There is a saying that goes, "Ideals are too full, reality is too skinny." Now this saying is particularly suitable for the eight people including Yang Jing.
When the eight of them used small engineering shovels to dig up the artificial cave that was suspected to be the place where the Japanese hid their gold and saw the situation inside, they were all dumbfounded.
I have to say that the Japanese are really good at digging holes and building underground fortifications in the wild. The Americans and Australians who fought the Japanese back then should have a deep understanding of this.
Just like this man-made cave, it is actually inappropriate to describe it as a cave. It should be a fairly complete small underground fortification.
The entire underground fortification is more than three meters deep from the ground. The steel plate that Yang Jing and his team found earlier, which was pressed by a huge rock, is actually the entrance to the underground fortification. This entrance is also poured with cement and rock, and more than two meters below the entrance is the main body of the underground fortification.
This underground fortification is not big, the internal size is about ten times ten. According to the standards of Japanese underground fortifications during World War II, a squad of Japanese soldiers can be stationed here. However, it is obviously unreasonable to station a squad alone in such a deep mountain forest, so this underground fortification is actually a hiding place for storing gold.
Yang Jing and his team only learned about the underground fortification after they had chiseled the entrance with great effort. The walls on all four sides of the underground fortification and the internal load-bearing walls were cast with cement and rocks, and the internal height was two and a half meters. As for the top, a layer of logs was laid on top, and then a layer of steel plates was covered on the logs, and finally a layer of soil more than two to three meters thick was laid on the steel plates.
In other words, if there was no entrance, Yang Jing and his team would have to either move the huge rock or dig up the entire ground and remove the steel plate on the top to enter the underground fortification. Yang Jing and his team used a tricky method to break the wall at the entrance, which allowed them to enter the interior of the underground fortification.
But there was no point in going in, and Clark, the first person to go in, almost drowned.
Because this underground fortification was full of water, more than two meters deep, it almost submerged the entire underground fortification.
Clark was caught off guard when he went down and was choked. This choking on water immediately triggered a chain reaction. If Yang Jing had not been quick to reach in with a large branch in his hand, Clark would most likely have been drowned here tragically.
"There's water all down there, I can't see anything!" Clark said with a sad face after he recovered. As a retired special forces soldier, he almost drowned here. It was really a shame.
Chris and his friends all laughed happily, which made Clark almost have a real PK with them.
However, this little accident also made the whole treasure hunt process more joyful.
Sure enough, the saying that happiness is built on the pain of others is so true...
Yang Jing and his team had oxygen supply equipment and underwater breathing apparatus, so this time it was Carl Morris who went into the water. After he was equipped, he turned on the diving light on his head and dived directly.
Then when he was pulled up a few minutes later, the first thing he said after taking off the respirator was: "There's nothing in here except water. It's empty here!"
Then, everyone, including Yang Jing, was dumbfounded.
After working hard for half an afternoon, I ended up finding nothing. This really dampened my enthusiasm.
When they discovered the steel plate that was pressed down by the boulder just now, everyone present thought that this must be the place where the Japanese hid their gold. After all, it is a recognized fact that the Japanese hid a large amount of gold in the Philippines after their surrender.
The boss just said that whether it was Truman or Eisenhower, during their administrations, the United States dug up huge amounts of gold from the Philippines. All of this gold was looted by the Japanese from Southeast Asia.
In addition to the gold dug by the Americans, the Filipinos also stole a lot of gold.
After Marcos became the sixth president of the Philippines in 1965, he began a 20-year dictatorship. During his tenure as president of the Philippines, he learned that there was a lot of gold in the Philippines, so he secretly carried out official excavations and mined it many times and pocketed the money. Evidence shows that Marcos had a huge amount of gold stored in Swiss banks.
Marcos and his agents often secretly sold large quantities of gold in gold markets in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and other places. Sometimes the number of gold ingots sold at a time was as high as more than ten tons, which was more than all the known gold reserves of the Philippines. However, after President Marcos was overthrown in 1986, the gold was forced to be transferred to the United States. In order to transport the gold, the United States used the aircraft carrier "Eisenhower".
In addition, international and private secret treasure hunting organizations also secretly searched for gold buried by the Japanese army in the mountains of the Philippines. In the 1970s, the famous "Rojas Incident" occurred in the Philippines. Rojas was a private treasure hunter in the Philippines. In 1970, he found a pure gold Buddha statue in the mountains of northern Luzon Island. It weighed about one ton, the head could be removed, and there were a lot of rare jewels hidden inside the body.
These are the treasures left behind by Japan at that time. It can be seen how much gold and other precious treasures Japan hid in the Philippines at that time.
Suddenly discovering such an obviously unusual underground fortification in such a deep mountain forest, both Yang Jing and the seven bodyguards thought at first that they would uncover a huge treasure of gold here. But it turned out that there was nothing inside except the water accumulated for decades!
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