However, the sprinklers on these flower pots and the fertilizer bags with production dates marked as the autumn of the previous year clearly imply that someone is taking care of this place.

After some hesitation, Wei Ran walked through the scaffolding covered with vines and approached the window on the side of the main building's door. He covered the glass with his hand and took a look inside. What he didn't expect was that this building looked so...

Beautiful building, turned out to be a rough house!

Unwilling to give up, I took the risk and climbed up the scaffolding to the second floor window and took a look inside. There was nothing like a bare wall inside this window!

After all, he was worried that the scaffolding that had been there for who knows how long was unsafe, so Wei Ran did not continue to climb up, but returned to the ground and once again walked to the door of the church-like building.

Like the windows beside the platform at his feet, the curtains seemed to be drawn inside this church, so he couldn't see anything through the windows.

Fortunately, the keyhole on this door was extremely retro. He even suspected that the key that was staring at on the table in Mr. Dominic's collection room was used to open this door. Accordingly, he wanted to pry open this door.

A locked door makes it extra easy.

With a soft click, Wei Ran put away his lockpicking tools and carefully pushed open the two heavy wooden doors, which were more than two meters wide and covered with copper.

When the cut and incomplete sunlight shone through the crack in the door into the room, Wei Ran was stunned.

He didn't expect that this place was really a church, with a dusty floor, a confessional bench also covered with a thick layer of dust, and even the cross in front and the icon that seemed to be made of bronze, as well as the incomparable-looking

A luxurious, but at the same time, a pipe organ with a full sense of age.

Looking up at the high dome, Wei Ran did not step in. Instead, he took out a pair of climbing crampons he had bought at an outdoor store from his bag and put them on his shoes.

In addition to providing better grip, the crampons also use those spikes to prevent dust from destroying the ground and leaving indelible footprints.

He carefully stepped on the ground with one foot and tried it. Seeing that only a few match-sized marks would be left, he turned on the flashlight function of his mobile phone and walked to the center of the church with confidence.

If his memory was correct, the windows with muzzle flashes on the ruins of the castle in the oil paintings originally found in Dominic's home seemed to come from this church.

Or to be more precise, it comes from the wall behind the icon of this church.

He carefully walked to the left side of the sacred elephant and opened the wooden door. It was just a stairwell leading to the underground. At the same time, he also noticed that there were some old-looking hangings on the three walls of the stairwell.

oil paintings, and what is drawn in these oil paintings seems to be this hidden castle.

Thinking about the four-meter-high platform when we first came up, it seems reasonable that there is another layer below the church.

However, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to go down. Instead, he closed the door, walked to the right side of the holy elephant, and opened the wooden door here.

Compared with the stairwell just now, the space here is much larger, and there is even a particularly beautiful fireplace. In the fireplace, a smoked black Dutch pot is hung on an iron hook, and

A similarly dark German lunch box.

There was no window on the left side of the fireplace, but there was a wooden staircase spiraling up against the wall. He glanced up and saw that it seemed to be the bell tower of the church. He could even see the copper hanging on it.

bell.

And on the right side of the fireplace, next to the door, is the only window in this not-so-large room.

It should be this window... Wei Ran stood in front of the window and muttered.

He opened the curtains that seemed to be in ruins and took a look outside. What he didn't expect was that this window was actually a three-story window.

It can be clearly seen that the two layers inside and outside should have been installed later. They are two complete pieces of large glass with excellent transparency.

But the middle floor is similar to the style of this church. On the pieces of colored glass, there are also paintings of religious figures or scenes that Wei Ran cannot understand. Some of the pieces of glass are even cracked.

There were even some rusty bullet casings and a tin can that seemed to be used as an ashtray on the window sill that was sealed between the two layers of glass.

They are all filled with bullet casings from Mauser rifle bullets. Could this be a sniper spot?

Wei Ran thought to himself, then closed the curtains again, turned around and left the room, and once again got into the stairwell.

First, he took a few photos of the oil paintings on the wall, and then he stepped on the stone steps and went downstairs. But what he didn't expect was that when he walked down the stairs to the end, there was a dark path directly in front of him.

cast iron door.

He tried pushing, but nothing moved. He tried to pull it out, but he couldn't even think about it. There was no handle on the door at all. Even if he wanted to pick the lock, he couldn't do it, because not only was there no handle, but

There is no keyhole yet.

After careful inspection, Wei Ran decisively chose to give up and turned around and walked back to the church along the stairs.

Could it be that the clues are in the main building that looks like a rough house? No, there are rooms under the platform!

Wei Ran patted the top of his head, carefully opened the door and restored it to its original position, then locked the door, went down the steps on the side of the platform, and then pried open the locked door.

This time, he finally had a new clue.

What he never expected was that the space under the platform not only contained rooms such as a mill, a well, a kitchen, a warehouse and even a flower room with only flower pots, there was even a car parked in it.

A very retro style carriage. There is obviously a garage door directly in front of the carriage, but it is completely covered with red bricks, and the existence of the door cannot even be seen from the outside.

But compared to these, what really concerned Wei Ran was the imperial gray half-track motorcycle without any number or pattern parked in the carriage narrator.

On the tow truck connected to the half-track motorcycle, there were not only a set of 80mm caliber GR34 mortars, two engineer shovels and an axe, but also six iron mortars.

Artillery ammunition boxes and a Wehrmacht oil drum that smelled of gasoline.

He tried to pick up one of the ammunition boxes, and the heavy weight immediately made him frown. He carefully placed it on the ground and opened it. As expected, there were three 80mm caliber mortar shells inside, or to be more precise,

These are three Type 39 air burst bombs equipped with long rod fuses!

And this kind of ammunition was exactly one of the weapons used by German soldiers to attack American soldiers in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest!

Thanks to the special long-rod fuze used in this mortar shell, it can explode in the air at a certain distance from the ground. Such an explosion can also overcome the impact of dense forests on the explosion damage of the shell.

In fact, because the American soldiers at that time were trained to lie down immediately when encountering artillery fire instead of hiding under a big tree, more lives were taken away by such volley-exploding mortars.

Could it be that Dominic and his uncle were actually members of the mortar team at that time?

After Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, he finally put the iron ammunition box back into its original position in the trailer.

If it is true as I guessed, then there should be two Germans at that time, because this type of mortar required four people to operate it at the time. But there was a problem. A half-track

The motorcycle obviously cannot seat four people.

And an ace sniper who can get a pistol as a gift from Himmler will never control a mortar, etc.!

Wei Ran was suddenly stunned. If Dominic's uncle was really an ace sniper, why did he choose the semi-automatic G43 rifle?

The hidden castle, the incompatible weapons, and the employer who is unwilling to disclose the past but wants to find the family... As expected, the two million and seven million US dollars are not so easy to get, why is this matter getting more and more complicated?

...

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and then began to think about the clues he had so far, and which item he should use to return to the war to help Dominic find his heir.
Chapter completed!