The Black Card - Chapter 1292

[Chapter 1290 The weird secret passage]

Shi Lei smiled slightly and walked over in two steps. He saw a small dark hole under the bookshelf.

The entrance to the hole is very narrow, and only one person can be forced to go in. It even has to be of Shi Lei’s stature. Like Andre, after stuffing his calf properly, he got stuck at the entrance of the hole.

Turning on the flashlight function of his phone, Shi Lei looked down.

The flashlight function of the mobile phone did not provide strong light, but it was enough for Shi Lei to see the ground. This meant that the distance between the ground of the secret passage and the floor of the first floor was only about one meter.

Even so, Shi Lei was still not careless. He sat on the edge of the hole, lowered his legs, then put his hands on the edge of the hole, and slowly let his feet fall on the ground.

After stepping on the ground, Shi Lei did not squat down immediately. Instead, he left his head outside the hole, observed carefully, and listened. After confirming that there was no sound, he slowly squatted down and used the flashlight of his mobile phone. The light slowly moved forward in a squatting manner.

The ground obviously had a downward slope. After walking about four or five meters, Shi Lei could already stand up straight in the secret passage.

But after arriving here, the ground in the secret passage became gentler, no longer a downward slope, and the space on both sides was much larger.

It was very dark in the secret passage, and Shi Lei could only rely on the faint light emitted by his mobile phone to move forward slowly.

There was a small corner ahead. When Shi Lei passed that corner, he was surprised to find that there was a thin nylon wire hanging from the wall at the corner, just like the pull-string lamp he had seen when he was a child. Same as the switch.

Suddenly a sense of alarm appeared in Shi Lei’s heart.

According to Andre, this secret passage was at least built during the Napoleonic period, more than 200 years ago. It was obviously impossible to have such a device as an electric light in that era.

Shi Lei carefully touched the nylon wire, and he immediately confirmed that it was a light wire.

Pulling gently, the light came on…

Although he knew that this secret passage was definitely not what Andre said, Shi Lei didn’t think much about it. He felt that this secret passage might belong to the former owner of the winery. My ancestors later discovered that the nylon light cord was at least several decades old.

Just being more careful, Shi Lei turned the corner, and then he saw a safe that was half a person tall…

This time, he was even more sure that whether there was what Andre said in this castle That secret passage, but this secret passage must not be the one he said.

This is also a scam. In such a big castle, there are actually two sets of mechanisms.

The most important thing is that this mechanism is extremely exquisite. If Shi Lei hadn’t discovered the abnormality of the rocking chair and got the second card for mechanical application, he would never have been able to get here so calmly.

However, it seems that this tunnel was only dug by people a few decades ago, so the sophistication of the mechanism seems to be explained.

Shi Lei has actually always wondered how the ancients more than 200 years ago were able to achieve such exquisite and exquisite application of magnetic fields.

Mechanical application is not only reflected in the investigation and destruction of mechanisms, but also has an extremely deep understanding of almost all types of safes on the earth.

This safe is obviously a product from at least fifty or sixty years ago or even close to a century ago. Such an old product is completely mechanical. Unlike today’s new safes, many of which are already connected to computers, making it impossible to crack them. So easy.

Placing his ear on the safe, Shi Lei gently turned the combination disk, and the combination disk made a slight clicking sound. However, with Shi Lei’s current hearing power, he heard more than just a clicking sound.

Without much effort, Shi Lei found all three sets of passwords and successfully opened the safe.

At the same time, Shi Lei also realized that his ear power, when attached to the target object and combined with bone conduction or object conduction, was no less effective than a stethoscope.

The door of the safe made a heavy squeaking sound, and as it opened, a lot of dust fell.

In the safe, Shi Lei saw a large amount of gold. He also saw many tube-shaped objects stacked in the corner of the safe, which were relatively old painting tubes.

After a brief glance, Shi Lei knew that this was probably not the calligraphy and painting work that Heika gave him in the mission, because the quantity was wrong.

The target of Heika’s mission was twenty-three pieces of calligraphy and painting, but here, there were actually as many as thirty-five painting tubes.

However, the number is too large. Maybe the information on the black card is not accurate enough. After all, it was at least fifty or sixty years ago. It is normal for the black card to have errors.

Shi Lei took out a painting tube, unscrewed it, and poured out the contents.

After taking a look, it turned out that it was not any of the twenty-three calligraphy and paintings, but an oil painting.

In the lower right corner of the oil painting, Shi Lei saw the signature, which turned out to be Monet, an outstanding representative of European Impressionism.

Shi Lei opened the second painting tube. There was still an oil painting inside. Shi Lei looked directly at the inscription. It was still a work by Monet.

Opening all the painting tubes one after another, Shi Lei suddenly discovered that all thirty-five painting tubes contained Impressionist works. It seemed that this collector had a special liking for Impressionist works.

Among these thirty-five paintings, Shi Lei saw many familiar names.

Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, etc. are all the most outstanding representatives of French Impressionism.

Shi Lei frowned. This was too weird. There was nothing in the safe that he needed for the mission. After all, the probability calculated by the black card was only 23%. However, there was no Ender either. Lie said that the king of Lafite wine, this is obviously too abnormal.

Moreover, this secret passage was only excavated less than a hundred years ago, which is too far away from the more than two hundred years ago that Andre said.

If this is a secret tunnel dug by the ancestors of the former owner of the winery, in order to collect the Impressionist paintings he collected, as well as so much gold – the gold here, Shi Leimao estimates, is at least more than 300 kilograms. At the current price of gold, which is about 300 yuan per gram, that is close to 100 million soft sister coins and more than 15 million euros.

It’s just that the secret passage from two hundred years ago cannot be found. The original owner of this secret passage that is less than a century old has no reason not to tell his descendants.

Not to mention the paintings of these Impressionist masters, the gold alone was enough for the owner of the winery to squander it for several years. There was no need for him to sell off his winery.

And even if it is sold, it is impossible not to take these things away.

This means that the owner of the winery does not know the existence of these things at all, and Andre is even less aware of them.

Shi Lei felt more and more that there was a big problem here.

Just for a moment, he couldn’t figure out what went wrong.

We still have to start with the castle and winery itself.

Shi Lei looked at his cell phone and saw that there was signal on it. He immediately called Wei Puti.

“Can you give me the location of your phone?” Shi Lei asked directly.

Wei Puti also said concisely and concisely: “I can locate it.”

“I am in a winery…”

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(End of this chapter)