After Tong Lele let out a scream, she stood at the end of the bed in shock, covering her chest with one hand and breathing heavily.
Dong Qiangqiang climbed up from the ground and walked to Tong Lele's side in two steps.
Lei Lanting stared at the bedside, pointing with his finger and shouting: "Look there!"
Above the headboard, a hidden grid the size of four bricks was exposed. A golden rope hung from the dark grid, and a dark golden square metal ring was tied to the bottom of the rope.
"It turns out that the secret compartment is behind the headboard. No wonder we didn't find anything when we pulled the bed flat before. It's because it was blocked tightly." Lei Lanting patted the headboard approvingly, "It's awesome .”
"Stop boasting and call Mr. Mueller over quickly." Dong Qiangqiang ordered.
Not long after, Mueller strode in. Seeing the secret grid, he couldn't say a word.
"Pull that handle." Lei Lanting suggested.
Mueller took a breath, stepped forward quickly, grabbed the metal ring with his hand, and pulled it down hard.
Several people in the room were excited and nervous looking forward to the next mechanism, but there was no movement at all.
Mueller pulled the metal ring down a few more times, but there was still no change in the room.
"Bad?" Lei Lanting glanced at Dong Qiangqiang suspiciously. Before Dong Qiangqiang could speak, he heard a sudden "click" sound in the corridor, which seemed to be the sound of something moving.
The four people heard the sound and rushed out of the room. They saw that the European-style floor clock at the end of the corridor moved dozens of centimeters to the right. A dark hole immediately appeared on the wall behind it. The hole was about tens of centimeters wide and about one meter wide. Left and right high.
Standing in the corridor, everyone seemed to feel the cold wind blowing from the cave. Tong Lele couldn't help but stand behind Dong Qiangqiang. Lei Lanting found a flashlight and shined it up, down, left and right into the cave.
"I thought this grandfather clock was suspicious from the beginning. Sure enough, there is something fishy behind it." Lei Lanting sighed as he took the photo, "It's too dark and I can't see anything clearly."
"We moved it just now, but it was too heavy to move." Dong Qiangqiang said with emotion.
"Mueller, do you have any impression of this?" Lei Lanting asked curiously.
Mueller dug at the hole with his hand and said softly: "This may be from the war period. I have no impression at all."
Lei Lanting patted him on the shoulder: "It doesn't matter when you left it, let's go in quickly and get the gold bricks."
Tong Lele said sarcastically: "Three words, don't leave money, it's just a Leirangtai."
Just when Lei Lanting was about to refute her, he saw Mueller duck into the hole. He quickly followed in: "Hey, wait for me."
When Dong Qiangqiang saw them both getting in, he also ducked down. Just as he was about to get in, Tong Lele pulled him from behind: "Don't go. Just have them."
"I also want to see it, what if, what if there really is a gold brick?" Dong Qiangqiang joked, he could see Tong Lele's nervousness.
"I don't want to go in." Tong Lele said softly, "I'm too tired."
Dong Qiangqiang looked around and saw a tool hammer on the wooden cabinet next to him. He handed the hammer into Tong Lele's hand: "You use this to defend yourself. We will be back soon."
Just as Tong Lele was about to persuade him a few more words, she heard Mueller's scream coming from the cave. The two of them were startled at the same time. Before they could react, they heard another scream from Lei Lanting coming from the cave, Moreover, Lei Lanting's cry felt even more frightening.
Dong Qiangqiang turned around and got into the hole without thinking too much. Tong Lele shouted behind him: "You should hold the hammer, right?"
No one answered her, only the cold wind blew out of the cave and messed up her hair.
Tong Lele's legs softened and she sat on the floor.
As soon as Dong Qiangqiang entered the cave, he felt that it was dark inside and he couldn't see anything.
He immediately stopped and stood motionless. After a few minutes, his eyes gradually adjusted to the dark light in the cave. Only then did he realize that although the entrance to the cave was small, the inside of the cave was very high, and even his height did not touch the top.
He did not dare to walk too fast. He touched the wall next to him and walked forward slowly while shouting: "Lei Lanting, Mr. Mueller, where are you?"
No one answered.
Suddenly, he saw what seemed to be a hazy dark light on the ground in front of him.
While calling their names, he walked towards the dark light. He could feel that his hands were no longer touching stone, but cold wood, and the stone slabs under his feet had turned into wooden boards.
He was getting closer and closer to the light. When he was tens of centimeters away from the light, his feet suddenly became empty and his whole body instantly fell into the floor.
He reflexively reached out to grab the nearest thing beside him, but everything he could reach was made of smooth plastic, and there was no place to grab or use his strength. His body hit the plastic and spun downward.
Dong Qiangqiang immediately found that he fell into a slide. At the same time, he guessed that this was where Mueller and Lei Lanting fell, and he should be able to see them right away.
Thinking of this, Dong Qiangqiang immediately stretched out his arms and legs, supported himself on the inner wall of the slide tube as much as possible, and tried to slow down himself, but the tube wall was smoother than he thought, and the deceleration effect did not seem to be great.
Just as he was about to adjust his posture, he felt his eyes light up, and the person flew out of the tube diagonally, hitting something with a "bang".
