In fact, this kind of mechanism and secret room, which were set up by secular means, had almost no secrets under the investigation of mental strength. Before Xia Ruofei entered the building, he had already used his mental strength to check it, so it was not surprising that he could find this treasure room.
For Old Gehrman, this was like a fairy tale.
This was because even he did not know that there was such a secret room hidden in the study that he often used.
This manor originally belonged to the Moore family. After they took it for themselves, they checked the inside and outside of the house and did find a secret room, but it was not on the first floor.
Therefore, when he saw that there was really a secret passage hidden here, he was shocked on one hand, but on the other hand, he was secretly relieved. Perhaps there were things left behind by the Moore family, but at least some of the treasures of the Gehrman family would not be discovered.
Although he knew that it would be difficult for him to survive today, even if he died, he did not want to give away the wealth that the Gehrman family had accumulated over several generations to this group of Huaxia people.
Xia Ruofei also noticed Old Gehrman's expression. He thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Mr. Gehrman, it seems that I have wronged you just now … You really don't know that there is a secret passage here!"
Old Gehrman snorted coldly and did not say anything.
Xia Ruofei still smiled and said, "I find it strange too! The exit of this secret passage is set so high up, it's not convenient for you to go in and out with your old arms and legs! How could there be such an inhumane design? "
Lv Zhengfeng, who was on the side, could not wait and said, "Sir, it doesn't matter whether this old guy knows about this secret passage or not. There must be treasures in such a secret place! Let's go in and take a look first! "
Xia Ruofei waved his hand, indicating that he should not be impatient.
Then, Xia Ruofei continued to smile and said to Old Gehrman, "Mr. Gehrman, I forgot to tell you that this secret passage leads to a room on the second floor. The layout of that room is very interesting. It's hidden in the middle of many rooms. Through an ingenious spatial illusion, it makes people unable to feel that there's a place that's been isolated into a secret room …"
The more Old Gehrman listened, the more he felt that something was amiss. An ominous feeling rose in his heart.
Xia Ruofei chuckled and said, "By the way, if I'm not wrong, there are two exits from the hidden room. One is here, and the other …"
He deliberately paused for a few seconds, then smiled and said, "The other one is behind the big bed in the master bedroom on the second floor! The heavy bed was the same as the two bookshelves. It was designed with a guide rail. After activating the mechanism, it could be easily moved away, revealing the door to the secret room. What do you think? Doesn't it sound familiar? "
Old Gehrman's eyes widened. Xia Ruofei's smile was like a devil's smile, making him shudder.
How could he not be familiar with it? That was his treasure room on the second floor!
When he first entered the Moore Manor, the steward of the Moore Family told him about this treasure room in order to save his life. At that time, there were still many treasures of the Moore Family hidden inside. Of course, they all became his spoils of war.
Old Gehrman liked this secret room very much. After taking the Moore Family's treasures for himself, he also put the treasures that his family had collected for so many years in there.
In the dead of night, he would often go to the secret room to admire the past. Some of the treasures were even from the Middle Ages. Every one of them fascinated him.
The steward of the Moore Family, who wanted to save his life, naturally shut his mouth forever.
Perhaps the steward didn't have time to tell him about the second entrance, or maybe he wanted to keep a secret. In any case, even Old Gehrman didn't know about the secret passage in the study on the first floor.
Old Gehrman thought that after the death of the steward, no one would know about the secret of the secret room. He didn't expect this devilish man from Huaxia to be able to find a secret passage that even he didn't know about.
When he thought about the wealth accumulated by generations of people in the secret room upstairs, Old Gehrman's heart felt like it was being stabbed by a knife. He was like a crazy beast, roaring and struggling violently.
The brothers of the Hong Sect who were in charge of guarding him didn't react in time and were directly overturned by the old man.
However, Old Gehrman had been tied up and was like a cornered beast. Soon, he was pressed to the ground by the brothers of the Hong Sect who rushed up.
Xia Ruofei looked at Old Gehrman whose eyes were red. He didn't have any sympathy at all.
