??714: Chapter 706: Treasure
714: Chapter 706: Treasure
Antonio stood in front of the photo wall, but after glancing at it twice, he shook his head.
Then, after sniffing hard several tis, he whispered, “Believe , there’s nothing of value on this wall.”
Kesen squinted at Antonio and said loudly, “Did you find sothing?”
Antonio nodded and after sniffing vigorously again with his nose, he exclaid, “I sll US Dollars.
There must be money here, a lot of money!”
Gao Yang couldn’t help but laugh, “Man, your nose is really sothing.”
Ignoring Gao Yang, Antonio looked around the room and suddenly walked to the bed.
He lifted the sheets, checked that the big bed had a solid structure, then threw everything on the bed down and lifted the Simmons mattress.
He said in a deep voice, “Get this mattress outside.”
Frey and Glolov carried the Simmons mattress outside.
Once the mattress was lifted, there was a movable bed board underneath.
Antonio then pulled out a board, and imdiately beneath it, a tal plate was revealed.
“Aha, just as I suspected!”
On seeing the tal plate, Antonio shouted joyfully and then removed the remaining three large bed boards, revealing a huge safe.
The safe was enormous; it occupied the space of a two-ter by two-ter bed laid flat on the ground.
Looking at the huge safe, Gao Yang imdiately perked up, while Antonio lay on top of the safe, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath with abandon.
With a blissful expression, he said, “I love this feeling, it’s fantastic, truly nostalgic.
Trust
guys, this is stuffed entirely with crisp new green bills.”
However, Kesen showed no excitent.
He looked astonished and then quickly shook his head, saying, “This is the first ti I’ve encountered such a situation, being a cleaner and getting involved in a treasure hunt.”
Gao Yang coughed lightly and said, “Mr.
Kesen, it seems you’re not very happy?”
Kesen shrugged and replied, “Whatever we find, it’s yours.
What’s there for
to be happy about?”
Gao Yang and Glolov exchanged glances, then Gao Yang looked at Kesen and pointed at the safe, “Are you saying that everything found here has nothing to do with you?”
Kesen shrugged again, stating, “Of course, we do have professional ethics.
You guys knock off a guy, find so stuff in his house; it’s clearly yours.”
Gao Yang smiled, “I respect your professional ethics.
However, think of it this way: we open the safe and then use the money inside to pay your commission.
Would that make you feel a bit better?”
Kesen shook his head, “I don’t like cash, it’s too botherso, and too risky.”
anwhile, Antonio had been squatting in front of the safe for a while, completely ignoring the conversation between Gao Yang and Kesen.
Suddenly, he said, “This type of safe is quite common, often seen in the houses of the wealthy, but this type of combination lock is very rare.
Boss, take a look, this doesn’t seem like the type of combination lock that those wealthy folks would use at ho, right?”
Kesen moved to the combination lock, glanced at it briefly, and then exclaid loudly, “F**k, damn KGB, I hate these bastards!”
Antonio smacked his lips, “That’s correct, isn’t it?”
Kesen sighed, “Indeed, it’s correct.”
Kesen and Antonio were making gestures quietly when Gao Yang urgently said, “What are you talking about?
What’s with the safe?
Can’t it be opened?”
Kesen stood up, clapped his hands, and said, “The safe is common, but the combination lock is rare.
This type of lock, usually used for safes that hold important docunts, if you enter the wrong code, the contents inside will either burn to ashes or, more terrifyingly, it could explode!”
After saying this, Kesen sighed and added, “Trust , if those damn bastards from the KGB are using this type of lock, it’s not just going to burn the contents to ashes in case of a mistake.
Just one wrong code or if the safe is tampered with forcefully, then this safe will definitely beco a huge bomb.”
Gao Yang was stunned and Glolov awkwardly didn’t know what to say.
At that mont, Frey asked urgently, “What do we do then?
Can you guys open it?”
Antonio scratched his head, “We should be able to, but it’s very dangerous.”
Kesen shrugged, “There, you heard him.
It can be opened, but it’s dangerous.
Treasure hunting isn’t part of our job description, so, you understand, right?”
Gao Yang nodded, “I understand.
How do you want to split it?”
Kesen touched his chin, “If you’re willing to split it fifty-fifty, then I think the risk is worth taking.”
Gao Yang shook his head and said, “Considering the size of this safe, it could easily hold 10,000,000 US Dollars.
Splitting it in half doesn’t seem fair.
