Chapter 1573: Cover
"Wait, what did you say?" Anna was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Barbarossa.
"It seems like you don't know?" Barbarossa was lying on the side of the boat with his nose slightly raised, and his eyes under the sunglasses were looking at the shadows getting closer and closer to the sea level. "The cause of the matter was two years ago. On the Indian Ocean route, a cargo ship departing from the port of Sri Lanka with an unknown destination disappeared into the vast sea for unknown reasons. "
Anna stared at Barbarossa blankly, not realizing that several other people at the table had already walked to the side of the ship and looked into the distance. Their eyes gradually brightened as they looked at the shadow that was getting closer and closer.
Barbarossa narrowed his eyes and smiled and said, "Witnesses said that the reason why the cargo ship disappeared was that it encountered a huge storm, and the huge waves broke the keel from bottom to top. All the cargo was lost on the seabed. Then, For two years, salvage ships continued to wander along the route, trying to find the missing cargo ship, but all failed. "
"Logically speaking, it would be almost impossible to salvage the sunken cargo in such a shipwreck at sea, but I don't know why our dear Wittelsbach family did not hesitate to spend unimaginable huge sums of money in the past two years. We are constantly investing manpower and material resources to find the needle in the haystack.”
August spoke, "There is only one reason, and that is that the value of the cargo carried by the missing cargo ship has reached a level far exceeding several times or even dozens of times of the salvage capital invested in the past two years."
The yacht whistled, and in the distance there was also a whistle that allowed it to approach. The whistling whistle drifted on the sea, and a particularly lonely feeling arose in my heart.
Anna finally saw clearly what the huge shadow approaching the yacht was. It was a giant salvage ship anchored on the sea. Heavy lifting arms stood on both sides. Many of the red-painted steel giants could be seen. Figures were busy running about on the sun-baked deck.
"Finding a missing cargo ship on the sea sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack, but luckily, a certain darling of the sea happened to know the location where the cargo ship sank. But due to some obstacles, I Even if you have the ability, you can't pick up the things that have sunk at the bottom of the sea." Barbarossa felt a little regretful.
This favorite was undoubtedly Barbarossa himself, and hindered.
"The Wittelsbach family." Nakhimov said in a dull voice on the side, "They are indeed a group of powerful and troublesome guys. If they find that their things are on the market, they will be furious, right? If you don’t have access and channels, you have no life to salvage those things, and you have no life to turn them into wealth, let alone spend them.”
"So, when I was guarding this secret worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, the first thing I thought about was how I could monetize those little treasures that sank at the bottom of the sea alive." Barbarossa leaned his elbow on the guardrail of the ship. On the boat, his fingers slightly touched each other for support, and he looked at the salvage boat rising and falling with the waves and said quietly, "So, I need some foreign aid, some channels that can help me swallow and digest these treasures."
"Don't worry, as long as the things are available, there will always be people within the Arab royal family who will pay high prices to buy these rare treasures, and once these things fall into their collections, they will never flow to the market easily again, Vettel No matter how powerful the Sbach family is, they can only suffer this loss and have no way of investigating." Abdul saw the salvage boat that had been prepared and understood that they had finally arrived. He was in a good mood and turned around to meet Barbarossa. Shaked hands.
He is not short of money, but he is short of some truly valuable and rare collections that have no market value. These are the things that people of his class are really rare for each other. He plans to use the cultural relics and antiques salvaged from the sunken ship. Use it as capital to exchange for the next crown prince's succession qualifications.
"There are also oligarchs in Russia who are very interested in the list of cultural relics you submitted. Several big figures in the Russian military and political circles have already reserved several of them in advance. They hope that they will match the numbers when they are salvaged. "Nakhimov said slowly.
"Royal parties in Europe are also waiting for the cultural relics listed on the list to appear at the auction, and they are willing to pay high prices to buy them." Renata said calmly.
"German nobles are never short of money. As long as they have suitable rare items, they are always willing to spend a lot of money, and the collections will always stay in the vault, unless Germany is defeated again and the property is divided." August said seriously .
Everyone has their own ideas about these cultural relics and antiques, and because of these ideas, they were all brought together by Barbarossa.
"Wait a minute." Anna suddenly spoke and attracted everyone's attention. She looked at everyone's faces in disbelief, "Aren't you here for Atlantis? You collect the gold and give it to the pirates. Isn’t it because you think he has the means to enter Atlantis?”
There was silence.
