Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"I'll try to go up first, and you guys will come up later." Cao Gui said, judging from the degree of decay, it is better than other places.

"Cao, be careful." Gwen urged.

"rest assured."

Cao Gui stepped on his feet and jumped over. There was a bang, smoke and dust rose, and the wooden suspension bridge creaked and began to shake. The hearts of Gwen and the others rose to their throats.

But fortunately, although the suspension bridge was shaking, it was not damaged. Cao Gui squatted down to check, and found that the wood of this thing was different from the wood on the next stairs.

"Cao, are you okay?" Beth called out worriedly.

"Don't worry, it's fine." Cao Gui jumped up and down, but there was nothing but smoke and dust.

As he spoke, Cao Gui turned a turning handle on the side, and the suspension bridge slowly descended.

The three of Gwen showed worried expressions, and the pit was pitch black, except for the dim light of the flashlight that had been left at the bottom of the pit before, only Cao Gui's gradually diminishing figure.

Cao Gui stood on the suspension bridge and descended little by little, but when he was halfway down, he found that the length of the rope was not enough. He was still about 50 meters away from the bottom of the pit.

But on the wall of the pit in front of him, a small wooden bridge appeared, and on the other side of the wooden bridge was a room carved out of the pit wall.

"Cao, how is it now?" Harry asked in the headset.

"Uh... I found an empty room with nothing in it... Forget it, I'll go up and pick you up and we'll come down together."

As he said that, Cao Gui turned the handle upwards, went back to the top, and took the three of them into the empty room on the wall of the pit one by one.

Tie up the drawbridge, and let the last person walk into the pit wall room last time.

Looking at the one-centimeter-thick dust all over the floor, several people were confused for a while.

"Damn it! It won't be taken away in advance, right?" Harry said angrily.

Cao Gui frowned. Judging from the way they walked, Nicholas Zhao Si hadn't started the treasure hunt yet, that is to say, the treasure must still be there, but this place is empty...

"Look again, don't worry, Harry." Cao Gui said.

Hearing this, the three stopped talking and began to search for clues silently, but the atmosphere among the four began to become a little dull.

Cao Gui looked around and found that there were three or four rounded holes on the wall, similar to windows.

In this room, apart from an oil lamp, these things are the most eye-catching.

"Nothing." Beth kicked a stone on the ground and said a little discouraged. After working for two or three days, she got nothing.

"Cao, Beth, come quickly." At this moment, Gwen suddenly called out.

The three of them were taken aback, and ran over quickly: "Gwen, what did you find?"

"One eye is the all-seeing eye." Gwen said, she found an eye-shaped mural on the wall.

"What's the use of this...?" Beth was puzzled.

"Did you forget?" Gwen said: "Our first clue, that pipe, has an omniscient eye on it."

"Gwen is right." Cao Gui nodded in agreement, "Maybe there are clues here."

"Come on, let's find it!" Harry urged.

Cao Gui looked around and found a metal protrusion on the rock wall.

"Aha!" Cao Gui's eyes lit up immediately, "I seem to have found it!"

Cao Gui brushed away the dust on it, and the three of them took a closer look, and found that it was a relatively large cylindrical button.

"Quickly open it and have a look." Several people's faces were full of excitement. Fortunately, they did not give up.

Cao Gui suddenly pressed the button hard, and with a click, the rock wall painted with the Omniscient Eye trembled for a while, and then moved slowly after heating up, opening a gap.

"It seems that the treasure is here, guys." Cao Gui chuckled, and suddenly pushed open the stone door.

"Haha, we succeeded!"

Gwen and Beth hugged each other, bouncing and jumping, celebrating the victory ahead of time.

Harry's face was full of excitement, finally, his father could breathe a sigh of relief, and he didn't have to urgently rush about dangerous scientific research projects.

However, Cao Gui turned the flashlight to look inside, but his whole body froze, and the happy expression on his face froze in an instant.

The inside was the same as the outside, full of cobwebs, a few candlesticks were scattered on the ground, and a few chairs were eaten and rotted by bugs.

A sweeping view of nothing but dust, no anticipated treasure, no imaginary gold.

Nothing at all!

"Damn...Damn..." Harry's blushing face suddenly turned pale, and the feeling of falling from heaven to hell was too painful.

Not only Harry, but even Gwen and Beth turned pale.

The feeling of despair, hope again, and finally finding that it is still despair is too painful.

"Shet! What a waste of work!"

Gwen's face flashed with anger, and he kicked the chair with a bang, the chair was kicked to send sawdust flying, and a large pile of powder eaten by bugs flew up immediately.

Faced with such a huge gap, Gwen, a lady, couldn't help losing her composure.

Cao Gui is frowning, this shouldn't be, I clearly remember that the treasure in the original book is real, Zhao Si hasn't come yet, it's impossible for someone to get there first.

"Cao, let's go back." Beth said, "I won't look for it anymore, it has already been taken away."

"Guys, listen to me!" Cao Gui said in a deep voice, "The treasure is real!"

"Think about it, has anyone found any traces of clues in advance of our journey?" Cao Gui looked around and said in a vibrating voice:

"No!"

"No Declaration of Independence, no letter from Sirence Dugood, no glasses hidden in a brick!"

"So, the treasure is real!"

"Just now we thought it was the end, but we found this secret room through hard work. If this is the case, let's continue to work hard, and maybe we can find another secret room!"

Cao Gui's words were resounding, which somewhat restored their confidence.

The three of them looked at each other, and decided to look for it again. After all...they have come, so they can't leave empty-handed, right?

"And...have you noticed that there are many torches here." Cao Gui said in a deep voice.

"So?" Beth asked.

"So this requires a lot of oxygen to ensure combustion." Gwen's eyes lit up, and he said quickly:

"We have been using flashlights along the way, but we can see torches everywhere, which shows that the builders have prepared lighting equipment for later generations."

"And oxygen for lighting!"

"So, there really is a second secret room!" Beth excitedly said.

Cao Gui chuckled, not bad, finally made them recover.

Seeing this, Cao Gui slowly searched in this secret room. Most of the clues to this treasure are related to the Declaration of Independence and the All-Seeing Eye. This place is not big, so it should be easy to find.

"Nothing, nothing." Harry shook his head and said in frustration.

Thanks to the experience just now, he also had the same idea as Cao Gui, but there is nothing here, no murals, no words, only walls and dust.

Cao Gui did not speak, but stood in front of the east wall, where several circular metal objects were inlaid, one of which was concave, and its shape... looked like a meerschaum pipe.

Cao Gui took down the pipe rod, carefully put the meerschaum pipe into it, and found that the meerschaum pipe fit perfectly.

"Cao...it can't be that simple, can it?" Harry leaned over and said worriedly.

"Should...not..." Cao Gui replied casually, inserted the pipe rod into a hole next to it, and turned it slowly.

Click!

There was a sudden sound on one side of the wall, a small stone door slowly opened, and at the same time a gust of wind blew, caused by the violent flow of air.

The four people's eyes lit up immediately, and they walked quickly into the stone gate.

As soon as they stepped through the stone gate, a burst of golden brilliance shone in front of their eyes. Several people took a closer look and saw that there was a space as big as a basketball court in front of them. There were a lot of gold coins, gold nuggets and statues made of gold scattered in it.

"Look, am I right?" Cao Gui grinned, "The treasure is real!"