Chapter 149 Gold Mountain

At night, outside the solemn-looking Padmanabhaswamy Temple, several people in dark clothes carrying various equipment slowly approached the temple.

In order not to attract attention, they first wandered around the temple at random, and after confirming that no believers had come late at night, they gathered outside the temple again.

This ancient temple called Padmanabhaswamy Temple actually has its own garrison for the first time. This also increases the difficulty of exploring the internal structure of the ancient temple. The personnel involved in the operation must not only try to understand the structure and construction layout of the temple, find the most likely place to bury the treasure, but also pay attention to the patrol of the garrison inside the temple.

Once discovered, there is only one last way left, that is, to attack the ancient temple by force and plunder the ancient temple before the British colonial government reacts.

But if this is done, regardless of whether there is treasure inside the ancient temple, the task of digging for treasure will be over.

If it is confirmed that there is treasure inside the temple, then the next treasure digging plan must be very cautious. Because there is not only one ancient temple in the vast India, there are many ancient temples scattered all over the country.

Even if not all temples have rich treasures, there are always some temples that have buried treasures from hundreds or even hundreds of years ago.

If more can be dug, perhaps the debts owed by the Spanish government can be almost paid off.

Although the temple has its own garrison, these are obviously formed by the temple itself, and compared with the elite soldiers carefully selected by the Spanish government, they are not worth mentioning at all.

After simply calculating the time of each patrol of these patrolling monks, taking advantage of their patrol time, several agile action personnel quickly slipped into the temple in the dark.

This temple has a very long history and covers a very large area. It is called a temple, but it is not just a simple temple, but a huge complex of buildings connected by multiple buildings.

It is precisely because of the large area of ​​the temple that it is convenient for the action personnel to hide. However, after searching most of the temple, the action personnel still did not find a place where the treasure might be buried.

Most of the temple's buildings are open to the public, and believers from outside often come to worship and visit. It is basically impossible to bury treasures in these places. If there are any, they would have been known to these Indian civilians and then spread to the British.

The British have not found the treasure inside the temple until now, which also proves that if there are treasures, they must be hidden in those places where few people go, that is, the innermost part of the temple.

Sure enough, after a careful search, several operators finally found a very dilapidated building in the innermost part of the temple.

Compared with the buildings outside, this more dilapidated building obviously has a longer history. The buildings outside have more or less traces of renovation, but this dilapidated building not only has no traces of renovation, but it is even obvious that few people come.

The front of the building is full of weeds, and it looks like an abandoned house in the wild.

But if it is placed inside the huge temple, it looks a bit weird. The entire temple is not only large in area, but also very magnificent.

This also shows the influence of religion in India. While most Indian civilians are hungry and barely survive, these temples are all built in a magnificent manner. The contrast makes people think deeply.

"Damn it, it should be this." Scotty and Val were successfully selected into the action team to explore the temple because of their agility.

Seeing the dilapidated building in front of him, which was very conspicuous in the magnificent temple, Scotty stopped and looked at Val beside him.

"We may really find the treasure of the temple." Val also nodded, obviously suspicious of this building: "Let's go, let's go in and take a look."

Because it is located in the innermost part of the temple complex, and because few people come here, it is convenient for the action team to investigate this dilapidated building.

After going around the front of the building, everyone immediately found something even more wrong.

Although the entire temple complex has its own garrison, the overall garrison is not much. The patrol team only has more than 20 people in total, and they only patrol the periphery of the temple. There is no patrol force inside the building complex.

But in this obviously dilapidated building, there are actually several monks standing guard at the door. If this is really just an ordinary dilapidated building, why would someone stand guard here?

These few people standing guard have proved the specialness of this building, and also made everyone in the action team immediately firm up their original idea, that is, the temple treasure is very likely to be inside this building.

In order not to alert the enemy, after exploring the entire temple complex and determining where the treasure is buried, the few people exploring the temple looked at each other, and then chose to retreat very tacitly.

The treasure is not something that they can move, and the plan to dig for the treasure requires all the action personnel to go out together.

In addition, the monks and garrison forces inside the temple also need to be dealt with, so that they can dig for the treasure unscrupulously.

In addition, some forces need to be reserved to deal with the believers who come to worship. If a large number of Indians are attracted to watch, even if the treasure is dug, it is impossible to take it out of India in public.

It may be cruel for Indians, but there is no way. In fact, there are legendary treasures in the temple here?

In order not to alert the enemy and attract the attention of the British colonial government, all Indians who approach the temple will not be able to get out alive.

This treasure excavation operation is not that simple. In order to ensure that all operators can return to Spain safely, traps have been set for the British in advance during the process of coming to India from Spain.

