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Chapter 173 The Mystery of Murdoch (Second update, please subscribe)
  3 month 24 day.

After entering Germany, you need to be careful at every step, everyone may be the enemy - the Germans mobilized almost all men to join the National Commando, from gray-haired old men to young children.

They may launch Iron Fist rockets from a corner at any time, or they may hide in the corner and shoot.
  Kang Guowei changed gears, slowly drove the jeep around a pit on the dirt road, and drove to a long piece of grass. After turning off the engine, he grabbed a newspaper from the passenger seat and got out of the jeep. He lit a cigarette and handed the "Qinglong Banner" - the military newspaper of the task force - as he walked. He flipped the newspaper to the sports section. He browsed the headlines and looked for the football scores of each team. Although the football match between troops was just a simple competition, for each search team, it was definitely an honor to outdo each other.

"Why did we stop?"

Lin Tai asked, sitting in the front seat of the jeep. Lin Tai is twenty-one years old, one year younger than Kang Guowei. As a Shandong native, he is tall, muscular and has dark skin that looks very healthy.

He studied in junior high school in his hometown in Shandong. After Japan occupied Shandong, he, under the leadership of the principal, fled to the rear area, from Shandong to Hubei, and from Hubei to Sichuan. He was only 13 years old at the time. After joining the army last year, he thought he would go fight the Japanese, but he never imagined that he would come to Europe. He had known Kang Guowei since they were doing basic military training in China. After arriving in India, they were also in the same company, and now they are two , one is the squadron leader and the other is the squadron deputy.

Kang Guowei put down the newspaper and leaned back on the chair and said.

"The Allied forces haven't attacked the town ahead yet. The Germans may have laid mines on the road or set up an ambush. Let's wait a little longer."

he said,
  "Let's rest for a while and then go over after confirming it's safe."

"Captain, otherwise, let two brothers go in and take a look."

Medical worker Mi Jiyuan stood up from the back seat of the jeep as he spoke. He held his hands and looked into the distance. The town of Mekes in the distance was right in front of them. While they were waiting, someone came from a distance. Several Germans were met, led by an old man. They walked over holding a white flag. When they got closer, they saw the appearance of the Allied troops clearly. The old man was stunned for a moment, and then he said.

"Gentlemen, there are no soldiers in the town anymore. All the soldiers have left. There are only some old people, women and children."

"Are there any weapons in the town?"

"Sir, weapons are stacked in front of the square."

Soon, the search team entered the town. When they threw hundreds of small weapons, including shotguns, piled in front of the square into the car, Lin Tai asked some nearby villagers in somewhat stiff German. It was learned that there had been unusual "activities" near a certain potash mine of the Windstall Mining Company. So Kang Guowei immediately ordered a curfew in the area, and then sent a small team to search the potash mine.

Like the industrial and mining companies they encountered along the way, the salt mine was empty without a single worker. Soon they entered the Keseroda Mine, and what they discovered next shocked everyone.

"...At ten o'clock this morning, our people entered the mine from the main tunnel. At first we thought this was where the Germans stored weapons. According to intelligence, there were hundreds of cars driving into the mine. Later we were off the ground. In the main tunnel about 700 meters away, 550 large sacks were found stacked against the wall, all of which were German mark banknotes. Further inside was a 1-meter-thick brick wall with a heavy steel safety door in the center. There may be a cellar behind the door."

Listening to Kang Guowei's report, Li Yian and his party came to the cellar. Looking at the thick steel safety door, Li Yian's breathing became rapid.

Even before he opened the safe door, he knew what was inside - gold!
  All the gold reserves of the German National Bank are here!

This should be the legendary "Murdoch's Treasure"!

"I almost forgot about this treasure..."

Perhaps it was because he had been so busy recently that Li Yian never thought of the existence of this treasure.

"Go back and write down everything you can remember!" Li Yian said with this thought in his mind.

"Bring the explosives!"