Here’s my proposal: we use the money inside to pay your commission.
If there’s any left over, we split it equally.
How does that sound?”
Kesen slapped his hand and then extended it to Gao Yang, saying, “Deal!”
As Gao Yang and Kesen shook hands, Gao suddenly said, “But what if there isn’t any self-destruct chanism in the safe at all?”
Kesen confidently said, “Then consider it a courtesy help.
Everything inside will be yours.”
After reaching an agreent with Kesen, Kesen seed rejuvenated.
He stood next to Antonio and loudly said, “Buddy, it’s half ours, what do you think?
Can you open it?”
Antonio stroked his chin, subconsciously nodded, and said, “It should be possible.
I need so ti.
If there were a password, that would be great.
I don’t know how many wrong entries trigger the self-destruct; it might be three, maybe ten, but it could also be just one wrong entry.”
Kesen said bitterly, “Trust , those damn KGB wouldn’t set it to just a few wrong tries.
Their style guarantees there’s only one chance, just one!
One wrong move, and it explodes!”
Gao Yang also leaned towards the digital keypad, which had a small LCD screen and nine nuric keys, unlike the more common dial-type combination locks for safes.
Staring at the keypad, Gao Yang said with a headache, “How on earth are we supposed to open this?”
Antonio said confidently, “If it’s a lock, it can be opened.
Definitely.”
After speaking, Antonio stood up and said to Kesen, “Boss, the tools I brought are too simple; I can’t open this lock with them.
I need to go ho for my tools.”
Kesen nodded and said, “Go get them.”
As Antonio turned to leave, Kesen sat on the safe, leisurely saying, “Alright, now we wait and witness the mont of surprise.”
Gao Yang also sat down and said, “That Antonio, he’s a professional at this, and he seems very familiar with you.
Is he also CIA?”
Kesen laughed and said, “I personally recruited him.
The guy is a xican who used to be a safe-cracker targeting the residences of wealthy people, and specifically those of drug lords in xico.
You know, only drug lords keep large amounts of cash at ho.
Later, we accidentally caught him, and I brought him from xico to Arica to join the CIA.
He specializes in cracking tough locks.
Let’s just say, although he’s a wild card, he’s much better than our previous lock specialists.”
Gao Yang couldn’t help but remark, “Your organization really does have a lot of talent.”
Kesen proudly smiled and said, “We thrive on skills, how could we not have talented people?
You are a second-tier client, so I can brag a bit to you.
If it were a lower-tier client, they wouldn’t even et .
But that also ans I have fewer chances to show off, ha ha.”
At that mont, Fleisching said excitedly, “Boss, I think maybe these photos are hiding the safe’s password.
Think about it, isn’t it done like that in the movies?
To prevent forgetting the password, they hide it in so seemingly obvious places.”
Gao Yang laughed and said, “That makes sense, let’s take a look.”
Glolov also stood in front of the photo wall with keen interest.
After a few glances, he loudly said, “Nothing special here, no numbers either.”
Fley said urgently, “Turn them over and look.”
Fley turned over a photo and imdiately shouted, “There are words!
June 26, 1978.”
Upon hearing this, Glolov also took down a photo, flipped it, and exclaid, “Mine too, it’s September 2, 1991!”
Gao Yang also took down a photo and said excitedly, “Indeed, they all have words.
Flip over all the photos and rember the order.”
Though excited, Gao Yang imdiately frowned and said, “No, no, if Dusselyev wanted to hide his money, why would he set such an obvious clue?
Even if he was worried about forgetting the password, he wouldn’t set such an easily discovered code.”
Kesen laughed heartily and said, “You’ve finally noticed?
Trust , if you input the numbers in order from the photos, that safe will definitely explode.
Everyone can see these photos don’t make sense.
If that dead guy were not an idiot, he definitely wouldn’t hide the password here.
In my opinion, he deliberately set up this photo wall to trick soone.”
After saying that, Kesen shrugged and said, “There might be one photo where the numbers on the back are the password, but we have no idea which one.
So even if the password is indeed hidden in these photos, they are aningless to us.”
Just then, Gao Yang’s breathing grew heavy.
He hadn’t carefully inspected the wall of photos initially, but now his eyes fixed on a large photo still hanging on the wall.
Hearing Kesen’s words, Gao Yang gasped and said, “No, you’re wrong.
This photo is very aningful, imnsely aningful to
personally!” (To be continued.
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