As Kevin Martin and Carl Morris said at lunchtime, the old town of Gudamis is truly a miracle created by God.

The area of this ancient city is not large, the radius is about 1.5 kilometers, and the whole old city is located on an oasis.

Although the city is small, the number of coconut and banana trees in the city is amazing, and 80% of the other places are covered by tall coconut trees, except for a large area in the center of the ancient city.

It's not another tree, it's a coconut tree!

Many people may have the impression that coconut trees tend to only grow in tropical or subtropical coastal areas, but in fact, this evergreen palm plant prefers hot and abundant water. However, in the Sahara Desert, there are so many coconut trees, isn't it a miracle created by God?

"This oasis is an extremely important source of water, even in the context of the Sahara Desert, and according to archaeologists, it has been inhabited as early as the fourth century BC. During the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus in the first century BC, the Roman governor Lucius Cornelius Balbe invaded the city, bringing Gudamis to the first time in history. During the reign of Severus, the Roman Empire was permanently stationed here due to the strategic importance of Gudamis, and it is said that the Roman Emperor even visited the place himself. However, in the crisis of the Roman Empire in the third century AD, the ancient city was forced to be abandoned. In the sixth century, under the rule of the Byzantine Empire, Gudamis had its own bishop and was one of the central towns of Christianity in the Sahara Desert. But with the advent of *** in the seventh century, the local population soon converted to *** religion again, and it continues to this day. Gudamis played an important role in the trans-Saharan trade that lasted for thousands of years, and was once very prosperous, leaving behind a large number of monuments. ”

Kevin Martin is obviously very familiar with this ancient city, and while accompanying Yang Jing to visit this ancient city, he introduces the history of this ancient city to Yang Jing on the side.

Yang Jing asked, "Kevin, why are you so familiar with this place?"

"Hehe, if you've been here for months, you'll be like me. Kevin Martin smiled a little bitterly, "When the civil war broke out in Libya a few years ago, this ancient city was also affected, but fortunately, the buildings of the ancient city did not suffer as much damage. I hadn't joined Carl's team at the time, I was here on a mission and had been in the city for a few months. ”

The group walked along the narrow roads of the ancient city, with no definite destination, just random walking.

Although it is deep in the Sahara Desert, when you walk on the green streets, it is not very hot, on the contrary, there is a very comfortable feeling. This ancient city is more than 1,500 years old, and all the houses are connected together, and the gap between the two houses becomes the streets, which lead in all directions, like spider webs, and you can get lost if you are not careful.

It's just that the houses here are relatively low, and you have to bend down to get in.

The group walked to the deep well in the middle of the old city, and sat down in a shady place, as Kevin Martin spoke.

Kevin Martin's words aroused some curiosity in Yang Jing, and he couldn't help but ask, "Were you working for the CIA at that time?" Each of these mercenaries has some secrets that cannot be told, and it is very impolite and dangerous to ask about their past.

"Saorui, Kevin, I shouldn't have asked you these things. ”

Kevin Martin shook his head, "Boss, it's all in the past, there's nothing to hide. BOSS, do you see this well, which is a very important source of water in the old town of Gudamis, and the water that is pumped from this well passes through a special channel through every house for them to drink. So the well is like a hub in the whole old city of Gudamis. Hehe, in fact, I used to work in one such intelligence center in the United States, which was the CIA. ”

"I was selected from the army to join the CIA because I had been on the battlefield in Iraq for four years and had a lot of experience in desert operations, so I was selected by the CIA and I was asked to retire and join there. I'm sorry, but there are some things I can't say more, but all I can tell you is that when I joined the CIA, I became a field agent based in Libya. ”

Carl Morris on the side said angrily: "Kevin, it's all this time, are you still keeping it a secret for those bureaucrats? Come on, have you forgotten how you were abandoned by those cold-blooded guys? If it weren't for us, you'd probably have died here." ”

As soon as he heard this, Yang Jing's eyes suddenly revealed a thick fire of gossip. I've only seen those almost omnipotent American agents in movies before, but that's all artistic exaggeration, and there is no basis at all. Now, this sturdy man sitting next to him is a former CIA agent, how can Yang Jing not gossip?

