Chapter 158: 1,000 Tons of Gold! The Eyes of the Whole World Converge Here!

At the same time!

Zurich!

Bahnhofstrasse!

After Chu Chen finished this phone call, team after team of fully armed special forces withdrew from the bank!

On the plaza, the tall and thin deputy commander walked while questioning Virgil in confusion:

"Sir, what exactly happened? Why the sudden retreat? We have already secured the first floor of the bank and were about to launch an attack on the basement level. If you just give me five more minutes, I will definitely catch that guy!"

Virgil said as he walked, "I don't know either; it was an order from above."

"FIS?" the deputy commander asked again.

Virgil nodded.

"Why would it be like this?" he said again.

Hearing this, Virgil sighed and analyzed slowly: "The FIS must also be acting under orders; the ones truly making the decisions must be the federal top brass. I suspect it has to do with that video he posted online; that video played a decisive role." Virgil explained to the tall and thin deputy commander while stepping onto the command vehicle.

"What video?"

"A video that can let him walk away unscathed," Virgil answered word for word.

His words left the deputy completely bewildered and utterly confused.

The next second, he asked again: "Then what do we do now? Are we just going to watch him mess around inside?"

Virgil did not respond. After boarding the command vehicle, he casually opened an energy drink and downed it in one gulp!

Immediately after, he let out a long breath, walked slowly to the front of the tall and thin man, and shoved the empty drink bottle into his hand:

"This matter is no longer something we can control. Execute the order, soldier."

Having said that, he stepped off the command vehicle.

Virgil was right.

Right now, this matter had indeed exceeded the scope of what they could control.

As early as the moment he received the order, he had realized this point.

Unsurprisingly, that video must have touched upon some kind of official taboo!

Otherwise, none of this would make any sense at all!

A criminal in a desperate situation, at such a critical juncture, actually managing to escape danger—the twists and turns in this must certainly not be simple!

……

At this moment, outside the cordon.

Seeing the soldiers withdraw from the bank, some fanatical fans wearing V for Vendetta masks started screaming again, and some even directly clashed with the management personnel on the scene!

Their demands were very simple: they wanted the authorities to disclose the truth of the matter, and they kept shouting:

"Truth!"

"Truth!"

"Truth!"

At the same time, the level of attention on the internet regarding this matter was also extremely high!

On all major social media platforms, almost everything was about the follow-up discussions of the video, both domestically and abroad!

No. 1 on the Weibo trending list!

No. 1 on the TikTok trending list!

No. 1 on Twitter's trending topics!

It was all this video!

As of now, the total number of views for this video on YouTube has exceeded 5 billion, and it is still climbing!

Below the video with the highest heat, comments in the languages of various countries directly filled the entire comment section!

【My God, what kind of secret does this guy know that he could actually make those special forces give up the assault?】

【If this secret is exposed, it must be explosive news!】

【I am very curious, how did he know the whereabouts of that gold?】

【This guy is a master hacker; what kind of information can't he get?】

【This guy is simply doing whatever he wants; luckily he isn't a real criminal... otherwise, police all over the world would be in trouble!】

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At the same time.

Inside the bank.

While the heat on the internet was gradually fermenting, the three welders had already successfully cut through the steel plate!

At this time, the water level on the floor of the vault was continuously rising at a speed of 1 centimeter per second, and it was already on the verge of passing the halfway mark!

Due to the urgent time, after connecting the Decompression Chamber, one welder took his tools and crawled inside, preparing to complete the final welding!

He had to finish this work before the water level rose to the top, and there could not be any mistakes in the process.

Otherwise, this vault would immediately become his tomb.

At the current rate of the rising water, the time left for him was at most five minutes.

In order to complete the welding within the stipulated time, after crawling in through the Decompression Chamber, he did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately began welding, choosing to turn a blind eye to the gold placed right in front of him!

Right now, to him at this moment, these things were all worldly possessions.

At this life-or-death juncture, staying alive was the top priority.

However, as bystanders in the live stream, their attention was not on this welder at all!

That endless expanse of gold was the true focus of their attention!

Compared to the gold here, the gold reserves outside were not even worth mentioning.

Even by a conservative estimate, there was over 1,000 tons of this gold, stacked neatly block by block on display shelves.

Every single block was stamped with the portrait of the bearded man, looking as brand new as if it had just come off the assembly line yesterday.

Seeing this scene, the live stream chat exploded:

【Holy crap! There really is gold in here!】

【Awesome!】

【There's probably over a thousand tons; if Chu Chen steals all this gold, the Program Team will definitely go bankrupt...】

【This is too heaven-defying, how did he find this gold?!】

【I'm so envious I'm drooling! Damn it! If you gave me just one bar, I'd be rich!】

【Following Chu Chen's usual principles, he definitely won't take this gold away. Those who want to get rich, book your tickets now and fly to Switzerland!】

【Holy crap, good idea!】

Someone in the live stream said exactly that.

It immediately woke the dreamers up.

In order to get a piece of the pie, many people actually started taking action.

In an instant, in less than five minutes, all arrival tickets to major international airports in Switzerland were sold out, creating a spectacle of a nationwide flight stoppage!

Because of this, flight tickets to several surrounding countries were also affected to varying degrees.

Every major transportation hub within Switzerland was no exception, with long queues forming everywhere.

During this time, the Pursuit Team also successfully arrived in Switzerland!

But due to traffic jams, after leaving the airport, they were stranded on the intercity highway in Zurich; given the current situation, it was estimated they wouldn't be getting out anytime soon.

"What the hell, what's going on? Why is it suddenly so jammed?"

Looking at the long queue ahead, Chen Xiong asked, confused.

Hearing this, Zhou Yun replied:

"I don't know, but I suspect that guy Chu Chen is behind this. Just now, I heard two Frenchmen in the car ahead chatting, and they mentioned Chu Chen, saying they were going to find some gold."

"He hasn't already succeeded, has he?" Zhuang Yan, sitting in the back seat, questioned.

Zhou Yun shook his head, just about to answer.

But just then, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang, directly interrupting his train of thought...