Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

by Little Merger

An amateur web novel author was magically transferred to a parallel world. It didn’t take long for him to realize that, overall, the parallel world was similar to his. Yet, there were some considerable differences in the minor details. Leonard Ethan quickly learned that there were many things he could do in the new world. However, just as he was about to make a name for himself, he

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Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

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An amateur web novel author was magically transferred to a parallel world. It didn't take long for him to realize that, overall, the parallel world was similar to his. Yet, there were some considerable differences in the minor details. Leonard Ethan quickly learned that there were many things he could do in the new world. However, just as he was about to make a name for himself, he was forced to embark on a global treasure hunting journey because of a Card System. "You might be interested in the unique first-edition Holy Bible that can be found on the bookshelf in this old house. " "This basement isn't as plain as it seems. You might find something surprising if you look closely." Author's Other Novels Struggle in the Steam Age Myriad Realms Store Owner of Harry Potter

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In the outskirts of London, a van that looked half-new was parked in front of a red-brick Victorian townhouse. The rare sunshine in the British Isles shines on the white car and the road, making the area at the door of the room look much brighter.

In the house closest to the car, bursts of sounds of objects colliding came from the open window on the second floor.

"Bang -" A large pile of thick books and magazines was placed heavily on the ground from a bookshelf, and then some books originally hidden behind these books were revealed.

"It seems that my guess is correct. How can such a wide cabinet only hold one layer of books?" Liang En shined the flashlight into the depths of the bookshelf, and then used his hands with thick tool gloves to remove the items inside. The items were taken out.

Perhaps because these things have been inside for a long time, even on an island like the United Kingdom, which is not very dusty, these things are each covered with a not-so-thin layer of dust.

When these books were taken out from the partition of the bookcase, clouds of dust immediately filled the small room. Fortunately, Liang En was wearing a gas mask used for spray painting and was not hit.

For some reasons, Liang En did not engage in work related to what he studied after finishing college in Ireland. Instead, he chose to go to London to become a freelance treasure hunter.

Unfortunately, due to bad luck, all his work in the past two months was acting as a porter and recycling all kinds of junk.

But now Ji Tai finally came. After running through six houses in vain, he finally found something valuable in the seventh house that needed to be cleaned.

"If it doesn't work, I'll have to ask my parents for living expenses, so let me make a little more money this time -" Liang En muttered in a low voice while carrying things.

There weren't many books hidden behind the bookcase, and he didn't look so old that he might fall apart at any time. So it only took ten minutes for a dozen items to be laid out in a row on a table by the window.

These things all looked like books with leather or artificial leather covers. Considering that book prices across Europe are generally on the high side, hardcover books, even second-hand ones, can be sold for a considerable sum of money.

Next, there was another round of rummaging through the cabinets. After making sure that everything in the small living room had been checked and that nothing was missing, Liang En began to sort out the trophies that he had placed on the table in front of the window.

"Pride and Prejudice in 1962, The Hobbit in 1968, A Tale of Two Cities in 1951..."

After using a dry cloth to wipe off the thick dust on the covers of the books, Liang En discovered that these books were all hardcover books from before the 1970s.

Although these dozen or so books seemed to be some old books, after opening the books, Liang En found that basically all of these books were brand new and looked like they had no trace of being read at all.

Used books in the UK are not cheap, so these books can be sold for at least three to four hundred pounds.

Obviously, considering that the residents of these row houses are all low-income manual workers, they probably did not buy this hardcover literary book themselves.

Based on the current situation, Liang En easily judged that the previous residents should have obtained these books under some accidental circumstances, and then they were left here to eat ashes.

It wasn't until the landlord of the house wanted to sell the house that Liang En was hired to clean up the house, which had been abandoned for at least a year or two, and discovered the books.

This discovery made Liang En quite excited, because although these hardcover books were all mass merchandise, if you find the right place and sell them as second-hand books, you might be able to get them for four to five hundred pounds.

For his current job, he can't actually save much money from simple cleaning work. The real money comes from finding some good things that others don't want or forget during the cleaning process.

For example, the contract signed by Liang En this time was like this. The landlord paid Liang En only half of the market price, but it was specifically stated that except for the house itself, everything found would belong to him.

But whether you can find something good is purely a matter of luck. In the previous two months of cleaning work, Liang En's biggest achievement was to find a limited edition silver-shell zippo with carvings in a pile of garbage in a house, and then exchanged it for 150 yuan. Over ten pounds.

After checking all these expensive books, I packed them one by one in the big bag I brought. Liang En moved a stool from the side and took off the gas mask on his face and sat down facing the window. Then he breathed in the fresh air and stared at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky.

He is 24 years old and comes from a parallel space Earth. As a result, when I woke up two months ago, my life was changed and I became myself in another world.

After spending a few days summarizing the memories in his mind, Liang En discovered that the history, geography, and politics of the two worlds were very different, and they could be regarded as twin worlds.

For example, this world also has Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties, as well as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Even his relatives are the same as in the previous life, with almost no changes.

The word "almost" is used because overall there is not much difference between the two worlds, but in some small aspects, the two worlds are quite different.

For example, compared to himself in the previous world, Liang En's biggest change was from a Chinese to a Chinese-Irish.

The reason for such a change was that a relative who had been missing for more than half a century in this world chose Liang En's father as the heir, instead of one of his uncles in the original world.

As for the reason why I am doing this job now, it is also very simple, that is, in addition to my memory, I also have a heritage called historical explorer that comes with me here. To activate this cheat, a series of conditions must be met.

But what he didn't expect was that it was so difficult to make money from this job that the money he had now was just enough to survive.

"Cards." I thought of this. Liang En immediately used his mind to activate the only usable function of his golden finger, and then, in front of his retina, a card began to appear——

This is Liang En's current golden finger, and it is also the embodiment of that inheritance. Unfortunately, this card is now gray, which means it has not been successfully activated.

In the middle of the card, a line of golden text is floating on the card. [Exploration completed and can be activated]

"Huh?" Seeing the three words "activable" in the last status column, Liang En stood up from his seat suddenly, even knocking over the stool.

Because before this, the text in front of this line of text always showed that the exploration was not completed, and the last text also always showed the words "inactive".

"In other words, my behavior of finding these books was actually a recognized exploration, and neither reading books nor finding the silver lighter before was considered as such." After calming down, Liang En quickly summed up a pattern.

According to his guess, these books can barely be regarded as items of historical value, so finding these books is an exploration recognized by Goldfinger, and the previous lighter is obviously not as valuable as this in terms of historical value.

"Okay, let me see what you are -" After taking a deep breath, Liang En clicked on the card with his own consciousness.

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Just when Liang En used his energy to click on the card, the mental power was absorbed by the card in the blink of an eye. In an instant, a faint light emerged from his body and wrapped him in it, like a cocoon.

In just a moment, Liang En's figure disappeared little by little into the dusty living room, leaving only a pair of footprints to prove that someone was indeed standing here just now.

At this time, Liang En, who was in a cocoon of light, felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. Unknowingly, he closed his eyes and fell completely into darkness, entering an extremely mysterious dream.

He didn't know how long it took, but he felt as if a basin of ice water was flowing from the top of his head to his heart and all over his body. After a quick moment, all the feelings returned to the body.

Liang En suddenly opened his eyes and found that he was no longer in the abandoned living room, but in a completely unfamiliar room.

There are overflowing bookshelves all around, with all kinds of books stacked on them. It seems that this place should be a small bookstore.

After making sure the surroundings were safe, Liang En began to check himself, and found that he had now turned into a little white boy, and the fine linen shirt and silk coat on his body proved that he was now from a good family.

"It seems that I have become someone now." Liang En thought as he looked at a pair of white and tender little hands. "Since this profession is called a historical explorer, it is very likely that I am in an important historical event in some way now——"

Before he could finish thinking, a middle-aged white man appeared in front of him and handed over a rough newspaper. "Little Francois, this is today's "Egyptian Messenger". I believe you will like the content above."

"Thank you, Dad." Liang En subconsciously reached out his hand to take the newspaper, and then read it. After just reading a few lines, he realized that not only did he think that strange middle-aged man was his father, but he also learned French without any teacher.

"Francois, "Egyptian Courier", France 18th and 19th centuries -" Liang En quickly summarized the content he had just collected in his mind while quickly browsing the contents of the newspaper in his hand.

Finally, he found a key piece of content in the newspaper: - A black basalt stone tablet with three inscriptions was found near Rosetta -

"I am now Jean-François Champollion, a French historian, linguist, and the father of Egyptology." Liang En's eyes widened fiercely. Just when he was confirming his identity, a circle of fog appeared around him again.

When the fog cleared, the environment changed again. In the following time, Liang En made many jumps on the timeline. Whenever he recognized the general situation, he came to the next important point in time as if he had entered a time tunnel:

When he was 11 years old, Champollion entered Glenobu Public School and taught himself a variety of languages. He even got the nickname "Egyptian" for learning Coptic.

After graduating at the age of 17, he frantically researched the connection between Coptic and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in various libraries in Paris, leaving him impoverished and ragged.

At the age of 24, Champollion finally began to publish research results that attracted attention, and relied on royalties to get rid of his previous embarrassment.

And seven years later, when he was 31 years old. Champollion successfully summarized the Egyptian hieroglyphic interpretation system, which also represented the birth of Egyptology.

In the following days, Liang En followed Champollion's footsteps to Egypt for field investigation. He collected and copied a large number of hieroglyphic carvings and materials for research until he unfortunately died of a stroke at the age of 41.

After being wrapped in the thick fog for the last time, the professional inheritance card representing the historical explorer appeared in front of Liang En again.

It's just that this time the card is no longer gray because it has been activated, but has turned into an existence like colorful glass, and shines light around it.

Under Liang En's gaze, three smaller cards with different colors flew out from this card and surrounded it, and then some golden text appeared on each card.

"It seems that this inheritance can be used. Let me see what it is." Liang En thought about it and explored the past, and then observed the contents on these cards.

[History Explorer (Elementary) (UR): Time will always wear away a lot of things, but some beings can always gain knowledge, wealth, and power from history.

Professional card (permanent), unique. It is permanently bound to the user's soul and cannot be released. Other cards must be used through this card. 】

[Careful observation (R): Some people may not be able to find something for a long time when looking for it, but other people can find what they need in just a few minutes. I have to admit that there are differences between people.

Skill card (permanent) (passive), the owner has extremely keen observation of various existences around him, and can notice things that ordinary people often cannot notice. 】

[Proficient in language and writing (advanced) (R): Language and writing are the bridge for human beings to communicate. Many times, because of the language barrier. There was a lot of damage, even serious bloodshed, so it was always a good thing to know another foreign language.

Enhanced card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can read and write as fluently as your native language in all languages that you have mastered more than 10%. 】

[Detection (N): In order to find various items, in addition to making various preparations, luck is also an essential part. Now, this problem can be easily remedied.

Skill card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can detect and identify the item with the highest historical value within a maximum radius of 5m with yourself as the core. 】

"This is indeed a golden finger." After reading the current three cards, three and four, Liang En showed a satisfied smile on his face. Although he didn't know how to get new cards for the time being, he now has These cards are powerful enough.

"But how should I get out next?" Looking at the fog around him, Liang En showed a confused expression. But at this moment, he found that the fog around him suddenly dispersed, and he returned to the living room before.

"It seems that all you need to do is think about it." After finding that everything was back to normal, he nodded with satisfaction. Then I thought about how to use these cards.

For him, the most important job now is to ensure the safety of this golden finger when used. So the first thing he did was to summon the card and take out his phone to take a selfie of himself.

Sure enough, just like when he first got the golden finger, only he could see these cards even after they were activated. After confirming this, Liang En began to test the usefulness of these cards.

Careful observation of this card worked immediately. He quickly thought that among the books he had just browsed, the cover of "Ancient Middle Eastern Poetry" published in 1958 seemed different from the other books.

After taking out the book and observing it carefully, Liang En found that the spine of the book seemed to have been re-glued. After carefully destroying the glue with the knife he carried, he used tweezers to take out a small piece of paper.

"A scrap of paper left by Champollion when he was studying ancient Syriac." Opening the note, Liang En recognized what this piece of paper was at a glance, because he had written countless such notes in the fantasy just now. .

At the same time, he finally figured out the real reason why Goldfinger was activated. Obviously, it is not these not-so-old books that have the activating effect, but this small piece of paper with historical value.

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After realizing the effects of these cards, Liang En immediately activated the familiar language card that he had just received and was not yet familiar with it.

Because he realized that the memories he had in that illusion were quickly lost. If you don't use this card, the valuable knowledge you just gained will probably say goodbye to you forever.

After choosing that card, Liang En found that the card quickly turned into bronze powder and disappeared from his mind, and then a large amount of knowledge was poured into his brain.

Liang En, who felt a little dizzy due to the impact of the massive amount of knowledge, had to sit directly on the dusty floor and wait for the effect on the card to end.

After ten minutes, the knowledge infusion was over. After careful inspection, Liang En found that he had indeed mastered all the languages that Shang Boliang had mastered in the illusion before.

The most important of these languages are a series of Eastern languages, such as Hebrew, Arabic, ancient Syriac, ancient Chaldean, etc. In addition to this there was Greek, Latin and French, Champollion's own native tongue.

What makes Liang En even more happy is that the foreign language German he took when he was in school and the Irish Gaelic that was compulsory in primary and secondary schools are also in the areas enhanced by this card, and they have also reached a fluent level.

"This Golden Finger is simply amazing." After feeling the changes in himself, Liang En opened his mouth and smiled. "Even if I do nothing in the future, this knowledge will be enough for me to last a lifetime."

But YY is still just YY, even though in his previous life he was very envious of this kind of job that was both respected and financially good. But now that he has Goldfinger, he will naturally pursue more things.

So Liang En quickly adjusted his mood and continued searching. Perhaps because he carefully observed the effect of this card, he quickly discovered that there was something wrong with the bookcase just now.

The UK is a country with very distinct classes, which means there are certain unspoken rules about what kind of houses different families live in, what kind of furniture they have in their homes, etc.

For example, this terraced house in a declining community in the eastern suburbs of London is often inhabited by skilled workers or white-collar workers with low incomes.

In other words, the furniture here should be affordable furniture, such as the plywood furniture and fabric sofas that Liang En packed up and sent to charity when cleaning the first floor.

But this is obviously not the case with this bookshelf now. With the skill of careful observation, Liang En keenly discovered from a scratch that there was oak material hidden under the many layers of paint left after countless repairs on the bookshelf.

After realizing that this cabinet was obviously not normal in this place. He immediately took out everything in the cabinet, and then examined the bookcase carefully.

Sure enough, after a comprehensive inspection, Liang En found that the third back panel of the bookshelf was obviously about five centimeters thicker than the other back panels. However, because the entire interior was covered with brown-black paint, if he did not take the initiative to check, I can't tell the difference at all.

"It looks like there will be a big harvest today." After Liang En discovered the abnormality of the bookcase sticking out, he immediately put the gas mask hanging around his neck on his face again.

Then he took out a sturdy Eastern European titanium alloy crowbar from the tool bag on the ground that he got when he cleaned out an old house last time. After some violent disassembly, he finally removed the plywood used to hide the mezzanine. came down, revealing what was inside.

Unexpectedly, a large amount of charcoal ash was stuffed into this mezzanine, so when it was opened, dust floated all over the room. But Liang En's heart became increasingly hot.

Under normal circumstances, things that can be hidden in secret compartments are definitely not too bad.

Based on what he had seen and heard in the past two months since he entered the industry, he knew that many of his peers had made great gains by finding out from various hidden mezzanines or secret rooms.

In order to commemorate his first big harvest since joining the industry, Liang En took out his mobile phone and took several photos of this mezzanine before starting to clean it up.

Finally, after cleaning out one or two kilograms of charcoal ash from the mezzanine, Liang En pulled out a small bag from the charcoal pile.

By the light from the window, he found that the items taken out from the mezzanine of the bookcase were wrapped in oilcloth and tied with string. It was impossible to tell what they were from the outside.

"I hope it can be some gold and silver coins, or jewelry or something." Liang En prayed quietly while looking at the carefully wrapped oil paper bag.

For treasure hunters like them, if they can find something made of precious metals, they will definitely be rich. Unfortunately, in practice, the probability of getting lucky is lower than the probability of being hit by a car while walking on the street.

"Let me see what this is." After gently placing the oilcloth bag, which was slightly larger than his fist, on the table in front of the window, Liang En used the folding scissors and knife he carried with him to cut the thin strips on the oilcloth bag. rope, and then opened the small package.

Inside the small bag are two boxes stacked on top of each other, both of which are only about the size of a palm. One of them was wrapped in a layer of red leather and looked like a jewelry box. The other one is an ordinary-looking wooden box.

"What the hell--"

After opening the jewelry box, what appeared in front of Liang En was a Hummingbird pistol.

This gun is a miniature pistol designed by an Austrian watchmaker named Franz Pfanla. It is also the smallest automatic pistol in the world. Due to careful preservation, there is no rust at all on this century-old gun.

Although the muzzle kinetic energy of this gun is only 4J, it can barely make a hole in a leather jacket. Using it to defend yourself is not as harmful as hitting someone with your fist. But as a luxury product, the price of this thing is not low at all.

Especially now that Liang En's gun has not only the original gun box, but also the velvet padding inside the box, the suede holster, 12 rounds of bullets in a small tinplate box, and the purge bar with an ivory bead on one end. A lot of one thing. These are all important factors that add value to firearms.

The other wooden box contained some things related to the gun. In addition to a pair of mother-of-pearl grip guards, there were six small boxes for bullets sealed with wax.

Although Liang En is a newbie and doesn't know much about the price of this thing. But you can tell from the packaging of this thing that it will definitely be valuable.

After collecting such precious trophies, Liang En knocked and checked the entire bookcase again, and did not give up until he was sure that there was nothing else inside.

Over the next few hours, he continued his cleaning work, and finally cleared all the furniture from the room before dark.

After the landlord inspected the room and paid a salary of 150 pounds, Liang En drove his second-hand van back to his residence with the loot. He was ready to take a good look at his golden fingers and these trophies.

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"Hey, Lawrence, how's it going? Did you make any big discoveries?"

Early the next morning, Liang En drove his car carrying yesterday's trophies to the entrance of the Emerald Thrift Store. As soon as he opened the door and entered, the store owner Pierce Murphy, who heard the doorbell ringing, came out of the door behind the counter. Walked out and met him.

Pierce is a tall, thin young man with dazzling red hair and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. Paired with the old plaid suit he was wearing, he looked like a scholar rather than a businessman.

"Thank you for your good wishes, I finally managed to transfer this time." Liang En said, putting a cardboard box on the counter, and then pointed to the car behind him.

"By the way, didn't you always say that the wooden floors in your house are broken in many places and you want to replace them? This time I found a broken oak cabinet and removed many boards, which was just enough to remove the broken wooden floors in your house. Replace the floor."

"Ha, you are indeed my best friend." Pierce opened the door panel next to the counter and came out and hugged Liang En fiercely, then took the car keys from him and went out to move things.

This Pierce is a friend Liang En met in college before, and he is an Irish-British man.

Because my family owned an antique shop, I went to University College Cork in Ireland to study archeology, and ended up being assigned to the same dormitory as Liang En.

Later, after graduating from university, Liang En secretly sought career advice from friends because of a life exchange and the hope of opening a golden finger. As a result, he came to London after listening to Pierce's advice.

Thanks to Pierce's help, Liang En was able to have a job and a place to live in London, a place he was unfamiliar with.

After all, this type of cleanup work is not something anyone can do if they want to. If there are no reliable local people to help inquire about the information and provide guarantees, outsiders may not even be able to inquire about this information.

During the two months since he came to London, Liang En, in addition to self-study, the most important thing was to learn various skills in this area from Pierce.

Even the second-hand minivan outside was purchased directly from the previous owner at a low price through his method.

For Pierce, their family has always adhered to the habit of lending a helping hand if they have the ability to help. Not to mention to his friends, and these help were naturally reciprocated.

Although Liang En, a novice, has not found many valuable items recently due to lack of experience and bad luck, he is willing to provide some help to this small shop in his spare time to repay the favor.

Because of this incident, Pierce, who had just started taking over the family business, understood why his father taught him to be kind to others, even if sometimes it might take a little more effort.

"These wooden boards are great. Although there is paint on them, they can be fixed by scrubbing them with some simple chemical solvents." Soon, Pierce unloaded the bookcases that Liang En had dismantled into wooden boards from the storage position at the back of the van. .

"Okay, let me see what treasures you brought back this time." After stacking the thick oak boards with Liang En, Pierce said while opening the cardboard box he brought.

"Ha, hardcover books, and almost all of them are literature and history." After taking out the hardcover books wrapped in brown or black leather from the box and reading the titles clearly, Pierce looked a little excited.

"The traditional winter social season in London is coming soon, so wealthy people have recently been shopping around for things that can enhance their status, so these kinds of books have been selling well recently because wealthy people need them to fill their bookshelves. "

It is actually a global habit to use books to decorate the facade, especially compared to those science and engineering books that are too professional, literature and history books are more suitable for this type of occasion.

Therefore, in places like London, hardcover books that are in good condition and sell well are hard currencies that are easy to sell. Even if Pierce is not a second-hand book dealer, he can find someone to sell them.

"It's very good. It can be seen that the previous owner of these books has not read these books very much, so the books are almost not worn." After briefly flipping through it, Pierce closed the tome in his hand and said.

"I just recently had a customer ask me to look for this kind of stuff, so these goods of yours are just the thing for me to complete this business."

"Are these books valuable?" Liang En asked curiously, because he really didn't know much about this aspect. "I always thought this was the same as those cheap second-hand books we bought when we were in college."

"No, no, no, my friend." After listening to Liang En's words, Pierce immediately shook his head. "These books have been published for more than half a century, so they can be regarded as antiques, and antiques naturally cannot have the same price as those second-hand goods."

"So that's it!" Liang En nodded. Apparently, many memories from another world made him subconsciously think that these things that were forty or fifty years old were not antiques at all.

"By the way, how much can these books be sold for?" After Pierce read through all 12 books in the box, Liang En seriously discussed business with him. To the British, friends are friends, but business is business.

"These books of yours are at least 90% new, and they are all old books from decades ago, and two of them are relatively rare editions." Pierce pushed up his glasses, then looked at the books on the table and said .

"Based on the current market price, the cheapest of these books is over 30 pounds, while the most expensive can be sold for at least 150 pounds."

"Then how much are you willing to pay?"

"520 pounds, after all, I also want to make money."

"Okay, deal." After hearing Pierce's final quotation, Liang En immediately nodded to express his agreement with the price.

This price can be said to be a very honest price, although he also knew that Pierce should be able to sell these books for 900 pounds or even 1,100 pounds in the end.

But if you go to other buyers or sell it yourself, there is at least a 90% chance that it will not exceed 520 pounds.

After counting out 520 pounds in cash and giving it to Liang En and putting away the books, Pierce smiled again. "It seems that your business is finally open. By the way, did you find anything else?"

"Of course there is, or the next thing is the real treasure." Liang En said while reaching into the pocket of his windbreaker. "By the way, do you have a weapons sales license?"

Unlike the United Kingdom in another world, the United Kingdom in this world has much looser requirements for holding guns, and is closer to Canada. But even so, if you want to do this kind of business, you must go through a series of procedures.

