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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This call came from London, because the Pierces and their sons finally sold the Cold War relics they brought back from Germany through their channels, and at the same time they made a lot more money than everyone thought before.

The reason why Pierce made this call was that he hoped that Liang En could return to London as soon as possible and then distribute the income obtained from this auction as soon as possible.

After he hurriedly bid farewell to his parents and flew back to London, he found that Pierce and his father were already waiting for him in the Emerald thrift store.

"Lawrence, it seems that you encountered a lot of good things when you went home." As soon as he entered the door, Pierce shouted loudly, "I see that you are in much better spirits now than before."

"That's right, not only did I go home and eat the braised pork cooked by my mother, but my previous paper was also published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. You can see it in the next issue."

"This is really enviable." Old Pierce shook his head gently, "When I was young, I submitted no less than 30 papers to various magazines, but even the school magazine refused to accept what I wrote -"

"Okay, okay, let's talk about how much money we made last time when we went to the German warehouse." Hearing that his father was about to recall the past again, Pierce quickly changed the subject, "This time we sold a lot of money. Price."

"The big price, is this true?" Liang En asked in disbelief.

Because in his eyes, those little tanks and flags are just toys for children and teenagers. Although these things also have unique characteristics due to historical reasons, the price should not be too high.

"Yes, because we happened to know a collector who was very interested in this kind of collection." Pierce explained, and then talked about the previous sales of those items.

"The first is the five small tanks, because these five tanks happen to cover all the tank models of the Pioneer Armored Brigade, and they are sold as a set, so the other party is willing to give a very good price."

"At the beginning, the other party was willing to pay 32,000 pounds for a tank, but after we showed the flag belonging to the tank brigade that we found earlier and several sets of matching tank soldier uniforms left from that year, he raised the price to 33,000 pounds. ."

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"So everything related to the Vanguard Tank Brigade, including the tanks, flags, clothing, etc., sold for a total of 180,000 pounds."

As Pierce finished speaking, a bright smile immediately appeared on Liang En's face. Because he didn't expect that these toys in his eyes could be sold at such a price.

You know, the per capita annual income in London, England is more than 30,000 and less than 40,000 pounds. This time, they earned 4.5 times that amount in just one week.

"Then what's next? I remember that I cleared out a lot of things. How much are those things worth?" Liang En asked after the excitement passed.

"There were not many things left that the other party was interested in. In the end, they only paid 10,000 pounds to buy a few flags of the Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organization and those wooden boards with propaganda posters, so we A total of £190,000 was received this time."

"That's already very good." Liang En nodded, then looked at the father and son curiously.

"Then why did you call me to London this time? I believe you will be able to give me the money I deserve fairly. In fact, there is no need for such an interview."

"The main problem is the money given by the other party this time." Old Pierce cleared his throat, "Because the amount of money is too much, and our batch of goods is legal goods. So the other party paid by check."

"Don't tell me the check is fake." After hearing what Old Pierce said, Liang En immediately thought of something.

"Of course not. That collector is the heir of a duke. There are several commercial streets in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. How could he use a fake check for less than 200,000 pounds."

As he spoke, Old Pierce put the check on the table and said. "According to our prior agreement, 120,000 pounds of it belongs to you."

"But the problem is that although you are not British, you earned this income in the UK. So for this transaction alone, you need to pay personal income tax of about 40,000 pounds."

This is why everyone likes to use cash in private, but in order to avoid the tax department coming to their door, they often only use cash for small transactions, and will pay taxes for large transactions.

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"This is really too much." Because everyone present was a friend, Liang En complained directly.

He feels that the only thing he can be thankful for now is that Ireland and the United Kingdom in this world have a series of tax treaties, so after paying taxes here, there is no need to go back and pay taxes again.

"So I suggest that you go to the Isle of Man to set up a company, just like our store." Old Pierce said at this time. "Although we still cannot avoid paying taxes, we can pay a lot less."

"Company?" After listening to Old Pierce's suggestion, Liang En fell into deep thought.

To be honest, he had never thought about setting up a company before coming in. But now after being reminded by Old Pierce, Liang En suddenly realized that he really needed to set up a company.

This demand is related to reasonable tax avoidance, but it is not 100% corresponding. When he thought about it, he would definitely do a lot of things in this area in the future after having the golden finger, so it would not be appropriate to fight alone.

For example, if you want to retrieve some sunken treasures or excavate some underground ruins, it is basically impossible for one person to complete such a job.

"What if I want to register a company on the Isle of Man to find and excavate various treasures as a profit point?" After thinking for a while, Liang En asked the two people present.

As for his choice of the Isle of Man as the company's registration place, it was also very simple, because this place itself is known as a tax haven in Europe, and it is also convenient for Liang En to register his company in the UK.

"This is very simple, as long as you prepare your identity information, money and company name, and then find a regular law firm."

Old Pierce shrugged, "After all, there are hundreds of companies registered in the Isle of Man for tax avoidance, so it is a very simple matter for law firms here in London."

Early the next morning, Liang En went straight to a law firm in downtown London with the money and the company name that he had been thinking about for several hours last night, and then spent half an hour getting everything done.

As Old Pierce said yesterday, this is not a difficult job, so after clearing all the documents and spending more than four thousand pounds, the other party informed me that this process would take about five or six days to complete. .

After confirming that he would call to inform him when the time came, Liang En left the law firm and went straight to the Emerald Thrift Store.

Because he had made an appointment with Pierce when he was in the store yesterday, and he was going to Scotland to buy Victorian furniture today. To complete a big deal that Pierce recently received.

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The reason why he is willing to accompany Pierce to Scotland this time is also very simple. In addition to helping each other between friends, the most important reason is that in his impression there are several treasures in Scotland.

So this time he went there and planned to do some on-the-spot investigation and see which treasures had not been dug up in this world.

So after arriving in Edinburgh and finding a hotel to stay in, Liang En went straight to visit the Scottish Museum.

After a brief tour, he found that just as he had imagined before, the differences between the two worlds meant that several famous treasures had not been discovered, and at the same time there were also a few more things that he had never heard of in his previous life. past treasures.

So at the last stop of the tour, in front of the clear glass case containing the Galloway treasures. Liang En slowly summarized and sorted out his findings this time, and then determined the target of his next search based on the memory in his mind.

But before that, the most important thing is to collect a sufficient amount of Victorian furniture. According to Pierce, the business was arranged by a super-rich American who had just arrived in London.

The rich man, who is often seen on TV and in newspapers, bought a high-end residence in Knightsbridge, London, so he needed some antique furniture to decorate his new home.

Early the next morning, Liang En and Pierce entered the old town of Edinburgh, and then began to look for those old townhouses, knocking on their doors one by one, and then asked the owners of those houses if they had any antiques here. furniture.

The owners of most of the houses refused their requests, and some even closed the door in front of them before they finished speaking. However, there were still some people who were willing to open the door and allow them to see if there was anything they needed. .

Unfortunately, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish different furniture. So many times the so-called Victorian furniture enthusiastically recommended by the owners of the homes is actually just old furniture in the Victorian style.

Fortunately, during this process, Liang En and Pierce collected a lot of information, which helped them greatly narrow down the scope of their search.

"Our next step can be to go directly to House No. 207 in the middle of this street." Liang En said to Pierce after coming out of a house.

"Because several people on this street just said that the old man of that family had always been fond of collecting all kinds of old things, and his children did not take away most of the things in the house when they divided the inheritance."

So the two people quickly arrived at the house. Unlike other houses on the street, the windows of this house were all nailed with wooden boards, and the front door also looked a little dirty.

Seeing that there was no one around, Liang En and Pierce took the ladder and took turns climbing to the windows on both sides of the door, and then looked inside through the gaps in the wooden boards.

Fortunately, maybe because of the wooden boards nailed to the window frame, the curtains were not closed inside the window, and the details of the room could still be seen through the gap in the window.

The overall condition of the interior of this house looks very good, although some cabinet doors and drawers are not closed, and there are some debris on the floor. But overall it looks complete enough.

More importantly, according to Pierce's judgment, the coffee table and side cabinets in the living room should all be Victorian furniture, and they are in good condition.

After checking the situation in the room, the two of them began to look for the contact information of the owner of the house. Soon, after cleaning a dirty wooden board nailed to the door, the two people found the contact information written on the wooden board.

It only rang three times before the call was connected. The person who answered the phone was a middle-aged man. After learning about Liang En's purpose, the middle-aged man said that he would come over immediately to interview them.

Ten minutes later, an electric car parked quietly at the door of the house, and then a middle-aged man in a suit and tie stepped out of the car.

"Nice to meet you. I'm the lawyer in charge of this house." The man came up and shook hands with Liang En and the others and said. "The owner of this house has given me full authority to handle this matter."

As he said that, the lawyer showed them a document to prove his statement, and then asked Liang En what they wanted to do this time.

After Liang En and the others stated that they wanted to purchase some antique furniture, the lawyer made a few phone calls and quickly announced his decision.

"As long as you are willing to pay 2,000 pounds, then everything in the room belongs to you. I will give you two days to take away as much as you want, and you do not need to clean the room."

"Okay, deal." After hearing the other party say that there was no need to clean the room, Liang En immediately reached out his hand and shook the other party's hand to announce the deal. After all, everyone's time is limited, and their pockets are relatively big these days, so it's more efficient to spend more money and save time.

After both parties handed over the money and the key, Liang En used the key to open the door that had not been opened for several years. Fortunately, the previous lawyer was more responsible, so the door was locked and not rusty.

Because they had two full days to move around in this double-storey townhouse with a loft, Liang En and Pierce did not rush to move the furniture to the car, but began to inspect the house.

"Let me see if there are any good things." While Pierce was rummaging around on the first floor, Liang En climbed to the second floor to estimate the structure of the room, then stood in a small corridor and used a [Detection (N)] .

In an instant, the entire room was wrapped in this power and within the detection range of the card. Then Liang En felt that a 3D map of the entire room suddenly appeared in his mind, and at the same time, a light point was marked on the attic.

"It turns out that this is the way to mark targets outside the field of view." Liang En observed the targets in his mind curiously, and at the same time, a clear expression appeared on his face, which meant that he had mastered something about Golden Finger. knowledge of usage.

After climbing up a rusty iron escalator to the attic, Liang En felt as if he had entered a garbage dump. Because a large number of things were piled up in the attic, there was only a narrow path left for people to pass.

Judging from the plastic bags surrounding it and the layer of dust that had accumulated on the floor, it was likely that no one had visited this place in several years.

After roughly looking around the attic, Liang En took out a filter mask and gloves from his bag and put them on himself, then took out an iron clip and an iron rod with a hook.

This is the experience summed up by some veterans in this industry, because many people have accidentally been wrapped in iron nails, broken porcelain pieces, or needles when facing such things before. Something pricked me.

Fortunately, the overall condition of this attic is pretty good, and there aren't that many dangerous items in it.

So after carefully unpacking the large cloth bag made of sheets that contained the target, Liang En quickly dropped the tools and began to clean up the contents of the original bag with both hands.

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The items in the package seemed to be things used by children, such as toys, small clothes, books, etc. The glowing target was buried under this pile of things.

"Let me see what these are." At this time, Liang En was no longer in a hurry, but began to slowly check the contents of the cloth bag from top to bottom.

Soon, many valuable things were cleared out. For example, he has a well-preserved teddy bear doll from the 1970s. He estimates that if he finds the right person, he can sell it for more than 100 pounds.

However, other fairy tale books are not so valuable. Even a thick dozen of them will only cost seven or eight pounds in a second-hand book shop. From the catalog of these fairy tale books, Liang En discovered that this collector had very popular tastes.

At least half of it was something I had seen when I was a kid. After cleaning up the things on the surface and putting them away in categories, he finally saw what the search target underneath was.

"A whole set of "Harry Potter" and various setting collections." Liang En suddenly became excited when he saw the things exposed at the bottom.

For him, who was a Harry Potter fan in both his previous life and this life, this thing was definitely very attractive, so he naturally planned to move this pile of things home for his own collection.

Anyway, these things are basically mass-produced products printed in large quantities. In terms of economic value, they are not very expensive. If they are to be sold, they can only be sold as second-hand books at a discount.

As Liang En happily stuffed these books into the schoolbag he was carrying, the thick pile of books piled at the bottom of the package gradually shrank, and it was at this time that he found the glowing target. .

"Hey, did you wrap it in brown paper?" Liang En felt a little curious when he saw the book placed at the bottom of the package. Because this is the only book in the entire package that has extra protection.

After gently cutting the thread wrapped around the package with the knife he carried and opening the kraft paper package, a cheap hardcover book with a 32-carat paperback, red cover and blue back cover appeared in front of him.

The cover of this book depicts a red steam train locomotive and Harry Potter wearing glasses standing in front of the locomotive. The top half of the cover says Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Turning the book over, there was a picture of a middle-aged man smoking a cigarette on the edge of the blue back cover.

"This can't be the legendary first version of Harry Potter!" As a Harry Potter fan, Liang En naturally has a deep memory of certain things. So he immediately opened the page and started reading.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, he found two errors in this version of the book. On one of the pages on the back of the book, the word "Philosopher's Stone" is missing an o. Another one wrote the word "wand" twice in the list of Harry's belongings before going to school in the book content.

What's more, the book also has J.K. Rowling's signature on the title page. It can be seen from the signature that the previous owner of this book may have known the author, so he went to the author to sign it as soon as he bought the book.

If the date behind the signature is authentic, then the signature on this book is most likely the first name J.K. Rowling signed on a self-published book.

Because the official publication date of this edition of the book is June 26, 1997, and the signature date left on this book happens to be that day.

You know, at that time, J.K. Rowling was a pure newcomer in the publishing world, and there shouldn't be many people who would go to her specifically to get her autograph with a book.

When Liang En finished the analysis, three cards appeared in his mind. There are one [Detection (N)] and two [Identification (N)].

After realizing that he already had six [Appraisal (N)] cards in his hand, Liang Enxuan finally made up his mind and chose to synthesize a single [Appraisal (N)] card.

Just like the last time when the [Detection (N)] cards were synthesized, after confirming the synthesis, a light enveloped four identical cards, and then a bronze card appeared in the place where the cards originally were.

[Appraisal (R): In the journey of searching for history, just knowing the specific conditions of those historical sites cannot satisfy the needs of those looking for history. In this case, everyone naturally needs to go one step further.

Skill card (one-time use). By consuming this card, the card holder can designate a certain historical item as the target, and then use this item as an observation point to observe a period of history. This period cannot be divided and is limited to three days. 】

"This is definitely a treasure card." Liang En became excited after reading the introduction on the card. Because this means that he can glimpse the leopard and glimpse some drops of water in the long river of history.

Not to mention that even just three days of ordinary ancient people's lives are enough to make those historians scratch their heads. If he is lucky, he might have the opportunity to see some major historical events or find something. Some forgotten treasure.

Because of such a discovery, Liang En took more than ten minutes to calm down and then continued his tidying up work. Unfortunately, nothing eye-catching was found either on the shelves or in those cloth bags.

Several of the cloth bags contained empty boxes or messy clothes, and even the knots tied on them were different from most cloth bags.

This situation illustrates one thing, that is, after the owner of this house passed away, his children once entered the house and took away some things that were probably valuable.

And this may be the reason why the current owner of the room was willing to let Liang En and the others take away the things in the room as they pleased after accepting two thousand pounds. Because they have been here before and took away some valuable things.

Liang En and Pierce confirmed this even more when they exchanged their findings over lunch, because Pierce also found many similar empty containers.

"I found a violin bag, a flute box and several silver-coated jewelry boxes." Pierce shrugged. "There is no doubt that they are all empty."

"But that doesn't mean I gained nothing. For example, I just found a box used to store video tapes. It looks like it should be a very good antique."

After saying that, Pierce swallowed the fish and potato chips wrapped in newspaper in his hand in two or two mouthfuls, and then walked out the door. Soon, he walked in dragging a box that was all wrapped in relief except the bottom.

"This is the treasure I found before." Pierce said, patting the metal box about 1 meter long. "The box is made of silver-plated copper, and the overall look is quite exquisite, so I want to keep this thing for my own collection."

"Uh..." After taking a closer look at the metal box, Liang En turned to look at Pierce. "Doesn't your family have too many taboos about things in the funeral industry?"

"How is that possible? We Irish pay more attention to this than most British people. For example, when my father sees a hearse, he will quickly find a piece of wood and knock it with his fingers."

"Then I suggest you sell this thing quickly." Liang En pointed at the metal box and said, "This should be a ceremonial coffin."

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"It seems that this thing should be sold as soon as possible after returning to London." After listening to Liang En's explanation for a few minutes, Pierce had to change his previous thoughts.

The reason why the box is judged to be a coffin is also very simple, because the flower reliefs used for decoration on the box are all chrysanthemums or white lilies. In addition, it is dotted with some cute looking little angels.

"This thing can be considered an antique." Liang En said while looking at the 1873 carved in a corner inside the box, "It's just not easy to get rid of it."

Historically, ceremonial coffins were popular among ordinary people in the Victorian era, who may not have much money but wanted a decent burial.

Therefore, some businessmen have prepared such things accordingly. The family members of the deceased can rent these things from them to make the funeral more dignified, and then replace them with cheaper coffins when they are buried.

Judging from the size, the one Pierce found now should have been used for children who died in infancy. Considering the mortality rate of children in that era, the production of such things would not be too many, but it would definitely be a lot.

"It's really not easy to get rid of." After listening to Liang En's words, Pierce also sighed. "But there are people in the collecting world who collect everything, so I was able to find someone willing to buy it."

Pierce is right about this. At least in the UK, there are perverted collectors who collect ancient Egyptian wooden coffins and even mummies. A ceremonial coffin is just a sprinkle of water.

However, this gadget is just an addition. Pierce's goal of acquiring Victorian furniture has basically exceeded the lower limit he had set for himself before coming here.

After a morning of sorting, the Victorian furniture he found in this room included a cupboard, a square table and four matching chairs, a coffee table, a display cabinet, an oil painting painted by a commercial painter at the time and a Dressing table.

The other furniture, although it looks like it's from the Victorian era, is actually just some modern imitations. It's just that the two people couldn't see this when they looked in through the gap in the wooden boards outside the window.

"By the way, what did you find upstairs just now?" After talking about all his gains this morning, Pierce asked about Liang En's gains just now.

"Most of the attic is filled with old clothes. After all, they have to consider the strength of the ceiling of their house." Liang En said, taking out the bag containing the loot. "But I still found a lot of valuable stuff."

Then, he began to take out the things he had just found one by one.

After seeing the sets of "Harry Potter" books and peripheral books, Pierce's face was very calm. But when Liang En took out the teddy bear, Pierce suddenly became excited.

"This is a teddy bear produced by Steiff Company in Germany, and it is also a limited edition with the highest average price among them."

"How do you know?" Liang En picked up the teddy bear and looked at it, looking confused, because he only recognized that this thing should be from the 1970s, and it might be of some value, but he couldn't tell the specific situation at all.

"This is because my ex-girlfriend liked this thing very much, so I did some homework at that time." Pierce said, pointing to the label on the left ear of the teddy bear in front of him that was nailed with Dukin nails. "From here You can tell them apart."

"There are three types of teddy bears produced by Steiff, which can be distinguished by this label. Among them, the ones with yellow background and red characters are ordinary products, and the ones with black characters on white background are important replicas. And like the white one we got now The ones with red letters on the bottom are the most valuable limited editions."

"But unfortunately, this one is a relatively common limited edition. It is incomparable to the $2.1 million limited edition they produced with LV before."

"How much is this thing worth?" Liang En was not very interested in this kind of stuffed toy, so he was more concerned about how much it could be sold for.

"Let me check - yes, this is it." Pierce took out his phone and rummaged for a few minutes, and soon found an almost identical teddy bear from an auction house's website.

Liang En went over and found that the transaction price of the teddy bear was 2,700 pounds. However, compared with the teddy bear in his hand, the teddy bear at the auction seemed a little older.

"So the price of the teddy bear we have should be between 2,500 pounds and 3,500 pounds." After comparing them with each other, Liang En came to a fair conclusion.

"Yes, this is an extra bonus." Pierce also smiled, "I didn't expect that there would be so many things in the attic where the sundries are kept."

"And that's not all." As he spoke, Liang En took out the "Harry Potter" from the deepest part of his bag. "This is the most valuable thing I found this time, the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

"The version that only printed 500 copies?" Although Pierce had a general feeling about this novel, as Britain's national literature, he naturally did some research on these things.

"That's right, it's that edition. I remember that a copy was sold at an auction before for nearly 30,000 pounds. But our copy is better preserved, so it's estimated to be worth another two to three thousand pounds."

"It's more than that." Pierce put on his gloves and flipped through the book carefully before saying. "Don't forget, this book is signed by the author, so it has more important commemorative value."

After checking the book, Pierce immediately returned to the car and took out a special plastic bag to put the book in. Then he put it in the small safe in his car that was used to store such expensive items.

The work in the afternoon was similar to that during the day, mainly cleaning the entire room. For this purpose, Liang En even moved the metal detector.

But unfortunately, most of the rooms here have been searched by the heirs of the old owner. So apart from two 1950s silver coins and a Victorian iron flower pot stand, they found nothing during the afternoon.

That night, the two of them did not stay in the hotel, but simply chose to spend the night wrapped in sleeping bags in the room.

The next morning, they got up early and went to a nearby McDonald's to do housekeeping and had breakfast. Then they transformed into movers and moved the furniture to the car.

Maybe the homeowner was worried that the antique furniture would be damaged during transportation, so all the large pieces of furniture were placed on the first floor. This is convenient for Liang En and Pierce, who are not very professional.

After wrapping the furniture with rags found upstairs, the official moving work began.

To be honest, if you hire professional movers, it might take less than an hour to move these things, but it took Liang En and Pierce, two novices, a full morning to move all these things together. On the two cars that came.

Today Pierce was driving the store's medium-sized truck, similar to the kind used by moving companies, with a door on the side that pulled down and could be used as a ramp. Therefore, the workload of two people is reduced a lot.

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After loading up all the trophies and handing them over to the lawyer, Liang En said goodbye to Pierce for the time being. Because Pierce collected everything he wanted in one go this time, he hoped to return to London quickly to complete the deal.

"I'm so sorry, but this business is really important." Pierce said to Liang En in a parking lot beside the highway. "So I have to sell our goods before anyone else does."

"So you can only hunt for treasures alone from now on, but I promise you, I will try my best to sell these furniture and the things I find at a high price, and then give you your share."

"Okay, it seems I can only be the one next." Liang En seemed a little helpless. After all, although the two of them are close friends, they each have their own careers, so they often need to be busy with their own things. .

After hugging each other, they each started their cars and drove in different directions. Pierce would go all the way back to London while Liang En continued to go north.

