Chapter 153: Is Picking a Lock Simpler Than Opening a Door?

"Creak—!"

Accompanied by a series of strange sounds, the circular steel door, over a meter thick, swung open with a boom!

The next second, rows of sensor lights on the vault ceiling flickered on one after another!

Under the dazzling incandescent lights, stack upon stack of reserve gold bars, as tall as a person, were arranged very neatly on the floor!

All of this gold was the reserve gold of the Swiss National Bank!

The estimated total weight was at least several hundred tons, providing a visual impact that was truly shocking!

Seeing this scene, the comments in the live stream suddenly surged!

【Holy crap!】

【So much gold!】

【It blinded my Titanium Alloy dog eyes!】

【Must be several hundred tons!】

【Good heavens, this much?】

【This is basically the entire gold reserve of a country, not that much...】

【That one piece is worth 1 million Huaxia Yuan, how much money is this???】

After the door opened, Chu Chen walked in immediately.

But his gaze did not linger on these gold bars for too long; he only gave them a rough glance before walking straight to the very back of the vault, stopping in front of another password door at the end.

The password for this door was much more complex than the previous one, and the craftsmanship was also extremely refined; one look and it was clearly the work of a master.

Arriving before the door, Chu Chen turned around and beckoned Bayer to his side, asking, "Bank President, where does this door lead?"

Bayer was stunned and said with some difficulty:

"To be honest with you, I don't know..."

Hearing this, Chu Chen raised an eyebrow at him.

The next second, he hurriedly continued to explain:

"Mr. Chu, please don't misunderstand, I really don't know about this..."

Seeing that Chu Chen did not believe him, he spoke again with great agitation: "Everything I said is true, I can swear to God, I am absolutely not lying to you! I don't even know the password to this door! As far as I know, it hasn't been opened for a very long time..."

After Bayer finished speaking, Chu Chen smiled at him inexplicably, then walked straight to the big door and gently brushed the dust off it with his hand:

"During World War II, there was a world-renowned top locksmith in Germany named Hans Wagner. Bank President, have you heard his story?"

Hearing this, Bayer nodded and said: "I've heard of it... I watched the movie adapted from his true experiences. Why did you suddenly bring this person up?"

Chu Chen did not pay him any mind and continued from the previous topic:

"This guy is hailed as the father of mechanical passwords. The rotary mechanical combination lock he developed has not been cracked by anyone to this day."

"Back then, this legendary locksmith manufactured many high-precision, advanced safes and mechanical combination locks for the German military. This password door is his proudest masterpiece. After completing this masterpiece, he locked himself in a safe, sank to the deepest part of the English Channel, and ended his legendary life."

"This door has a total of three password dials, and each dial corresponds to a six-digit mechanical password... Do you know how many combinations a six-digit mechanical password corresponds to?"

Bayer shook his head.

"One million. Calculating it this way, three dials mean three million combinations. To crack this combination lock, one must find the correct answer among these three million password combinations, and one absolutely cannot make a mistake. Only when the passwords for all three dials are correct will the door open."

"In the process of cracking it, as long as one digit of the password is wrong, the lock core will immediately lock up."

Speaking of this, Chu Chen let out a long breath, as if sighing about something: "This is absolutely a rare work of art..."

Hans Wagner, this legendary locksmith, had already become world-famous as early as the 1920s for his exquisite lock-making skills!

At that time, the vaults and safes of important institutions in many countries across Europe were all his handiwork.

To prove that his lock-making craftsmanship was unrivaled, after completing his final work for the Swiss Bank, he climbed directly into a safe, sank into the sea, and used his actions to achieve his final legend.

And the facts were exactly so!

Even now, no one has been able to successfully crack his work.

What the people of Huaxia call an "eternal masterpiece" is nothing more than this!

This legend of Hans Wagner was even adapted into a movie last year, which won countless awards and attracted a lot of attention.

At this moment, in the live stream!

After listening to Chu Chen's introduction, the viewers also became interested and started posting comments one after another:

【Impressive...】

【Holy crap, is this the work of that master locksmith?】

【Hans Wagner, I've seen the movie adapted from his true experiences. This guy is definitely a badass figure; the only drawback is that he seems to have been a Nazi...】

【This combination lock looks very complex at first glance; the Germans' attainments in this area are indeed powerful!】

【Hans Wagner, the father of modern mechanical locks, a particularly badass figure!】

【I just want to know now, what is behind this door? Even the Bank President doesn't know the password here?】

【Good heavens, God Chu, you have successfully piqued my curiosity!】

【Hurry up, hurry up!】

After Chu Chen finished speaking, Bayer asked timidly: "How... how do you know these things?"

"Heh."

Chu Chen smiled and did not answer his question directly. Instead, he placed his hand directly on the first password dial on the left, slowly turning it while feeling the changes and vibrations of the various gears inside the lock core!

"Click, click, click!"

As the dial turned, the sound of the gears colliding became clearer and clearer.

Relying on these sounds and the system's God-level Lock Picking, Chu Chen took less than a minute to complete the cracking of the first password.

Immediately after, the second and third were the same!

The next second, before everyone had figured out what was going on, the vault door had already opened in response!

Seeing this scene, Bayer beside him widened his eyes, his expression impossible to fathom!

The hostages behind him were the same, all looking at Chu Chen as if looking at a monster!

【Holy crap, what is going on?】

【It opened just like that?】

【@Program Team, no, did you give us the wrong script?】

【Is Lock Picking easier than opening a door?】

【???】

【So awesome...】

【It took less than a minute in total to open it...】

【This Lock Picking technique is truly divine!】

The live stream comments kept coming one after another, unable to stop at all!

Chu Chen did not pay any attention to the astonished gazes of the crowd and walked straight inside.

Compared to the previous one, this vault had almost no difference in structure, only the space was a little larger.

Because it had not been opened for many years, the strange smell inside was very strong.

Walking all the way to the end, one could clearly see a Nazi symbol carved on the wall.

If there were no surprises, behind this wall should be the final destination of this mission—the storage place for the Nazi Gold!

As long as the relevant equipment arrives, everything here will soon see the light of day again!