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Under the dark night, the Padmanabaswamy Temple stands tall and majestic. The complex architectural structure combines Kerala style and Dravidian style. The seven-story 16th-century decorative temple The tower also looks domineering and exposed.

It's a pity that years of poor management and improper safety measures. Although the temple building has a sense of historical vicissitudes, the damaged and mottled buildings, the upside-down stone pillars in the temple square, and the piled up broken stones are embarrassing.

Over the years of dilapidated management, the security guards originally employed by the housekeepers have also been reduced to a few people. For a long time, the temple owners have regarded the sanctity of religion and the piety of believers as the best guards for the temple.

In the silent temple in the middle of the night, a few footsteps suddenly broke the calm. Two relatively short patrolmen in uniform were leading two tall and strong men in black combat uniforms and carrying two large backpacks. Walk through the corridor of the temple like no one's land, and walk to the back door of the temple in the middle of the square.

Joseph and Kenny, both wearing black baseball caps, followed the two Gurkhas who had been inserted into the temple, and walked into the back door of the temple. The flashlight illuminated the dark corridor. Because of the echo problem, the four of them The footsteps were lightened, but the speed still did not slow down.

Turning and turning, the four of them came to a rusty iron fence door deep in the corridor of the temple, and there was a broken wooden door inside.

"Sir, I'm sorry, we can only go here..."

One of the Gurkhas apologized in a low and trembling voice. Although there was only a faint light from the flashlight, Joseph and Kenny could still see each other's tangled facial expressions and forced out ugly expressions.

"It's okay, we understand, let's open the lock." Joseph said in a depressed voice.

"Crack--"

"squeak--"

The wooden door was pushed open, and there were downward stone steps inside the dark door, a damp and moldy air came oncoming, Kenny and Joseph looked at each other, picked up a simple gas mask belt from their waists, Turning on the strong flashlight to illuminate the environment inside the door, put the other hand on the holster around his waist, nodded to the two men, and walked in.

Seeing the two officers who entered the basement, the two Gurkha men who closed the wooden door and the iron fence, looked at each other with bitterness on their faces, and then pointed out one of them and nodded. , went out to be vigilant.

Kenny and Joseph, who walked quickly up three steps of stone steps, looked at the extremely spacious basement space and five dark passages with rusty iron gates with bright flashlights, and couldn't help stepping forward to check one by one.

"Here! It seems that not all the secret rooms have been visited!" Joseph's muffled words suddenly sounded, and Kenny, who was checking the passage on the other side, quickly walked over with a flashlight, which illuminated Joseph's room wearing tactical gloves. Holding an iron lock in his big hand, his pupils shrank slightly.

Kenny unbuttoned the backpack behind him, took out a pair of hydraulic pliers, and stuck it on the iron lock.

"Crack!"

The iron lock was cut open in response, and there was a rattling sound. Joseph untied the iron chain, put it on the ground, and pushed open the iron fence door. The beams of two strong flashlights illuminated the front of the passage, and a solid wooden door appeared .

Joseph frowned slightly, and handed a flashlight to Kenny who had packed his backpack, took out a gun, and walked up, while Kenny took out a black leather tool bag from his pocket, and found two probes from inside. The needle went up.

"It's a new lock!"

Joseph said according to the keyhole on the wooden door, and then stepped aside, the flashlight was still shining on the lock on the door, Kenny immediately squatted down and began to unlock the lock with a probe.

"All right!"

In less than a minute, Kenny straightened up and pushed open the wooden door. The two walked into a dark stone room, and the two flashlights shone back and forth, and soon found two piles of golden light on the ground in a corner. Shiny gold jewelry, mostly gold ornaments.

But Kenny and Joseph were not attracted by gold jewelry, but two flashlights merged on a machine,

Looking at each other, Joseph stepped forward to look at the gold electroplating machine, then turned to Kenny and said, "It seems that our friends still have a lot of secrets that they haven't told us!"

Kenny walked up to the two piles of golden ornaments that were difficult to distinguish from real and fake, squatted down, grabbed two big gold chains, weighed them in his hands, dropped one of them, and stood up. He kicked the pile on the left and said: "It's all fakes, it looks like a mouse moved!"

"No wonder our friends let this temple become more and more deserted, and the security is getting more and more lax, almost undefended..."

Joseph looked at the authentic gold ornaments and some gold chains that were only about one cubic meter in size, his eyes did not change at all. If there were only such a small amount of treasure, don't say he didn't like it, the big boss would definitely be pissed off.

Kenny casually threw the gold chain into the genuine pile, raised his wrist to look at the time, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the secret room of B. After two o'clock, devout believers will come to worship."

Joseph nodded, and the two turned and left without hesitation, closed the door behind them, and walked quickly to the B secret room.

After opening a metal fence door leading to Room B, a solid wooden door also appeared. After continuing to open this wooden door, I encountered a third door, a cast iron door, but this door was blocked.

There are no iron locks or keyholes, and the two large iron doors are tightly sealed. They are dark and strange. There is a relief pattern of a king cobra on each of the two doors. Kenny and Joseph have solemn faces and frowns.

"There is no other way except to use a gas cutter. There must be a locked passage leading to the outside. It is too difficult and too noisy. It will not be opened for a while." Kenny knocked on the big iron door with his finger. , Hearing the dull, tiny voice, he said with a frown.

"Go and have a look at the other four secret rooms. Here we will temporarily give up as discussed..."

. . . . . .

In the office of the Gaia Building in Manhattan, New York, Andy lay leisurely on the boss's chair with his feet on the desk, holding his mobile phone and listening to Kenny's report on the situation after returning to the station after a field investigation.

"Hehe, I have been looking for information about this temple recently, no one can tell how old this temple is.

The temple is mentioned only a few times in Indian literature between 500 BC and 300 AD. Asan Many scholars believe that the temple was built more than 5,000 years ago. Although the credibility is not high, the temple was famous for its immeasurable wealth as early as 2,500 years ago.

However, just the reputation of the "Golden Temple" enjoyed by the temple is enough to show its wealth. In ancient Tamil literature and poetry, the temple, and indeed the entire city, are described as being made of pure gold, and it was even hailed as a paradise at one point.

Now that you have seen the gold, it at least shows that the legend of this temple is not just a legend. Since the B secret room cannot be moved for the time being, let me empty out the other five secret rooms. . . "

Andy said with a happy smile, put down his feet, straightened his body, stretched out his hand and shook the mouse, looked at the blurry photo of Room A on the computer monitor, and continued: "Although Room A is empty, I don't believe it. That huge rectangular slab is trying to move, I can't believe there's nothing there!"

It is learned that among the six secret rooms, although four of them have treasures, the largest number only covers an area of ​​three square meters and is less than half a meter high. The gold jewelry is not comparable to the title of the Golden Temple.

In this way, hope can only be placed in two secret rooms, A and B, which have not been opened for hundreds of years. It seems that the secret room of B should not be opened in the short term, unless it is cracked violently, and the empty secret room of A, the one on the ground. Under this huge stone tablet, it must be to cover something, this point could not be more clear.