Liang En's target this time is the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides Islands in northern Scotland, because in his impression, a famous treasure that was not discovered in this world was unearthed there in his previous world.

Of course, an important reason why I wanted to pick up this treasure for the first time was the association I had after getting the "Harry Potter" books.

What's even better is that after searching on the Internet before, he found that the destination he was looking for was very suitable for treasure hunting from a policy perspective.

Both the UK and the US have a tradition of regional autonomy, so each region has different laws.

For example, according to the treasure law in England, the treasure acquisition fee or reward money should be divided equally between the discoverer and the land owner. But according to Scotland's treasure law, the amount divided between the two parties is determined by the discoverer.

Of course, according to the rules, the discoverer of treasures in Scotland will generally give half of the treasure to the land owner, and at most get a little more. This will allow more landowners to be willing to allow treasure hunters onto their lands.

The place Liang En is going to now is even more interesting. As a private territory, the other party directly opens its land to all treasure hunters and allows treasure hunters to take away everything found on their territory.

But correspondingly, every treasure hunter needs to buy a treasure hunting ticket from him when entering his territory. A treasure hunting ticket costs 120 pounds, and if you bring a metal detector, an additional 60 pounds is added.

Moreover, this kind of treasure hunting ticket also has a time limit. One treasure hunting ticket can only allow one person to move in the territory for two days. If you want to continue, you can only buy another one.

However, this did not prevent Liang En from taking the Isle of Lewis as the target of his search, so more than four hours after setting off from Edinburgh, he arrived at Ullapool, a port in the northwest of the Scottish Highlands.

This town is one of the most remote towns in Cromarty, but it is also an important port for the Outer Hebrides. If you want to drive to Stornoway, the largest city on the Isle of Lewis, you must go here.

When he first arrived at the seaside of Ullapool, he was stunned by the beautiful scenery in front of him. The blue lake surrounded by mountains is dotted with countless yachts. It is silent all around, with only clouds floating low in the sky. It seems like a fairyland on earth.

It was already past 5 pm when he arrived in the town, so Liang En went straight to a youth hostel to stay. After all, compared to the island, both accommodation and prices here are only a little more than half of those there.

After settling in, it looked like there was still some time until dark. Liang En simply took his mobile phone and power bank and went for a walk around the town.

Since this is a seaside town, the wind is relatively strong. Therefore, the buildings in the town basically have thick stone walls, narrow windows and double-glazed windows. However, the flowers hanging on the walls and planted in front and behind the house made the whole town feel more lively.

After arriving at the beach, Liang En found that the town was located in a bay. There are many seagulls hovering on the pier. Not only are they not afraid of people, they also swoop down from time to time to snatch food from people's hands.

The bay is surrounded by mountains. Every winter, many people come from all over the UK to climb mountains. This is why there are so many good-quality family hotels in the town. In addition, there is a large beach by the sea. campsite.

After shopping for a while, Liang En felt a little hungry and went to the only large supermarket in town to buy some cold food to take to the beach for dinner. Unexpectedly, he saw many people who were going to the same place as him tomorrow.

Although there is no difference between them and ordinary tourists from the appearance, Liang En, who has been working in this industry for almost three months, can still smell the smell from them.

There were many people sitting on the benches on the beach, and several people were standing there playing guitar and singing songs.

When he was shopping just now, Liang En learned that the annual Guitar Music Festival was held here just a few days ago, so these people should be the artists who came here before.

"——I want to sing a song now to commemorate Ron who died in the last Battle of Hogwarts." A voice came from a beach not far away.

"What the hell?" Looking at the guitarist wearing a Gryffindor school uniform, Liang En suddenly felt that his mind was stuck because he subconsciously felt that this was nonsense.

But after he recalled it for a while, he realized that this was a manifestation of the many differences between the two worlds.

For example, the first six Harry Potter films in this world are not much different from what Liang En saw in the previous world. But in the seventh part of this world, Ron died in the final battle of Hogwarts.

When Liang En returned to the youth hostel and opened the set of "Harry Potter" he had found before, he opened the book to the last chapter. Sure enough, in this chapter nineteen years later, we saw Harry and his wife Hermione sending their children to school together. Their youngest son was named James Ronald Potter.

"This is indeed another world." After seeing the sentence "The scar has not hurt in nineteen years, everything is peaceful", Liang En sighed softly, then turned off the light and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, he drove his car and boarded the first barge to the Isle of Lewis, and then drove west-north.

After two hours and forty minutes of boating, Liang En arrived at Stornoway, the largest city on the Island of Lewis. This is also a small city that looks very beautiful, but he doesn't have much time to waste here.

So after quickly applying for an excavation permit on the island, paying 180 pounds and receiving a GPS locator the size of a car key, he drove straight to the beach at his target location.

The roads on the island are very narrow and are only one-way in many places. If you want to miss a bus, you have to go to a special wrong bus location. Fortunately, there were not many vehicles in this place, so he drove more than ten kilometers to his destination smoothly.

Just when he saw the sea, Liang En also saw the small hills that had appeared in a travel magazine before. It's just that unlike the photo with the chess piece sculpture in the magazine, this hillside is just an ordinary hillside covered with weeds.

"Okay, we're finally here." After arriving on the beach in the drizzle, Liang En let out a long sigh of relief as he looked at the familiar bay. "Then it's time to work."

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Just when Liang En walked onto the beach, light rain began to fall in the sky. Although this kind of weather is very common for the UK, it still caused those tourists on the beach to leave the beach.

This is good news for Liang En. Although he has spent money to buy a license to dig on the island, he doesn't really want people to watch him while digging for treasure.

"According to records, those treasures should be hidden in a small stone room under the sand dunes." Liang En thought as he took out the thin steel drill he carried with him.

"In my original world, the chess pieces were found by the cows when the discoverer was herding them. This also means that the stone chamber is very close to the ground and there is a certain amount of vegetation covering it."

"If this is the case, then there are not many qualified places in this bay. It only takes a few hours to go through the whole place."

An hour later, Liang En used the probing stick in his hand to explore all the sand dunes in this small bay, and then locked his destination on three sand dunes.

Because in these three sand dunes, after inserting the probe stick for half a meter, you can clearly feel that there are some hard objects that are not small in size inside.

It was obviously not a good idea to dig up and check all three sand dunes, so in order to save time, Liang En directly used the [Detection (N)] card in his hand.

The first [Detection (N)] card was directly wasted, because after consuming this card, there was no response from the surrounding area, which meant that the hard object in the dune was probably just a big stone.

But when Liang En dragged his tools to the second sand dune and used the card, a small space that was less than 1m deep under his feet appeared in his mind, as well as the space located in that space. a point of light in.

"My luck is really good." After seeing this light spot, Liang En suddenly became excited, and at the same time a sense of surprise hit his heart. Because for him, this was the first national treasure he actively searched for after obtaining the golden finger.

After determining the location of the underground space, Liang En immediately took out a shovel and started digging. As the surface soil was removed bit by bit, some traces of human disturbance were slowly brought up by the shovel.

For example, Liang En found several shell fragments in this piece of soil. Considering that this sand dune is some distance from the sea and is seven or eight meters above the high tide sea level, the appearance of these shells here is naturally related to man-made activities.

Because the surrounding area was surrounded by sand, Liang En had to dig a hole large enough to bury at least one person to prevent the surrounding sand from sliding down around the target.

While he was digging the hole, the rain slowly stopped. Several tourists on the beach came over curiously and took a look at Liang En's work.

But because they were just digging holes during this period, the tourists only watched it for a while and then ran to the beach to play in the water.

Interestingly, a local old man watched Liang En digging there and persuaded him, telling him that many treasure hunters had brought metal detectors here before, but they found nothing. .

After thanking the old man, Liang En continued digging with the shovel. After all, in his impression, there were no metal objects in this batch of cultural relics, so the metal detector was naturally unlikely to find anything here.

Finally, after digging for nearly an hour, the shovel hit something hard. After further cleaning, a stone slab with artificial carving marks appeared at the bottom of the pit.

This stone slab is very roughly carved and has no patterns on it. It can even be said that the other party probably peeled off the stone from its original place and placed it directly here.

The moment he saw this slate, Liang En could feel his heart starting to beat violently. This was not because he thought this rough slate was valuable, but because this slate represented the things in his mind that came from another world. The memory of the world is also useful in this world.

After taking a few deep breaths to stabilize his emotions, Liang En began to dig down along the edge of the stone slab. Soon, he discovered that this should be a small ancient secret room.

The entire secret room is embedded in the sand dunes. In order to prevent the sand dunes from completely destroying the secret room, the people who built the secret room made the walls and ceiling of the secret room very thick.

Although the stone slab with a diameter of no more than 1m above the secret room could be pried open with force, considering the fragility of the cultural relics buried inside and the obviously weak walls of the surrounding secret room, Liang En decided to look for this one. The opening of the secret room.

After all, you can tell at a glance that this location is a treasure hiding place rather than a burial pit, so the people who put these things in back then will definitely make it easier for them to take out such treasures in the future without blocking the entrance.

Sure enough, after exploring around the secret room, Liang En found the door covered with a stone slab on the side of the secret room. But unlike what he had imagined before, this door pointed inland, not to the sea.

But after thinking about it seriously, he felt that the other party's approach was the right one. Because if the other party really wants to preserve these things, it is a wise idea to avoid the humid and high-salinity air from the ocean that is not conducive to preserving items.

Thinking of this, he once again observed the small sand dune under his feet, and then became more determined in this idea. Because although the height of this dune is not high, it is the farthest from the coastline among these dunes.

Next is the moment to open the secret room. Considering that these things in the past life were excavated in the early 19th century without special protection, they were completely preserved until the 21st century. Therefore, the preservation status of the things in the secret room should be very good. It is not It requires some special tools to open.

Thinking of this, Liang En forcefully moved away the big stone that was used as the door to the secret room, and then took out a low-light flashlight and shined it into the secret room.

There were a large number of white statues of different sizes placed in the secret room. After taking a brief look with a flashlight, he quickly reached in and grabbed the small statue that had been used as a signal point and was emitting light that only he could see.

In an instant, six cards, one silver, two bronze, and three black, appeared in Liang En's mind. But now he didn't care at all about the cards he got this time, but looked at the little statue in his hand.

The statue that appeared in his hand was of a noble woman wearing a robe, sitting on a high-backed chair, with a crown on her head. The special thing is that the right hand of this female statue is raised to cover her cheek, looking like she has a toothache.

That's right, what Liang En found now was the Isle of Lewis chess piece that was known as the British national treasure in his previous life, and the one he held in his hand was the most famous queen chess piece among them.

Of course, the chess piece's posture does not mean that she has a toothache. But in the ancient tradition, the gesture of covering the face with hands represents contemplation and is a symbol of wisdom.

And this also proves one thing from the side, that is, in the Middle Ages when this chess piece was made, royal women were not just vases, but were considered to be intelligent characters.

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After carefully looking at the chess piece, Liang En began to take out everything in the secret room and put it into the storage box he had prepared when he came here.

But as he kept taking out the chess pieces one by one from the secret room and counting them, his initial excitement gradually turned into surprise.

Because the wizard chess played by Harry and Ron in the first Harry Potter movie was based on the chess pieces from the Isle of Lewis, Liang En specifically looked up information about this thing out of curiosity.

According to data, a total of 93 cultural relics were unearthed from this treasure. Includes 78 chess pieces, 14 round chips and a belt buckle. But the number of things Liang En had extracted from this secret room had obviously exceeded this number.

In the end, Liang En took out a total of 149 items. It includes 128 chess pieces, 20 round chips and a belt buckle, all of which appear to be made of animal bones or teeth.

Although it can be seen that these 128 chess pieces do not come from the same source, they can make up four complete sets of chess. This is obviously much larger than the treasure in Liang En's impression.

The reason for this error is also very simple. After all, the discoverer of the treasure in Liang En's previous world was a farmer, and the first chess piece was discovered by a cow while herding cattle.

In addition, more than a hundred years after this discovery, an ordinary British man found a chess piece from his home and auctioned it for a sky-high price of several hundred thousand pounds.

These two things illustrate one thing from the side, that is, in the world before Liang En, the secret room built in the dunes should have been destroyed for some reason at that time, so the items originally stored were also lost.

But in this world now, the secret room in the dunes is completely sealed. In other words, the preservation of items here is more complete than that in another world.

As for the price of a complete set of chess pieces, he would not think about it at all, because in the previous world this was a national treasure of Britain, and there was no way it would have a price.

After cleaning up all the things in the cave and putting them into bags, the excavation work was over. The next thing he had to do was to deal with the excavated things.

Liang En studied archeology in college before, so he brought a lot of professional tools and medicines with him before coming here. Therefore, after just simple processing, there is no need to worry about unnecessary damage to these chess pieces.

But on the other hand, it is more complicated. At least from a legal perspective, this thing cannot be said to completely belong to him now. There are a few other things to do if you want to actually get your hands on this thing.

There are slight legal differences between this world and the previous world. For example, the Scottish region of both worlds has legal provisions that require that treasures unearthed need to be sold to designated museums.

However, from a legal perspective, items identified as "treasures" must be at least 300 years old and must contain 10% gold or silver.

At the same time, any other items found at the site where the treasure was found - regardless of the materials they are made of - can be classified as "treasure".

And now there is no metal in the treasure spot that Liang En found, so from a purely legal point of view, it will not even be recognized as a treasure.

More importantly, there is still an exception to British law in this world, that is, the territory purchased by the nobles before 1900 and which has been owned by the nobles from 1900 to the present is still governed by the ancient "Treasure Law".

In other words, those who discover treasures in this area do not need to force the sale of the treasures they find, but decide the distribution of these treasures between the two parties after discussing with the owners of those territories.

According to this law, these small sculptures obtained by Liang En naturally belong to him. After all, this island is a noble territory that meets the additional conditions stipulated by the law, and the previously signed contract also guarantees this.

After all, if it weren't for this, it would be impossible for everyone to pay 120 pounds for two days, bring a metal detector and an expensive 60 pounds to hunt for treasures on the island.

Of course, digging is not possible everywhere on the island. For example, excavation is prohibited for Stonehenge on the island, the city and surrounding areas, and several ancient residential areas that add up to more than 1/10 of the area.

This is why he was given a small GPS locator when he signed an agreement in the city. As long as he enters the prohibited excavation area, the locator will vibrate and beep to remind the carrier to leave.

It took more than ten minutes to drive back to Stornoway, and Liang En went straight to the building where the excavation permit had been issued to obtain documents for his treasures.

This is a semi-open room with several staff members sitting and chatting. When Liang En put his bag on the counter, those people just glanced at him and continued chatting.

"Gentlemen and ladies, I found something, please help me register it." After waiting for several minutes without seeing any reaction from these people, Liang En could only remind him.

"Wait a minute, Asians." A slightly bloated middle-aged man turned to Liang En and said, "It's just a little bit of junk, so wait until we finish chatting, okay?"

"Please hurry up -" After hearing this person's answer, Liang En could only sigh helplessly, and then sat back in his seat. Obviously, these guys are a bunch of racists.

As an Asian, it is not uncommon to encounter such people in Europe and America. It can even be said to be common.

Of course, there are not many racists who actually resort to violent attacks or insults in person, because it is easy to be caught and directly accused of doing such things. However, it is a very common behavior to use one's own rights to create some obstacles. .

Although it may be more satisfying to confront people directly at this time, it is not worth the gain to conflict with these people when you are pregnant with a huge treasure. So Liang En simply sat down on the stool next to him and started browsing on his phone.

This group of staff is discriminatory, but they don't dare to go too far due to the regulations. So after waiting for him for seven or eight minutes, someone stood up and handled the documents required for Liang En to take away these things.

Due to the regulations on the island, the staff here do not need to have the skills to identify antiques. In addition, there were no precious metals or gems in this treasure and there was no racial discrimination among the staff, so they quickly registered these things as a routine and then returned the documents and those things to Liang En.

"Some rough chess pieces. That Asian guy dug up plastic toys discarded by others from some garbage dump and kept them as treasures——"

Just as Liang En walked out of the room, he heard a slightly mean and sarcastic voice coming from behind him and several people laughing sarcastically.

"This means that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked." Liang En whispered in Chinese when he went out, with a smile full of contempt on his face.

After all, this territory has belonged to Sir John Mathison, a notorious drug trafficker who smuggled opium into China since the late 19th century. From this perspective, it is understandable that those staff are also rubbish.

After completing the formalities, Liang En took the latest barge back to Ullapool. Because it was getting dark, he decided to stay here for one night and wait until the next day to leave.

Because he had a huge harvest this time, Liang En simply went to a restaurant in town and spent fifteen pounds to have a good meal.

Unfortunately, because I am not used to the famous Scottish dish "Haggis", which is also the famous stuffed lamb tripe, the meal for this meal is just the usual steak and pasta.

After dinner, Liang En returned to his residence, and only then did he have time to observe the cards he had obtained before.

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It is indeed a national treasure antique, so this time the Lewis Island chess piece gave Liang En one (SR) card, two (R) cards and three (N) cards, a total of six cards.

After careful inspection, Liang En found that four of the six cards had appeared before, namely one [Detection (R), two [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N)]. N)].

After placing these cards in the place prepared before, Liang En began to look at the two new cards he had obtained. Because according to his experience, new cards often give him some unexpected surprises.

And this is exactly the case. The two new cards this time are unexpectedly interesting. Perhaps because the items found this time belong to the ancient Vikings, both cards are related to ancient Viking culture.

[Trade (Robbery) Map (R): The Vikings were the most famous pirates, adventurers and traders in the Western world of that era. Their earliest homeland was in Northern Europe, but later they spread throughout the Mediterranean region.

According to records, they ranged from Greenland in the Americas in the west to the Black Sea coastal grasslands in the Eastern European plains and even Mesopotamia. The northern border reaches directly to the Arctic Circle, while the south has left its footprints mainly in various regions of North Africa.

Skill card (permanent), the user can open this map in the soul at any time. The map records various settlements, robbery locations and information about these locations controlled by the Vikings throughout the Viking Age. 】

"This is really a treasure." Liang En summoned the map in his mind, then opened the map and pointed at London and clicked lightly.

After he clicked, a row of text and a small scroll bar appeared above the red dot. The scroll bar is used to adjust the time on the timeline, and the text above continues to change with the scroll bar.

It's just that the information exposed by those words is not much. Apart from the population of these settlements, simple maps in a hand-drawn style, and the main industries they are engaged in, there is nothing.

But this is enough for Liang En. At least he can find some Viking Age settlements that have never been discovered before from this map, and those places that have not been disturbed often contain precious treasures.

Of course, it is not easy to find a suitable excavation location.

For example, some settlements with simple agriculture or animal husbandry basically have only archaeological value and little economic value. So even if he really wanted to dig these places, he would have to wait until a long time later to do it.

However, there are still some places that cannot be mined even if there is wealth. For example, the Viking map records that London in that era became a very prosperous city after the management of Alfred the Great, but the core area of the city is not the same as today's London. The core areas overlap.

After a curious search, Liang En discovered that the castle on the map that was most likely to contain treasures was today's Tower of London.

Considering that the Queen of England's full crown and scepter is usually kept inside today, the surrounding area is heavily guarded. He felt that as long as he dared to dig there with a shovel, he would probably go to prison and sing like a chrysanthemum for a few years.

After observing the map excitedly for a while, Liang En turned his attention away from the map and began to observe the newly acquired (SR) card. Different from the previous item card, this was a first-class card. The skill card that appears.

[Vikings (SR): Today, everyone may call the Russians a fighting nation, but 1,000 years ago, the Vikings were a real fighting nation, and even berserkers were born among them, beings who risked their lives in battles. .

In addition, they also have their own special language and writing, as well as their own gods and epic stories.

A true Viking not only needs to have a strong body, but also must have wisdom hidden under the muscles. Only then was that era named the Viking Age

Strengthening card (one-time use), effect 1: After using this card, the user will permanently master the poems and stories in "Ida" and "Saga" that were once passed down orally by the Vikings to this day. . And be able to read and write these stories and poems in ancient Viking language and runes.

Effect 2: After using the card, the user can get a chance to strengthen his body and have a body as powerful as an ancient Viking warrior.

Note that obtaining such a body requires adequate nutritional supplements, so for the safety of the user, please make corresponding preparations before using the card. 】

"No wonder this one-time card can be (SR)." Looking at the prompt on this card. Liang En showed a clear expression. Because the effect of this card is equivalent to comprehensively strengthening his body.

Compared with the previous skills or techniques, this kind of physical enhancement is obviously more valuable, because it means that his power has crossed the line between illusion and reality and can gradually affect the real world.

Moreover, the cards this time also refreshed Liang En's understanding of his golden fingers, because this time the cards were revealed the moment he discovered the chess piece, instead of him paying the money and receiving the certificate. Cards that appeared later.

So after considering various situations, Liang En realized that in addition to getting cards after getting items, he also found some important things that had been hidden in history for a long time but had never been discovered, and he could also get cards. without confirming its ownership.

This means that if he excavates something that has never been discovered in this world, such as the ruins of Troy, he will still be able to obtain a large number of valuable cards even if he does not take anything away in accordance with the law.

After reading these two new cards, Liang En quickly fell asleep. Early the next morning, he drove south to the Blair Drummond Wildlife Park and Adventure Park.

Because in the map he obtained, this area was only a dozen kilometers away from the river's mouth. In the Viking Age, it was once a relatively famous small trading center.

According to the map, this trade center was built on the basis of an ancient town.

This area was already inhabited hundreds or even thousands of years before their arrival. During the construction of this trading town, many traces of human life were dug out.

More importantly, the place name reminded him of another treasure. If my memory serves me right, the size of this treasure is not that big. But it can make Liang En earn a lot of cash.

After driving into the park, he did not get out of the car, but drove around where driving was allowed. Soon, he discovered the small hillside in his memory that was located on the dividing line between fields and woods.

After parking the car there, Liang En took out the unused metal detector that he had brought with him all the way and even paid 60 pounds to go to the island.

It's a pity that this place has been a park for a long time, and it was also a famous licensed hunting area in the UK. So after the metal detector rang a few times, all it dug out were bottle caps or shotgun bullet casings.

Although the metal detector in his hand claims to be able to distinguish gold, silver or iron below the ground. But this is not the case in practice.

At least several times in a row, the metal detector showed gold, but all they found were copper coins or shotgun shells.

But as he gradually expanded the scope of his search, Liang En found a large stone that had been buried under the ground for nearly a thousand years. Then, using this stone as a location, we began to search for traces of the trade center back then.

A few minutes later, he arrived at the edge of the large field and found the core facility of this trading center: a circular religious place.

Of course, because of the passage of time. All existence on the ground of this religious site has completely disappeared, but after more than thirty centimeters of surface soil were excavated in selected places, some stones that seemed to be disconnected appeared in the pits.

