger.
Of course, it is not the turn of Chen Xu, Allen and Song Zichao, the three officers to get started, but the flower growers have always had a tradition of officers taking the lead, and this kind of dangerous thing is really difficult to order.
In the end, it was Blunt who volunteered to jump out, he rolled up his sleeves and was about to go up and open the box, but his head was immediately slapped by Allen, and he scolded: "Use a bamboo pole to dial, if there is a hidden weapon shot out of it, it will be too late to directly blow up your pig's head and rescue it!" ”
There are a lot of evil things in this part of India, and thousands of years can always collect some strange and highly toxic substances, if you get it, you will definitely die, so be careful!
These wooden boxes are beautifully shaped, but they are not locked on the outside, they are simply hung with brass buckles. Blunt used a two-meter-long bamboo pole to pick open the copper buckle, and then forcefully inserted one end of the bamboo pole into the hollow hole on the copper buckle.
There were no arrows and steel needles shot out, and there was no terrifying poisonous mist spewing out, and when everyone shone the strong flashlights together, they saw only boxes full of exquisite hollow gold jewelry, and the workmanship was quite exquisite, and it was not an exaggeration to call it ingenious. Leaving aside the actual gold price of these jewellery, their intricately carved workmanship already exceeds the value of the gold itself.
"It's no wonder that it has to be packed in a box, such a beautiful ornament, if it is placed outside after years of oxidation, it will change color, and it will affect the value to some extent. Even now, such beautiful gold jewelry is very in line with the public aesthetics, let's open a store on the busiest street in a big city like London or New York, get a luxurious decoration, and put these gold objects in a transparent display case, as a luxury can be sold for dozens of times the price. Alan licked his lips greedily, even if he was an intelligence officer, he was still the arms dealer who was good at doing business in his bones, and he would find the most profitable way to see anything.
"Great idea! Let's go to the most prosperous city in the world to open a gold store, and dress up these gold objects as luxury goods and sell them. Chen Xu walked over and shone these glamorous gold jewelry with a strong flashlight, which can be used as heirlooms in the eyes of ordinary people, and in his cognition, they can be easily sold and then turned into scientific research funds.
The first box was not dangerous, and Blunt thought that all the boxes were safe, just when Chen Xu and Alan admired the gold jewelry in the first box. He actually opened all the boxes without authorization, and fortunately there was no danger, otherwise his subordinates would have hung up because of this trivial matter, and Alan would have to die of sadness.
Alan was so angry that he snapped the bamboo pole into two pieces, and then picked up the thick one and chased after Blunt and hit it. This guy just doesn't have a long memory, just like a pet dog, he must take advantage of his mistakes to teach him a lesson, otherwise he will never know where he is wrong.
The chests that were opened were filled with the same gold ornaments, most of which were decorated with colorful gemstones, but they were just ordinary gemstones, not valuable, but they were set on gold objects to complement each other, and their own value also rose.
"Chen! Come and see, is this a diamond? Alan crouched in front of one of the chests, holding in his hand a flamboyant gold necklace that covered his chest, and in the center of his chest was a gemstone the size of a date.
Chen Xu also walked over, leaned his head over, and saw that this was a purple-red gemstone, exuding an attractive diamond luster under the illumination of a strong flashlight, from its transparency and carving, this is definitely not an ordinary gemstone, he sniffed and said: "This secret room has been closed for hundreds of years, and there will definitely be no modern high-level fake diamond manufacturing process in that period, not to mention that the diamond is so big, and it is a special color, so this must be a real diamond!" ”
"God, a purple-red diamond of this size, at least forty carats, should be set in the crown of the Queen of England, or hung around the neck of some noble lady in Europe, and not locked in a wooden chest in a secret room in this backwood." Alan looked at this diamond with fascinated eyes, he can be regarded as well-informed, but the color is so special, and a single colored diamond of such a large size is also the only one in his life.
"What? Take it if you like, and it's not bad to be the heirloom of your Strauss family. There are seven or eight billion dollars of gold jewelry in the other secret rooms, and maybe there will be bigger diamonds than this, and no one will say anything about you if you take a small one! Chen Xu doesn't feel anything about these mundane things, in his opinion, he is just a valuable stone, nothing to look at.
