Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 867: Sneaking in at Night
After a preliminary investigation of the villages and towns around Rosslyn Chapel, Chu Xiangqian was not in a hurry to let the titmouse enter Rosslyn Chapel.

Instead, the titmouse was perched on a tree outside the main entrance of the church, looking inside.

The day passed quickly.

Chu Xiangqian discovered that there were at least twenty clergymen in the church, and it was still early September, so the weather was still quite hot.

Among them, there were about a dozen people wearing priest robes. They looked like priests, but it was difficult to hide their muscles.

This is very different from the plot in the movie where the church is not only open to the public but also has only a few staff members.

Chu Xiangqian immediately realized that Maria from Lamo was most likely really in the church.

We immediately let the tits fly back and fed them some shredded meat and water. We made two round trips overnight and airlifted all the stingrays and green mambas to Edinburgh.

One can act as a surveillance camera, one can eavesdrop and dig holes from a long distance, and the last one can see the human body in the dark night through infrared rays, and can even see the human body heat source inside the house.

Of course, if the wall is too thick, Green Manba cannot see through it with infrared rays.

But as long as the green vine can feel the heat source through the windows and door cracks, there will be no problem.

That night, Huang Diao'er brought Lu Manba and entered the church through the crack in the church door.

With the green vine there, there was no need for the titmouse to follow in, so it could just stay on the roof of the church and act as a 360-degree monitor.

Huang Diao'er followed Chu Xiangqian's instructions, and Chu Xiangqian entered the basement smoothly according to the plot in the movie as he remembered.

Sure enough, not only were there faint voices coming from inside, but Lu Manba also saw through the crack in the door that there were two strong priests stationed on the first floor of the basement.

Chu Xiangqian knew that these two men were more like the Knights Templar of this era than priests.

Moreover, there are many shields, swords and heavy axes in the rest area on the first floor of the basement.

These cold weapons are hung on the wall or on the wooden table.

Most people would think it was just a decoration, but Chu Xiangqian knew that when holding this thing in the hand in the basement, its lethality was no less than that of a gun.

Even with thick shields to resist, long swords and heavy axes have the advantage.

Chu Xiangqian thought for a moment and did not rush to Edinburgh to force through the knights' defenses.

Anyway, judging from the situation, there is a 9% chance that Maria's sarcophagus is really in the church.

Then there must be many works of art such as paintings and manuscripts by masters stored around the sarcophagus.

So Chu Xiangqian commanded Huang Diao'er to leave the church, estimate the distance, and start digging holes in the grass outside the church to enter the second or even third floor of the church basement.

Although the protagonist in the movie has a plot where he goes into the basement, many parts of the story are simplified.

Chu Xiangqian couldn't be sure whether there was a third floor below the second floor.

Just let the marten dig the hole slowly. Anyway, I don't need three to five days.

Green Manba acted as a spy, hiding in the vent on the roof of the basement and keeping an eye on the basement at all times.

The titmouse kept watch and flew back to the estate in London every other day.

While he was eating, he grabbed some fresh beef with his two little paws and flew back to serve as a logistics officer for Huang Diao'er and Lu Manba.

Before they knew it, three days had passed quickly. Huang Diaoer not only dug to the second underground floor, but also continued to dig more than two meters below.

By the time it gets dark tonight, we should be able to dig through the third layer.

Moreover, during these three days, the passages leading from the underground floor to the second and third floors were kept locked, and no one entered the church.

This allowed Chu Xiangqian to order Huang Diaoer to keep digging with peace of mind.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian has also confirmed that there will be two people guarding outside a small secret room in the basement on the second floor every night.

After 8 o'clock in the morning, when the church staff come back, the two will hand over their shift and go back to sleep.

It seems that the secret has been kept for too long, so the guards have lost their nervousness and the density of internal defense has been greatly reduced.

However, the defense inside the church was lax, but there were people outside the church watching the mountain road leading to the church 24 hours a day, day or night.

Moreover, this group of people would patrol the forest where the church is located with hunting rifles in the name of hunting.

To prevent someone from sneaking into the church from the mountains and forests.

Once an outsider appears, fire a few shots into the air and ensure that dozens of people can be gathered in a short time.

The sarcophagus is very heavy, and it would be very difficult to steal it in a short time.

It can even be said that it is impossible.

Then we can only attack by force.

But if we attack by force, the police and guardians in the villages and towns will arrive with weapons within a few to ten minutes.

