Looking at the seven or eight gold bars that were the same size and exactly the same as the gold in his hand gathered at the bottom of the gap that was tens of thousands of meters deep and covered by thick silt, Liu Dong suddenly became excited.︽
His previous guess was correct, and gold indeed entered this crack.
Although Liu Dong didn't know how the gold at the bottom of the lake entered this 10,000-meter-deep crack, seeing the current situation, he was undoubtedly in the right direction.
"But which direction should we go next?"
Although this crack has reached the bottom, it is not the end. There are three huge bifurcated water channels connected to it.
Each waterway is more than two hundred meters long and wide, extremely huge, and the water volume is abundant, as if it is an underground river.
Liu Dong's eyes lit up after hesitating for a while as he looked at the three huge waterways, "It's really a pig's head. Isn't gold a clue? Whichever channel has gold, just follow that one!"
Having made his decision, Liu Dong quickly found a safe enough distance and chased through the rock formation along the huge water channel on the left.
However, Liu Dong soon realized that things were not as simple as he imagined.
These underground waterways are not three at all, but are like dense spider webs, with almost no head or tail. Liu Dong suspects that they are almost densely distributed at the bottom of Lake Baikal, and even become more dense as you go north!
And many times, the gold used as road signs will suddenly disappear, so Liu Dong has to search for gold in more waterways.
In addition, he had to carefully avoid waterways to prevent them from suddenly collapsing the hole he had dug. Therefore, it was very careful to search all the way. It was also extremely time-consuming!
In this endless search, Liu Dong has forgotten the time and even confused the direction! The desire in his heart drives him to keep moving forward like a machine.
"The waterway is raised!"
The sudden change in the waterway finally woke Liu Dong up from his already somewhat numb state.
During the exploration of the relic Yuanguang, the water channel that was originally just circling back and forth underground with a depth of 10,000 meters suddenly spurted upward.
And at this place where the terrain changed, Liu Dong also found several identical gold bricks in the sand at the bottom just like when he first searched along the cracks!
Liu Dong didn't think too much about how the gold that should theoretically appear in Lake Baikal appeared here? He was a bold man with a high level of skill, and he had a deep-rooted obsession with finding the long-awaited treasure of Nicholas II. There was no doubt that it would happen.
Hesitantly chased him along the upward waterway.
"found it!"
After spiraling upward for ** kilometers along this waterway, a rich golden light finally appeared within the scope of Liu Dong's relic Yuanguang!
But compared to gold, a sudden accident made his eyes widen in an instant.
"Damn, what kind of monster is that?"
After he 'saw' clearly the treasure of Nicholas II that he had worked so hard to find, he finally understood why the treasure came from the bottom of Lake Baikal to this place, which is 700 to 800 meters deep underground and covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters.
There was a faint light shining down from the huge hole above the head.
Because it is composed of gold, gold coins, gold sand, silver, diamonds, pearls, agates, rubies, sapphires and many other precious metals and priceless jewelry, which is more than 50 meters in diameter and entrenched in a sea of gold and silver, which is hundreds of meters long and looks more like a cang.
A super monster that combines dragons, pliosaurs, and crocodiles.
Mosasaurus and Pliosaurus were the top predators in the Cretaceous and Jurassic oceans respectively. They have always been known as the "water tyrannosaurs", with a length of more than ten or twenty meters. They weighed nearly a hundred tons. They were the most powerful predators in the ocean at that time.
The unrivaled super overlord.
However, this monster, which is similar to mosasaurs and pliosaurs but nearly five times larger in size, does not have the fins necessary for swimming in the water. Instead, it has four fins as thick as giant pillars and five meters in diameter.
Left and right, large claws nearly 25 meters long.
Looking at its thick and sharp white teeth exposed outside its thick lips, as well as its razor-like white teeth, and its huge head with black and gray scales the size of a basin, like a small house, it is obvious that this big guy is not a kind person.
"How did this guy grow so big? Is it a genetic mutation?"
After being shocked for a while, Liu Dong calmed down his boiling emotions and couldn't help but speculate.
Although the advancement of science and technology has given humans a deeper and deeper understanding of their living environment, there are still countless unsolved mysteries in the world. Especially the ocean, human beings’ knowledge of it has always been limited. If it reaches the deep sea, it can almost be said that
Nothing.
No one knows what secrets are hidden in the ocean, which occupies most of the earth. Lake Baikal is known as one of the oldest lakes in the world, and most scientists believe that there are remnant species of animals unique to the depths of Lake Baikal.
It was formed approximately 30 million to 20 million years ago.
Moreover, the speculation that the underground waterway of Lake Baikal is connected to the ocean has not been speculated for a day or two!
Therefore, Liu Dong strongly suspected that this big monster was a relic species from Lake Baikal, or a relic species from the ocean.
