Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It took half an hour to completely clean up the map. It was at this time that they discovered that the two pieces of lead should be two parts of a map.

Apparently, someone had drawn a map on a piece of lead foil, cut the map in half and put the patterned parts together to form the base of the box.

But a big problem now is that although they saw the target point marked with a red dot on the pattern and the environment around the target point, the problem is that they don't know where it is.

"The only thing we can confirm is that this lead map was indeed left by the Freemasons, because we can see a special Masonic symbol in the corner of the map." Pierce said, pointing to the lower right corner of the lead sheet.

In the lower right corner of the map, a compass and ruler appear. From a technical point of view, this thing should be the traces of manual stamping with steel stamps.

"Judging from this stamping mark, Freemasonry should have been a relatively well-organized organization at that time. Otherwise, there would be no need to use this kind of stamp that can produce traces in batches."

"In other words, there is probably nothing in this place." After hearing Liang En's words, Pierce immediately reacted. "After all, a well-organized organization should not lose its treasures."

"Yes, this possibility is very high." Liang En nodded in frustration, then cheered up. "But this is not absolute. If the inheritance is really orderly, then why would he carve this map on a lead plate and hide it."

"What you said makes sense." Fan Meng, who had been silent just now, also reacted. "Hiding it in a box in this way is just for hiding. If it's for inheritance, it shouldn't be like this."

"So this thing is indeed worth a trip, but the question is where is this place?" Liang En said helplessly while using an [Appraisal (N)] on the map.

[A map made by a member of the Scottish Freemasons in the 19th century hides an internal secret about them. 】

[Because the church has always been the biggest enemy of Freemasonry, and this member planned to leave Freemasonry and return to religion. So he decided to hide this secret. 】

[This former Freemason had been torn between the Church and Freemasonry his whole life, so he hid this secret in a box before his death, and let the gods decide the outcome of this secret. 】

"It seems that cards are not omnipotent -" After reading these words, Liang En sighed and thought. Because these words did reveal part of the secret of this item, but they did not tell the address of the most critical hidden evidence.

Fortunately, after this map was completely cleaned up, the map above made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. Because in addition to contour lines, this 19th-century map also marked altitude, scale and surrounding water systems.

After simply converting the 19th century and modern contour lines, they quickly started searching this set of maps through some kind of smart program.

This program was developed by a number of British museums and universities. It uses artificial intelligence to restore some ancient maps or even simple language descriptions of the terrain, and then compares it with the existing terrain on the earth.

Of course, there is a slight problem with the overall accuracy of this thing. It may display nothing, or it may display more than a dozen alternative regions at once. But this is much better than flipping through a lot of information with a broken map.

Because the data on this map was relatively detailed, the system screened out multiple places in just ten minutes, and Liang En and the others quickly found the target location.

The target location is located in a mountainous area northwest of Dundee, Scotland. Judging from the satellite map, that area is completely wilderness, without any human settlements and naturally without roads.

"How should we get there this time?" After comparing it with modern maps, Fan Meng put forward a very realistic point of view. "If you just walk, the distance of 20-30km in the mountainous area may take several days."

"But I see that the drop in that place is not too big, and the terrain is not particularly rugged. If there is a suitable vehicle, we can directly reach the valley about 3km away from the target location——"

"It's simple. We can take public transportation to Dundee first, and then rent a few four-wheel all-terrain off-road motorcycles in Dundee to go to our destination." Liang En thought for a moment and said.

So early the next morning when it was still dark, Liang En and Fan Meng got on the bus and headed straight to the north. Ten hours later, they arrived at this small city near the coast in eastern Scotland.

As Scotland's fourth largest city, the city has only 150,000 people. But it has the best sunshine in Scotland, higher per capita income and lower prices than the British average.

More importantly, there are many universities here, and there are many tourists and students, so it is not difficult to find things like off-road motorcycles, so they can easily rent what they need. of transportation.

"I really don't know why Mr. Murphy didn't come?" After leaving the city, Fan Meng asked Liang En with some confusion. At this time, two people were driving a rented truck with two motorcycles. Run to your destination.

"He has a very important business to do today, so naturally he can't follow him." Liang En said, "And this is just a secret hidden by a certain Freemason. There is no need to mobilize troops."

"Please, this is Freemasonry." After hearing what Liang En said, Fan Meng immediately retorted. "The legendary big boss who controls the operation of the entire world behind the scenes."

"According to the books I have read before, it is said that Freemasonry may have originated from the masonry professional group that participated in the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, or it may have originated from the builders of Solomon's Temple. According to the Masonic Charter, They are the descendants of Cain, and the entire organization was founded in 4000 BC-"

"Mengzi, we'd better read less street literature." After hearing Fan Meng mutter a lot of rumors about Freemasonry, Liang En shook his head helplessly.

"According to your statement, after such an organization emerged 4,000 years ago, it went through 6,000 years of vicissitudes, countless wars, famines, and plagues. It also experienced the disintegration of many empires and dynasties. Even the thousand-year-old Roman Empire It exists after having become a piece of history.”

"But these 6,000 years of genealogical inheritance, hereditary transfers and even internal changes have not been handed down in history at all. Isn't it a very absurd thing that they only suddenly appeared in the 18th century?"

"Well - what you said makes sense." After Liang En said this, Fan Meng also realized the irrationality of such an organization.

After all, this is not a fantasy world, there are no gods or magic. It is hard to imagine that after so many years of ups and downs, such an organization composed of ordinary humans can continue to this day.