For the uninformed village police, stealing cultural relics from a famous local church was also something that the locals could not accept.

Therefore, the high-ranking members of the Knights Templar were not afraid of small forces infiltrating.

However, if the church were discovered or suspected by the Vatican, the sarcophagus would be moved away immediately.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian was not interested in the sarcophagus, so his target was obvious: the famous paintings, manuscripts, and even antiques such as gold and silver objects inside.

The original Knights Templar not only had great power throughout Europe and the United States, but also had great wealth.

But everything has its pros and cons. More land and wealth means taking more resources away from the nobles and landlords.

When the Knights Templar reached their peak, even the kings of various countries were wary of them.

This gave the Vatican an opportunity to unite with kings and nobles from various countries to launch an attack on the local Templar forces on the same day or even within the same hour.

Overnight, most of the knights were killed.

Even if someone managed to escape, they lost their lands and castles, and were constantly hunted down by secular and Vatican forces.

Among those who escaped, there were some knights who were guarding the sarcophagus, and they disappeared without a trace with the sarcophagus.

This was probably the closest the Vatican had come to destroying the sarcophagus and remains in hundreds of years.

England was isolated overseas and was not very welcoming to Catholicism at that time.

The nobility and the church had been fighting for power in England.

You may have the upper hand today, but in a few years or even a dozen years, you will be overthrown by the other side.

After seven or eight rounds of negotiations, the status of the Anglican Church as the state religion was gradually established.

The king even declared himself the head of the Anglican Church, combining politics and religion, and holding all the power in his hands.

From then on, although the Holy See had been seeking to fight back, its greed and desire for power meant that even a short-lived victory would eventually lead to its being driven out.

England became the ideal country for the Knights Templar to hide and accumulate power.

According to the plot of the movie, the Knights Templar must be one of the main forces against the Vatican.

In many future movies, the Knights Templar will often appear in the storylines involving Yingguo.

Chu Xiangqian recalled for a while and soon remembered that he had seen Philip holding a cross unique to the Knights Templar.

It can be seen that this force has had a very large and profound infiltration and influence on Yingguo over the past few hundred years.

And France, as one of the main forces opposing the Vatican's interference in secular rule, should have been infiltrated by the Knights Templar.

Just like when the Knights Templar were at their peak, the Vatican also entered its heyday after slaughtering the Knights Templar.

Just like in the past, the nobles and kings began to have more conflicts with the Vatican.

To put it bluntly, it's all about money. Chu Xiangqian even felt that by this time, the power of the Knights Templar had surpassed that of the declining Church.

Just look at the banks in Europe, which were founded by the Knights Templar, and you can roughly guess how powerful the hidden power of the Knights Templar is.

However, there must have been many conflicts within the Knights Templar due to interests.

As a result, Chu Xiangqian felt even less worried.

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Huang Diao'er finally dug through the third layer of the stone wall quietly. Shantiao entered the tunnel and looked inside.

Chu Xiangqian, who was coaxing Chu Jingxing to sleep with Margaret, suddenly felt his heart beating faster.

The walls of the secret room, which is only a dozen square meters, are covered with oil paintings of various sizes.

Sure enough, there was a sarcophagus parked in the middle.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care whether the sarcophagus was empty or contained a body.

Around the sarcophagus, there were more than twenty treasure chests of various sizes, which looked quite old.

Chu Xiangqian felt even happier.

Chu Xiangqian had seen many treasure chests. Through the vision of the mountain sparrow, he knew at a glance that it must be a treasure chest containing gold and jewels.

I looked at my watch and it was not yet 10:20 pm.

After hesitating for a moment, Chu Xiangqian gritted his teeth and decided to rush to Edinburgh overnight.

Although the guards guarding the basement on the first floor have not entered the secret rooms on the second and third floors in the past few days.

But he couldn't be sure if anyone would come down to check tomorrow.

Therefore, the safest way is to steal the paintings and treasures inside as quickly as possible.

He deliberately gave a lewd smile to Margaret, who was having her period.

Margaret thought about it for a moment and realized that this was a game of poker.

He rolled his eyes at Chu Xiangqian and said, "I'm going to accompany Henry tonight. You go find Nata or solve it yourself."

Chu Xiangqian was secretly happy in his heart, but pretended to be helpless and said, "So I really go to the city to find Nata?"