The modern steel safety door may not be able to explode even if it is exploded, let alone pried open, but the brick wall around the safety door is easily destroyed. It only took half a stick of yellow dynamite to explode.

After the smoke cleared, people found themselves as if they had entered the treasure house described in "The Arabian Nights." The surrounding scene was difficult to describe in words: what lay before them was a illuminated secret room 23 meters wide and 45 meters long. There are more than 7000 marked bags, knee-high, arranged in 20 rows, each row is about 1 meter apart, and many of the bags have the word "Melmo" printed on them. The bags belonged to pseudonymous Nazi SS accounts. A number of wooden chests are found on the other side of the room.

What's in the box?
  is gold!
  2 boxes per box, each weighing 10 kilograms, and hundreds of bags of gold utensils and products; more than 1300 bags of gold marks, gold francs and gold pounds; hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins; hundreds of bags of foreign exchange banknotes; 9 bags Rare ancient gold coins; as for German marks, there are billions in cash, and even diamonds and jewelry. In other tunnels, a large number of precious works of art were found from museums in various European countries and stolen from private individuals: oil paintings, prints, pencil drawings, sculptures, antique clocks, stamp albums... There were even several bags of gold products from people who died of extinction. Gold teeth extracted from the mouths of the Jews in the camp.

How much gold is stored here?
  Li Yian didn't have time to count at all. Time, the most important thing now is to take away everything that can be taken away before the Allies discover this place!
  Without the slightest hesitation, Li Yian ordered directly.

"Everyone evacuated to the top of the mine and enforced vigilance on the outside."

Everyone, not including Li Yian himself, immediately got busy after his subordinates left. Busy trying to fit everything into the space.

How many things are in the mine?

Li Yi'an didn't know it clearly, but he had already made up his mind - not even a Reich Mark could be left behind. There was no other reason. Everything would either disappear, or it would have to be reported to the Allied Command.

And the easiest way is to disappear them all!
  Only disappearing can explain everything - no one will believe that more than a hundred task forces and dozens of trucks can transport everything here.

After all, when the Germans originally transported these things, it took thousands of trucks to transport these things into the salt mines. As for now, of course, it has all disappeared.

Fortunately, there is plenty of space.

Gone, gone.

It's been a mystery ever since.

A few hours later, the search team left the town as if they had never been here before.

Of course they have been here, and their experience here will also be written in the military diary. After all, they once seized a batch of light weapons including shotguns, and that was it.

Not long after they left, Allied troops also stationed here. They also received information about strange activities near the mine. Although some people swore that there was gold hidden in the mine, after a search by the Allied forces, Except for the damaged brick wall of the safe, there was not a hair left.

Even Allied intelligence agents found Dr. Paul Raff, director of the German National Museum, in the town, who claimed to be looking after some famous paintings hidden in the mines. Werner Vick, chief cashier of the foreign exchange department of the German National Bank, was also found. Vick confessed to the US military that all the gold reserves of the German National Bank are currently in the mines.

But when they entered the mine, both of them were dumbfounded.

Where did the gold go?
  Where did the artwork go?

Everything was clearly in the mine. But now, they have all disappeared.

No one knows the answer, no one knows what happened.

But in the decades that followed, the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Murdoch's gold spawned so many investigations, from allies to Germany to the private sector.

However, it just disappeared out of thin air, as if it had never existed.

Therefore, the "mystery of the disappearance of Murdoch's gold" and the "mystery of the fire in the Palace of Versailles" are known as the two major mysteries of World War II.

Whether it is the disappearance of Germany's gold reserves or the disappearance of Versailles treasures in the fire, they have attracted various official investigations and various folk speculations.

In the end, all the mysteries point to a group of people called "Nazis" - not only to the exiled Nazis, but also to an illusory thing - the revival of the Third Reich.

It seems that some people have really guessed it, and there seems to be a slight connection. Even later, with the connection of various investigations, the missing treasure also involved "Hydra", almost exposing the other side of the coin.

However, for this world, mysteries will always remain mysteries.

(End of this chapter)