Chapter 4: The Second Man
November 8, 2012 at 3 a.m. Moscow time.
St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 after Saint Peter, a disciple of Jesus.
It is the second largest city in Russia and the most Westernized city in Russia, and is Russia's window to Europe.
Because the time zone where St. Petersburg is located is the 3rd East District, and the time zone where Jinan is located is in the 8th East District, St. Petersburg is 5 hours behind Jinan, and it is late at night in St. Petersburg.
On the southern outskirts of the city there is an old museum called the Hermitage Museum, as Russians like to call it.
The Hermitage, along with the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is known as the world's four major museums.
Due to the most famous monarch in history, Catherine II, was a collector, the Hermitage is home to countless rare treasures.
And at this moment, on the roof of the Winter Palace, four men in black are crouching.
They cautiously slipped all the way down the fire pipe to the vent and listened carefully to the movement around them.
The vent next to it had been pried open, and a rope hung straight down, and the black hole was bottomless.
The cold wind whistled against the ground, and a man in black curled up and whispered urgently:
"Boss, it's been ten minutes, why hasn't Gonev moved?
The man in black, who was called the boss, said in a hoarse voice:
"Don't worry, Petrov, Gonev, like you and me, has an extremely crazy desire for the gold bars inside, and the desire to be able to drive nails into stones. ”
At this time, an obese man in black behind him said:
"As I said earlier, Goonev is not so godly, we only have twenty-five minutes to open the safe, and in twenty-five minutes the backup alarm will go off, and then we will not be able to fly!
The man in black, who was called the boss, groaned for a moment, and then said to the small man in black on the left in a hoarse voice:
"Sasha, go see what's going on."
The collection of rare treasures in the Hermitage is world-class, so are the security measures.
These people didn't even bother with the collections in the museum, and their goal was the Imperial Tsarist Treasury under the museum.
The man known as the Boss was named Hubang Norwich, nearly fifty years old, with a bearded face and a tall physique.
When he was young, he was said to have been a powerful figure, not only an international professional boxer, but also a member of the Russian mafia.
Later, he was seriously injured in a fight with an Italian gang, and disappeared for more than half a year, and when he went out of the mountain again, he was already disabled, and everyone no longer bought him, and after a period of time, he had to leave the scene, and since then he has been in the market.
Half a month ago, in an inconspicuous corner of a grocery store, Hu Bang stumbled upon an old map of the Tsarist period.
It was also fate that Hu Bang saw the clue from it, took advantage of the shopkeeper's unpreparedness, stole it casually, took it home and studied it carefully, and found that this was a treasure map of the Tsarist Russian Empire.
In 1812, Napoleon led an expedition of 570,000 men speaking 12 languages against the Russian Empire.
In mid-September, when Napoleon rode into St. Petersburg on a tall horse, Alexander I hastily hid countless gold bars in an underground vault and installed mechanisms using the most sophisticated and ancient techniques in the world at the time.
For fear that Napoleon would see the traces, he set off a fire that shocked the world when he left. Alexander I and Kutuzov then withdrew from the city with high-ranking Russian generals and most of the Moscow residents.
Napoleon expected that Alexander I would compromise, but he was greeted by a fire throughout the city.
At that time, Napoleon stood stupidly in front of the window and muttered: these terrible Slavs are burning even their own capital.
Alexander I, in order to find the buried gold bars in the future, hid the clues in a map, but did not want to lose the map in a panic.
Later, when he returned, the city had been burned to the ground and rubble, and no trace could be found.
This incident was deeply hidden in the heart of Alexander I, and he died depressed.
I don't want this map to survive, it was picked up by a Tsarist Russian trader, and then many people were tossed and turned, but the secret in the map was buried in the thick dust of history.
It wasn't until this picture was seen by Hu Bang that the vault, which had been sealed for two centuries, finally saw the light of day again.
At this moment, next to the vault safe, a man in black with a huge head was nervously pressing his ear to the safe, and his thin fingers were carefully turning the ancient mechanism picks.
This man has a huge head, short gray hair, blue eyes, deep-set eye sockets, a huge hooked nose embedded in it, and the right arm is tattooed with the supreme god of the Slavs, the god of war, Sventovet.
Sventovet had high prestige among the Slavs on the Baltic coast and was called a god.
Legend has it that he had four heads or four faces, and ancient Slavic soldiers sacrificed to this god for protection before fighting, as well as to bless the god of abundance.
In order to keep his wrists flexible and relaxed, Gonev could only exert all his strength above his wrists.
The arm was a little stiff because of the tension, and the muscles were all congealed.
At this moment, he was listening intently to the sound of the movements of the various delicate mechanical winches inside the safe.
Dealing with a variety of top-tier safes in the world, Goonev definitely has an innate talent.
Hurry, baby, hurry, Gonev muttered to himself.
For this unlocking, Goonev studied many ancient books, and he was sure about this opening mechanism.
To celebrate, he had prepared a bottle of fine vodka at home early and was ready to go back tonight to drink it.