Before he could cry out that it hurt, he heard a familiar voice beside him howl like a pig: "Ah, it hurts me so much!"
The light was very dark, and Dong Qiangqiang couldn't see clearly where Lei Lanting was. He reluctantly asked, "Are you okay? Where is Mr. Mueller?"
"He's fine. He's lying down." Lei Lanting groaned and said, "I have something to do."
"Where did you fall?" Dong Qiangqiang lay on the ground and asked with concern, "Does it hurt?"
"It didn't hurt when I fell, but it hurt when I hit you. Ouch, it hurts me to death." Lei Lanting became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke.
"You should be fine if you still have the energy to shout." Dong Qiangqiang turned over and lay on his back on the ground, looking at the exit of the slide on the ceiling above his head, adjusting his breathing and observing the surrounding situation.
This seemed to be a secret room with four walls. There was a large wooden box in the corner of the secret room. Next to the wooden box sat Mueller, who was breathing heavily. It seemed that he had also fallen hard.
Dong Qiangqiang stood up slowly while holding on to the wall next to him, and at the same time tried to move his arms and feet. Maybe because the collision with Lei Lanting had a certain buffering effect, he was fine after a little movement.
He helped Lei Lanting up and checked him. Seeing that he was not injured, he walked towards Mr. Mueller again.
Mueller had a scratch on his head and blood stains on his shirt. Dong Qiangqiang squatted down: "Are you okay, Mr. Mueller?"
Mueller nodded, supported the wooden box, and stood up unsteadily. Dong Qiangqiang quickly supported him. He took a deep breath and used both hands to lift the lid of the wooden box, but the wooden box lid seemed to be very heavy. Dong Qiangqiang and Lei Lanting saw this and quickly joined hands. The three of them pushed hard at the same time, and the wooden box lid was lifted with a "bang" sound. After opening it, the dust on the cover immediately flew into the air.
I saw beige cartons of different sizes stacked all over the wooden box. The cartons all looked shabby.
Dong Qiangqiang glanced at Lei Lanting. Lei Lanting stuck out his tongue and turned on the flashlight. The flashlight emitted a soft yellow light and shone on the several cardboard boxes in front of them.
Muller excitedly opened the nearest cardboard box with trembling hands. The moment the lid of the box was opened, Lei Lanting couldn't help shouting: "Gold Bricks?!"
But what was in the box was not gold bricks or money, but a pile of yellow and curled photos. Mueller reached out and picked up a few of them.
He saw a photo of his parents holding him as a child. In the photo, he was smiling, running, and eating. His sister was dancing beside him, his father was making faces, and his mother was jumping high to touch the balloon above her head. The whole family was like a family. Looks so happy.
He rubbed the person in the photo with his hand, and his eyes turned slightly red. After a long time, he put down the photo and opened a paper box next to it.
To Lei Lanting's dismay, the carton contained not gold or money, but stacks of envelopes, which seemed to be letters from the Mueller family.
Lei Lanting cursed in frustration: "It's a fucking waste of time." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to open another carton.
Dong Qiangqiang quickly stopped him: "Forget it, keep these cartons for Mr. Mueller to see by himself. Let's go to the side and figure out a solution."
"Find a way?" Lei Lanting heard Monk Zhang Er scratching his head. "Old Muller didn't even leave a single gold brick. What can you think of? Can you still conjure it up?"
"Do you still want gold?" Dong Qiangqiang pointed around, "Look at this room. I don't know what to do. Can you get out?"
Lei Lanting looked at the airtight walls around him, then looked up at the exit of the slide above his head, and said disapprovingly: "Then just go back the way you came."
"Return the same way?" Dong Qiangqiang pointed to the top of his head, "Can you reach it? Even if you can reach the entrance of the cave, the wall of the tube is so slippery, can you climb up?"
"How will you know if you don't try?" Lei Lanting waved his hand and motioned Dong Qiangqiang to squat down, "Come and try on my back."
Lei Lanting's body sank, and Dong Qiangqiang stood up swayingly. Lei Lanting exerted enough force, and his fingertips just touched the exit of the slide: "Hey, old Dong, you are still pushing your toes as hard as you can, there is still a long way to go."
"I'm still on tiptoe?" Dong Qiangqiang's nose almost turned crooked with anger, "Do you want me to take a flight?"
The two were bickering when Muller shouted in surprise: "Money! A lot of money!"
Just as Dong Qiangqiang was about to turn around and look, he heard Lei Lanting shouting from his shoulder: "Don't move!"
Dong Qiangqiang was stunned: "Why don't you move?"
Lei Lanting shouted anxiously: "I told him not to move, please put me down quickly."
Nearly twenty paper boxes were filled with German marks of various denominations, as well as some large-denomination banknotes from unknown countries that Dong Qiangqiang and Lei Lanting had never seen before.
The three people's eyes widened.
Looking at the colorful banknotes, Lei Lanting pinched his arm and murmured: "I'm not dreaming, am I?"
Dong Qiangqiang also pinched Lei Lanting's arm and said firmly: "You are not dreaming! Congratulations on finding the Mueller family's treasure!"
