"No wonder this guy hasn't moved for thirty years! It turns out that it's because of this!"

Ye Tian sighed secretly, and then continued to look through the situation in the cottage in the inner room.

The furnishings in the room are simple and obvious at a glance.

A double sofa, a high chair, a few oil paintings, a bookshelf that is 1.5 meters high and 1.2 meters wide, with some books on it! It is basically religious and art books.

There is a shrine on the west side of the room, which should have been built at the same time as this small building. It radiates red light in Ye Tian's eyes, but it is not very valuable!

In addition, there are two pinhole cameras in the room, located at both sides of the east and west, monitoring the entire room!

As far as I saw, I didn’t see the secret room or the entrance to the secret passage. The room was very quiet, as if no one had ever been there!

Obviously, after that guy Thompson entered the secret room or secret passage, he immediately closed the door, so he didn't find it!

Is it a secret room or a secret passage leading to elsewhere? Where is it hidden?

With these questions in mind, Ye Tian began to look through every corner of the room, every centimeter of walls and ground.

The walls are not thick, there are no walls or mechanisms inside, and next door is a data room. No one has entered for many years. It is covered in dust and is very quiet and has no secrets.

Since you are not next door, you can only be underground! The secret is hidden under the floor, there is no doubt!

His eyes immediately penetrated the ancient red bricks laid on the ground and looked directly at the underground.

The sofa, bookshelves, and several oil paintings are covered with compact foundations and black soil, and there is no shadow of secret rooms or secret passages.

Then, Ye Tian's eyes turned to the shrine standing against the wall.

There are two bronze angel statues on the front of the shrine, about twenty centimeters high and average carving level. Although they are old, they are not very valuable!

But it was these two angel statues that instantly attracted Ye Tian's attention.

The reason is that the gloss on the surfaces of the two angel figures are different, and they are even far apart!

The angel statue on the right seems to be often touched. The statue looks shiny and has a layer of patina, which looks like a plate that has been playing with for many years. There are traces of friction and rotation on the base!

Although the angel statue on the left is also striking, it is still much worse than the right one. It doesn’t look like the luster of a plate, but it looks like it is wiped with a towel, which lacks popularity!

More importantly, there is no trace of rotation and friction at the base of the statue on the left!

Obviously, the angel on the right seems to be having a trick!

Without a moment of hesitation, Ye Tian immediately began to see through the angel statue!

From perspective, the biggest secret of this studio was immediately presented.

Sure enough!

This angel is moving and can rotate ninety degrees inward.

Its base is connected to a mechanism, composed of several pulleys and iron chains, and a metal pipe of wrist thickness. The iron chains connect to the mechanism inside the shrine through metal pipes.

The chains and pulleys inside and outside the shrine are very lubricated, they look often used, and they run smoothly. It is estimated that the sound is very small when opened, and there is not even a trace of sound.

Obviously, someone is carefully maintaining these parts of the mechanism.

The person who maintains these institutions is undoubtedly Pastor Thompson.

The perspective continued, and the secret of the shrine was completely mastered by Ye Tian in a flash.

This shrine is a door. Just hold the angel statue on the right and rotate it inward by 90 degrees, and the door can be opened. The opening range of the shrine is also 90 degrees.

After entering this secret door, you can pull up the shrine from the inside to return to its original position and cover up the traces of entry and exit!

This is the reason why Thompson was able to disappear like a person without leaving any traces!

It can be seen from the friction marks on the base of the angel statue and the friction marks between the shrine and the ground that this secret door has been opened very frequently.

Moreover, these traces seem to be not too old, they are all friction marks that have appeared in recent years!

Although someone tried to cover up these traces and did some tricks, in Ye Tian's eyes, this was completely useless and he could see through it at a glance.

Obviously, Thompson often opens this secret door and enters and exits the secret rooms or secret passages located underground.

Without thinking, this secret room located underground or the secret passage leads to Thompson’s real art warehouse and the ultimate goal of pursuing it!

There must be a large number of top antique artworks hidden there, which may include 13 top artworks that were looted by the Gardner Museum, and the other three famous paintings that were robbed by the Biller Foundation in Switzerland!

What kind of secret room is hidden behind the shrine? How big is it? When was it built? Why did this hidden secret room come from? Most importantly, how many top antique artworks are hidden inside?

If there is a secret passage behind the shrine, where will this secret passage lead? Is it the ancient apartment building next to it? Or the building of Captain Jack's cottage at the entrance of the church?

What exactly hides the secret passage where it ultimately leads? Is it danger or wealth?

With countless questions, Ye Tian suppressed his inner excitement and continued to see through.

His eyes continued to go down, directly penetrated the shrine, and looked at the mysterious door behind him.

This is a secret door about 60 cm wide and about 1.6 meters high. It was completely blocked by the shrine, allowing only one person to enter, and he had to bow his waist.