These operators basically have no Spanish characteristics, and they can only be distinguished as Europeans at a rough look. Some of them even look more like British and French, which is also one of the traps set by the operation team for the British.

In addition, all operators use English and French when communicating with local Indian villagers.

It doesn’t matter if Indians don’t understand English. After all, this is a British colony, and there must be Indians who can understand English.

The third trap is the evacuation route after the treasure is excavated. The operators will not evacuate directly to Spain, but will divide the treasure into several batches and go to the Philippines, Singapore and Australia respectively.

Then they will disguise themselves as merchant ships of different countries, and after winding around, they will stay in Spain for a short time, and then sail to different countries.

Under the confusion of the three major traps, it is impossible for the British to find sufficient evidence to indicate that the forces digging for treasures come from Spain.

As long as there is no sufficient evidence, even if the British know that it is the Spaniards who did it, they will have no way.

After all, sufficient evidence is needed at the diplomatic level to accuse a country. If the British do not have enough evidence, even if they accuse the Spanish government, the Spanish government will not panic at all.

Unless the British are willing to fight the Spanish government, this accusation without actual evidence will not have any impact on the Spanish government.

These operators who sneaked in returned along the original route and gathered with the large army.

After determining the specific location of the treasure, the next action is actually very simple.

All the action personnel were divided into two parts. The main force entered the temple to dig for treasures and used the transportation tools that had been prepared to transfer to other places.

The remaining small group stayed outside the temple to deal with the Indians who came to the temple, buying more time for the action team inside the temple.

In order not to attract the attention of the Indians and the British colonial government, the treasure digging time was only 24 hours at most. After more than 24 hours, regardless of whether the treasures were all moved, the action personnel could not stay in the temple.

It was still the dilapidated building and the guards who were about to fall asleep in front of the building.

The official action has begun, and the action personnel will not be polite to the guards and monks in these temples.

All the patrol teams encountered along the way were dealt with by the action personnel, and no one was left alive.

Taking advantage of the night, several action personnel quietly touched the back of the guards of the dilapidated building, and those guards who were about to fall asleep did not notice the action of the action personnel at all.

Taking out the dagger and gently wiping the neck, several guards fell down like soft bones.

Because the interior of the temple had been explored in advance, there was almost no defense force in the innermost part except these guards.

So after killing these guards, the operatives rushed into the dilapidated building to look for the so-called treasure.

The contrast was even greater. The exterior of the building was very dilapidated, and it even looked like it was about to collapse.

But when entering the interior of the building, the statues one after another seemed to be often taken care of, and there was basically no dust.     "Check separately, don't miss any clues. Report any findings immediately. I think we are not far from finding the treasure." The lieutenant colonel in charge ordered.

Everyone nodded slightly and began to disperse to look for traces of the treasure.

The soldiers from the army summoned by the government obviously had no experience, and could only carefully check every floor tile and every gap.

The intelligence personnel from the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau were obviously more experienced. They began to look for possible basement entrances and even various mechanisms.

Because according to common sense, it is impossible for treasure to be hidden on the ground. It is more likely to be buried underground or in a basement.

All you need to do is find the mechanism or entrance to the basement to find the buried place of the treasure. As for how to dig out the treasure, it is the job of these soldiers.

Although they cannot carry heavy weapons, they can still carry micro explosives. If they really cannot find the entrance to the treasure, they can only try to find the treasure by blowing up the building.

Anyway, the nearest city to the temple is several kilometers away. If they only use micro explosives, even if they can hear the sound of the explosion, the Indians will not be able to suspect the temple at the first time.

By the time they investigated the temple, the operatives had already dug out the treasure and fled.

Boom boom boom!

Suddenly, an intelligence officer found something wrong. Almost all the floor tiles around were solid, only this floor tile sounded hollow when knocked.

"Maybe it's here!" The intelligence officer whispered that he had found a clue.

Everyone gathered in an instant, and they all looked at the floor tile pointed by the person who spoke.

Dong Dong Dong!

The floor tile that sounded like it was hollow made everyone's eyes light up, and the lieutenant colonel in charge of the command also issued his own order: "Pry it open! The treasure is likely under this floor tile."

With the joint efforts of everyone, the floor tile was quickly pried open.

Under the floor tile was not soil, but a dark staircase leading directly to the bottom.

"Treasure! It's really a treasure!" Everyone was delighted, and everyone realized that the treasure was most likely buried underneath.

There are basically only two things buried underground, either a corpse or a treasure. If it is a tomb, there is no way anyone can guard it here.

Although the entrance to the treasure had been found, the lieutenant colonel did not rush to give orders, but threw two torches at the entrance first.