"Finally found it." Looking at the rough stones, Liang En wiped his sweat and smiled on his face.

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After spending about half an hour, Liang En finally determined the general situation of this small religious place. As he imagined, this religious place belonging to an older era was not that big.

At least judging from the area surrounded by the untrimmed stones and the few pieces of carbonized wood, this religious site is only a small flat land with a diameter of seven or eight meters.

"No wonder this area has been repeatedly used as a settlement by humans in the past ten centuries, not to mention that the terrain in this area is indeed good." After completing the preliminary exploration, Liang En stretched out and observed the surrounding environment.

His current location was on a small hillock at the edge of a field. Behind him was a large leafy forest, and not far in front of him was a winding stream flowing in a valley.

Farther away is a large field of green grass, dotted with short shrubs like plush balls and a few scattered holiday cabins.

Although standing here now, you can feel the fragrance of soil and plants in the air, and what you see is a peaceful natural scenery. But in those ancient times, this was indeed a suitable area for settlement.

For example, the creek below should be a remnant of a tributary of the river in the past. Considering the tonnage of ships in that era, those ships used for communication could have traveled upstream to get here.

This area has plains that produce food and woodlands that produce wood. All in all, this should be a very suitable area for settlement over a long period of time.

According to the map in Liang En's mind, the Viking town should have been built on a small piece of open land by the creek thousands of meters away. During the construction process, some people once found broken pottery shards and even broken iron shards in the ground.

If you consider the location of the town, it is very reasonable for the first people to live on this land to choose to build their religious place on a hill some distance away from the town and surrounded by woods.

Because traditional religions throughout the British Isles worship various trees, for example, the so-called Druid in the Druidism spread in the UK, literally translates to the Oak Sage. One of the most famous is the powerful wizard who followed King Arthur: Merlin.

According to tradition, their religious occasions tend not to be man-made temples. Instead, they are some totem formations made of uncarved stones. For example, Stonehenge, which is scattered across Britain, is often considered their temple in the wild.

The stone circle that Liang En encountered now cannot be compared with Stonehenge in terms of scale, but the principle is exactly the same, and it is also a religious occasion used for sacrifice.

Judging from the carbonized wood, this area was most likely an oak forest in the past. For the Druids, this oak forest is a sacred forest, naturally suitable for religious activities.

The reason why there are now some pine forests around it is also very simple, because during the Age of Discovery, most of the native British oak trees were cut down. And this ancient oak forest is no exception.

And this can explain why the treasure in the impression was unearthed from this place, because both the Gauls and the Celts had the habit of giving various gold and silver jewelry as sacrifices.

In addition to being buried underground in religious ceremonies like this, there are also cases of jewelry being thrown directly into water or swamps along with other offerings.

After standing for a while, Liang En, who was almost rested, picked up the metal detector and began to search carefully in the stone circle.

What was a little surprising was that there was nothing in the center of the stone circle that he had placed high hopes on. Instead, when he searched the place against the wall of the building, the metal detector sounded an alarm.

"It seems that there is a high possibility that this batch of wealth was temporarily hidden after a crisis."

Looking at the location where the metal detector sounded the alarm relative to the stone circle, Liang En quickly came up with a guess. Because of this, it can explain why such a treasure is hidden in an inconspicuous corner of the Holy of Holies.

The next step was excavation work, because both his impression from another world and the conclusion of the current metal detector showed that the buried object was very shallow.

In order to avoid accidentally destroying the treasure while digging, Liang En simply knelt down on the edge of the land, then took out a small shovel used to loosen soil in flower pots and started digging bit by bit.

After digging only a palm deep, a golden light appeared at the bottom of the pit. The part now exposed from the soil is only as long as your little finger, and looks like a spinning ribbon or a drill used to drill holes in the ice.

"Sure enough, it's here." The moment he saw the gold, Liang En suddenly became excited. Because it means he has found what may be the most stunning collection of Iron Age ornaments ever found in Scotland.

If he remembered correctly, the discoverer received £1 million from the museum.

Because the soil in this place is relatively soft, and the treasures are all made of gold. So Liang En simply threw away the shovel that might cause collision and started digging with his hands.

Ten minutes later, four gold collars appeared in front of him. These four gold collars are all European Iron Age decorations and can be divided into three groups in terms of style.

The two collars in the first group are very similar in style, but formed by twisting a long and narrow piece of gold. They clearly have the traditional Celtic style of ancient Scotland and Ireland.

The second group was a tubular collar, but less than half of it was left, and it was broken into two pieces. On the surface, this collar looks a bit like one of those icings on a butter cake.

Based on the professional knowledge Liang En learned in college, he quickly recognized from the style of the collar that this collar came from the area in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea.

As for the necklace in the last group, it is made of gold wire, with two intricate decorations made of gold wire on both ends. It seems that the process complexity is much more complicated than the other three.

Interestingly, the style of the collar itself is a standard local style. But this gold wire weaving technology all comes from ancient Rome and ancient Greece.

In other words, this gold necklace was probably made by a jewelry craftsman who mastered ancient Greek or Roman craftsmanship at the request of a local big shot.

This is actually a very important discovery because it represents 300 years before the ancient Romans came to Britain. Those living in Scotland already had exchanges with France and even southern Europe.

And when all these gold collars were cleared out, Liang En also got two [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N) card,

After cleaning out all these treasures, Liang En immediately returned to his car with these gold collars, and then spent an hour writing an article combining his findings and speculations with the photos taken during the excavation.

He then emailed the article to the department responsible for underground treasures at the National Museum of Scotland. The reason for this is that it is an independent department that reports only to the Queen and the Royal Treasurer.

Compared with museums, this kind of institution directly affiliated with London is obviously more reliable. This is why Liang En chose to inform them directly.

Of course, he also uploaded those photos and files to the network disk as his last layer of protection.

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Liang En originally thought that one or two people might drive over to take away these gold necklaces and sign a series of related documents with him, but in fact the other party obviously paid more attention to them than Liang En imagined.

Just when Liang En bought some desserts and a cup of hot tea from a mobile restaurant more than a hundred meters away, and was about to go back to the car for afternoon tea, he saw a minibus and a small truck similar to that used by a moving company coming from He drove over on the highway not far away and stopped next to his car.

After the vehicles stopped, a dozen people got out of the vehicles.

Then an old man wearing work clothes and glasses walked to Liang En's car, then raised his hands in front of his eyebrows to block the sun, and looked into the cab of the car through the window glass.

"Sir, what can I do for you?" Liang En asked the elder while holding a small paper bag.

"Ah, young man, I am Dr. David Caldwell from the Scottish Underground Treasure Department." When Liang En asked, the elder turned his head and asked him kindly. "Do you know where the owner of this car is now?"

"Well, I am the owner of this car, Liang En. Of course you can call me Lawrence."

Liang En suddenly remembered that he had included his license plate number when he notified the museum before, so he asked. "Are you the people from the Scottish Underground Treasure Department who came to receive the treasure after receiving the call just now——"

After a few words to confirm each other's identities, Liang En opened the cab and took out five separately wrapped gold collar parts from the glove box on the passenger seat.

As Liang En opened the cloth bags one by one, the gold collars appeared one by one in front of the museum staff.

The first two gold collars with local characteristics did not attract the attention of these museum staff, because there are many similar things in the cultural relics in their collections.

However, when the French gold collar broken into two sections appeared in front of everyone, Liang En noticed that all the archaeologists present showed interested eyes.

"Liang, you are so lucky." Dr. Caldwell couldn't help but said after seeing the fragments of the collar.

"If I remember correctly, this gold collar should be the third gold collar from France unearthed in Scotland. It is of very, very historical value. Of course, it cannot be compared with the last collar."

"Yes, because the last collar combines the styles of ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the British Iron Age." Liang En said as he opened the last cloth bag and revealed the gold-woven collar.

"As I wrote in the email I sent you, this should be the first time something like this has been discovered in the whole of Scotland and even the whole of the UK -"

"Yes, this represents a line of cultural and trade exchange that we have never discovered before." Dr. Caldwell said looking at the gold bracelet seriously.

"This is a major archaeological discovery, because most current history believes that it was only after Rome invaded Britain that the entire island began to communicate with those civilizations in southern Europe——"

Perhaps because he was asked about his major, Dr. Caldwell talked endlessly about his analysis. Liang En was able to pick up these topics because he had read information about this collar in another world.

As a result, the two of them became more and more in tune with each other. They talked about gold bracelets, ancient trade routes, and then talked about various connections between the European continent and the British Isles.

Because of the information from another world and the map of the Viking Age that he had obtained previously, Liang En was able to take up the topic of the doctor and come up with some refreshing viewpoints from time to time.

"Seriously, Lawrence, your knowledge accumulation and attitude in this area far exceed my imagination. At least the treasure hunters I have seen before can't do this."

Dr. Caldwell sighed after watching the archaeologists and security personnel begin to set up a cordon around the perimeter and start searching.

"They often only care about how much money they can get for digging up these things, and they are dismissive of the history hidden behind the cultural relics."

"I think this may be because I majored in archeology at University College Cork." Liang En said with a smile, "So I paid more attention to this aspect during the treasure hunt."

"Then your current career is indeed a good one." After hearing what Liang En said, Dr. Caldwell smiled on his face. "At least it will allow you to work in this area."

In most countries, occupations with long-term and stable work contracts, such as those working on the archaeological team under the National Museum, are very popular.

Therefore, in Dr. Caldwell's view, Ireland does not have many such positions due to its small population, and it is difficult for a foreigner like Liang En to find such a job in the UK. That's why he chose the path of this treasure hunter.

"Compared with the archaeological team, my job is more free. At the same time, I have the opportunity to find wealth that is difficult for ordinary people to find." Liang En said with a smile after hearing what the doctor said.

"For example, after I find these treasures, I can get a lot of money to improve my life."

"Hahaha, that's true." After hearing what Liang En said, Dr. Caldwell smiled and patted his shoulder. "But I hope you can always maintain your passion for this industry and not just focus on the economic aspects."

At the end of the chat, the doctor told Liang En that if he found any treasures in the future, he could give him priority. Then start calling the superior department to communicate and ask questions about bonuses.

Money matters are always the most difficult to deal with, so it was not until 11:30 pm that the National Museums of Scotland made the final decision in this regard.

Just when the person in charge, Dr. Caldwell, came over with the news, Lawrence was chatting with some archaeologists who were taking a rest.

After learning that Liang Enhui had a paper on ancient Egyptian writing published in the next issue of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, these archaeological experts accepted him into their chat circle.

After all, the British attach great importance to things like class, so if Liang En was just an ordinary treasure digger, these archaeologists would basically not be willing to pay attention to him.

Just after Liang En synthesized the map in his mind and finished speaking half-truths and half-falsehoods about the development of trade routes between the ancient European continent and Britain, Dr. Caldwell called him out of the crowd.

"Has the museum made a decision?" Lawrence asked quietly after walking out of the crowd.

"Yes, the National Museum of Scotland has made a decision to acquire it." The doctor nodded. "They are willing to pay 1 million to purchase these things and permanently place introduction boards in the exhibition area to introduce your contribution to this discovery."

"Of course, this is just a preliminary agreement. If you have any additional requirements, you can make them now and I can help you negotiate."

"No need, the conditions are already very good now." Liang En nodded and said. "Of course, if possible, I hope you can pay the money a little later, because I will soon set up a company of my own."

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It was very simple for the National Museum of Scotland to delay the payment of the 1 million pounds and pay the wealth to the designated account, so the doctor agreed to Liang En's request without asking for permission.

In addition, Liang En knew that his current stage was not suitable for exposing himself too much, so he asked the doctor to help him reject those possible interviews.

After finishing all the matters related to the gold collar, Liang En drove back to London. On the way, he received a call from the law firm.

It turned out that the company he applied for before had successfully completed all the procedures, so the person in charge called him as soon as the company was successfully established.

This was good news for Liang En, but of course it also forced him to spend a lot of time and energy coordinating a series of things on the road, such as asking Pierce and the museum to help him transfer money to the company's account.

As a result, after being so busy, it was already evening when Liang En returned to London, so he drove directly back to his residence after entering the city.

However, after arriving and parking the car downstairs, Liang En did not go upstairs directly, but became busy downstairs.

He first went to a cheap self-service fried chicken restaurant to fill his stomach with a big meal, and then went to several stores to buy a lot of chocolate, protein bars, compressed biscuits and other high-calorie foods and a large bag of salt. .

After doing all this, Liang En returned to his room. After making sure the door was locked, he mixed several liters of saline with the salt, and then unpacked the high-calorie foods.

After all, according to the content marked on the previous [Viking (SR)] card, this kind of upgrade requires a lot of energy, and it is impossible for people to grow muscles out of thin air.

After everything was ready, Liang En sat directly on the ground against the wall and chose to use that card. In an instant, the card turned into a silver mist, and then rushed straight down into the mouth.

"Hmm -" Liang En immediately felt a smell that seemed to be mixed with fish offal and earthy herbs exploding in his mouth. The fishy, salty smell quickly filled his entire mouth with a rusty aftertaste.

Although this mist just slid quickly through the mouth, and then entered the stomach along the esophagus. But Liang En could clearly feel the strange smell lingering in his mouth for a long time.

After tasting this taste that was ten times more stimulating than Huoxiang Zhengqi water, his facial features immediately wrinkled into a ball, and then he clenched his hands into fists and shuddered involuntarily.

It was at this time that the silver light split into two. A small part of it rushed straight up, making Liang En feel as if he had eaten a big mouthful of mustard, and the shock rushed straight into his brain.

Perhaps because of the strong impact, he felt as if someone had hit his head with a hammer, and his consciousness began to blur. At the same time, there were various buzzing sounds in his ears, as if there was an endless noise in his head. heavy metal rock band.

Fortunately, Liang En had considered this situation before and specially picked a corner of the room to sit there, so he could maintain his current state. Rather than slipping down from somewhere.

Thankfully, the shock was only a one-off. So after a few minutes, Liang En slowly recovered from this chaotic state.

But after recovering, Liang En felt that he would rather not have recovered. Because compared to a small part of the energy that entered the brain for transformation, most of the mist entered his stomach along the esophagus.

The originally cold silver mist had a powerful effect immediately after entering the stomach. It suddenly turned from cold to fiery, and then got hotter and hotter, like a furnace.

The fried chicken stuffed in the stomach just now completely disappeared in just ten minutes, and then turned into heat flow to all parts of the body through blood vessels and meridians.

Perhaps because his physical condition was not very good before, the current transformation was obviously a bit drastic for Liang En. Wave after wave of heat flowed through his body, making him feel intense pain.

Because of the pain, Liang En clenched his hand so hard that his nails dug deeply into the skin of his palm. At the same time, he gritted his teeth to prevent himself from shouting.

This heat flow is not just what he feels. As the body transformation continues to deepen, Liang En's body temperature gradually rises, making the whole body appear a rose red color. Sweat also flows out of the pores quickly, covering the pores. Trash was brought out.

After another moment, the pain level reached its peak. He suddenly opened his bloodshot eyes, and at the same time some thick blood vessels suddenly bulged on his skin, and a suppressed roar came from his throat.

Fortunately, this peak pain only lasted for less than a minute. Soon, Liang En felt that the temperature of his body gradually dropped, and at the same time, the previous pain receded like a tide.

But just as the pain in his body became less and less, Liang En felt a strong feeling of hunger and thirst suddenly coming from his stomach and mouth.

After realizing this, Liang En immediately grabbed various foods placed on the plastic sheet in front of him and stuffed them into his mouth. He felt that this should be the time when the card reminded him that he needed a lot of energy.

As he continued to eat and drink, the fat on his body slowly disappeared. At the same time, his muscles and bones were strengthened bit by bit.

It's just that Liang En didn't devote too much energy to observing himself at this time. Instead, he focused on eating and drinking the things in front of him.

Finally, when all the chocolate was eaten and a full two or three liters of water was drunk. Liang En finally felt the hunger in his stomach disappear.

"Why are you sweating so much?" After everything returned to normal, Liang En paid attention to his body at this time, and found that his clothes were soaked, as if he had fallen into water.

"It's because all the dirt in the pores has come out." Smelling the rancid smell on his clothes, Liang En immediately took off his clothes and rushed into the bathroom to start rinsing.

While rinsing, he found that his body had indeed been greatly strengthened. At least the fat on his body had disappeared and was replaced by some muscles that, although not exaggerated, looked obviously very practical.

"No wonder this is an SR card." After flexing his muscles in front of the bathroom mirror, Liang En nodded with satisfaction.

Especially after making many actions, he realized that various enhancements did not just strengthen the body, but a complete and comprehensive enhancement, so there was no situation where he could not control his body as in some stories.

The subsequent series of exercises reflected this. Whether it was the fighting skills of the new Turkish army or the various tactical movements of the East German soldiers, Liang En was now basically able to do it. Instead of feeling like there was something wrong no matter what I did before.

Obviously, although the previous skills can be used smoothly by him, there is always a gap between those used by the new Turkish army or East German soldiers due to physical fitness and physical problems.

But after his body was strengthened, Liang En could feel that except for some minor problems, he had completely mastered the skills he had learned before.

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The [Viking (SR)] card brought more than just physical strengthening to Liang En.

After checking his body, Liang En rinsed his body clean again, then walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed and began to check the other side of the power provided by this card.

After all, the silver light formed by the card not only transformed his body, but also injected a lot of knowledge into his mind.

In addition to the listening, speaking, reading and writing of runes, this knowledge also includes a large number of epic poems belonging to the Vikings. After mastering this knowledge, Liang En can be regarded as a true Viking bard except that he cannot play musical instruments.

"This harvest is simply amazing." After turning off the lights and lying on the bed, Liang En immediately showed a bright smile on his face. "I hope I can have such good luck on my next treasure hunt."

Early the next morning, Liang En went to the Emerald Thrift Store as soon as he got up, preparing to inquire about the sales of the things he brought back from Edinburgh two days ago.

"The situation is very good, because we are the fastest moving group, so except for the dressing table that the other party didn't want because the style didn't match, the other party acquired other things."

Having said this, Pierce took out a check from the drawer. "Those things were sold for a total of 17,500 pounds. According to our prior agreement, these 7,500 pounds belong to you."

"Thank you." Liang En smiled and took the check. After all, it was Pierce who found this business, so according to the previous agreement, Pierce would naturally get more money from selling these furniture.

"By the way, the book you found and the coffin I found will be auctioned at the auction next weekend." Pierce said after watching Liang En accept the check.

"This is a small private auction belonging to the upper class, so the auction does not charge any handling fees, but they are also very strict about the auction items and will only allow things they are interested in to enter this auction. ."

"It seems that this is one of the benefits of opening up the upper class route last time, right? You can sell the things we find at a good price."

"It's not just that." Pierce said, taking out two bottles of drinks from the cabinet and giving one to Liang En. "The most important thing is that only they will buy some strange things, such as that coffin."

"You're right, I've heard someone talk about this before." Liang En opened the drink, took a sip for himself and said. "For example, there is a viscount here in London who likes to collect all kinds of mummies. He has collected seven or eight Egyptian mummies alone."

"Ah, I've heard of that person too. To be honest, I respect everyone's hobbies, but some hobbies are really difficult for normal people to understand."

Pierce took a sip of his drink and joined in the rants. "At least if I dare to move that thing into my home, my mother will definitely beat me to death——"

After the two chatted for a while, the topic quickly turned to Liang En's new company.

"Brother, don't you think the name you gave your company is a bit weird?" Pierce put the empty drink bottle on the counter and said.

"What's weird?" Liang En retorted. "I think the name Panda Adventure Studio is very good. It can not only reflect the business I want to engage in, but also show my characteristics. Finally, it also has good wishes."

"I thought you were going to call it the Chinese Dragon Adventure Club or something." Pierce muttered under his breath. "At least from the name, pandas are far less cool than dragons, and they feel more like a fast food restaurant."

"Uh - it's a bit like an American Chinese restaurant." When Pierce said this, Liang En could only shrug helplessly. "But I am a businessman after all, so more people call their shop Panda than Long Qinmin."

And in our Chinese legends, many people think that the panda is Pixiu. There is a legend that it can attract wealth, so naming the store after this is also a pretty good omen. "

"Okay, whatever suits you." Pierce threw the finished drink bottle into the trash can and walked out from behind the counter. "After all, this is your store."

In order to celebrate the opening of the new store, Liang En and Pierce went to a nearby supermarket chain and Asian supermarket to buy a bunch of raw materials, and then returned to the temporary kitchen in the thrift store warehouse to get busy for lunch.

The Asian supermarket here is opened by a Chinese who came from France, just because his ancestors were Chinese laborers in the First World War, and then they were married to white people. Therefore, except for the surname, there are basically not many traces of Chinese people.

As a result, when Liang En went in to buy cooking wine, the other party asked Liang En to show his driver's license to confirm that he was indeed over 18 years old because he couldn't tell the specific age of the Asian-faced Liang En.

Because I have lived on a farm since I was a child. Therefore, Liang En's self-care ability is obviously better than that of the other world. Therefore, some home-cooked dishes can be cooked.

So after returning from the purchase, he washed the purchased pork tenderloin, cut it into pieces, put it in a bowl, then added salt, cooking wine, pepper and other seasonings, mixed it well and set it aside to marinate.

Taking advantage of the pickling time, Liang En made a cucumber cucumber and a cold shredded carrot as vegetarian dishes.

Then he coated the marinated meat with a layer of egg liquid and then a layer of flour. Then put it into a pan with 70% hot oil and fry it until golden brown before taking it out of the pan.

After processing the pork, Liang En used tomato sauce, sugar, cooking wine and white vinegar to make a pot of thick sauce. Then he cut the green peppers and red peppers he just bought into pieces, and then mixed them with the pineapple chunks from the canned pineapple and the processed ones. The good pork was poured into the pot and stir-fried.

In an instant, a sweet and greasy aroma filled the entire warehouse. By the time Liang En had thoroughly fried the sweet and sour pork and put it on the plate, Pierce's lamb chops with black pepper sauce were also grilled.

"Ha, you actually made sweet and sour pork this time." Looking at the plate of red meat pieces that Liang En put on a white porcelain plate, Pierce suddenly became excited.

"I've eaten this dish in Chinatown before. To be honest, the sweet and sour taste is really suitable for my taste——"

In fact, each region has its own dietary preferences, so there is no such thing as one country's diet that dominates the world. But sweet and sour meat is indeed in line with British eating habits, because people in this country have an extraordinary love for sweets.

During the meal, Liang En talked about how he earned 1 million after separating from his Edinburgh, which naturally made Pierce look envious.

"You are so lucky. It seems that naming your company Panda has indeed brought you good luck." After hearing Liang En say that he followed his feelings and dug out the gold collar from the forest park, Pierce said Said in an exaggerated tone.

