Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Then let's look for people with the abbreviation A.M.T. among the teachers and students of King's College in the 1930s and 1940s." When both pieces of evidence pointed to King's College, Liang En put forward his own opinion.

This kind of work would have been difficult in the past, and would have likely required contacting the school and looking through dusty files.

But now that these schools have gradually digitized their files, facing this kind of public information, you can quickly find what you need by connecting your computer or mobile phone to the Internet at home.

After being assigned according to one person's year, all six people, including the servants, picked up their mobile phones or computers to check the list of teachers and students of King's College.

"Found it-" Seven or eight minutes later, Mrs. Lewis suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, and then turned the computer screen to the people present. "Alan Mathison Turing!"

Mr. Lewis's eyes widened suddenly. As a wealthy man who made his fortune in the computer network industry, he naturally knew what this name represented.

Alan Matheson Turing, a famous British mathematician and logician, is known as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He is the founder of computer logic and proposed the "Turing machine" and the "Turing test" ” and other important concepts.

Later generations established the "Turing Award" to commemorate his outstanding contributions in the computer field, and today it has become the highest-level award in the computer field.

"In other words, Turing hid a lot of money because he was not optimistic about Britain's victory in the war." Fan Meng showed a confused look at this time. "But I remember that he seemed to have participated in some operation of the British military at that time——"

"Yes, he participated in an operation led by the British military to crack the Enigma code used by the Germans during World War II." Liang En nodded. "This action allowed the British to figure out the actions of German submarines in the Atlantic and saved Britain."

"But in the end, the British government failed him because he was severely persecuted for his sexual orientation and even had to undergo so-called treatment with estrogen injections. He committed suicide in the end."

"This is really a tragedy." Mr. Lewis sighed, while others nodded in agreement. After all, from a modern point of view, this series of practices at that time did have big problems.

"But if the owner of this book was really Turing, then the act of hiding money should be true." After sighing, Mr. Lewis said.

"If you know Turing better, you will know that Turing exchanged all his property for two silver bars and hid them because he had no confidence in Britain's victory in the war."

"As a result, during World War II, he was isolated for a long time because he joined the military to break codes. So after the war, he found that he had forgotten where the two pieces of silver were hidden."

"In other words, Turing was also worried that he would forget this treasure, so he secretly wrote it in this book. In the end, he even forgot the existence of this book." After hearing what Lewis said, Liang En immediately More things were analyzed.

But there is a key question that has not yet been solved, that is, if these are really the two silver bars hidden by Turing, where is the garden bench pointed out in the note?

The clues stopped right here, but this doesn't mean that Liang En has nothing to do. Soon, he thought of using his own cards to solve this problem.

So while everyone was gathering around this piece of paper or checking the surrounding map from the Internet, Liang En used a [Appraisal (N)] card on the fairy tale book.

After the card was used, lines after lines of tiny text appeared in front of Liang En out of thin air, revealing the story behind Turing's message in the fairy tale book.

[Turing is a computer expert and a cheerful and sports-loving person. But he has a very delicate heart and occasionally seems a little pessimistic. 】

[This record was recorded by the other party on June 11, 1940. One week after the Dunkirk evacuation, Turing, who was not optimistic about the war situation, exchanged all his wealth for two silver bars. 】

[At that time, he took the book and the two silver bars in his bag into a garden near Cambridge, and then hid the two large pieces of silver in a park in Cambridge under the cover of reading a book. 】

[Unfortunately, this fairy tale book was sold among a batch of unwanted old books when he was drafted out of Cambridge by the British army. At the same time, he also forgot where the silver was buried. 】

"It still looks a bit blurry -" After reading these words, Liang En confirmed that these things were indeed reminders that Turing left for him after hiding the silver, but he still didn't know where the silver was hidden.

After realizing that the information obtained now was not enough to find the two silver bars, Liang En thought for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and used the [Appraisal (R)] card that he had been saving in his hand.

The reason why he chose this card is also very simple, because the [Appraisal (N)] card just confirmed the time when Turing recorded this text, and treasure hunters often hide the treasure within a short time. Record these things here.

[Appraisal (R)] After the card was used, a new picture appeared in Liang En's mind. Soon, he realized that the observer of this picture was fixed on the book "Alice in Wonderland".

"This is interesting." After more than ten seconds, Liang En learned how to use this new card: he could use the selected item as his observation point and observe the surroundings 360 degrees with his naked eyes.

Because he did not know the specific time when Turing wrote these words, Liang En set the time anchor point at 12 o'clock in the evening on June 11, 1940, and then observed what happened 72 hours before this time point.

After this card is activated, it feels a bit like using a VR device. It also has a series of functions such as fast forward, rewind, and pause.

But only a few hours later, Liang En saw an image of Turing using a small shovel to dig a hole in an artificial bush and burying an iron wooden box with the book he had pinned between his eyes.

And after more than two hours of fast forwarding with this image, Liang En took Turing out of the cabinet to take out the silver bars, took the book with him and went out to bury the two silver bars and go home.

Unlike what Liang En thought before, Turing did not hide these things at night as he imagined. Instead, I chose the period between 11 noon and 1 o'clock.

After thinking for a while, Liang En quickly figured out the reason why Turing did this. This was because it was a wartime situation, and places like Cambridge had curfews, so it was impossible to go out at night.

That's why Turing chose to go out and bury his silver at noon. After all, the sun was very strong at this time, and most people were having lunch, so not many people would be active outdoors.

Obviously, there are some butterfly effect differences here too. For example, in Liang En's last world, Turing hid the silver in a wasteland, but after the war, he found that the wasteland had turned into a large construction site.

But apart from the differences, the two worlds also have a lot in common. For example, both Turing in this world and Turing in the previous world exchanged money for silver, and also lost the silver.