"Of course, my dad got it back then. Unfortunately, he had to pay a sum of money for this certificate every year for more than ten years, but the total number of guns he handled in the store was less than ten."

Pierce said as he took out a certificate from the drawer and handed it to Liang En. "Did you actually find a gun this time?"

"Yes, I found this treasure from the mezzanine of the oak bookcase." Liang En said and put the two boxes on the table. "Today is my lucky day."

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"Such a small box—wait a minute." Seeing the two boxes that could fit in the palm of his hand, Pearson first showed a funny expression on his face, and then suddenly became serious as if he thought of something.

"Are you sure these are really firearms?"

"I'm sure because both boxes were opened and inspected."

"Wait for me." After seeing Liang En's serious nod, Pierce immediately walked out from behind the counter, locked the door and pulled down the curtains.

Then he turned on the fluorescent lamp on the counter with an excited look, took out a pair of silk gloves from the drawer under the counter and put them on his hands.

"Let me take a look." Pierce opened the box carefully, and then his eyes widened. "Is this...a hummingbird?"

"That's right, it's the smallest mass-produced automatic pistol in the world." Looking at the surprised expression of his friend in front of him, Liang En also had a smile on his face, "I thought you didn't know this thing before."

"It is true that my family has very little exposure to this kind of stuff, but as a half-military enthusiast, how could I not know about this special pistol?" Pierce said, taking out a magnifying glass and some tools to carefully inspect the box and gun.

"——This is the 2.7mm caliber version, and it's a high-end product with nickel plating on the surface." After checking it over and over several times, Pierce put down the magnifying glass in his hand.

"But the production of this thing is only more than a thousand, and it has been a luxury product for the rich since its birth. How can you find it in a row house in the East End of London-"

"But that's the fact. The gun is right in front of you now." Liang En said with a smile and a shrug. "So you'd better estimate the price. As long as your price is not excessive, this thing will be sold to you."

"I'm very happy that you are willing to make me your first trading partner, dear Lawrence." Seeing Liang En being so open, Pierce also spoke up.

"You are doing me a big favor, because I have recently been trying to expand my business to the wealthy people in Kensington and Chelsea. And your gun can just help me knock on the doors of those people."

"But the problem is, I really can't spare that much cash right now." Pierce shrugged helplessly, and his expression suddenly fell.

"The ordinary version was just released on the market in London three months ago. It sold for 29,000 pounds at that time. The nickel-plated version like yours is probably 10% to 20 more expensive. In addition, the original bullets of Hummingbird One shot costs £70——"

"Let's do this, 20,000 pounds, these things are all yours." Liang En thought for a while and then reported an integer, then closed the two boxes and pushed them towards Pierce.

Liang En knew that the price of these things in the market was one thing, but whether they could be sold at that price was another matter.

And in his opinion, interactions between friends should be back-and-forth, rather than letting one party blindly pay, so after receiving so many favors from Pierce before, he should return some favors now that he has the opportunity.

What's more, based on the previous four years of contact. Liang En also knew that the Pierce family were people with a relatively high moral bottom line and were worthy of trust.

And this is an important reason why his antique shop has been operating in London for five generations and more than a hundred years despite its slow development.

"But what I can move here now is only more than five thousand pounds--" Hearing what Liang En said, Pierce seemed even more excited. "So you wait for me here for a while while I go to my father's place—"

"It's not necessary, my friend." Since he had decided to sell it well, Liang En naturally did it right the first time. "Give me as much cash as you can, and write an IOU for the rest. It won't be too late to give it to me when you have more money."

Fifteen minutes later, Liang En walked out of Pierce's shop with £5,520, an IOU and a metal detector.

Originally, he wanted to strengthen his equipment when he had enough money, so he bought the 90% new second-hand metal detector in the store. But at this time Pierce thrust the detector directly into his hand and refused to accept even a penny from him.

The reason why I bought this metal detector is to prepare for the next step of treasure hunting. Because of the differences between the two worlds, some famous historical sites in history have never been discovered.

Although considering that the world is different, it is possible that those ruins themselves do not exist. But at least half of them should exist there as in the previous life, but no one has discovered them.

To give the simplest example, there is not much difference between the "Homer's Epic" in this world and the "Homer's Epic" in the previous world, but Troy has never been discovered.

It was precisely because of this difference and the existence of Golden Finger that Liang En chose this path.

It's just that no matter how ambitious your dream is, many things still have to start from the simplest. After all, archaeological work in this era has been very formalized and is no longer full of chaos and madness like in the 19th century.

With his current status, if he went directly to Turkey to find Troy, let alone gain fame and fortune like the original discoverer, losing his underwear would probably be the best outcome, and there was a high probability that he would even disappear from the world.

After shaking his head to get rid of all the things in his mind, Liang En drove his minivan straight to the Alfie Antique Market on Church Street.

In English, there are two words to describe antiques. Among them, "Vintage" specifically refers to modern antiques, which are often less than a hundred years old.

"Antique" specifically refers to items with a history of more than 100 years, which are antiques in the general sense of the Chinese people.

Alfi Antique Market is a long-established antique market that mainly sells "Antique" grade antiques.

Although it looks a bit shabby overall, abandoned shops can be seen everywhere. But under the dilapidated building is the largest antique market in the entire Greater London area.

There are about a hundred shops in the market, selling antique jewelry, furniture, oil paintings, clothes and other different categories of used goods. There are some treasures worth thousands of gold among them.

Many fashionistas, celebrities, wealthy people and even aristocrats buy their favorite goodies from here.

Naturally, Liang En didn't come here to pick up missing items, considering the level of local merchants who are extremely professional. Those good things should have been picked out by them long ago and marked with a high price.

The reason why he came here was that he hoped to figure out how to use his golden finger.

I have to say that this golden finger is indeed a good thing, and the results of its previous use speak for itself.

Unfortunately, apart from some simple descriptions on the cards, Goldfinger itself does not even have an operation manual, so we can only cross the river by feeling the stones and explore bit by bit.

According to previous experience, the power of Goldfinger is mainly realized through various cards. But the problem now is that Liang En doesn't know how to add new cards.

Fortunately, he had read a lot of novels about this in his previous life, so he could try out all the methods in the previous novels at the antique market to see if he could make any breakthroughs.

Unlike ordinary antique markets, there are basically no open-air stalls in the Alfie Antique Market. All merchants have their own shops.

So I walked around inside and had something to eat. Liang En found a shop selling miscellaneous antiques and walked in.

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As soon as he entered the shop, Liang En could feel a familiar feeling rushing towards him.

Because he had been dealing with Pierce's antique store before, Liang En immediately discovered after entering the place that the style of the entire antique store looked very similar to that of Pierce's store, except that the quality of the goods was much higher. few.

Different from what Pierce did in the store before, the owner of this store, who looked like an old butler wearing a monocle, did not greet the customers, but just waited quietly behind the counter. Shop.

But that's okay, at least for Liang En, he now needs a quiet environment to try his skills.

In this store, if you want to use the items placed in the glass cabinets, you have to ask the store owner to help them take them out. The items placed outside are allowed for guests to get their hands on.

However, after touching most of the things outside, Liang En found that the cards in his sea of consciousness had not changed at all.

"Is it because the level of these things is not enough, these things do not belong to me, or am I looking in the wrong direction?" After finding that there was no movement, Liang En frowned and thought.

But soon, he planned to change his approach and buy one or two of these things to test his ideas.

More than five thousand pounds in cash is not a small amount for ordinary people, but it can be spent casually in a place like this. In order to collect as many different types of samples as possible, he quickly came to the outermost shelf of the store.

Most of the objects placed on this shelf don't look very good, and many of them are even damaged.

"The goods on the shelf are more suitable for collectors who are just getting started." Watching Liang En walk around the store and walk to the shelf, the store owner finally spoke.

"The above are mainly antiques that are not in good condition and have relatively low overall value. In addition, there are also some modern handicrafts. Although it is difficult to call them good things, they are useful for beginners learning this aspect. Say enough is enough."

Maybe it was because of Liang En's age and the way he kept silent while visiting the store, but kept reaching out to touch the antiques that were allowed to be touched. Therefore, the store thinks that he is an antique enthusiast who loves collecting but is short of money.

"Thank you!" After slightly nodding to express his gratitude to the store's proactive explanation, Liang En turned his head and looked carefully at the antiques placed on the shelf. Soon, he found a string of gray-looking glass beads. interesting.

After silently writing down the string of beads, he began to search for them on the shelf. It wasn't until half an hour later that Liang En came to the counter to pay with the five items he had selected, including beads.

"An Athenian 1 drachma silver coin, £107. A library card from the Cambridge University Library from the 1880s, £20. A rusty medieval spearhead, £15. A necklace of African-style trade beads. , £600. Congolese ceremonial statue, £120."

After counting the five items, the shopkeeper took out a calculator and pressed it, then raised his head and said.

"The total of these items is 862 pounds. Since this is your first time buying, you bought a lot of things, so just give me 850 pounds."

After handing the money to the shop owner, Liang En left the shop with the items in the boxes provided, and then drove back to the small apartment he rented.

Next came the experiment, but unfortunately neither the silver coin, the library card, the spearhead, nor the Congolese ceremonial statue elicited a reaction from Goldfinger.

Soon, it was the turn of the string of glass beads to be tested. The first time he picked up the beads, Liang En focused on the so-called African-style trade beads that he felt something was wrong about.

Trade beads originally specifically referred to glass beads manufactured in Europe from the 17th to the 19th century and sold to Africa for exchange for gold, ivory and slaves. They were the latest industrial products in Europe at that time.

In many parts of Africa, it is both the most popular decoration and the currency that can be circulated. It is also said in many books that Europeans used cheap glass beads to defraud the natives of their wealth.

But to be precise, this kind of trade is actually an unequal trade carried out by Europeans through technological advantages. Just like the descendants of those guys in later generations sold chips made of the same raw material from sand for sky-high prices.

The shop owner is a veteran who can open a shop in Alfie Antique Market, so he is naturally familiar with this relatively common antique, and will not admit his mistake in the general direction.

Considering that although this necklace is in relatively good condition, it does not contain some expensive varieties. So naturally, I sold it to Liang En at the price of 20 pounds per bead, which is common in the market.

"Sure enough, even the most knowledgeable scholar still has things he doesn't recognize, let alone just an antique shop manager."

Liang En recalled some of the books he had read when he was in college, and then he raised a magnifying glass and carefully observed a light blue glass bead on this string of glass beads.

This glass bead is very similar to other beads, but if you look closely, you will find that the upper center circle is inlaid on the lower glass bead, rather than being directly formed in one piece like other beads.

"Yes, this should be a dragonfly-eye glass bead from the Chinese Warring States Period that is of good quality." After checking it several times, Liang En determined the specific identity of the glass bead.

What makes this glass necklace made in Africa special is that the glass beads in the necklace use both glass beads from the Warring States Period of Eastern China and the 17th century Western Europe.

When he made his final judgment on the African-style trade bead necklace he was holding, a sudden change occurred. After a flash of light that only Liang En could see, two black iron-colored cards appeared in his mind.

One of these two cards is the previously existing card [Detection (N), while the other is a new card, [Identification (N)].

[Appraisal (N): No one can be omniscient and omnipotent. Even the most knowledgeable scholars have things they cannot understand. At this time, you need a little help.

Skill card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can obtain specific information about something specified by the card owner. 】

After reading these two newly added cards, Liang En leaned back in his chair, sighed and smiled. Because through this experiment, he finally figured out part of the rules of his golden finger.

First of all, this golden finger can only work on things that belong to Liang En, because he also touched the necklace before paying for it but there was no reaction. However, further research is needed on the specific situation of this aspect.

Second, he must be able to recognize the thing for what it is. Like this time, it was after confirming the situation of the bead that Golden Finger reacted.

Thirdly, because the inheritance of this golden finger is called historical explorer, the things that can resonate with it are things that have a certain significance in history. The secular price of these things is not closely related to their historical significance.

For example, this string of beads can be seen as a microcosm of a vast trade network that spanned the Old World and lasted for thousands of years. That's why it can be recognized by Golden Finger.

Finally, although this golden finger seems to be a product of occultism, what is needed does not necessarily have to be related to occultism. At least the statues used in African religious rituals didn't react to it.

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Early the next morning, Liang En took these things to Pierce's shop. Because to him, the things he bought from the antique store yesterday were useless after the experiment, so he had to get rid of these things as soon as possible even if the price was halved.

"Lawrence, you're here. I want to call you now." After entering the store, Pierce held the phone in his hand with a smile on his face.

"What's the matter?" Liang En asked curiously after putting the schoolbag containing the things on the counter. "Did you sell the Hummingbird pistol and want to pay back the money quickly?"

"No, of course not." Pierce shook his head and said, "But I have contacted a nobleman's private auction. If there are no accidents, the gun will be sold within this week."

"A noble private auction, what is that?"

"It's just a group of rich and distinguished people getting together and using the auction as an excuse to socialize, similar to how they hold hunting activities or banquets." Pierce shrugged.

"So unlike ordinary auctions, in this kind of auction, the auction items must not only be rare, but also preferably have some stories behind them, so as to attract those auction participants to donate generously."

"And the process of the Hummingbird pistol you found just suits their taste, so I think it should be able to sell for a good price."

"If it's a story - I think I might have something here that can increase the value of that gun." After hearing what Pierce said, Liang En immediately took out his cell phone.

"When I discovered that mezzanine, I had a hunch that this might be my first big gain since I started in the industry, so I took a few photos to keep as a souvenir -"

"This is simply great, brother." Looking at the photos Liang En took when he discovered the mezzanine, the smile on Pierce's face became brighter and brighter.

"You know, this photo can increase the expected auction price of that Hummingbird pistol by another 5%. For those with money, it is very attractive to find a treasure worth tens of thousands of pounds in a dilapidated cabinet. People's stories."

Liang En found the consumption outlook of those wealthy people refreshing. The consumption outlook of these people was not very consistent with that of ordinary people, so if you want to do business with them, it is very necessary to master this knowledge.

In the next few minutes, Liang En handed over most of the things he bought yesterday to Pierce at a price of 150 pounds, but regarding the string of glass beads, Pierce put forward his own opinions.

"If it were just a necklace of trade beads, the beads would be just an ordinary antique. But with this bead from the East, it has become a representative of the ancient trade routes of the Old Continent." Pierce carefully looked at the Warring States Dragonfly Eye, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Although the price of this thing will not be too high, because of its unique story, I believe it should be able to become an auction item."

"Sounds great, so are you going to put it up for auction?"

"Yes, this kind of thing with a story can often sell for a very good price at auction, so if you are not in a hurry to spend money, you can try putting this thing at auction."

After thinking about it, Liang En decided to sell these things at auction. He doesn't need money urgently now, so it's naturally a good thing to make a little more money.

"By the way, do you have any plans for today?" After handing Liang En the receipt for the glass bead string and 150 pounds in cash, Pierce suddenly asked him.

"There are no special arrangements. It's just that I recently discovered some interesting things while studying ancient languages on my own, so I want to write a few papers and see if I can send them to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association."

This is an important path that Liang En found for his future development after winning the Golden Finger.

Compared with those treasure hunters who dig around with shovels or metal detectors, scholars who can contribute in history and archaeology have easier access to various resources, and it is also conducive to him to use his golden finger. Effect.

When he activated his golden finger before, Shang Boliang's memory gave Liang En a great gift.

Because of the differences between the two worlds, some important artifacts were not discovered. Therefore, Champollion in this world is only a famous pioneer of Eastern archeology and has not engaged in the research of ancient Egyptian history.

Therefore, in this world, the research on ancient Egyptian writing has only advanced to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian numerals and the discovery of the king's name circle by Thomas Young who performed the 'double-slit interference experiment'.

To make matters worse, the current understanding of ancient Egyptian writing in the historical community is more inclined to the view contained in "Egyptian Hieroglyphics", a book about Egyptian hieroglyphics written by Horapollo who lived around 500 AD.

The author discusses in the book that in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the rabbit symbol means "open" because the rabbit's eyes are always open. The vulture symbol means "mother" because all vultures are female.

There is no doubt that almost all of this content is nonsense, but the problem is that it successfully led all subsequent researchers into the ditch. So much so that no one can translate the true content of those ancient Egyptian texts.

To people in this world, ancient Egyptian writing is a dead writing that no one can decipher. But now, Liang En from another world holds the key.

A good first step in this regard is to correct everyone's original misconception that graphic ancient Egyptian writing is a purely ideographic writing.

So for the first paper, he just wanted to prove that ancient Egyptian writing could be used as letters to identify pronunciations by comparing the names in the royal name circle of the kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

With such a foundation, he could recreate Champollion's research steps in his mind step by step, and finally decipher ancient Egyptian text in this world.

"What a pity. I originally wanted to go to the bar with you for a drink. It seems I can only have a celebratory drink after the next auction." Naturally, Pierce didn't know Liang En's plan, but he also knew about such academic matters. Far more important than drinking.

Just do it, after returning to the rented house from Pierce. Liang En followed Champollion's thinking and used the ancient Egyptian names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra as examples to speculate that the ancient Egyptian writing method of the two names was to use specific symbols to pronounce them. spell out.

After proposing this idea, he derived the name of Alexander according to the rules of conjecture. Finally, through this method, the names of the known foreign pharaohs in ancient Egypt were derived one by one.

For Liang En, this job is not difficult, but it is very cumbersome.

Fortunately, he had just graduated more than two months ago, so his thesis writing skills were at their peak, and in this Internet age, he could easily find all the information he needed.

So after three days of busy work, he finally finished writing the paper and sent it to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association via email.

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After sending the paper, it's up to the other party to review it. According to tradition, it is difficult for a pure newcomer like Liang En to be noticed by such a famous magazine and publish his own content.

But considering that this paper can be said to have taken a very important step in deciphering ancient Egyptian texts, there is still a high probability that the other party will get a chance from a newcomer like him.

But no matter what, whether the paper can be published after it is sent out lies in the hands of the reviewers and editors. So for Liang En, this work naturally came to an end with the publication of the paper.

So after realizing that today was the day of the auction, Liang En immediately drove straight to the Emerald Thrift Store to find out what the outcome of the auction would be.

"You came so fast, I was planning to call you to come over and give you money." After seeing Liang En enter the door, Pierce, who had just come in and was taking off his windbreaker, immediately showed a surprised expression.

"I just finished sending that paper more than an hour ago. I went downstairs to have breakfast and rushed over." Liang En walked to the counter and leaned against it and asked. "How was the auction today?"

"Very good, the four lots I found are all relatively popular." Pierce said, coming out from behind the counter and locking the store door, and then handed a school bag to Liang En.

"Your money is all here, now click it."

Compared with ordinary people who use credit cards for large transactions, many antique dealers or treasure hunters prefer to use cash for such transactions. So Liang En naturally took the schoolbag and took out the banknotes inside to count them.

"Why are they all 50 pounds?" Liang En frowned slightly as he looked at a few stacks of brand new red banknotes.

Because in the UK, the maximum cash used on weekdays is usually 20 pounds. These brand-new 50-pound banknotes are really a bit too eye-catching.

"No way, those nobles did take into account our habit of liking cash. But they only had a superficial understanding. And I can't say anything in this regard." Pierce shrugged.

"18,200 pounds, you didn't give me too much, did you? I remember you only owed me 15,000 pounds on that gun." After counting the money twice, Liang En asked with some confusion.

"Of course I didn't pay too much. Your necklace was sold for 3,200 pounds. And considering that the gun was sold for a good price, I won't do this deal."

"3,200 pounds? But I remember that the overall condition of the dragonfly eye is relatively average, so the market price is between 800 and 900 pounds. Including the original trade beads, it can be sold for around 1,500 pounds at most."

"You are talking about taking the beads apart and selling them in pieces, and the history displayed by your original necklace gives it extra value, so it is normal for the price to double at the auction."

After Liang En stuffed the cash into his pocket, he then asked about the details of the auction. "You just said that you successfully sold the four items you brought at the auction. Does this mean that you have entered their circle?"

"It's not that easy. Now I just put a little toe into the circle." At this point, Pierce suddenly became excited.

"But even a little toe is a huge opportunity for us. For example, this time I-"

Sure enough, different information will circulate in different circles. For Pierce, the auction did more than just make a fortune. The biggest reward is that I have received many opportunities that I have never had before.

For example, this time, he learned that a Russian tycoon wanted to sell a mansion in Carlisle due to difficulty in cash flow, so he needed some more professional people to clean it up.

"What kind of treatment does the other party receive?" Liang En asked in a somewhat serious tone, because those rich and powerful people not only have many rules and regulations, but may not be generous in giving money, so it is better to ask clearly about this kind of thing.

"Because I am connected through the old housekeeper at the auction, we can get 600 pounds a day without a middleman making a difference in the price, and at the same time, everything we clear out belongs to us."

"Does it all belong to us?" As soon as Pierce finished speaking, Liang En looked surprised.

Because under normal circumstances, when completing the cleanup work, they need to hand over those high-value items and items related to the employer to the person in charge, and they cannot take them away unless they get permission.

But even so, the things taken away can often make them a lot of money for the cleaners, and this is what attracts everyone the most.

Because of this rule, after hearing from Pierce that the other party had no requirements in this regard this time, he was naturally a little shocked by this unusual situation.

"Don't worry, there's no problem with safety." Looking at the change in Liang En's face, Pierce assured him by patting his chest.

"At least this channel can be said to be very reliable. As for why this situation occurred, the other party did not elaborate. Of course, I can't ask in this regard."

"In other words, the room may be mainly filled with garbage this time." Liang En raised his eyebrows. "Otherwise the other party wouldn't simply let us take everything away."

"You are right, but the problem is that the money they gave is too much." Pierce shook his head.

"Not to mention that the 1,800 pounds that the other party gave us for three days this time is considered a high salary. We can make a lot of money just from the things that rich people don't want."

Early the next morning, Liang En drove his minivan behind Pierce's medium-sized truck and drove towards Carlisle, located in the far north of England.

Just like Pierce said. Although the work this time was more difficult, the money given by the other party was enough for Liang En, who had nothing urgent to do now, to make a trip.

The distance from London to Carlisle is more than 400 kilometers, which is equivalent to spanning the entire England.

Fortunately, the road between the two places was a highway with very good conditions, so they finally arrived there at 4pm after setting off at 8am.

After finding a safe small hotel to stay for one night, the two of them went directly to the Russian tycoon's estate the next day.

Located on the outskirts of Carlisle, the house is a medium-sized Victorian manor house. Just from the large yard covering an area of at least one hectare, you can see how luxurious this manor is.

After entering the main building with beige walls and a black roof, Liang En and the others entered the living room with a dozen other people and listened to a middleman who looked more like a gangster than a housekeeper. Young people assign tasks.

Maybe it's because I'm a newcomer. Therefore, one of Liang En and Pierce was assigned to the servant kitchen, and the other was assigned to three servant rooms.

"Bullying the newcomers -" Liang En, who had received the task, muttered dissatisfiedly, while Pierce's face didn't look good next to him.

As we all know, when cleaning up in this kind of place, the easiest place to find big harvests is in the various rooms and warehouses that originally belonged to the master. As for the rooms related to servants, we can only hope that the number of things found is enough to be able to make small profits but quick turnover. .

