Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 161 Constantinople

"Constantinople, we're finally here." Three days later.The three of Liang En and the others appeared under the city wall of Constantinople, and then looked at the majestic city wall that was scarred but still standing there.

"This is the St. Romanus Gate. It is said that the last Roman Emperor Constantine XI died near here, but people did not find his body, only a pair of boots." Liang En introduced in a low voice. road.

After they came here in the private plane of the Scout family, they drove a little bit around the road and came to the gate of the city for the first time, planning to visit the famous city wall of the city.

This section of the city wall looks dilapidated, with a large number of collapses and large pits.The reason for this is that the terrain where the whole section of the city wall is located drops sharply towards the valley, so the wall is lower than the opposite slope and becomes the most vulnerable part of Theodosius' city wall.

Also because of this reason, in 1453, Maimaiti II ordered his artillery unit, including Urban heavy artillery, to concentrate fire on this section of the city wall, which caused the current mess.

After simply visiting the desolate city gate and taking pictures, Liang En and the others returned to the off-road vehicle that drove over.Then head straight to the city center.

"We now have three banks that we can go to, HSBC, Citigroup and Turkish Bank. Which one should we go to first?" Pierce asked Liang En when Fan Meng drove east along the road to the city center.

"What do you think?" Liang En asked looking at the three circles on the map representing the locations of the three banks. "Where do you think Mr. Conrad is most likely to put things?"

"I think it should be HSBC." Pierce said, pointing to the map. "Because Conrad was most likely to go out for more than three hours at a time, so from the perspective of distance, the farthest HSBC is suitable in time."

"What you said makes sense, but the problem is that at that time the Gold Society was still a subsidiary organization of the English Freemasonry. Under such circumstances, would Conrad really put the East XZ in a British bank?" Liang En raised his own doubts. "

——You are right, so which bank do you think this gentleman will put his things in? " Hearing what Liang En said, Pierce nodded and asked.

"Considering the Freemasonry, there is a high probability that the other party will put their own things in the Turkish bank." Liang En pointed to a circle on the map and said.

"Because this bank is the national bank of Turkey, its reputation is absolutely guaranteed. At the same time, unlike Citigroup and HSBC, this bank's background is destined to be much less likely to be influenced by Freemasonry."

So after experiencing a series of traffic jams, it took them 40 minutes to arrive at the entrance of a Turkish bank not far from the Hagia Sophia.

After the service staff at the door asked them why they were here, they called another waiter and took the three of them into a small room obviously for VIP customers, followed by a slightly bald staff member. came in.

"Please fill in your safe number and sign." After a simple greeting, the staff member quickly took out a piece of paper from the folder and handed it over.

Liang En knew beforehand that the passwords of the safes in this bank at that time were all three digits.So I wrote the number 697 corresponding to the word you, and stamped it with the seal under the cross.

"Please bring someone to enter the vault with us." Just a few minutes after the staff member left, a bank manager came in and said, so Liang En stood up and went to the underground vault with the bank manager.

"The things you want to withdraw now were deposited in the bank in 53, so we are going to the oldest vaults of the bank." The manager at the front explained all the way and led Liang En out of the elevator door, and then Follow the corridor to a room.

"Mr. Liang, I'll wait for you outside." When the manager brought Liang En to the No. 697 safe, he said something to him, then walked to the door and looked at Liang En's back.

Looking at the password disk with four digits on it, Liang En immediately entered the password, which is the number 9943 represented by the word love.

When the last number 3 was turned into place, he pressed the handle of the safe and opened the door, then took out an old suitcase from inside and returned with the suitcase and the bank manager on the ground.

"What's in it?" After the three returned to the car in the parking lot, Fan Meng and Pierce immediately surrounded them and stared at the suitcase curiously.

"I guess it might be documents or something, because this box is very light to carry." Liang En unlocked the box while talking, and then lifted the lid.

"I guessed right." Liang En took out the contents from the box one by one and said.Just as he had guessed before, there were a lot of documents in the box.

In addition to the three kraft paper bags, Liang En and the others also took out a small box decorated with red velvet from the box, and inside the box was a sterling silver cross with a crucifix and two horizontal bars. .

"Please give these things to my family, and they will pay you handsomely—Conrad Scudder." After carefully inspecting the box, Liang En picked up the box with tweezers in a gap in the lid. A note came out.

And on the back of the note was written an address near Stockholm, Sweden. Liang En knew that this was the address of the Skold Manor they went to before.

Obviously, the current situation is the same as what Liang En and the others had guessed before. That Mr. Conrad did leave something to his relatives, something that could help to track him down.

"Pierce, please contact our employer and tell us what we found, and take a picture of these things and send them to them." After briefly checking the things he took out from the bank, Liang En instructed his companions .

"Fan Meng, drive to the hotel now. I think we need some time to sort out these materials. I have a hunch that we should be able to find this Mr. Conrad through these materials."

Half an hour later, Liang En and the others sat down around a table in the hotel room.And spread out on the table are all the materials contained in the parchment that was discovered before.

These materials include notes, maps, and of course some photos.And through these documents, they quickly figured out the itinerary planned by Mr. Conrad's expedition.

The cause of this adventure was that these few members of the English Freemasonry at the time found some parchments in the British Imperial Museum, and those parchments recorded the secrets of the last treasures of the Roman Empire.

"Before the fall of Constantinople, Constantine XI sent his most loyal subordinates to leave the city that was about to be destroyed with the last treasures of the empire, and took these treasures to Trabzon, hoping to Leaving the seeds that will regenerate the empire."

Pierce gradually translated the Latin text of the photos on parchment with text in one of the albums, and then told Liang En and Fan Meng.

(End of this chapter)