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Chapter 42 The Only Problem

"Do you have time tomorrow night?"

"Tomorrow night? I have time." Tang Wei was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "What is it?"

"A writer's party." Locke said, "It's actually a group of guys who swindle money with their pens and get together to brag and fart."

"It's not as vulgar as you said." Tang Wei gave Locke a white look.

"Not all American writers are masters in the literary world." Locke shrugged his shoulders. In the United States, Liu Bei's novels can be popular, so it has also spawned a large number of writers with novel or special content.

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

Tang Wei's thinking is obviously still at the stage of Dongguo people in this era, and people with the identity of writers feel that they are tall. There are indeed many masters who have written profound literary works in the United States, but there are also many writers of various kinds. Kind of wonderful.

Tang Wei didn't bother about Locke's evaluation of the writer. In this country, there are too many things that subverted her childhood impression. After chatting for a few words, the two gradually changed the subject.

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

"There's nothing special about it, it's just a church, but the age is relatively long." Locke didn't expect Tang Wei to be able to see the abnormality.

"But I have never seen that you are interested in the church and the church, and when you talk about God, you don't respect it as much as many people do. You always say that you believe in science."

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

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

It originated in Europe. Later, due to the dispute of ideas, some members of the Freemasonry came to America, established a new Freemasonry and then passed it down.

I heard that Washington was one of the members of the Freemasonry, and he also built the church. After seeing the church, I thought of these legends. I was interested for a while, so I went in to visit it. "

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 also lost interest in further questioning, and Locke changed the topic in a timely manner.

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

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 basement of the church, using the coffin on the wall as a cover.

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

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, so it is troublesome to quietly take away a huge number of treasures.

But considering the many artworks shown in the movie, as well as boxes and boxes of jewelry, gold coins, and gold nuggets, these troubles are not so much trouble.

Of course, it was impossible for Locke to tell Tang Wei about the treasure, and Locke packed up and left the apartment after Tang Wei fell asleep after being too tired from riding the rocket.

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

Whether in this life or in the previous life, there are countless legends about Freemasonry in the West, and Europeans and Americans have more or less heard of the Crusades and the Knights Templar.

The Templar Knights were very powerful in their heyday, threatening the royal power and religious power of several countries in Europe.

As the saying goes, extremes lead to opposites. Although foreigners have never heard of the saying that people are not allowed to snore on the side of a couch, they will not tolerate such a huge force by their side.

So later, the King's United Church in France set off a bloody power war that spread to half of Europe, and killed dozens of great lords in one fell swoop.

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

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

Most of the treasures in the National Treasure movie originated from Solomon's treasure discovered by the Templars 1000 years ago, and they transported the treasure to Europe and hid it.

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

If it was the previous life, these legends about Freemasonry and treasures were really just legends. Although many of these legends were true, in fact, the inheritance of Freemasonry had long since disappeared in the torrent of time.

But Locke guessed that there are still Freemasons in most of this world, but he has not come into contact with them until now.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it. No matter what kind of organization, it has been developing for a long time, and there are internal conflicts, especially for such a long-standing organization.

Maybe the power is huge, but most of the internal factions are full of factions, and they will even face the challenge of the rise of new powers. It is certainly impossible to cover the sky with one hand and secretly control the world like some legends.

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

The whole process was surprisingly smooth. After all, the priests who had lived in this church for decades did not know that there was an incomparable wealth buried under their feet.

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

Soon he found a masonic sign engraved on the wall, and a tombstone named Parkington Lane was written. Obviously, this is the entrance to the treasure in the movie.

Of course, he couldn't smash the tombstone directly and roughly, but carefully pried open the tombstone with the tools he brought, and then saw the coffin hidden inside.

Pulling out the coffin 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.

Speaking of which, although there is no special mechanism for this treasure, the design is quite ingenious.

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

There is a mechanism in this small room, where treasure hunters try their best to unlock the secrets, open the mechanism, and when they enter the treasure room in their minds, they will only see some empty boxes scattered with wooden boxes without any treasures. s room.

At this time, anyone would think that the treasure has probably been transferred away early. After all, this treasure is closely related to the founder of the country of the United States, and there may have been relevant information circulated in the United States.

But in fact, this room is the real entrance, but 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 in the movie does not have the true location of the ship, nor does it explain how the protagonist found the wooden ship.

That's the only problem.

(End of this chapter)