But after complaining, those things that deserve to be done still have to be done. After all, the other party paid half of the salary as soon as the person arrived, so Liang En would still insist on it for the sake of 1,800 pounds.

After coming down the stairs from the second floor, Liang En and Pierce said goodbye to each other at the top of the stairs, and then went straight to their assigned rooms to start working.

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In the Victorian era, rooms and kitchens used by servants in aristocratic manors were often designed in semi-basements, because it was easier to obtain water in such places when there was no running water and water had to be drawn from various wells.

But as times changed, such dark, damp rooms were either converted into other functions or abandoned.

The semi-basement in this manor must have been abandoned for a long time. When Liang En walked through the corridor, he could see a series of clear footprints on the ground.

After opening the kitchen door. Through the sunlight projected from the glass window above the room, Liang En could clearly see the specific situation inside the room.

It may be because the room has been sealed for a long time, so although there is dust inside, it is not very thick.

A large number of things that had been stored for who knows how many years were piled up in various places in the kitchen. Some of them were placed in cabinets, while more things were thrown everywhere.

"This is so unkind." Liang En cursed subconsciously after standing at the door and turning on the flashlight to look around the entire kitchen.

Because he saw more than a dozen very fresh-looking footprints on the kitchen floor, and the tables and cabinets also showed signs of being opened.

Obviously, the tycoon who hired them today had already roughly inspected these houses before. Naturally, if anything valuable was found during this process, it would be impossible to keep them.

What's even more disgusting is that this Russian tycoon did everything perfectly. Although the labor fee of 600 pounds a day is a bit low compared to the current situation, it is still within a reasonable range.

But for people like Liang En and Pierce, who came from London, they actually didn't make much money at all if they took out the accommodation and gas expenses.

From a certain point of view, this behavior is as unethical as a merchant who disassembles all the blind boxes before selling them, picks out the valuable figures inside, and then seals the other boxes before selling them.

But the problem is that some tacit understandings are just unspoken rules. If the other party is rich and powerful and does not join this industry, they will indeed have the capital to do whatever they want.

For example, Liang En's antique shop in his previous life had rules such as "No counterfeiting in the antique market." "Pay the money in one hand, deliver the goods in the other hand. Once the purchase is made, there will be no returns or exchanges."

But he also heard that a certain important person bought an antique at a large price for a gift, but he lost face when it was directly recognized as a fake at his birthday party.

After returning home, he directly went to court to sue the seller, and the well-known boss in the antique industry in that city was sentenced to nearly ten years for fraud for defrauding a huge amount of money.

So after complaining for a few times, Liang En, knowing that he could not change the status quo, could only accept this reality.

After a general inspection of the room, he returned to the back seat of the van and took out some pulleys and ropes to make a simple lifting tool. Then Pierce and two people moved the heavy objects out from the windows in the semi-basement.

After all, whether it is the servant's room or the kitchen used by the servants, there are many heavy things in it, such as tables, cabinets, beds, cast iron stoves, etc., which need to be cleared out.

If you just rely on the narrow stairs outside the basement, you will definitely not be able to clean these four rooms in three days, so using tools is a must.

On the way to pick up the tools, they also met several other junk dealers who also came from other places to clean the room. From their expressions, it can be seen that the Russian tycoon is really good at what he does. He should have checked all the rooms in advance.

After the lifting tools are ready, cleaning begins. Naturally, the three servants' rooms on Pierce's side were cleaned first, because those three houses were simple in structure and small in area, making them easier to clean.

The only things left in the maid's room were beds, cabinets or chairs.

Although these things seem to be seventy or eighty years old, both the materials and the condition of preservation are very average, and they are not very valuable.

So the two people simply used axes and saws to dismantle the obviously damaged furniture into wooden boards or strips on the spot, and then tied them into bundles and sent them to the ground.

Compared with discarding the entire piece of furniture, these disassembled wooden furniture not only occupy less space, but can also be given directly to churches or charities for free as firewood, saving a fortune in garbage disposal fees.

When taking apart the furniture, some small surprises were discovered one after another. For example, coins or small gadgets such as hairpins fell into the gaps in the furniture.

Although these items are relatively common varieties, the prices are not high. But it is one of the more popular varieties on the market and can be easily cashed out.

Considering the cost of crossing half of the UK to come here, they naturally hope to find enough to make up for their losses after being ripped off by the Russian tycoon.

It only took two people one day and one morning to clean up the three servant rooms.

They cleared out a total of nearly 30 antique coins, two brass horse lanterns, a gold-plated silver brooch and several pieces of furniture that seemed to be in relatively good condition.

"If I'm lucky, what I find can be sold for more than 200 pounds," said Pierce, who was walking towards the kitchen carrying various tools. "Now it depends on how the situation is over there."

According to the prior agreement between the two, Liang En and Pierce would cooperate with each other to clean those rooms during this operation. Harvests come from their assigned rooms.

In other words, anything found in the kitchen belonged to Liang En himself, just like everything found in the servant's room belonged to Pierce.

"Those guys cleaned up too clean."

After entering the kitchen, Pierce walked to the cabinet closest to him and opened the cabinet door. As a result, he clearly saw round or square marks left on the layer of dust on the partitions in these cabinets.

Obviously, these cabinets used to contain a lot of things, but now they are gone.

"No, it's not that clean." Liang En opened another cabinet and saw a pile of pottery bowls and several pottery plates still placed there.

"But they took away almost everything that looked valuable, and to us it was no different than emptying out an entire room."

Pierce shook his head, and then he and Liang En cleaned up the room. Compared with the servants' rooms, the kitchen has more and more complicated things. Unfortunately, most of it is just clutter.

Fortunately, the business Liang En and the others are doing now is a mid- to low-end business, so they also need things like oil lamps, oil lampshades, horse lanterns, and candlesticks. But the cleaning and renovation work may be busy for a while.

They worked overtime until noon the next day before the two of them emptied everything in the kitchen.

What's interesting is that compared with the things that could be carried in one suitcase the first day, Liang En and the others cleared out the things in the kitchen and piled them up about half a person high, just in the center of the kitchen.

"Now is the perfect time to try my card." Looking at the clean kitchen, Liang En suddenly thought of something.

"It's just a good time to check if there are any missing treasures in this room, and by the way, see which of the things found is the most valuable."

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He did it as soon as he thought of it, so after taking a look at the size of the kitchen, Liang En limited the detection range to the size of the kitchen, and then used the [Detection (N)] card.

In an instant, the card disappeared from his mind, and then a force was poured into Liang En's eyes, and then, a dazzling white light appeared around him.

"It seems that there is no mezzanine in this place." After discovering that the white light came from the pile of things around him, Liang En smiled and thought about it, how could there be treasures hidden in every place he went to?

Through the gap between the utility rooms, Liang En looked curiously at the object that was emitting light. Because it was obscured by the pile of messy things piled in the middle of the room, only he could see the curved and smooth copper plate.

"Is this a jar or a pot?" Liang En fell into deep thought, thinking about the various things he had cleaned out from the corner of the room.

But soon, he began to clean up the debris piled on the container, because he realized that if he wanted to figure out what this thing was, taking it out and taking a look was the easiest way.

"What are you doing?" Pierce, who had just returned from putting things outside the house, asked curiously as Liang En suddenly began to take down the pile of things that he had just piled up.

"Oh, I just remembered that one of the things we just found this time seemed a bit special, so I wanted to find that thing and take a look."

Because Pierce naturally couldn't see the white light formed after using this card, he naturally felt a little strange about Liang En's current behavior.

"Is there really a treasure in this?" Hearing what Liang En said, Pierce also became excited.

Although this pile of things all belonged to Liang En, he was very happy to see that his friend could find some treasures forgotten by the tycoon from this place after being ripped off by the Russian tycoon.

"Not necessarily, but it should be the most valuable thing in this room." After thinking about the content on his card, Liang En smiled and shook his head. Then he took a complete medium-sized saucepan from the pile. Take things off and put them aside.

Finally, the two men took out the target they were looking for this time from the cast iron stove in the middle of the pile of debris. The moment Liang En touched the copper pot, the light on the copper pot disappeared.

This thing was a huge copper pot with a lid, and it looked thicker than the waists of the two adult men present. The whole pot is in the shape of a round cone with a small top and a large bottom, with a lid and a pair of handles.

"If such a big pot can cook one pot of food, it can probably feed twenty or thirty people." Looking at the big pot, Pierce exclaimed.

He now believes that this pot should be the most valuable thing in this pile of sundries. At least based on his experience, those daily necessities that are particularly large or small can often sell for a good price compared to similar products. s price.

"This thing should have been used when the manor cooked some stews or soups for the servants. The food for the owner and guests of the manor should have been made in a small pot in the kitchen on the first floor." Liang En knocked the copper pot with his hand and said.

This pot was previously placed at the bottom of a cabinet. When it was discovered, it was covered with dust, black oxides and ash on the bottom of the pot. It looked gray and unremarkable.

The only unusual thing is that when the pot was discovered, a piece the size of a stamp was wiped off the dusty lid, revealing the copper color.

Obviously, people who searched here before should also have seen this pot at a glance. But because there was no pattern at all on the pot and it was too bulky, it seemed that it was abandoned because it was used by servants.

In any case, the Russian tycoon is a rich man. He could take away the valuable things in the room in advance out of stinginess, but it would be too cheap to take things like a large copper pot or a cast-iron coal stove.

Although Pierce seemed a little excited on the side, Liang En still felt that something was wrong.

Because the Victorian cast-iron stove that was placed under this pot just now has some reliefs on it, and the accessories such as fire tongs, graphite box, chimney and even a hard brush are all available, and the preservation condition is not bad. In theory, It should be more expensive than that big copper pot.

"There must be something in here that I haven't discovered." Liang En thought, but he also knew that it was obviously not the right place to clean this pot.

So he and Pierce quickly loaded these things into Pierce's commercial vehicle, and then called the person in charge left here by the tycoon to come over for inspection.

Soon, four houses passed the inspection. After receiving a salary of 1,800 pounds each from the person in charge, the two people immediately drove back to London.

They were not willing to stay in this place that had cheated them for a second longer.

Fortunately, due to their quick hands and feet, they worked faster than expected. Therefore, after finishing their work half a day early, they drove back to London when the genius had just darkened.

After returning to London, neither Liang En nor the others returned to their residences. Instead, I bought fish and chips and Fat House Happy Water on the roadside and went straight to the Emerald Thrift Store.

Only this time they did not enter through the main entrance, but made a half circle and parked the two cars at the entrance of the warehouse behind the thrift store.

"I plan to start cleaning these things tonight, what about you?" After squeezing into the cockpit of the commercial vehicle and eating the dinner he just bought, Pierce turned to look at Liang En.

"Of course, together. There are quite a few of my things that are easier to clean. I can just clean them up and sell them to you tonight." Liang En said, opening the car door and walking towards the warehouse.

Because of the previous cooperation between the two parties and the fact that the house Liang En rented was too small, his set of cleaning tools was placed with Pierce.

After using a forklift to unload all the items from the two cars into the warehouse, the two people started cleaning up under bright lights. After simply cleaning up a pile of pottery bowls, Liang En put the big pot on Organized it on the workbench.

"Hey, what is this?" Just as he wiped off the dust on the pot and started to clean the soot on the bottom of the pot, some letters were exposed on the cleaned bottom of the pot.

"This should be Arabic, right?" Looking at the curved characters, Pierce said, being attracted by Liang En's small gasp, "Although I can't recognize what is written, this kind of letters looks like Looks familiar."

"Not necessarily. There are several languages that use Arabic letters. Just like the whole of Western Europe uses Latin letters." Liang En said while cleaning the bottom of the pot.

"So at least until I clear out a complete word, we can confirm what these words actually mean."

With the help of Pierce, who came to help out of curiosity, the two people quickly cleared out a complete word on the bottom of the pot that was full of soot. After looking at it carefully for a few seconds, Liang En recognized what the word meant.

"Constantinople, it seems this is a pot with a story." Liang En tapped the word gently with his right index finger and sighed at the same time.

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"What did you say? Constantinople!" Pierce stood up excitedly next to him.

As a European who deals with antiques and ancient history all day long, it is normal for Pierce to have some special feelings for the only country in history that unified the Mediterranean coast and had a huge impact on the entire modern Europe.

It turns out that Jingluo is by my side!

Seeing Pierce's excited reaction, Liang En showed an embarrassed expression. Then in a slow tone, he told Pierce some bad news from a certain perspective.

"Yes, this word does mean Constantinople. But the problem is that this word is written in Ottoman Turkish." Liang En said as he tapped the text on the bottom of the pot.

The so-called Ottoman Turkish is actually Turkish spelled with Arabic letters and is a member of the Turkic language family.

During Kemal's reforms at the beginning of the 20th century, this writing was considered an obsolete symbol and was abolished. Instead, modern Turkish was created based on the Latin alphabet.

"And don't forget, Constantinople is what outsiders call that city, and they often call that city New Rome." Liang En said, raising his head and looking at Pierce. "This is what we teach in college classes."

"Then could this thing be a relic left by Turkic traders during the Eastern Roman Empire?" Pierce thought for a moment, then put forward his guess.

As an admirer of Rome, finding an artifact related to both the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople is not a happy thing. So he quickly suggested another possibility.

"This is possible, because in ancient times, merchants throughout the Old World had the habit of writing or engraving the place name of that place on something they carried with them."

Regarding Pierce's conjecture, Liang En felt that there was a certain possibility. But the specific situation cannot be determined until the entire bottom of the pot is cleaned out.

In order to avoid damaging possible traces, the two people cleaned the bottom of the pot very slowly.

Finally, after more than an hour, they successfully cleared away all the ash that had accumulated for centuries on the bottom of the pot, and revealed more than a dozen Ottoman Turkish words engraved on the bottom of the pot.

"What does this say?" Pierce looked confused as he looked at the ancient words that were written in a very similar way to Arabic. "I only recognize the Arabic numeral 62 inside."

"The top line is written with place names. It can be seen from the handwriting that these place names were written by different people at different times." Liang En pointed to the top line of text and translated them one by one.

"Constantinople, Belgorod, Aleppo, Ridania, Cairo, Rhodes, Mohacha, WYN."

"What about the following line of text?" For Pierce, who studied archeology in college, these place names were enough to remind him of many things, but his Jingluo soul hoped to make a final struggle. "It's the line with the Arabic numeral 62."

"Kmat, Sorak, 62nd Regiment." Liang En translated this line of text that could prove the identity of the pot. "This is the pot that belongs to the new Ottoman Turkish Army, and it is probably the important symbol of the army, Kazan."

The so-called Kazan is a huge copper cooking pot, which is regarded as a treasure by every New Army soldier. In addition to serving as a cooking utensil, this pot also functions as an eagle flag similar to the ancient Roman Empire.

The early Turkish New Army had 196 regiments in its complete state, and each regiment had such a pot for cooking porridge for the entire regiment's military rations.

Of course, this regiment is not the same as a regiment in a modern army. In the earliest days, a regiment of the New Army only had about 30 people. It was not until the late Ottoman Empire that the number of a regiment expanded to hundreds of people.

According to records, this pot is considered to be the epitome of the comradeship of the new Turkish Army soldiers, a social center, and an irreplaceable mascot.

During the march, the cook would carefully transport the pot, and every soldier and officer passing by would stand solemnly to show respect. When they triumph, they will also parade with this pot.

If the war is tense, this pot can boost everyone's morale like a trumpet. On the same chaotic battlefield, soldiers will use Kazan as a gathering point to seek shelter from their comrades.

Even if the new army launches a mutiny, they will rush into the kitchen while cooking and overturn the pot as a symbol, similar to the Eastern Chinese custom of throwing cups.

If this pot is lost in the battle, it will be regarded as a great shame for the team. The unit will also be deprived of the right to participate in various triumphal ceremonies.

"Then, this thing may be a treasure." Pierce suddenly became excited after hearing Liang En say that this pot was a symbol of the new army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

After all, Jingluo belongs to Jingluo, but business still needs to be done.

"Yes, this thing is definitely a treasure." Liang En nodded, because after he recognized the pot just now, a new silver card and three black cards immediately appeared in his mind.

According to the characteristics that black cards are N cards and bronze cards are R cards, this card should be an SR card that I have never seen before.

According to the rules Liang En discovered several times before, the higher the historical value of the things he finds and the more cherished they are, the higher the level of the cards he produces will naturally be.

Of course, the practice of identifying value through gold fingers is not a suitable reason to inform Pierce. Fortunately, the text on the bottom of the pot clearly states how precious this pot is.

"You see, the word "Kmat" here originally refers to the crowd. Well, here it refers to the ordinary new army. Among the 101 regiments of the ordinary new army, the 60th to 63rd regiments are elite units. , known as the Thorak Regiment, are usually elite marksmen."

Liang En said, moving away from the lower line of text, and then pointed to the upper line of text. "As for the information contained in the above line of text, it is even more important. If I guess correctly, these place names represent the large battlefields they passed through."

"You mean a large battlefield?" Pierce suddenly became excited when Liang En mentioned it.

"In other words, the first battle of this pot with the new Turkish army was to capture Constantinople. Then they went through the Wallachian offensive, annihilated the Mamluks in Egypt, and captured Rhodes Island. , annexed Hungary, until it finally collapsed at the gates of WYN."

"The capture of Constantinople can be seen as the true rise of an empire, and the failure of WYN City was an important turning point for the Ottoman Empire from expansion to defense. The most precious thing about this pot is that it has experienced the entire era of great expansion. "

As a professional, after being mentioned in this aspect, Pierce quickly read enough information from the words that had just been translated.

The reason why this pot appears here is also very simple, because after the Ottoman Turkish Empire's army was defeated at WYN City, they discarded most of their weapons and baggage, and a pot naturally didn't count among them.

Maybe this pot was picked up by some people near the battlefield and used as their own pot. Then it passed through several hands and became a cooking utensil for cooking food for the servants in the manor. Finally, it was discovered by Liang En.

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"What are you going to do with this treasure?" Pierce asked Liang En after he had calmed down from the excitement of discovering the treasure just now. "Let me tell you first, don't come to me for this matter. With the scale of my business, even my father can't handle it."

Perhaps because of the [Careful Observation (R)] card, Liang En noticed that there was envy and happiness in Pierce's eyes, but there was no negative emotion like jealousy.

Because of this discovery, Liang En felt that he could give Pierce a little more trust.

"What suggestions do you have? After all, I am just a newcomer in this industry and I don't understand many things."

"Me? I think there are only two ways now." Pierce said after thinking for a few seconds. "Either find a museum to sell this pot directly, or hide this thing and wait for the opportunity."

"Don't you have anything to do with this pot?" Liang En asked. Let's not talk about the latter option. The first option is safe, but the price is really bad.

Although theoretically the museum will purchase these cultural relics at market price, the same is the market price, and the pawnshop price and the auction price are completely different things.

Especially for a rookie like him who doesn't know many people in the UK, it's best for the other party to cut the price at half the price. If he's a bad guy, it's not impossible to cut the price from the knee.

"It would be possible if I became familiar with those nobles in a year or two, but there is no chance now." Pierce shook his head helplessly.

"Those people in my channel either don't have much money and can't afford high prices. Or they just drink two beers and want to tell me what color they are wearing underwear today."

In fact, under normal circumstances, this kind of thing that might sell for seven to eight million pounds can be sold if it slowly finds customers. But the problem is that the unruly impression given by the Russian tycoon was too profound.

As we all know, those wealthy Russians often don't have a clean start. If the news leaks out when looking for customers, the biggest problem is just that the pot is taken away. It would be tragic if they were shot five times in the back and committed suicide.

"I think it's more appropriate to hide this pot for a while." After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Liang En made a decision.

"Anyway, except for us, everyone else will just think it's a big Victorian servants' stew pot. So as long as we don't tell anyone, there's no danger."

I have to say that compared to those big things that some people find, such as antique cars or even tanks, it is obviously much easier to hide such a copper pot.

In particular, the appearance of this pot is neither carved nor gilded. If you don't turn the pot over and look for it deliberately, most people will recognize it as an ordinary pot at most.

"You're right, and we can work on this pot a little bit," Pierce said, taking out a small bucket filled with dirty black wax from under the cabinet.

"As long as you melt the paraffin and pour it on the bottom of the pot, and then stick a layer of carbon ash on it, no one will notice that this pot is different from other pots, and it can also protect the pot."

Soon, the two of them finished handling the pot and then went to rest. After lying on his bed, Liang En began to check the new cards that appeared in his mind.

The three black cards are two [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N)]. It seems that every time you find some precious discoveries, you will get this type of card.

After briefly looking at the three cards that existed before, Liang En quickly focused on the newly appeared silver card.

[Kazan Copper Cauldron (SR): Ancestor, grandfather, lineage, father—whenever the familiar melody sounds, many people will think of the Green Rome army that swept across the entire Eastern Mediterranean, and the New Army is the last of this army. Sharp blade.

This pot represents the spirit and soul of this powerful army, so this card can also bring some power to the holder of this army.

Item card, as long as you own this copper cauldron, you can get one hour of new army weapon operation ability every day. At the same time, you can use the 62nd Solak Regiment to attack once a month. The above abilities cannot be accumulated. 】

"It's been given out, it's been given out this time." Looking at the introduction on this card, Liang En was so excited that he almost jumped out of bed, because the ability carried by this item card was so powerful.

Let's talk about the former one first. Although it only includes the shooting techniques of Turkish bows and the techniques of using maces, there is no famous Turkish scimitar technique or musket shooting technique of the new army. But it is more practical.

At least it is difficult to obtain permission to carry a gun or a machete in the car, and it will be very troublesome to encounter police inspections. But a bow and arrow and a steel pipe or short stick are another story.

Especially now that Liang En's profession gives him enough reason to carry bows, arrows and steel pipes in the car.

What's more, this ability isn't just a memory in the mind. It is an almost instinctive fighting skill that has been refined over time.

Therefore, when activated, it not only affects the brain, but also affects every neuron and every muscle in the body. Otherwise, it would be impossible to use those skills.

So every time you use this skill, those skills within those skills are not just imprinted on your mind, but your body is also registering those skills.

So if you use this skill once a day, Liang En should be able to master these combat skills after a while.

As for the last content, it goes without saying that although this special skill only has one chance per month, it cannot be accumulated. But it can save lives when you really encounter a dangerous incident.

Although times have changed and bows and arrows have withdrawn from the stage of history, there is actually not much difference between hitting 30 arrows and hitting 30 bullets within the range of a pistol.

"Unless there is no other way, this pot must be kept forever." After reading about the skills of this pot, Liang En secretly made up his mind before going to bed.

In the next few days, they began to process the harvest. Although those pottery and tin tableware and kitchen utensils really cannot be sold at a high price, you can at least get some money after cleaning them up.

After spending five days cleaning up all that pile of stuff, Liang En was planning to continue his treasure hunt, but an unexpected news made him change his plan.

"You mean that the housekeeper called you again last time and offered you a chance at a warehouse auction and a truck."

On this day, Liang En was about to go to the Full Cup Bar where treasure diggers like him often gathered to inquire about any new opportunities. As a result, he received a call from Pierce before he even left the house.