"A full 1 million pounds. Due to reasonable tax avoidance, you can get at least more than 800,000 and almost 900,000. If you add in the money you earned here and there, you will become a hundred thousand in less than half a year after entering the industry. Millionaire."

"Yeah, so I spent the whole night last night thinking about luxury cars, villas and so on. But then I realized that from the bottom of my heart, I like to wander around the world looking for treasures."

Liang En said after swallowing the mutton chops in his mouth. "So I think the money should be spent on preparing for the next adventure, such as buying some transportation or treasure hunting items that I couldn't afford before."

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For Liang En, purchasing various supplies is not a simple matter. Because as a newcomer, he is not very clear about this aspect.

Fortunately, as Old Pierce, who has been involved in this field all his life, he has a good knowledge of this field, so he helped Liang En a lot in this large purchase.

"——The RV is indeed very good. The off-road RV just now looks cool. But it is not suitable for you." In a car shop, Old Pierce taught Liang En carefully.

"After all, our current main scope of activities is in the UK and Western and Southern Europe. The main characteristics of this region are its high population density and relatively complete infrastructure."

"So compared to those off-road RVs that are very expensive in terms of fuel consumption and maintenance, a medium-sized truck is more suitable for people like us."

"You know, there are basically no large areas of deserted areas in this area, so the RV function cannot be used at all. On the contrary, due to planning issues in some ancient urban areas, it is difficult for larger vehicles to move freely. "

"This is actually because different activity areas have different needs. If you are not in the UK, but in a sparsely populated area like North America or Russia, then I will definitely recommend you to buy this kind of off-road RV."

"So that's it!" Liang En nodded seriously after listening to the elder's teachings.

As soon as he came in, he was attracted by an extremely powerful Mercedes-Benz off-road RV. If old Pierce hadn't reminded him, he would have spent money to buy back this vehicle that was of little use to him in a short period of time. Home.

After receiving the corresponding guidance, Liang En was already aware of these things. Therefore, he finally spent about 10,000 pounds and chose a high-end Isuzu truck with a fully enclosed cargo bed and a load capacity of four tons.

Interestingly, although this car is an RB car, the manufacturer shown on the document is from China.

According to the clerk at the car shop, the number of cars produced by China in Europe has slowly begun to increase in recent years, and maybe there will be as many cars as Japanese cars in the future.

In addition to this car from his hometown, Liang En also purchased a series of various equipment related to long-distance travel. Everything from jackets and helmets to new tool kits.

Considering that the entire European Union has a unified gun license for certain firearms, he also bought a double-barreled shotgun and corresponding ammunition that can be used in most countries in the European Union.

According to the information he found on the Internet, his colleagues in Russia and the United States are among the people with the highest gun ownership rates. Because there are a lot of wild areas there, you must have weapons to protect yourself.

But as old Pierce said, the security in Western Europe is not particularly good, especially in some cities. Considering that Liang En is still an Asian, he should indeed prepare some defensive weapons.

During this period, Liang En spent almost all his energy on the preparation of various materials and various trainings. As a result, when he recovered from his busy schedule, he discovered that it was already November.

During these busy days, the private auction also came to a successful conclusion.

The first edition of "Harry Potter" signed by the author sold for 68,000 pounds, and the coffin also sold for 700 pounds. According to the predetermined 50/50 ratio, Liang En was able to receive more than 30,000 pounds in compensation from this income.

Just when Liang En felt that he was fully prepared to start the next journey. He unexpectedly received a long-distance call from France.

At first he thought it was a scam call. After all, there are many phone scams in Europe. But when I picked up the call later, I discovered that the call came from Count Bossit's butler.

The other party on the phone first apologized because many of the wealth Liang En found previously belonged to other families. So they had to spend most of their energy on returning the wealth during this period.

It is precisely because of this reason that they are temporarily unable to calculate the price of the wealth in a short period of time and pay Liang En the remuneration he deserves.

"Don't worry, we will definitely pay you what you deserve before Christmas." The butler's tone was full of apology. For nobles, failure to fulfill their promises will directly lead to their social death within the noble circle.

"It doesn't matter. Just give me the money when it's convenient for you." After hearing the other party's serious apology, Liang En naturally skipped this question.

After all, he is not short of money now, and with the IOU in hand, he doesn't have to worry about the other party defaulting on the bill.

In other words, if the other party is really willing to use the entire family's centuries-old reputation as a bargaining chip, then Liang En feels that he can naturally be willing to part with the money.

After apologizing, the butler talked about the reason why he came to Liang En today. That is to ask him to help complete a search, and the target of the search is an uncle of his master.

It turns out that the father of the current earl was only the second son of the family at the time and had no inheritance rights. But when the Soviet-Finnish War broke out, the eldest son with inheritance rights went to Finland to work as a war correspondent, and then disappeared directly on the battlefield.

"Didn't you look for your missing heir?" Liang En asked, feeling a little confused.

In his mind, any traditional aristocratic family is very important, so it took more than half a century for people to find out why this kind of thing sounds wrong.

"We have never given up searching." The housekeeper sighed and said, "But at the beginning, the place was a war zone, and we really couldn't send enough manpower to search."

"After the war, the place where Master Dulis disappeared became the territory of the Soviet Union. In that case, it was even more impossible to search across national borders."

"So after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, we have sent out several groups of people to find the whereabouts of Master Dulis. Unfortunately, after so many years, the local area has changed too much, so we can't find any clues at all."

"Then why did you entrust me with it?" Liang En had a puzzled look on his face. "I think you should know that I am just a newbie who has been in the industry for less than half a year, and I don't have much advantage in this regard."

"Of course we know this, but after such a long time, we think that finding the things left by Master Dulis may not require skills or abilities, but a little luck."

"And you -" At this point, the earl butler emphasized his tone. "We think you have the best luck among the treasure hunters we have ever seen, otherwise it would be impossible to find the treasure that has been missing for hundreds of years."

"Anyway, we don't lack money to hire people now. Spending so much extra money and adding a treasure hunter is not a bad thing for us."

"What a rich man." Liang En muttered in his heart, but he still chose to take the job. Because for him, there is nothing wrong with such a job.

So at the end of the phone call, Liang En and the housekeeper made an appointment to meet in Paris the day after tomorrow, and the housekeeper handed him a series of information.

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"Okay, now it's time to get busy." After hanging up the call from France, Liang En jumped up from the sofa with a snap of his fingers, then simply packed up and rushed out of his newly rented apartment. Go to the apartment to find Pierce.

This new apartment is a long-term rental apartment that Liang En changed to after making money last time. It is located in the center of London. It has three bedrooms and one living room, with full furniture and kitchenware. Compared with the original apartment that only had a bathroom and a room, the comfort level was more than one level higher.

Of course, the rent has also gone up by more than one level. From £145 a week to £450. If Liang En hadn't planned to make London the core of his work in the near future, he wouldn't be willing to spend so much money to rent a house here.

When he came to the store, he found that Pierce was bored on the computer looking at the photos he took during his recent vacation.

Because of the previous income, Pierce went to the Isle of Wight for a short vacation during this time. So when Liang En went to him with this new mission, he found that he was as ready as himself to start a new adventure.

As for his style of spending money as soon as he makes it, Chinese people may not understand it, but for a European, it is too normal. And Liang En has been accustomed to this kind of situation after living here for so many years.

"Do you have any new commissions when you come here today?" Pierce immediately became excited when he saw Liang En walking into the store. For him, Liang En has brought him too many surprises during this period, so he naturally hopes to be able to do it again. There is a chance for a treasure hunt.

"Yes, this is a commission from a French count to find a person who has been missing for seventy or eighty years." Liang En leaned on the counter and said, "The other party is willing to bear all travel expenses for up to five people, so I'm coming to find you."

"Okay, let's follow the old rules." Pierce nodded and said, because this time the other party directly arranged the commission for Liang En, so according to the rules, Pierce would only get three to one-tenth of the final reward. between.

Even so, Pierce was very grateful to Liang En for calling him in this operation. Because all the travel expenses for this operation were paid by the count, he could just take this opportunity to go to Eastern Europe to collect some goods.

Early the next morning, the two people took a plane to Paris. Then in a hotel in Paris, I met the count's butler who had been waiting there in advance.

"Nice to see you again." After seeing Liang En enter, the housekeeper quickly stood up and shook hands with Liang En, then took out a box.

"After knowing that you received the commission, I prepared all the information we collected before. You can take a look at these materials and the information found by previous personnel."

"According to the information we have now, Master Dulis was working with a ski company on the front line. And these people often moved behind the Soviet army and tried to cut off supply lines."

"It's just that this company was shelled by the opponent when it completed the operation and moved. Because it was night time, the entire company was completely scattered during the shelling. When they finally gathered together, they realized that Dulis The young master has not come back."

"So the reason why I am entrusting you this time is to hope that you can find the whereabouts of Master Dulis, even if you only have one accurate word. Of course, it would be better if you can find the relics on him or even his own remains."

"This -" After five minutes of silence, Liang En's face showed a look of embarrassment, because he found that the pile of information that could be confirmed now was very problematic, and even did not have much value to him.

For example, in the battle record of the Soviet side, which should be the most valuable in theory, the other side only wrote that artillery shells were fired at many suspicious areas that night, without mentioning a word about the results of the shelling.

The reason for this situation is simple, because the Finnish sled troops at that time mastered the familiar terrain and were elusive. Therefore, it is basically impossible for the Soviet troops to enter the jungle after the shelling to check the results of their shelling.

But this also caused huge trouble for the searchers afterwards, because a few days were enough for the firepower of both sides to completely destroy the area.

"I know what you are thinking now. In fact, I have been busy with this job since my grandfather's generation, and outsiders almost think we are crazy." The butler with gray hair on the sideburns leaned back in the chair behind him and said. arrive.

"But since our family lost an important family member that year, the family vowed never to give up any member."

"So even though it costs us a lot of money and energy to do something like this, we still won't stop looking. And that's why we hired you."

"Of course, you don't need to feel too much psychological pressure. After all, we have been searching for more than seventy years, so it doesn't matter even if you don't find Master Dulis after going this time."

As the butler finished speaking, Liang En narrowed his eyes and began to think, because for him, this kind of contract with no clear regulations and extremely loose conditions was much more troublesome than those with strict conditions.

At least compared to losing money, Liang En didn't want to owe these people too many favors.

The whole room suddenly became extremely quiet, and the housekeeper watched Liang En's every move nervously. Because after nearly 80 years of failure, the entire family does not want to let go of any possibility.

According to the information collected by the housekeeper before, this Chinese-Irish man seems to have been favored by the god of luck since he entered the industry. He can find huge amounts of wealth almost every time he makes a move.

Therefore, in his opinion, Liang En was the one most likely to find Master Dulis among the treasure hunters he had seen in his life.

"I accepted this task." After a few minutes, Liang En made the final decision, and then looked at the butler seriously and said.

"But I think you should know that without new information, this search is actually a matter of chance, so I really can't make any guarantees to you in this regard."

"Of course, I can understand this." The earl butler breathed out and relaxed suddenly. "So I won't put any restrictions on you during this operation-"

After confirming that Liang En had accepted the task, the housekeeper began to talk about the entrustment requirements. In fact, as mentioned yesterday, Liang En and Pierce paid all the expenses required for this operation.

In addition, all the items found by Liang En and the others during the treasure hunt, except for the relics and remains registered on a table, everything belongs to Liang En and the others.

If they dig out treasures that cannot be taken away by just two people during the operation, then the earl will help them transport those things back to Britain or Ireland from those places.

"Have you finished talking?" After seeing Liang En walking out of the building, Pierce, who had been waiting in the hotel lobby, put down the drink in his hand and turned around to ask.

"Yes, the negotiation is over, and the other party has now given us 5,000 euros in basic activity funds." Liang En said as he put the document package in his hand on the table.

"It sounds like the reward from the other party is indeed good, and it's worth our trip." Pierce nodded, and then asked, "So what are your plans now?"

"Let's go to Vyborg first, and then set off from there to visit the ruins of the Mannerheim Line of Defense on the Karelian Isthmus." Liang En said with some helplessness. "But before that, we may need two or three days to sort out the information collected by the other party."

The reason why we need to study the data is also very simple, because dozens of teams have accepted this task over the past seventy years. Therefore, Liang En hopes to find some useful clues by studying the information left by his predecessors.

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Sorting out what you need from a large amount of information has never been an easy task, but now that he has mastered the card [Logic Enhancement (R), Liang En feels that he can give it a try.

Maybe with the bonus of a golden finger, he could analyze something meaningful from the data that others had nothing to gain.

As a backup, of course. Liang En also asked the housekeeper to choose a representative piece of Master Dulis's relics and give it to him.

At first, the housekeeper didn't understand Liang En's approach. However, after Liang En said that this was a small superstition that he prayed for luck to be on his side, the housekeeper quickly agreed to his request.

After all, the reason why the Earl family entrusted this task to Liang En was because, in addition to confirming that he was an upright person from the previous treasures, the most important reason was because he had luck that ordinary people could not match.

Therefore, when something related to luck is involved, the Earl family's attitude towards this matter is naturally that they would rather believe it than not.

Therefore, two hours later, the other party sent a person to deliver a broken camera that the young master Du Lisi left behind before setting off.

"This camera is one of the two cameras that Master Dulis used before setting off." The bodyguard who went to receive the wealth with the butler last time said to Liang En across the coffee table.

"At that time, he planned to bring two cameras at the same time and use one of them as a backup camera, but he didn't expect that there was something wrong with the shutter of this camera, so he left it at home."

"Thank you. If I have this thing, I will be more confident." Liang En accepted the old camera and assured the bodyguard. "I would like to ask, when do you plan to leave?"

After watching Liang En put away the old camera, the bodyguard of the Earl family asked on behalf of the Earl family.

"I will leave as soon as possible." After hearing this question, Liang En answered immediately. "Because it's already November, and if it's any later, the Russian winter will make it difficult for us to move forward."

"Do you think we can really find the missing war correspondent with just two people?" Five days later, Pierce, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a Ladaniva heading north from St. Petersburg, drove to Zheng Zheng. Liang En asked.

"Not sure yet." Liang En said, shaking his head gently. "But I found some interesting things in those materials before, so I have to go and check it out on site."

[Logic Enhancement (R)] This card does have extraordinary power. With this card, Liang En can quickly analyze a large amount of data and summarize the effective parts.

So in the past few days of preparation, Liang En quickly found a series of things he wanted from the information that had been accumulated for decades.

Of course, in the process of sorting out these documents, Liang En also realized what these documents did not summarize. Therefore, we came to the Russian exploration site after completing the systematic arrangement of those documents.

More than half an hour after leaving the city, they drove off the road and drove towards the forest along a war-prepared road that had been abandoned for who knows how many years.

"How come there is such a road in the woods?" Pierce, who thought there was wilderness below, looked at the cracked asphalt road with curiosity on his face.

"This was probably built during the Cold War." Liang En said as he glanced at the rotten road sign on the roadside, leaving only a rusty iron rod. "Don't forget that this is the flank of St. Petersburg. From there, more than a hundred kilometers to the north is the Soviet-Finnish border, so there are naturally many military facilities."

"Just park the car here." After driving along the military road in the jungle for a minute or two, the two people parked the car in a forest clearing. Then he took out a metal detector, a shovel and a shotgun from the trunk.

Although the bears have basically stopped moving in November, some self-defense weapons are still indispensable in order to prevent any bear from eating too much and coming out for a walk.

"Do you think there will be bombs or landmines in this place?" Looking at the surrounding situation, Pierce's face showed a nervous look.

Before coming to Russia, he checked a lot of information on the Internet, many of which reminded Russia that there were a lot of dangerous explosives left on battlefields related to World War II, and that this forest was the front line of the war.

"Don't worry. Although this place belongs to a war zone, it is not the front line of fighting between the two sides, so there are basically not many explosive materials." Liang En, who was walking in front, said.

"More importantly, this place used to be a field assembly area belonging to the military during the Cold War, so if there were any dangerous explosives, they would have been cleared away by those people long ago."

"Then what are we doing here now?" Pierce asked in confusion. "Since this place has been under construction before, I guess something should have been taken away."

"Don't worry, we are not here to dig out anything from here this time, but to recover the possible escape route of the missing war reporter." Liang En said as he walked forward.

"Because of the information I found before, I can confirm that the reporter was not dead or even injured after the shelling. So I came here mainly to restore the direction in which the other party might have escaped."

"It should be right here -" After leaving the car and walking through the forest for three to four hundred meters, the two people stopped in a depression.

The area of this depression is not large, and at most it can only accommodate half a basketball court. The dead yellow leaves that had accumulated over the years had almost completely filled the not-so-deep depression.

If Liang En hadn't obtained the detailed map and photos taken by previous treasure hunters from the earl's butler, he might have skipped this terrain that can be seen everywhere in the forest.

"You mean, that was where the Finnish army squad was bombarded?" Watching Liang En use a hiking stick he was carrying to detect the size of the depression, Pierce took off the shotgun and held it in his hand, staring at it warily. Around, asked at the same time.

"Yes, according to the file records obtained by the Count from Russia. It was an elite unit that was attacked at that time, so after being attacked by the Finnish army, it directly used the BA-10 45mm artillery to fight back."

After determining the pit and the general terrain around it, Liang En talked about some of the things he had analyzed from the previous information.

"Because of the use of this small-caliber direct-fire artillery, except for one person who died on the spot, the other Finns hiding in this pit and our war reporter all survived."

"After realizing that they had been discovered, the team immediately withdrew from here and returned in the direction of its own position. However, the Soviet troops parked on the road over there kept firing at them with artillery and fire——"

"If you are shot with a weapon in the dark, it is indeed easier to escape in a place like this." Hearing what Liang En said, Pierce looked at the dense woods around him with a clear look, and then frowned. .

"But the problem is, this forest is so big, how do we determine which direction the other party ran?"

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"It's not an easy task to determine which direction the opponent is running, but it's not completely traceable either." Liang En said, pointing to the road they just came from not far away.

"Back then, the Soviet army was deployed on the front line of that road and kept firing in this direction. So even if our war reporter was really fainted, he would try his best to run in the opposite direction."

"But the problem is that the retreat road has been thoroughly searched by five or six search teams before. I don't think that the two of us can find anything that the teams of No. 70 and 80 have not found."

Looking at Liang En walking towards the north after completing the investigation of the first location, Pierce put forward his own opinion.

"Of course I know this, so of course the place we are going to next is not the Finnish army's retreat route that the group of people have been searching for several times, but another location." Liang En said, waving his hand for Pierce to follow.

15 minutes later, the two people came to a hilly area. Obviously, the group of Finnish troops also observed the retreat direction before attacking the Soviet army, so they retreated from this area.

According to the previous information, after entering the hilly area, the Soviet artillery and machine guns could not attack them, so they had time to count the number of people. And it was at this time that they realized that they had accidentally lost the reporter.

"In other words, if the other party really lost his way, he lost it within a few hundred meters." Pierce looked back on the path he had just walked and showed a confused look. "But this road is not difficult to walk."

"Of course it's not difficult for us to leave now." Liang En called up a map from his mobile phone and compared it with the surrounding environment, and said at the same time. "But it's a different story when you're under strafing and shelling at night."

"According to the soldiers who finally returned to their positions, the reporter was still following them at the beginning, but soon he fell behind due to physical fitness and later disappeared."

After briefly checking the map stored in his phone, Liang En showed a clear expression. "So there are not many paths that the other party can choose, and I discovered a place that the previous searchers had ignored."

"A place that the previous group of guys ignored?" After hearing this sentence, Pierce's eyes widened. "I don't think any place with such a small scope will be ignored."

"No, there is indeed a place." Liang En said and Pierce walked up to a small mound of two or three meters nearby, and then pointed to the swamp on the east side of the road they just came from. "They forgot Explore over there."

"I remember they explored it." Pierce frowned first, then took out his phone from his pocket and flipped through a few pictures. "Look, here's their exploration of the swamp."

"According to the documents, they used a rubber boat to detect the approximately two-acre swamp with a metal detector, but found nothing."

"Of course he didn't fall into the swamp, but ran through the swamp to the other side." Liang En revealed the mystery at this time.

"Maybe it's because the count's power is limited to Western Europe, or maybe the other party doesn't trust the Russians at all. So the people he brought to search were all from Western Europe like us."

"And because of a certain stereotype of Russia and the tradition of the local digging party, they often only choose when the climate is warmer when they come here to search."

"That's right!" Pierce looked confused after hearing what Liang En said. "After all, once winter comes, the land here will be completely frozen, so even the digging party here will basically not be active in winter."

"So those people didn't even realize that the swamp over there would be frozen harder than stone in winter. Therefore, the war reporter could have escaped through the frozen water." Liang En said helplessly. .

"By the way, the season when the war broke out was winter. The swamp should have been frozen by then." After being reminded by Liang En, Pierce also reacted.

This can be said to be a blind spot in thinking. Compared with those treasure hunters in Russia or the United States who are good at digging in the wild, those treasure hunters who are active in Europe, especially Western Europe in a broad sense, are not very suitable for this kind of field work.

Because they work in areas with dense human settlements, they tend to be better at finding treasures in dusty attics, warehouses, and even backyard auctions.

It's a pity that the treasure hunters that the count found before were all urban treasure hunters of this type, so when he saw this swamp in the summer, he never thought about the conditions here in winter.

Soon, Liang En and Pierce bypassed the swamp and came to the other side of the swamp. Then we started searching eastward using the east bank of the swamp as our starting point.

While the two men were searching for about half an hour, Pierce first found something with the metal detector in his hand.

"What did you find?" After being startled by Pierce's scream on the intercom, Liang En hurried towards the other party's location and asked loudly at the same time.

"A pen cap." Pierce opened his hand at this time, revealing the thing he had held in his hand before. "A silver-gilt cap. This is not something that should appear in the woods."

"You're right." Liang En nodded seriously after looking at the precious metal pen cap that had been wiped clean of dirt. No matter in which era, only a small part of the people can use precious metals as daily utensils.

What's more important is that the list the housekeeper gave Liang En before he came included the things that the elder of their family had with him when he disappeared, including a gold pen.

"Yes, it should be this thing." After comparing it with the photo, Liang En confirmed that the pen cap was indeed the same model as the pen that the man who disappeared at the time was carrying.

Considering that this area is remote enough, and that pen is a relatively rare species. Therefore, this pen cap can basically be determined to be something left by the missing reporter.

According to the requirements explained by the previous housekeeper, this thing is actually enough to be used for business. But for Liang En, this thing is not just an ordinary relic, it can also help him find his ultimate goal.

Thinking of this, he used a [Detection (R)] card on the pen cap, and soon, a place appeared in his mind.