Behind the secret door is a stone-built secret passage with steps, which extends down at an angle of about forty-five degrees, with a considerable slope!

Going down the secret passage about two meters, you can see a spiral staircase, also a stone staircase, very strong!

This spiral staircase leads directly to the depths of the ground. Two steps down the staircase, there is enough space above the head, so there is no need to arch your waist anymore!

Ye Tian doesn't know where this spiral staircase leads to for the time being! He can only know after sneaking in at night and conducting on-site exploration.

When his sight reached the spiral staircase, he could no longer move forward!

It was more than two meters deep underground, nearly three meters, and it had reached the perspective limit. If it weren't for the empty secret passage, the sight was unobstructed, he would probably not be able to see the spiral staircase.

At this point, it means that this perspective exploration can end here.

The sight will not turn! What can I do if I don’t end?

Although I didn’t see where the spiral staircase leads, nor did I see the secret room hiding antique artworks, this perspective exploration has been very successful and the harvest is extremely huge!

"Great! Thompson! Even if you get deep into the ground, your buddy can still pull you out, and your buddy is still pointing at you to make a fortune!"

Ye Tian cheered in a low voice again, very excited!

During the perspective exploration process, he had basically mastered the situation of this secret passage.

This is a stone secret passage. Although it has been around for nearly three hundred years, it is still very solid and solid, with no cracks on the walls!

The people who built Laobei Church for some unknown purpose actually built such a fortress-level secret passage, which must have a very important purpose.

From the analysis of the situation in the secret passage, the secret room under the spiral staircase is probably stronger and more magnificent, and maybe an underground palace.

Those who built this secret passage and secret room would never have thought that this place would fall into Thompson's hands and used it to hide stolen antique art for art crimes!

If they knew this, they would probably be furious to the point of being furious! I will die again!

This secret passage is not only solid and solid, but Thompson also made some transformations and added something.

He installed an emergency light in the secret passage of more than two meters to illuminate it, and also installed essential monitoring equipment, which was very cautious!

From this we can see that lighting and monitoring equipment must have been installed along the spiral stairs and in the secret room deep underground.

He may even transform the underground secret room into a constant temperature and humidity studio to preserve antique artworks so as to avoid damage to valuable treasures.

Everything is possible!

Ye Tian took his gaze from the secret passage and turned to the studio outside.

There is also a top-notch artwork there, waiting for me to enjoy it!

At this time, the answer you want most has been found, and it is time to reward yourself! Appreciating top artworks is also a very good way to reward!

After his eyes entered the studio again, Ye Tian looked directly at the oil painting placed on the easel, his eyes were very excited and full of expectations!

This is a landscape oil painting that is about to be created, with a medium size, about 70*95.

Ye Tian is very familiar with the content of the picture. He is a very famous painting, one of the representative works of the famous French realist landscape painter Corot, "The Scenery Near Walterra"

But unfortunately, this is not the top artwork that Ke Luo contributed to the world, it is just a copy!

The copying level is pretty good! You can still see a little bit of the flavor of Corro's paintings!

As for the person who copied it, of course, it is the respectable Pastor Thompson!

He used special pigments to fake the surface of another famous painting and copied Corro's famous painting! The painting covered with special pigments is the top artwork that Ye Tian really wants to see.

It is a painting from nearly four hundred years ago, written by a master, with extraordinary artistic value!

But is it the work of that master of art? Ye Tian still knows nothing!

The perspective is opened, and the secret no longer exists in an instant. A Baroque-style oil painting is presented to Ye Tian’s eyes extremely clearly.

The moment he saw the content of this oil painting clearly, Ye Tian couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, with excitement and joy in his voice!

"Bacchus of the God of Bacchus! Velazquez's "Bacchus of the God of Bacchus"! Oh my God! It's actually this famous painting that the Spaniards have been looking for for decades!"

Velazquez, a Spanish painter in the Baroque period of the 17th century, has achieved great artistic achievements and is known as the first master in the history of Spanish painting!

This painting "Bacchus" is one of his representative works. It has been collected in the Prado Museum in Madrid for centuries.

In the 1970s, this oil painting was stolen from the Prado Museum and its whereabouts are still unknown!

The Spanish police and the Prado Museum have never given up pursuing this famous painting for decades, but they have never received any news, and some even say that the famous painting has been completely burned!

But who would have thought that this famous painting actually appeared in Boston and fell into Thompson's hands.

And judging from the current situation, this top-notch artwork should have been found and is ready to trade, so Thompson took out this famous painting as a forgery!

"Fortunately, my buddy made a fuss, otherwise the Spanish would never be able to take back this famous painting! God knows that it will become the collector's private collection!"

Ye Tian sighed secretly, his eyes began to glow green!
Chapter completed!