437 Dirty Treasure
"Oh my God......"
Entering the secret door, everyone walked down the dark and damp stairs for a distance, and suddenly their eyes opened up.
Unlike ordinary islands, there is a huge natural cavity underneath this isolated island annex.
The cavity area is very large, the height is at least dozens of meters, there is a spiral channel artificially carved out of the rock wall around it, and at the bottom is the water that I don't know how deep, and there is a small cargo ship floating on it that looks more than 20 meters long, rusty, and seems to have been parked here for many years.
Directly in front of the small cargo ship, a few meters high stone wall, there is a lock that has also been artificially excavated, both in height and width, for the small cargo ship to pass through.
As if to prevent the outside sea water from flowing back, a gate was specially built on the gate to block the sea water outside.
"The ship! Is that a ship?! â
Walking on the passage of the stone wall, the eldest young master Tone Guiyang looked at the small cargo ship parked below, and the whole person was extremely excited.
From this angle, everyone could clearly see that on the deck of the small steamer were several wooden boxes, some of which had been opened, as is often the case in stories, and these opened boxes were piled with all kinds of gold, silver and jewels, which were very dazzling in this dimly lit underground cavern.
"That's right, on that ship is the 'legacy of the British Empire' that Eijiro Tone got from Singapore."
Kevin nodded, he walked in the front and explained to the crowd behind him:
More than 100 years ago, a treasure looted by Queen Victoria from the colonies of the British Empire was attacked by pirates disguised as a private navy sent by the Governor of Singapore on her way to the British island.
Although Queen Victoria did not suspect him afterwards, the greedy Governor of Singapore was unlucky enough to be killed on a hunting trip, and with his death, the treasure was lost.
It wasn't until twenty years ago that the puppet chieftain who had been propped up during the war was found again, and of course, Singaporeans know that the puppet leader was arrested and executed by the Singaporean authorities at the time soon after the war ended.
As for Eijiro Tone, a Japanese man who had been living in Singapore for decades at the time, he had always maintained a very good relationship with the pseudo-chief.
During the war, Eijiro Tone may have heard about the treasures from this person, and after the war, he used his influence in the European literary circles to successfully extract the whereabouts of the treasures from the puppet leader on the pretext that he had promised to call on literary figures to fight for a commutation of his sentence.
Of course, I think it should be clear to you all that Eijiro Tone broke his promise and became the only person in the world to know the whereabouts of the treasure after the execution of the pseudo-leader.
After that, Eijiro Tone repeated his old tricks, using the then police chief Yang Doosin and Clyde, one of the people in charge of the post-war reconstruction plan, to trick these two people into helping him get the treasures, and then took the treasures to England alone, and has been incognito ever since......
Ah, I almost forgot to mention that the Governor of Singapore, who robbed the treasures in the first place, finally chose to bury the treasures temporarily on the soil of Singapore, hoping to dig them up after the turmoil of the incident was over.
In order to cover up this behavior, he even built a luxurious annex on the location of the buried treasure, as for this annex......"
"Could it be the same house that our family bought in Singapore?" Hearing this, Kita-Kamihiko asked with some surprise.
"That's smart, university teacher."
Kevin glanced back at him and nodded with a smile.
"That's right, so in order to be able to monopolize this treasure, Eijiro Tone tried his best at the beginning, and finally forced your family to ruin the north, and finally obediently gave up the residence.
I don't know if it's because these things were done too desperately fifteen years ago, which made Eijiro Tone more and more uneasy in his old age, and before he died, he decided to call you, as well as his partners Yang Douxin and Clyde, who had been deceived by him, to this island and want to divide these treasures equally among you......
Hahaha! What is this? Fifteen years late for the spoils? â
"Where the hell did you get this information?" Hearing what he said, Mei Ling frowned and looked at him and asked.
Kevin straightened his torn collar and said, "My father used to be a guard for the puppet leader, so he learned some information about these treasures.
So both out of my personal curiosity and as a journalist, I wanted to find out the whereabouts of this legendary treasure......"
"That ship's stuff! Have you already moved?! â
Suddenly, the eldest young master who was running in front of Tone Guiyang turned his head sharply and glared at Kevin with a vicious look in his eyes.
He looked like he was the one who should inherit the inheritance.
"Huh? Please rest assured, I only enjoy the satisfaction of finding these treasures, but I am not interested in such a thing as money.
Therefore, I didn't take anything on that ship, I just opened it and looked at it a few times, if I don't believe it, Master Guiyang can come and search my body. â
As he spoke, Kevin spread his hands.
"Humph! You'd better tell the truth! â
Dropping these words, Tone Guiyang turned around and ran quickly downward, he couldn't wait to see his father's "inheritance".
"Brother!"
Behind him, the crowd slowly followed.
There does not appear to have been a platform to stand on beneath the hollow, and the passage spirals down the surrounding stone walls, eventually submerging in water.
Seeing that there was no way, the eager Tone Guiyang jumped directly into the water and swam to the small cargo ship parked a few meters away.
"Ah, actually, when I came down, there was a platform underneath this."
At this point, Kevin spoke again.
"It's just that the stagnant water above the annex has been lowered by you before, causing the water level in it to rise and flooding the platform.
By the way, there are more treasures on the ship than you have just seen, there are only a few on the deck, and many more are stored in the cabin......"
"Treasure! These are father's treasures! â
As he spoke, Tone climbed aboard the boat with great difficulty and swooped down on the wooden crates on the deck filled with gold, silver, and jewelry.
"Brother!"
Behind him, Kosuke Tone reluctantly jumped into the water and swam into the boat.
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(End of chapter)