After waiting for about a minute and finding that the torches were not extinguished, he nodded and ordered: "Let two thinner soldiers go down first to see what is going on."

With an order, two soldiers with obviously thinner bodies slowly went down the stairs with torches.

As the two walked further and further, the bright flames of the torches became weaker and weaker.

After an unknown amount of time, the two slowly approached the stairs, wiped the sweat off their faces, and reported with joy: "Sir, there is a complete corridor below. One side leads to the statue in the building, and the other side is a deeper secret room.

However, these secret rooms have extremely thick stone doors, and no mechanism to open the door has been found yet."

In order not to reveal his identity, the lieutenant colonel in charge of commanding this operation ordered all the action personnel to call him and the deputy commander sent by the royal family as Sir, instead of any specific position or name.

The lieutenant colonel nodded, not caring about the stone door of the secret room.

If there is really no other good way to open the stone door, you can also choose to use blasting.

Although there are no electric drills in this era, hand drills can also play the role of electric drills, but it takes longer.

Just drill a deeper hole in the stone door and install micro explosives in the hole, and a stone door several tens of centimeters thick can be easily blown up.

Considering that the security is very likely to be buried underground, there are very likely to be a large number of stone doors in the secret room underground. So before the operation, the operation personnel carried enough hand drills and micro explosives.

After confirming that there is enough oxygen under the stairs, the lieutenant colonel took some people down the stairs to find a way to open the stone door.

After walking along the dark passage for a while, several secret rooms blocked by stone doors were found along the way.

"There are a total of 6 secret rooms. If all of them are the so-called temple treasures, I am afraid that our operation can be successfully completed this time." The lieutenant colonel smiled and nodded, very satisfied with the number of secret rooms below.

The good news is that the stone doors of these six secret rooms are all equipped with mechanisms. Perhaps the Indians never considered that such a secret room would be found by others. The switch of the stone door is right next to the stone door. Although it is not conspicuous, it is not secret either.

The two soldiers who came down to investigate the situation may not have found the switch next to the stone door because of excitement, but such a switch cannot be hidden from the eyes of the large army.

After returning to the door of the first secret room and gently pressing the stone door switch, only a click was heard, and then there was no other reaction.

The lieutenant colonel was stunned and tried to push the stone door, and was surprised to find that the stone door could be pushed.

Everyone immediately stepped forward and slowly pushed the stone door open. Under the illumination of the torch, the gold in the secret room shone with a golden color, illuminating everyone's eyes.

"Gold, it's gold!" All the operators were immediately excited, staring blankly at the piles of gold and gold products in front of them.

The commander, the lieutenant colonel, walked up quickly, picked up an ordinary gold ornament on the gold mountain, and after carefully identifying it, nodded and said, "It should be real gold. This is really a huge fortune."

Looking around, in addition to the very conspicuous gold mountain in the middle of the secret room, there is also a one-meter-tall elephant made of gold on the left, and a large number of gold and silver coins from different periods and several gold crowns inlaid with diamonds are piled on the right.

In some other corners, there are countless jewelry and other metals. The various gold and silver products are dazzling, as if you are in the kingdom of gold and silver.

"Oh my God! How rich are these Indians? I can't imagine it. If we can control India as a colony, we will definitely be able to build a navy like the Royal Fleet." Seeing the countless gold and silver treasures in front of him, the lieutenant colonel couldn't help but say.

The reason why Spain has not developed its navy is precisely because of its lack of financial resources. After losing its American colonies, Spain had a hard time just maintaining its existing military, not to mention the need to build new ironclad ships every year.

It was also because of insufficient finances that Spain had not built any ironclad ships in the nearly five years since the outbreak of the revolution in 1868.

Facing the gold mountain in front of him, the lieutenant colonel's eyes were not the countless wealth, but the magnificent Spanish warships.

"Be quick, don't miss any gold and silver products. The more wealth you move from here today, the more military expenditure the government will invest in the army tomorrow.

Also, I don't want anyone to be dishonest. When all these things are shipped back to the country, we will naturally get generous rewards.

But if someone thinks that he should have a share of these things, don't blame me for being rude."

What is in front of him is a real mountain of gold and silver. Even soldiers who are loyal to Spain cannot guarantee that they are clean.

In order to be on the safe side, the soldiers organized by the government and the intelligence personnel sent by the royal family will work together to ensure that they will not hide them secretly.

After all, it is not a big place, and with hundreds of people supervising each other, it can ensure that most of these treasures are safely transported back to Spain.

Even if someone can hide them privately, they can't hide much. Carlo and Prime Minister Primo don't intend to investigate further unless someone is too greedy.

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