Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The tiny Masonic symbol on the silver coin, apparently stamped with a steel stamp, suddenly made things interesting.

Obviously, in addition to the former Freemason who left the previous information, there was another group of Freemasons who came here.

It's just that this group of Freemasons didn't know what the previous Freemason had discovered, so after finding the sun cave above, which was obviously in worse overall condition, they took away the murals inside and left.

The reason why this simpler cave was discovered by latecomers was because this cave was further outside than the previous cave, so it was found first by latecomers.

Because in history, people have not found two sun caves connected together, so those latecomers did not continue to search after finding this cave, but kept the more impressive sun cave.

As for the reason why the Freemasons took away the murals, Liang En felt that it was probably related to some revived pagan beliefs. After all, at least half of the existing pagan beliefs in the UK were related to Freemasonry.

"Since we can't take away the things inside, let's just take some photos in the cave." Fan Meng suggested as he looked at the entrance of the Sun Cave filled with statues.

Liang En thought for a while and agreed. After all, they followed a formal process for this treasure hunt, so revealing this information would not have any impact.

Unfortunately, they were unable to use flash in order to protect the artifacts. And with the help of the low-brightness lights originally arranged in the cave, the result was that the whole thing was dark.

"This feels really beautiful." Although the photo was a bit bad, after taking the photo and looking at the beautiful creations in the cave, I felt a lot better.

Especially the very beautiful starry sky picture on the ceiling, coupled with the stars made of broken glass pieces, under the dim light, it feels like the ceiling of the Hogwarts auditorium in the novel.

"I think the effect of using torches and oil lamps when this place was operating back then should be like this." Looking at the artificial starry sky on the roof of the cave that had been smoothed, Liang En muttered in a low voice.

"If it were completely bright, this starry sky picture might not look like it does now. On the contrary, the hazy feeling created by the dim light now makes the whole picture look a lot more sacred."

"But after all, this is just a layer of putty on the top of the cave, painted blue, and then inlaid with a layer of glass." Fan Meng didn't care much about Liang En's emotion.

He doesn't know much about history, so it's hard for him to resonate in a place like this. So when Liang En sighed. He subconsciously carefully checked the surrounding situation.

As a result, just when Liang En finished his emotion, he also discovered that there was something wrong with the stone used to build the altar near the altar, so he took out a small knife and gently scratched the cracks in the stone.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Fan Meng bend down and start scraping the altar with a knife, Liang En quickly walked over and asked.

"There's something wrong with the gaps in this stone." Fan Meng said to Liang En while gently circling the edge of the stone he selected with the tip of his knife.

"When we were receiving IED elimination training, the instructor specifically told us what it would look like if the stones or bricks were pried up from the wall and then re-inserted into the wall."

"The color of the plaster around this stone is somewhat different from that of the nearby plaster. It looks like it was taken out and then put back in place again. This means that there may be something else placed behind this thing. .”

"Your judgment is indeed correct. This stone is indeed somewhat different from the surrounding one. It is probably due to the different proportions of the various components of the mortar used to bond the stone."

Liang En bent down and observed carefully, and sure enough he found that the plaster around the target stone looked darker compared to the plaster in the cracks in the surrounding stones.

What’s more interesting is that this stone is the seventh stone whether counting from left to right or from bottom to top. And this is obviously unlikely to be formed by accident.

After realizing this, Liang En also immediately took out the tools and guided Fan Meng with his professional knowledge to clean up the mortar used to fix the stones bit by bit.

Because nearly two thousand years have passed, the mortar has obviously become somewhat brittle due to weathering. So under the hard work of the two people, it quickly turned into small pieces and fell, and then Liang En easily removed the loose stone.

As soon as the stone was removed, a cave that looked significantly longer than the stone appeared in front of the two people. Under normal circumstances, this should be a solid stone wall.

"Gold!" Liang En and Fan Meng uttered a word in Chinese almost simultaneously as soon as they shined the flashlight into the cave, because a golden light shone in the depths of the cave.

When most of the metal cultural relics were excavated, they became gray and even covered with rust due to oxidation over a long period of time.

But that's not the case with gold. As long as the purity of the gold reaches a certain level, then these cultural relics will look the same as they were dug up when they were buried, and they will look the same as new.

"Let me do it -" Because the hole was a bit small, they could only take off their gloves and use a long wooden tweezers to pinch out the contents, and this was obviously not what Fan Meng was good at.

"Come on, I feel like my hands are shaking when I do this." After hearing Liang En's words, Fan Meng immediately handed the wooden clamp in his hand to Liang En, and then stepped back. "When I was doing bomb disposal training, I was always criticized for being too rough in my movements."

Soon, Liang En used tweezers to take out the gold inside. At first, they thought it was a golden ball slightly larger than a pinball. But after taking it out, they discovered that it was gold foil that had been balled up.

"Gold often represents the sun in religion, and Mithras is also a sun god, so the gold foil hidden under the statue of the god is likely to record some important information."

As Liang En explained, he and Fan Meng walked out of the cave. As soon as they came out of the cave, they saw Professor Brown standing alone at the entrance of the cave and looking into the cave.

"My student just discovered this, and I think I should tell you." As soon as he saw Liang En coming out, Professor Brown immediately talked about his student's discovery, and then handed over a thumb-sized badge made of gold enamel.

"Freemasonry!" Looking at the golden ruler and compass pattern on the black enamel base of the badge, Liang En's pupils shrank sharply. "Where was this found?"

"In a gap in the cave before." Professor Brown stared at Liang En seriously and then said. "Half of the badge is exposed and it feels like it was done on purpose."

"Then what are you going to do next?" Liang En looked at Professor Brown and asked. The professor showed this badge to Liang En at this time and obviously wanted to give him an idea.

After all, Freemasonry still exists and can be considered part of some sort of high-end circle. In this case, even if you know the other party's crime of stealing the mural, you may not be able to do anything to the other party.