Margaret was a little angry for a moment, but seeing Chu Xiangqian's pretended uncomfortable expression, she finally murmured softly, "You can go if you want."

Chu Xiangqian smiled, and without much delay or comfort left the bedroom, which made Margaret angry and she slapped the pillow and cursed a few words.

However, when she saw Chu Jingxing still grabbing her feet and making a fuss on the bed, Margaret's anger dissipated by a large margin.

He smiled and said to Chu Jingxing, "Baby, don't be like your dad, thinking about going out to play all day long."

After saying this, Margaret smiled sheepishly.

Speaking of which, Chu Xiangqian is a perfect man in all other aspects except for his hot temper.

Most of the time, I don't go out or attend any parties.

They will not join various clubs as an excuse to get drunk outside with their friends all day long.

What many European women hate most is not their men having affairs with other women, but their husbands’ alcoholism.

Although the harm caused by alcoholics is not as great as that caused by gamblers, people who are drunk all day long are talkative and like to beat people.

But Chu Xiangqian had never been drunk and rarely drank.

At most, drink some wine or beer while eating.

So in Margaret's eyes, Chu Xiangqian is a good man, and he actually only has one lover, Nata, in London.

When she thought about her brother-in-law who was always fooling around outside, had countless women, and was even rumored to have an illegitimate child, the remaining anger in her heart disappeared.

Chu Xiangqian drove out of the manor, found a deserted place, and parked the car directly in the Novice Village.

He released Red Hare and jumped on the horse.

Red Hare immediately neighed and started running wildly.

Chu Xiangqian himself is level 31, and his pets such as Red Hare are naturally also level 31.

Constitution 21.4, Strength 4.1, Agility 10.5.

This agility, running at full speed, the speed has exceeded 160 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, it has an extraordinary physique. 1 point of physique can support Red Hare to run at full speed for 15 minutes.

With a physique of 21.4, running for more than 5 hours is no problem at all.

Not only is it a thousand-mile horse, it can also run 2 miles a day without any problem.

Its strength is four times that of a normal horse. With sufficient strength, it is much less restricted by the terrain and can easily climb mountains and cross rivers.

Moreover, after staying in the Novice Village for a long time, the experience of the three horses of the Red Hare family is not much different from that of Chu Xiangqian.

On the contrary, the tits and martens sometimes left Chu Xiangqian for ten days, half a month, or even one or two months.

The level is only 30.

After Red Hare started running wildly, the titmouse also flew back from Edinburgh and pointed the way in the sky.

So even though London is more than 600 kilometers away from Edinburgh, Chu Xiangqian, who has night vision, only took him 4 and a half hours to reach a hillside 20 kilometers away from Rosslyn Chapel.

I looked at my watch and it was only 3 a.m.

He ran madly all the way, having a great time, and for the first time, Chi Tu's neck appeared out of breath.

After Red Hare recovered, Chu Xiangqian took out warm salt water and fodder to feed the horse, while Chu Xiangqian determined the next route through the tit.

Since we are here to steal treasure, we must avoid being spotted.

It would be best not to meet anyone, so Chu Xiangqian thought about it and decided to order Shantiao to bring the Green Mamba back.

In this late night, wild, open environment, the Green Mamba's infrared vision is like an enhanced version of night vision goggles.

Moreover, this snake usually stays in the Novice Village. It is level 30, with a physique of 15.3, strength of 5.1, and agility of 10.9.

Within its tiny body lies a power many times more terrifying than that of a giant python, and its speed is as fast as lightning.

And 1 point of physical fitness increases the heat detection function by 40 meters, allowing the little snake to see heat sources more than 600 meters away.

In this era, it is a super multifunctional night vision goggles.

Even decades later, professional night vision sniper scopes that can detect more than 600 meters seem to have not yet appeared.

Therefore, Chu Xiangqian's subsequent progress was surprisingly smooth.

He himself has enhanced his eyesight, so that he can not only see far, but also has the ability to see at night.

Every ten or twenty seconds, he would use the green vine's heat-sensing ability to scan the surroundings a few times.

He actually discovered quite a few hidden sentries.

However, these secret sentries probably haven't had any accidents for many years, so many people say they are secret sentries, but in fact they are either secretly sleeping.

Or they would brag and chat with their companions. Chu Xiangqian also saw several groups of people leaving their surveillance area and gathering together to smoke.

There is even barbecue and beer.

Now it will be easier for Chu Xiangqian to sneak in.

(End of this chapter)