"On the one hand, that truck is not mine. It was rented to me for free when the other party gave me the opportunity for this warehouse auction. Of course, I have to pay for the gas along the way." Pierce's voice came from the microphone.

"On the other hand, the auction this time is for a large warehouse in Leipzig that was originally owned by the East German state reserves. Most of the warehouses inside have never been opened since the end of the Cold War, so there should be a lot of them. Good stuff, worth the long trip."

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The phone bill in the UK is not very cheap, so Liang En simply drove to the Emerald Thrift Store to interview Pierce. When he drove to the door of the grocery store, he found a red container truck parked in the parking lot not far away.

"Good morning, Uncle Murphy." After entering the door, he unexpectedly found that in addition to Pierce himself, his father Pierce Sr. was also in the store.

"Good morning, Lawrence." After saying hello, Old Pierce walked out the door. "You two talk first, and I'll go out and check the truck. After all, the condition of the truck is very important when traveling long distances."

"Didn't your father say he wanted to live a retired life? Why do you want to go this time?" After watching old Pierce leave the room and close the door, Liang En couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked Pierce behind the counter.

"There's nothing we can do about it." Pierce shrugged. "If we go there, if we want to bring back the loot instead of disposing of it at a low price, we must have a big truck, but the problem is that neither of us can drive that kind of big truck."

"Considering the confidentiality of this operation, I had to call my father in the end. Fortunately, when he was doing business, he traveled all over Western Europe, so he was not only familiar with the road conditions, but also had a driver's license in that field."

"This is so lucky. By the way, why did that housekeeper lend you this car? You know, no one will be nice to another person for no reason."

"Don't worry, this is mainly the butler's compensation for us being screwed by the Russian tycoon last time." Pierce spread his hands and said.

"After all, he was the one who introduced us to the job last time, but he didn't expect that the other party could do it so well. In this case, in order to restore his reputation, he is willing to make certain compensation to us in this regard."

"For us, the qualification for the auction of an East German state reserve warehouse and the rental of a container truck are very important and even related to our careers, but for that steward, these expenses are far less than them. The family's reputation."

"In other words, we can each get what we need." After hearing this, Liang En felt relieved. "That's fine - when should we set off?"

"In three days, although the European Union is now integrated, it is not too troublesome for us to drive from here to Germany. But it is still a long trip across several countries, so it is best to make some preparations."

The straight-line distance from London to Leipzig is more than 860 kilometers. It may take less than an hour by plane. Even if you drive a freight truck without stopping, one day will be enough.

However, because the truck only had one driver, Old Pierce, and because some border crossing procedures were more troublesome, Liang En and the three of them drove the large truck into the city of Leipzig at noon on the second day after departure. .

Under the leadership of Old Pierce, the three of them drove the car to a parking lot on the outskirts of the city designed for long-distance truck drivers to rest, and then began to arrange the next action plan.

"The auction won't start until tomorrow, so I think we can go check out that warehouse today." After the car stopped, Liang En said while flipping through the map on his phone.

"I checked the map and found that the reservoir area is located next to an abandoned railway branch. It is only more than 700 meters away from here. You can definitely walk there."

"It's actually so close." Upon hearing this, Pierce immediately came over and looked at the map in Liang En's hand. "If this is the case, it would be good to take a look at it in advance, so that you can at least have an idea of what's going on."

"Okay, you two young men, go ahead, I'll look at the car here." Old Pierce said after hearing Liang En's plan. "By the way, remember to take the items in the accessories box with you when you go out, and be sure to come back before dark."

"Understood -" Liang En and Pierce said in unison, and then each took out a steel pipe as short as an arm from the tool box behind the seat and stuffed it into his clothes.

When they were driving on the road, they had already discovered that after entering the eastern region of Germany, the overall situation around them was significantly worse than that in the west.

In addition, the walls surrounding this parking lot are covered with various graffiti. So they will naturally make some preparations for this when leaving the car. .

"There's something wrong with this place." Looking at the dilapidated houses and graffiti on the walls around him, Liang En subconsciously lowered the brim of his baseball cap. Because he found that there were many contents related to Germany during World War II in the street graffiti.

"You're right, this should be an industrial area with various living facilities in the past." Pierce also made a motion of lowering the brim of his hat. "But now it's abandoned and seems to be occupied by some far-right guy."

"Yeah, this place is obviously not very friendly to me." Liang En frowned as he looked at Pierce beside him who wanted to cover his face. "I am Asian, so it is naturally dangerous in a place like this. You are a pure European."

"Europeans are different from each other. We Irish are at the bottom of the contempt chain of the European population, almost at the same level as the Poles. In the eyes of those bastards, our status may not be as high as you Chinese."

Fortunately, although the surrounding environment looked bad, there was no one on the road because it was close to lunch time. Therefore, the two people reached their target very smoothly.

The target was a very large warehouse located next to a railroad track that was already overgrown with weeds. But when the two people came to the faded black iron door, they found that the iron door and even the big lock of the chain door were rusted to death.

"Is there no one in there?" Pierce asked. After circling the warehouse wall, they couldn't find a place to enter. After knocking on the door for a long time, there was no response.

"Probably not." After looking through the crack in the door for a long time, Liang En felt that it was possible that this door had not been opened since the end of the Cold War.

Because through the crack in the door, he discovered that the ground that was supposed to be paved with cement actually had a thick layer of soil, and grass had even grown in many places on it.

At the beginning, Liang En also planned to use cards to detect the situation. But it turned out that the warehouse was built like a fortress. Even the wall closest to the warehouse was more than 5 meters away from the warehouse itself, which was far beyond the scope of card detection.

"This was most likely a warehouse belonging to the East German military." After discovering that the golden finger was temporarily useless, Liang En observed the surrounding environment honestly. Soon, his enhanced observation ability allowed him to discover the iron Some clues on the door.

Because after removing the plaster from the iron door, he found that there was a piece of black paint in the middle of each of the two iron doors that had been patched up later.

After wiping it with a rag dipped in a small bottle of gasoline that I carried with me, a section of wheat ears and a black, red, and yellow ribbon were exposed under the paint.

"Military warehouse, no wonder-" Pierce showed a clear expression.

During the investigation just now, he also discovered that the outer wall of this warehouse was much larger in height and thickness than a normal railway warehouse, and it could be seen from the damaged areas of the wall that steel bars were even added inside.

"It seems like this is good news." Liang En said as the two of them returned to the parking lot. "At least we can confirm that this warehouse is strong enough and was of a relatively high grade back then. There are likely to be many valuable items preserved in it."

"That's right." Pierce nodded in agreement. "The most important thing is that no one has been in here for a long time, and those good things have not been moved."

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The weather was not very good the next day. The sky was overcast and it looked like it was going to rain. Early in the morning, after eating a breakfast of canned soup and canned mashed potatoes, the three people drove to the warehouse square.

The auction will be held at 10 o'clock in the morning. The reason for coming early is the suggestion made by the old Pierce, in order to observe the situation of the venue and opponents.

"You can discover a lot of information from your opponent's clothes, vehicles and movements, and then make targeted adjustments when making quotations -"

As an old man who has been in this business all his life, Pierce became active immediately after entering the warehouse area, and then whispered his experience to Liang En and the others.

By 8:45, almost everyone had arrived. As expected, it was the same as the news they had received before. This was a relatively high-end auction, so there were not many participants. There were about 20 people in total.

"It seems that today's competition won't be too fierce." After counting the vehicles on the field, Liang En let out a slow breath. Because there are only seven vehicles on the site and their quantity, which means that there are only seven groups of people coming to buy things today.

After all, even the smallest of these warehouses is no less than 200 square meters, so the people who came to participate in the auction basically drove various trucks, otherwise they would not be able to take away the things they bought.

"Okay, let's get started." Just five minutes before 9 o'clock, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan drove into the warehouse yard from outside the door, followed by a middle-aged man wearing a suit. Got out of the car.

"I remember that the foreign language you took as an elective was German, right?" Listening to the manager starting to talk about the auction instructions in German with an accent, Pierce suddenly became nervous, because it was only then that he realized that he didn't know how to do it at all. Know German.

"Yes, even though his German has a lot of accent, I can still understand it." Liang En nodded, and then helped translate what this person said.

In fact, what this person said was very simple, that is, there are a total of eight warehouses available for auction today, and the minimum price for each warehouse is 10,000 euros, and they are required to be paid in full, and no credit is allowed.

Five or six minutes later, all the content was finished. Another young man in the black Mercedes-Benz opened the locks hanging on the door with a bunch of copper keys wrapped in a thick black-red oxide layer, and then pushed open the door with all his strength. The door.

Next, all the people present were divided into groups according to the time they came here and passed by those doors with flashlights, while the two organizers held their mobile phones and looked at the time while preventing participants from crossing the line.

According to regulations, each group can watch in front of the door for two minutes. However, everyone can only stand at the door and is not allowed to cross that line, otherwise they will be directly disqualified from the auction.

"The Germans of *——" The moment the flashlight light shined into the warehouse, Old Pierce cursed in a low voice. Because the things in these warehouses are so neatly packed.

Some of the warehouses are filled with iron shelves, and the various items in the warehouse are neatly arranged on the shelves. Even if there is dust on them, it does not prevent everyone from seeing the contents clearly.

In another part of the warehouse, there are various boxes and packages wrapped in oil paper. The boxes and packages look uniform in shape, and nothing can be seen except the maximum size of the items inside.

"This is the worst situation in a warehouse auction." After watching and walking aside to discuss, Old Pierce said to the two young people.

"Under normal circumstances, we rely on our eyesight and experience to judge how much the items in a warehouse are worth."

"For example, a box that says Handle with Care on the outside may mean there is china or glassware inside, while a plastic handle with a canvas exposed may mean there is a bicycle underneath."

"In this case, with enough experience, eyesight and a little luck, you can make a lot of money at this kind of auction."

"But the situation just now is completely abnormal. Half of the warehouses can see clearly what is contained in the warehouse just by standing at the door. In this way, everyone can't make much money by taking down the warehouse without a bottom line."

"The other half is covered too tightly, and no information can be seen at all. What you can buy depends entirely on luck. If the auction bottom price of each warehouse is 10,000 euros, buying such a warehouse will be very risky."

"But I seemed to have seen something just now." Liang En said softly after checking that no one else was approaching. "In the second warehouse from the left in this row of warehouses, there seems to be a box with a blue torch logo on it."

The box was hidden under a thin layer of dust. If Liang En didn't have extraordinary observation skills, he would probably have missed the half-palm-sized logo.

"Blue torch logo, blue torch——." After repeating it several times, Old Pierce took out his phone and clicked it a few times, then raised the phone to Liang En's eyes. "Is this what you just saw?"

"Yes, that's it." Liang En nodded while looking at the torch picture composed of the TP of the deformed art body and the flames above. "What does it mean?"

"The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organization, a government-related children's organization in East Germany." Old Pierce nodded, "It just disappeared completely with the disappearance of East Germany in 1990, so you These young people probably don't know."

"In other words, that warehouse should store some items related to Ernst Thalmann's Pioneer Organization!" Pierce asked like his father. "If these things are relics of the Cold War, there should be a market for them."

"There is a market, but it is relatively niche, and the overall price is also very weak." Old Pierce thought for a while and said, "So look at the price when the time comes. If it's cheap, you can buy it and take a gamble."

Soon, the discussion time was over and the warehouse auction officially began.

"The starting price of each warehouse is 10,000 euros, and each increase must not be less than 1,000." The middle-aged man in a suit raised his right hand and said loudly.

"Okay, now there is 10,000 euros in warehouse No. 1. Are you willing to pay - 11,000 euros?"

Warehouse No. 1 is filled with mechanical parts, which look like they belong to vehicles. There are even several large vehicle engines that look very complete.

Although these products are already old products from thirty or forty years ago, many of the parts in them are standardized parts. It is not too difficult to find a market, so the competition became fierce from the beginning.

Liang En and the others naturally called out the price several times, but they gave up when the price reached 17,000 euros. Because at that time, the old Pierce judged that if they raised the price, they would basically not make any money.

Finally, the warehouse fell into the hands of a bearded man for 20,000 euros. Unlike outsiders like Liang En, as locals, they often have sufficient channels, so they can make money even if they buy it for 20,000 euros.

After winning the bid, the bearded man quickly went to the Mercedes-Benz to deliver the cash. Then the young man locked the door of the warehouse and handed him a key.

Within the next 72 hours, this warehouse will be owned by this person.

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The next three warehouses are also of this type with all their contents on the outside, and they have all been bought by some locals.

Because compared to outsiders, the auction prices of warehouses that put all items on the open side are almost always transparent, and only locals can make profits from it.

Soon the auction arrived at the warehouse, which was full of boxes and oil-paper packages. At this time, everyone suddenly became cautious. Because compared to the auction just now, the current auction is more like gambling.

"Okay, now is the fifth warehouse we are auctioning today." Finally, half an hour later, it was the auction's turn to the warehouse that Liang En was paying attention to before.

"The starting price is still 10,000 euros, and the price increases by 1,000 each time. Does anyone want to offer 11,000 euros?" Liang En immediately raised his hand to indicate, and then the auctioneer pointed at him and said, "Okay, now it is 11,000 euros. Is anyone willing to offer more?" High price?."

Whispers immediately came from behind. Obviously, not everyone discovered the mark during the observation just now, so everyone was hesitant about whether to take a gamble.

"Me!" At this time, the only woman present raised her hand, and it could be heard from her accent that she was also a non-local.

Obviously, traveling thousands of miles to get here and then returning empty-handed is unacceptable to many outsiders, so naturally some people are willing to take the risk and take a gamble.

"Very good, it's already 12,000 euros now." The middle-aged man who hosted the auction immediately waved his arms and started to heat up the atmosphere. For him, it was too bad to have only one buyer, so he naturally heard that there was competition. I got excited.

"Okay, now it's 12,000 euros. 12,000 euros. The next bid is 12,000 euros. Who is willing to follow?"

"I'll keep following you." Liang En shouted in a German accent that was very standard but basically no one used in broadcasting. Then he shrugged in a rather American way and muttered, "It took a whole day of driving to get here. I don't want to go back with an empty car again."

"Then it's now 13,000 euros. 13,000 euros. This is a low price. Who is willing to increase it to 13,000 euros." After hearing Liang En's offer to continue, the auctioneer immediately shouted loudly.

It's just that compared to the previous auctions, everyone needs to be much more cautious this time. Because compared with the previous warehouses, this warehouse can reveal too little information.

Considering that a warehouse has a minimum reserve price of 10,000 euros, everyone will think twice before bidding and observe the attitudes of those around them.

In the end, when Liang En raised the auction price of the warehouse to 15,000 euros, no one continued to bid.

Because no one knew whether those boxes were empty or full, and those oil paper packages were wrapped too tightly, so it was impossible to see what was inside.

Of course, Liang En's stupid temperament also intimidated many people. Because for everyone, coming here to auction is to seek wealth rather than anger, so they feel there is no need to fight with a stupid young man like him.

After asking a few more questions quickly, the auctioneer, who found that no one was following up, pointed at Liang En and said, "Okay, now this warehouse is yours."

Compared with previous warehouses with an average price of more than 20,000 euros, this warehouse can be said to be significantly cheaper. When it came time to pay, Liang En paid 10,000 euros, while Pierce and his son paid another 5,000 euros.

Because Liang En is more optimistic about this warehouse, he naturally spends more money to obtain a larger share of future profits.

But at the next warehouse, everyone suddenly became energetic.

Because although this warehouse was also covered with oilcloth, a corner of one of the oilcloths was lifted up for some reason, revealing the wooden box underneath.

These green wooden boxes, which look a little mottled on the outside, but look very well preserved overall, are obviously boxes used to transport weapons.

If you consider that the warehouse itself belongs to the army, then everyone can basically guess the contents of the boxes in these warehouses.

In an instant, a crazy bidding contest began. After just two attempts, Liang En and the others were eliminated from the bidding circle.

Because they found that after just a few price calls, the price at the warehouse exceeded their entire budget for this trip. In the end, the warehouse was bought by a strong-looking local man for 63,000 euros.

However, the next warehouse passed the auction because the entire warehouse was clean except for a few things covered by canvas in the corner. It looked impossible to be worth 10,000 euros anyway.

After the auction ended, those who didn't get anything cursed and drove away. The person who won something at the auction backed his car to the door and prepared to load the goods, blocking the view of others.

Under the push of Liang En and Pierce, the large iron door slowly moved sideways along the track, revealing a warehouse that looked as huge as an indoor basketball court.

"Okay, take off the lights first." Old Pierce parked the car at the door at this time, and then asked two young people to put the LED headlights he had prepared previously from the container behind the car on several commanding heights in the warehouse. .

After the lights were placed, Old Pierce pressed the remote control in his hand. In an instant, the entire warehouse was illuminated as bright as day.

Everyone standing at the door could clearly see the load-bearing columns and beams of the reinforced concrete structure in the warehouse, as well as the old-looking electric lights on the roof.

On the ground, the cracked cement floor had accumulated a lot of dust. After being blown by the wind outside after opening the door, it suddenly rose from the ground and dispersed in the air.

I have to say this is good news. Because compared to a humid environment, a dry environment makes it easier to preserve the contents inside.

The three people, who put on gas masks and work clothes, began to walk along the gap and opened the oil paper bags and boxes one by one to check the contents inside.

"Red scarf, blue scarf, red scarf -" After opening a dozen oil-paper bags in a row, Liang En found a whole row of brand-new, neatly stacked red or blue scarves on the shelf.

Looking at the packaging and specific conditions of these scarves, it seems that they were stuffed into this warehouse without ever being used after they were produced.

"It's the same here. Each box contains ten wooden signs, and each wooden sign has a German letter on it. These should be the placards used by those people to form slogans when they marched." There was also something in Pierce's tone. With frustration.

Indeed, there will always be people who are willing to collect these items with period characteristics, but in any case, this is a very niche collection. And now the volume found by Liang En and Pierce is almost equivalent to the entire Europe's annual shipments.

These low-value items obviously made everyone feel depressed, but everyone still carefully turned over the oil paper bags and wooden boxes one by one.

Because according to what Old Pierce just said, based on his experience accumulated from decades of treasure hunting, only boxes used to store some important items will be painted with various emblems.

Sure enough, when flipping through the oil paper bags on the second shelf, Liang En discovered something different.

"——This is blue again...wait?" After seeing another blue textile in the package, Liang En sighed and was about to flip through it twice before opening the next oil paper package, but after flipping it with his hand, Some golden tassels peeked out.

"I seem to have found some flags, Mr. Murphy." Liang En shouted loudly after unfolding the piece of fabric. "Can you see what these flags are about?"

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"The flag of Ernst Thälmann's vanguard organization is a rare good thing. Because after the reunification of Germany, almost all of these things were destroyed by the current federal government."

As expected of a professional who has worked in this industry all his life, Old Pierce quickly recognized what this flag was after carefully examining it.

"How much is this thing worth?" Pierce, who was rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for something on the other side of the corridor just now, also came over. "At least it should be worth more than those promotional signs or red and blue scarves."

"I know money is important, but you can't just think about money in this business." After hearing Pierce's question, the elder Pierce stared at his son with a serious face and said.

"You have to learn to draw from the cultural heritage of these objects and also learn to respect them so that they give back to you."

After giving his son a few simple words of instruction, several people began to search around. Sure enough, they found a dozen blue or red flags from the surrounding paper bags and boxes.

"This should be the flag belonging to Ernst Thälmann's Pioneer Organization or the German Free Youth League. Several of them are very rare regional flags."

Old Pierce unfolded the flags side by side and introduced at the same time. "As far as I know, apart from a Cold War-themed museum in Berlin, there is no such flag anywhere else."

"But this flag is a little strange." Old Pierce said, unfurling the largest of these flags, which looked like a blue flag the size of a single bed sheet.

"I have never seen a flag like this. Lawrence, can you help me find out what is written on this flag?"

"The German word means Pioneer Armored Brigade." At this point, Liang En frowned. "This is not right. The military's flags at that time had uniform regulations, and this flag completely does not comply with the regulations."

"Look, that's the importance of being prepared. Because a lot of times, our gains come from those places that are different."

At this time, old Pierce first educated his son, and then pointed to the flag and said. "What is written on this flag is correct. Such an armored brigade did exist in East Germany at that time, but it was not a regular army."

"How is that possible?" Pierce exclaimed in a low voice at this time, "This is an armored brigade. How can there be an armored brigade in the world that is not a regular army-"

"Wait, I seem to have thought of something." At this time, Liang En suddenly recalled some information he had collected from the Internet before coming.

"When the East German Ernst Thalmann Pioneer organized children's military training, there seemed to be a small tank, and it looked very similar to a real tank-"

"That's right, in 1978. In order to cater to the policy of military education for young children at that time, East Germany prepared a batch of pocket tanks specially manufactured for children by the famous satellite car manufacturer at the time."

"This tank has a maximum traveling speed of 15 kilometers per hour, is made of metal and plastic, and uses the engine of a satellite car. At the same time, this pioneer armored brigade also began operations under the supervision of the former East German Ministry of State Security."

"However, these tanks only operated for about 20 years. When the Cold War ended, this kind of military training for children was cancelled. At the same time, all the items left by the pioneer tank brigade were destroyed."

As soon as Old Pierce finished speaking, Liang En immediately continued. "In other words, this flag representing the Pioneer Tank Brigade should be destroyed."

"Theory is theory, but reality is practice." Old Pierce said after folding the flag carefully.

"During the merger of Germany and Germany in the early 1990s, everyone had a lot of things to do. Therefore, under those circumstances, it is completely understandable that some non-important departments have missed graduations."

"But now these things belong to us." Pierce said excitedly while helping to put away the flags. "They would never have imagined that these things they destroyed as rubbish 20 years ago would now become treasures."

After sorting and placing all these precious items, they continued to clean up the iron shelves in front of the warehouse.

Just as they had guessed before, the person who stored these things had a plan before placing them. Therefore, what is placed on the iron shelves are some textiles, or wooden propaganda boards and other things with obvious marks of the times.

"What's going on at the door?" Just after sorting the contents of the last oil paper bag on the iron shelf, loud yelling and the sound of smashing various things began to be heard not far away.

It happened that Pierce had just returned from throwing away the garbage at this time, so Liang En asked what happened outside.

"The people who spent a lot of money to take pictures of the warehouse containing the weapon boxes suffered a heavy loss." Pierce showed a gloating smile.

"They had just finished cleaning up and were getting ready to take a good look at their loot, and when they opened the weapons boxes, they discovered that all the boxes were empty."

"This is normal. After all, compared to the things we are looking for now, weapons must have been the most concerned object by both parties back then." Old Pierce pushed up his glasses and said, "So it is not strange that the firearms inside were taken away. ."

Although in theory it is a very normal situation that all the gun boxes are empty, in fact, for the person who paid more than 60,000 euros to buy the warehouse, this is definitely the worst news among bad news.

It's no wonder that during the ten minutes that Liang En and the others rested, the sounds of yelling, yelling, and throwing things from outside didn't stop.

But this naturally had nothing to do with Liang En and the others. After resting for nearly 20 minutes and eating something, they began to sort out the things covered by canvas behind the shelves.

"I think the person who hid these things was probably the official who was in charge of Ernst Thalmann's Pioneer Organization, and was specifically responsible for the Pioneer Armored Brigade."

