Chapter 66: Temple Treasure (Part II)
The moonlight tonight is very hazy, making people feel a dark and eerie atmosphere. Coupled with the screams of night owls, it makes people panic at night. Outside the temple, though, a group of people are plotting.
Around them stood a number of people with weapons, vigilantly watching their surroundings. In addition, there were more than twenty horse-drawn carriages covered with canvas next to them. The transport vehicles disguised as caravans arrived in the evening and were arranged here by Maclaen himself. And the nearly forty people brought with them naturally converged.
"Dole, you take people to subdue the guards in the temple, don't use guns, quietly take them down one by one, I don't want to see an accident. After taking control of the temple, Bill was optimistic about the signal and drove the carriage over as soon as the signal appeared. ”
It was McClen who spoke, and he was assigning tasks to people one by one.
The people in charge of subduing the temple, the people in charge of answering, and the people in charge of finding the treasure, the total number of more than seventy people in Zero Zero were all arranged by him, and Kosenz also sat next to him and listened carefully, although he had not yet been arranged.
He didn't let him wait long, and after arranging the others, McClen spoke to Cosentz on the side. "Now you take the blasters with me and the others are on guard."
As McClen completed the assignment, the people who had received the tasks immediately made preparations.
What hook locks, crossbows, hooks, cables, etc. were all hung on his body, and after seeing that they were all ready, McClan waved his hand. "Let's go."
So a large number of people disappeared into the night.
"Goo-goo."
The Padmanaba Swamy Temple in the night was unusually quiet, and everyone except for the monks who were guarding it rested.
A roving Hindu monk walks through the temple with a lamp.
Suddenly, a pair of hands stretched out from the darkness and grabbed him by the neck, and the monk fell limply with a click. The lamp and stick he was carrying also fell to the ground.
After the monk fell, several masked men dressed in night clothes removed his body, along with the fallen lamps and sticks. Everything fell into a terrifying silence again.
Such a scene occurred all over the temple, and both monks and temple prostitutes were killed one after another. The attackers were cruel and clever, and many people passed away without knowing it.
Of course, it is unrealistic to want to solve everyone silently, so after a monk who got up at night noticed the attacker and shouted loudly, the people in the temple were awakened, and since they were alarmed, they didn't need to worry about the means.
So when the monks with all kinds of cold weapons appeared in front of them, the attackers had already changed their guns. After a burst of gunfire, the temple fell silent again, except for the occasional gunshot, and a scream.
Luckily, the temple was a short distance from the surrounding villages, so the gunshots were not noticed. However, the bloody breath can no longer be concealed.
"Alright, it's time for us to go in."
Seeing the signal given in the temple, McLaen immediately took Cosenz and the others directly into the temple.
Dole, who was in charge of cleaning up the temple, came over with a bloody smell and reported.
"There were 37 people in total, and they were all disposed of."
"Got it, pay attention to the vigilance to prevent any fish from slipping through the net."
After giving orders to his men, McKellen spoke to Ethel beside him. "Take us to the two empty chambers you found, and the others will open the other four chambers and move out the valuables. Call the convoy over. ”
"Okay, Captain."
So under the leadership of Ethel, McClen and his party soon came to one of the empty secret rooms.
This time, the secret room was lit up.
"Let's look for it and see if there's any difference."
After watching it, McClan immediately ordered the others to look for something unusual in the secret room.
"Captain, there's something different here."
More people are good, and soon someone notices the difference in the secret room.
McClan immediately rushed over, and there was indeed a difference here, there was a slight difference in color between one boulder and the other boulders in the secret room, and if you looked closely, you could see that the filling material of the fine seams was also different.
This boulder is several tons at a glance, and it cannot be pushed by manpower at all. If it was like wasting a lot of effort and time in the past, but in this era of rapid technological development, then it doesn't have to be so troublesome. Although the method of direct blasting cannot be used, who made McLaen prepare in advance. In addition to a few people in Cosenz, he also brought a demolition master.
"Kosentz, get your men ready to assist in Barr's blasting."
That's where Cosenz's manpower comes in, and Cosenz certainly won't give up.
"Okay, no problem."
While Cosentz, Barr and others were preparing for the blast, McLene, as the captain, of course, would not let the others watch.
"You go ahead and see if there's anything else different."
As for Cosenz, a few people quickly drilled holes in the stones, then quickly put in the expansion agent, and then added water. A few minutes later, I heard a bang, and the boulder was split into many pieces, which was much easier.
After the group moved the stones away, a black hole appeared in front of everyone.
"Wait a minute."
McLene grabbed one of his men who was eager to enter, took a torch from the others and threw it in, and the torch quickly went out.
"There's no oxygen in there, let's wait before we go in."
After waiting for about half an hour, the crowd entered the room. As soon as they entered the cave, the crowd was stunned. A large number of gold ornaments are piled up, the most conspicuous of which is a tall golden elephant. In addition, there are a large number of boxes piled up here.
Everyone was fascinated by the gold, and there was a look of fascination on their faces.
McClan stepped forward to pry open a chest full of gold coins.
"Call someone in and get ready to move out."
McLene's words made everyone at the scene retract their eyes, although they were still a little reluctant, but they also knew that this wealth did not belong to them.
The treasures were then transported to the wagon, and for this purpose they removed all the temple gates to facilitate the entry of the carriage.
In addition to the treasures found in the secret chamber by Makellen, a large number of gold and silver coins and their products were also found in other chambers, and the empty carriages responsible for transporting them entered the temple one after another, and when they went out, the axles creaked and creaked.
This continued until dawn, when the laden convoy left in disarray.
This time, more than 50 tons of gold and silver treasures were looted from the temple, and more than 70 carriages were crushed to death.
Among them, there are more than 30 tons of gold and its ornaments, and 20 tons of silver coins and their ornaments.
One of the most conspicuous is a life-size golden Buddha statue, which is lying on the side of a snake, and it took a lot of effort to move it to the carriage.
There are also a large number of diamonds, which also weigh hundreds of kilograms, with a total value of 600 million lira (don't think it is less, 24 million pounds). This wealth is a significant addition to Italy.