But Liu Dong didn't care whether it was true or not, and he didn't want to be a dragon-slaying hero. He just wanted the mountains of gold, silver, and a lot of jewelry under the monster's belly.
Now Liu Dong discovered that this big guy is really like the evil dragon in Western myths and legends. He has a habit of collecting wealth, especially shiny things.
In addition to the treasure of Nicholas II that Liu Dong is looking for, there are also many ancient gold coins, silver coins, gold and silver tableware, various gold and silver utensils, and a wide variety of gemstones.
Liu Dong thought with his buttocks and knew that they definitely came from sunken ships in the ocean!
As for those golden sands, they probably come from a gold mine in the ocean!
"But how do we get this gold away?"
Liu Dong had a headache and looked at the big monster sleeping soundly lying on the gold jewelry, and hesitated in his heart.
Although he was very confident in his fighting ability, he didn't think he was a match for this big monster. As for thermal weapons, he did have them in the mustard space, but looking at the thick scales on the big monster, he didn't feel confident either.
He could kill the opponent in one go. Moreover, he was afraid that once a fight broke out, the huge wealth would be destroyed.
In addition to gold and silver jewelry, there are a large number of ancient gold and silverware inside, which are valuable works of art!
"The only thing you can do is try your best first. If it doesn't work, then think of other ways!"
After making up his mind, Liu Dong began to consciously slow down his pace, and every time he used the relic Yuan Guang to fetch soil, he did not block the hole behind him.
Because, using the relic Yuan Guang to take things out is silent, but once it is released and comes into contact with rocks or soil, there will be vibrations. Even if the vibrations are very slight, Liu Dong does not dare to bet on this big monster.
Is your hearing sharp?
In this way, Liu Dong circled underground and moved up step by step. After nearly an hour, he finally reached a distance of about 8 meters from the surface of this huge cave.
Looking at the big monster who was still snoring like thunder and not waking up, Liu Dong breathed a sigh of relief!
Now the automatic pickup range of his relic Yuan Guang has a radius of 13 meters. Therefore, Liu Dong does not need to climb up to the ground to take risks. He only needs to stay eight meters deep underground to quietly take away the wealth on the surface.
However, he did not rush to touch the gold, silver and jewelry under the big monster's belly. Instead, he came to a place not far behind this mountain of gold and silver, near the edge of the cave.
Here, torn apart train cars, huge leftover animal skeletons, broken wooden boards, and ship fragments were randomly placed like garbage.
Nothing else mattered. The key thing was that looking at the torn oil paintings, as well as the crushed and bent stone and bronze sculptures, Liu Dong was heartbroken and bleeding!
He saw with his own eyes that a Rembrandt oil painting was torn in half and thrown here randomly. A top-notch work of art that could easily fetch tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in the outside world, in the eyes of that big monster,
Simply worthless!
Moreover, it is not just the works of Rembrandt that have been poisoned, there are also works by masters such as Titian, David, Holbein, and Van Gogh. This is obviously accumulated by the nearly twenty tsars of the Romanov dynasty of Russia.
The most classic part of the Royal Collection.
Fortunately, although these paintings and sculptures were severely damaged, they were not completely impossible to repair.
Therefore, Liu Dong still planned to put them away carefully.
However, in order not to disturb the sleeping monster as much as possible, Liu Dong did not dare to let go and close it all at once. He could only remove the bones or pieces of wood that were pressed on the top like building blocks, and then put them away.
I didn't dare to touch the things below, as I was afraid of making any noise during the whole process.
Although it was safer in this way, the speed was undoubtedly prohibitively slow. Fortunately, Liu Dong's mental quality was relatively stable, and he spent nearly ten hours without sleep to finally collect all these things.
Mustard space.
In the process of collecting things, Liu Dong also silently counted his harvest in his mind.
Whether broken or still intact, he got a total of 1,283 oil paintings, almost every one of them is a classic! The remaining 1,854 prints, 79,126 watercolors, drawings and sketches! 41,289 rare ancient books! Bronze sculptures
, stone sculptures and other sculptures of different sizes and materials, 2589 pieces!
Liu Dong cannot yet count ceramics, glassware, etc. Compared with sculptures and oil paintings, they were broken more! Although there are also complete ones, they only account for one-third or even less of the total.
In addition to the above items, there are 789 pieces of various exquisite clocks and pocket watches; 2189 pieces of royal costumes, precious Persian carpets, unique woodcarving artworks, etc.!
More than 100,000 pieces of art, large and small, suddenly enriched Liu Dong's originally scarce collection of European art!
In particular, two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, three paintings by Raphael, and a sculpture by Michelangelo made the works of the three Renaissance masters in Liu Dong's hands large enough to form a special exhibition hall!
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