Kevin Martin shook his head with a wry smile, "Well, in fact, there is nothing to hide now. After I joined the CIA, I have been based in Tripoli, and I am engaged in a job that I don't think you all know, it is nothing more than provoking this and contacting that, anyway, to make Gaddafi feel bad. At the beginning of 2011, a civil war broke out in Libya as expected, and Gaddafi's 42-year rule in Libya finally came to an end in that year. ”

"But I was in Tripoli when I got the news that some of Gaddafi's treasure was hidden near Gudamis by his cronies. The news was plausible, but my superiors ordered me to come to Gudamis to find out if it was true. ”

"Gaddafi's treasure?" Hearing this, Yang Jing was immediately interested.

Qaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years, and during his dictatorship, the economic lifeline of Libya was largely controlled by Qaddafi and his children, and the entire family was rich and powerful. It is estimated that since Gaddafi became Libya's leader, Libya's oil and gas revenues have totaled more than hundreds of billions of dollars, about half of which has gone into Gaddafi's pockets.

In addition to turning the property of the Libyan state into his own private property, Qaddafi also invested a lot overseas, Gaddafi owns a 7.6% stake in Unicredit, a 2% stake in the Italian company, a 7.5% stake in the Italian football club Juventus, a 3.27% stake in the British publishing giant Pearson, and a small stake in the Russian aluminum giant Rusal...... And many, many more.

In addition to the shares of some foreign companies, Gaddafi also bought a large number of real estate, for example, in the center of London, where land is at a premium, Gaddafi owned a number of real estate, shops and office buildings, and he owned a mansion in Spain with an area of 70 square kilometers, yes, not 70 acres, not 70 acres, but a whole 70 square kilometers! In addition, Gaddafi also owns a mansion of more than 10,000 square feet in New Jersey, 12 kilometers west of the Libyan capital Tripoli, he also owns a private resort with a diving center, tennis courts, swimming pools, football fields, restaurants and hospitals.

According to expert estimates, the Gaddafi family has a wealth of more than $200 billion, which is absolutely rich to rival the country.

However, after the outbreak of the Libyan civil war, Gaddafi and his son died quickly, and the huge amount of money deposited in major foreign banks during Gaddafi's lifetime was quickly frozen, including 37 billion US dollars frozen by the United States, 12 billion pounds by the United Kingdom, 7.3 billion euros by Germany, 6 billion euros by Italy, 3 billion euros by the Netherlands, 2.4 billion US dollars by Canada, 1.7 billion US dollars by Austria, 1.6 billion US dollars by Sweden, 1 billion US dollars by France, and 900 million US dollars by Switzerland...... The funds frozen by the banks of various countries alone amounted to 80 billion US dollars, and in the vaults of the Central Bank of Libya, which Gaddafi controlled during his lifetime, there were as many as 144 tons of gold!

But these are not all of Gaddafi's possessions, which account for only about half of Gaddafi's assets, and half of the tissues are missing.

This huge part of the unaccounted for property is known as the "Gaddafi Treasure".

It's just that no one has found this treasure with a valuation of 100 billion dollars until now.

Although in this huge treasure, nearly $40 billion in assets are controlled by Bashir Saleh, the former head of Gaddafi's office, known as "Gaddafi's banker", but this guy is elusive, even if he was on the Interpol wanted list early, but until now, no one can find this "hidden" guy on the African continent.

But even if al-Bashir Helisa controls the $40 billion worth of assets left behind by Qaddafi, at least $60 billion remains unaccounted for. Many people estimate that these possessions should have been hidden by Qaddafi in some part of the country.

And the news that Kevin Martin got about Gaddafi's treasure is very likely to be true.

Seeing Yang Jing's extremely interested expression, Carl Morris on the side said with a smile: "BOSS, you can listen to it as a joke." If Kevin really knew where Gaddafi's treasure was, would he still be here to work for you? That's tens of billions of dollars in treasure. Even just one percent of them is enough to make Kevin a real billionaire. ”

After a pause, Morris continued: "Kevin was trapped here for months because of this news, and almost died here, even his superiors abandoned him in desperation. If it weren't for the fact that this guy helped me a lot when he was in the CIA, I wouldn't have bothered to save him!"