After opening a box and finding that it was all filled with tank soldier uniforms one size smaller, Liang En said loudly to the Murphys and his son around him.

"Indeed, it is really difficult for ordinary people to put these things together in that chaotic era." Old Pierce nodded with approval, and then forcefully pried open a dusty box.

"Engine, there is actually an engine from a satellite car here."

Old Pierce's shout attracted the two young men. Liang En and Pierce quickly came to the box, and then looked at the engine that was fixed in the center of the box and sealed with butter.

"So small-" Liang En had his own car in his two lifetimes, and there was more than one, so he saw a lot of the car's engine.

But the engine that appeared in front of him now was a bit too small. It didn't look as big as the engines of some high-horsepower motorcycles.

"This thing is a two-cylinder two-stroke with only 26 horsepower. From a certain point of view, it has no advantages except being cheap." Old Pierce shrugged.

"There was a joke circulating here back then. Do you want the satellite car to run more than 100 kilometers per hour? Push it off the cliff."

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The Satellite engine was found in a box bearing the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organization logo, surrounded by wooden boards to hold it in place.

Obviously, this is not normal, as such engines tend to be shipped in some sort of standard box.

After discovering that although this box was not the original box, it was matched with the engine, the three people present immediately thought of some possibility from the flags they had just discovered.

"Open all the boxes with the same markings around and look through them." Liang En was the first to react and said. "Maybe the Vanguard Brigade's tanks are hidden in this house."

In the next few minutes, three people used crowbars to pry open almost all the wooden boxes behind the shelves. Sure enough, they found some parts made of steel and plastic from some boxes.

"Barrel, turret, tracks -" As those boxes were opened one by one, the contents inside made the eyes of everyone present brighter and brighter.

It took them more than an hour to sort through all the tank-related things in those boxes, and they found that there were 15 wooden boxes filled with parts that looked like they should be pocket tanks.

"The parts inside are very well preserved. Almost all of them have been handled before storage. Except for a small amount of paint peeling and wear and tear, they almost all look new." Liang En, who had carefully inspected the spare parts in these boxes before said.

Like the flags or wooden boards they found before, these tank parts were also carefully processed, so they have been completely preserved for more than 20 years.

"I found a total of five engines and five chassis." Pierce Sr. continued. "It's consistent with the information I've seen before. Although these tanks have different shapes, all the chassis and engines are of the same model."

"But I only saw three turrets." Pierce added at this time, "This may be because the chassis and engine are traveling parts and usually wear out quickly, so I prepared some more spare parts."

"No, those extra chassis are not spare parts. In other words, they are not extra at all." Liang En said, pointing to an opened box.

"You see, this piece of front armor is different from the others. It is obviously larger and has a hole on it. If I guess correctly, the other two chassis should be turretless assault guns."

"Back then, they equipped five types of pocket tanks, namely T-34-76, T-34-85, T-54, SU-100 and SU-122." Old Pierce read while looking at the screen of his mobile phone, and then raised the He nodded and pointed at the boxes.

"If I guess correctly, the five tanks contained in these boxes should be all the tanks that were equipped by the Pioneer Tank Brigade back then."

"But how did these things escape the planned destruction of these things when the two countries merged?" Pierce's face was full of confusion.

"You said that things like flags are small enough and can be easily taken away if you want to. But it is impossible to stuff such a big tank under your clothes and take it away."

"It would be difficult to preserve these things in chaos, but it is not impossible." Liang En said, pointing to the parts packed in the box.

"For example, the other party can piece together an empty tank from spare parts and send it for destruction, and then dismantle the original tank into parts and smuggle it out."

"But why do those people do this-"

"After all, in such a big country, there will always be people who miss it." Old Pierce sighed softly.

"Although I don't know why the people who put these things here never came back to take them away, they must have had some kind of hope when they hid them."

After listening to what Old Pierce said, Liang En nodded in approval. Because everything here has been adequately processed during storage, it feels as if the person who stored it will come back soon.

Obviously, if these things are stored as garbage. Then it is absolutely impossible for these things to be handled as carefully as they are now.

"Let's take a look at what's around -" Liang En suggested at this time. When Old Pierce said this, he felt that the joy of discovering the treasure in his heart suddenly faded a lot.

Especially after thinking that these things looked no different from new ones, but came from a country that disappeared more than 20 years ago, an inexplicable feeling lingered in my heart.

Fortunately, he is not a sentimental person, so this feeling comes and goes quickly.

Soon, Liang En and the Murphys used the trolleys and long wooden boards found in the corner of the warehouse, and then used the ropes and pulleys they brought to move the boxes onto the truck.

Fortunately, although these things are called tanks, the main materials are just some iron sheets and plastics, so the overall weight is not too heavy except for the engine, and it is easy to carry.

After moving these boxes, the entire warehouse seemed a lot emptyer. It may be that these tanks used up all their luck this time, so whatever they found next was not very good.

For example, they found an entire box of film and reels, but they had all been intentionally exposed and were now just flammable trash.

For another example, they also found several boxes of Redberg beer, the most popular beer of the year. It's just that after a long period of time, all that's left of these beers are empty bottles and rusty bottle caps.

"If it were spirits like whiskey or brandy, it might be able to survive to this day, but beer would just turn into a lot of garbage." Looking at the completely dried beer, Old Pierce shook his head helplessly.

In the deepest part of the warehouse, they also found some green iron-clad weapons and ammunition boxes. But just like in the warehouse next door, the boxes were all empty.

Fortunately, compared to the empty boxes of weapons and ammunition next door, the pocket tanks and flags they had obtained previously allowed them to return home fully loaded, so these empty boxes were not that frustrating to them.

Finally, when it was getting dark at night, they cleared everything in the entire warehouse. At this time, four cards, three black and one green, appeared in Liang En's mind.

But he didn't have time to check these cards for the time being, because Old Pierce asked him and Pierce to stay in the warehouse and look at the warehouse and cars, while he went to a restaurant not far away to buy some food.

In fact, both Liang En and Pierce took the initiative to make requests to buy food, especially Liang En, who spoke the best German here, who took the initiative, but was rejected in the end.

Because this warehouse and the surrounding houses are all painted with certain symbols representing the far right, the elder Pierce believes that compared to his inexperienced son or the Asian-faced Liang En, he, an experienced driver, is more experienced in this area.

Since this warehouse is an abandoned warehouse, almost all the surrounding areas are in darkness except for the light sources brought by the people who bought the warehouse.

"Father is good at everything, but he is too stubborn in some aspects." More than twenty minutes later, holding the steel pipe and looking at the darkness outside the warehouse, Pierce's face showed an anxious look.

"Don't worry, although this place is a little remote, those far-right scum won't come here either." Liang En comforted his friend. "Because there's no one they want to cause trouble with here."

Just before he finished speaking, a burst of hasty footsteps came over. It turned out that old Pierce had already bought dinner and was back.

"Eat quickly and leave immediately after eating." Putting the two plastic bags in front of Liang En and Pierce, Old Pierce said quickly in a low voice, "We may be in trouble."

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"What happened? Why did we set off overnight?" After hearing what old Pierce said, Liang En and Pierce suddenly became nervous.

Not to mention that their original plan was to leave after lunch tomorrow, just leaving overnight was a risky thing in itself.

After all, only old Pierce is the only one among them who can drive. But now that old Pierce is almost 50 years old, and they have been busy all day long, it is not suitable for driving at night from all aspects.

"You guys eat first and talk while you eat." Old Pierce said, handing the burgers and drinks in the plastic bags to Liang En and Pierce respectively, while talking about what he just discovered in the German-style fast food restaurant.

It turned out that after leaving the reservoir area just now, old Pierce went straight to the nearest fast food restaurant to buy some simple food to satisfy his hunger temporarily. As a result, I unexpectedly saw a group of far-right guys having dinner in that restaurant.

These people are very easy to recognize in Germany because they are the only ones in this country who openly wear clothing with the German crisp logo of World War II.

After discovering these troublesome guys, Old Pierce naturally shrank into a corner to avoid being discovered by them.

Fortunately, this group of people were also discussing something enthusiastically while eating at that time. In addition, there were not many diners in the restaurant, so Old Pierce easily overheard what these people were talking about.

"Those far-right people know about this auction, so they are planning to set up checkpoints nearby to extort money." Old Pierce said to the two young people eating.

"But it will take time for them to mobilize manpower, so if we leave now, we should be able to break through the siege with our loot this time."

Although these guys only said they wanted to extort money, but with the notorious reputation of this group of people, no one believed that they were limited to extorting money instead of doing something more egregious.

Therefore, for Liang En and others, for the safety of their lives and property, they must do something to solve this problem.

"Then should we notify others?" After swallowing the mouthful of burger in his mouth, Liang En asked Old Pierce.

"You can quietly inform the Balkan people in the warehouse in front later, but forget about the others." Old Pierce said after thinking for a while.

"Because it can be judged from the conversations of those people that the other party has an insider in our group, so in order to avoid alerting them, we'd better be cautious."

As for the old Pierce, he himself believed in the attitude of being kind to others and helping others whenever he could. So I am happy to lend a helping hand to others when I can.

In addition, there is an advantage to informing others at this time, that is, you can have someone to share the firepower with when running away, which can reduce a lot of chasing troops.

"Understood -" Liang En nodded and waited for the three of them to finish dinner and rest for a while. Under the cover of darkness, he quietly approached the three Balkans who were cleaning the warehouse, and then informed them of the news.

"Thank you so much." The blond guy in the lead thanked Liang En in broken German, and then gave him his phone number and the frequency of the walkie-talkie.

"We need half an hour to pack up. After half an hour, you decide the departure time, then call me and tell me, and we will leave from here together."

This group of people is a group of Slovenians who have been doing business in buying and selling antiques and antiques in Austria. But this time, after hearing about the warehouse auction here, I drove here from Austria in the south.

Obviously, they are also targeted by the German far-right forces. So when they heard that this group of people was going to attack them, they would rather give up some of their interests and leave this dangerous area as soon as possible.

40 minutes later, Liang En and the others got into the truck after taking a nap, called the group of Slovenians, and then started the truck.

Soon, the two container trucks started moving, and then quickly rushed out of the gate of the warehouse area one after the other and plunged into the darkness.

Because this place is very remote, almost all the street lights on the roadside are broken. But even so, old Pierce still gave full throttle, and the same was true for the car behind him.

The two cars gradually accelerated on the dark street and soon exceeded 50 kilometers per hour.

This speed is of course very slow on the highway, because most highways in Germany have no speed limit, but on such a dilapidated and unlit road, this speed is already very fast, and can even be said to be dangerous.

"At this speed, it only takes us seven or eight minutes to leave this warehouse area and enter the city." After taking a look at the speedometer, Liang En turned his head and asked Pierce beside him.

"By the way, Pierce, where do you think those guys would choose to intercept us if they really want to intercept us for robbery?"

"It should be at the fork in the road two thousand meters away." Looking at the electronic map updated in real time on his phone, Pierce said nervously.

"Because once we pass the fork in the road, we can go directly onto the highway. Once we get on the highway and blend into the traffic, it will be difficult for the other party to find our whereabouts."

"So the other party will definitely cut us off at that critical point and make us stop. If we don't stop, they will use some dangerous driving methods on the highway to force us to stop."

Having said this, Liang En looked helplessly at the car he was riding in. Because in Germany, there is no toll on highways for vehicles under 12 tons.

But the problem is that their car obviously weighs more than 12 tons, so it is easy to be targeted when they stop at the toll station to deal with the problem.

The two-kilometer journey passed in an instant, and at that fork in the road, they saw two pickup trucks, which are rare in Europe, blocking the intersection. At the same time, there were two people wearing blue coats and waving red lights in their hands. flashlight.

"These people are newcomers, not police, so don't worry about them now and just rush over." After seeing at a glance that the other party was not a police officer, Liang En shouted into the intercom in the car, and the two trucks accelerated and rushed past almost at the same time. This level.

"The other party is catching up now -" Looking in the rearview mirror, Pierce shouted loudly. Sure enough, the other party did not give up after they did not stop Liang En and the others, but prepared to follow them to the highway to attack.

"It seems that we can only find a way to get rid of these guys on the highway." Liang En muttered quietly, but in his heart he was glad that Germany did not have a complete surveillance system in public places like China.

Without monitoring, he felt that the special abilities he had in his hands could just solve the problems he was facing now.

Soon, Liang En and the others stopped in front of the toll booth at the highway intersection. Just when they were about to go through the toll-related procedures, the two pickup trucks arrogantly passed the toll station and stopped at the parking waiting area a little in front of the toll station.

"Should we call the police now?" Pierce asked nervously after watching the people in the two cars roll down their windows and give them the middle finger.

"The police are called, what next?" Old Pierce said, holding the steering wheel. "If we wait where we are, the far-right group will definitely come and attack us. In this way, not only will we be in danger, but we will also be in danger to the toll collectors."

"And if we leave, the situation will be no different than now. Because the police will definitely find us after those guys."

"Then what should we do?"

"Don't worry, the situation is not that bad." Liang En said with a serious face, "My sixth sense tells me that we will definitely not encounter any danger next and we can go home safely."

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"Actually, I have some special perceptions of some things." Looking at the nervous Murphys and his son, Liang En said half-truthfully. "This feeling is especially strong when it comes to things that are related to me."

"According to the popular saying now, my sixth sense is relatively strong, so I can feel that we will definitely be able to turn danger into good fortune and will not be harmed by those garbage."

The reason why Liang En said this is also very simple, because the state of old Murphy is very important when he is escaping, so he needs to do everything possible to stabilize his state now.

As for the solution to the problem, it is simpler. After all, the golden finger he now has contains a lot of supernatural powers, and he is planning to use one of them.

Unlike China, European and American culture itself has a high tolerance for these magical things, and there are many people who believe in this.

For example, there are many people in Europe who claim to have prophecy or other special abilities. Not only can they act publicly, they can even appear on TV and in newspapers and become celebrities. This sixth sense can be said to be the most common one.

"If that's the case, then we should pray that your sixth sense becomes more effective." As soon as Liang En finished speaking, Pierce suddenly became excited. "There are only two trucks in front of us now, and there is not much time left for the few of us."

As he spoke, Old Pierce, who was holding the steering wheel, nodded in agreement. For the Murphys, although they are skeptical about what Liang En is saying now, they still have a certain degree of trust.

On the one hand, this is because Europe, especially Ireland, believes in this kind of things, so they naturally don't think there is anything wrong with Liang En claiming that he has expertise in this area.

On the other hand, the impression of China on Westerners is often associated with antiquity and mystery. Therefore, for Liang En, who is of Chinese descent, the Murphys felt that he might actually have a stronger sixth sense than normal people.

Soon, Murphy and his son held the cross and began to pray. Pray to the gods to help them escape this disaster. At the same time, they glanced at Liang En from time to time.

Under this situation, Liang En felt that sitting here like this seemed incompatible with the atmosphere in the carriage, so he thought for a while and sat on the seat with a serious face, his hands kept waving one after another, which looked very... Weird gestures and muttering words at the same time.

From the perspective of someone who has no knowledge of these matters, Liang En now looks solemn and reciting mysterious incantations that he does not understand. He looks like an expert.

But in fact, if you get closer, you will find that what he is actually chanting is: "The mighty heavenly dragon, the world-honored Ksitigarbha, the Prajna Buddhas... Wait, what is the next sentence? Forget it, ignore it, repeat Recite it again, mighty heavenly dragon..."

However, after these things fell into the ears of the Murphys, who did not understand Chinese at all, Liang En's image suddenly became much taller.

They felt that this prayer sounded full of Eastern mystery, and listening to these rhythmic languages, the Pierces also felt that their hearts relaxed a lot.

"Excuse me, who is this-" Just as they passed the toll booth, the young woman with short blond hair in the toll booth pointed at Liang En curiously and asked.

"This is some kind of religious ceremony belonging to the East." Old Pierce said to the toll collector with a serious face. "so--"

"Understood." The toll collector immediately looked away from Liang En, and then briefly looked at the automatic recorder on the truck to ensure that it was in normal operation.

The moment the car drove out of the toll station, Liang En made a gesture with his hands in front of his chest, then pointed at the two pickup trucks parked in the parking area and said, "Tai Shang Laojun, be as urgent as the law."

As for why he was chanting Taoist mantras at this time, the reason was very simple. It was because he didn't know how to chant Buddhist mantras.

Of course, these actions are just pretentious and used to deceive people. After all, there are two Murphys and his son in the car, so there must be some sound and light effects, which will help strengthen the beliefs of the two people.

The real trump card is that after he finished reading these things, he launched the [Kazan Copper Cauldron (SR)] card, which can be used once a month to attack with a salvo attack from the 62nd Sorak Regiment.

After activating this skill, the light on the card [Kazan Copper Cauldron (SR)] suddenly became dim.

At the same time, the text used to describe this skill on the card all changed from silver to dim gray, and an hourglass pattern suddenly appeared next to it, while the sand above continued to flow downward.

Then, a palm-sized, white stone city gate with orange lines appeared in the void. Soldiers the size of rice grains poured out of the city gate. Of course, only he can see these things.

These soldiers wore standard chain mail and turban-style helmets. There were 31 soldiers in total, and each of them held a compound bow.

Different from normal humans, they look more like shadowy human figures, with blank faces and only a pair of eyes that glow blue.

Just when these soldiers appeared, Liang En also realized how to operate this attack. Contrary to what he imagined, he could only designate one target as the target of the volley and could not add more targets.

"If this is the case -" Liang En's mind started to spin rapidly, and then he turned to Old Pierce and shouted. "Accelerate now, I want those two cars to run now."

"No problem." Old Pierce stepped on the accelerator. Although he didn't know whether what Liang En did just now was of any use, he also knew that the faster he ran in this situation, the greater the chance of getting rid of the enemy.

"Wish you good luck!" A Slovenian voice came from the intercom. Once on the highway, the group of Slovenians drove south according to the previously discussed plan, while Liang En and the others headed west. .

But the strange thing is that the two pickup trucks gave up on the group of Slovenians, and instead bit Liang En and the others.

"I guess we were targeted because we loaded a lot of stuff in the car." Old Pierce said as he looked in the rearview mirror at the two pickup trucks that were gradually following behind.

"Several of the guests who attended the auction together have passed by the door of our warehouse. Some of them are out of curiosity, but some are the spies of the new group of crispy scum."

"Although there are boxes, and because we were more vigilant at the time, they shouldn't be able to see what we got, but they can definitely see that we took away a lot of things in the car."

"How will the other party attack on the highway? It's impossible to follow him all the way to France, right?" Liang En was a little confused when he looked at the two pickup trucks keeping a distance from his truck behind him.

"Of course not, it's just that this place is close to the city and there are many people and cars, so it is not suitable for launching an attack." Old Pierce said seriously.

"But as long as we go a few kilometers further and leave the city, the other party will force us to stop by collision, damaging the tires or even attacking the cab."

"This could really lead to death." Hearing what his father said, Pierce had a look of horror on his face. "How dare they?"

"Why don't they dare?" Old Pierce replied, "Don't forget, these people are members of extremist organizations and are not simple robbers. Once you are high with some kind of psychotropic drugs, you can't do anything with your blood. "

"So I will try to hit them with my car in a while. Of course, I also hope that the spell you just cast, Lawrence, really works."

Ten minutes later, the car left the city, and the number of vehicles on the surrounding roads suddenly decreased.

Upon seeing this, the two pickup trucks behind them immediately lined up and drove over from the left side of Liang En's truck. It seemed that they wanted to drive parallel to the cab of their truck and intimidate them to stop.

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Looking at the two pickup trucks getting closer and closer, Pierce tightened his grip on a large screwdriver. Although he is not usually very courageous, he is definitely not the kind of person who just sits back and waits for death.

"Don't worry, we will be fine this time. My sixth sense has told me that things are about to turn around." Liang En nervously looked at the specific situation between the three cars in the rearview mirror, and at the same time looked at the situation next to him. Pierce comforted.

"Now, prepare -" Liang En shouted in his heart just as the pickup truck headed by the two pickup trucks was one or two meters away from the rear of their vehicles, and at the same time issued orders to these rice-sized archers with his will. .

In an instant, these archers floated out of the window, and then they aimed their bows and arrows at the right front wheel of the front of the two pickup trucks.

"Release -" Following Liang En's order, the 31 archers simultaneously released the bowstrings held by their right hands. As soon as the arrows left the strings, they instantly became normal size, and then flew towards the leader like lightning. That pickup truck.

Although this kind of dynamic shooting is relatively difficult, especially the whistling airflow around it obviously affects the flight of the arrow. But for these elites, a distance of more than ten meters would not miss the target.

In less than a second, these translucent arrows spanned this space, and then struck hard at the lower left side of the front of the target pickup truck.

Because of the angle, most of the arrows hit the ground, the bumper or the radiator grille on the front of the car, but two arrows still accurately hit the left front wheel of the fast-rolling pickup truck.

"Bang——" followed by a huge noise. The front left tire of the pickup truck immediately exploded. Then the entire car suddenly lost control, turned left, and plunged into the isolation zone.

The car behind was chasing too close and had no time to brake. As a result, it hit the car in front of it and turned 270 degrees on the road. Then it also plunged into the isolation belt with its rear end.

After completing this blow, the warrior figures the size of rice grains saluted Liang En at the same time. Then they lined up and returned to the city gate just like before. Then the entire city gate slowly faded and disappeared.

"Your sixth sense is so good." Looking through the rearview mirror at the few newcomers struggling to climb out of the deformed car, Pierce grabbed Liang En's arm and said excitedly.

Old Pierce seemed much calmer, but from the burst of veins in his hand holding the steering wheel, it could be seen that he was not very calm inside either.

Yes, they could not see the arrows flying through the air, but the timing of the tires of those newly driven pickup trucks bursting was just too good to be true. This makes people have to think more about certain aspects.

"Actually, I just wanted to boost your morale." Liang En spread his hands and said. "Don't you think you felt calmer after just listening to what I said there?"

Looking at Pierce who looked at him with a fiery look, Liang En felt that the hairs on his body were about to stand on end. Although their family is considered Irish, London is always a place where it is easy for people to pick up some English habits.

"I understand, I understand -" the Murphys and his son said at the same time, and then the elder Pierce assured. "Don't worry, Lawrence, this is a secret between us. I swear not to tell anyone else this news."

Obviously, the Murphys believed that Liang En said this because he did not want others to know about his ability. After watching many movies and novels, they quickly thought of what they should do next.

And this is what Liang En hopes to achieve. At least in this way, it will be much more convenient for him to do many things in the future.

For safety reasons, even if the tracking vehicle was unable to continue tracking due to a car accident, Old Pierce decided to stay as far away from Leipzig as possible because he did not know whether the other party would have any reinforcements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En began to check the four cards he had just obtained.

He found that three of the black cards were [Detection (N)] and [Identification (N)] that had been there before. The only difference from last time is that two of these cards are [Identification (N)] and one is [Detection (N)].

"In other words, the cards I obtained are related to the process of obtaining those items or discovering certain things before." Liang En had some vague conjecture.

"For example, what I did last time when I found the Kazan copper pot was to find the pot, and what I did this time was to identify what was in that warehouse."

"So that's why the cards I got in this area last time were more focused on search, while the cards this time are focused on identification."

