Chapter 32: Stealing the Holy Grail

The news that Pope Francis will preach the doctrine in St. Peter's Square today has been overwhelmingly reported and publicized through print, Internet, Twitter and television media, and the event, which originally started at 10:10 a.m., was already crowded at St. Peter's at 7 a.m.

However, the tens of thousands of people in this large square with a capacity of 500,000 people do not seem to be very good, but this is only the beginning, because the streets leading here are completely occupied by dense crowds, and from the sky, the black and oppressive flow of people from all parts of the Roman city is like an ant colony to St. Peter's Square.

Severe traffic congestion has already occurred on many stretches of road. The police and traffic police were busy at this time.

At this time, people who travel by car are not as good as cyclists.

A big fat Caucasian man whose face was covered with sweat was panting and wiping his sweat, while looking enviously at a cyclist in an orange suit, wearing ~ and walking away with a sew.

The orange-clad rider was a pizza delivery clerk with the logo of Rome's largest pizza delivery chain on his back and a large pizza box strapped to the back seat of his bike. This guy wore a black helmet and white headphones in his ears, and while listening to music, he was doing all kinds of stunts on the congested street.

There were accidents several times, but he avoided them without danger. However, his dangerous driving not only annoyed passers-by, but also attracted the attention of the police who were maintaining order.

These Roman policemen were already so tired that they were so angry that they could see him juggling in the streets, and they whistled all of them when they saw him, but whenever this happened, the pizza delivery boy would turn a deaf ear and rush onto the sidewalk, and the policeman would be blocked by the crowd of people, and could only watch him go away, but there was nothing he could do.

The pizza delivery boy walked through the streets and alleys, and soon came to the security supervision passage in St. Paul's Square. He threw his bicycle to the side of the road, took the pizza box, and successfully filled it while the people were unprepared, and quickly passed through the security check and entered the so-called Vatican State.

The Vatican is walled on three sides, and only one of them is the same as Rome's, and this side is the vast St. Peter's Square.

St. Peter's Square is named after St. Peter's Basilica on the east side of the square, and its most distinctive feature is the huge stone columns that surround the square.

The square is surrounded by 4 columns with a total of 284 Doric columns, on which are 140 saints. In the center is a huge column (25.5 meters high and weighing 320 tons) brought from Egypt in 40 AD.

It is said that the saint St. Peter was hung on an inverted cross here. The fountains on the left and right, on the right are a 17th-century replica of a design by Maderno, and on the left is a replica of a later design by Bernini. Standing on the white marble between the columns and the fountain, looking at the columns in the corridor, it is amazing that the four columns look like only one. The building on the right-hand side facing St. Peter's Church houses the Pope's study. On the first day of January, Easter and Christmas, 200,000 people often gather in the square. On Sundays, thousands of people listen to the Pope's morning prayers on the balcony and receive the Pope's blessings.

Today, 500,000 people in St. Peter's Square will gather to hear Pope Francis' speech.

The pizza delivery boy walked along the promenade around the square and headed straight for the Vatican Museums.

The Vatican Museums are deserted today, with only a few tourists, and most of them go to the square to take up a good spot in advance. The guy who delivers the pizza seems to come here often to deliver takeaways. He navigated through the huge doors and went upstairs along a safe passageway.

The path he walked was actually a passage for internal staff, and the young man didn't even need to look at the road signs, and went straight to the museum's central control room on the top floor.

At last he stopped in front of the iron gate, which was prominently marked "Visitors Stop", and he slammed the door several times with his fist, and then took half a step back.

The security guard who was watching the surveillance inside opened the door almost immediately, and it was a thin man who opened the door, he looked at the young man who delivered the pizza vigilantly, and asked, "I didn't order the pizza, are you mistaken!" ”

"Are you sure?" The guy who delivered the pizza took off his sunglasses, and then took out an order and showed it to the security guard in front of him, "The address can't be wrong!" ”

The thin security guard took a look at it, and it was true, so he turned back to the fat white man who was lying on a chair eating potato chips and shouted, "Bob, is that the pizza you ordered?" ”

"No," the white fat man replied vaguely, "but since it was delivered, it is better to ......"

The thin man turned around and said, "I'm sorry, we don't have anyone ......."

He can't go on! Because his face door is being pressed against the muzzle of a black hole ~ hole.

