Collection of Gods

Chapter 906 Origin
The waves are surging and sparkling.

After Tang Yuan and Dong Wenhui walked out of the conference hall, they came to the small deck closest to the conference room. There were many tables and chairs placed near the edge of the railing.

After the two sat down, Tang Yuan took out two cigarettes from the cigarette box, put one in his mouth and handed the other to Dong Wenhui.

At the same time, the security personnel standing behind the two of them immediately handed over the lighter to help them light their cigarettes. After doing all this, all the security personnel silently retreated to a distance of three meters to leave enough space for the two to talk. The whole process was extremely smooth.

"Director Dong, I think you should have guessed the origin of this treasure."

Tang Yuan chose to speak frankly, because there was no objection to covering up or concealing the truth. Even he, an amateur with only a vague knowledge of history and archaeology, had guessed where the treasure came from, not to mention Dong Wenhui and other professionals who received state subsidies.

"Mr. Tang, with all these things right in front of me, it's hard for me not to guess."

Dong Wenhui took a deep puff of his cigarette and responded with a slightly wry smile.

Tang Yuan spoke in a low voice, his eyes deep and far-reaching: "If we are not mistaken, this batch of treasures came from the Eight-Nation Alliance War, and it was part of the things looted by those robbers, right?"

"Based on the current situation, this is most likely the case." Dong Wenhui nodded, "I just don't know why these treasures ended up on this deserted island, and no one knew about it for a hundred years."

"I guess the treasures came from an illegitimate source, and those people were afraid that they might not be able to keep them after returning home, so they temporarily found an uninhabited island on the way back and buried the treasures, planning to dig them out again after the storm had passed. But for some unknown reason, they may have died in a shipwreck, or in a war, or their family fell into decline, leaving the treasures buried here forever."

Although Tang Yuan has the treasure map in his hand, he, like Dong Wenhui, does not know what secrets are hidden behind the treasure. However, Tang Yuan, who has completed several five-star missions, knows that the system is like an omniscient god walking in history, bringing the history that has been submerged in time back to Tang Yuan, and then liberating them with the help of Tang Yuan.

From the Twenty-Four Seals of the Ming Dynasty to the mysterious treasure in front of us, these things did not appear out of thin air, they all have their own stories.

It was for this reason that Tang Yuan dared to make a bold guess about the origin of this batch of mysterious treasures. After all, a hundred years had passed and the truth had long been buried in the years.

"It's possible."

Dong Wenhui nodded, then showed some hesitation on his face, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. He opened his mouth several times and closed it several times.

Tang Yuan couldn't help but smile when he saw Dong Wenhui's expression. "Director Dong, you probably want to ask me how I knew there was a treasure buried here, right?"

“I am a little curious indeed.”

Dong Wenhui nodded slightly and responded frankly.

"There's nothing to hide. I was just strolling around London Folk Street last September and happened to find a cowhide scroll on a stall. The cowhide scroll looked quite historic and happened to be very cheap, so I bought it out of curiosity."

"After I bought it, it was a long time before I realized there was something else inside the cowhide scroll. So I opened it and found a treasure map with geographical coordinates and patterns inside."

"Later, after careful study for a period of time, I finally converted the very old geographical coordinates into modern longitude and latitude coordinates, and these longitude and latitude coordinates are the Long Whale Island in front of us. You know everything that happened after that."

Tang Yuan had already made up a reason for the origin of the treasure. Although this reason sounded absurd, there were more absurd things in the real world. Therefore, Tang Yuan did not feel any psychological burden when he told Dong Wenhui this carefully made up story. "How do you know that it is a treasure map?"

After listening to Tang Yuan's description, Dong Wenhui couldn't help but be stunned.

"My guess."

Tang Yuan answered confidently.

"Just based on a guess, you spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bring us across the ocean?"

Dong Wenhui looked a little dazed. He had never expected that the starting point of this matter would be so outrageous and absurd. However, what was even more outrageous and absurd was that Tang Yuan actually dug up something here, and it was a super treasure of inestimable value.

Not counting the remaining six hiding places that have not yet been excavated, the total value of the treasures excavated today alone is enough to buy the super cruise ship under their feet, and it is more than enough.

"Director Dong, didn't I tell you this before we landed on the island?"

Tang Yuan said with a smile: "I went out to sea this time just for the sake of curiosity. It would be great if there were results, but even if there were no results, it would still be worth it to have this experience of treasure hunting on a deserted island."

"Mr. Tang, only you have the capital to play like this."

Dong Wenhui shook his head and said with a wry smile.

The two chatted and laughed, and the time it took to smoke a cigarette passed quickly.

After Tang Yuan put out his cigarette, his expression became a little more formal: "Director Dong, I just called you out because I thought it would be better for me to make some things clear in advance."

"Mr. Tang, please tell me."

Dong Wenhui knew that Tang Yuan would not ask him out to smoke for no reason, and he had some guesses about what Tang Yuan wanted to say to him.

Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, let alone such a huge treasure.

Even though these treasures were cultural treasures stolen by the great powers hundreds of years ago, if Tang Yuan had not excavated them, these cultural treasures might have rotted forever under the ground.

What's more, Tang Yuan spent nearly hundreds of millions of US dollars to purchase the Changjing Island for this treasure. Strictly speaking, this was a venture capital investment made by Tang Yuan, but the return on this venture capital investment now far exceeded the cost invested by Tang Yuan.

In this case, if they asked Tang Yuan to donate these cultural treasures to the country free of charge just because they once belonged to China, then what they did would be no different from those people who stood on the moral high ground and carried out moral kidnapping on the Internet. So no matter what Tang Yuan said or what decision he made, Dong Wenhui was prepared in advance...

(End of this chapter)