Those who killed would be killed by others.
According to Xia Ruofei's understanding of the situation from Lui Hai, the wronged souls who died directly or indirectly in Old Gehrman's hands could fill up this huge manor. Therefore, this miserable old man didn't deserve any sympathy at all.
"Let's go! Take Mr. Gehrman, let's visit the treasure room! "Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
He walked straight to the front of the wall and reached out his hand to pull at the hole above his head. An elaborate ladder hung down. Obviously, this was also designed beforehand.
Xia Ruofei took the lead to climb up the ladder, followed by Lv Zhengfeng and Lui Hai. As for the other brothers of the Hong Sect, they didn't follow them but stayed in the study to guard Old Gehrman.
Because her brother Rossi couldn't move freely, Monica chose to stay with Rossi even though she also wanted to watch the fun.
Different from the general design of the secret passage, the entrance of this one was about two meters high. After entering the secret passage, there was a flight of stairs all the way up. It was an anti-human design. No one knew what the Moore Family was thinking at that time.
Xia Ruofei and the other two walked up a dozen steps along the secret passage. After pushing open a door, they entered a room.
This room was not big, only about a dozen square meters.
However, a space of three or four meters in length and width was separated from the other rooms, which couldn't be noticed from the outside. Actually, the design was very delicate.
There were only two hidden doors and no windows in the room. Therefore, it was pitch-dark when they came in.
However, Xia Ruofei's eyesight was much better than ordinary people. Just as Lv Zhengfeng and Lui Hai were about to turn on the lighting function of their mobile phones, he had already found a drawstring switch on the wall.
Xia Ruofei walked over and pulled it gently. A chandelier hanging down from the middle of the ceiling lit up at once.
After a short period of adaptation, Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng finally saw the whole room clearly. However, they still couldn't help rubbing their eyes, as if they couldn't believe what they saw.
There were oil paintings on the four walls. The two uncouth men didn't know the value of those paintings, so they didn't talk about them for the time being. There were also two rows of shelves full of different kinds of antiques. They didn't even talk about them. Just the large chests in the room were enough to make the two men stare.
These boxes were piled up in a corner of the room, stacked on top of each other. Roughly counting, there were at least twenty to thirty boxes.
The lids of the two chests at the top were still open. Inside the chests were glittering gold coins.
The only thing missing was a flag with a skull in the middle of the gold coins. Otherwise, it would be the pirate's treasure in the movies!
Lui Hai had stayed in Europe for many years, so he had a good eyesight. He picked up a handful of gold coins and looked carefully, exclaiming, "It's Byzantine gold coins … there are so many of them!"
Byzantine gold coins were called "Dollars of the Middle Ages". It was a universal currency in that era, so its circulation was naturally large.
If the twenty or thirty boxes were all filled with this kind of gold coins, even if the collection value wasn't high due to the large quantity, the value of the gold alone was immeasurable.
Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng's breathing became rapid. In contrast, Xia Ruofei was much calmer. With the improvement of his cultivation, he was indifferent to worldly wealth. Instead, he was very interested in the exquisite antiques on the two rows of shelves and the oil paintings on the wall, appreciating them with great interest.
"Mr. Xia, what … what should we do with these gold coins?" Lui Hai asked.
Xia Ruofei said casually, "Do as you see fit! These are your trophies! "
"That's not possible!" Lui Hai hurriedly said, "It's all thanks to you that we could kill the Gehrman Family this time. We're just assistants. We can't accept these things!"
Loyalty was the most important thing in the Hong Sect. Those who were greedy for money would be despised by others. Besides, Xia Ruofei's identity was not ordinary and his ability was beyond their imagination. No matter how valuable these gold coins were, they didn't dare to covet them.
Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "Let's count them first! We don't know if there are gold coins in those boxes! What's more, it's not the time to decline. We have to carry these things back first! "
"Yes!" Lui Hai also felt that Xia Ruofei was right. Although the Gehrman Family was no longer a threat to them, it was hard to say whether the old Gehrman Family had asked for help from the Glory Society or whether the police of Turin would come. Therefore, they shouldn't stay in this place for long. They had to carry these things back to their own base camp.
Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng immediately counted these boxes.
Of course, it was impossible for them to count the gold coins one by one. They could only open each box and confirm the contents so that they had a rough idea of what was inside.
Meanwhile, Lv Zhengfeng called some of his most trusted brothers to arrange a van downstairs and let them carry the things in the secret room.
The boxes were opened and closed one by one.
Gold coins, gold coins … the boxes full of gold coins were visually shocking.
After opening a dozen boxes, they were all gold coins from the Byzantine period.
When there were only about ten boxes left, he opened them again and found that they were all filled with Euros.
No matter how indifferent Xia Ruofei was to fame and fortune, he couldn't be numb to the boxes of gold and Euros.
He couldn't help but say, "Does this guy like the feeling of being a nouveau riche? Why does he hide so much cash at home? "
Judging from the size of the box, if there were ten boxes full of such large amounts of cash, there would be hundreds of millions of Euros.
Lui Hai said with a smile, "I can understand … these Mafia Families have a lot of money that can't be exposed. Although their money laundering channels are very developed, it's normal to store some unlaundered cash at home!"
Unlaundered cash was tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Euros? This was just a small Mafia Family. Xia Ruofei couldn't help being shocked.
Lv Zhengfeng's brothers were still waiting outside — He had to check all the boxes with Lui Hai before moving them out. Although these brothers could be trusted, it was better not to let them see the things in the boxes.
One box, another box, another box … ten boxes were opened consecutively, all of which were full of Euros.
Finally, there was only one box left.
This box was placed in the corner, under the previous boxes. It was exposed after all the boxes were moved away.
Lv Zhengfeng was already numb to gold and Euros. He opened the box as usual and couldn't help exclaiming, "It's not money …"
Xia Ruofei also took a look and couldn't help laughing, "Although it's not Euros or gold coins, it seems to be more valuable!"
There were pearls, diamonds, agates and gems of various colors inside. Although there was only half a box, it was obviously more valuable than a box of Euros.
Lui Hai said, "Zhengfeng, close the box! Ask our brothers to move it! By the way, ask them to bring in more boxes and take away all the antiques and oil paintings! "
"OK!" Lv Zhengfeng said.
Just as he was about to close the box, Xia Ruofei suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"
Lv Zhengfeng stopped his actions with some doubt. He looked at Xia Ruofei and asked, "Is there a problem, Mr. Xia?"
Xia Ruofei walked to the front of the box and reached out to remove the surface of the pearl agate. Suddenly, a gray box was revealed.
"There's a box here?" Lv Zhengfeng was also surprised, "I didn't notice it just now …"
"Mr. Xia, open it!" Lui Hai said with a smile, "It's stored in a box together with the jewelry, it must be valuable!"
Xia Ruofei nodded. He just glanced at it and saw the box through the gaps of the jewelry, feeling curious.
He tried to probe it with his spiritual power and found it couldn't penetrate the surface of the box. Then he stopped Lv Zhengfeng.
"You guys stand further away. What if there's some sort of mechanism here …" Xia Ruofei said.
He wasn't kidding. The material of the box couldn't be penetrated by his spiritual power. Obviously, it wasn't ordinary.
Some mechanisms in the secular world were not a big threat to him, but it was different if it came from the cultivation world.
Maybe he could avoid the possible threat with his Genuine Qi protection and sensitive nerve reaction, but Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng couldn't escape.
Seeing Xia Ruofei's serious tone, Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng hurriedly stepped back.
"Forget it, for safety's sake, you'd better retreat to that passage!" Xia Ruofei said.
Although they felt it was making a fuss, they still executed Xia Ruofei's order without hesitation.
Seeing Lui Hai and Lv Zhengfeng retreat outside the room, he secretly operated his Genuine Qi to protect his vital parts. Then he concentrated and slowly opened the box …
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