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Chapter 42 The only problem

"Are you free tomorrow night?"

"Tomorrow night? I have time." Tang Wei was slightly stunned, and then asked: "What is it?"

"A writer's gathering." Locke said, "It's actually a group of guys who cheat money with their pens and get together to brag and beat up."

"It's not as tacky as you said." Tang Wei rolled his eyes at Locke.

"Not all writers in the United States are literary giants." Locke shrugged. In the United States, Liu Bei's novels are very popular, which has spawned a large number of writers who are looking for novelty or special content.

As long as they can sell sales, these writers are the guests of publishers.

Tang Wei's thoughts are obviously still in the stage of Eastern people in this era. People with a status of writers feel that they are superior. There are indeed many great masters in the United States who have written profound literary works, but there are also many writers of various kinds.

Kind of weird.

Tang Wei did not dwell on Locke's evaluation of writers. In this country, there were too many things that subverted her childhood impression. After chatting for a few words, the two of them gradually changed the topic.

"By the way, when we were shopping in the afternoon, was there anything special about the Trinity Church we went into?" Tang Wei suddenly thought of what happened in the afternoon and asked.

The other coffin is the exit of the treasure. The key is that there are almost no mechanisms or traps in this treasure. It can be said that as long as you find the right location, you can enter and explore it like taking a walk in the countryside.

Next, he took advantage of the night to go near Broadway in lower Manhattan and quietly observed the surroundings.

At its peak, the Templars were extremely powerful and threatened the royal and religious power of several countries in Europe.

Of course, Locke couldn't tell Tang Wei about the treasure. After Tang Wei fell into a deep sleep due to exhaustion from riding the rocket, Locke packed up and left the apartment.

The only trouble is that Trinity Church is located in lower Manhattan, not far from Broadway, and there is a constant flow of people even at night. It is troublesome to quietly take away a huge amount of treasures.

As the saying goes, things must turn against each other when they reach their extremes. Although foreigners have never heard the saying "You can't allow others to snore on the side of the bed," they will not tolerate such a huge force around you.

But Locke guessed that there is probably still Freemasonry in this world, but he has not come into contact with it until now.

Of course, he couldn't smash the tombstone directly and roughly. Instead, he used the tools he brought to carefully pry open the tombstone, and then saw the coffin hidden inside.

If it were a previous life, these legends about Freemasonry and treasures would really be just legends. Although many of these legends are just like the truth, in fact the inheritance of Freemasonry has long been lost in the torrent of time.

But when you think about the many works of art shown in the movie, as well as boxes and boxes of jewelry, gold coins, and gold nuggets, these troubles are not a big deal.

Soon he found a tombstone with the name of Parkington Lane engraved with the Masonic symbol on the wall. Obviously, this was the entrance to the treasure in the movie.

The whole process went surprisingly smoothly. After all, the priests who had lived in this church for decades did not know that there was a fortune buried under their feet that could rival the country.

Pulling the coffin out and looking inside, Locke quickly discovered a passage leading to an unknown place. At this moment, he was finally completely sure that there really was a treasure here.

Tang Wei said: "We've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've seen you take the initiative to enter the church and visit everywhere. It's really strange."

However, as the conflicts between the Templars and the ruling classes of various European countries continued to deepen, the guardians of the treasure felt that Europe was no longer safe, so they crossed the ocean and transported the treasure to America, which was still a wilderness at that time.

There is a mechanism in this small room. People who come here to hunt for treasures try their best to unlock the secret here. When they open the mechanism and enter the treasure room in their minds, they will only see some scattered wooden boxes but an empty space without any treasures.

room.

Maybe the power is huge, but most of them have internal factions, and they will even face challenges from the rise of new forces. It is certainly not like some legendary people who can cover the sky with one hand and control the world secretly.

Those Templars who went to Eastern Europe could not escape the fate of destruction in the end, but those who went to England established a firm foothold and gradually developed into a powerful secret organization.

"What's special about it? It's just a church, but it's older." Locke didn't expect that Tang Wei could see anything unusual.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it. No matter what organization it is, if it develops for a long time, there will be internal conflicts, especially an organization with a long history.

The Trinity Church was exactly the same as the church he saw in a movie starring Nicholas, National Treasure. If he remembered correctly, the entrance to the treasure was in the church basement, with a coffin on the wall as a cover.

It originated in Europe. Later, due to ideological disputes, some Freemasons came to America and established a new Freemasonry, which has been passed down ever since.

"But I have never seen you interested in churches and churches. When you talk about God, you are not as respectful as many people. You have always said that what you believe in is science."

Whether in this life or in the previous life, there are countless legends about Freemasonry in the West. Europeans and Americans have heard of the Crusades and the Templars to some extent.

According to the scene in his memory, Locke came to the basement of the church where the boiler and heating room were stored.

I heard that Washington was a member of the Freemasons, and he also built the church. After seeing the church, I thought of these legends, and I was interested, so I went in to visit."

"I'm just interested in the church itself. I once read some information, and the Holy Trinity Church reminded me of some legends about Freemasonry.

Finding a remote corner, Locke used invisibility to sneak into the church quietly while no one was around.

Speaking of which, although this treasure does not have any special mechanisms, the design is quite clever.

In fact, as Tang Wei said, he has no interest in God or the church. The reason why he went to visit the Trinity Church after seeing it was naturally because of the treasures inside.

Below the entrance, there will be a wooden spiral ladder going down hundreds of meters. The treasures are transported down by these spiral ladders. After reaching the bottom, there will be a small room.

Members of Freemasonry are widely spread in the West. Locke knew that Tang Wei was not interested in these things. When he said this, Tang Wei lost interest in continuing to ask questions, and Locke also changed the topic in due course.

Most of the treasures in the National Treasures movie originated from Solomon's treasure discovered by the Templars a thousand years ago, and they transported the treasure to Europe and hid it.

So later, the French King's United Church launched a bloody power war that spread to half of Europe, killing dozens of great lords in one fell swoop.

This massacre forced the remaining knights to leave for Eastern Europe or England.

At this time, anyone would think that the treasure had probably been moved away long ago. After all, this treasure was closely related to the founder of the country, and perhaps relevant information had already been circulated in the United States.

But in fact, this room is the real entrance. If you want to open the mechanism of this room, you need the stone pipe.

In the movie, the pipe is hidden on a wooden ship in the Arctic Circle, but the plot of the movie does not reveal the true location of the ship, nor does it explain how the protagonist found the wooden ship.

That's the only problem.

(End of chapter)