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Chapter 964: Chapter 845: Drop a Container Down (Please Subscribe!)
Brody watched as they didn’t move.
He grew a bit angry.
"Didn’t you hear me? I asked your people to go down and look for the gemstones, and also Duke Mi Yi’s treasure. You and these two ladies are excused; I’ll allow you to rest aside."
Brody said impatiently to Boryen.
But.
Boryen and his subordinates still did not move.
They continued to stare behind him with strange expressions.
Brody was displeased.
Dammit.
My men are very capable, one equal to two, superbly equipped, but you don’t have to keep staring.
"Did none of you hear me? Or do I need to make my move?" Brody raised the gun in his hand.
Boryen opened his mouth, wanting to warn Brody, but he dared not speak, fearing being silenced. At that moment, in their eyes, Brody’s men were being carried away by men in black.
Soon, there was no one left behind Brody.
When the last man in black walked away carrying two men.
Calm returned to the cave interior.
The men in black did not come back in.
The scene became eerily silent to the extreme, with Boryen and his men’s minds a mess, thinking these men in black might be some ’treasure guardians’ specifically there to protect ancient treasures and kill treasure hunters.
However, if that was the case, why act only now?
While they were lost in their wild guesses.
Suddenly.
"Whoosh..."
A gust of wind blew in from outside.
Brody suddenly felt a chill on his neck, it was the wind, and he wondered strangely where this wind was coming from; surely there must still be an exit. There hadn’t been any wind when they came in, Brody unintentionally glanced back.
That glance.
Almost scared him out of his wits.
What was going on?
Where were his subordinates?
Where were his men who controlled the scene?
"What happened, where did all of you go, come out now." Brody panicked, his speech becoming incoherent. Suddenly, he remembered Boryen’s expression.
It wasn’t fear but seeing something.
With that thought.
A chill ran down Brody’s spine.
"You, what did you just see? Huh? Tell me." Brody pointed the gun at Boryen, however, he forgot one fact, he was facing over twenty pistols.
He had only one.
The power balance had drastically changed.
The scene became incredibly awkward.
"Some men in black... took them away just now." Boryen didn’t bother to posture, honestly saying. He could only say they were taken away because it wasn’t yet certain if those men were really dead.
Brody looked behind him, saw no one, then turned around and urgently asked: "Men in black? Who are they? Your helpers?"
"Don’t know them, they wore masks, not my people. If they were my people, you would have been taken away too. This must mean that someone on our side let the information slip, letting others follow us to scavenge the treasure," Boryen said helplessly...
"..."
Brody thought it made sense; if his men were taken away silently, he definitely would not have been spared. It couldn’t be Boryen’s men, but if not, that was the worst scenario, someone was betraying him.
Was this still an interconnected trap?
"But... that’s not right, in front of... why is it so..."
"Thump."
Brody felt a wave of weakness, then his vision blurred, and he collapsed.
Boryen and his men did likewise.
Their bodies began to soften.
"The wind just now contained anesthetic gas." This was Boryen’s last thought before passing out.
In less than two seconds.
Over thirty people collapsed on the ground, scattered all around, unconscious.
Another five minutes passed.
A group of people walked in from the entrance, quietly, and began carrying them outside. At the same time, one of them took out a device and pressed several buttons, and several small flying devices slowly ascended into the air.
Flashes of red light.
Over twenty fist-sized objects flew up to the top of the underground space.
Upon reaching the designated spots.
Swipe. 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
These objects emitted blinding light, illuminating the entire cave interior as though it were daylight.
...
In the Shanghai Stock Market.
Tang Qing and Lin Jiaxue were having dinner.
Just then, a piece of good news came through the earphones.
The fighters had discovered another huge treasure, and just two days ago, a World War II Nazi treasure had also been discovered in Germany, all thanks to clues and deductions found from Horst’s house.
Who is Horst? A history professor at the Free University of Berlin.
He is also the vice principal of that school.
Ever since the fighters approached him last time.
He had been cooperating in the treasure hunt.
However, Horst was searching for the item with the intention of turning it over to Germany, while the fighters intended to hand it over to Tang Qing. To this day, Horst believed that the fighters were from the German Federal Constitutional Protection Office.
It wasn’t that he was foolish.
It was that the performances of the fighters really had a touch of being ’all-seeing,’ accomplishing many tasks that even he dared not contemplate, like getting his nephew, who was in jail for economic fraud, released three years early.
Since then.
He had no further doubts about the fighters’ identities.
