Marvel's princess becomes king

Chapter 346 Cracking the Password

"$35, sir." After Maomei left, the black saleswoman still had a straight face, and she still told Ben Gates to pay.

Ben Gates didn't notice any problem. He continued to dig out his wallet, but after searching for a long time, he only had 32 dollars on him.

The black female salesperson was determined not to let him go. She bargained and swiped the card again, as if she was talking about it, and it took nearly 10 minutes.

When he left the side hall, he was already sweating. Thinking of his extra expenses, he was a little dumbfounded. Such a printed matter cost 35 dollars?Really expensive!

Before the smile on his face disappeared, he regretted that he swiped his card just now!This is the evidence that he stole the Declaration of Independence!

He quickly walked out of the gate of the National Archives, worried about being tracked by the state agency, he did not dare to go back to the hotel, but went to his father's house.

Flicking away the old man, he took out the Declaration of Independence, carefully smeared lemon on the back of the declaration, trying to make the invisibility potion visible, but unfortunately there was no writing, and then he heated it with a hair dryer, but still got nothing.

Nothing behind the Declaration of Independence?Your thread is broken?Or is it just a ridiculous farce?

He sat decadently on the chair, his whole being plunged into deep self-doubt.

On the other side, Bella and the others are also watching the real Declaration of Independence.

In order to dispel the motivation of Ben Gates to continue to pursue, Bella did not fool with the $35 printed matter, but ordered his staff to make a high imitation, which was more like the original Declaration of Independence than the original.

The Brotherhood is actually an ancient organization of thieves, a guild of thieves, and counterfeiting is commonplace. They have been doing this business for more than 2000 years!It's completely at the level of the ancestors!Now forging a 200-year-old Declaration of Independence is really a trivial thing.

Not to mention Ben Gates, a historian, even an expert in cultural relic appraisal, can't see any flaws.

Take it back as a real product display, there is no problem at all.

Today, in order to preside over the overall situation of the treasure digging, Bella used the identity of a mentor, with a white hood, a rapier hanging around her waist, and a hazy face.

She is now watching the Declaration of Independence with fraternity historian and analyst Sean Hastings.

006, as a guest and event participant, also came to join them, and at this moment, he folded his arms and stood aside to watch.

Sean Hastings smeared lemonade on the back of the Declaration of Independence, while Maomei heated it with a hair dryer. Soon, the hidden handwriting slowly emerged.

Maomei quickly picked up the pen and paper beside her to make notes.

“7-9-6，10-15-8，14-8-2”记录的全是诸如此类的数字。

"Do you understand what this means? It's latitude and longitude?" 006 asked.

He was the only outsider at the scene, and he was very clear about this. Bella was dressed strangely, but he could tell at a glance that this group of mysterious guys seemed to be some kind of ancient association, and they faintly rejected him.

At this moment, curiosity overwhelmed worry, and he asked involuntarily.

"Well, I know, this is the Ottendorf code." As if seeing 006's confusion, Bella took off her gloves and deliberately explained a few more sentences.

"It's nothing mysterious. The first number represents the page number of the document, the second number represents the line number of the page, and the third number represents the letter number of the line. If you connect these into one sentence, it should be the following A clue."

"Documents? What documents?" 006 is indeed an elite agent. His body is not as good as before, but his mind is still sharp, and he immediately grasped the key points.

Bella smiled: "I didn't know at first, but Dr. Ben Gates helped us find the clue."

She held out her hand, and a fellow fraternity immediately handed her a thick stack of printer paper.

"Benjamin Franklin secretly wrote fourteen letters to his brother's newspaper when he was 15 years old. He used a female tone and claimed to be a middle-aged widow. S. Dogood doesn't know how Ben Gates got this clue, but look at these Ottendorf codes."

Bella pointed to the records on the paper and said: "The numbers on the first line are all in the range of one to fourteen, which exactly correspond to the fourteen letters written by Benjamin Franklin."

She was explaining the key to 006. On the other side, Sean Hastings was already leading a few people to decipher the Ottendorf code.

"7-9-6 is S."

"11-3-5 is I."

"9-1-7 is Ace."

All letters are connected into a paragraph.

Sean Hastings recited carefully: "The treasured vision of the past will at some point appear in the timely shadow before passing through the houses of Pass and Stowe."

"Pass and Stowe?" 006 didn't want to appear ignorant, but his personality is very curious, so it's uncomfortable not to ask clearly at this time.

Sean replied bluntly: "It should refer to John Pass and John Stowe, they cast the Liberty Bell in the War of Independence together."

"July 1776, 7 is an important date in American history. The Liberty Bell was rang when the Declaration of Independence was issued on this day. This clue should refer to the Liberty Bell."

"The Liberty Bell is in Philadelphia, I'll go find the next clue." Sean volunteered.

"Okay, thanks for your hard work." Bella nodded in agreement.

Sean rushed to Philadelphia with a team, and Bella and the others headed to New York. Her divination showed that the treasure was buried in New York.

Ben Gates, an outsider, can find the treasure little by little by relying on clues. It is hard to say that the Lord Knights Templar would know nothing.

Among other things, if they find the descendants of Benjamin Franklin, use the Animus to read the information in the genes of the descendants, and reproduce the memories of their ancestors, there is a high chance of finding these treasures.

This is the dominance of the Animus. It doesn’t matter if there are no clues. We can get to the source in one step. Who will analyze the clues with you a little bit.

When the Brotherhood split up and prepared to open the treasure, Dr. Ben Gates in Washington DC was arrested. Strictly speaking, he surrendered himself.

There are all witnesses and material evidence, the time of committing the crime, the means of committing the crime, and the motive of committing the crime. Under the search of the FBI, there is nowhere to run.

"Dr. Ben Gates?" The FBI agent in charge of handling the case looked a little old. He asked his subordinates to leave, moved the stool by himself, and sat in front of Ben Gates.

"I need my lawyer to be there." Ben Gates was interrupted by the other party's laughter before he finished speaking.

"Hahahaha—doctor, you don't even know who you're dealing with. For so many years, you've been looking for traces of the Knights Templar. Now that the Knights Templar have found you, do you have anything to say?" The old detective said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)