Chapter 1290: Strange Secret Passage

Shi Lei smiled slightly and walked over in two steps. He saw a small dark hole under the bookshelf.

The hole was very narrow, and only one person could barely get in. Even then, he had to be of Shi Lei's stature. Like Andre, he would be stuck at the hole after putting his calf in.

Turning on the flashlight function of his mobile phone, Shi Lei shone it down.

The light from the flashlight function of the mobile phone was not strong, but it was enough for Shi Lei to see the ground, which meant that the ground of the secret passage was only about one meter away from the floor of the first floor.

Even so, Shi Lei was still not careless. He sat at the edge of the hole, put his legs down, and then supported his hands on the edge of the hole, slowly letting his feet land on the ground.

After stepping on the ground, Shi Lei did not squat down immediately, but kept his head outside the hole, carefully observing and listening. After confirming that there was no sound, he slowly squatted down and walked slowly forward in a squatting manner with the help of the light from the mobile phone flashlight.

The ground was obviously sloping downwards. After walking about four or five meters, Shi Lei could stand up straight in the secret passage.

But after arriving here, the ground in the secret passage became flat, no longer sloping downwards, and the space on both sides was much larger.

The secret passage was very dark, and Shi Lei could only move forward slowly with the weak light from his mobile phone.

There was a small turn in front of him. When Shi Lei passed the turn, he was surprised to find that there was a thin nylon line hanging on the wall at the turn, just like the pull-wire light switch he had seen when he was a child.

Suddenly, a sense of vigilance appeared in Shi Lei's heart.

According to Andre, this secret passage was built at least during the Napoleonic period, more than two hundred years ago. It was obviously impossible for a device like electric light to appear in that era.

Shi Lei carefully touched the nylon line, and he immediately confirmed that it was an electric light line.

After pulling it gently, the light came on...

Although he knew that this secret passage was definitely not the one Andre said, Shi Lei did not think much about it. He thought that this secret passage might have been dug by the ancestors of the former owner of the winery. After all, the nylon light cord has a history of at least several decades.

Just being more careful, Shi Lei turned the corner, and then he saw a safe that was half a person's height...

This time, he was more certain that no matter whether there was the secret passage Andre said in this castle, this secret passage must not be the one he said.

This is also a pitfall. There are actually two sets of mechanisms in such a small castle. The most important thing is that this mechanism is extremely sophisticated. If Shi Lei had not discovered the abnormality of the rocking chair and obtained the second card of mechanical application, he would not have been able to walk here so calmly.

However, this tunnel seems to have been dug by people only decades ago, so the exquisiteness of the mechanism seems to have been explained. Shi Lei has actually always been very curious about how the ancients more than 200 years ago could have made such an exquisite application of the magnetic field.

Mechanical applications are not only reflected in the exploration and destruction of mechanisms, but also in the profound understanding of almost all kinds of safes on this earth.

This safe is obviously a product from at least fifty or sixty years ago or even nearly a hundred years ago. Such an old product is completely mechanical, unlike the new safes nowadays, many of which are already connected to computers, so it is not so easy to crack.

Putting his ear on the safe, Shi Lei gently turned the password disk, which made a slight clicking sound, but with Shi Lei's current hearing ability, he heard more than just the clicking sound.

Without much effort, Shi Lei found all three sets of passwords and successfully opened the safe.

At the same time, Shi Lei also realized that his hearing ability, when attached to the target object and combined with bone conduction or object conduction, is no less effective than a stethoscope.

The door of the safe made a heavy squeak, and a lot of dust fell as it opened.

In the safe, Shi Lei saw a large amount of gold, and also saw a corner of the safe, where many cylindrical objects were piled up, which were relatively old painting tubes.

After a quick glance, Shi Lei knew that this was probably not the calligraphy and painting work in the task that Black Card gave him, because the number was wrong.

Black Card's task target was 23 pieces of calligraphy and painting, but here, there were as many as 35 painting tubes.

However, the large number may be due to the inaccurate information of Black Card. After all, it was at least 50 or 60 years ago, and it was normal for Black Card to make mistakes.

Shi Lei took out a painting tube, unscrewed it, and poured out the contents.

Spreading it out, it was indeed not any of the 23 calligraphy and paintings, but an oil painting.

In the lower right corner of the oil painting, Shi Lei saw the signature, which turned out to be Monet, an outstanding representative of European Impressionism.

Shi Lei opened the second painting tube again, and there was still an oil painting inside. Shi Lei looked directly at the signature, which was still Monet's work.

After opening all the painting tubes one after another, Shi Lei suddenly discovered that all the 35 painting tubes were filled with Impressionist works. It seems that this collector has a special liking for Impressionist works.

Among these thirty-five paintings, Shi Lei saw many familiar names.

Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, etc., all of them are the most outstanding representatives of French Impressionism.

Shi Lei frowned, this is too weird. It's okay if there is no task target he needs in the safe. After all, the probability calculated by the black card is only 23%. However, there is no Lafite wine king mentioned by Andre, which is obviously too abnormal.

Moreover, this secret passage was only excavated less than a hundred years ago, which is too far away from the more than 200 years ago mentioned by Andre.

If it is said that this is the secret passage excavated by the ancestors of the former owner of the winery, in order to treasure the Impressionist paintings they collected, as well as so much gold - Shi Lei roughly estimated that there are at least more than 300 kilograms of gold here. At the current gold price of about 300 yuan per gram, that is close to 100 million RMB, more than 15 million euros.

It's okay if the secret passage from 200 years ago can't be found. There is no reason for the original owner of this secret passage of less than 100 years not to tell his descendants.

Not to mention the paintings of these impressionist masters, the gold alone is enough for the owner of the winery to squander for several years. He has no need to sell his winery. And even if he sold it, it is impossible not to take these things away.

This means that the owner of the winery does not know the existence of these things at all, and Andre is even less aware of them.

Shi Lei felt more and more that there was a big problem here.

But for a moment, he could not think of where the problem was.

Still have to start with the castle and the winery itself.

Shi Lei looked at his mobile phone and found that there was a signal on the mobile phone. He immediately called Wei Bodhi.

"Can you locate my mobile phone?" Shi Lei asked directly.

Wei Bodhi also said concisely: "It can be located."

"I'm in a winery..."

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