Horst was very obedient and adhered to the secrecy agreement; he was responsible for finding clues, and the fighters for digging up sites. They had collaborated quite a bit, yet, to date, they had not found the legendary Nazi treasure, only a few hiding spots.
The value was just a few million dollars.
Which didn’t match Tang Qing’s concept of a treasure.
If it wasn’t worth more than one billion RMB, it couldn’t really be considered a treasure.
Tang Qing was also helpless.
He wondered if it might be conjecture by later generations.
People liked to fabricate stories, which after being repeated a few times, might be accepted as truth. Perhaps the so-called Nazi treasure never existed or had already been acquired by individuals or nations and hidden away.
Such cases were all too common.
After investigation by the fighters.
There had been more than twenty instances where places described in books as ’undiscovered famous treasures’ had already been found by others, who had reaped the benefits quietly without broadcasting their success, quietly making a fortune.
However, the fighters’ efforts to locate these ownerless items never paused, since the cost was not high, and finding one would mean striking it rich.
At night.
After Lin Jiaxue fell asleep.
Tang Qing immediately got dressed.
He flashed into the command room.
"Tang Yi, how is it going? Have you finished the tally?" It had been over three hours since Boryen and his team had been knocked out, and Tang Qing was somewhat impatient to know the outcome of this haul.
"Commander, we haven’t finished tallying yet, the items are still underwater, and we’re in the process of salvaging them," Tang Yi responded.
"Still salvaging?"
"Yes, the deepest part of the underground river reaches more than one hundred meters, making salvage operations difficult. Apart from red gems, we’ve found a large quantity of crude gold, and so far, we’ve salvaged more than thirty tons, with an estimated total around one hundred tons," Tang Yi reported.
"Crude gold? Any antiques?" Tang Qing wondered aloud, did this duke really not hide any gold or silver utensils? he thought.
Tang Yi replied, "Commander, no antiques have been discovered yet."
"Strange, I’ll go take a look myself. Teleport me directly inside the cave." Tang Qing was keen to join the excitement. The long night stretched before him, and a trip abroad seemed appealing. Underground, the treasure hunting work was done by his fighters, so he wasn’t worried about outsiders.
"Yes, Commander."
After speaking.
Tang Qing first headed to the teleportation area, then ordered to be teleported into the karst cave.
A few seconds later.
He appeared inside the karst cave.
The area was brightly illuminated by lights from above.
The fighters continuously transported the gold salvaged by the small submersibles to one side of the clearing, and every time it accumulated about three tons, the gold would be teleported to the Gold Smelting Factory in the Myanmar Economic Zone for refinement.
Eventually stored away.
As collateral for issuing the Asia Dollar.
"One hundred meters," Tang Qing murmured.
He looked at the water surface for a few seconds.
Then he walked forward.
Walking to the water’s edge.
He stepped onto it.
His foot firmly stopped five centimeters above the water surface.
Walking on water.
His ’Magnetic Resonance’ was not trained in vain, sensing Earth’s magnetic fields, anti-gravity, it had long been second nature; he could have raced through the skies long ago, so this scene was hardly a challenge.
Tang Qing kept his hands in his pockets.
He walked to the middle of the pool.
Since a high-power underwater searchlight had also been placed below,
It looked very bright as well.
Then.
Tang Qing’s figure started to slowly descend, but the surrounding water, as if meeting an invisible membrane, was forcefully pushed away, unable to advance beyond ten centimeters from Tang Qing’s body.
As he went deeper.
The pressure Tang Qing felt through his Nerve Telekinesis also increased continuously.
But it was just a mere one hundred meters here.
It wasn’t enough to break through his protective shield. In the sea area of the training zone, Tang Qing had tested that his limit for deep diving was seven hundred meters, and this was just the limit of the protective shield, not guaranteeing that it could fully displace the surrounding water.
It wasn’t the limit of his body.
With his robust physical condition,
Plus the Origin Qi and Nerve Telekinesis within him, diving one thousand meters would not be a problem, and he hadn’t tried going deeper since the sea area in the training zone was only one thousand meters deep, not a meter more.
Soon.
Tang Qing had descended to the riverbed.
The high-power underwater searchlight was not for show; coupled with the clear water quality, Tang Qing could clearly see everything underwater, observing gold bricks scattered throughout the silt on the riverbed, continuously being collected by the fighters.
Placed on the small submersible vehicle that had descended.
Looking at this,
The salvage operations would need to continue for another hour or two, Tang Qing estimated. Perhaps the command room thought they had control of the situation and there was no need to rush, taking their time. After some thought, Tang Qing still felt he should do something.
"Tang Yi, drop a container down here."
"Yes, Commander."
