Chapter 96: Secrets in the Sewers
Lang Xiaobai's judgment is even clearer than what he has seen with his own eyes.
"However, Sean didn't just pretend to be crazy to kill you, he has a bigger conspiracy! This conspiracy is very important, and it is not something that can be solved by Director Chen and the Security Bureau. It's a great conspiracy! His plan to pretend to be crazy is nearing completion, and the content of the plan is a top secret of the state. If he succeeds in his plot, the country will inevitably suffer great losses, and when I learned of this, I couldn't bear it, so I decided to intervene. ”
Lang Xiaobai's eyes were shining, full of righteous enthusiasm and fighting spirit, and his whole body seemed to be burning.
Lang Xiaobai continued: "Sean connected the lead pipe to the gas pipe buried under the kitchen, and wanted to use poison gas to kill you. Twenty years ago, the bad guys killed your parents in the same way. ”
"Do you even know how our parents were killed?" The captain looked at Lang Xiaobai, his face full of incredulity.
Lang Xiaobai smiled and replied, "I know, I know, I can know anything!" I know what is written on the wall. ”
What is the origin of this person? It's like a claireye. The captain was still amazed when the sound of a car driving away came from outside the wall.
"Listen, old Shaun has run away. He was in a taxi, and the driver of the car was one of my men in disguise, so I could always know where Sean had fled. Okay, let's go to Yaqin's place, she's going to wake up too. ”
Yaqin came to her senses, and they helped her to her room for a little treatment, and she was completely back to normal. They still let her rest on the bench, and then the two of them went to the basement.
"The 1,800 bags of gold nuggets were originally hidden in this basement by Old Man Sun, and then it seems that he transported them elsewhere, but how did he transport the gold nuggets out?"
Lang Xiaobai began to inspect every corner, and finally found that the secret was on the vent. "I see, he's transporting nuggets from here."
The two of them drilled through the vent and found that the exit was set next to the terrace in the courtyard. Lang Xiaobai's sharp gaze examined for a moment, and then he strode forward.
The captain followed him, and the two of them walked through the woods in the courtyard to a small circular pool in the woods. In the center of the pool, there stood a small statue of a naked god, holding a shell in his hand, from which the spring water was spewing out.
Lang Xiaobai kept staring at the little statue, and after a while, he grabbed the statue with both hands and turned it to the left, and the statue moved, and turned to the left along with the marble base.
"So it's here, wait and see, the water will definitely sink."
The surface of the pool gradually sank, and after a while, the bottom of the pool was visible. The bottom is paved with red and white marble, forming a variety of patterns. An iron ring is set in the middle.
Lang Xiaobai stretched out a hand to hold the iron ring, pulled it upwards hard, and a 30-meter-long and 25-meter-wide hole appeared in front of him.
"This hole is connected to the basement, and it is from this hole that the gold bags are transported. You see, there's a wire above the hole, and it's going from the hole to the sewer. There was a hook on the wire, so Old Man Sun hung the bag containing the gold nuggets on the hook, and then pulled the wire, so like an aerial crane, the gold bag slid down the wire into the sewer. In this way, the nuggets in the basement mysteriously disappeared. ”
"It's wonderful! So, if you can find out where the wire ends up, you'll find the whereabouts of the nuggets, right?" The captain said.
"It's a pity that the space in the sewer is too small to get into. It is necessary to find the location of the wire along the road surface. ”
Theoretically, sewers should go in a straight line. So the two of them walked along the extension in the direction of the sewer, until they reached the base of the wall, and then climbed over the wall, and there was a wide road outside. Walking along the highway again, we came to the square where the goods were unloaded by the Dongjiang River. Because of the war, cargo is no longer loaded or unloaded here. The doors and windows of the rooms used for work on the shore were also closed, and the yards were full of building materials. The door of one of the rooms was opened, and there were some construction tools scattered inside, such as pickaxes, wooden ladders, wheelbarrows, etc.
Lang Xiaobai turned on the flashlight, carefully inspected every corner, and finally pointed to the ceiling, and said, "Look, I found it, this is it!"
There was a wire hanging from it, and many iron hooks attached to it.
"The wire in the sewers went all the way to here, and the bags of gold were carried here by hooks, and then the bags were loaded in trolleys and transported to the ship."
"In that case, the nugget has already been shipped to ......"
"It may have been shipped abroad."
"All ......"
"Yes, we found out a little late, it's a shame. If it had been a day earlier, it might have been stopped, but it was only one step away!" Lang Xiaobai regretted it.
"How did you find out about all this?"
Hearing the captain's question, Lang Xiaobai smiled, took out a book from his pocket and handed it to the captain. It was "The Autobiography of Franklin," the book he had on his lap while he was napping in the woods.
"You read this place." Lang Xiaobai pointed to one of the pages and said.
The captain hurriedly read: "We [Franklin] go every day to the village of Baxi, which is next to us, and there is a small pool in the beautiful garden, from which we draw water, and the water of this bay is a pool of rapids from several small rivers that flow from all sides, but the water in the pool never rises to the fullness and overflows outside the pool......
"What kind of mechanism is set up here? I was amazed at that. Someone who knew I had a special interest in mechanics led me to the pool and explained to me. Originally, turning the marble statue in the center of the pool 45 degrees to the left would reveal the sewer opening at the bottom of the pool, so that the water could flow down the sewer into the Dongjiang River. Old man Sun modified the sewer so that the water in the pool flowed in other directions, and the original sewer was used by him as a secret tunnel to transport the gold bags.
"I found this book in Sean's room. Why did that guy read this book? I wonder about it. So I took it and put it in my pocket. I was idle in the woods, so I took it out and rummaged through it, and I accidentally learned the secret of this sewer. ”
"I see. So, Sean also read this description and learned the secret of the sewers, so he had a bad heart and wanted to swallow these gold nuggets alone?"
For some reason, Lang Xiaobai didn't answer the captain's question head-on, but just looked at him silently with a very peculiar look.
A small motorboat on the river caught Lang Xiaobai's attention, and there was no one on the deck or on the bow. No, maybe the whole boat is completely empty, which makes people look at it and have an eerie feeling.