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Recently, the hotels in the city of Naples have reached a point of overcrowding.

Even if you don't live in a high-end hotel that you didn't live in before, even some hotels see a wide range of customers and temporarily raise prices, and those who want to stay in the hotel don't blink an eye, and they spend a lot of money to describe these people.

Originally, it was not the peak tourist season, and it was not a tourist resort in Europe, but at this time, it suddenly crowded in so many people, which made all the innkeepers happy.

Although many ordinary people don't know why this small port town in southern Italy is crowded with so many people at once, many people who are begging for a living on the local roads know why these rich people are here.

These bigwigs from all over the world suddenly came here at this time, not for any Italian food or beautiful scenery, they came here for only one purpose.

That was two days later, the auction of the century on a cruise ship, and the news has now spread around the world.

The cruise ship was an ordinary cruise ship registered in Panama, named the Pearl of the Mediterranean, which used to be an ordinary cruise ship under the name of the Savastano family, but now after the Savatano family has disappeared, the ship has been auctioned off with the shipping company to which it originally belonged, and it has taken over a shell company, and then under the cover of several vests. In the end, it became a cruise ship with a very mysterious owner.

Many people are speculating about who the real owner of the ship really is. But there are different opinions. No one has ever been able to get a definitive answer.

The city of Naples can be said to be calm on the surface, but there are undercurrents surging here, and there are not only hundreds of wealthy people from all over the world, or their representatives.

There are also many other government agents who arrive here with various purposes, such as the CIA, such as MI5, and many treasure hunters hired by the bigwigs behind the two museums that have suffered heavy losses in the past two months, and even many underworld members who want to get the bounty of the American bigwigs.

These people come in all shapes and sizes. With their own agendas, they are crowded in this small city with a permanent population of only a few hundred thousand.

Rich people live in high-end hotels, and these people have all the low-end hotels in the city.

The Blue Mood Hotel is a medium-sized hotel, and its main customers are usually tourists from Asia, but a few days ago, it was taken down by a group of black-clad men with big shoulders and round waists.

There were a lot of people in this group, and a total of twenty or thirty people lived in front and back, which crowded the small hotel.

But after the gang moved into the store. It's always been a secluded house.,Usually only a few people go out to wander every day.。 Someone would come back at noon and in the evening to change shifts, and they also brought a lot of black boxes.

This shop has been in business for decades, and the owner is also a discerning person, although he doesn't know what is in those black boxes, but from the crazy turning meters in the house these days, he knows that the gang must have brought a lot of power-consuming electronic devices.

At noon that day, a middle-aged white man who usually goes out for a stroll rushed in from the outside, and then went directly to a room on the second floor of the hotel, which was originally the largest room in the hotel, but now it has become their headquarters.

There are more than a dozen computers in the room, and more than a dozen technical reconnaissance personnel are guarding in front of the computers day and night, checking all kinds of information from inside and outside the city, and even from satellites.

A bald middle-aged black man stood behind these people, pacing constantly, and at the same time looked at the intelligence analysts in front of him from time to time, but he couldn't get accurate information back after waiting for a morning.

At this time, the middle-aged man who had just walked into the hotel from the outside broke in: "Howard, guess who I saw?" ”

The black man raised an eyebrow, then turned to look at his partner, "Mike, be quiet." ”

He made a soft gesture, and Mike noticed the tension in the room, and then stepped in front of Howard.

"Hey, I saw Hughes, and his team."

"Mi5's Hughes?"

Black Howard looked up, his eyebrows tightened, and his old partner Mike nodded at him.

"What are they doing here? The information we received this time said that the auction only involved antiques stolen from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston? ”

"Maybe they want to see if there will be any stolen artifacts from the British Museum at the venue? After all, these thieves are so bold that they dare to openly sell the stolen artifacts of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and perhaps they are also inextricably linked to the theft of the British Museum. As you know, the British are very angry about the British case, and now they don't have a clue at home, so maybe they want to try their luck. ”

Mike gave a similar explanation, and Howard's short, thick eyebrows were tightened even more.

This case, the pressure on his shoulders is very great, he is part of a CIA special operations group in Europe, originally only responsible for some work involving terrorists and collecting Russian intelligence.

But who would have thought that a few days ago, a phone call from his superiors transferred him back from his vacation state and put him in charge of the case.

After all, those gangsters are bold, they have sent invitations to the world's richest people, inviting them to participate in this auction, and the contents of the auction are almost all the antiques and works of art stolen from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The other party dared to be so blatant, which simply did not take the US government into account, not to mention that many of these works of art belonged to the bigwigs behind the art museum.

A few days ago, a senior official of the US government flew directly to Italy to put pressure on the Italian government to prohibit those bigwigs and their representatives who came to participate in the auction from boarding the ship, after all, the gangsters chose to board the ship in Italy, although it is not known where the final auction will be held.

But as expected, the Italian government's shit has a very ambiguous attitude, and it is even a snake and a rat.

On the one hand, he agreed to the demands of high-ranking US officials, but on the other hand, he did not take any action at all, and completely adopted a laissez-faire attitude.

It also makes the bigwigs behind the scenes who want to solve the matter through politics helpless, and they certainly know why the Italian government is doing this.

This is all because the most ruthless people who are now pitted by those museums in the United States are not only Chinese, but also Italians.

You must know that among the tens of thousands of museums in the United States, in addition to the cultural relics from China, the largest collection is the largest collection of cultural relics from the Roman period in Italy.

Needless to say, 10 percent of these cultural relics were brought back by American GIs from Italy during World War II in the early years, and 89 percent were smuggled and sold through smuggling and selling in the past 100 years.

So in terms of antique cultural relics, Italians have a deep grudge against Americans, and even in the eighties and nineties of the last century, some members of the Italian underworld @ Dao were digging and stealing.

And the antiques they stole almost all end up in the United States.

It is precisely because of the trend of stealing antiques that Rome does not dare to build a subway now.

The reason why the Italian government introduced such a law specifically for the auction of antique cultural relics was to curb the trend of stealing antique cultural relics back then.

And the Italian government has been fighting a lawsuit with the Americans for decades because of these stolen antique artifacts.

For example, in the 90s of the last century, the Gedi Museum in the United States used improper means to get hundreds of ancient Roman cultural relics, and the Italian police also detected this case, but in order to recover these cultural relics, they have been fighting a lawsuit with this museum for nearly 20 years.

The lawyer's fees alone cost no less than a million, and the final result was that more than 10 million dollars were spent to redeem three, three, three ancient Roman artifacts from the Americans!!

Then there is the Metropolitan Museum a few years ago, and it was directly controlled by the Italian police to buy stolen cultural relics, in fact, this statement is already very face-saving, and it is almost said that the Metropolitan Museum sent someone to Italy to steal cultural relics.

However, the Americans are still very faceless, coupled with the tough background of the Metropolitan Museum and the anger of the Italians, they have not even been able to make a splash in front of the Americans, and the complaint they submitted in the American court has not even waited for the court stage to be rejected.

It's just such a slap in the face, it's just so faceless, what can you do?

Then there is the Cleveland Museum a few years ago, which was discovered, and a group of more than 40 precious Roman antiquities stolen in Italy in the nineties of the last century were displayed in a grand display.

This is a slap in the face, and the Italians directly sued the Cleveland Museum to the American court, and the court also ruled that the Cleveland Museum should return the Italians' cultural relics.

But what was the final result? I can return the things to you, but you have to put them on display for a few decades, even if we borrowed them, we went around in circles, and the Italians couldn't get the things back.

You Americans just 'give' face to the Italians, and at this time you dare to expect help? (To be continued......)