The guy who delivered the pizza jokingly said, "It's okay, the pizza is free!" After speaking, he pulled the trigger, and with a soft pop, the 9X18 mm PM bullet shot by Makarov's pistol with excellent sound suppression ~ easily pierced the thin security guard's head at such a close distance, and the power of the bullet was undiminished, and it actually shot through the screen of the monitor behind him, causing a bang.

The skinny security guard fell backwards on his back, and the young man delivering the pizza strode in, killing the fat white man who was eating potato chips, and said coldly, "The bullets are also free." ”

The pizza delivery boy turned around and gently closed the iron door, then walked to the white fat man's chair with a cheerful humming song, raised his foot and kicked his body aside, and then sat down himself.

He grabbed the unfinished potato chips from the console and stuffed them into his mouth, then said to the miniature microphone on his chest, "Boss, get there!" ”

"Let's get moving!" The silver-haired woman replied decisively in an unknown place.

"Roger!" The pizza delivery boy wiped the potato chips from the corner of his mouth, leaned over the console and skillfully tapped on the keyboard a few times, and immediately called up the monitoring switch of the Holy Grail display case of the Illuria Pavilion, and then tapped the "Enter" key steadily.

Among the many monitoring screens, the one in the Holy Grail display cabinet swiped the ground and went black.

At the same time, among the few tourists who were visiting the Itulia Pavilion, there was a silver-haired woman who secretly glanced at the monitor diagonally above, only to see the dark red power light suddenly extinguished, and immediately walked outside the venue, saying to the invisible microphone on the collar as she walked, "Power off, action!" ”

At the same time, in the control room of the power distribution room, a man wearing a cap and an electrician's suit reached out and pulled down the main switch!

After doing this, the man closed the iron door of the power distribution room, stood up and turned around, and stepped over a corpse lying in a pool of blood and walked out of the power distribution room.

The moment the main power gate was pulled down, all the emergency lights in the Vatican Museums were turned on and the alarm bell rang.

Just as the tourists and all the staff were startled by the sudden alarm bell, the emergency power system was automatically activated and the power was restored.

The tourists who were attracted by the alarm bell saw that the alarm bell stopped, and they didn't think much about it, thinking that it was a system failure, so they didn't care and continued their tour.

However, the staff of the museum were frightened, many people ran to troubleshoot, among them the most nervous Mo went to the security guard in the security control room, after he restored the power, the police lights on the console kept flashing, he leaned over to look, and immediately trembled with fright, because the screen showed that the Holy Grail display case was open.

The security guard grabbed the phone almost immediately, and one of his colleagues rushed out to check what was going on, only to find that the gate had been locked from the outside at some point, and it couldn't be opened.

But the news got out anyway. The staff member who received the news immediately walked quickly towards the chalice display case, and because he was in a hurry, he did not notice that he was staggering with a silver-haired woman.

When the young staff member arrived at the Holy Grail display case, he saw that the high-density bulletproof glass cover of the display case had been opened widely, and the inside was empty.

This Italian lad is terrified! Hurriedly took out his mobile phone and made a call.

Just as the goods were making the call, the body in the museum's power room was found, and the finder let out a high-decibel scream, turned and fled, and before she had gone far, her terrible screams were muffled by the alarm that sounded throughout the Vatican Museums.

A Catholic nun ran out of breath, she passed through the gates that looked like they were specially designed for giants, and finally she slammed open a red door before finally stopping, she was so tired that she gasped, and said angrily, "Bishop Josephine, it's a big deal, the Holy Grail has been stolen!" ”

The bishop, who was sitting with his back to the door, heard the great news and was unmoved, not even snorting.

The anxious nun was stunned by the bishop's indifference, and she tried to shout aloud, "Bishop Josephine? ”

The bishop remained motionless, silent, and the nun felt ominous! She dared to rush over and walked around the massive mahogany desk, stunned.

It turned out that Bishop Josephine had been tied to her chair with a lot of flowers, and a long piece of medical tape had been sealed around her mouth.

PS: It is said that in order to prevent theft and prevent accidents caused by power outages, large museums and bank vaults are not compatible with lighting electricity, power electricity, and monitoring electricity. And now even supermarkets have backup power systems. That's why this chapter is designed to have someone to control the monitoring room.

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