The Adventures of Treasure Hunters – 1 season - Chapter 54：It seems the story with the treasure is clearing up

Treasure hunting as a gold market with precious stones during the Second Empire was under the supervision and management of the Ministry of State Security. Behind the seeming anonymity, there was a strict accounting.

Any new player from the outside was noticed and covert surveillance was established behind him. Especially during the struggle of intelligence, North and West. Those who sold gold or coins, they themselves were agents of the ministry, or they were bandits or spies and their agents. Therefore, this market has always been well controlled. The second empire fell, but the rules of the precious metals market remained. There were standard procedures. Any new player was being monitored, the ministry’s external management services. Within 1-3 months they checked the person, who he is, with whom he contacts, the ways of his routes. His phone was set to audition. If there was an upsurge in his house, covert listening to the rooms was established. Especially the kitchen.

Checked including garbage from home and work. Since the garbage could be important documents or other information that could reveal what a person wanted to hide. By garbage, professionals could easily compose a psychological portrait of a person, find out his preferences and his whole life.

In some corporations, the internal security service checked trash cans, sometimes the heads of laboratory departments were removed. Due to the fact that they were negligent in working with closed materials. Recycling them not through a shredder or burning them in special stoves, but throwing them simply in the trash.

If during this period no suspicious contacts with enemy spies or foreigners have been detected. That observation was shot for such a person, but his case remained in the file cabinet, the database of the ministry. So just in case.

Baraz knew about this. He did not scare the guys, but decided that it would be easier for them and for himself. Just at the end of his career in the secret police, Baraz oversaw this direction. And so he had his own channels in the new structure related to the protection of state security. In addition, Baraz’s thin nose immediately realized that these treasures probably have roots associated with Operation Emir’s Gold. It was carried out from 1925 to 1935. This was a classic example, the counterintelligence operation of the People’s Commissar of State Security, to identify hidden espionage cells, remnants of the old regime of the second empire and sympathetic foreign investors.

The operation included laying the Emir’s treasures, whoever came for them was either caught or monitored and then the entire network of foreign intelligence was identified.

But in the 30s, the second wave of cleansing began in the ranks of the People’s Commissariat … therefore, some of the information about the operation “Emir’s Gold” was lost, as well as part of the treasures. Since the operation was closed, no data were preserved on how many caches there were, where they were located, and what the amount of treasures was.

In general, this operation was very successful, 80 percent.

Baraz himself listened to a course of lectures on this classic operation. Therefore, he immediately realized that this treasure, which Dara accidentally found, was one of these lost hiding places from the distant past. Therefore, he wanted to return the artifacts to the museum of his department. Fortunately, times have changed, and artifacts could be redeemed at market prices. Baraz did not initiate Dara and Fang into this story. They did not need to know about this.

Apparently, Dara quite by accident found one of the clues, one of the agents who led this game. During the purges, he did not manage to transfer the materials to his department, and he was probably sent to cut down the forest or had a different end. So the information on this key did not fall into the right hands. And the data verification specialist who is in every archive apparently missed this book. By allowing public access to it. This apparently happened already in the late 30s of the 20th century. Now you can’t find the ends, like those people, those books.

Apparently, Dara was able to find the key … Baraz repeated it again and again, the key! Not for nothing is the grandson of Firuza the Sage!

So, 30 more ruins of cities! This is probably not our project anymore, not the operation “Gold of the Emir”. But still wondering what else they will find? Thought Baraz.

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At night, Fang launched the “night monster” a large drone, he arrived from Dara not just to search for treasures, but to test new drones. It was just a good opportunity to check the operation of systems and software.

The drone flew absolutely silently, carrying with it two sabers and a box with revolvers and other junk. He completed a distance of 67 km in 40 minutes. Found by satellite data and coordinates. I threw the “Parcel” exactly in the center of the well and went back.

Barno and Dara were sleeping.

Baraz smoked.

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Early in the morning, Dara, Fang, Baraz and Barno went camping but not to the first ruins, but to the exit from the mountain gorge, to the fort …