NOVEL NEXT WORLD Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 65 find
Chapter 65 find
After eating the impromptu dinner consisting of instant food and boiled tea with filtered spring water, Liang En took his own metal detector to detect all the surrounding places with traces of human activity. .
Probably because the people who passed by here were relatively poor at that time, so apart from a common 1882 Morgan silver dollar, he only found a dozen or so bullet warheads that had been turned into lead bumps.
"This is the bare lead bullet of an old-fashioned pistol, derived from the .44 pistol bullet." Barry said, taking the small handful of bullets.
"At least in the early 20th century, this kind of bullet, which was outdated in the east and big cities, still had a big market in the west and Canada. If I remember correctly, my father still used it until I was seven or eight years old. Will go buy the same type of cartridge for his old revolver."
"It seems that there was a fire in this place before." Looking at these deformed bullets, Liang En said in a low voice. Obviously, these bullets should not have been fired by those outlaw lunatics for fun.
"By the way, what's the value of this silver dollar?" After throwing those worthless bullets aside, Barry looked at the blackened silver dollar in Liang En's hand and asked.
"It's only 30~40 US dollars, because the Morgan silver coins issued in this year are really too big, and this one is not well preserved." Liang En threw the silver coin to Barry, and then said.
As the sun went down, the temperature suddenly cooled down.
Fortunately, the overall feeling of the cave was not bad when the cave entrance was on fire.At this time, Liang En and Barry were sitting by the fire to warm up and chat, and the loaded rifles were put in a place within easy reach after they put the safety on them.
Through chatting, Liang En also learned that this Irishman named Barry was a Canadian with a US green card, and he had worked with Bruce when he retired from the army ten years ago.
Thinking about it, since he could be sent by the tycoon named Bruce as Liang En's collaborator, then this Barry must be second to none under Bruce in terms of ability and loyalty.
Because the vegetation coverage on the surrounding ground is very low, the temperature quickly dropped below 0 degrees.The occasional howl of wolves could be heard in the distance, but as long as there was a fire burning at the mouth of the cave there was no danger.
After chatting for a while, Barry went to bed first.And Liang En stayed by the fire to look after the fire and watch the first half of the night.The broken wood collected from the nearby gold mines was very resistant to burning, which relieved Liang En a lot of the work of adding firewood.
In the middle of the night, after Liang En and Barry changed shifts, they ran into the depths of the cave, burrowed into their sleeping bags, and fell asleep without incident.And early the next morning, the two took a few mouthfuls of the bread they bought in the supermarket yesterday, filled a bottle of milk, packed up their things and set off.
After three hours, they finally climbed to the pass of the last mountain.Standing at the mountain pass and looking east, you can see a small basin surrounded by mountains, and in the center of the basin is a spring that has dried up.
"I think we're here." After taking out his phone and flipping out the previous map, comparing it with the surrounding terrain and the local GPS, Liang En smiled at Barry beside him.
An hour later, the two came to this khaki-colored valley, and Liang En saw the light reflected behind the mound of soil near the spring for the first time.
I have to say that this place is indeed a good place to hide things, because for the locals, they basically don't come to this kind of dry spring, and travelers will subconsciously pay attention to it after seeing the surrounding situation. Concentrate on the spring instead of searching the surrounding situation.
"We need to dig out this mound next." Liang En pretended to walk around the small valley that was only the size of a basketball court, and then pointed to the glowing mound.
"If I'm not mistaken, what we're looking for is under the mound."
"How did you find out?" Although Barry knew that he had to follow Liang En's instructions during the treasure hunt before he came, he still couldn't hold back his inner curiosity and asked. "It's no different from the surrounding mounds."
"You just need to look at the cliff above the mound." Because of the blessing of the [Careful Observation (R)] card, Liang En also saw that the mound was not normal at this time, and then explained arrive.
"These soils are often formed by falling down after the rocks on the mountain are weathered, so the larger the mound of soil below, the higher the degree of weathering of the mountain above."
"But this pile of soil is just an exception." Liang En said, pointing to the mound of soil shining in his field of vision, "You can see that the cliff above it is basically not weathered, so in theory, the pile below shouldn't be so big A pile of dirt."
"You're right, it should be like this." Barry nodded, then took out the engineering shovel Liang En from his backpack and started digging together. Five minutes later, the two discovered something interesting.
"This stone should have been piled up by hand." Barry exclaimed suddenly after excavating the gravel and soil more than 1m deep on the surface.Because he saw obvious artificial traces on the side of the cliff.