"I don't dare to ask for this kind of big color diamond, I heard that this kind of creation gem is very evil, whoever takes it will encounter all kinds of unlucky things like a spell, or take it to the gold store as the treasure of the town store!" Alan waved his hand again and again, although he liked the color of this purple and red colored diamond, but when he thought that this thing was stolen from the ancient temple, he would always feel bad luck when he hid it at home. Allen is the de facto helmsman of the Strauss family, not to say the richest man in the world, but he is also one of the world's most famous billionaires, and there is no luxury in the world that he cannot afford. A diamond didn't impress him.
The appearance of colored diamonds has given all people a shot in the arm, and it has been so great to open a secret room, but it is conceivable that if you open all the back rooms, there will be more discoveries!
Although the colored diamonds are precious, but time is more important, in order to avoid a soldier from a moment of dizziness from the gold ornaments to pick off the gems to hide private, after all, the jewelry is brilliant, it is easy to shake people's hearts of the devil!
In order to avoid any mistakes, all the jewelry was put directly into the travel bag without any sorting under the supervision of three fighters.
And the necklace set with colored diamonds is too precious, especially its purple red color may be the most unique in the world, if you go to the auction is estimated to be between 3 and 50 million dollars, the specific value depends on the auctioneer's interest in this colored diamond.
In order to avoid suspicion, Chen Xu can only get this colored diamond, after all, this money is so large that it can be used to burn the fire, so naturally he doesn't care about such a small diamond. And Chen Xu disliked that it was troublesome to take such a large necklace, so he used a dagger to pry the diamond off the necklace, wrapped it in a soft cloth, stuffed it into his inner pocket, and closed the zipper.
Unless someone picks off his clothes, this fancy color diamond will only be safe and secure, and it will never be lost.
About ten minutes later, the second secret room was also discovered, and the door was smashed open in the same way, and there was also a considerable amount of gold jewelry inside, but it was not as much as expected, and it was estimated that it was only about one billion yuan.
But in history, when the Indian government took over this temple, it only opened one of the secret rooms, and the treasures inside were counted to be worth as much as 150 billion yuan. So the treasures in these secret rooms are only a drop in the bucket of this ancient temple.
Perhaps these easy-to-find chambers were just designed by the ancient kings of Kerala to confuse treasure thieves, and the real treasure chambers must still be hidden in the shadows, but they are hard to find!
This ancient temple, which is more than 30 meters high and almost seven stories high, is not as easy to explore as Chen Xu imagined, and it took half an hour.
The time spent on exploring and searching was far more than the budget, and the soldiers searched the entire ancient temple, and the walls were smashed on seven or eight sides, but they could not find the secret room again.
"There must be no secret room upstairs, and these monks will not hide the gold, silver, and jewelry in the mezzanine of the wall." Alan walked around the main hall of the ancient temple, shining the strong flashlight in his hand on the idol enshrined under the wall, squinting his eyes and saying: "The treasure of the royal family must be hidden in this temple, but not upstairs but underground, wake me up a monk, I want to interrogate the entrance to the basement." ”
Chen Xu also knew that forcing the monk to open his mouth was the fastest way, unless they dug three feet in the temple, it would be impossible to find the entrance to the basement in a short time, so he acquiesced to Allen's method.
Alan took a few soldiers who looked like old hairy to the second floor, and then carried a fair-looking monk to the third floor, while the others waited downstairs for the results of the interrogation.
Chen Xu only heard a few angry rebukes from upstairs, and then there was a muffled sound of being beaten, and after a wail, it quieted down.
While everyone was listening, Alan wiped the blood on his hands with a rag and walked downstairs: "That kid still wants to threaten me with his noble Brahmin status, and after a few slaps and kicks, he cried like a grandson, and he couldn't stand the pain at all." ”
"Let's open the basement quickly! In two hours, the sky will be light, although this ancient temple is not well managed, but there are still many believers who will come to pray every day, and we will have a lot of trouble at that time. Chen Xu nodded and motioned for Alan to hurry up.