"It's actually in Viborg!" Liang En frowned after seeing the last location marked on the map in his mind. Because this situation was completely different from what he had imagined before.

Because according to normal reasoning, there is a small probability that the young master Dulis will be killed or captured by the Soviets at the time after he escapes, and there is a high probability that he will die on this chaotic battlefield.

But the problem is that the target Liang En found using Goldfinger is inconsistent with these two conjectures, because until the end of that war, Viborg was under the control of the Finns.

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With such doubts, Liang En and Pierce continued their search work. Unfortunately, this pen cap seems to have exhausted their luck in one fell swoop.

So in the next few hours, they only found five or six deformed bullet heads and broken shrapnel, a 50 Finnish Mark coin and a copper button that had been embroidered into a ball.

"The warhead is a standard 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant rifle bullet. As for the shrapnel, it was too shattered to see the original appearance." After returning to the vehicle with the pile of trophies, the two people analyzed it through the lights in the car. stand up.

"However, judging from the thickness of the shrapnel, it should be left behind after the explosion of small-caliber artillery shells. Considering that they were shot by 45mm artillery at the time, these shells most likely came from that armored vehicle."

"So we are indeed lucky this time." Pierce immediately put a smile on his face, and then pinched the silver pen cap with two fingers. "I think with this, we should be able to get the reward from that count."

"I think it should be -" Looking at the silver-plated pen cap that had been cleaned and shone golden under the light, Liang En fell into thinking again.

He really couldn't figure out why this thing that should theoretically be left by Master Dulis would point him to a location dozens of kilometers away in the city of Viborg.

"——Lawrence, Lawrence, what's wrong with you?" Finding Liang En suddenly looking at the golden pen cap in a daze, Pierce immediately shouted to him in a low voice, with a nervous look on his face.

"It's okay, it's just that this pen cap reminded me of something." After Pierce shouted, Liang En also woke up from his thoughts.

"What's the matter?" Pierce asked smoothly, but soon his face showed a thoughtful expression. "Could it be that you used your magical magic——"

"Uh - of course it's not like that." After Pierce said this, Liang En also realized the sequelae of the last time he was pretending to be a ghost, so he quickly shook his head and said. "But I'm thinking about one thing, that is, did Master Dulis really die here? Is there any other possibility -"

"Are you saying that the other party might have escaped?" Pierre asked with a frown. "But if the other party really escaped from this area, why didn't he contact his family afterwards?"

"Then there are more possibilities. Maybe the other party directly found a civilian lover and eloped with her." Liang En said with a shrug.

Of course, this is just a joke. After everyone laughed together, the two people really began to seriously analyze the records left by the previous group of people. Soon, they discovered a blank area left by the previous teams.

"Lawrence, your guess may be right." After checking the information he had read before, Pierce said to Liang En in a serious tone, "The other party may have really gone to the direction of Finland. "

The reason why he made this judgment was that after consulting a series of documents, Pierce realized that the other party had previously focused all his attention on this battlefield and the Soviet archives, while subconsciously ignoring the Finnish files. Condition.

As for why this happened, it was very simple. Since the Finnish side had given comprehensive help since the disappearance of the young master Dulis, the searchers subconsciously fully adopted the information given by the Finnish side.

Therefore, it was not until Liang En raised this point that the two of them realized that among the many search teams before, none of them actually went to Finland to actually investigate.

"Yes, so we can divide our forces into two groups tomorrow." Liang En said after thinking for a while. "You can find a way to check the records of all unidentified people who came off the battlefield recorded by the Finnish side since the disappearance of Master Dulis."

"how about you?"

"I'll go to Viborg tomorrow to take a look. Maybe I can find some valuable clues." Liang En pointed at himself with a smile and said, "You know, I always have some weird luck."

"I understand, just like the tires of the new group of cars we were on the highway exploded last time." Pierce made an OK gesture, "I hope we both have enough good luck tomorrow."

After breakfast the next morning, the two of them split up. Pierce went straight to Helsinki, the capital of Finland, through the earl's relationship to inquire about information about the unknowns on the battlefield, while Liang En drove straight to Viborg.

Vyborg is a very small city with a population of just over 70,000. So after pretending to circle this small city, he drove the car according to the light spot in his mind.

In just ten minutes, he followed a road that had obviously been abandoned for a long time and arrived at the edge of a monastery with only ruins left.

"So this is it!" After using the electronic map to map his location, Liang En quickly figured out what this monastery was about.

According to the Finnish military map he had previously obtained from the steward, the monastery had been requisitioned as a field hospital during the Winter War, and it ceased operations until they were forced to abandon Vyborg.

The reason why this monastery was abandoned is also very simple, because after Finland was defeated and ceded to Vyborg, almost everyone in the city chose to leave their homes and retreat with the army.

Naturally, new immigrants from the Soviet Union would not continue to use this religious site in the social atmosphere at that time, so it was directly abandoned.

Of course, the fact that this place was abandoned is also related to the fact that this is a Lutheran monastery, and Russians generally believe in Orthodox Christianity. Otherwise, the other party would not have chosen to start anew, abandon this monastery with a mixed brick and stone structure, and choose to rebuild an Orthodox church in the city center.

But for Liang En, the complete abandonment of this monastery is good news. After all, for countries where most people believe in religion, digging up churches is always a taboo thing.

After seeing no one around, Liang En jumped out of his off-road vehicle and walked into the ruins of the monastery with a metal detector and a shovel.

Obviously, the war that year also affected this monastery, so there were many obvious traces of shelling on the walls of the main building of the monastery and on the ground in the yard.

Fortunately, judging from the ruins of the monastery, whose main structure is generally intact, it is likely that this place was not used as a defensive building by both sides of the war at that time, so the overall damage was not serious.

Following the direction indicated by the map in his mind, Liang En quickly bypassed the core building of the monastery and arrived at a row of bungalows at the rear. According to the traditional layout, this should be the room where the monks lived in the monastery.

"It seems like this place has been used as a warehouse." After pushing open the room where the light spot was located, Liang En found that half of the dormitory was filled with stuff, most of which were similar to damaged furniture or junk. Things like fallen canvas.

"The next work will not be easy." Looking at the pile of garbage in the room, Liang En muttered with a breath, because he found that the thing he was looking for was at the bottom of the pile of garbage.

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Because Liang En has not opened a card that can help him work until now, so when faced with this pile of garbage, he had to do it himself.

Fortunately, as Liang En continued to clean up the pile of rubbish, he discovered that the group of people must have dismantled the damaged furniture and prepared it for use as firewood, so all that was left were pieces of wood, so he cleaned up It's a lot more convenient to get up.

After the last pile of rag bags in the corner were cleared away, a huge wooden board like a pallet appeared in front of Liang En.

After struggling to move the wooden board from its original position with a rope, Liang En discovered an iron door installed on the ground.

Although there is still a big fist-sized lock hanging on the iron door, the entire door is very badly corroded, and you can even see several large holes penetrated by the rust.

Therefore, Liang En just used the crowbar he carried with him to pry off the big lock and the iron ring hanging on the iron door with just one move.

Obviously, this place should have been the storage room of the monastery. However, because of the pile of garbage in the room, everyone who came here later ignored this room.

Think about it, after all, the Finns here evacuated on their own initiative and had enough time to organize themselves before evacuating. Therefore, it is impossible to leave any treasures here under normal circumstances.

After carefully opening the two iron doors, Liang En smelled a rotten smell rushing directly into his nose from below.

So for the next 15 minutes, he could only sit around the abandoned monastery and wait for the ventilation work to be completed in the cellar under the iron door.

And while walking around, he found another reason why the cellar had not been discovered: because there was another cellar on the other side of the main building of the monastery, and it was much larger than the cellar just now.

Obviously, when people who came here later discovered the main cellar, they subconsciously believed that there was only one cellar here, so the small cellar hidden in the monks' dormitory was preserved to this day under the cover of a lot of garbage.

After the ventilation work was completed, Liang En wore a gas mask and a head-mounted camera, held up a flashlight, then carried a box on his back and walked down the stone steps step by step down to the cellar, and then frowned involuntarily. .

Because at the bottom of the steps, a large pile of things covered the entire cellar floor tightly, and the stench just now came from this pile of things.

After gently raising the flashlight and scanning it, he found that the pile of things piled here were basically rags or bandages.

"Isn't this the medical waste thrown here by the field hospital?" After using the crowbar he brought with him to draw out a bandage with brown and black blood, Liang En felt that he could be said to have been down for eight lifetimes today. Blood mold.

Although the field hospital is a hospital for injuries and illnesses rather than an infectious disease hospital, so you don't have to worry about contracting any bad infectious diseases for no apparent reason, but it will still be very troublesome if you encounter a needle or blade wrapped in clothes.

Fortunately, he had the guidance of that light before, so Liang Endao didn't have to look for a needle in a haystack of garbage. Soon, he found a tattered-looking military uniform beneath a pile of messy clothes and bloody bandages.

"What the hell is this?" After confirming that there were no needles or blades wrapped inside the uniform, Liang En picked up the worn-out military uniform with his gloved hands and inspected it carefully.

This is a Finnish m36 winter military uniform before World War II. It should be considered the latest military uniform at that time. However, judging from the large amount of wear and tear on it, the person who wore this military uniform had obviously gone through a rather arduous journey.

"Since this thing was found after using the [Detection (R)] card on the pen cap, then this thing might be the clothes of that young master Du Lisi."

Looking at this dress, Liang En suddenly thought of something. And just when he was thinking this, a [Appraisal (N)] card and a [Detection (N)] card appeared in his mind at the same time.

"It seems I guessed it right." After discovering these two new cards, Liang En suddenly became excited. During the subsequent rummaging, he quickly took out a lighter made of bullet casings from the pocket of the ragged clothes.

This is the kind of gadget that soldiers often make out of boredom on the battlefield. It doesn't look like anything special. But when Liang En opened the lighter, he quickly discovered that there was a ball of dusty metal stuffed inside.

Soon, Liang En used the tweezers he carried with him to pull out the dusty metal ball inside. As the metal ball was taken out, a red and transparent stone the size of a soybean rolled out from inside.

"Wait, I remember that there seemed to be a ruby ring on the list that the butler gave me before, saying it was an heirloom of the Earl's family -" Liang En thought of that list the first time he saw the ruby.

Thinking of this, he immediately took out a strong flashlight he carried and observed the ruby. Sure enough, the inclusions in this ruby were exactly the same as the description on the list.

"It seems that these should be the clothes that the war reporter once wore." Liang En sighed, then opened the professional storage box just now and put these things in according to categories.

After completing the storage work, Liang En searched the entire cellar with the metal detector and crowbar he carried. Then he returned to the ground with the seven or eight coins he found, a knife and three lighters.

The reason why he did this was not because he was greedy and wanted to find more things, but because he hoped to avoid others seeing that he was looking for the target before rummaging through the scene.

From all angles, he was fully able to return to work. After all, the importance of what he found now far exceeded the sum of the results of various search teams in the previous decades.

However, out of curiosity, the first thing Liang En did after returning to the car was to slowly unfold the dusty metal mass he had just taken out of the lighter with a tool.

This is a piece of lead. From the paint residue on it, we can tell that this piece of lead should be part of the toothpaste tube in the past. And on this lead sheet, which was only the size of an index finger, someone carved a four-digit number with a sharp blade.

"1082, what does this mean?" Looking at this number, Liang En frowned in confusion. "Bank safe combination, station locker number or something else?"

After thinking for more than ten minutes, Liang En finally gave up the guessing game. Because just four numbers will naturally have countless possibilities, it is impossible to guess what they mean before obtaining new information.

"Okay, that's it." After sighing at the number, Liang En threw the piece of lead into a test tube filled with vegetable oil, then started the vehicle and drove towards St. Petersburg.

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Not long after returning to St. Petersburg, Liang En's cell phone rang. This was a call from Pierce from Finland, because he had seen some very valuable information from Finland through the power of Earl Bossit's family.

"You are right, those people have indeed forgotten the situation in Finland." Pierce's excited voice came from the microphone, "According to the information I found, there were indeed many deceased people whose identities could not be determined."

"I have said before that the treasure hunters that the count looked for were too mechanical when searching for various things." Liang En replied after listening to Pierce's words.

"And now I deeply suspect that the Earl's family gave the money too freely, so someone may just go on this trip to cheat on food and drink, and may not even remember to check these things."

"What you said is indeed possible, but to be honest, the information in Finland is very vague. Without additional records, it is difficult to rely on that information to determine whether the war reporter was one of these unknown dead people."

After hearing Liang En's criticism of some colleagues, Pierce, who felt it was not easy to comment, quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, have you found any valuable clues there? If not, I think the only feasible option for Mr. Count to find his uncle is to collect these two or three hundred corpses. The tools have been dug up and tested for DNA."

"I have a big harvest here -" After hearing Pierce's question, Liang En immediately talked about what he had just discovered, especially the ruby that was fixed in the lighter.

Of course, during the narrative process, Liang En attributed the reason for going to the monastery to the fact that the information he searched mentioned that the monastery had been used as a field hospital, and he accidentally found these things when he went there to search for platoons.

"Ha - you must have mastered some Eastern magic, because your luck is so good!" Pierce said jokingly after hearing Liang En talk about his treasure hunting process.

"No, no, no, I think it's just luck. Just like when you were in school and you could suddenly pick up money every day for three days in a row."

Hearing Pierce's teasing, Liang En denied it with a smile, and then he thought of the number he just found on the piece of lead.

"By the way, I also found a piece of lead in the lighter, with the four Arabic numerals 1082 engraved on it." Liang En said to Pierce. "What do you think of that number?"

"Lawrence, you know, we found a crucial piece of information." After hearing Liang En's question, Pierce paused for a few seconds, and then said loudly in a much more excited voice than before.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Pierce gradually calmed down and told Liang En, who was waiting on the other end of the phone, about some information he had found in Helsinki.

It turns out that on the battlefield that year, although the proportion of such unidentified dead was small, the total number was not particularly small either.

Their faces may have had to be covered due to various reasons such as injuries, or they may have lost their identity documents on the battlefield and fell into a coma.

In this case, the doctors treating them will choose to use their bed numbers as their names to avoid mistakes in subsequent rescue work.

Some of these people may have been eventually identified because they were rescued or something else was found that could confirm their identity, but some of them were still unrecognized until their death.

For those victims who were not recognized until their death, they would be buried with the number in the hospital, and in the end all that was left was a numbered grave.

"Lawrence, so you know what you found now, right?" Pierce said in a very excited tone on the phone, "This number is probably the hospital number of that person back then. As long as we have this, we can find his grave." ."

After saying that, Pierce hung up the phone and left Liang En there. It wasn't until half an hour later that he made another call to Liang En, who was waiting by the phone.

"It's confirmed." Even through the phone, Liang En could hear the excitement in Pierce's words. "There was indeed such an unidentified deceased in the field hospital that was temporarily converted into a monastery."

"So where is the other party now?" Liang En's breathing became rapid because he found that he was getting closer to the final answer.

"The unknown deceased with this number is now buried in a military cemetery near Puumala, Finland." Pierce said while holding the phone while looking at the yellowed document on the computer.

"When the Finns retreated, they took almost everything with them, including various machines, livestock, personal belongings, and even corpses in the cemetery. Naturally, this also included the corpses of those who died in the war."

"For example, this is the case with the body numbered 1082. According to records, this deceased was discovered by chance on the front line. He had severe frostbite when he was sent to the hospital. He died after being treated in the hospital for about a week."

"He was first buried in a temporary cemetery near the monastery, and then after the armistice negotiations were finalized, he and other victims buried nearby were moved to the vicinity of Pumara."

"I understand, please make an electronic version of all your information and send it to me." Liang En said, "With these information, we can make a deal.

"Don't we have to bring things door-to-door to trade this time?" Perhaps because of some nervousness, Pierce subconsciously asked the questions he habitually asked when doing entrusted tasks.

"If you are willing to risk breaking the law and dig that kind of military cemetery late at night, I don't have any problem with it." Hearing this question, Liang En suddenly laughed.

"Remember, we are now entrusted to find something very important to someone, so it is enough to tell our employer the information. There is no need to do the work of a grave robber."

"I'm just too excited." Pierce said helplessly after hearing Liang En's laughter. "You know that neither I nor my father have ever received such a job, so we subconsciously brought in our previous work habits."

After laughing and teasing each other for a while, Pierce sent the information he found. Maybe because everyone is in a big city, the Internet is finally much faster than in the wild.

Therefore, it only took half an hour for Liang En to successfully receive the information, organize the information and send it to the housekeeper.

"Mr. Liang, are the messages you are sending me now true?" 15 minutes after the message was transmitted, Liang En received a call from the housekeeper.

Different from the usual elegant tone, this time the butler's voice sounded very anxious, even giving people a slightly harsh feeling.

"Yes, these are all true, Butler Robuchon." Liang En said while looking at the ruby placed on the table in front of him.

"At least according to the information we have now, the missing Master Dulis should be buried in the military cemetery near Pumala."

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"Thank you and your companions for your hard work." After hearing Liang En confirm the results of his investigation. The Robuchon butler immediately relaxed.

For him, this search mission was passed down from his father's generation, so every year, people are automatically sent to carry out this search mission, and it has even become a part of his life.

Therefore, when he realized that this long road was about to come to an end, even with his decades of experience as a housekeeper, he suddenly couldn't control his emotions and showed excitement.

"Then what else do my companions and I need to do now?" Liang En asked after hearing a sniffling sound coming from the other side of the phone.

"I will summon the experts now and contact the people in Finland, and then go to Helsinki early tomorrow morning. You just need to wait for me to arrive at noon tomorrow." Butler Robson said immediately.

Early the next morning, Liang En and Pierce arrived at the Helsinki airport with the things they had found before, and then delivered them to the housekeeper Robuchon who flew over.

"Where should we go next? Back to England?" Pierce asked after handing over the things. "

Of course not. Since we are all here, we can take this opportunity to replenish the store with some Eastern European specialties. After all, everyone is more interested in these exotic things. "

"You're right. I heard that when the Soviet Union collapsed decades ago, many senior colleagues found a lot of good things here." After Liang En said this, Pierce suddenly became interested.

Anyway, it will still be some time before the earl's men can confirm the information, and Liang En and the others also hope to figure out the final outcome of this matter as soon as possible.

So Liang En and Pierce simply took this opportunity to start work and see if they could find anything interesting in Eastern Europe, far away from home.

Of course, another important reason why the two of them were willing to stay here was that the housekeeper was willing to pay for their travel expenses during this period.

So the two of them returned to St. Petersburg and rested for a day. Early the next morning, Liang En and Pierce drove their cars to their destinations.

Unlike Pierce who chose markets in cities that he was familiar with as targets, Liang En chose to explore the wild. A few hours later, he drove his rented off-road vehicle to the edge of Lake Ladoga.

This largest freshwater lake in Europe is located more than 60 kilometers northeast of the center of Leningrad. During the more than 900-day siege of Leningrad, the supply route that passed through this lake was the entire lake. The lifeline of the city.

Although this area was not occupied by the Axis forces at the time, it was completely within the range of their artillery and air force attacks.

Therefore, countless heroic Soviet soldiers braved artillery fire and drove vehicles and ships back and forth to transport various materials and personnel. Of course, many things naturally sank to the bottom of the lake in the process.

But Liang En didn't come here to disturb those brave soldiers. After all, this lake covers an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. Even if there are good things in it that were retreated from Leningrad, he can't fish them out by himself.

"This should be it." After driving the car into a valley on the east bank of the river, Liang En said while looking at the surrounding areas. This is a forest that looks a bit messy, with swamps and rivers scattered around.

If you find a tree and climb five or six meters up. You can also see the wavy Ladoga Lake not far away.

There is indeed no difference between an ordinary jungle here now, but if we go back about 1,000 years, a Viking town with a trading station as its core would stand here.

According to Viking tradition, they would bring furs, amber honey and wax to Russia via the Baltic Sea. Then they headed south to the Dnieper River and sailed down the river to their final destination, Constantinople.

The journey would take a full year, and after completing their trade in Constantinople, they would follow the road back to their homeland.

These Viking traders and raiders began with a small range of activities because they needed to return to their homes before winter came to avoid sailing the seas during the dangerous season.

But after 850 AD, these Vikings no longer returned to their hometown every year, but chose some areas to establish camps as their bases for business and plunder.

This was the case in this small town in the jungle back then. The group of Vikings chose to settle here, built a circular fortification with wooden planks, and filled the trench with water from a lake not far away.

The reason why a strong stronghold was built here was, on the one hand, to provide shelter for passing caravans and avoid attacks by the local indigenous Pechenegs. On the other hand, it was also used as a starting point for plunder to rob local indigenous people as slaves.

Historically, some of these strongholds gradually developed into large cities. For example, Dublin and York were the earliest strongholds of the Vikings.

But this stronghold was unlucky and was unfortunately destroyed in a Pecheneg attack.

Of course, this is not bad news for Liang En, because unlike those abandoned strongholds, such strongholds destroyed by war often leave some valuable treasures.

Following the map in his mind, Liang En quickly found the location of the town's leader's residence and the sanctuary. Then he used the metal detector in his hand to detect it.

Nothing was found on the ruins of the sanctuary, but just two steps into the ruins of the leader's residence, he heard a buzzing sound coming from the metal detector.

After squatting down and digging with a small shovel for a while, Liang En felt something hit between his shovel, but it didn't sound like metal from the knocking sound.

"It looks like a stone that has been polished manually." Liang En thought as he expanded the scope of his excavation. Soon, a round object appeared in the pit that was at most 20cm.

It was at this time that he recognized that what he dug out was a stone bowl carved from soapstone, with some simple patterns carved on it.

Obviously, this is not what the metal detector found just now. So after carefully putting the basically complete stone bowl aside, he continued to clean up the soil below.

Soon, a piece of black metal that could fit in the palm of your hand appeared at the bottom of the pit. This piece of metal looks like a capital letter T, and there is a metal ring at the bottom of the T.

The moment this thing was cleared out, Liang En recognized it as an amulet in the shape of Thor's hammer. Often warriors would carry this amulet with them to pray for strength.

Liang En was shocked when he discovered the amulet, because it meant that not many people had disturbed this place, and it could be regarded as a rich mine.

Unfortunately, the good luck seemed to leave him next.

It wasn't until he explored the entire leader's house that he found an Arabian dinar silver coin, a thumb-sized piece of amber with a hole in it and an ax with a thick layer of rust on it.

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During the process of cleaning up the remains of the leader's residence, Liang En discovered that all the items were found from the corners of the room instead of the center of the room. At the same time, many charred pieces of wood could be found around it.

And this can only mean one thing, that is, the group of attackers very calmly plundered most of the belongings inside the settlement before leaving. Only a very small number of them escaped the search because they were in the burned-out rooms. The legacy remains to this day.