After wearing the headband camera and continuing to dig for a while, a cave on a cliff appeared in front of Liang En and the others.This is a cave with a height of only about 1m. Through the opening of the cave that has just been emptied, two boxes can be seen in the cave.
There is a thick layer of dust accumulated on the box, which should be the traces of nearly a century.From the perspective of style, this box made of wooden boards looks like the most common box used to store explosives on construction sites back then.
"Be careful!" Just after Liang En cleaned up the last few remaining stones, Barry suddenly pulled him back. "What's the matter?" Liang En, who was almost thrown by the sudden pull, asked in confusion. "Looks like there's a bomb next to that box."
Barry turned on the flashlight nervously, and looked inside.Sure enough, there was a bundle of cylindrical mine explosives on the side of the box.
"The explosives are fake." After checking it out, Barry showed a dumbfounded expression.The bundle of what looked like dynamite was just cardboard tubes stuffed with dirt.
Considering that the robber did not hurt people almost all the time during the robbery, it is completely understandable to place a fake bomb in this place.
Next, the two people moved the two dusty boxes out of the small cave, checked through the gaps in the boxes to make sure they were safe, and then pried open the boxes.
Inside the box were coarse cloth pockets, half of which contained some well-preserved banknotes, which unfortunately have now ceased to circulate.The other half contained some bags, boxes and paper rolls of different sizes.
Obviously, it would be very stupid for Liang En and the others to carry these things with their suitcases, so they decided to make an inventory first, and then the two of them put these things in their backpacks and carried them out.
There are three or four hundred gold and silver coins wrapped in paper rolls.It's a pity that most of them are worthless Morgan silver coins, and there are only more than 30 gold coins.
The same small piece of dog head gold wrapped in paper and the gold sand packed in a glass bottle with a cork weighed about two kilograms together.
In addition to these hard currencies, the other party also used a series of paper boxes and wooden boxes to hold a lot of handicrafts. The gold and silver watches alone cost about ten yuan. In addition, there are also a series of rings made of precious metals. , brooch a class of jewelry.
The diamond brooch that Liang En was mainly looking for this time was also found in a box. Although almost all the small gemstones on the brooch were missing, the main body of the brooch and the light blue diamond the size of a peanut Still exist.
"Except for brooches, these items can be sold for about 60 to [-] US dollars." After looking at the pile of items and making a quick estimate, Liang En came to a final conclusion. "It's hard to say if it goes to the auction."
(End of this chapter)
After eating the impromptu dinner consisting of instant food and boiled tea with filtered spring water, Liang En took his own metal detector to detect all the surrounding places with traces of human activity. .
Probably because the people who passed by here were relatively poor at that time, so apart from a common 1882 Morgan silver dollar, he only found a dozen or so bullet warheads that had been turned into lead bumps.
"This is the bare lead bullet of an old-fashioned pistol, derived from the .44 pistol bullet." Barry said, taking the small handful of bullets.
"At least in the early 20th century, this kind of bullet, which was outdated in the east and big cities, still had a big market in the west and Canada. If I remember correctly, my father still used it until I was seven or eight years old. Will go buy the same type of cartridge for his old revolver."
"It seems that there was a fire in this place before." Looking at these deformed bullets, Liang En said in a low voice. Obviously, these bullets should not have been fired by those outlaw lunatics for fun.
"By the way, what's the value of this silver dollar?" After throwing those worthless bullets aside, Barry looked at the blackened silver dollar in Liang En's hand and asked.
"It's only 30~40 US dollars, because the Morgan silver coins issued in this year are really too big, and this one is not well preserved." Liang En threw the silver coin to Barry, and then said.
As the sun went down, the temperature suddenly cooled down.
Fortunately, the overall feeling of the cave was not bad when the cave entrance was on fire.At this time, Liang En and Barry were sitting by the fire to warm up and chat, and the loaded rifles were put in a place within easy reach after they put the safety on them.
Through chatting, Liang En also learned that this Irishman named Barry was a Canadian with a US green card, and he had worked with Bruce when he retired from the army ten years ago.
Thinking about it, since he could be sent by the tycoon named Bruce as Liang En's collaborator, then this Barry must be second to none under Bruce in terms of ability and loyalty.
Because the vegetation coverage on the surrounding ground is very low, the temperature quickly dropped below 0 degrees.The occasional howl of wolves could be heard in the distance, but as long as there was a fire burning at the mouth of the cave there was no danger.
After chatting for a while, Barry went to bed first.And Liang En stayed by the fire to look after the fire and watch the first half of the night.The broken wood collected from the nearby gold mines was very resistant to burning, which relieved Liang En a lot of the work of adding firewood.
