Everyone walked into the warehouse expectantly, but the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. The warehouse was filled with gunpowder barrels, just like the ones above. Ian and the others broke the barrels with sledge hammers and opened them to take a look.
"Damn it, it's all gunpowder." Ian broke several barrels in a row and finally poured out all the gunpowder in the barrels, but there was still nothing inside.
William didn't care about the barrels. After he came in, he scanned the warehouse with his psychic power and knew that there was no treasure in the warehouse.
He was relieved. Everything was similar to what he remembered. It seemed that nothing unexpected had happened.
Just as he was about to go back to the surface, he heard Ben Gaetz say, "Why did the captain hold this gunpowder barrel before he died? There must be something wrong with it."
Then Ben Gaetz took the small gunpowder barrel from the dead captain's hand. After he broke it, he found a box wrapped in grease cloth.
Gaetz said to everyone, "Guys, look what I found!"
Ian and the others turned to look at the box in Gaetz's hand happily, while William smiled and stood aside with his arms crossed.
The box was made of wood, and there were some copper carvings on it. Gaetz opened the box and saw a milky white pipe inside.
Riley looked at the pipe in Ben Gaetz's hand and asked anxiously, "How much is this worth? Is it worth 100,000 dollars? "
Ian looked helplessly at Riley, who was an idiot. He took the pipe in Ben Gaetz's hand and looked at it with a smile. He said, "This is a pipe made of sepiolite. It's very well preserved and the style is very beautiful. It can be sold for a good price if you meet someone who likes it."
Hearing Ian's words, Riley asked excitedly, "What is sepiolite? Look at how happy you are. Is it worth one million dollars? "
Ben Gaetz was speechless. He said, "God, why don't you understand what Ian said? Man, if it was really worth 100,000 dollars, Ian would have told you. It's not made of gems. It's worth tens of thousands of dollars at most."
William looked at the pipe in Ian's hand. It was as beautiful as Ian had said. He asked curiously, "Can I see it?"
Ian examined it carefully a few times and found no clues. He said, "This pipe is estimated to be 300 years old. Although it is not made of precious stones, the carving is still very good. It would be best to give it to an elder who smokes."
After saying that, he handed the pipe to William with a smile. He felt that if a tycoon like William took a fancy to it, it might sell for a good price. A small amount of money was still money, and it could make up for his loss.
William took it and pretended to check it carefully. He smiled and said to Ian, "How about $50,000? I do have an elder who smokes."
When Ian heard that William had really made a bid and told him that it was a gift for an elder, he thought that it was time to rip William off. He immediately said, "100,000 yuan. This is an antique with 300 years of history. There aren't many that are so well-preserved."
William rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Then you should take it back. I can buy an antique pipe with 100,000 yuan."
When Ian saw that William had directly returned the pipe, he hesitated and said, "80,000 yuan. I think that's a reasonable price."
William was overjoyed. He pretended to look at Ian helplessly and shook his head. "Okay, I'll give it to you for 20,000 yuan. It'll be a souvenir."
Seeing that the transaction was about to be completed, Ben Gaetz hurriedly said, "Wait, Ian, I remember now. In my memory, this pipe is the only one that has been preserved so well. If it's auctioned, it might sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Look carefully, the wooden handle of the pipe has a mark. It might have been used by a famous person."
While William was looking at the wooden handle, he snatched the tobacco pipe from William's hand and twisted the handle with both hands, unscrewing the handle.
When Riley saw this, he immediately shouted, "It's over, Ben. You'll have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars."
William realized that Ben Gaetz's words were just to distract him so that he could snatch the pipe from him.
He sneered in his heart. If you want to die, I'll fulfill your wish. He quietly took a few steps back and formed a few ice spikes behind his back. Just as he was about to shoot them at Ben Gaetz, he suddenly heard the mute System in his mind beep an alarm.
[Warning, warning. If the host kills a member of the Righteous Faction or a member of the Neutral Faction, the host's Will will be reduced by 10% for one month.]
William was very surprised that the System would appear at this time. He quickly dissipated the ice spikes behind his back.
The System had specifically marked the words "Threat", "Harm", and "Kill" in red. William quickly understood what the System meant.
This was to prevent William from deliberately killing the Virgin Mary and ordinary people. Of course, if it was someone who threatened his safety or wanted to harm him, William could do whatever he wanted with the others.
He thought about how none of the people he had killed in the past were Virgin Mary or ordinary people. This time, just as he was about to kill Ben Gaetz, the System gave him a warning.
Fine, since the System didn't want him to kill ordinary people, he would use them as scapegoats. When they stole the Declaration, he would destroy it and there would be no future trouble.
No one thought that they had just walked through the gates of hell. Their minds were all focused on the pipe in Ben Gaetz's hand. Ben Gaetz said confidently, "Don't worry, Ian. With this, we'll be one step closer to the treasure."
After that, he wiped the handle of the pipe with gunpowder and asked for a notebook from Riley.
He took the pipe and rolled it on the notebook. The symbol of the Knights Templar appeared on the paper and a paragraph of words.
Everyone looked at Ben Gaetz in shock. They didn't think that there was such a secret in the pipe.
Ben Gaetz looked at the notebook and read to the words, "The legend has been written. The extraordinary influence has been produced. The code of silence has not appeared. Fifty-five people have written it. Mellock cannot harm it."
"This is a riddle. Let me think about it. I have to think about it carefully," Ben Gaetz said as he walked around clapping his hands.
William saw that everyone was looking at Ben Gaetz expectantly, waiting for his answer. Now, he was very unhappy and directly mocked William, "God, are you all idiots? Don't you understand? "
Hearing William's words, everyone looked at William in shock. However, when they thought about how William was a super genius mentioned in the newspaper, they felt that it was normal for William to be able to think of it so quickly, so they all looked at William.
"Idiot," William scolded again. "You can't even understand such a simple thing. Fifty-five people signed the Declaration of the Founding of the United States. The original name of the PS was the Declaration of the Founding of the United States.
In other words, this map was written on the back of the Declaration of the Founding of the United States by someone using an invisible potion. "
Hearing this, everyone suddenly understood. That's right, this was it. Only this declaration would be carefully preserved by people, and no one would dare to do anything to it.
However, this was troublesome. They couldn't just walk into the National Archives to check, and no one dared to believe that there was a secret agreement behind the declaration that they could experiment on it.
"Okay, we found the clue, but none of us can do anything about that declaration. It seems that we should break up. Guys, I don't want to provoke the United States for a throne that I don't know is real or fake.
If I have the time and energy, I might as well earn more in the stock market. However, if you have any ideas, give me a call and let me know. Good luck. "
What William needed to do now was to wait for them to steal the Declaration of the Founding of the United States.
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