Jeremy looked down and his eyes lit up.
The basement.
This was the basement that Annie had told him about, a basement full of countless antiques, worth an enemy country’s worth of money.
He held the remote control and was about to go in. After a moment’s thought, he turned to the old lady and said, ‘Old lady, you go in first.’
With such a treasure trove of wealth in the basement, the Davis family was likely to have set up traps.
‘Huh,’
the old lady sneered, and was helped by Armen and Alonso as they walked down the stairs.
‘You go down too!’
Jeremy looked at Enrico and Paige again and commanded them.
Enrico gave him a cold stare, and with his hand held by Paige, the two walked down the stairs.
Seeing this, Blanca and Brangelina also followed without hesitation.
With so many people in front of him, Jeremy stepped down the stairs with confidence. The stairs were only a very narrow section, and when they reached the bottom, there was a stone door in front of them.
Enrico raised his hand and pushed, but the stone door was extremely heavy and didn’t budge at all.
‘Where’s the key?’ Jeremy shouted.
The person in charge of getting the key handed over a wooden box. Jeremy glanced at Paige, who reached out and took it, and opened the box.
A stone key the size of a palm lay in the box, with a white seal stuck on top.
The keys were buried underground, so why worry about losing them and put a seal on them?
Paige showed the wooden box to Jeremy, who said without thinking, ‘Open!’
Paige was wondering about the significance of the seal when Enrico took the wooden box from her hand, tore off the seal, took out the stone key, inserted it into the keyhole of the stone door, and turned it twice.
Alonso and Armen stepped forward, and the two of them pushed the door open with all their strength.
As soon as it was pushed open, a shower of dust fell, like a light drizzle.
“No one has entered here for many years,’
Armen waved away the dust in front of him and said, ‘We, the Davis family, are content to live in seclusion, and no one has ever thought of moving this wealth.’
After giving the key to Annie, the Davis family never thought of taking it back, and just let the basement remain underground.
‘Go in!’
Jeremy impatiently urged them.
One after another, the group walked in. Inside was a dark basement with an eerily cold air.
After a while, when the air circulation improved, Armen and Alonso lit the candles, which softly illuminated the basement.
The basement was not large, and one could see the end at a glance. Rows of bookcases stood on the floor, filled with all kinds of antiques, and even the walls were covered with paintings and calligraphy.
‘…’
Paige looked on in some amazement. The Davis family really had amassed quite a collection of treasures while avoiding the world.
Jeremy looked at all this and, instead of Paige’s surprise, was extremely angry. ‘Is this all?’
How could this be all!
Annie had said that the Davis family was rich beyond compare.
‘If you sell the things here on the black market, it would be enough to get you back on your feet,’
Paige said. The things on these shelves were placed haphazardly, but there were several unique items that had only been glanced at in books, extremely rare.
‘Not enough!”
Jeremy shouted with a pale face. He had schemed so much and framed the whole country, not just for this little bit.
He walked around in the dim candlelight, lifted his leg and kicked the walls on all sides, and suddenly removed a pair of calligraphy and paintings. Staring at the stone wall in front of him, he understood, “This basement is not just this big, is it?”
The sound of this wall was different from the sound of the other walls.
‘Only the heir to the key can enter the basement, and I have never entered it either,’ the old lady said coldly as she stood aside.
‘Come here, and take down all the calligraphy for me!’ Jeremy ordered them again.
Enrico stood next to Paige, his restlessness growing stronger and stronger.
Alonso, Armen, and Brangelina stepped forward and removed the calligraphy from the wall one by one, revealing a bare wall.
It was a very smooth wall, with no keyhole, and there was nothing special about it.
Annie is in charge of the basement with the keys.
Brangelina pondered for a moment, touched it from top to bottom, and when she reached the bottom, a line of lights slowly lit up from the ground, swimming to the sides, along the edge of the wall up, and then swimming upwards.
The lights formed the character ” (mouth).
‘…’
Paige stood next to Enrico, looking on in disbelief, and saw that the line of lights continued to swim around the wall, extending out several lights, before finally converging in the centre.
There was a ‘click’ sound, and a stone retreated, revealing a black device.
Brangelina stood nearby and glanced at it, saying, ‘It’s a fingerprint lock.’
‘…’
The Davis family even had their electricity cut off, and everyone lived an idyllic life of working from sunrise to sunset. As a result, there was not only light, but also an advanced fingerprint lock.
Paige looked on in silence.
Jeremy’s face turned completely black, and there was even a fingerprint lock!
‘I think it needs Annie’s fingerprint,’ Brangelina said, looking at Jeremy, “It seems you can’t take the treasure here.”
No way!
He had gone through so much trouble to get here, he wasn’t just going to give up!
Jeremy stared at the wall in front of him, then suddenly turned back and glared at Armen, ‘You, go prepare the explosives. You the Davis family even hide guns, you should also have explosives. Blow up this wall for me!’
After that, he glared at the old lady and said, ‘You, come here and try my fingerprints!’
‘It can’t be mine, I told you, I’ve never been in here.’
The right to inherit the keys to the basement had never been hers.
As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Jeremy pulled her over, almost crazily saying, ‘Try them for me!’
‘Be gentle!’
Alonso glared at him unhappily and pulled the old lady’s hand out, gently placing it on the device.
It can’t be unlocked.
Even the most qualified old lady is not qualified, so it seems that it can only be Annie’s fingerprint. This woman, who tells him everything with her mouth, guards it more jealously than anything else!
‘Go! In ten minutes, I want this wall blown open!’ Jeremy glared at Armen.
If he can’t unlock it, then he’ll use the most violent method. It’s just a stone wall, and he doesn’t believe it.
‘…’
Armen looked at the nearly insane Jeremy and depressedly retreated step by step.
Enrico kept his eyes on Jeremy, counting the seconds. He really couldn’t wait for Jeremy to transport the treasure out.
The best time would be now.
He glanced at the gun Alonso had strapped to his waist, pursed his thin lips, and suddenly bowed his head. He saw Paige staring thoughtfully at the wall, lost in thought.
‘What are you thinking about?’ Enrico asked.
‘I feel a little strange,’
Paige whispered against him. “The key is buried in the ground, but it’s sealed. There are a lot of antiques within reach, but there’s a fingerprint lock on top of it to lock away even more treasures. I feel…”
‘Feel what?’ Enrico hugged her a little tighter. She seemed to be getting colder and colder.
Paige was lost in her own doubts and didn’t feel anything. She looked up at him and whispered, ‘I feel that this seal and fingerprint lock seem to be saying, wait, think again, think carefully about whether you want to do this, think a little more, I’ll give you the chance to hesitate.’