C3069 Retreat in time (1/2)
When the last carriage left Tuileries' garden, it was 4: 55 in the morning. It was five minutes early from the scheduled time.
It was a long winter night, and five o'clock was the darkest time of the day. However, there were countless supervisors quietly guarding the streets, expelling all outsiders.
The explosion just now had woken up a group of residents. Those residents opened their windows and looked out carefully. However, they immediately encountered the scolding of the supervising team.
”What are you doing? ”Close the window, hang the curtain, go back to sleep …”
”Hurry up, if you don't turn back now, we'll take you as a spy …”
Faced with such a fierce threat, everyone was so scared that they withdrew their heads. The massacre from yesterday, especially the battle that happened in the middle of the night, was still vivid in everyone's mind. They were truly frightened.
However, there were always some people who were too curious. Their courage was too great. The curtains in the pitch-black room were drawn back, and only a crack could be seen to reveal the eyes inside.
The horse carriage moved very slowly through the streets. It seemed as if there were a lot of spoils of war inside. The onlookers wanted to scream out in shock, but they were stopped by someone's hand.
”Don't make a sound, don't you want to die? ”It's fine as long as you secretly watch. Don't say it, don't say it …”
Just like that, Goddess of Victory revealed his ankle outside the window. Venus, with his severed arm, could not hide his snow-white calf inside the carriage. At this moment, even a fool would know what had happened.
Hot tears flowed from the eyes of countless people. They wanted to scream, they wanted to rush out and stop these bandits, they wanted to vent the pain and suffering in their hearts.
However, they did not dare to do so. They could only cover their mouths and watch helplessly as all of this happened right in front of their eyes!
If the country was destroyed and families lost, who would care about the life and death of the cultural relics?!
Xiao Letian had been waiting outside the door all night. This transaction was too risky, once it was exposed to the public in Europe, it would be completely drowned.
Therefore, everything must be kept a secret. Furthermore, all artifacts must be transported back to the country as soon as possible.
”Have you returned? How's the completion of the mission?” Seeing Luo Huo, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
”Thankfully, we did not fail our mission. The leader brought out all three treasures that he wanted!”
This was something he had seen countless of times on the photos, magazines, and internet in his previous life. Xiao Letian knew from the first glance that this thing was not fake.
His trembling hands caressed the cold marble skin. He could even feel the warmth of a model from a thousand years ago.
The surrounding brothers all looked at the leader and sighed in their hearts, ”So abnormal, why didn't the leader even let go of the statue? He's touching his chest!” ”Seems like I've been holding this in for too long, I'll have to grab a few women to comfort the leader later …”
If Xiao Letian knew his underlings were thinking this way, he would definitely kick them hard. He was sighing over history, and now he actually thought that he was a freak.
”Immediately transfer the special train to move away... All the treasures shall be split into twenty-four pieces, and shall be shipped back to our homeland! ”
”Not a moment!” This is top secret! ”
”Ai …” ”It's time to stop. We have to delay the return of the cultural relics from today onwards. The road to plundering has come to an end. From now on, you should just buy them from the market!”
Xiao Letian understood this principle very well. In this siege of Paris, the Chinese people had used smuggling and other means to plunder a total of 55,000 works of art from Paris.