Chapter 77

At this moment, Oscar Prince took something out of his bag and threw it to Wilhelm. "By the way, son, here's a little gift for you."

"A gift?" He reached out and received a palm-sized, glittering golden metal piece with exquisite engravings. Though he couldn't understand the meaning of the pattern, the weight of the object made him instantly realize what it was. "This is gold?!"

Oscar Prince remained nonchalant. "Of course, it's gold."

Wilhelm weighed the gold piece in his hand; it must have been at least two pounds, and in modern times, it would be worth around three hundred thousand. "Where did it come from?"

Oscar Prince casually replied, "Oh, this? I stole it from a pyramid in Egypt."

"Stole, you stole it?" Wilhelm never expected a grand imperial prince to engage in petty theft. Wait, there was a nickname for a king in Egypt called 'Cairo Thief,' was this Oscar Prince trying to blend in with the locals?

But it was stolen from a pyramid? "Is this a pharaoh's treasure?"

Oscar Prince shrugged. "Who knows? It was just lying there."

Wilhelm was genuinely shocked. "Lying there? Many of them?"

Oscar Prince looked around the living room and gestured with his hand in a circle. "There were about half of this room, I guess."

"What the hell!" Wouldn't that be at least a few hundred tons?! "So, you just stole this much?"

Was he really treating money like dirt? You couldn't lift a hundred pounds of stone, but you wouldn't mind carrying a hundred pounds of gold?

Prince Oscar shook his head. "No way, when we discovered that pile of treasures, we were thrilled. All our bags and pockets were stuffed with gold. But the way out was like a maze, we kept going in circles and couldn't find the exit. Eventually, exhausted, we had to abandon the gold we brought. It was only after we got out that we realized we left this piece behind."

Wilhelm was stunned by the story; he never thought such a thing could happen. "So how did you manage to escape?"

This time his mother answered, "On the fourth day, we felt like we would die in there. Your father, without a second thought, used the explosives we brought to blast through the walls. We had to blast through four walls before we finally managed to escape."

Wilhelm listened in amazement and blurted out, "Could it be a pharaoh's curse?!"

Oscar Prince rolled his eyes, looking rather disdainful. "Nonsense, it's just a simple maze trick. We frightened ourselves because we were trapped, and our minds couldn't figure it out at the time."

Wilhelm nodded in agreement, knowing that in modern times, the so-called "pharaoh's curse" had been debunked as a mere work of communication. "So, was that treasure discovered by someone else?" He couldn't help but feel regretful. It would have been great to possess all that gold and silver.

"No, I collapsed the entire pyramid with explosives."

"Collapsed?!" Wilhelm realized he was having trouble keeping up with this prince's train of thought.

"In the first place, I was annoyed by the wandering inside for so long, and secondly, if I had brought out a large amount of gold, there was a risk of being discovered. In the end, it would have only benefited Egypt and the UK. So, I piled all the explosives I could find into the passages of the pyramid and brought it down completely. After blasting it, I discovered that the space beneath the pyramid was far beyond my imagination. Only the tip of the pyramid remained above ground. I guess the Egyptian government wouldn't expend resources to dig a pyramid that they had already explored."

Wilhelm couldn't help but give him a thumbs-up. "Well done!"

Oscar Prince took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over. "That's why, my son, you must invade Egypt in the future and excavate that treasure. This is the latitude and longitude of that pyramid."

Wilhelm hurriedly reached out to take the piece of paper, promising, "Of course, but wait, how do you know I will conquer Egypt? No, how do you know I will start a war?"

Oscar Prince displayed a mysterious expression. "You seem to have created an 'economic miracle.' Unemployment in the German realm is almost extinct, economic growth exceeds 20%, and everything is thriving. But it's merely a short-term stimulation plan. If you don't expand and open up markets, Germania will only self-destruct. Do you have any other choice?"

Heh! Wilhelm realized he had underestimated this Oscar Prince. "Since you know that war is inevitable in the future, why won't you lead it?"

Oscar Prince smiled faintly. "Because I am a lover of peace. I can't bring myself to initiate a war that would cause millions of people to suffer in the flames of war."

His words made sense, but Wilhelm couldn't tell if he was serious or joking. "So you're leaving me to carry this burden?"

Oscar Prince patted his shoulder warmly. "Well, you seem to enjoy it too. Ever since you took over as the crown prince, you've been preparing for the next war, haven't you? Do well, my son, I have faith in you."

"..." Wilhelm found it hard to find a second word to describe his old man, other than being both brilliantly wise and seemingly foolish.

At this moment, his mother chimed in, "Son, blame yourself for being so capable. Your father said last time that if you couldn't handle it, only then would he inherit the throne. He didn't expect you to be so capable, so he can comfortably continue being an explorer."