After realizing that he had gained another understanding of how to use Goldfinger, Liang En began to check the brand new card, and this was an active skill card that he had never seen before.

[The Last German Army (R): In any case, compared to the completely Americanized West German army, the East German army retained more German style. Just like that sentence, the West German army retained the Iron Cross, while the East German army retained the remaining parts.

Enhancement card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can master the combat skills of a mechanized infantryman under the 7th Armored Division of the People's Police of the German Democratic Republic. Note that mastering only skills does not involve physical strengthening. 】

"It doesn't look very powerful, but it's enough." After looking at the content on this card, Liang En nodded. After what happened today, he realized that he needed to learn some combat-related skills.

After all, Liang En's current job inevitably involves walking on the streets, but the security conditions in this area are obviously not as good as those in Eastern China, so learning some self-defense methods is naturally indispensable.

Otherwise, it would be a trivial matter to be unable to protect one's wealth, but it would be tragic if one's life was at stake.

Compared with the special forces of the military or some powerful departments, and even some special forces of the police, the individual quality of these ordinary mechanized infantry is more than an order of magnitude worse than those of the elites in front.

But Liang En doesn't need to go to the battlefield, so this level of military skills is actually completely redundant for him. At least when dealing with gangsters and robbers in the streets and alleys, this professional skill can be regarded as a killing blow.

So Liang En immediately chose to use this card. The card quickly turned into bronze powder and disappeared from his mind. Then a large number of combat-related skills were instilled into his brain.

At the same time, waves of bioelectricity began to travel throughout his body, instilling muscle memory into all his bones and muscles.

Naturally, this kind of indoctrination will make him feel uncomfortable for a while as usual. Fortunately, he is currently fixed in the seat by the seat belt with his eyes closed, so he doesn't have to worry about the Murphys seeing anything wrong.

After ten minutes, this strange feeling disappeared from his body, and at this time he also mastered a variety of military skills.

However, after careful inspection, Liang En realized that due to his physical condition, most of these skills could not be used as smoothly as the instilled knowledge.

Therefore, if you want to make these skills truly usable, you still need to train hard.

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After driving for several hours, the truck drove into the city of Kassel, more than 200 kilometers away from Leipzig. Then the three people quickly found a hotel open to such intercontinental truck drivers and stayed there.

Early the next morning, they continued to drive across the border between Germany and France, and then stopped at Saint-Menourde in the Marne department of the Champagne-Ardennes region for lunch and preparation for a rest. a while.

"I need to rest here for two hours before setting off." After returning to the parking lot, Old Pierce said to Liang En and the others, because for him, only taking a good rest now can avoid the possible dangers caused by fatigue driving.

After watching old Pierce turn around and go to the rest area attached to the parking lot for a lunch break, Liang En and Pierce decided to go strolling around the streets of the town to kill the two hours.

The parking lot is located outside the town of St. Menulde, so if Liang En and the others want to go around, they need to walk a few hundred meters along a trail.

Along the way, they saw some small trees and large vineyards on both sides of the road. At the end of the road, some old country houses with red tiles and white walls were hidden in the shade.

These poetic pastoral scenery and rich French-style scenery made the two of them feel the harmony between people and nature in the French village, which is the unique charm of the French countryside.

"It's really nice, especially the sunshine and the surrounding vineyards." Pierce said looking at the surrounding scenery.

Unlike the most common British countryside, which consists of stretches of grassland with interspersed woods, dotted with farmhouses, and scattered livestock on the grass, the villages here seem a lot more lively.

After all, Britain's latitude is further north, so it is easier to develop animal husbandry than planting. However, with the open grassland used for raising cattle and sheep coupled with the rainy weather common in the British Isles, it is difficult not to give people a feeling of loneliness.

Unlike ordinary agricultural towns, St. Menoulde has developed a tourism industry. Therefore, in addition to local residents in the town, you can also see many tourists taking photos everywhere with cameras or mobile phones.

Because today is Sunday, the weekly free market in the town is also open. This market is located in an open space on the edge of the town, and the stalls are cars.

Several of the commercial vehicles look more professional. When the carriage is opened from the side, it reveals a simple but by no means crude shop. However, most of them are just a piece of cloth spread on or beside the vehicle. Some even simply put the Cargo is stuffed into the trunk.

This market is free for locals, but there is a fee for foreigners. Fortunately, it's not expensive. Foreigners only need 10 euros per person to go in and do whatever they want. But if you want to sell things here, you will be charged 10 euros per stall.

To put it bluntly, this market has the same nature as going to the market during holidays in Chinese villages. Therefore, the items sold in these stores are also very mixed, which can be said to cover all aspects.

"There are similar markets around London. At first, everyone hoped to sell some second-hand goods that they could not use, or some things they produced themselves, but later various professional and semi-professional businessmen came to join in the fun. "

While eating slices of fresh French bread with homemade jam that he just bought, Pierce introduced to Liang En, "Next time we have free time, we can go to those weekend markets around London."

Perhaps because this place usually has a lot of tourists, the shops here sell a much wider range of things than a normal rural weekend market.

In addition to those selling tools, second-hand furniture and farm tools, and those selling some fruits and vegetables grown in the fields, they also saw many people selling various small decorations.

For example, Liang En now found an old artificial velvet red cloth spread on a light folding table next to a car, and on top of the red cloth were placed various things that looked a bit old.

Pierce quickly fell in love with a wooden cigarette box with brass edges on the stall, and after several rounds of haggling, he bought it for 25 euros.

In fact, this box belongs to the kind of cigarette box that was relatively common in the early 20th century. However, unlike ordinary boxes, this box has some bas-reliefs carved on it.

"Look at this. What is carved on it is a frontline trench position, and the year 1918 is written next to it. So this is probably something left by soldiers on the battlefield of World War I." Pierce said, pointing to the pattern on the box.

Liang En spent more than 70 euros to buy a silver mug, which was considered a small leak. This cup is small on the body and large on the bottom. The story of the three heroes of Yang Chi fighting Lu Bu is hammered on the top, and an oriental dragon-shaped handle is welded to one side of the cup.

Obviously, this combination is similar to wearing a suit and a melon cap, and there is something obviously wrong with it. So the stall owner sold this thing to Liang En at the price of modern silver crafts.

But in fact, this thing is a silverware for export made by craftsmen at some foreign trade ports in the south during the late Qing Dynasty. The biggest feature of this kind of silverware is that the style is very consistent with Western eating and living habits, but the decoration is full of Chinese characteristics.

"How much do you think this thing is worth?" After leaving the shop, Pierce asked excitedly after learning the true identity of the silverware.

"300~350 euros, you have to meet someone you like." Liang En shrugged and said, "After all, there were too many exports of this type of stuff back then, and the quality of this kind of completely commercialized stuff was just that, so selling it Don't pay too high a price."

What he didn't say was that he found that not a single card was revealed in this silver cup, which proved from the side that the value of this cup was not very high.

Fortunately, this cup looks very clean, and Liang En is not short of money now. So he planned to clean and disinfect the cup when he went back and keep it for himself.

"It's pretty good. You can use this cup in the bar we often go to." Pierce said after hearing Liang En's plan.

For British people, especially British men, the pub is a very common social occasion. In this case, many people tend to spend money in fixed bars.

And if you are a regular customer, it is very common to bring your own wine glass to the bar.

The area of this market is not large, so Liang En and the two of them quickly visited almost all of the market.

To be honest, these shops are not without fakes. But at least it's much better than the situation in those antique markets in China where you stand there with your mouth open and your mouth shut, but in fact the oldest thing in the whole shop is the red cloth on the floor.

But when they were about to leave here and go shopping elsewhere, a businessman who had just opened a stall at the door suddenly attracted Liang En's attention.

The items displayed by this stall owner are like a grocery store, with silverware, porcelain, woodware, small furniture, jewelry, etc. completely filling the entire cloth.

The reason why Liang En was attracted here was because among the old-fashioned European porcelain and silverware that looked a little dirty, there was an obviously Chinese-style bottle standing there.

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As fragile items, these bottles all have small notes on them indicating their prices. But after seeing the small note attached to the Chinese-style porcelain bottle, Liang En suddenly lost interest.

"This is porcelain from China. Look at how beautifully the characters and houses are painted on it. It only costs 500 euros, which is already very cheap."

The boss, who was in his twenties, obviously thought that Liang En was a tourist, so he tried his best to sell it in English that was not very proficient.

"Why don't you buy this?" Pierce asked Liang En in Irish-accented English with some confusion. "I remember that your Chinese porcelain has been quite expensive in recent years."

As an antique dealer, Pierce naturally pays attention to the overall trends in the current antique market. Therefore, it was a little strange why Liang En didn't buy this porcelain bottle, which seemed quite valuable in his eyes.

"The porcelain bottle is different from the porcelain bottle." Liang En pointed to the bottle helplessly and said, "Do you think this bottle is more in line with European aesthetics?"

"Indeed, I think it's quite beautiful." Pierce nodded, and then said, "But isn't that what good things are like? As far as I know, the more in line with everyone's aesthetics, the better."

"But the problem is that this thing is actually the woven gold-colored porcelain exported by China in the late Qing Dynasty." Liang En approached Pierce and explained in a low voice, then picked up the bottle and turned it over with the stall owner's permission.

Sure enough, at the bottom of the bottle is the most common sustenance money "Qianlong Year", but what is slightly strange is that surrounding this square mark is a circle in English: Made in China.

"When we make this thing ourselves, it's impossible to add English on the bottom line." Liang En said, pointing to the label.

"So this thing, like the silver cup I just made, is just a product for export. Not only is the output large, but the style is also relatively stylized, so the overall price is not high."

"For example, this vase is like this. You can see that the figures on it are very stiffly drawn, and the layout of the entire picture does not feel very coordinated."

"So under normal circumstances, this thing can't be sold at a good price at all. The top quality is only about two thousand euros, and now, one or two hundred euros is already a lot."

"As for the current price tag of 500 euros, it is probably specifically used to deceive tourists. At least I believe that most people don't know what the normal price of this thing should be."

The entire conversation between Liang En and Pierce was in English with a strong Irish accent. Although most of the French people present knew English, there was no need to worry about being overheard by this kind of English that most British people did not understand.

After putting down the bottles, the two of them felt that it would be a bit awkward just not buying anything here, so they decided to buy some more small things from this stall.

However, there were at least hundreds of items on this stall, and Liang En didn't have the patience to look at them one by one. So he chose to use a [Detection (N)] card.

Just when the card completely turned into dots and disappeared in his mind, a bright light that only he could see suddenly flashed out from a small gadget on the cloth.

This is a small rabbit sculpture that appears to be made of copper, only about the size of a palm. However, after taking this thing in his hands, Liang En's unique observation ability noticed that there were some golden traces in some places on this small sculpture.

"Just give me 35 euros for this thing." After seeing Liang En pick up the bronze sculpture, the stall owner introduced it enthusiastically. "It is a pre-Napoleonic bronze sculpture and may have been associated with royalty."

"You can't say that it has something to do with the royal family just because there is a iris mark on it." Liang En took the sculpture and turned it around in his hand, and found that there was indeed an iris symbol unique to the French royal family under the sculpture. .

"Yes, if there is only one logo, naturally you cannot say that, but if you look carefully at the workmanship of this sculpture, you will find that this thing cannot be made by ordinary craftsmen."

"Okay, this is what I need, wrap it up for me." Liang En said, taking out the cash from his body, then counted out 35 euros and handed it over.

Next to him, Pierce also spent 15 euros on a lighter made of bullet casings. After all, this place is not far from the French-German border, so items left over from the war are not uncommon.

"Did you find anything good just now?" Pierce asked Liang En immediately after leaving the small market. After all, they had been roommates for several years, so he could feel that Liang En must have gotten a bargain.

"Yes, look carefully here." Liang En said, pointing to the small part at the tip of the bronze rabbit's ears. "You'll notice that this rabbit has a layer of oxidized bronze paint on the surface, but underneath it's gold."

"That is to say, someone put a layer of paint on this thing to conceal the true identity of this little statue." After taking out a small magnifying glass from his arms and looking at it for a long time, Pierce also wanted to understand something.

"At the end of the 18th century, the Rococo style was popular within the French royal family, and the light image of this rabbit just fits the popular style of that era. If gilding is added-"

As a professional who studied archeology at Zheng'er Ba Jing University, after being reminded by Liang En, Pierce also discovered some peculiar places on this small statue.

At least in that era, it was possible to make such a small statue so vivid and decorate it with gold plating, even if it was not the royal family, it could only be done by some big nobles.

The reason why it is determined that this thing is gold-plated is very simple, because after holding the whole statue in hand, you can clearly feel that the statue is not very heavy on the hand, and it is not hollow inside, so it should not be gold.

"But what do you think this statue is for?" After inspecting the statue, Pierce looked at the rabbit statue with some curiosity.

"As a pendant jewelry, this thing is too big. And I didn't find any parts on this that can fix it in certain places."

"But as a simple sculpture, the size of this thing is too small. It's hard to imagine where such a small thing should be placed, and there is no base to place it."

"I think this may be placed on the furniture, or part of some furniture." Liang En said after turning the thing over and over. "

After we go back and remove the paint on the surface, we will probably be able to figure out what this thing is. Now that the thing is covered with a thick layer of paint, even if there are clues, they should be hidden. "

In fact, at the beginning, Liang En had the idea of using [Appraisal (N)] to see what kind of treasure it was.

But then he thought that he already had this thing in his hand and would not run away by himself. There is absolutely no need to waste a card just to know the truth a few days in advance.

As for why that person sold this thing, it is also very simple, because now this thing looks completely like a copper rabbit, not like a valuable thing at all, so he simply put it on the street stall and sold it for as much as he could.

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This small town is not far from the main Champagne production area, so the town is also using the grapes produced in the surrounding vineyards to produce various sparkling wines.

So in the following time, Liang En and the others found an outdoor tavern and each ordered a glass of wine and started drinking.

Although according to trademark law, the sparkling white wine produced here cannot be called champagne, in fact, in terms of taste, the difference between the two is actually only a little. At least Liang En's tongue couldn't taste the difference at all.

After chatting slowly and drinking the wine in the glass, time was almost up. So the two people returned to the parking lot and continued their journey.

To be honest, Liang En benefited a lot from this treasure hunt in the market. Because he found that in this part of Europe, most people had very little understanding of various non-European cultural relics.

Therefore, for him, if he wants to find treasures in the future, he can pay more attention to this aspect. In this way, you may get some unexpected gains.

At 9:30 that night, the three people finally drove the truck back to London safely.

According to the plan, the old Pierce will find a way to use the contacts he has accumulated in the past to sell the treasure obtained this time, while Liang En and Pierce can take advantage of this opportunity to do their own things.

For example, Liang En got up early the next morning after returning, and then started cleaning the rabbit statue he had obtained earlier.

I saw that he dipped a cotton swab in a little prepared lotion and tested it on the corners of the statue. After finding that there was no problem, he started to clean the statue bit by bit.

As he cleaned up, the yellow-green paint was gradually wiped off with cotton swabs, revealing the golden surface underneath. More than half an hour later, a golden rabbit appeared in front of him.

"It seems that the skills learned in school have always been remembered in my mind."

After checking the rabbit and confirming that the paint on the surface of the rabbit had been cleaned, Liang En dropped the cotton swab and muttered to himself, and then carefully inspected the rabbit statue.

After removing the outer layer of paint used to cover it, the sculpture finally revealed its original shape. The beautiful patterns that were previously hidden by the dark-looking paint were also revealed.

These patterns are all flower and plant patterns that look gorgeous and delicate. At the same time, the rabbit's eyes are also inlaid with two mung bean-sized rubies. The whole is full of the asymmetrical beauty of Rococo.

And unlike what was imagined before, this thing is not just made of a single piece of metal. For example, Liang En discovered that the head and tail of rabbits can move.

But before he figured out what this thing was, he didn't dare to touch the parts that seemed to be movable. Because he was worried that the thing might be damaged if he used the wrong method.

In addition, the most special discovery came from the rabbit's abdomen, where Liang En saw an emblem only the size of the tip of a little finger.

"This should be Queen Mary's emblem -" After carefully examining the emblem with a magnifying glass, Liang En quickly recognized who the emblem with a capital M and a capital A stacked together represented.

Queen Marie, full name Marie Antoinette. Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI of France, made no political achievements after entering the French court. She was just passionate about balls, fashion, fun and banquets every day, decorating the garden, and was extravagant. She was known as the "Madame Deficit" and later died in the French Revolution.

There are many controversies about this person in history. Many people believe that she was one of the main culprits of France's crisis at that time, but others believe that she was just a victim of the times.

But in any case, as a queen, Marie Antoinette is still very competent, at least in terms of her taste in various items for daily use.

However, this badge also made Liang En fall into deep thought, because according to tradition, this kind of personal badge is different from the royal badge, and is often only placed on personal items that are close to the person.

But now that the rabbit statue is big or small, Liang En really has a hard time figuring out what role such a sculpture can play.

"Okay, now there is only one move." After a simple inspection, Liang En, who really couldn't figure out the origin of this thing, activated a [Appraisal (N)].

After the card was used, lines after lines of tiny text appeared in front of Liang En out of thin air, revealing the secrets inside the sculpture.

[King Louis XVI of France is not a qualified king. If we use Eastern terms, he is a bit like Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty. But what he likes is not being a carpenter, but making various locks. 】

[Of course, these complex and exquisite locks in that era were often used to hide some secrets, such as this lock that Louis XVI gave to his wife. 】

After all the words disappeared, a [Detection (N)] card appeared in Liang En's mind. This also means that he has completely figured out what this sculpture, or rather this rabbit-shaped lock, is.

Obviously, such a lock set by Louis XVI as a gift to his wife, Queen Mary, should be a valuable cultural relic. However, for Liang En, he is more concerned about what may be hidden in it. What is the secret.

However, it is not a simple matter to open this lock. At least now Liang En can't even find the keyhole of this lock anywhere. It's no wonder that Louis XVI thought that he had created a lock that outsiders could not crack.

Fortunately, times have changed. Faced with such complex mechanical equipment, Liang En has a simple solution.

"You said this thing is a lock made by Louis XVI as a gift to his queen, and there may be some secrets hidden in it?" In the Emerald Thrift Store, Pierce looked at Liang En in shock.

"A random gadget bought from a stall can be such a valuable good thing. Your luck has been very good recently. Do you have the magic to increase your wealth?"

"Of course not. You see, I used to buy a lottery ticket every week, but I have never won even the lowest prize." Liang En shrugged.

"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this. Please help me see the structure inside this thing."

"No problem, but I need a moment to check." Pierce stood up from behind the counter and walked towards the back of the room.

"You know that broken machine has been in our house for ten years, but the last time it was used was a month ago. So I have to check to make sure it still works-"

Fortunately, this machine is a bit old, but the quality is good. So after more than ten minutes, they successfully figured out the internal structure of the lock.

Then Liang En picked up the lock from the table, then gently pressed the rabbit's short tail upwards. With a click, the rabbit's head suddenly turned in another direction and exposed the keyhole below.

"It's so unlucky." Liang En, who looked at the rabbit-shaped lock turned his head to the side, complained, because he remembered that the king and his wife seemed to have been executed with a guillotine.

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"Okay, I'm going back to deal with the next thing." After checking the hidden keyhole, Liang En waved goodbye to Pierce.

Because he had just figured out what the key should look like through X-rays, he was now anxious to go back and match the key to open the lock, and then see what secrets were hidden in this thing.

"Well, I wish you all the best!" Pierce said standing at the counter. "By the way, try to turn on your phone these days. Because my father needs to ask for your opinion when selling the things he got from Germany. ."

"Uncle Murphy moves very quickly." After hearing what Pierce said, Liang En took back one foot that had already stepped out of the store, then turned his head and said.

"I thought our batch was relatively unpopular, so it might take some effort to find a buyer."

"Yes, Cold War collection is indeed a very niche area." Pierce nodded. "But my father happened to know a collector in this field, and he was able to help us find a buyer through him in the past two days."

"Sure enough, having an old man in the family is like having a treasure." Liang En didn't think this was just a coincidence. After all, the old Pierce had been working in this industry for more than thirty years, so he naturally had some channels of his own.

"By the way, do you have anything else?" At this moment, Liang En suddenly realized that Pierce seemed to have something to say, so he asked directly.

"I do have something here." Pierce said, taking out a list from under the counter and handing it to Liang En. "This is something that a regular customer in the store wanted, so if you have time during this period, you can help find it."

"Victorian furniture? Okay, I'll keep an eye out for it." Considering that he had more than ten thousand pounds of liquid capital, he felt that it would not be too difficult for him to collect some furniture in this area.

After coming out of the Emerald Thrift Store, Liang En first went to a nearby place that specialized in matching keys and spent ten pounds to ask him to help match a key to open the lock according to the drawing he had drawn before, and then returned to his residence.

The first thing he did when he returned to his residence was Liang En, who took out his cell phone and checked his email.

Unfortunately, just like the previous week, apart from a few bills and advertisements, there was no reply from the Journal of the British Archaeological Society as he expected.

Of course, this is not bad news. Although the other party did not send an email stating that they would adopt that paper, at least they did not send a rejection letter.

As for why there is still no movement in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association after a week, it is actually not difficult to understand.

After all, it is the top archaeological magazine in the UK, so naturally a large number of people submit articles to them every month or even every day, including private archaeological experts like Liang En now.

Therefore, it is already a good idea for the other party to read every manuscript carefully. Therefore, manuscripts written by private experts like Liang En will naturally be ranked lower.

In his opinion, it is already a very good thing to receive the other party's response within half a month. If he is not lucky, he may be scheduled directly to next month.

Many workers here in the UK are not only inefficient, but also charge high fees. For example, getting a key not only costs ten pounds, but also takes five or six hours.

This means that for the next morning, he can only stay here and wait for the key master to send him a text message after completing his work, asking him to retrieve the key.

Out of boredom, Liang En began to study the cards in his mind. Soon he discovered that these cards could actually move in his mind according to his will.

"If this is the case, I can stack identical cards together." This new discovery immediately gave Liang En a bold idea.

After all, although he doesn't have many cards now, it can be expected that there will definitely be no shortage of such things in the future, so it is a good idea to sort out the pile of cards in his mind.

But when he stacked four [Detection (N)] cards together, a line of text suddenly appeared from the stack of cards.

[After consuming one (N) level card, three same (N) level cards can be synthesized into one (R) level card. 】

"This thing feels more and more like a card game." After seeing this line of text prompt, Liang En showed a helpless smile. "Now even the card synthesis has been released."

Considering that cards like [Detection (N)] are easy to obtain, and figuring out this cheat is a very important thing. So Liang En chose to synthesize cards.

Just after he selected the synthesis with his mind, the card at the bottom of the stack immediately turned into a ball of white light and enveloped all the cards above.

After a few seconds, the light dissipated, and the original stack of black cards disappeared, leaving only a bronze card in that position.

[Detection (R): When looking for items, just finding a good thing in a small space is no longer enough to meet the current needs. Fortunately, we now have the ability to find items further away.

Skill card (one-time use), after obtaining an item carrying information, by consuming this card and that item, you can find a certain existence related to that item.

This existence may be a treasure, a treasure or a relic. No one can know what they will find until they find it. 】

"A very random card." After reading what was written on the card, Liang En showed a helpless expression. Because the scope of this relevant existence is really too large.