After realizing that it was impossible to find much in these core locations, Liang En began to expand the search scope to the homes of ordinary people according to the map in his mind.

As the search scope expanded, Liang En found many residences of ordinary people. Compared to the leader's house, the attackers obviously did not spend much energy searching the civilian houses.

But whether it was luck or misfortune, those houses that were not burned were obviously completely demolished afterwards, with not even a single nail left in place.

This situation is very reasonable, because in that era of low productivity, treated wood was also a valuable asset, so it was natural to demolish the ruins for new houses.

Naturally, nothing can be found in those demolished rooms, because during the process of demolishing the rooms, those who demolished the rooms will definitely take away everything in the room.

Only some things remained in the previously burned room, but they were not comparable to what was found in the destroyed boss room.

This situation is determined by the characteristics of ancient Viking architecture. On the whole, compared to modern residences, ancient Viking houses are obviously both crowded and empty.

The reason why we say crowded is because cooking, eating, sleeping, cleaning and polishing tools, spinning, weaving, and mending clothes all need to be done in the room, and the per capita habitable area is very low.

To make matters worse, for reasons of warmth, their house has no windows. So even though the Vikings were more hygienic than most Europeans of the era by going to the bathroom outdoors and bathing regularly, the house still smelled bad.

But Viking houses also had an empty side, because they didn't have much furniture. Even if you have money, you will mainly buy comfortable cushions and colorful tapestries. In addition to decoration, tapestries can also protect against wind.

Apart from that, the only furniture is earthenware vessels and wooden barrels for food storage and boxes for clothing storage. At most, there are a few multi-functional benches.

Therefore, those civilians often only had some simple items, and very few of these items can be preserved to this day. Therefore, at around 4 o'clock in the busy afternoon, Liang En only found seven or eight stone circles that looked like donuts from civilian houses.

These stone circles were part of a vertical loom, which was used with stones hanging from the bottom of the warp threads to straighten them before the weft threads were woven in.

"Finally the work is over." After searching the last burned house, Liang En straightened up, punched his waist and let out a long sigh of relief.

After all, all kinds of things in this area were buried too shallowly. If he dug while standing with an engineer shovel, it would be easy to lose control of his hands and break something, so he could only dig while bending down or squatting.

Maybe it's because the things I found before were all commercial goods, and there was no historical story behind them. So Liang En didn't get new cards from those things.

So after completing his search for possible riches, he began to survey the ruins of the fortress, now completely hidden in the woods.

In theory, this kind of work would often take an archaeological team several weeks to complete.

But considering that Liang En himself had a map of the ruins and he didn't need to dig out the ruins, he confirmed the general situation of the ruins in just two hours.

It can be seen from the traces left behind that the attackers launched a short and fierce attack in the early morning after gathering armed forces with obvious numerical superiority.

The people who stayed in this small town obviously did not expect to be attacked on a large scale, so after a short battle, the town was completely captured. This is why so many traces of fire are found in towns.

When Liang En finally came to a conclusion, two new cards appeared in his mind, namely one [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N)].

Seeing these two cards, Liang En laughed. For him, the biggest gain this time was not the gadgets that together only cost seven or eight hundred pounds, nor the two cards themselves.

But I know that in addition to finding various antiques, you can also obtain new cards by discovering and identifying relics that have never been discovered before.

In addition to verification, considering that he has accumulated six [Detection (N)] but no [Detection (R), Liang En also consumed four [Detection (N)] to synthesize one [Detection (R)].

Seeing the sky getting dark, Liang En habitually reported to the local management agency, and then returned to St. Petersburg with the loot. And when he arrived at the hotel where he was staying, he found Pierce already waiting there.

"I found a good thing this time." As soon as he entered the hotel room where he was staying, Liang En saw Pierce put down the cell phone he was playing with, and then took out a bag from the bottom of the cabinet with an excited look on his face.

"You didn't go to some museum to steal something, right?" Liang En said subconsciously after Pierce opened the zipper of the bag, because he saw a shining golden crown in the bag.

"Of course it can't be stolen. I have always been a law-abiding citizen." Pierce said with a smile. "I bought this in a store. They sold it to me at the price of modern handicrafts. Can you tell what it is?"

"Let me see." After taking the crown from Pierce's hand, Liang En observed it carefully. Soon he discovered the strange things about this crown.

Judging from the weight, this should be a small crown plated with silver and gold. The reason why it is regarded as a modern handicraft by the seller may be because the gold plating layer of this object is well maintained, so it does not look like an old object.

Although the entire crown looks very gorgeous at first glance, if you look closely, you will find that the overall workmanship of the crown is full of cheapness:

The patterns on the crown are very rough and look like some gold-plated plastic parts. There is a silver ring inside the upper part of the crown for fixation. Even what I thought was a gem before was just geometrically polished and shiny metal.

Under the crown is engraved the name of Jonas Yunel, who should be the person who made this crown. Unfortunately, this silversmith is not well-known, so no information about him can be found at all. We can only guess from his name that this person is from Northern Europe.

"I really don't know what this is." After carefully observing the crown for ten minutes, Liang En finally chose to give up.

"This crown is different from the crowns I know or even similar noble crowns. It's really hard to guess what it is."

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"It's normal that you don't recognize this thing. After all, this kind of crown is only popular in some Catholic communities in Northern Europe. If my aunt hadn't married a Swede back then, I wouldn't have recognized what it was."

"Then what exactly is this?" Liang En asked after handing the crown to Pierce and letting him put it away. Because he really wanted to understand what this crown, which combines gorgeousness and roughness, was.

"This is the Virginity Crown. In the Catholic tradition, the bride at the wedding is as sacred as the Virgin Mary in people's minds." Pierce placed the crown on the table and said.

"So whenever a wedding is held, the local church will give the bride the crown that is usually worn on the head of the statue of Mary. Of course, because the Virgin is not only supreme, but also represents chastity, only the virgin bride is qualified to wear it. "

"Even before the 20th century, there was a tradition in the Catholic communities in Northern Europe that the bride should not have children too early after getting married. If you are suspected of getting on the bus first and paying the fare later, you will be fined."

"The money collected from the fine will be given to the church and then used specifically to gild this Virgin Mary crown. This is why the surface of this crown looks a bit too round."

"So that's it!" Liang En showed a clear expression after hearing Pierce's explanation. Sure enough, everyone has something they are good at, and learning should be lifelong.

Next, Liang En also took out the things he found. Although the total value of these things may not be as valuable as the silver-plated crown, for Pierce, finding these things in the wild is something worthy of praise. .

"Sell me the things you find in the future." After looking at the gadgets Liang En found, Pierce said seriously. "I promise to only take 1/3 of the commission under normal circumstances."

"Why are you doing this?" Liang En asked with some confusion. After all, Pierce didn't know that he had a cheat. If the normal draw ratio was 1/3, he would only be earning hard money a lot of the time.

"Because I think you are indeed suitable for this profession. Ever since you found that pocket pistol, I feel that you have been on the rise in this area." After hearing Liang En's question, Pierce also answered seriously.

"So as a businessman, I naturally have to seize this treasure of yours. Although we are friends, I think our common interests will make our cooperation stronger."

"Aren't you worried that after you say this, I will find someone else to cooperate after realizing my own value?" Liang En asked immediately as soon as Pierce finished speaking.

To be honest, he always felt a little abrupt about Pierce suddenly making this request today, so he subconsciously wanted to find out why his friend did this.

"No, because you are not the kind of person who only values interests over friendship." Pierce shook his head with a smile, "And even from a purely profit perspective, cooperating with me is obviously beneficial to me."

"To be honest, if I help you sell things at this price, I won't make much money from the transaction itself, but it will give me an opportunity for upward development."

Pierce also knew that this kind of behavior that was almost giving money was indeed a bit strange, so he explained seriously to Liang En why he did this.

"You know, although my family has been engaged in this business in London for generations and has accumulated sufficient connections, the store size our family operates is only a little larger and has not expanded much."

"And since you kept finding various treasures, I finally saw the possibility of taking my store to the next level. Although I do lack talent in this area, I can cooperate with a talented and reliable person."

"So you found me?" After hearing Pierce state his goal so straightforwardly, Liang En felt relieved, because compared to the inexplicable profit sharing, this kind of cooperation that allows everyone to benefit is very Reasonable.

To be honest, Liang En doesn't mind cooperating with others on this matter. Because he knew that even if he had a golden finger, his advantage would be focused on finding treasures and searching for the truth of history from various ruins.

Rather than engaging in trade work that you are not suitable for in order to reap all the profits, it is imperative to allocate part of the profits to a reliable professional to take charge of these tasks.

Obviously, Pierce is the most suitable person for this role now, and it was precisely because he saw this that he made this request to Liang En.

For him, although Liang En is just making hard money here, the things Liang En entrusts him to auction can significantly enhance his status in the market, allowing him to obtain more benefits from other places.

"If that's the case, I would like to give you priority in selling the things I find." After thinking for a while, Liang En made a preliminary commitment. "We can find professionals to sign a contract when we return to London."

After reaching an agreement, the two people went straight to the famous Tsar Restaurant in St. Petersburg to have a good meal and celebrate the successful completion of the commission and the finalization of future cooperation.

This is a very historic restaurant, built in 1750. After entering the door, you will find that almost all the columns, ceilings, and displays inside are more than a hundred years old, and this is an important reason why the two of them chose to have dinner here.

Perhaps because of the name of the restaurant, the heads of 11 czars hang in the restaurant. When Pierce and the others arrived, several waiters wearing costumes from that period were still singing Tsarist hymns.

Of course, the reason why this store is famous is not just because of the environment. Most of the recipes in this store are left over from a hundred years ago.

Considering that the Tsar once dined in this hotel, eating here can also be regarded as tasting the same delicacies as the Tsar did back then.

Because it was a celebration after completing a big business deal, Liang En and the others specially ordered a portion of caviar to be eaten with rye toast.

Although Liang En really couldn't taste the taste of this caviar, it tasted very good whether it was barbecue, salad or borscht, and the raspberry juice and Napoleon cake after the meal were also delicious.

The meal was satisfying in every way, and the only thing that made me feel a little sad was when it came time to pay the bill, which cost 107 pounds for just two people. It can be said to be a very expensive meal.

In the next two days, Liang En and Pierce visited several famous attractions such as the Winter Palace, the cruiser Aurora, Peter Fortress, and the Catherine Palace, and made some purchases along the way. Some small gifts.

After all, it's not easy to come from the UK, so since I have time, I naturally want to visit these scenic spots.

And on the third day that the two of them stayed in St. Petersburg, the Robuchon housekeeper from the Earl's Palace called Liang En and brought them good news.

"We have confirmed that the unknown deceased No. 1082 buried in Finland is indeed the young master of our family, so tomorrow I will go to St. Petersburg to pay you the compensation you deserve."

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"This is the reward you deserve." Early the next morning, Butler Robuchon from the Earl's Palace met with Liang En and the others in a private room in a coffee shop. As soon as they met, the butler pushed a large check across the table.

"200,000 euros, does this seem to be more than what you promised before?" After taking a look at the number on the check, Liang En looked at the butler opposite and asked.

Because before this, the Earl's Mansion had clearly stated a reward of 150,000 euros for this mission, so Liang En was a little confused as to why the Earl's side would pay an extra 50,000 euros.

"This extra 50,000 yuan is an extra reward given to you by the count." Butler Robuchon said seriously.

"Because what you are doing now has solved a problem that has troubled us for decades for the family and recovered the missing family member. Therefore, His Excellency the Earl feels that he should give you a large reward to express his gratitude."

"In addition, our count also asked me to tell you that the wealth you found earlier involves more people than we previously imagined, so we may not be able to calculate the true value of those things until after Christmas—— "

"It's okay. Just give me the money when you have calculated these things clearly." Liang En shook his hand and said with a smile.

According to the news he saw on the gold bars before, this money involves at least 20 to 30 hereditary noble families. Therefore, trying to figure out the relationship after more than a hundred years is definitely not something that can be done in a short time.

To give the simplest example, some nobles have died out, but there are many heirs to their wealth. So who to give this money to is a big question.

"Thank you for your understanding." After hearing what Liang En said, Butler Lubuchon nodded slightly to him again to express his gratitude for his understanding. After the two sides chatted for a while, the steward left.

"We made a fortune this time." After the butler left, Pierce's eyes shone with excitement. Although he will only get 1/10 of the money according to the agreement, making 20,000 euros in less than a week is definitely not a small amount.

"Yes, I did make a fortune." After putting away the check, Liang En asked Pierce. "By the way, what should we do next? Do you have any new information?"

"There are some jobs, but they're not very good." Pierce said as he sent a list to Liang En.

"Work like these warehouse auctions or clean-ups are purely physical work. I don't think it's worthwhile for us to do these jobs. Of course, if there are really no alternatives, then this job is acceptable."

"How about this job of exploring the Home Guard training base?" After going through all the lists of these jobs, Liang En asked, pointing to one of them.

"This makes me a little hesitant, because this place was abandoned after the end of World War II, and it is also located in the East End of London." Pierce said after glancing at the message on his phone.

"During World War II, this base was located in the eastern suburbs of London. However, after the end of World War II, the base was completely abandoned and was included in the urban area as the city gradually developed."

"Then starting in the 1970s, that area gradually became a so-called blighted area. Until this year, some people began to buy up all that land and prepare to develop new real estate."

"In other words, if there is anything valuable in there, it should have been taken away?" Listen to Pierce's description. Liang En also realized why he hesitated.

The so-called declining communities are places like downtown Detroit, so those unemployed people with empty pockets have a high probability of looting all valuable things.

"Yes, but it's not without its merits to search there," Pierce said. "Because if you want to go in and search, you only have to pay £150, and we can take what we want from inside and we don't have to clean up the rubbish."

"Then this is it." Liang En tapped the screen of his phone with his fingertips and said, "At least compared to other places, this base is the most cost-effective."

That afternoon, Liang En and the others took a plane back to London. After resting for a night, they drove to the training base at the edge of the city that had been turned into a construction site early the next morning.

It is said to be a training base, but most of the empty fields that were originally part of the training base have been built, so the only places they can really explore are a three-story main building and a two-story annex building on the side.

After paying 150 pounds in cash to the person who opened the door, Liang En and the others walked into the courtyard, which was not that big.

"It doesn't look like the situation here is good." Liang En blurted out as he looked at a building with no doors or windows, only an empty door frame and garbage all over the yard.

"Based on the money we paid before, the situation here is considered normal." Pierce is in a better mood. After all, he has more experience in this industry than Liang En, so he has been mentally prepared before.

After a brief discussion, Liang En and the others decided to start the metal detector search from the yard. Because compared to the inside of the building, which had obviously been searched several times, the situation in the yard was much better.

"I have a reaction here." According to the assignment, two people were responsible for searching half of the yard. As a result, Pierce was lucky and found some underground metal reactions first.

This thing was not buried deeply. The two people dug down only five or six centimeters with a small shovel and felt that the shovel hit something hard. Then they began to clean up the soil above it little by little with that place as the center of the circle.

As the soil was gradually cleared, the metal objects previously covered by the soil gradually revealed their true appearance. It was a round, rusty metal can the size of an adult's fist. There are still black paint residues on the surface of the round can in many places.

"I know what this is." The first time he saw this thing, Pierce recognized its true identity. "This should be a canister for a gas mask."

Sure enough, after taking out the jar and turning it over, Liang En found that the bottom of the jar was densely covered with small holes, which were probably used to allow air to enter the jar.

"Before World War II, the British stockpiled a total of 87 million gas masks. The Germans had only 9 million. Because the British military believed at that time that the enemy would use the air force to drop a large number of poison gas bombs on the British mainland once war broke out."

"So as soon as World War II broke out, the British Air Defense Committee issued gas masks to everyone and asked everyone to carry them with them. For example, there is an old gas mask in the attic of my house."

"You British people were so happy back then." Liang En sighed after hearing what Pierce said.

At this time, he thought of the ancestors of China in those days, not many even front-line soldiers had these things, and they even had to dip their own urine in a towel to fight the enemy in the poisonous gas of the RB Japs.

"You should say they are British, but I am Irish." Pierce shook his head. "Compared to the upstart Germany, Britain, which has plundered the world for hundreds of years, has much deeper background in all aspects than we imagined."

"Of course, this is also a good thing for us. Because it means we can find more valuable things here."

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After confirming that this thing was a poison filter canister, Liang En and the others threw it into the trash. After all, the output of this kind of thing is too high, and this rusty one is no different from scrap iron.

Next, the two people separated and continued to search the yard, and at this time luck happened to Liang En.

"Silver coin!" Hearing the sound coming from the metal detector, Liang En dug out a standard-sized machine-made silver dollar from the small pit.

The silver dollar had a picture of a king wearing a crown on the front, but when he turned it over, he found that the back had 1 Indian rupee written in English and the Arabic numeral 1917 representing the year.

"What did you find?" Pierce asked, who was carefully exploring the ground on the other side of the yard, because he saw Liang En digging something out of the ground and keeping it in his palm.

"An Indian silver rupee from 1917." Liang En threw the rupee over and said, "The current market price is only about ten pounds, which is not worth much at all."

"But it's always a good start, isn't it?" Pierce said after taking the silver dollar and looking at it for a few times. "Compared to the canister just now, this thing is obviously better than garbage."

In addition to this silver coin, Liang En and the others spent the next hour cleaning out three 1p coins and a tenpence coin used by Britain during World War II from the yard, as well as a military bayonet with only half of it left. .

However, just as the two of them were following the corner of the wall, preparing to detect it once and then enter the room to continue searching, they heard the biggest reaction of the metal detector since coming here near the root of the wall.

"It seems like there should be a big guy down here." Liang Enna said excitedly after gradually expanding the search range of the metal detector, because he could feel that this thing was not much smaller than a schoolbag.

"This thing feels like an ammunition box." After cleaning up the dirt, Liang En frowned. Because this thing is an iron box with a handle on the side, it looks like an ammunition box in historical pictures.

"This is the ammunition box." Pierce said, pointing to a protruding place on the box with his gloved hand, "Don't you see the British War Department mark here?"

"What?" Liang En moved his face closer, and saw a slightly blurry coat of arms on the steel stamped plate. It looked like it should be the emblem of the defunct British War Department.

"We'd better be careful." This badge suddenly made Liang En wary. After all, not all ammunition boxes will be printed with the Army Department badge. Unless the contents of this box were issued directly by the War Department.

But as long as you think about it, you will know that something that can be specially distributed by a country's highest army organization is definitely not too simple, and if it is related to the army, it may even be more dangerous.

"It shouldn't be a booby trap or something that is easily triggered when the lid is opened." Pierce said after thinking for a few seconds.

After all, even if this place was a suburb back then, it should still be not far from the capital, and it wasn't an enemy territory. So those people at that time should not have modified this thing into a dangerous bomb.

Although he said this, after being reminded by Liang En, Pierce naturally became wary. So after digging out half of the box, he simply stayed away, and then used the crowbar he brought with him to open the lid of the tin box.

Perhaps because of the severe rust, the lid fell off the box after being opened, revealing the contents previously stored in the box.

"This thing looks a bit like a can of beef." Looking at the almost rusted cylinders in the box, Pierce said to himself, because the size of this thing did seem to be close to the cans of corned beef distributed by the British army during World War II.

"It's definitely not canned beef." Liang En showed a nervous look on his face, "Because canned beef wouldn't be placed in an iron box with the logo of the Ministry of War on it, and then specially fixed with an iron frame inside."

There are ten cylinders in the box, divided into two rows, with five in each row neatly placed there. In order to fix these cylinders, there is a special iron plate with round holes in the box, just like an enlarged test tube rack.

"What you said makes sense." Liang En's reminder made Pierce's face become serious. Obviously, canned beef does not need to be preserved by so many means.

"Then what should we do next?" Pierce asked in a low voice after carefully looking at the writing box and the contents inside. "You definitely can't bury it back. Otherwise, if this thing is really dangerous, the workers building the house behind will be in trouble."

"It's very simple, just call the police." Liang En said, taking out his mobile phone and pressing 999, and then clearly described the situation he encountered to the other party, focusing on the logo of the Ministry of War on the box and his suspicions. .

Shortly after the police call was hung up, Liang En received a call claiming to be a police officer. During this call, he asked Liang En to take a photo of the metal box and then stay away from the box.

"It seems this thing is really dangerous." After hanging up the phone, Liang En shrugged at Pierce, then retreated with him into the almost empty room and climbed to the second floor. Compared with the outside, this house can obviously provide them with a bunker.

"This house doesn't seem to have been built during World War II -" While waiting for the police to arrive, Liang En carefully observed the room and found that the style of this three-story red brick building was earlier than he thought.

"This place seems to have been an office in London of a regiment of the British Army stationed in Dublin." Pierce frowned and said after thinking for a while.

"Later, after the independence of Ireland, the regiment was disbanded and the office was naturally abandoned. It was not until the Second World War that the place was reactivated."

"No wonder you can see traces of wallpaper here." Liang En looked around the room where he was, then kicked the needle under his feet and said, "It's a pity that this place has been abandoned for too long, otherwise we would definitely have a big harvest this time. ."

"But if this place hadn't been abandoned, you wouldn't have spent 150 pounds to come in." Pierce complained after hearing what Liang En said. "It's a pity that what we have dug out now is not enough to pay for entry here."

Just when Liang En and the others were complaining, a siren sounded at the door. Ten seconds later, Liang En and the others met a policeman with a vigilant look on his face at the door.

"You are the ones who called the police, right?" the policeman asked after watching Liang En and the others come out. After the two people ran around and said that they were indeed the ones who called the police, he asked about the whole process.

"That is to say, you called the police when you saw the metal container inside." After Liang En finished describing the process, the policeman asked.

"Yes, because this place used to be a military facility, and there was also the logo of the Ministry of War on the iron box. So we were worried that the box contained a bomb, so we called the police." Liang En said seriously.

At this time, two people wearing chemical protective suits walked in from the courtyard door, and then cautiously walked towards the iron box.

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"So, it's not a bad thing to be more careful when searching." More than an hour later, Liang En said seriously to Pierce in a restaurant a few hundred meters away from the yard.

After the police officer finished questioning Liang En, a man in chemical protective clothing checked them from top to bottom before letting them go, and told them they could come after 3 p.m.

From the subsequent chat with the police, Liang En learned that the iron box contained mustard gas used to train soldiers during World War II. If accidentally leaked, it could easily cause harm.

This is also the reason why the police waited for a long time before coming over after Liang En's photo was sent, because they needed to meet up with the professionals at Porton Down Laboratory who were handling these biological and chemical weapons, and then come over together.

"You're right, and we're both lucky. At least those jars didn't leak." Pierce said after swallowing the steak in his mouth. "Then what should we do next? Can we go in and explore after 3 p.m.?"

