Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The reason why the landlord proposed the excavation fee of 2,000 pounds is also very simple, that is, he does not believe that anything can be dug out from him this time, so he hopes to get a visible reward in advance.

After all, this kind of treasure hunt is a very popular activity in the UK. The landlord had gone through several similar treasure hunting requests before and promised to share the unearthed wealth equally, but nothing was found.

As a result, not only did the landlord fail to make a penny, but he also had to spend a lot of energy filling back the excavated soil.

Because of the previous failures, the landlord simply asked for cash when encountering this kind of incident again, so as not to be left empty-handed after working for a long time like before.

"How much would it cost to excavate the empty space behind this building alone?" Liang En asked. "Compared to the empty space behind the building, the history of your building is too new."

"You are right, but I want 1,500 pounds for the venue alone." The landlord thought for a while and said, obviously he saw that Liang En was coming for a certain goal this time, so naturally the lion opened his mouth.

What followed was a 20-minute bargaining session. After a long time of talking, the landlord agreed to a price reduction of 300 yuan and said that if the price was lower, then he would let it go this time.

"Okay, 1,200 is 1,200." Liang En sighed helplessly, then paid the landlord the money by swiping his credit card, and then led everyone into the building.

In fact, for Liang En, after locking the target through the card, he can basically determine that the target is very valuable. In this case, spending a few hundred pounds more or a few hundred pounds less makes no difference to him.

But in order to prevent the other party from realizing that he was really eager in this regard and then increasing the price, Liang En had to bargain to eliminate the landlord's wariness.

After paying the money, several people walked through the dark corridor with graffiti everywhere and came to the open space behind the room, and then checked out the environment here.

This open space is located in the center of several four-story buildings. It is regarded as a public space in these red brick buildings that have been low-income apartments in the past.

Most of the buildings in this block are closed buildings of this type, that is, 3 to 4 small buildings are surrounded together, and the open space in the middle is used as a public space for these three or four buildings.

Although this architectural model has become completely unpopular in modern times due to the small amount of lighting and public area, in the Victorian era when these surrounding buildings were built, it was considered the most common urban architectural model at that time.

It's just that now this open space seems to be crowded and has been artificially marked with many wooden sticks and steel pillars, and these pillars are connected by ropes, and clothes are hung to dry on them.

This is not a common practice. British people are more accustomed to using dryers, and will choose to dry them in the room. On the one hand, this is a requirement of the city appearance. On the other hand, the local climate is a bit cloudy and rainy, which is not suitable for drying clothes.

But because the building area of ​​the rooms in Whitechapel District is not only small, but also the residents are from South Asia and their economic status is very average. So residents sometimes insist on their traditional methods of drying clothes.

However, this caused a lot of trouble for Liang En. The biggest one was that the metal detector was basically unusable in this environment because the metal used to fix the sticks was all over the floor.

"What should we do next?" Fan Meng asked Liang En helplessly after taking out the portable metal detector he carried and checking it. He found that the metal detector kept beeping.

"Use a probe." Liang En and the others took out two steel rods from their backpacks and connected them together, eventually turning into a steel rod about the thickness of an index finger and about 30cm long.

This probe is a specially-made prop for treasure hunting in the city. With this tool, you can feel whether there are any hard objects below the surface and the shape of those hard objects.

After all, treasure hunting in urban areas generally does not involve places very deep below the ground, so simple equipment of this level is enough. Getting a ground-penetrating radar would seem like a fuss.

More importantly, based on the target location found using the card, Liang En judged that the location where the thing was hidden was probably a well. So the probe should be able to detect the location of the well.

Sure enough, less than five minutes after Liang En and Fan Meng started working, they found a hard structure about 20cm below the ground and about two meters long three or four meters away from the center of the yard.

Excavation of a layer of soil about 20cm thick is not too complicated, so as Liang En and the others wielded engineering shovels, a stone platform with a side length of about 2m slowly emerged from under the soil.

"What is this, a flagpole?" Fan Meng knocked on the apparently pieced-together metal pipe in the center of the stone platform with a shovel, and then denied his statement.

"No, it's not a flagpole. If it's a flagpole, a flagpole with a diameter of about 3cm is a bit too thin. But other than that, I can't figure out what this two-piece pipe is."

"The bottom half is a hand-pressed well pipe." Liang En walked up to the stone platform and took a look at the pipe and said, "You know I grew up on a farm, and there was a spare old-fashioned hand-pressed well on the farm. "

"And if the mechanical structure above the well is removed, it will look like this: a stone platform with a half-meter-high pipe inserted into it."

"As for the upper half of the iron pipe, it was obviously added later. It was obvious that later people discovered this steel pipe exposed on the ground and directly used it to fix the steel pipe for drying clothes." Liang En looked at it. Said after welding marks.

The next work was purely physical work. Fortunately, there were many idle people in the surrounding houses, so Liang En quickly spent 300 pounds to hire three people to destroy the cement platform with them.

Just as Liang En had guessed before, the bottom of the stone platform was not the ground. As the stone platform was extensively destroyed, an ancient well was exposed beneath the remains of the stone platform.

Obviously, with the advancement of technology, the windlass and buckets of the past were replaced by hand pumps, and then they were completely forgotten due to the popularization of tap water, so that they have now become clothes drying poles.

"This place probably turned out to be a trap door." Liang En said while looking at the smashed remains of the stone platform. Because he found something like a metal door and door hinges under the stone platform.

After careful inspection, Liang En confirmed that this place turned out to be a secret door that could be opened. But later, for some reason, it was completely sealed with stones and cement.

After this trace was discovered, Liang En and the others became excited. Because this is obviously not what a normal well should be like.

After arriving at the wellhead and shining a flashlight on it, Liang En found that the bottom of the well had dried up, and there was obviously a place on the side of the well wall that looked different from the surrounding area.

"Is there a disguised secret room on the side of the well? It seems that the hidden things should be quite valuable." Liang En thought after discovering something was wrong on the side of the well. "I just don't know what is hidden inside. It was too vague to give a hint before."