Chapter 1: In the Venice

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'The Talented Heisters' were in Venice, on a large yellow speed boat running on 'Grand Canal', the largest canal in Venice. The speed boat was being driven by Alexis. Then when, their male leader Ferdous said, "Today is the day for our dream to come true. We've been planning to do this heist. So this is the day, my fellows. Right now we are going to Castello, a residential area in Venice." "Why, Ferdous sir ?", asked Alexis. Then Ginevra replied, "In Castello, there is a 5 storied-apartment called 'La Dolce Casa'. We're going to stay on the ground floor because on the 1st floor is the thing, which we will steal, the golden statue of 'Mama Quilla'(a goddess of Incas) which worth is 90 million US$ Dollars. If we steal that we'll be very rich."
Everyone cheered hearing that. Then when Nusaba asked about the history of golden statue of Mama Quilla. Ferdous, when tried to say, Ginevra interrupted and said, "I'll tell, Mr. Ferdous. You shall rest". Ferdous then said angrily, " You always interrupt me." Everybody laughed then including Ginevra. Ferdous then whispered to Tyana, "I just simply hate this women, you know...." "What you said ?!?", asked Ginevra. " Nothing !!! You just go on narrating the history, please.", replied Ferdous. Ginevra narrated that
A 10 kg weighted golden statue of goddess named 'Mama Quilla' was made by the Incas at around 1389 A.D. It was kept in a temple of the Incas which is now located in Peru. Then when the Portuguese and Spanish soldiers conquered Inca Civilization at around 15th century, many of their golds and golden antiques were being taken to Portugal and Spain, making those countries rich. Among the gold statues, was the golden statue of Mama Quilla which was being taken to Spain. On the way to Spain, the ship was attacked by Arabian pirates and the pirates took many of the gold and golden antiques including the 'Golden Statue of Mama Quilla' and sold them to many rich merchants in Italy in 1500 A.D. One of the rich merchant Mr. Giuseppe Esposito brought that golden statue of Mama Quilla. Then in 1920, the 2nd great grandson of Mr. Giuseppe, Mr. Diego Esposito, had to sell the statue to Italian Government as ordered by the Italian government. The statue was then kept in Rome Museum. That year, the Italian government also brought the other Incan antiques from the families who were hoarding them since the time of Mr. Giuseppe. But in 1991, the Rome Museum was attacked by a Italian mafia gang named 'Cattivi Birbanti' . There were a lot of encounters with the police and gangsters around the museum and many innocents were killed and also injured. But, agents of 'Cattivi Birbanti' successfully took away the golden statue of Mama Quilla and and other Incan gold antiques from the museum.
After narrating all these, Ginevra said, "Now we've solid information that the Mama Quilla gold statue is been kept in the left side house, 1st floor in 'La Dolce Casa' apartment. So, we're going there to stay in the left side house of ground floor, which'll be right under that house where the statue is kept. In that house, only two friends live named Marco and Antonio, who're the agents of Cattivi Birbanti. They are guarding the statue. We'll steal that very easily. Isn't it, fellas ?" "Yes", everybody confidently screamed.

After some time they reached a narrow lane in Castello where both sides were decorated with old but beautiful buildings. Then they spotted the apartment 'La Dolce Casa'. Then they entered the boat garage(in Venice, most residential buildings have a garage at ground floor connected with the canals where boats can be docked) of the apartment and docked their speed boat there and entered in their designated house on the left side, right below the house where the statue is kept.

Then they took out all their necessary materials from their bagpacks including a laptop, portable ladder, guns loaded with bullets, grenades and some devices. Afolabi then showed a 2 inch sized robotic remote-controlled cockroach with its eyes being mini cameras which can be connected to the laptop. Afolabi explained that the cockroach's eyes have the ability to scan. "So, it'll scan closets, vaults, cupboards, boxes and every possible places where the statue can be", said Afolabi. It also has the ability to record sounds and also fly like a real cockroach. Everybody cheered. Ferdous said, "No time to cheer. Start the proceedings. Connect it to the laptop."

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