Chapter 1688 We also need to do something
Xiao Peng believed that the "treasure of the three great knightly orders" was just a legend, but Fabian obviously disdained his statement.
"Legend?" Fabian's eyes narrowed into slits. "Xiao, what's wrong with you? This doesn't sound like something you should say! It's fine if others say it's a legend, but you actually say it's a legend too? Weren't all the treasures you found legends before you discovered them? The treasure of the 'Red Virgin Army' is also a legend, didn't you find it too?"
"Uh..." Xiao Peng couldn't refute it after hearing this. This really made sense! However, he still wanted to hit Fabian, so he said, "So much time has passed. If there really is any wealth left, it would have been discovered long ago! Besides, according to you, the entire country east of the Baltic Sea belongs to the Teutonic Knights. So why not go to other countries to look for traces of their treasure?"
Fabian replied, "Those in other countries have been searched for countless times, and many of the Teutonic Knights' former sites are now protected, making investigations difficult."
"Then why are we looking for clues in the ruins of the Teutonic Knights in Kaliningrad?" Xiao Peng asked puzzledly.
Fabian laughed. "Is that even a question? There are two reasons. First, that's Russian territory. Due to their relationship with the EU and the heavy military presence, it's difficult for others to investigate, right? But it's different for us. You have such a good relationship with Ivan, so how can you not get in there to investigate? You can even get into Murmansk, let alone Kaliningrad."
Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this: "Well, what you said makes sense... What about the second reason?"
Fabian said with a wicked smile, "Do you think the Soviets back then and the Russians now would seriously protect those castles? These castles from the Teutonic Knights era are used for all sorts of things now."
"It's like turning into a car repair shop?" Xiao Peng began to understand what Fabian meant.
Fabian nodded. "According to Pascal and I's research, some of the castles that remain in Kaliningrad have become factories, prisons, breweries, and even elementary schools... In short, the Russians don't take them seriously at all."
Xiao Peng was actually a bit interested: "Hmm... kind of interesting. But it doesn't make sense. What about Russian historians? Don't they know this?"
Fabian lit a cigarette and said smugly, "Russian historians? How long has their economy been recovering? And they're constantly being targeted by the EU. How could they have the time and money to conduct such research? In a few years, when they come to their senses, they might focus on this area, but definitely not now! We're just trying to gain a time advantage over them. Anyway, let's not talk about the wealth of the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar for now. As for the treasure of the Teutonic Knights, Kaliningrad should be the last possible place where there are clues. I came to Russia this time to establish good relations and then go to Kaliningrad to investigate. I didn't expect that Il to directly bring out the house in Kaliningrad. Can you believe it? When I heard Il say he would give me the Neuhausen Castle, I felt for the first time that God really existed! I can't wait to go to Kaliningrad!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Okay, it's a good thing that you're so proactive in doing something! What are you going to do?"
Fabian lowered his voice and asked, "What did you do then? What's that phrase? 'Open spears and hidden arrows'? No, it's 'abandon the dark and join the light'? No, that's not that short. It should be 'open spears are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are hard to guard against'. That doesn't seem right either, is it 'open people don't do shady things'? I mean the phrase about not letting others know what you should do! Isn't that what you always do? No one knows what you're doing out at sea. You just throw a party at sea and get things done!"
"What you want to say is 'repairing the plank road in public while secretly marching through Chencang'?" Xiao Peng asked doubtfully.
"Yes, yes, that's the word! Damn it! Your language is so difficult!" Fabian complained, "Learning Chinese is definitely the biggest challenge of my life!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Your Chinese is already very good. You already know so many idioms! Tell me what you plan to do?"
Fabian smirked and said, "It's already being done. What do you think Pascal is doing now? He's already taken his 'engineering team' to Kaliningrad to renovate the house. As for my cousin, it's no problem for him to help me take care of my house, right?"
Xiao Peng was dumbfounded: "You guys acted really quickly!"
Fabian said, "Of course. Pascal and I have always been the ones taking advantage of you. Now it's our turn to do something about it!"
Xiao Peng looked at him and didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm. So he said, "Hey, you let Pascal and his men suffer over there, while you yourself are here embracing a beautiful woman? Isn't that too much?"
Fabian curled his lips and said, "Don't rub salt in my wounds! Beautiful women avoid me now. Anyway, I've already made it a plan. I'll meet up with Pascal the day the film festival ends."
Xiao Peng was so happy to see Fabian's expression.
As Xiao Peng's partner, although Fabian has experienced huge gains and losses in capital investment, he is still a billionaire now.
Perhaps due to the inherent French arrogance, or perhaps simply due to his personality, he now "mingles in circles," chatting and laughing with the "high-brows" of the salvage alliance, rarely appearing in public. However, Fabian finds it difficult to refuse invitations to various film festivals. After all, he constantly claims to be emulating Xiao Peng, a man determined to become the "King of Documentary."
Ahem, actually he is just shouting slogans. He would not make any documentaries now.
An awkward situation arose: those film festivals invited him because he was the billionaire partner of "The Salvage King," otherwise how could he have been on the film festival jury? But in the eyes of outsiders, he was just a documentary director who had no works and was just filling in the numbers.
In addition, the news that he was threatened in St. Petersburg quickly spread, which caused the actors to avoid him: Everyone knew: this documentary director had offended someone!
So now, even though there are so many actresses in this hotel, they will turn around and leave as soon as they see Fabian. In fact, they are still curious: How can Fabian still stay in this hotel?
What they didn't know was that Fabian lived in a luxurious room on the top floor of the hotel.
As for offending people?
Alex now dares not show up in Moscow and hides in the countryside!
He now takes a detour whenever he sees Fabian!
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