In the middle of the night, after Liang En and Barry changed shifts, they ran into the depths of the cave, burrowed into their sleeping bags, and fell asleep without incident.And early the next morning, the two took a few mouthfuls of the bread they bought in the supermarket yesterday, filled a bottle of milk, packed up their things and set off.
After three hours, they finally climbed to the pass of the last mountain.Standing at the mountain pass and looking east, you can see a small basin surrounded by mountains, and in the center of the basin is a spring that has dried up.
"I think we're here." After taking out his phone and flipping out the previous map, comparing it with the surrounding terrain and the local GPS, Liang En smiled at Barry beside him.
An hour later, the two came to this khaki-colored valley, and Liang En saw the light reflected behind the mound of soil near the spring for the first time.
I have to say that this place is indeed a good place to hide things, because for the locals, they basically don't come to this kind of dry spring, and travelers will subconsciously pay attention to it after seeing the surrounding situation. Concentrate on the spring instead of searching the surrounding situation.
"We need to dig out this mound next." Liang En pretended to walk around the small valley that was only the size of a basketball court, and then pointed to the glowing mound.
"If I'm not mistaken, what we're looking for is under the mound."
"How did you find out?" Although Barry knew that he had to follow Liang En's instructions during the treasure hunt before he came, he still couldn't hold back his inner curiosity and asked. "It's no different from the surrounding mounds."
"You just need to look at the cliff above the mound." Because of the blessing of the [Careful Observation (R)] card, Liang En also saw that the mound was not normal at this time, and then explained arrive.
"These soils are often formed by falling down after the rocks on the mountain are weathered, so the larger the mound of soil below, the higher the degree of weathering of the mountain above."
"But this pile of soil is just an exception." Liang En said, pointing to the mound of soil shining in his field of vision, "You can see that the cliff above it is basically not weathered, so in theory, the pile below shouldn't be so big A pile of dirt."
"You're right, it should be like this." Barry nodded, then took out the engineering shovel Liang En from his backpack and started digging together. Five minutes later, the two discovered something interesting.
"This stone should have been piled up by hand." Barry exclaimed suddenly after excavating the gravel and soil more than 1m deep on the surface.Because he saw obvious artificial traces on the side of the cliff.
After wearing the headband camera and continuing to dig for a while, a cave on a cliff appeared in front of Liang En and the others.This is a cave with a height of only about 1m. Through the opening of the cave that has just been emptied, two boxes can be seen in the cave.
There is a thick layer of dust accumulated on the box, which should be the traces of nearly a century.From the perspective of style, this box made of wooden boards looks like the most common box used to store explosives on construction sites back then.
"Be careful!" Just after Liang En cleaned up the last few remaining stones, Barry suddenly pulled him back. "What's the matter?" Liang En, who was almost thrown by the sudden pull, asked in confusion. "Looks like there's a bomb next to that box."
Barry turned on the flashlight nervously, and looked inside.Sure enough, there was a bundle of cylindrical mine explosives on the side of the box.
"The explosives are fake." After checking it out, Barry showed a dumbfounded expression.The bundle of what looked like dynamite was just cardboard tubes stuffed with dirt.
Considering that the robber did not hurt people almost all the time during the robbery, it is completely understandable to place a fake bomb in this place.
Next, the two people moved the two dusty boxes out of the small cave, checked through the gaps in the boxes to make sure they were safe, and then pried open the boxes.
Inside the box were coarse cloth pockets, half of which contained some well-preserved banknotes, which unfortunately have now ceased to circulate.The other half contained some bags, boxes and paper rolls of different sizes.
Obviously, it would be very stupid for Liang En and the others to carry these things with their suitcases, so they decided to make an inventory first, and then the two of them put these things in their backpacks and carried them out.
There are three or four hundred gold and silver coins wrapped in paper rolls.It's a pity that most of them are worthless Morgan silver coins, and there are only more than 30 gold coins.
The same small piece of dog head gold wrapped in paper and the gold sand packed in a glass bottle with a cork weighed about two kilograms together.
In addition to these hard currencies, the other party also used a series of paper boxes and wooden boxes to hold a lot of handicrafts. The gold and silver watches alone cost about ten yuan. In addition, there are also a series of rings made of precious metals. , brooch a class of jewelry.
The diamond brooch that Liang En was mainly looking for this time was also found in a box. Although almost all the small gemstones on the brooch were missing, the main body of the brooch and the light blue diamond the size of a peanut Still exist.
"Except for brooches, these items can be sold for about 60 to [-] US dollars." After looking at the pile of items and making a quick estimate, Liang En came to a final conclusion. "It's hard to say if it goes to the auction."
(End of this chapter)
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