This St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral is indeed a Christian church, so although this church looks much larger than the Catholic church in San Fernando, the interior decoration of this church is much simpler than that of the Catholic church.

After all, due to the differences in doctrine, there are also huge differences in interior decoration between Catholic churches and Christian churches.

But no matter what, Catholicism and Christianity, that is, Protestantism, both belong to Christianity. It is only in China. Because of translation, Protestantism is called "Christianity". In fact, the correct name of Catholicism should be called "Roman Catholicism". As for the other one of the three major schools of Christianity, it is Orthodox.

In fact, the difference between Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism can be distinguished from the decoration of the church. The interior decoration of Roman Catholic Church, that is, Catholic churches, is mostly magnificent, whether it is walls, glass or domes, is painted everywhere.

In contrast, the interior decoration of Protestant churches is much simpler. It is said that this is because of concern that believers are distracted by the gorgeous decoration inside the church and cannot believe in Christ Jesus wholeheartedly, so they make the interior decoration of the church very simple.

In addition, the person in charge of the Catholic church is often called a priest, while the person in charge of the Protestant church is often called a pastor.

However, these two churches also have something in common, that is, there are cemeteries about the church.

Whether it is Catholic or Protestant, there are generally three relationships between churches and cemeteries. The first relationship is that the cemetery is outside the church, the second one is that the cemetery is in the basement below the church, and the third one is that the coffin is placed directly on the floor of the church.

The first tomb chambers are mostly buried with ordinary believers; while the second tomb chambers are mostly buried with important figures among believers; as for the third type, the type that places the coffin directly on the floor of the church, they are extremely important figures who have made great contributions to the church, and they can enjoy this high honor after death.

Of course, not all churches have cambridges. Some churches that were built very early were unable to build cambridges under the church due to the construction technology or local conditions at that time. For example, the Catholic church in San Fernando was the case.

The St. Williams Metropolitan Cathedral was built for only one century, and construction technology has long been no longer a problem. Therefore, there is a large and deep caucus under the church, with three floors, nearly ten meters deep.

Even Yang Jing was a little surprised by the magnificence of the cathedral after entering the cathedral. You must know that this church was built around 1900 and could have built such a huge three-story basement more than a hundred years ago. Moreover, the Philippines is a country in many earthquakes. The church has been able to remain intact for more than a hundred years. This has to be said to be a big miracle.

Chris completed his task perfectly. In fact, it was very easy to complete such a task. No matter what the reason was, it was not as good as the promised large amount of money.

Chris just told his thoughts to the great pastor here, and promised that if the church allowed his predecessors to be buried in the caucus, he would donate $300,000 to the church, but he needed to go down and take a look at the caucus.

Money can make ghosts. Although the $300,000 has not been obtained, even the promised $300,000 will be immediately asked the great priest to allow Chris to take two people down to see the caucus.

This is $300,000, almost half of the donations received by going to this church in a year! How can such a big money owner easily offend? Isn’t it just going down to take a look? What’s there? There are all places where coffins are placed below, what’s the gloomy look?

So the great priest sent someone to lead Chris, the big money master, into the caucus. Of course, Yang Jing followed Chris as a sermon this time.

There is still a big gap between the thinking of Westerners and Easterners. For example, the views on cemeteries are completely different.

In the thinking of Orientals, especially Chinese, the more you look, the better the cemetery is, and there is a difference between yin and yang. Living people cannot be too close to dead people, otherwise major events will happen.

In the eyes of Westerners, cemeteries are sacred places. Most Westerners build their houses near cemeteries to get the protection of their ancestors. In the church, the tomb chambers are directly built under the floor of the church.

Although Yang Jing did not believe in ghosts and gods, he grew up in China and heard a lot of stories about ghosts and gods. If he didn't believe in gods, he suddenly entered this gloomy caucus and could not help but stand a little hair on his hair.

The basement is a brick and stone structure, with arches formed between the thick brick and stone columns. These dense arches assume the responsibility of supporting the weight of the building above. The four walls of the basement are not the walls ground with cement that Yang Jing imagined, but also brick and stone walls.

This made Yang Jing feel very strange. The cathedral itself is located by the river. In theory, the groundwater level should be very high. If the basement is built in such a place, if the waterproofing is not done properly, the basement will have been flooded with the groundwater that has emerged.

