Under the lining was a dark metal plate. Carefully, he moved the body to the side and discovered a round black metal trapdoor with a large iron ring in the center. As he pulled it, the trapdoor opened with a creak, revealing a vertical shaft with an iron ladder descending into the darkness.
Anyone would have closed the trapdoor again and fled. Daniel, on the other hand, began to go down.
An underground chamber full of symbols
After descending more than fifty steps, the young man’s feet touched a stone floor. The lantern revealed a circular underground room whose walls were covered with incomprehensible symbols and drawings. In the center was a second door, made of a white bone-like material, with no handle, only a hand-shaped slit.
Pressing the palm against the surface, the door slowly opened. What Daniel saw next made him scream: a huge room filled with hundreds of glass containers, inside which floated shapes reminiscent of small human figures.
The container in the center of the room
In the middle of the huge room was a heavy industrial container covered by a layer of dust. Daniel approached cautiously, took a deep breath, and lifted the lid. He froze: the container was full of gold bars.
“Grandpa… what have you done?” He whispered.
