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This St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian church, so although this church looks much larger than the Catholic Church of San Fernando from the outside, the interior decoration of this church is much larger than that of that church. The Catholic Church is much simpler.

After all, because of the difference in doctrine, the interior decoration of Catholic churches and Christian churches is also very different.

But in any case, Catholicism and Christianity are Protestantism, both belong to Christianity, but in China, because of the translation, Protestantism is called Christianity, and the correct name of Catholicism should be Roman Catholicism. Another school of thought is the Orthodox Church.

In fact, the difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism can be distinguished from the interior decoration of the church. The interior decoration of Roman Catholic or Catholic churches is mostly magnificent, whether it is walls, glass or domes, there are colorful paintings everywhere.

In contrast, the interior decoration of Protestant churches is much simpler. It is said that this is because they are worried that believers will be distracted by the gorgeous interior decoration of the church and will not be able to believe in Christ Jesus wholeheartedly, so the interior decoration of the church is very complicated. simple.

Also, the head of a Catholic church is usually called a priest, while the head of a Protestant church is usually called a priest.

However, these two churches also have something in common, that is, there are burial chambers about the church.

Whether it is Catholicism or Protestantism, there are generally three types of relationships between churches and burial chambers. The first relationship is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second is that the tomb is in the basement below the church, and the third is that the coffin is placed directly on the floor of the church.

In the first type of tomb, most of the ordinary believers are buried; in the second type of tomb, most of the important figures in the believers are buried; as for the third type, the coffin is placed directly on the church floor. , it is an extremely important person who has made great contributions to the church, and it is possible to enjoy such a high honor after death.

Of course, not all churches have catacombs. Some churches built very early could not build catacombs under the church due to the limitations of construction technology or local conditions at that time. This is the case, for example, with the Catholic Church in San Fernando.

And this St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral, one is because the construction time is only a century, and the construction technology is no longer a problem, so there is a large and deep underground tomb under the church. , there are three layers, close to ten meters deep.

Even Yang Jing, after entering the crypt of this cathedral, couldn't help being a little surprised by the magnificence of this cathedral. You must know that this church was built around 1900. Such a huge three-story basement could be built more than a hundred years ago, and the Philippines is still an earthquake-prone country. The church can still be kept intact for more than a hundred years. This has to be said to be no small miracle.

Chris completed his task perfectly. In fact, it is very simple to complete such a task. No matter what the reason is, it cannot compare with the promised large sum of money.

Chris just talked about his thoughts with the chief pastor here, and then promised that if the church allows the ashes of his predecessors to be buried in the crypt, then he will donate 300,000 dollars to the church, but he needs to go down to see the ashes first. Look at this catacomb.

Money can make motui ghosts, although the three hundred thousand dollars has not been received, but even the promised three hundred thousand dollars, the priest immediately allowed Chris to take two people down to see the catacombs.

This is 300,000 US dollars, which is almost half of the annual donations received by this church! How could such a big benefactor be easily offended? Don't you just go down and have a look, what's there? The bottom is full of coffins, what's so good about the spooky one?

So the great pastor sent someone to lead Chris, the big benefactor, into the underground tomb. Of course, Yang Jing followed Chris down this time as a follower.

There is still a big gap between Westerners' thinking and Easterners' thinking, for example, their views on cemeteries are completely different.

In the thinking of Eastern people, especially Chinese people, the more partial the cemetery, the better. Yin and Yang are different. The living should not be too close to the dead, otherwise something serious will happen.

In the eyes of Westerners, the cemetery is a sacred place, and most Westerners build their houses near the cemetery, just to get the protection of their ancestors. In the church, the tomb was built directly under the floor of the church.

Although Yang Jing didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but growing up in China, he had heard too many stories about ghosts and gods. If he didn't believe in gods, suddenly entering such a gloomy underground tomb, he couldn't help feeling a little hairy.

The basement is of masonry structure, and arches are formed between the thick masonry columns. These densely packed arches bear the responsibility of supporting the weight of the building above, and the four walls of the basement are not made of cement as Yang Jing imagined. A good wall is also a masonry wall.

This made Yang Jing feel very strange. The cathedral itself is located by the river, and it is said that the groundwater level should be very high. If a basement is built in this kind of place, if the waterproof treatment is not done well, the basement will have been exposed long ago. The groundwater was flooded.