For example, if he uses this card on the Kazan copper pot, the location he is guided to may be the treasure of the new army, their cemetery or even the military camp in Constantinople.

If it's the former, then consuming such a precious cultural relic can give you the opportunity to make a fortune, and you can still save money no matter what happens. Then the latter two are obvious loss-making businesses.

Therefore, for Liang En, he must carefully consider the items he chooses to use as guides to avoid the situation where he even loses his underwear in a wasted trip.

After thinking about the cultural relics in his hand, Liang En found that the things he had mastered lacked direct direction, and there was a high probability that he would lose money by using this card.

"It seems that this card can only be kept temporarily." After taking a helpless look at [Detection (R), Liang En could only put the card away helplessly, and then sorted out the other cards. card.

When the time came to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Liang En finally got the key he had ordered before. As soon as he got the key, Liang En opened the rabbit lock.

With a soft click, the entire lock suddenly split into two halves to reveal the internal structure.

In addition to the mechanical structure that should be inside a lock, Liang En also found a brown thing that looked like a cigarette filter inserted between the mechanical parts.

"Things are getting more and more interesting now." Liang En thought as he used tweezers to gently pinch the thing out from between the gear and the connecting rod.

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After carefully examining what looked like a cigarette filter, he discovered that it was a small note sealed in wax.

It's just that because too much time has passed, the outer layer of wax has darkened due to oxidation, and it looks like those cigarette filters.

After putting on gloves and using a special tool to carefully peel off the wax oil on the roll of paper, Liang En gently unfolded the paper.

Perhaps because of the wax seal, this note is relatively well preserved, so the text on it is very clear and can be read without further processing.

The note was written in French. From the slightly messy handwriting and the several holes in the note, it can be seen that this note was written under some kind of emergency conditions.

"Whoever sees the note, please hand over the things I stored there before." After reading this line of text softly, Liang En had a puzzled expression on his face.

Because this sentence has no beginning or end, if it is just the content on the note, it is impossible to tell what the note is trying to express.

After a simple inspection, Liang En discovered that the seal ring seal at the end of the note belonged to King Louis XVI of France. In other words, this note was written by Louis XVI.

However, it is obvious that the complete wax seal proves that this order was not delivered to the person who was supposed to receive it, but was sealed in those wax seals and preserved to this day.

After checking the note over and over several times, I realized that there was no more information on it. Liang En began to use his mobile phone to search for all the information he could think of. Soon, he discovered something interesting.

According to the Internet, St. Menoulde, where they stopped for a lunch break and purchased the lock, is actually a historic town and an important transportation node. The French were even in that place hundreds of years ago. A post station was established.

More importantly, when French King Louis XVI fled the country on June 20-21, 1791, he was discovered in the inn in this town and was later arrested. And this incident also became an important historical turning point in that era.

"If that's the case, then this note is probably one of the instructions issued by the imprisoned French king to the outside world." After reading the information on the Internet, Liang En quickly came up with a conjecture.

Although this conjecture may not be true, the coincidence of the discovery location still makes this conjecture quite possible.

According to historical records, Queen Mary gradually smuggled her clothes, jewelry and cosmetics out of Paris in the month before her escape, and many of those items at that time were fortunate enough to be passed down to later generations.

Although the records only mentioned that the queen transferred wealth, she was about to go into exile in another country and was preparing to regain her rights. The king will definitely transfer a lot of things to prepare for future exile or restoration.

At least from this note, it can be seen that Louis XVI probably also transferred a large amount of things.

However, this note should have been sent with an order back then, so it's impossible to tell what happened just by looking at the note.

"Just in time to try out the new card." After thinking for a few seconds, Liang En suddenly realized that this note was the best subject for him to test out the new card.

Because this note has a very single direction, if you use the card, you will most likely find the part of the note that the note refers to, or important clues related to this matter, instead of leading to something that is completely useless. On target.

After a brief analysis of the pros and cons, Liang En made up his mind to use that card. After all, if you keep the cards, you won't have children, and now this note may obviously lead him to discover a king's treasure.

After confirming the use of the card, the bronze card turned into dots of light. But unlike before, these rays of light did not scatter, but formed a globe composed of light points.

On this globe, a point of light appeared, and the entire map could expand or shrink according to Liang En's own thoughts.

After continuously zooming in on the map, the location where the light spot appeared exceeded Liang En's expectation. Because this location is not in France, or even on the European continent, but in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.

"Why are the clues there?" Liang En frowned. When he thought about it, if the French king really sent something in advance, it should have been kept on the European continent, not on the island of Ireland, which had no connection with France.

"But this is good, it's just a good time to go home and take a look." After taking a final look at the light spot on the globe in his mind, Liang En began to make preparations.

At the beginning, he planned to invite Pierce to hunt for treasure together. Unfortunately, Pierce just happened to take on a few very profitable businesses during this period, so he really couldn't leave in a short time.

Ireland, a country known as the Emerald Country or the Emerald Country. Therefore, the representative color of this country is green. Even on St. Patrick's Day, many people will wear green clothes and green hats and take to the streets to celebrate.

Of course, although Liang En's family has immigrated to this country for more than 20 years, they can only accept wearing green clothes and going out with others during this festival, but they firmly refuse cuckolding.

Perhaps because of ocean currents, Ireland feels like spring all year round. It's not too cold when it's cold, and it's not too hot when it's hot. This is what Liang En thinks is better than his hometown in another world.

It is also for this reason that the livestock industry throughout Ireland is very developed. But correspondingly, the planting industry has been somewhat exhausted. The staple foods commonly eaten on the island are potatoes, potatoes and potato eggs.

Because of a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and Ireland, crossing the border between the two countries is a very simple matter for Liang En.

So at 4pm the next day, he appeared on the dock in Dublin dragging a large suitcase.

The reason why he chose to take a train from London to Liverpool and then take a boat from Liverpool to Dublin instead of taking a direct flight was also very simple, that is, he needed to take the Kazan copper pot home.

Obviously, the security level at both the station and the terminal is not high. Therefore, although the large copper pot in the box, into which he stuffed many copper and tin utensils, attracted some attention, it was quickly let go.

These utensils were found together with the copper pots before. A large part of them were placed in Pierce's shop for sale, but some of them were kept by him to take home as gifts for his parents.

"Welcome to Ireland, dear foreign friends." After leaving the dock area and getting into a taxi, the driver said quickly in English with a strong Irish accent.

It is normal for the other party to have this understanding, because with the development of China, there are more and more cross-border travelers. And a young Chinese like Liang En dragging a large suitcase will naturally be considered a traveler by taxi drivers.

"Go to Baojian Town near the airport." Liang En replied with the same accent, and then looked at the driver who looked surprised. "That's where I grew up, but now I'm working in the UK."

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Baojian Town is a small town not far from the city, but the roads on both sides have changed from the densely packed buildings in the city to flat grassland and scattered trees dotted in the field.

The uncle driver was quite talkative along the way, especially concerned about work and life conditions in the UK. Because his children also went to the UK after completing college.

Although the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland has been very general in history, many Irish people go to work in the United Kingdom because of the economy and language exchange between the two parties.

Maybe it's not the time to commute to get off work, and the traffic jam along the way is not very serious. It only took the taxi about half an hour to cross a distance of more than ten kilometers and arrive in this small town not far from Dublin.

Liang En had discovered that the light spot was in the center of Dublin before, but since this place was so close to home, he naturally went home first instead of going to the city center to look for something first.

"Finally home." Looking at this quiet town, Liang En sighed softly. One thing that is very lucky for him is that although the world has changed, his relatives have not changed at all.

There is only one road in the town, and some two- and three-story buildings with white walls and gray roofs stand on both sides of the road. Because Liang En in this world grew up in a small town, the people he met along the way were basically acquaintance.

While saying hello, Liang En walked along the road towards the outside of the town. Because his family did not live in the town, but on a farm two to three hundred meters away from the town.

The reason why we got off the bus in the town is also very simple, that is, the road leading to the farm is a one-way road, and it is not easy for taxis to get out after entering.

That's right, Liang En's family runs a farm of more than 300 acres in this life.

And it was precisely because of this farm that Liang En's father, who had obtained a master's degree in the early 1990s and had an iron job in school, gave up everything in the country and traveled across the ocean to come here with his mother, who was newly pregnant at the time.

"Here we are, finally home." After dragging the box to the door of the yard, he first looked at the two-story building through the gap in the yard's iron gate for a while, then took a deep breath and stepped forward to ring the doorbell. .

"Who?"

"Mom, I'm back." Liang En replied in Chinese at the top of his lungs.

Soon, a middle-aged woman walked over from the side of the house. As he walked, he was still wiping his hands on his apron.

"I heard you call me before and said that I would prepare a good meal for you when you come back today, but you were just picking eggs from the henhouse."

Liang En's mother said to him while putting an egg in the pocket of her apron. "What I prepared for you tonight are all your favorite foods-"

"By the way, where's Dad?" After walking into the living room with his mother, Liang En put his suitcase aside and asked.

"You are living a confused life. Today is Wednesday and not the weekend. So your dad should be teaching students about Chinese culture and Northeast Asian culture in the primary school in the town."

Liang En's mother is mainly responsible for the work on the farm, while his father works as a mathematics teacher in the town's primary school.

Of course, primary schools in Ireland do not have classes until 6 pm. A lot of time in the afternoon is reserved for extracurricular interest classes, and public primary schools in such towns also have the problem of shortage of staff.

Therefore, Liang En's father, in addition to teaching daily mathematics classes, also serves as an instructor for extracurricular interest classes on Chinese culture and Northeast Asian culture.

In fact, there are two tendencies for those living abroad. One of them will imitate the various lifestyles of the locals as much as possible, thinking that only in this way can they blend into the surrounding environment.

The other type will consciously retain the characteristics of the motherland, and even try to reflect the characteristics of their own nation in daily life.

It's hard to comment on which of these two methods is better, but Liang En's family adopts the latter method.

Even back then, after his father realized that it was easy for his children to develop an ABC in this environment where they were the only Chinese family in the town, he specifically reported to the principal to set up an after-school interest class in Eastern culture.

This is why Liang En remembers that the other person can speak very fluent Mandarin, and although there is a Western aspect to his daily habits, he can still see the obvious national character.

"By the way, didn't you say you were working for an antique shop in London? Why did you suddenly come back this time?" Just when Liang En stretched out his paws to the snacks that had just come out of the oven on the dining table, his mother suddenly asked. "Isn't he guilty of something?"

"You have to believe in your son." Liang En burst out laughing, then went to the corridor and dragged the suitcase in, "I came back this time mainly to bring back a valuable thing and put it away, and by the way, I came to the island to hunt for treasures. ."

"Valuable things?" The mother who was washing vegetables turned off the faucet and walked over. "You're so lucky that you buy lottery tickets every week but haven't even won the minimum prize of two pounds in ten years, and still get something good?"

"Don't believe it, your son is really transferred this time -" Liang En said as he opened his suitcase, then took out the copper pot and talked about his general situation in the past two months.

Ten minutes later, his mother finally understood that her son was indeed promising and could gain a foothold in society.

"This is great, it's a good thing to be able to find a job that suits you-" Mom said excitedly, patting the back of Liang En's hand.

After he graduated from college, his family had always hoped that he could find a stable job. It would be better if he could become a civil servant, but Liang En, who had a golden finger at that time, spent a lot of effort to convince his parents. Then go to London alone to make a living.

Contrary to what some people imagine, being a civil servant is a very good job not only in China, but also in most countries around the world.

Although the salary of this job is not high, it is not as busy as a private company and the job is stable. In addition, civil servants often have various bonuses, allowances, insurance and a series of benefits.

Therefore, in the view of Liang En's parents, it is best to have such a decent and stable job after graduating from college. As for the family farm, it can be completely entrusted to a series of agricultural companies.

This was an important reason why he had to spend a lot of time and energy convincing his parents in advance when he decided to go out for a career.

But now his parents can finally feel relieved, because even in a high-income country like the UK, earning hundreds of thousands in two months is definitely a high income.

At around 6 p.m., Liang En's father also walked into the house, and then the family sat around the dining table and had dinner. After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, his parents began to care about Liang En's life alone in London.

Of course, urging marriage is also something that cannot be avoided. At least in the eyes of his parents, Liang En has now been able to gain a foothold in society, so it's time to start a family and start a business.

"Okay, okay, you can rest assured on this point -" Looking at his parents, you and I were talking about this matter one by one, Liang En could only helplessly laugh along with him.

It seemed that no matter which world he was in, he could not escape the fate of being forced to get married by his parents.

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After spending a night and a morning at home. After lunch the next day, Liang En left home and drove the family car to the city center.

Because after comparing the map in his mind with the electronic map on the Internet yesterday, he was surprised to find that the light spot was actually located in the National Library of Ireland.

The National Library of Ireland is located on Kildare Street in Dublin. It is a classical-style building built of white stone. However, this building was built in 1890 and is not as old as it seems.

After looking at the rotunda of the main building of the library for a few times, he bypassed a group of tourist groups taking photos at the door, and then walked down the steps into the library.

Because he majored in history at university, he could use the long-term reader coupon he applied for through his tutor in order to write his graduation thesis, so after entering the library, he went straight to the reading room marked on the previous map.

As soon as he entered the door of the reading room, Liang En saw a white light that only he could see emitting from the bookshelf in the middle of the reading room.

When he walked to the bookshelf, he found that the book that was emitting light was a book that looked to be some years old.

However, what is different from ordinary books is that the size of this book is a little smaller and can even be placed in the palm of an adult, but it is much thicker than ordinary books.

"The Bible?" Liang En frowned as he looked at the almost completely faded gilt title on the obviously worn secretary.

This book is the most widely circulated book in the Western world, so it is normal for it to appear on the bookshelf of religious books. But he really didn't understand why the card led him to find this book.

After taking the book off the bookshelf, Liang En began to read this book in the nearby reading room, which may be one of the most read books in human history.

Although he is not very religious, in a place with a strong religious atmosphere like Ireland, it is impossible to say that he has not read this book. So he soon discovered that this book was actually no different from the ones he had read before.

If there is a difference, it is that modern Bibles are often written in the languages of various countries, while this book is written in Latin.

Apart from that, the strangest thing about this book is that for some reason, starting from the first printed page, some of the letters have a black dot underneath them.

After Liang En saw these black dots, he tried to connect the letters with black dots at the bottom starting from the first page. As a result, all the various solutions resulted in a bunch of gibberish.

"If it's not a matter of content, then the book itself should be different." After briefly reading some of the content, Liang En focused on the book itself.

Soon, he found a name on the title page of the book - Jacques De Briand. On the last page of the book, it can be seen that the book was printed by the French Church in 1804.

If these findings are combined with the previously worn book itself and the content written in Latin, it can be inferred that this book is likely to be a religious book that a nobleman in the past carried with him for prayer.

This discovery cheered Liang En up, because such small prayer books are often people's personal belongings. So if there really is any secret, the probability of it being hidden in the book is not that small.

After careful inspection, he found that there was no interlayer or anything else in the book, but he could vaguely touch some uneven spots on the title page of the book.

"Sure enough, this book is not an ordinary book." Liang En smiled, and then checked the scratches on the page. Soon, he found that the scratches had a number and a French word written on it. --repent.

After turning to the page of the book according to the number shown by this scratch. Liang En saw that the main content on this page was Psalm 51:1-12, which was King David's prayer when he confessed to the gods.

"If the confession on the first page refers to this psalm -" After realizing what was written in this thing, Liang En immediately started recording from the first letter with a black dot below it in this psalm.

A few minutes later, a few scattered French words appeared before him: Cork, Michael, Holy of Holies, 12.

"Don't worry, mother. It's just a trip to Cork, and the whole journey is on the highway. There is really no danger -" An hour later, in a restaurant in Port Laois, Liang En whispered to the other end of the phone The mother promised to arrive.

"——I understand, I understand, I will take care of myself, don't worry, and I promise that I will call you to report that I am safe when I arrive."

After discovering the clue in the library, Liang En immediately took out his mobile phone and started looking for the computer map.

In his opinion, the two words Cork and Michael found in the book should refer to a place called Michael near Cork, the second largest city in the south of Ireland.

But the strange thing is that after searching for a long time using the satellite map on his mobile phone, he only found a forest called Michael near Cork.

Obviously, if this Michael is the place name that these words are intended to guide, then it is obviously abnormal that the destination is such a large forest.

Because the search range of this target is too large, if something is really hidden, it will be impossible for ordinary people to find it.

While thinking, Liang En subconsciously turned the pages of the book in front of him. In this case, the publication date printed on the last page of the book suddenly gave him an inspiration.

"What if the place called Michael only existed back then and no longer exists now?"

This is not an impossible thing, especially in Ireland. Because in the mid-19th century, a huge famine broke out on the island of Ireland. The famine resulted in the death of more than one million people, and nearly two million people chose to immigrate to other places.

At the same time, the famine also completely changed the population distribution of the Irish. Since then, the number of people in Ireland has not returned to its peak era in the 18th century.

However, because of this famine, Ireland's struggle for national liberation continued to rise. In subsequent history, they launched uprisings one after another, and finally gained independence from the empire on which the sun never set.

To this day, there are still a large number of abandoned and uninhabited villages scattered across the island of Ireland.

Therefore, if the Michael mentioned in this book is an abandoned village, it is indeed impossible to find it on the satellite map.

Thinking of this, Liang En immediately went to the electronic reading area of the library to look for those old maps. As expected, he found the small village called Michael in an 1836 map of Cork and nearby areas.

After determining the target, Liang En immediately took a picture of the content on the screen with his mobile phone. Then he drove the family's Kodiak towards the target.

But when he felt hungry after driving for more than an hour and was about to eat something, he realized that he had forgotten to notify his family before going out.

So while eating, he had to spend a lot of time explaining to his angry mother why he let her go and didn't go home for dinner. Fortunately, after explaining for a long time, he finally gained my mother's forgiveness.

"It's done -" After hanging up the phone, Liang En clenched his fist and waved it in front of his chest, then ate his humble lunch in three bites, and then continued his journey.

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Finally, at around 3 p.m., he arrived at the destination of his trip, Cork, the second largest city in Ireland.

Although it is said to be the second largest city in Ireland, it actually has a small population, with the permanent population remaining at around 200,000. If we put it in China, it is estimated that the population of many counties is larger than this.

This is a city built at the mouth of a river. The buildings in the city are mainly distributed on both sides of the Li River.

And unlike Dublin, which looks modern, the city of Cork is full of classical meaning. In particular, almost all buildings in the city are three floors or less.

As a city that retains its classical style and strong Irish characteristics, Cork naturally attracts a large number of tourists.

For example, when driving through the city, Liang En saw two huge cruise ships moored at the pier, as well as many tourists who obviously came from all over the world.

After booking a room for himself in a hotel in the city, Liang En drove out of the city and drove to his destination in the southwest of the city.

After driving out of the city along a two-lane asphalt road for nearly 20 minutes, and then driving for five or six minutes along a road that was almost lost in the grass, he finally arrived at his destination: Michael Village.

After parking the car on a piece of grass on the side of the road, Liang En came to a small slope only ten meters away from the parking space and looked at the ruins of the village not far away.

Because the entire area is located on a plain, even if it is only a small soil slope five or six meters high, standing on it can give a clear view of the ruins of the entire village.

Since this village has been abandoned for more than a hundred years, what is now displayed in front of Liang En is the ruins of a village that has been almost completely swallowed up by nature.

The long time has caused the wooden structures in the village buildings to basically decay. Only the stone walls remain to this day. And those ruins are the last things left in this village in the world.

It's no wonder that the clues left by Jacques De Briand pointed here. Both the short distance to the port and the fact that this small village is not much different from other villages make this place an ideal treasure hiding place.

After roughly observing the situation inside the village, Liang En walked on the soft grass towards the largest building ruins in the village, which was where the village church used to be.

Because as long as you look at the layout of the village, you will know that the only one in the entire village that fits the title of the Holy of Holies is the church located in the center of the village.

As a country where almost all the people have devout religious beliefs, almost every village in Ireland is built with a church as its core.

The ruins of the church that now stands in the center of the village are just such a church. Like those ordinary village churches, it is also a small stone church with only a main hall and a bell tower.

"It seems that this building is at least three to four hundred years old." Liang En, who majored in archeology at university, quickly analyzed some specific conditions of the chapel after inspecting the chapel.

Like other buildings in the ruins of the village, the church was also in ruins. Even because of the complete decay of the wooden beams, the entire roof of the building has now collapsed and created a huge pile of rubble inside the church.

In the same year, the roof was probably hit directly to the ground at once. As a result, the walls of the church collapsed, and only half of the wall was still standing.

It may be due to the blessing of the gods, so the size of the rubble pile in the direction of the pulpit is not that big. After a simple calculation, he felt that he could do it in just an hour or two.

Seeing that there were still about three hours until dark, Liang En took out the various equipment he had prepared before from the trunk of the car, and then began to clean up the ruins.

According to the knowledge he had learned in school, he first cleaned up the topmost broken tiles covered with weeds, and then used a saw to cut off the rotten and blackened beams under these tiles. Finally, clean out those rafters.

Fortunately, not many of the fallen stones from the surrounding walls had fallen near the pulpit, so he was spared the task of clearing away those head-sized stones.

In this way, the whole job was obviously much easier than he had expected. After just over an hour, Liang En had cleared an area of about seven or eight square meters on the pulpit.

Since it is said to be the Holy of Holies, the most sacred place in this church should be the pulpit, because not only are clergy usually preaching here, but tables with religious symbols are also placed here.

In addition, if the last 12 is understood as the twelve o'clock direction, then this also points to the pulpit.

After using a shovel to remove the last layer of dust and building debris, pieces of stone slabs emerged from under the construction debris.

Different from the simply renovated stones used to build the church's exterior walls, the stone slabs used for paving the floor here are not only trimmed into rectangular shapes of the same specifications, but also polished, and even have some simple patterns left.

These were small stone slabs with sides about the same length as the palm of a hand. After careful observation, he found that the concrete around two stone slabs was different from other concrete. There were obvious traces of being pried open and then repaired again.

After taking out a large iron hammer and chisel from his side, Liang En began to hammer hard on the two stone slabs.

This was indeed not an easy task. Fortunately, these stone slabs were not too big, so after more than an hour, with a few slight collisions, he successfully pried the two stone slabs apart.

But unlike what he imagined, what was exposed under the stone slab was tamped soil. There were no holes or containers filled with treasures as he imagined, but just some tamped soil.

This gave Liang En a blow. Feeling a little unwilling, he quickly took out a steel drill and began to explore the soil under the two stone slabs bit by bit.

As a result, after he spent 20 minutes poking the two small pieces of land into briquettes, he had to admit that there shouldn't be anything hidden underneath.

"Did someone take the things away before, or did I misunderstand something?" A somewhat frustrated Liang En sat down on the ground that had been cleaned before, and then showed a thoughtful look.

After a few minutes, he realized that he had missed something, so he stood up and began to examine the two stone slabs that had just been cut out.

Sure enough, there is a difference between the two stone slabs. The bottom of one of them is uneven and it is just an ordinary paving stone, but the bottom of the other stone is smooth and has a lot of words carved on it.