"Are you referring to throwing a large amount of gold into the sea through a sacrificial method to summon the storm and the Atlantis island hidden in the storm?" Barbarossa said in a weird tone.
Anna nodded subconsciously, and then found that August, Nakhimov and the Arab prince all looked at each other, and finally looked at herself like a monster.
Among the group of people, only Renata glanced at Anna and said nothing.
"My dear, Atlantis has always been just a cover."
Barbarossa raised his hand and patted Anna's shoulder. Looking at the dazed girl, he patiently explained, "Indeed, it is said that there are countless gold and silver treasures in Atlantis. But as you and I both know, that's just Legend, flowers in the mirror, moon in the water.”
"Atlantis is fake, but the cargo ship that sank in the sea and the whole ship of priceless cultural relics that the Wittelsbach family pays special attention to are all real! They are worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Wealth in U.S. dollars, I’m speaking conservatively. Mr. August, what is the current price of the thirty blood-stained Judas silver coins on the black market?”
"Sixty-six million sixty-six million U.S. dollars, the price offered by a crazy Christian. I heard that he was an old man with a background in a syndicate in Europe. He devoutly believed in the existence of God. His repeated applications to the Vatican to acquire holy relics were all rejected. He's a bit crazy, but he controls almost half of Europe's coal mines, and his wealth is astonishingly huge. Although it's not an oil syndicate, it's scary enough," August said calmly.
"Sixty-six million and sixty-six million U.S. dollars, converted directly online, can be converted into gold to kill a person. This is just one of the treasures on the sunken cargo ship. You know, I have a whole card in my hand. List of Artifacts.”
Barbarossa touched a silver coin on the table and bounced it, then dropped it into his hand and held it, grinning and saying, "The Wittelsbach family has been monitoring this sea area for the past two years, trying to find the location where the cargo ship sank. So any action in this area needs a reason, a legitimate excuse - a group of crazy pirates trying to find Atlantis? This excuse seems ridiculous, but it is indeed a perfect cover. Let them not pay attention to us."
Anna finally realized at this time that she had been deceived. Barbarossa didn't want to look for Atlantis at all. It is estimated that no one on this yacht believed in the existence of Atlantis except herself! They all came for the Wittelsbach family's sunken cultural relics cargo ship!
The gold that was previously on the shoal was basically buying black ship tickets from Barbarossa to resell the salvaged cultural relics! They determine the final profit from salvage of cultural relics based on the amount of gold invested!
"Then why did you take me on board?" Anna asked, resisting the urge to grab Barbarossa's collar.
"That's because I do know your mother." Barbarossa looked at the girl and said, "I did not lie to you about this. Flora and I are indeed old acquaintances. It is also thanks to her that I can Know where the freighter sank."
"What do you mean?" Anna's pupils trembled a little and she stared at Barbarossa.
"I mean I'm sorry. I know every child wants their family to be safe, but your mother did die. She died in the storm and sank with the freighter. Probably her body has already been After being eaten by seabirds, returning to nature may be a good ending.”
Anna stepped forward quickly and raised her hand to pull Barbarossa's collar, but as soon as he made the move, Nakhimov, who was beside Barbarossa, raised his hand and held down his arm - before the transaction was completed, they These people would not allow any accidents to happen to Barbarossa. Even if Barbarossa died, he would have to die after all the cultural relics on the list provided to them had been salvaged.
Barbarossa spread his hands and looked at Anna who was separated and said, "Didn't I tell you? I had a drink with your mother once. I admired her very much, and she also admired me very much - I didn't mean to say We knew each other, and we just admired each other’s personalities and temperaments, so we exchanged contact information, which was probably the best thing I did in my life.”
"My mother will never have anything to do with a lying scum like you!" Anna's lungs were about to burst with anger. She stared at Barbarossa with anger that was about to burst out of her eyes.
"Mr. Barbarossa, we are actually quite curious about how you know the location of this sunken ship. The Wittelsbach family has been searching for the location for two years without finding it. How do you know it?" August looked at asked Barbarossa.
"Someone told me." Barbarossa replied leisurely. "The ship had not yet sunk, but someone on the ship told me when it was about to sink."
Anna's face turned slightly pale, because Barbarossa was looking at her when he said this, his eyes full of pity.
"There was a woman accompanying the cargo ship at that time, an archaeologist belonging to the Wittelsbach family. When she encountered a storm shipwreck, she had a premonition that the cargo ship would capsize, so she called me in advance via satellite phone. Although the signal Not good, but she still sent out her coordinates in a timely manner," Barbarossa said.