But today Goonev has always had a bit of an ominous premonition.
I can't say why, one foot seems to be filled with lead, and from time to time a trace of cool air comes out, and occasionally a cold and biting feeling in the whole body is fleeting.
Goonev scolded, what's wrong today, it's such a critical juncture.
He looked down at his watch, nineteen minutes had passed, and by this time he had no idea what was going on in his body, and Gonev tried to get rid of his distractions and focus his attention on the safe.
Cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and suddenly, with a soft click, a smile rose at the corner of Gonev's mouth.
Finally the last hurdle was cleared, and Gonev immediately turned solemnly, and with both hands he pulled the heavy valve, and a foot thick safe door slowly opened.
Gonev looked inside, and suddenly a white light pierced him, and then he was dizzy.
The contents of the safe seemed to be enveloped in a cloud of white light, making it difficult for his eyes to see.
Goonev rubbed his eyes and leaned in again.
The first thing that catches your eye is a few strange red clothes and black pants.
It seems to be the work clothes of the service place, but there are so many torn clothes in the safe?
Goonev was a little anxious, and he reached for a small shiny sign in the cabinet with words written on it.
Take a closer look, there are a few ancient oriental characters on it, but unfortunately I don't know any of them, and the strange thing is that I feel a little familiar in my heart.
In a moment of surprise, he suddenly heard some noise behind him, and Gonev put the sign in his trouser pocket.
Goonev turned around and saw Sasha sliding down the rope.
After landing on the ground, Sasha had already seen the open safe, and exclaimed excitedly:
"Oh my God, Gonev, you really opened, this is the most difficult lock in the world to open."
Before Goonev could reply, Sasha was already trotting over to look inside the safe, and then stood there with his mouth wide open.
"Sasha, have you ever seen anything more strange?
"Clothes, what nonsense, Gonev, are you happy stupid, we are rich!"
When Goonev heard Sasha say this, he hurriedly looked into the safe again, and when he saw the scene inside the safe, he was immediately stunned.
As far as the eye can see, the gold is shining, shining, and there are piles of gold bars everywhere as far as the eye can see, and where are there any clothes?
Sasha exclaimed excitedly: "Time is running out, I'll immediately ask them to come down and move together, Gonev, you are too great!"
At this time, Goonev was in a daze, probably dazzled!
At this time, the gold bar in front of me is too powerful, and the future that I am looking forward to every day has come to my eyes at this moment, and it is about to become a reality, how can this not make people crazy?
When Hupin and Petrov slid down the rope with Sasha, they were shocked to see the gold bars in their eyes.
Especially Hu Bang, although he had already guessed that there were a lot of gold bars here, he didn't expect that there would be so many.
Alexander is awesome!
Everyone quickly pretended, and at the sound of an order, all four of them quickly took out the leather bags that had been prepared long ago, and began to frantically stuff gold bars into the leather bags.
At this moment, while Hu Bang was carrying the gold bars, he secretly made up his mind that after he escaped, he would find a way to pack up the other people and take them for himself.
By the time the four of them had filled their purses, coat pockets, and hats with gold bars, there were still a large number of gold bars in the vault that could not be taken away.
Each of these gold bars is worth a fortune, and no one can give it up.
Petrov looked at Hupin and asked, "Boss, what can I do?"
Hu Bang pondered for a moment and said: No one knows about this place, let's go back first and find more bags, and we will come again tomorrow night and pack all the gold bars away.
The four of them listened to the boss's words, and Gu all nodded in agreement.
The four of them grabbed the rope and climbed to the top of the building, and Vladimisko was too obese to go down with everyone, and was now on the roof of the building.
Seeing Hu Bang being the first to come out, he stretched out his hand and pulled it, and said heavily: Boss, this time the harvest is rich!
Hupin ignored him, and Sasha then crawled out and said:
Vladimisko, you really should lose weight, otherwise you wouldn't see what we see.
The gold is piled up like Mount Elbrus, and everywhere it is so golden that people can't open their eyes!
Vladimisko's eyes shone brightly and he said: Have you got all this gold?
Petrov also climbed up at this moment and said with a gloomy expression:
Before the sun came out, you had dew and your eyes were ruined, and this was only a small part, and the boss told him to come back tomorrow night to get the rest.
Vladimisko reached out and pulled the last to come up to Gonev and said:
The night is long and there are many dreams, why don't you come and take all the gold tonight?
Goonev pointed to the sky and said: Vladimisko, I'm afraid it's too late.
Vladimisko muttered: It's only three o'clock, it's not even four o'clock!
Goonev spread his hands helplessly and made a helpless look.
Hupin slipped along the wall to the corner, looked at the position, and threw a rope onto a building opposite.
First climb to the opposite side, see the surroundings are no different, and then beckon everyone to climb over.
Sasha, Petrov, and Goonev climbed over in turn.
What about Vladimisko? Hupin asked anxiously.
The four of them looked at each other, and Vladimisko was gone.