But there was nothing wrong here. Even in the third basement, which was about ten meters deep underground, there were no water stains in the basement except that it felt very wet and cold.

"Is there waterproofing measures inside the wall?" Yang Jing thought for a while, then shook his head and cut off the idea of ​​thinking from this aspect. He is not an architecture expert, and he is not here to study the basement structure of this church. He is here to hunt for treasures. If you don't understand these messy things, you won't understand them.

Like the upper two floors, the basement of the third floor is full of densely packed shelves of brick and stone buildings. On these brick and stone shelves, there are sarcophagus one by one, and the coffin lids of each stone coffin are carved with the shape of a person. Yang Jing knew that this human-shaped carving is actually the posture of the person in the coffin before his life.

This cathedral covers a large area, so the area of ​​the cathedral is not small. There are probably hundreds of such sarcophagus on each floor.

So many sarcophagus are placed densely together, and when combined with the wet and cold air here, it really makes people shudder...

If it were normal times, Yang Jing would not have come to such a place if he was full. However, this time he came here for another purpose, so he simply stopped focusing on these sarcophagus, but walked towards the place where the treasure light emerged.

The pastor who followed him went back on the second floor with an excuse for something to do. It seems that even the pastor of the church was unwilling to come to such a place. It is estimated that the pastor was also very clear about the situation below. Apart from the sarcophagus and sarcophagus, there was no point in paying attention to it. Even if he didn't have to follow these three people, he would not worry about the trouble these three people could cause below.

The priest did not follow, which greatly facilitated Yang Jing's actions. So after reaching the third floor, he just delayed slightly and walked to a corner located in the northeast corner of the basement, because the precious light emerged from this location.

This church has existed for more than a hundred years, so the sarcophagus in the basement have long been filled with them. Even in the northeast corner of this third floor, they are also filled with sarcophagus.

However, when he arrived here, Yang Jing could clearly see the location where the treasure light appeared. To Yang Jing's surprise, these treasures were not placed in a sarcophagus as he thought, but were actually inside the wall!

Obviously, after the Japanese occupied Lavag, this most luxurious church naturally became an important stronghold for the Japanese. However, when the Japanese surrendered, the treasures that were not too late to take away were hidden in the basement of the cathedral by the Japanese.

However, in order to prevent these treasures from being discovered by others, the Japanese did not put the treasures in the sarcophagus, but instead carved out the basement walls in the northeast corner of the third floor of the basement, dug out an additional basement, and then put the treasures in, sealing the basement walls from outside.

In this way, there are sarcophagus and walls outside for cover. I guess no one would have thought that there were still a large number of treasures hidden in this location!

If Yang Jing had not had the Heavenly Eye skills and had discovered the slightly leaked treasure lights, otherwise he would not have thought that there would be treasures hidden in such a place!

I can only say that the Japanese are cunning!

It is obvious that the Japanese devils knew very well that even if they were defeated, the Americans would not have any doubts about such ancient churches after they re-accepted the Philippines. Because of faith, it was too late for those Americans to protect these churches, so how could they destroy these churches? Therefore, hiding treasures under the chapel is the safest.

It is estimated that there are many Japanese devils who have this idea, otherwise there would not be a large number of treasures buried under the Catholic church in San Fernando.

The treasures hidden under these two churches were indeed not discovered by the Americans. Of course, this may have a lot to do with the fact that the information of these two hidden places was not leaked. Yang Jing was even sure that the defeated Japanese devils would definitely not tell such hidden places. After all, there are a large number of treasures hidden in this place, and it is very likely that they were collected from several places to hide.

Even for the senior Japanese figures, I guess they know very little about this kind of hidden place.

I just don’t know how Alfred got such exact news back then, and even marked the coordinates and locations.

Unfortunately, Alfred, the leader of the three masters of DuPont family, spent a lot of effort to create the eight hidden places. He didn't have time to dig, but in the end he was all cheaper.

"There are a lot of treasures buried underground in two churches in the eight places. Does that mean that there are more than these two churches that the Japanese buried treasures back then? Perhaps there are a lot of treasures buried underground in some churches in Manila, Batangas, Davao, and Cebu? Well, this possibility is actually very high. So should we wait until we have the opportunity to go to churches in those big cities in the future?"

Yang Jing touched his chin and thought, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised...
Chapter completed!