"That's for sure. After all, the police also said that this is a poison gas tank used for training, and the amount of poison gas inside is not large. Even if it is leaked, we will only be injured if we smell the smell and run away." Liang En thought for a moment and said .

"More importantly, there are not many of these poison gas cans distributed at training sites, so the ten cans of poison gas in that box are probably all the poison gas in this place."

"That's right, let's go there in the afternoon." Pierce nodded. "By the way, I saw you were looking at that dilapidated building just now. Is there anything inside the dilapidated building?"

"I suspect that there may be some good things hidden in that building that have not been taken away." Liang En looked at the diners around him and said in a low voice, "Because I noticed that that house has been renovated many times. Mark of."

"What's wrong with this?" Pierce's face showed confusion. "Since it was abandoned, that place was used once during World War I, and then operated as a regimental headquarters until the 1930s. It was used again during World War II."

"Before each opening, this building will undergo a comprehensive overhaul. Even the double-story building on the side was built before World War II. Otherwise, you would think where the wires for the electric lights in the old building came from. "

"But most people who do maintenance shouldn't dig anything on the load-bearing columns." Liang En said, taking out his mobile phone, and then showed some pictures he had taken before to Pierce opposite.

"There is indeed something wrong." Pierce frowned as he looked at the obvious patch of cement on the load-bearing pillar that was a different color from the surrounding cement. Apparently, this area had been dug up in the past and then refilled with cement.

"What do you think is hidden here? It can't be another damn gas bomb." After looking at the photo for a while, Pierce suddenly said. "If there's another gas bomb, we'll be in real trouble."

"Probably not. The previous poison gas bombs were obviously disposed of casually after use. You know, during the war, the management of second-line areas may not be as strict as the front-line. That's why dangerous goods are littered."

"But if you want to throw it away, just dig a hole in the yard and bury it." Liang En said, pointing to the mark on the pillar in the photo. "There's no need to dig holes in solid pillars."

"It makes sense." Pierce said as he enlarged the photo. Unfortunately, Liang En was in a hurry when he took the photo, so he couldn't see the details at all.

"Although we can't see what's inside now, this suspicion is enough for the two of us to search the place thoroughly." Pierce said, helplessly putting down his phone.

At around 3 p.m., the police officer who called Liang En and the others called again and told them that the yard cleanup was over and they could go back now.

After receiving the call, Liang En and the others, who were killing time in the bar by ordering a non-alcoholic drink, immediately drank the drinks at the bottom of the cup and then drove back to the militia training camp.

Unexpectedly, the man who was in charge of the construction site and a middle-aged man in a suit were waiting at the entrance of the training camp. When they saw Liang En and the others arriving, they came up to them.

It turned out that this middle-aged man was the person in charge of the construction site. He came here specifically to thank Liang En and the others for helping to eliminate this hidden danger. In addition to verbal thanks, he also returned the 150 pounds he had collected before and gave them 500 pounds. thank you fee.

"It seems that we are really lucky. At least we can turn that useless thing into money." After saying goodbye to the two people at the construction site, Liang En handed half of the 650 pounds to Pierce.

"I don't want this kind of luck to happen again." Pierce shook his head after accepting the money. "If we had used a big shovel today and used a little more force, we would probably have to spend the next two days in the hospital."

After entering the main building of the building, the two people began to use the tools in their hands to knock on suspicious walls and pillars. After more than an hour, they discovered three mezzanines hidden in the walls or pillars in the room. .

These mezzanines were all dug out of the original building body, but were later sealed with red bricks and cement, and then painted.

To be honest, these secret places built on the building itself are indeed difficult to find. If it weren't for the fact that the entire building was destroyed over decades and the sun and rain caused the two different cements to show different colors. No one will be able to discover this place for another few decades.

The first one to be opened was a secret room in the basement. This secret room should be the largest in terms of size. Unfortunately, after the two people smashed the bricks out of breath, they only saw a long green wooden box inside.

"Ha - we found a weapons box." After the two people moved the weapons box out, Liang En tapped the wooden box with his fingers and said. "Guess what kind of gun is in here?"

"It's probably a bunch of wooden guns. You have to remember that during the Dunkirk retreat, even the regular soldiers didn't have many guns, and many militiamen really only had wooden guns left during training."

Pierce said as he shook the box, and there was a sound of heavy objects colliding inside.

"Training with a wooden gun, you're not kidding me, are you?" Liang En couldn't believe it. After all, his motherland was an agricultural country at the time, so he could only face the brutal enemies with crude weapons. But Britain is an old industrial country.

"The regular army still barely has guns, but this is the camp of the Home Guard." Pierce said helplessly. "Only half the Home Guard had guns at that time, and most of them were civilian firearms."

"These civilian guns are brought by the Home Guard members, so there is a high probability that they will not be left here. The professional weapons issued after sufficient supplies in the later period will have serial numbers, and the higher-level departments will definitely recycle them."

"So you think this thing is a wooden gun? But when I was moving it, I seemed to hear the sound of metal colliding." Liang En said, taking out a crowbar and prying up the wooden box. "I'll bet you a pound that there's a real gun in here."

"I bet, this is definitely a training gun made of wood." Looking at Liang En who was prying the box, Pierce took out a one pound coin from his pocket and said.

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"What the hell is this?" The box that was dug out from the basement wall was not particularly strong, so Liang En just used a crowbar to pry open the lid of the box.

Unexpectedly, the box contained neither a wooden training gun nor a real firearm, but a dozen hollow steel pipes with a bayonet stuffed into one end.

"It seems that neither of us guessed it right, but what is this, a spear?" Taking out a hollow steel pipe with a thin layer of rust on it, Liang En had a puzzled look on his face. "When did the Sun Never Set Empire equip this weapon?"

Obviously, this weapon made of steel pipes and bayonets should be a standard weapon, because the dozen spears in the box are almost identical, and the bayonets are also standard military bayonets.

"Wait, I know this thing." After seeing the spear in the box, Pierce was stunned for a few seconds and then suddenly said. "This is really a Home Guard weapon."

"As I just said, Britain lost a lot of small arms after the Dunkirk evacuation, so it is difficult to prepare enough weapons for these militia-type Home Guards while fully ensuring the regular army."

Pierce said as he also took out a spear, then raised the spear and looked at it. "So Prime Minister Churchill at the time said that we should try our best to equip members of the Home Guard with weapons, even a spear."

"Wait, this should be a rhetorical device." After hearing Pierce say this, Liang En opened his mouth in surprise, "Similar to us saying that arming your teeth definitely doesn't mean putting titanium alloy braces on your teeth and then biting them. people."

"You're right, but that's really what the British logistics department did at that time." Pierce shrugged. "They directly produced 250,000 spears made of steel pipes and bayonets, and then issued them to the Home Guard."

"Okay, this does seem like something the British can do." Thinking about the famous TV series "Yes, Minister", Liang En felt that the British bureaucratic habits could really do this kind of thing.

Fortunately, although 250,000 pieces of this thing were produced at the time, most of them were recycled after the war, so not many remain today. Now one piece can be sold for thirty or forty pounds, which is enough for two people to make this ten A few minutes wasted.

As for the second mezzanine on the first floor, digging was completely in vain, because after digging, they only saw a dense mass of wires inside. So if I guessed correctly, this place was most likely just a distribution box in the past.

"I guess they blocked this because it was right next to the door after being disassembled, so it looked a bit ugly." Liang En said with an unhappy face. After all, the scrap wires inside were really worthless.

"So let's go see the next place quickly." Pierce couldn't hold back the urge at this time and wanted to go up to the second floor to have a look, because compared to the previous two places, the mezzanine that Liang En discovered just now on the second floor is more obvious. Much more valuable.

The reason why they said this was because the two people saw some remaining wooden baseboards and beautiful-looking wallpaper in that room, which was obviously not for ordinary soldiers or even low-level officers.

"Think about it, a mezzanine hidden in the captain's room." Pierce said excitedly while hitting the load-bearing wall with a hammer. "There might be some private money from the group leader back then."

"But hiding private money shouldn't involve covering the wall with cement." Liang En retorted as he chipped away the cement blocks with a chisel. "How can he take out the money in this case?"

"Uh-" When Liang En asked, Pierce was stunned for a moment, but he quickly found a seemingly reasonable excuse.

"Perhaps the other party hid the things in it before being sent to the battlefield, and planned to wait until the war was over when the house was abandoned before retrieving it. As a result, he did not come back alive from the battlefield."

I have to say that Pierce's reason is quite reasonable. Because judging from the remaining wallpaper on the wall, this mezzanine should have been built during World War I.

In that cruel war, more than 900,000 British troops died in battle alone. Especially when the war began, almost no standing army remained. Therefore, those who hid things could not take away what they hid in the end. Things are not weird.

Different from the previous two mezzanines, in addition to the outermost layer of red bricks built for cover, the third mezzanine also has a layer of wooden boards covered with iron sheets.

This also shows from the side that compared to the two hastily sealed mezzanines below, this mezzanine has obviously been carefully disguised, and there is a high probability that some important items are hidden.

Obviously, a wooden board covered with a thin layer of iron cannot stop two treasure hunters with specialized tools. So the two people took out two LED headlight straps from the car regardless of the darkness, and then opened the last barrier.

A wooden box the size of a shoebox lay quietly in the small hole, looking dark. After taking out the box, Liang En discovered that the black layer on the box was a layer of dirty wax.

Check carefully to make sure there is nothing else in the wall hole. Liang En and the others returned to their car with this thing.

20 minutes later, they returned to the warehouse behind the Emerald Thrift Store, and then carefully removed the wax layer on the box in front of the workbench, and then opened the box.

"Is this a matryoshka doll?" Pierce subconsciously complained as he looked at the tin box inside the wooden box and a letter placed on the tin box.

"Let's take a look at this letter first." Liang En said, putting on his gloves, and then opened the letter with a tool. After unfolding the letter paper. The slightly messy text above brought the two of them back to that war-torn night a hundred years ago:

"March 17, 1917, Qing, our entire regiment will soon be sent to the European continent to fight the Germans in the trenches. According to our superiors, we will end the war and return home before Christmas this year. "

"But no one among the officers at the regiment believed this, because this sentence has been said from the beginning of the war to today, but Christmas after Christmas has passed, and the war is not over yet."

"What's worse is that the faces of the young men showed that they were about to be taken to the execution ground. The camp was as silent as a morgue."

"We also encountered a lot of problems when we went to collect supplies. Even though we were about to go to the front line, the canned beef allocated to the regiment was still replaced by corned beef, and the quantity was only half-"

"When the war started, almost all the veterans in the regiment were lying in the cemetery. Now there is only a group of recruits who have received at least one month of training. There are also many people who are not suitable for service and children who have not reached the age. Take them up. The battlefield is no different than taking them to death."

"Okay, let's stop complaining here. I will lead a group of ragtag people into the meat grinder tomorrow. I hope I can come back alive."

"Also, the box contains the trophies obtained from quelling the riots not long ago. I hope I can still have the chance to come back alive to take them out, and then exchange them for money to give some comfort to the families who have lost their fathers, husbands, and sons."

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"Damn executioners -" After reading the letter, before Liang En could say a few words to express some of his feelings about the cruel war, Pierce cursed from the side.

"This regiment participated in the suppression of the Dublin Uprising." Seeing the puzzled look on Liang En's face, Pierce took out his cell phone and pressed a few times, then opened a page and said.

"Look, these are all records." Although Pierce is an Englishman by nationality, the other party always thinks of himself as an Irishman, just like Liang En always thinks of himself as a Chinese.

Therefore, Pierce did not have much favorable impression from the bottom of his heart towards this group of British troops who participated in suppressing the 1916 Irish Uprising.

Even though the Irish and the British are neighbors, they almost even speak the same language. But the relationship between them can be said to be similar to the relationship between China and RB. Various conflicts between the two sides have continued for hundreds of years.

The British rule over Ireland originated from the invasion and occupation of Ireland after Cromwell came to power in the 17th century. Under the British butcher's knife, 400,000 people died on the island of Ireland, which had only 1.5 million people at the time.

After that, the British plundered on a large scale the most important means of production that originally belonged to the Irish: land.

At that time, the British confiscated and auctioned 11 million acres of Ireland's total 20 million acres of cultivated land, through this method of direct plunder. The British took away more than half of the Irish land.

In addition, the other party used its identity as an invader to initiate large-scale land annexation. In 1648, Irish Catholics still owned 59% of the land in Ireland. By 1751, they only had 5% of the land in Ireland. %.

The evil things the British did in Ireland were not limited to land grabbing. Under their orders, Irish people did not have the right to vote, could not hire more than two apprentices, could not study abroad, and could not apply for degrees and scholarships at universities.

He could not hold public office, serve on juries, lawyers or teachers, could not attend parliament, was not allowed to buy land, and even the value of personal property was restricted, such as not owning a horse worth more than £5.

The British even completely controlled the import and export of the island of Ireland, forcing the Irish to export grain to Britain cheaply, while they could only eat potatoes with higher yields.

As a result, this monoculture caused the most tragic famine in Irish history. In the four years from 1845 to 1849, Ireland's population dropped from 8.17 million to 6.55 million, which should have been 9 million if normal growth had occurred.

Among the island's lost population, 1.5 million people immigrated to the Americas, while another 1 million people starved to death. But in the past few years, the island has continued to export grain to the British mainland.

Under such circumstances, the Irish naturally launched many uprisings in response to the British invaders. This was the case with the Easter Rising of 1916.

Unfortunately, due to internal differences among the rebels and the lack of weapons, the uprising only lasted five days and failed.

At first, the Irish were not very supportive of the uprising. But later British repression gradually aroused Irish patriotism and nationalism.

So in 1921, after the end of World War I, the independent Irish Free State recognized these insurrectionists as the pioneers of the Irish independence movement. Of course, the British troops who came to suppress them were naturally brutal colonial troops.

"Let's see what's in this tin box." After scolding the British for their barbaric aggression and colonial behavior, the two men carefully opened the tin box.

Because the outside of the tin box is also covered with a layer of wax, and the interlayer of the pillar is sealed very well. Therefore, there is no rust even on the tin box, and the contents in the box are naturally intact to this day.

"This is - gold!" After opening a newspaper, a golden metal ingot the size of a gasoline lighter fell on the table and made a snapping sound after colliding with the iron plate on the table.

It is not difficult to recognize that this is gold. On the one hand, it is the feeling of gold falling into the hand, and on the other hand, it is the dull sound made by the collision between this piece of metal and the table covered with a layer of iron sheet.

"Sure enough, those British robbers robbed wherever they went." Looking at the gold bar covered with trachoma on the surface, Liang En muttered in his heart.

Soon, Liang En and Pierce opened newspaper packages one after another, and a total of 28 metal ingots were taken out of those packages.

However, what is different from what I imagined is that only six of them are gold bars, and the remaining 22 are all silver bars that have begun to turn black.

But whether they are gold bars or silver bars, they do not have the purity and weight marks that regular precious metal ingots should have. Instead, they all look extremely rough, and some even have traces of jewelry or even gold teeth on them.

It seems that the number of such rough gold and silver bars cast during the chaos of the war should not be small. And the owners of these gold and silver are obviously unlikely to give away these treasures voluntarily.

Pierce's face suddenly became uglier after seeing these precious metal ingots clearly. Apparently, he also thought about what these things represented.

"There seems to be something down here." In this awkward atmosphere, Liang En discovered that the box had not been cleaned out, so he quickly changed the topic.

After cleaning the paper balls wrapped with precious metal ingots in the box, it seems that only the wooden board is left at the bottom, but if you look at the depth of the inside and outside of the box, you will find that the wooden board is just a compartment.

However, it turned out that there was also a layer of black wax inside the box, so the illusion caused by this color prevented the two people from noticing the interlayer at first.

Prying open the wooden board, what appeared in front of the two people was a piece of faded green silk that still smelled of gunpowder smoke, with many bullet holes and traces of being torn apart by external forces. On top of this piece of silk was a small book covered in cowhide.

"This is a photo album." After dimming the light of the desk lamp, Liang En slowly opened the book with his gloved hands. It turned out that there were a total of ten thin cardboard pages in this book, and each page had black and white photos on both sides.

These black-and-white photos all look a little blurry. After all, although cameras that could be carried around appeared a hundred years ago, the clarity of the photos taken at that time was only about this level of technology.

"This should be the process of this regiment going to Dublin to suppress the uprising." Liang En muttered quietly as he turned through the pages of photos.

The black-and-white photos showed Liang En and the two of them the brutal battle a hundred years ago. In the photos, there were British soldiers cooking food around a fire in the field, charging at the barricades, and the burning remains of buildings in the center of Dublin. Of course, there were also A group of people stood in front of the white cross and bowed their heads in silence.

"War, war has never changed." Liang En looked at these old photos and shook his head, and then read out the famous line. Because he felt that only this sentence could express what he wanted to say.

"This thing is-" After lamenting the cruelty of the war, Liang En also turned to the last page of the old photo album, and unexpectedly found some traces left by the regimental commander back then.

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The last photo shows a group of people wearing various costumes walking out of a barricade to hand over their weapons and surrender. Behind them is a three-story ancient Roman-style building. If you guessed correctly, this should be a photo of the last group of rebels surrendering.

But what is different from the previous photos is that there is a black circle in this photo that circles the location of the flagpole on the roof of the building, and there is a short sentence written in black ink next to it.

"We got it - what does this mean?" Looking at this sentence of only three words, Liang En frowned, and saw Pierce staring directly at the photo.

"Did you find anything?" Liang En turned around and asked.

"Flag, this box contains the Irish flag." Pierce shook quickly after hearing Liang En's question, and then said in an excited tone.

"You mean, the national flag?" Liang En also reacted after hearing what Pierce said, and then looked at the faded green silk.

The Irish flag is made up of green, white and orange colors, so this folded piece of faded green silk is likely to be the flag that was hung on that building.

"This building seems familiar." Obviously, if it was just an ordinary flag, the other party wouldn't draw a picture on the photo to point it out, so Liang En quickly turned his attention to that photo.

"This is - Dublin General Post Office." After looking at the photo in a daze for several seconds, Liang En searched for the content of this picture in his memory.

"The headquarters of the rebel army was located here, and it was also the place where the first Irish flag was raised during the uprising - wait, do you think this flag could be..."

Although he said that he was just guessing, Liang En was already certain that the flag in front of him was the first Irish flag raised during the Easter Uprising.

Because the moment he thought of this, four cards shining with different colors appeared in his mind to verify his conjecture.

Among the four cards, two are [Identification (N)] and one is [Detection (N)]. In addition, there is a silver SR card. Unfortunately, the card this time is an item card.

[Flag of the Irish Rebels (SR): - Oh, night falls, rifles crackle, and the British troops hide in every direction. The sky was filled with bullets, and tongues of fire illuminated the bayonets——

Just as the Irish folk song "Misty Dew" sings, in order to get rid of British colonial rule, countless Irish children took up arms and went to the front line of the uprising and dedicated their lives for it.

This flag represents the indomitable spirit of those insurrectionists and even the entire Irish nation. Therefore, this item card can bring some power from this nation to the item holder.

Item card. As long as you own this flag, you can gain extra favor from the other party when negotiating with the Irish. In addition, this flag can be used to boost morale once a day, which can make all Irish within a radius of 100m full of fighting. courage. 】

After determining the specific content of this flag, the warehouse fell into silence for a while, because this flag was completely different from the East German small tanks or Hummingbird pistols they had dealt with before.

"What should I do with this thing?" After a minute or two of silence, Pierce broke the silence first. "With that photo album, we can basically determine the specific condition of this flag. But-"

"But it's really difficult to get rid of something like this." Liang En continued. "If you set a high price, you may get a reputation as a profiteer. If the price is too low, you will feel a loss no matter how you think about it."

"The most important thing is that if either the flag or these gold and silver nuggets are sold to rich people as usual, I will feel a little uneasy." At this point, Liang En suddenly figured out something.

After all, he has nearly one million pounds on hand, and Pierce also has a very well-run store. So they are not short of money for the time being. In this case, they naturally have the capital to pursue some higher-level things.

"We can take this thing to where it should go." Liang En looked at Pierce and said, "Of course, this may make us make less money this time, but in the long run it will be a good thing - —"

More than ten days later, amid the patter of rain, the hall of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin was packed with people.

These people ranged from babies held in their mothers' arms to gray-haired old men, and there were even a few soldiers in military uniforms. But without exception, they all wore a green clover brooch on their chest.

After everyone waited for a few minutes, two honor guards wearing replicas of the military uniforms worn when the Army of the Republic of Ireland was first established walked in from the door.

Behind them, two other honor guards came in carrying a large glass photo frame, and that photo frame contained the tattered and old Irish flag.

As the small military band at the door played the Irish national anthem, everyone present saluted the flag. With everyone's attention following, the photo frame with the flag was hung firmly in the hall of the museum.

After the soldiers filed out of the hall, Liang En and Pierce followed the flow of people and carried a green wreath the size of a swimming ring in front of the small monument under the flag, and then left the museum.

Just when the handover ceremony was completed, Liang En found that the item card related to the national flag in his mind had also disappeared. It shows that those item cards are indeed related to the items he holds.

Because of the ceremony just now, the atmosphere in the car seemed a bit heavy. In the end, it was Liang En who drove the car that broke the atmosphere in the car. "I just suddenly felt that everything we did was worth it."

Liang En held the steering wheel and said, "And I didn't expect that everyone would take this matter so seriously."

"The only disadvantage is that it's not as famous as we imagined at the time." Pierce shrugged. "After all, the location where we got this thing was in London, England. It wouldn't necessarily be good for us if we publicized it completely. It's a good thing."

A week ago, after realizing the historical importance of the flag they found, Liang En and the others chose to take the flag back to Ireland and donate it to the National Museum.

Since the flag came from an abandoned British military camp, in order to avoid some diplomatic disputes, the names of Liang En and Pierce and the process of their discovery of the flag cannot be made public.

So even the small bronze plaque under the flag now used as a commemoration only records their surnames but not their full names.

This does not mean that the two of them received nothing. On the one hand, they donated the flag and accompanying letters and photos. But the gold and silver nuggets originally placed in the box were sold to the museum at the price of high-purity gold and silver.

Although the money earned from this transaction was far less than that of selling all the items, the two still received 13,000 euros each.

On the other hand, after this donation, they have also established a relationship with the museum. Then in the future, when museums and the private sector prepare to jointly carry out some activities, they will naturally become the priority.

This kind of connection with the museum may not be of much use in ordinary times, but it can invisiblely enhance social status.

For example, if you have a long-term relationship with a museum. Then everyone will know you as an explorer, not an antique dealer.

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For nearly a month, Liang Endu did not open the business. On the one hand, he has not found any worthy and convenient targets during this period. On the other hand, there are a lot of things to deal with.