But there is nothing wrong here, even in the third basement, which is about ten meters deep underground, apart from feeling very damp and cold, there is no water damage in the basement.

Could it be that there are waterproof measures inside the wall? Yang Jing thought for a while, then shook his head, cutting off the idea of ​​thinking about it again. He is not an expert in architecture, and he didn't come here to study the basement structure of this church. He came here to hunt for treasure. If you can't understand these messy things, you can't understand them.

Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is also full of shelves made of densely packed masonry buildings. On these masonry shelves, there are sarcophagi one by one, and the lids of each sarcophagus are covered. The shape of a person is carved, and Yang Jing knows that this sculpture is actually the posture of the person in the coffin before life.

The cathedral occupies a large area, so the area of ​​the underground tomb is not small. It is estimated that there are hundreds of such sarcophagi on each floor.

So many sarcophagi are densely placed together, and with the damp and cold air here, there is really a chilling feeling.

If it was normal, Yang Jing would not come to this kind of place full of food, but this time he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped paying attention to these sarcophagi, and turned to the sarcophagus. Go to the place where Baoguang emerged.

The pastor who came down with him went back on the second floor under the pretext of having something to do. It seems that even the pastor of the church is unwilling to come to this kind of place, and it is estimated that the pastor is also very aware of the situation below. Apart from the sarcophagus, there are sarcophagi below. It's nothing to watch at all, even if he doesn't have to follow these three people, he doesn't worry that these three people will cause any trouble below.

The pastor did not follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's actions, so after arriving at the third floor, he only delayed a little before walking to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because that piece of precious light came from this place. The location pops up.

This church has existed for more than a hundred years, so the sarcophagus in the basement has long been filled, and even the northeast corner of the third floor is also full of sarcophagi.

But here, Yang Jing can already clearly see the position where Baoguang emerges. To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not placed in the sarcophagus as he guessed, but inside the wall!

Obviously, after the little devils occupied Laoag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for the little devils. But when the little devils surrendered, those treasures that were too late to take away were hidden in the basement of this cathedral by those little devils.

However, in order to prevent these treasures from being discovered by others, the little devil did not put the treasures in those sarcophagi, but in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, he dug out the wall of the basement and dug out an additional basement , and then put the treasures in, and sealed the basement walls from the outside.

In this way, with the sarcophagus and the wall as cover outside, no one would have thought that there are still a lot of treasures hidden in this location!

If Yang Jing didn't have the skill of the sky eye and found those slightly leaked treasures, otherwise he wouldn't think that there would be treasures hidden in this kind of place!

It can only be said that the little devil is cunning and cunning!

Obviously, those little devils knew very well that even if they were defeated, after the Americans took over the Philippines again, they would not have any doubts about this ancient church. Because of faith, it is too late for those Americans to protect these churches, so how can they destroy these churches? Therefore, it is safest to hide the treasure under the church.

It is estimated that there are not a few little devils who have this idea, otherwise there would not be a lot of treasures buried under the Catholic Church in San Fernando.

The treasures hidden under these two churches were not discovered by the Americans. Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the information of these two hiding places has not been leaked. Yang Jing is even sure that the little devil who was defeated back then would definitely not tell this kind of hiding place. After all, this kind of place However, there are a lot of treasures hidden, and it is very likely that they were collected from several places and hidden together.

This kind of hiding place is probably known to very little even by the little devil's high-level figures.

I just don’t know how Alfred obtained such accurate information back then, and even marked the coordinates and locations.

It's a pity that Alfred, the leader of the DuPont family's ZTE Three Heroes, spent a lot of effort to create these eight hiding places. He didn't have time to dig them out, but in the end they all took advantage of Yang Jing.

There are a lot of treasures buried in the ground of two churches in the eight places. Does that mean that these two churches were not the only ones where the little devil buried treasures? Maybe in Manila, Batangas, Davao, Cebu, etc. There are also a lot of treasures buried in the underground of some churches in the city? Well, this possibility is actually very high. Then, do you want to wait until you have the opportunity to go to those churches in big cities to take a look?

Yang Jing stroked his chin and thought, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly

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