"Mmp, was that Frenchman someone who designed decryption games before?" The moment he saw the inscriptions under the stone slab, Liang En felt a rush of blood rush to his brain.

At least in his opinion, the guy who could design such a link-by-link treasure hunt plan is obviously out of his mind, because it is really impossible to figure out whether he wants people to find the things he left behind, or whether he doesn't want people to find them. people found.

Soon, he translated all the French on the slate. It turned out that this time the stone slab only told about the origin of the village.

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According to the statement on the stone tablet, the entire village has a history of six to seven hundred years. The reason why this village is named after an angel is because legend has it that some kind of miracles were performed around this village and are thought to be related to the angel Michael.

"I see, I must have made a mistake before." After reading the content engraved on the stone slab, Liang En immediately came to his senses.

When he came to the ruins of this village before, he subconsciously thought that the third word "holy place" among the four words he found in the book before referred to the church in the village.

In fact, this judgment cannot be wrong, because in ordinary villages, the only thing that can be connected with the sacred is the church.

But if there is something related to miracles in this village, then the "holy place" will naturally not refer to the small church in the village, but the place where the miracles appeared.

After confirming this new clue, Liang En looked at the setting sun in the west, then put the previous tools on his back and walked down the path near the village.

Although it was getting dark now, considering that the destination was only a few hundred meters away, he decided to go and have a look instead of returning to the city.

Because it was not just the village that was abandoned, but the entire area. So not long after leaving the village, the path that could barely be recognized before had disappeared, leaving only grass that was knee-deep.

Fortunately, there are no dangerous snakes, insects or beasts on the island of Ireland. In addition, Liang En had considered going out today and wore clothing suitable for outdoor activities, so this situation did not cause him much trouble.

Twenty minutes later, after taking the wrong path many times and having to approach the destination several times, only to find that he was facing a steep cliff three to four meters high and had to take a detour, he finally arrived at the destination. .

This is a hillside that looks to be about five or six stories high, surrounded by a flat plain with only scattered shrubs dotted in between.

Right on the top of the mountain is a stone cross that looks quite old, about as tall as a person. At the same time, the overall look is very worn, and even the two cross arms have fallen off the cross and fallen to the side.

It was very quiet on the mountain. Apart from the occasional chirping of birds and the rustling of the wind blowing through the surrounding grass, the only sound left was Liang En's heavy breathing due to the strenuous exercise just now.

After briefly looking around the cross, he didn't find any other landmarks, only two or three stones the size of car tires scattered around.

Maybe it was because people who lived around had prayed or made pilgrimages here before, so Liang En found some cross symbols carved on those stones.

But other than that, there are no traces of human activity around.

"Now there is only the last 12 that has not been cracked." After finding a stone and sitting down, Liang En looked at the old cross that had turned into a stone pillar and thought about it.

Since the information in that book has now led him to this place, it must not be just to torment people.

When the previous three pieces of information all point to a certain place, this 12 should be no exception. It should indicate the specific location of what you are looking for by some means.

At this time, the sun began to slowly set toward the horizon. Because the sun was shining directly on his face, Liang En turned his face sideways to avoid the sunlight shining directly into his eyes. As a result, he happened to see the shadow of the cross falling next to him.

"Shadow - yes, shadow!" This shadow suddenly reminded Liang En. If the current dilapidated cross is used as a sundial pointer, then the 12 pointer is probably the position of the shadow of the cross at 12 noon.

Thinking of this, he stepped forward to check where the cross was broken. Sure enough, it was discovered that the arms of this cross fell because they were damaged by someone, rather than falling naturally.

Judging from the condition of the fracture of the cross, this thing has been damaged for more than a hundred years. Considering the power of religious forces at that time, the intentional destruction of the cross was obviously a highly unusual occurrence.

The deliberately damaged cross obviously verified from the side that there was indeed something unusual in this place, so Liang En took out his previous probe and started exploring northward little by little along the cross.

Because this is the northern hemisphere, the shadow must be north of those objects at 12 o'clock, so the area he needs to search is not large.

Soon, the probe in his hand poked something hard about one and a half meters away from the bottom of the cross. After realizing that the thing was only about half a meter away from the ground, Liang En immediately took out a shovel and started digging.

Fortunately, the top of this hill is all soft soil, so digging is not too difficult. Soon, he cleaned up the dirt on the ground, revealing a 1m square stone slab below.

"Finally found it." When he saw the stone slab, Liang En immediately put down the shovel in his hand, then took out his camera from his pocket and took pictures of the dug pit and the stone slab at the bottom of the pit.

Since the value of the pistol he sold last time increased due to photos, he began to consciously take photos of his excavation process for future use one day.

There is a symbol carved on the stone slab that Liang En does not recognize, but it must be the coat of arms of Jacques de Briand. At that time, French people with the word "virtue" in their middle names were basically aristocrats, so it was not surprising to have their own coat of arms.

He opened the stone slab forcefully, and a dark box appeared directly in front of him. The box was placed in a small pit the same size as the stone slab, and the surrounding area was deliberately filled with fine sand.

The box itself is not that big, it looks like a square box with a side length of 50 centimeters. After cleaning up the surrounding sand, Liang En discovered that it was a flat box, about as thick as an adult's hand.

"Huh?!" After cleaning the box completely, he tried to pick it up. As it turned out, the weight of the box was far greater than he imagined, and Liang En, who was not prepared in advance, almost lost his waist.

After standing with his hands on his waist for a few seconds, Liang En was ready to try to move the box again, but found that he could only drag the box away and could not pick it up at all.

However, during the process of carrying the box, he gradually felt that the weight of the box might exceed 100kg.

"It's so heavy, can't it be gold?" There are not many things with such density in this world, so Liang En immediately guessed what was probably in this box.

After judging that there was a high probability that the contents of the box would not oxidize, Liang En realized that it was absolutely impossible for him to move the box down the mountain by himself and started to unpack the box.

First, he used the knife he carried to scrape off the layer of asphalt on the outside of the box, revealing the box itself with an iron sheet underneath. Then he inserted the flat end of the stick into the gap in the box and pried it hard.

"Bang--" The already somewhat rotten lid of the box was pried aside in an instant, and the contents of the box shone golden in the afterglow of the setting sun.

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The moment the box was opened, four cards appeared in Liang En's mind.

Three of them are N cards, namely two [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N)]. The other card is the first card obtained this time: [Logic Enhancement (R)]

[Logic enhancement (R): Many times, those who hide their wealth will choose a series of riddles as a protective shell, hiding their treasures under layers of puzzling puzzles. At this time, some extra help is essential.

Skill Card (Passive) (Permanent) When holding this card, the card will have an effect, making the user's logical thinking more rigorous and making it easier to find clues from the information they master. 】

"Ah, finally there is another skill card." Liang En had a smile on his face after looking at the new card he got today. Because he prefers this type of skill card to those one-time consumption cards.

After saving up four [Appraisal (N)] cards, Liang En discovered that just like the previous [Detection (N), the [Appraisal (N)] card also showed that it could synthesize new cards. However, due to various considerations, he did not choose to synthesize those cards.

After reading the content on the new card, he began to check the items in the box. Most of this small box contains gold bars of the same size, which appear to be only slightly larger than an adult male's thumb.

After taking out a few gold bars and looking at them, Liang En found that these gold bars were probably cast privately. Not only were they very rough in appearance, but there was also only a stamp with a capital B in a box on the surface.

Although these gold bars are not large in size, each one is heavy in the palm of your hand. After weighing it with the electronic scale he carried with him, he found that each of these gold bars weighed about 200 grams.

After roughly counting, there are more than 570 gold bars in the box. Considering that each gold bar is about the same size, the total of these gold bars is about 110kg.

In the middle of these gold bars are two silver boxes the size of soap boxes. When you open the boxes, they are all filled with jewelry.

The difference is that the jewelry in one box is inlaid with a large number of gems, while the jewelry in the other box is not inlaid with many gems, but it is decorated with enamel mosaic and other crafts, which is exquisite.

After spending some time moving the gold bars and jewelry in the box back to the car, Liang En sat in the darkness of the cab and took a few deep breaths to calm down before starting the car and returning to the city.

Early the next morning, Liang En got up at 6 a.m. after almost no sleep all night, and then drove back to his home in Baojian Town.

After saying hello to his mother, Liang En went directly back to his room to study the gold and jewelry he had found before.

As a result, during detailed inspection, he found that several pieces of gold were densely engraved with many words.

Obviously, the treasure hunter also considered that time might corrode various things, so he simply chose to engrave the message he wanted to leave on gold.

It has to be said that the treasure hoarder made the right choice. Even though the reinforced wooden box used to contain these treasures had undergone multiple anti-corrosion treatments, it was still severely corroded, but the words on the gold were just as if they were engraved yesterday.

These texts are all in French and were left by Jacques de Briand. The content inside tells the life of a nobleman who was exiled overseas during the French Revolution.

The whole story begins with the escape of Louis XVI. When Louis failed to escape and was trapped in St. Menourde, he was not completely isolated, but had the opportunity to communicate with the outside world.

But what Louis XVI didn't expect was that the National Assembly could react so quickly and escorted him back to Paris the day after he was discovered, leaving almost all of his contacts with the outside world empty and unable to do so. Save yourself.

It was at that time that Jacques de Briand met Louis XVI as a messenger. At that time, Louis XVI asked him to give the previous rabbit lock to a count.

But what I didn't expect was that the National Guard was already active around St. Menoulde at that time. Although Jacques had disguised himself as much as possible at that time, he was still captured and imprisoned for several days.

After he was released, the rabbit lock was nowhere to be found. Then, the political situation in France changed dramatically. Louis XVI and his wife were pushed to the guillotine, and the nobles also began to flee.

It was during this process that Jacques and the count he was looking for met together on the way to escape, and then fled to England together.

A series of impacts brought about by the French Revolution spread throughout Europe, especially for Britain, which was a trouble maker. It was naturally a very routine operation to support various organizations that opposed the French Republic at that time.

Naturally, as a loyal minister of the Bourbon dynasty. Jacques and the previous count also joined one of the organizations. And the earl became the person responsible for raising funds for this organization because of his title and ability.

This organization continued for many years, but a large number returned to France when Napoleon became emperor. After all, for these nobles, so-called loyalty is just a bargaining chip to obtain benefits.

Since Napoleon was willing to recognize their identity and return some of their wealth, it was not unusual for them to kneel and swear allegiance to Napoleon.

Those who returned to France also included the count, but after Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena and Charles X was restored, the count severed ties with the British side for various reasons.

For Jacques de Briand, this was a very bad thing, because at that time, the organization still had a lot of wealth left in the UK, and at the same time, during the long period of exile in the UK, everyone was also in the UK. Many properties were purchased.

Therefore, even though most of the personnel in the organization have returned to France, Jacques De Briand has remained in the UK and is working diligently to manage those industries.

After severing contact with the count, some people did come to Jacques and wanted to take away the wealth.

However, because the organization at that time only stipulated that the earl had the right to take away the wealth from his hands, Jacques did not hand over the wealth to other people out of compliance with the promises among the nobles.

It was not until 1842 that a serious illness made Jacques de Briand realize that he was likely to die soon. So the 70-year-old man at that time began to deal with the wealth belonging to the organization that he was in charge of.

He sold off all the properties of those organizations in the UK and exchanged them all for gold bars. He hid them in this box together with the wealth that the previous organizations had raised from the nobles, and then left them in the Bible he often used. Secret records.

The reason for this is also very simple, because he really couldn't find anyone reliable to help him continue to search for the earl and return these things to the other party, so he decided to use this method to let the gods choose an inheritance for him. By.

But what he didn't expect was that he had to wait for more than a hundred years. Until Liang En found the information left by Jacques De Briand through a series of mistakes, and then followed the clues to finally dig out the wealth.

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After reading the words on these gold bars, Liang En fell into deep thought. Originally, he thought that this pile of gold and silver jewelry could be collected by himself, but the words on these gold bars forced him to change his mind.

So he picked up his mobile phone and logged into a website called ANF, and looked up the count mentioned by Jacques De Briand.

The full name of ANF is L'Association d'entraide de la noblesse franaise. It is a non-governmental organization established by the descendants of French nobles to handle matters such as identity authentication and fraudulent use of titles.

Liang En now logs onto this website to find out whether the earl named Du Lisi has actually passed on the inheritance. If it is passed down, he will return it to the other party with these gold jewelry.

The reason why the title is not checked is also very simple, because changes in several dynasties are likely to lead to changes in the title. Therefore, in this regard, there is a high probability that you will not find the target if you follow the map.

However, judging from the information left on the gold nugget, it is very likely that the other party only actively cut off contact with the UK in order to avoid the confiscation of wealth after encountering censorship. I guess I won't lose my title.

After all, there were too many Bourbon nobles who chose to compromise with Napoleon. After Charles X's restoration, it was impossible for him to be cruel to the nobles who were his natural supporters.

Of course, you can't be ruthless without being ruthless. But after taking over the mess, Charles X would definitely ask these nobles for money. This is why the earl cut off contact with the British side.

Liang En stared at the screen of his phone, thinking about the possible story behind this. After waiting for nearly a minute, the ANF page finally refreshed.

The Internet speed in Ireland is hard to describe. Although theoretically the network covers 99% of the area, once you live in this country for a long time, you will realize that the so-called 1% seems to be spread a bit widely.

The word Dolis means lily in French, but it is not a common surname. So I entered the surname and waited a minute and a half before the only answer appeared on the screen: Count Bossit.

However, the website may consider privacy issues and can only find the name and family crest of the current owner of this title. There is no specific information about the other party's current location.

"It seems that this treasure is going to be given to someone else." Staring at the content displayed on the screen, Liang En showed an expression of relief on his face.

Indeed, this treasure made him very tempted, because the gold in it alone was worth about 4.5 million pounds at the market price, and if the jewelry was included, it could easily exceed 7 million pounds. Even in the UK, that's worth a fortune.

But what Jacques de Briand wrote at the end of the gold nugget moved Liang En, because at the end, Jacques said that it was only his duty to protect the wealth, and there was no need to hand over such a heavy responsibility to others. people.

So according to him, if the person who finally finds the wealth can find the Earl of Bossit or his descendant, he will send the wealth to him. He believes that the honor of the nobles will make the earl pay the person who returns these treasures. Satisfactory remuneration.

But if you try everything possible, you still can't find the earl or his descendant. Then this is the will of the gods, and whoever finds these treasures can take these gold and jewels as their own.

This is the important reason why Liang En decided to return these things to their owners after confirming that the title and family crest were consistent with what was left on the gold nugget.

After all, that Jacques can remain unmoved in the face of so many treasures and stick to his promise, so he feels that he should not be far behind in this regard.

More importantly, the education he received since he was a child prevents him from embezzling the money knowing that it belongs to the owner. Even if the owner of this finance does not know their existence. And from a more realistic perspective, hundreds of kilograms of gold are not something he can swallow at his current level. Shipping on the surface will most likely attract a lot of unnecessary attention, while shipping secretly will likely result in loss of both people and money. The probability of getting money is much higher.

After all, this thing is considered a lost property from a legal perspective. It feels great to take it away now, but there is no airtight wall in the world. If someone discovers it in the future, it will definitely outweigh the gain.

The most important thing is that with a golden finger, he has a great chance of becoming a famous historian and treasure hunter in the future. So for the sake of a bright future, it is better to avoid some things as much as possible.

Yes, there is wealth worth 7 million pounds here, but compared with his own future, this wealth is only a negligible part.

During lunch, Liang En told his parents about this at the dinner table. Unsurprisingly, his parents supported his approach.

On the one hand, this is a matter of perspective for the entire family, and on the other hand, it is also out of caution. For example, both parents felt that taking such a large amount of ill-gotten wealth was not a good thing and would bring disaster to themselves.

"And I think even if you return this wealth, it will not be in vain." After discussing the ownership of the wealth in a few words, Liang En's father added as if he had thought of something.

"I remember I saw a similar case in the newspaper before, saying that the owner of the treasure provided the person who found the treasure with 1/5 of the treasure's value. So if the other party is really a noble, even for the sake of face I can't pay you too low either."

"That's right." Liang En's mother placed his favorite braised pork in front of him and said. "Compared with the wealth I have now, I think it would be more stable if I honestly received less remuneration."

After lunch, Liang En called Pierce to find out how to contact Count Bossit. Although Pierce didn't know why he wanted to ask this, he still agreed to help inquire through his own channels.

As a result, it was not until night that Liang En received a text message from Pierce. Fortunately, the aristocratic circle in Europe is only that large, so Pierce was able to find out the contact information of Earl Bossit.

After replying to the text message to thank Pierce, Liang En picked up his cell phone and dialed the number of Earl Bossit's mansion that he had given him.

Maybe it was because the call was a strange one to the other party, so the other party didn't answer the phone the first time or two.

It wasn't until the third call that someone on the other end of the phone finally picked up the receiver. "This is Earl Bossit's Mansion." A middle-aged man's voice came from the microphone. "What's the matter with calling here?"

"I have been entrusted by Mr. Jacques de Briand to return some of your lost things." Liang En said while sitting in the room, looking at the pile of gold on the ground in front of him.

"Uh - I'm sorry. I don't remember that we have anything stored at Mr. Jacques de Briand's place. Have you got the wrong person?"

"You should have found the wrong person." Liang En said with certainty. "It's just that the things that Mr. Jacques de Briand kept were supposed to be handed over to you 100 years ago, but due to various reasons at that time, they were not able to be handed over to you."

"And I found these things again by accident, and then followed the clues left in these things to find you."

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"Did you say it was 100 years ago?" The originally calm tone of the person opposite suddenly became excited. "Sir, please wait for me for a moment. I will call you back later to confirm this matter."

Half an hour later, Liang En's cell phone rang. After picking up the phone, he once again heard the middle-aged man's voice from the receiver.

"I'm very sorry. We just spent some time verifying your information. After checking the family's information, we can confirm that part of our family's wealth managed by the head of the family did stay in the UK or Ireland."

"To be honest, your call really surprised us. We really can't believe that someone is willing to return those wealth to us."

"Yes, this is indeed a lot of wealth, but this wealth does not belong to me, and of course I will not take it for myself." Now that you have decided to return these dug-out gold jewelry to the owner, then sing for yourself It's natural to sing a high-pitched tone.

"Thank you very much!" After listening to Liang En's words, the middle-aged man thanked him. "By the way, where are you now? We will send people to the location you specified to retrieve these things."

After introducing themselves to each other. The other party asked about Liang En's location. Obviously he also knew that it was obviously inappropriate to ask Liang En to send things over at this time.

"Well, my current location is near Dublin. If you want to come, you can notify me one day in advance and then meet near Dublin's Connolly Station."

"Okay, no problem. We will notify you one day in advance, Mr. Liang."

On the morning of the third day after the phone call, Liang En and a middle-aged man with gray hair sat face to face at a table in a box of a cafe near Connolly Railway Station in Dublin, with a small schoolbag placed on the table.

The small schoolbag contained a dozen engraved gold bars and the two silver boxes filled with jewelry. The middle-aged man took out a magnifying glass and looked at the words on the gold bars carefully.

A few minutes later, a soft and rhythmic knock on the door broke the silence in the room. Then a young man in a black suit walked in from the door and said something in the ear of the housekeeper named Robuchon.

"Thank you very much for your contribution." After listening to the bodyguard who was sent outside to count the gold bars to report the counting results, Butler Robuchon put down the gold bar in his hand and stood up to formally thank him.

Among the pieces of gold engraved by Jacques de Burian, one has statistics on gold bars and jewelry. So the bodyguard went to count the number of gold bars.

Obviously, this number can match now.

"By the way, because of your contribution to this matter. So we will also pay corresponding rewards. However, because we have to confirm the value of these items before we can determine the specific number of rewards, it may take a while before we can pay ."

As he spoke, Butler Robuchon took out an envelope from his pocket, then opened the envelope and took out two pieces of letter paper, and filled in the blank spaces of the letter paper.

A minute later, Butler Robuchon handed the filled-in letter paper to Liang En. At this time, Liang Encai discovered that the contents written on the two pieces of paper were exactly the same, and they were all receipts. What the butler just filled out was to count the amount of all the wealth.

It has to be said that these nobles obviously have much more experience in this area than ordinary people, so the entire receipt was written very perfectly, and it was also marked at the end that Liang En was not given corresponding compensation.

After signing the two receipts, Butler Robuchon left with the gold and jewelry. Although it should be difficult to leave the country with this pile of things, since the other party dares to come, they will naturally have their own methods.

Because the snacks and drinks on the table had already been paid for, and because he would never come to such a high-end coffee shop, Liang En planned to finish his food before leaving.

As a result, just as he was engrossed in eating chocolate muffins, there was a sudden ding-dong sound from his phone. When he took the phone, he found that a new email appeared in his mailbox.

"It's not another advertisement, is it?" Liang En held the muffin in one hand and stuffed it into his mouth. He grabbed the phone with the other hand and unlocked it with his thumb to open the email.

"The Journal of the British Archaeological Society has replied -" After seeing what was written in the email, Liang En immediately sat up straight and checked the email seriously.

The content of the email was also very simple. It stated that his article would be published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Society next month. In addition, it also reminded him to pay attention to receiving royalties.

Clearly, a top magazine like the Journal of the British Archaeological Society has enough money to back it up. Therefore, not only does it not require publishing fees from publishers, but publishing fees will be given to those who publish papers in the journal.

"That's great!" After reading the email carefully, Liang En snapped his fingers excitedly. For him, this paper represented a firm step forward in his academic endeavors.

Because for Liang En now, the most important thing is to see what step his golden finger can take. To achieve this goal, academic status in history and archeology is as important as money.

Otherwise, even if Liang En knew some important monuments, such as the location of Troy, it would be impossible to use legitimate means to excavate these ruins.

Over the next few days, Liang wrote the next paper at home and emailed it to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. After all, for him, now is an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot.

The content of the second paper is based on the content of the first. With the help of Coptic and the content derived in the previous paper, his article proposed that ancient Egyptian itself has the ability to express meaning.

An example is the name of a pharaoh who was a native Egyptian pharaoh. In that photo, the last two letters of the name were found in the names of previous foreign pharaohs, so we can know that the pronunciation is S.

One of the unknown letters represents the sun, which is pronounced Ra in Coptic.

The other letter appeared in a previous fragment with Greek and ancient Egyptian characters, so it is known that it means birthday. Pronounced Mes in Coptic.

In this case, the whole word is pronounced as Rameses, which is the famous Pharaoh Ramesses. If it means directly, it means that the sun god was born.

In addition to this example, Liang En also cited several other native pharaoh names as examples to prove that native Egyptian names were also spelled out through letters.

At the end of the article, he made an important point. That is there is an important connection between Coptic and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

At the same time, he also pointed out that the remaining deciphering work is to use Coptic as a blueprint, compare and verify bit by bit, and finally decipher the lost ancient Egyptian writing.

Of course, I would also like to thank the Champollion of this world.

Although due to various mistakes, he did not translate the secrets in ancient Egyptian. However, he carefully organized the Coptic language and compiled a Coptic dictionary, which laid a solid foundation for Liang En's current work.

After carefully checking the paper several times, Liang Enfa took it away. Just when he was relaxed and wondering whether to rest at home for a few days or return directly to London, a phone call changed his plan.

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