The most important thing is the liquid cash of about 1 million pounds lying on the account. Putting it on the company's account will only keep paying taxes, which will become less and less. Only by investing will you get enough value.

So since there was so much money in his account, Liang En tried his best to ask around through his relationship with his parents, trying to find a suitable investment opportunity to spend the money.

What he didn't expect was that after searching around, he unexpectedly discovered that the investment opportunity was right around him: there was a farm next to his home in his hometown of Baojian Town. The owner wanted to put his farm up for sale because he wanted to immigrate to Canada. farm.

After realizing that this was a good investment project, Liang En spent 720,000 pounds to buy the 86-acre farm and everything on it, and then continued to operate it as it was.

Different from the Liang En family's original farm, which was mainly planting, this farm is a livestock farm, mainly producing milk and dairy products, and has a license from the Food Standards Agency.

To be honest, if Liang En had not been a close acquaintance with the original farm owner and promised that the farm would not change its use, it would have been at least 10% more expensive for outsiders to buy the farm.

In addition, Liang En took advantage of this opportunity to deal with these matters at home and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the third paper on ancient Egyptian language translation.

Because some important cultural relics did not appear, Liang En could only make inferences bit by bit based on the pictures of the cultural relics that could be found now.

This is not a simple matter. Even if Liang En has knowledge about ancient Egyptian texts in his mind, it is still difficult to form a persuasive argument in the paper without enough unearthed cultural relics as evidence. Difficult things.

So under this situation, Liang En spent a whole month at home to come up with a paper related to ancient Egyptian translation that was barely self-explanatory.

Of course, he was able to complete this paper thanks to his previous papers on ancient Egyptian published in the "Journal of the British Archaeological Society" and his donation of the flag to the National Museum.

So he obtained permission from museums and libraries to easily view ancient Egyptian artifacts in the collection that were never publicly displayed.

"The next thing we have to see is the opinions of the experts." After sending the paper, which had been written for a month, via email, Liang En began to pray silently.

Because there are too many conjectures in this article compared to the previous two articles, the other party may not recognize the views proposed by Liang En in the paper.

What Liang En didn't know was that just after he sent this paper, the email manager of the "Journal of the British Archaeological Society" sent it to an email address in Paris, France, in accordance with the editor's prior request.

"Oh, our Mr. Liang has published a new paper." Dr. Louis, the curator of the Egyptian section of the Louvre Museum in France, received the paper immediately and opened it to read.

In fact, historians like him will basically not read research papers written by civilians like Liang En. Because it is difficult for civilians to do any decent research without sufficient knowledge and cultural relics support.

It's just that Louis is a rare exception, because he believes that since people have not deciphered the true meaning of ancient Egyptian texts for such a long time, it means that there should be problems with existing conjectures and text deciphering methods.

So for so many years, he persisted in checking every paper claiming to decipher ancient Egyptian texts, hoping to find some flash of genius.

Liang En's first paper attracted the doctor's attention, because in his opinion, although there were too many uncertainties and conjectures in the paper, Liang En proposed something that had never been proposed by anyone before. way of thinking.

The conjecture about the connection between ancient Egyptian and Coptic in the second paper made Dr. Louis even more energetic.

Because compared to the lack of universal theory in the first paper, the analysis of ancient Egyptian in the second paper has extended the rules that were previously limited to foreign names to the entire language.

Therefore, during this period, Dr. Louis, as an Egyptology scholar who has mastered Coptic, has been trying to translate ancient Egyptian according to the rules analyzed by Liang En before, and has achieved some success.

However, due to the lack of some information that could be used for comparison and verification, he could not confirm whether his translations were accurate.

Therefore, Dr. Louis, who hoped to get more information, sent a letter to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, requesting them to send him a copy as soon as possible after receiving Liang En's new paper.

"What a genius idea." After reading Liang En's third and longest paper. Dr. Louis let out a long sigh and leaned on the back of his chair, then as quickly as possible he summoned a picture of the inscription engraved on the coffin and translated it.

Although this article lacks many key points due to the length of the paper, the lack of information, and Liang En himself carefully controlling the amount of knowledge released, Dr. Louis still found what he wanted.

"Inside this coffin is a priestess from the ancient Egyptian holy city of Thebes." Although it was not possible to recognize all the words on the coffin, some of the identified keywords had revealed many secrets.

It is well known that various tomb robbing activities have begun since ancient Egyptian pharaohs were mummified and placed in their tombs.

Therefore, even in an area like the Valley of the Kings, only one unexcavated imperial tomb can be found. Some of the tomb robbers of the imperial tombs were the guards of the imperial tombs and the workers who built the tombs.

Therefore, many mummies' coffins have had all traces of previous changes of hands erased when they were discovered by professionals, which naturally prevents archaeologists from obtaining a series of valuable information such as where cultural relics were found.

But now, after identifying the ancient Egyptian texts on the coffins, scholars can obtain some important information from the texts that was simply unavailable before.

"This is simply great!" After translating several short inscriptions in succession, Louis felt a little tired and dizzy. Obviously this means that he has overused his brain.

So he quickly stopped and picked up a glass of water next to him and took a few sips. Then he took a deep breath and picked up the landline phone next to him and dialed a few numbers.

"Dani, please help me immediately notify Dr. Andrew, Dr. Pierre and Professor Jacques in the Ancient Egypt Exhibition Hall, and ask them to come to my office immediately." Louis shouted loudly into the phone.

"Yes, Mr. Louis." A young female voice came from the phone. "But these gentlemen are busy with something right now. How should I inform them?"

"Just tell them that the secret of ancient Egyptian has been deciphered. We now have the key to the ancient Egyptian treasure house." Dr. Louis also calmed down at this time, and then explained.

"We will be busy for a long time, because the cultural relics in the collection alone are enough to keep us busy for several years."

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Liang En didn't know what kind of waves his thesis caused in distant Paris. After writing the thesis, he just wanted to take a good rest at home and wait until Christmas was over before resuming work.

But things often don't develop as people imagine. For example, Liang En was unable to find a suitable job before, so he ended up going to work to finish his thesis. But just when he was finishing his thesis and preparing to take a rest, he received an unexpected treasure hunt invitation.

This invitation came from across the Atlantic in New York, USA. The inviter was Mr. Bruce, a big businessman who runs real estate in New York.

In fact, I didn't know this businessman Liang En before, so when I first received the call, I heard that there was a treasure hunting commission and I almost hung up the call because I thought it was a scam.

The good person promptly reported the name of Dr. David Caldwell, the head of the Scottish underground treasure department, who had a tacit understanding with Liang En when he handed over the Iron Age gold collar. Only then did Liang En realize that the other person was not a liar.

It turned out that the American rich man had a very good relationship with Dr. Caldwell, so when he was looking for something, he naturally thought of his friend, and Dr. Caldwell recommended Liang En.

"You mean, you want me to help you find Butch Cassidy's treasure?" After the other party stated his wish, Liang En asked while using the computer to look up the name of the person.

"Yes, I recently obtained a note left by Butch Cassidy, which mentioned something about a treasure. That's why I asked someone to help me find this treasure." The middle-aged man on the other side of the phone the man said.

"To be precise, I hope you can help me find a diamond brooch that the other party took away when they robbed a Union Pacific Railroad train in 1899. That brooch belonged to my ancestor and is a very important thing in our family history."

"So in this treasure hunt, if you find this brooch, then everything except the brooch belongs to you. If you don't find the brooch but find other treasures, then you can get half of the treasures. If there is nothing If you find it, I will pay for the intermediate expenses."

"Okay, I understand the general situation." After listening to Mr. Bruce describe the general situation, Liang En said into the microphone, "Please give me half an hour. I will call you in half an hour. It's your decision and mine."

After hanging up the phone, Liang En looked at the computer screen in front of him. Unlike those treasure hunters decades ago, the biggest advantage of today's treasure hunters is that they can find information they don't know through the Internet.

The target this time was Butch Cassidy, the prototype of the protagonist of the famous American movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". His original name was Bob Parker, and he was born in a Mormon family. Born in 1866, he was the eldest of thirteen children.

In 1879, at the age of 13, he had his first brush with the law when he stole a pair of trousers from a shop, and this time he became dissatisfied with society.

Butch Cassidy later worked in a butcher shop and on a farm, and learned to train horses and shoot from an old man who was a former cattle rustler.

When he turned 18, he left his hometown of Utah and wandered for several years in the sparsely populated and chaotic Western states of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

It was not until 1889 that Cassidy completed his first robbery. At that time, he and several companions escaped from the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride with more than $20,000, which is equivalent to $600,000 today.

After serving nearly two years in prison for horse stealing in 1894, he robbed a bank in Montpelier, Idaho, taking cash, gold, and silver coins that may have been worth as much as $16,500.

The next year, he and his companions robbed a coal company in Castle Gate, Utah, and stole more than nine thousand dollars. The gang then robbed the train several times and obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from the train's safe.

According to records obtained by modern people, this gang robbed a total of various wealth equivalent to more than 3 million US dollars today in multiple robberies, and the brooch that the client was looking for this time was included in this wealth.

As for the reason why the client can believe that this brooch still exists, it is also very simple, that is, in the eight years from the train robbery to the death of the other party, although Butch Cassidy spent a lot of money, he got far more money. Overspending.

Considering that the other party obtained a large amount of cash during the robbery, there is a high probability that gold and silver coins and jewelry that are easier to store for a long time and retain their value will be hidden for later use.

Especially considering that the other party died in a firefight with the Bolivian army, there have always been legends that some of the things they grabbed back then were turned into treasures and hidden somewhere where they had been.

"It turned out to be a treasure hidden by a famous robber. If so, you can go and have a look." After reading the information on the computer screen, Liang En quickly made a decision and then dialed Mr. Bruce's number. .

Two days later, Liang En said goodbye to his parents and boarded a plane from Dublin to New York, pulling a suitcase. It was a six-hour transatlantic flight, and I felt fine when I got off the plane because I was flying first class.

It was already 7:30 pm when he arrived at the New York Airport, so Liang En did not go directly to the rich man, but directly found a hotel next to the airport to check in.

At 8:30 the next morning, Liang En took the hotel car to Mr. Bruce's office near Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York.

Fortunately, the other party has nothing to do today. So after confirming with the front desk that he had made an appointment, a front desk staff immediately took him to the office on the 17th floor of the building.

"I think you should know what you are here for, Mr. Liang." After a few polite greetings after entering the door, Bruce asked sitting in his spacious and luxurious office.

"Of course." Liang En smiled and nodded. "But if you want to find something, you need to look at the notebook you are collecting now. I don't think you can determine the location of the treasure just by relying on legends."

"That's natural." Bruce said, taking out a notebook with black cover and yellowing pages from a small iron box on the table, and then handed it to Liang En.

"This was found in Bolivia by the private detective I hired, and the note analysis expert I hired confirmed that the content written in this notebook indeed came from the target I was looking for, Butch Cassidy."

After taking the notebook, Liang En immediately opened the notebook and saw that in addition to the list of robberies the owner of the notebook had taken after coming to South America, the pages of the notebook also drew a few pictures at the end.

You could tell at a glance that the artist of these pictures was a kind of soul painter. After looking at it for a long time, Liang En realized that these pictures should be topographic maps near the treasure location.

But except for the dots marked with red pen on the last picture, which should be used to indicate the location of the treasure, the content that looks like children's graffiti makes it really difficult to determine the location of these treasure locations.

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"These maps are really too abstract." After reading the map carefully, Liang En raised his head and said to Bruce, his employer this time.

"So I may need some time to do the analysis, can you provide a safe and secure venue?"

"Of course, I have well-equipped guest rooms in this office building." Bruce nodded, "Do you have any special requirements for this room?"

"I need a computer that can quickly query the Internet, and at the same time, it can deliver food to me on time every day." At this point, Liang En picked up the notebook on the table. "Of course, I also need this notebook as a reference."

In the next three days, Liang En began his analysis work in the guest room of this building. Seriously, there isn't much to analyze on the map, just a bunch of doodles made up of triangles, squares, lines and red dots.

According to Liang En's guess, these different symbols may represent certain landmarks that only treasure hunters know. However, in the absence of legends, ordinary people would not be able to find this place unless they are lucky.

But Liang En is not an ordinary person, and his busyness in the past three days was just to deceive others. What I really rely on is the [Detection (R)] card lying in my mind.

And Goldfinger did not let him down. Just after he used this card on his notebook, a place in Utah appeared in his mind.

Obviously, it is much easier to draw a target after shooting an arrow than to shoot an arrow at the bullseye. So Liang En quickly deciphered the secret of one of the hand-drawn maps through the satellite map around the place in his mind.

To be honest, this map is not that complicated. The triangles on the map should represent mountains, the squares represent buildings, and the lines may be rivers or roads.

It's just because the other party's drawing is too rough and the proportions are completely incorrect. Therefore, it would be difficult for normal people to associate a certain place from this picture unless they knew it in advance.

"You mean, you think this red dot is located in Utah, near Butch Cassidy's hometown." Looking at Liang En, who was sitting opposite him, Bruce didn't understand his analysis.

"But after he became a famous robber, the local police chief, the FBI and the Pinkerton Detective Agency all sent people to his hometown to investigate, but those people did not find any treasures. ."

"But if you just look at the lines on the final map of the diary you gave me, it does look a bit like a river a few kilometers away from the ranch where this person was born -"

Liang En immediately started to explain after hearing what the other party said, but before he finished speaking, his employer, Mr. Bruce, waved his hand and interrupted him.

"Since I invited you here, I will naturally trust all your judgments in this regard, so you don't need to explain your analysis to me, you just need to tell me what you need for the next expedition-"

Early the next morning, Liang En got on the plane to Salt Lake City. Then he met up with one of Bruce's subordinates in Utah at the airport, and then flew towards the destination in the other's pickup truck.

This Bruce's man named Barry was Liang En's assistant during this treasure hunt, and Liang En applied for it on his own initiative.

On the one hand, the density of various racists in central America is slightly higher, especially in places far away from towns. Therefore, in this unfamiliar and dangerous place, Liang En really needs an assistant to help deal with some problems. question.

On the other hand, this is only the first time Liang En and Mr. Bruce have cooperated. Although the two parties have reached initial mutual trust through an intermediary, sometimes one party has to take the initiative to do something to strengthen the trust between the two parties.

Just when Liang En suggested that Mr. Bruce send someone to follow him, the other party was obviously relieved. And then Mr. Bruce took the initiative to provide all the help needed for the rest of the trip.

Not far from the airport, the car stopped in a parking lot. The reason for stopping here was naturally to buy some things in the supermarket opposite the parking lot.

After entering the supermarket, the two people first bought some food and water, and then went to the back of the supermarket where sporting goods were sold. When they turned around the last shelf, a wall of guns appeared in front of Liang En.

In the United States, it is normal for guns to be sold in supermarkets. They are placed here in dozens and dozens for people to choose from. They look no different from buying a fishing rod or a racket.

"We need to temporarily buy some guns here." The brown-haired young man named Barry said to Liang En. "Because the place we're going to is so desolate, you're going to need some weapons, whether it's for wildlife or for protection against certain people."

Although Liang En is a foreigner, he can still legally purchase guns here because Mr. Bruce has helped him apply for a hunting license for deer hunting.

"You are a non-US citizen, so you can only buy rifles or airsoft guns, but not pistols." After confirming that the passport and hunting certificate held by Liang En were authentic, the waiter said to Liang En.

"I came here just to buy a rifle. It's not a good idea to use a pistol when hunting large animals." Liang En replied with a shrug. "I have only used double-barreled shotguns in my hometown, so can you recommend one to me?"

"If you are hunting deer, I have just the right kind of gun for you." After thinking for a few seconds, the waiter took out a box from behind the counter.

After the box was moved to the counter, Liang En noticed that there were Chinese characters written on the box. "The Chinese version of SKS is cost-effective and powerful, and is also suitable for deer hunting."

The salesperson said, opening the box and taking out one of them. "This is a hot item, and often you can't even buy it if you want to."

The so-called Huaxia SKS is actually the famous 56 and a half. As export products, these guns are basically the same as the real military versions except that the bayonet seat is removed to meet the requirements.

Because he had the memory of the former East German soldier, Liang En checked the gun more skillfully and bought the gun after confirming that the gun was in good condition.

In addition, Liang En also bought 15 10-round bridge clips filled with bullets, 150 rounds of scattered bullets in foam plastic boxes, and a tactical vest for holding bullets.

As for Barry himself, he carried his own gun in the car: a MINI-14 semi-automatic rifle, so there was no need to purchase a firearm here.

However, because this supermarket had a great discount on 5.5645mm NATO rifle ammunition today, he also bought an additional 300 rounds of ammunition.

After leaving the supermarket, Liang En separated the gun and bullets in the tool box under the back seat as required. Then the two people drove straight to the destination more than a hundred kilometers away.

However, after their vehicle entered the national park, the vehicle suddenly slowed down. Because Liang En and the others wanted to find a place to try guns to determine their skill in using firearms and the status of the newly purchased firearms.

This really makes it easier to make appropriate arrangements in case of an emergency if something happens.

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Soon, Liang En and Barry found an open space that allowed hunting. Then he put on the orange warning uniform and came to the open space.

Because this was just a simple experiment, the two people took out several empty bottles directly from the car, and then placed them 30, 50 and 100 meters away as targets.

In this case, Liang En was naturally the first to come, so he first pulled the gun according to the skills of the East German soldier in his mind, then inserted the ten-round bridge clip into the magazine and pressed down the bullet with his thumb, and then Pull out the empty bridge clip easily.

Of course, this is not a battlefield, so Liang En did not throw away the air bridge clip, but stuffed the air bridge clip into his ammunition vest, and then pulled the bolt to load the bullet.

Next, he picked up the rifle in a standard standing shooting posture, then aimed at the target 30m away and pulled the trigger of the firearm in his hand.

The two bullets hit the bottle accurately and sent the bottle flying.

"The marksmanship is very good. Next, shoot the target 100m away." Barry said after watching Liang En's first shot. "We need to get the accuracy of this new gun right."

The sights of new guns are often not that accurate, so when Liang En shot at the target 100 meters away, he had clearly aimed at the green bottle, but the bullet landed on the right side of the bottle, stirring up two clouds of dust.

"The aim of the new gun is a little to the right." Barry said, and then he saw Liang En taking out tools from the tool box and adjusting them. After he adjusted it, the two lower bullets hit the plastic bottle a hundred meters away.

Perhaps because it was his first time shooting with this kind of firearm, he was so excited that he randomly found a few targets and fired quickly until all the remaining bullets in the gun chamber were empty.

"Have you had any military training before?" Barry asked after Liang En confirmed that the gun was empty and turned off the safety, because he could see that Liang En's habit of using weapons had certain characteristics of a soldier.

As the representative sent by Mr. Bruce, Barry is a former special forces soldier who retired from the Canadian Special Service Forces, so he has powers of observation that ordinary people do not have in some aspects.

"You should know that I have not received any formal military training. These are just some skills I have learned on my own since I was interested in the military since I was a child." Liang En replied, believing that the other party should know his situation from Mr. Bruce.

Next, Barry also used his gun to demonstrate his military literacy, and then the two of them packed up the gun and bullets, got in the car and left.

As the car drove all the way south, the environment on the roadside became increasingly bad. There were still woods and lakes at the beginning, but the vegetation became sparser as you went south, and in the end there were only bare mountains and the Gobi Desert with only a few weeds.

"Now it looks like the scenery in those old western movies." Looking at the red rock walls and the equally red Gobi desert outside, Liang En sighed subconsciously.

"Of course, because this is the West." Barry played the famous whistle soundtrack from "Red Dead Redemption" in the car and said loudly.

"And we are now on the same path as those famous cowboys."

"And we are still looking for the treasures they left behind." Liang En said with a smile, "By the way, there is a small town called Lincoln Town ahead. After passing the town, we should enter the mountains."

The town of Lincoln was one of many small towns in the Western era, and even its name was among the worst in that era. If you open the map, you will find that there are a lot of places named after the presidents and vice presidents of the United States.

After crossing this small town with seemingly only a dozen households, the car drove onto a bumpy dirt road. After driving on the sloping dirt road for more than ten minutes, there was only one left in front of it. Sheep intestines.

"The car can only drive here, and the next more than 20 kilometers of mountain road will have to be walked on foot." Liang En, who carefully read the map beforehand, said, "We may need to live in the mountains for a while. Night."

"Actually, the mountains here are much safer than the forest park we passed before." Barry said after carrying the equipment he needed. "It is indeed desolate here, but because of the desolation, there are not many ferocious beasts."

"You are right. According to the information, the most dangerous creatures in this area are just a small number of rattlesnakes and wolves. If you pay more attention, there will be no safety problems." Liang En replied, and then followed the path to Go forward.

Because this place is desolate and remote, there are not many people along the way. The two of them would take a break every 40 minutes or so, and they didn't stop until it was almost dark.

After observing the surrounding terrain and using the locator they brought to confirm that they were on the right track, the two stopped at a spring at the bottom of the valley.

Perhaps because of their good luck, they found a cave about the size of one or two houses less than 30 meters away from the spring.

Around the caves and springs, they found a lot of traces of human activities. For example, there were trimmed wood, a stove surrounded by stone, and an obviously abnormal number of glass bottles.

The first time they saw traces of human activity, Liang En and Barry loaded the firearms hanging on their chests, and then stared at the surroundings warily.

In the United States, the security level of this kind of wilderness in non-tourist areas is about the same as that of downtown Detroit. Anyone you meet is likely to be an outlaw with a criminal record, and is more dangerous than rattlesnakes and wolves.

This is not that Liang En is scheming Americans. Just think about the number of Americans who disappear in the wilderness every year, and you can probably judge the security level of these places.

It is true that many of the missing people fell into ditches, encountered bad weather, or were unlucky enough to be eaten by bears, but more often than not, they were stared at by others in the wild or saw something they should not have seen. thing, and then unfortunately was killed and silenced.

Fortunately, as a professional, Liang En carefully studied these human traces and found that all human traces here were at least 50 years old.

"If I'm not wrong, this place was the first place where people were looking for gold. But unfortunately there is no gold in the rocks here."

After holding the gun vigilantly and circling around, Liang En made a judgment. "Then during the Prohibition era in the United States, these mines that didn't yield gold were occupied by bootleggers and used to store their illegal home brews."

"Although it is far away from the city, it is not far from the interstate highway and the junction of the two states, so placing a bootlegging point here is a very good choice."

"Are you treasure hunting experts so good?" After listening to Liang En's analysis, Barry looked surprised.

As a former member of the Special Forces, he could only tell that the human traces were from long ago, but the specifics were beyond his knowledge.

"It's just that everyone is good at different things." Liang En said with a smile. "Just like the fighting skills you have mastered can allow you to defeat three of me without any problem."

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