Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Finally, at around 3 p.m., he arrived at the destination of his trip, Cork, the second largest city in Ireland.

Although it is said to be the second largest city in Ireland, it actually has a small population, with the permanent population remaining at around 200,000. If we put it in China, it is estimated that the population of many counties is larger than this.

This is a city built at the mouth of a river. The buildings in the city are mainly distributed on both sides of the Li River.

And unlike Dublin, which looks modern, the city of Cork is full of classical meaning. In particular, almost all buildings in the city are three floors or less.

As a city that retains its classical style and strong Irish characteristics, Cork naturally attracts a large number of tourists.

For example, when driving through the city, Liang En saw two huge cruise ships moored at the pier, as well as many tourists who obviously came from all over the world.

After booking a room for himself in a hotel in the city, Liang En drove out of the city and drove to his destination in the southwest of the city.

After driving out of the city along a two-lane asphalt road for nearly 20 minutes, and then driving for five or six minutes along a road that was almost lost in the grass, he finally arrived at his destination: Michael Village.

After parking the car on a piece of grass on the side of the road, Liang En came to a small slope only ten meters away from the parking space and looked at the ruins of the village not far away.

Because the entire area is located on a plain, even if it is only a small soil slope five or six meters high, standing on it can give a clear view of the ruins of the entire village.

Since this village has been abandoned for more than a hundred years, what is now displayed in front of Liang En is the ruins of a village that has been almost completely swallowed up by nature.

The long time has caused the wooden structures in the village buildings to basically decay. Only the stone walls remain to this day. And those ruins are the last things left in this village in the world.

It's no wonder that the clues left by Jacques De Briand pointed here. Both the short distance to the port and the fact that this small village is not much different from other villages make this place an ideal treasure hiding place.

After roughly observing the situation inside the village, Liang En walked on the soft grass towards the largest building ruins in the village, which was where the village church used to be.

Because as long as you look at the layout of the village, you will know that the only one in the entire village that fits the title of the Holy of Holies is the church located in the center of the village.

As a country where almost all the people have devout religious beliefs, almost every village in Ireland is built with a church as its core.

The ruins of the church that now stands in the center of the village are just such a church. Like those ordinary village churches, it is also a small stone church with only a main hall and a bell tower.

"It seems that this building is at least three to four hundred years old." Liang En, who majored in archeology at university, quickly analyzed some specific conditions of the chapel after inspecting the chapel.

Like other buildings in the ruins of the village, the church was also in ruins. Even because of the complete decay of the wooden beams, the entire roof of the building has now collapsed and created a huge pile of rubble inside the church.

In the same year, the roof was probably hit directly to the ground at once. As a result, the walls of the church collapsed, and only half of the wall was still standing.

It may be due to the blessing of the gods, so the size of the rubble pile in the direction of the pulpit is not that big. After a simple calculation, he felt that he could do it in just an hour or two.

Seeing that there were still about three hours until dark, Liang En took out the various equipment he had prepared before from the trunk of the car, and then began to clean up the ruins.

According to the knowledge he had learned in school, he first cleaned up the topmost broken tiles covered with weeds, and then used a saw to cut off the rotten and blackened beams under these tiles. Finally, clean out those rafters.

Fortunately, not many of the fallen stones from the surrounding walls had fallen near the pulpit, so he was spared the task of clearing away those head-sized stones.

In this way, the whole job was obviously much easier than he had expected. After just over an hour, Liang En had cleared an area of ​​about seven or eight square meters on the pulpit.

Since it is said to be the Holy of Holies, the most sacred place in this church should be the pulpit, because not only are clergy usually preaching here, but tables with religious symbols are also placed here.

In addition, if the last 12 is understood as the twelve o'clock direction, then this also points to the pulpit.

After using a shovel to remove the last layer of dust and building debris, pieces of stone slabs emerged from under the construction debris.

Different from the simply renovated stones used to build the church's exterior walls, the stone slabs used for paving the floor here are not only trimmed into rectangular shapes of the same specifications, but also polished, and even have some simple patterns left.

These were small stone slabs with sides about the same length as the palm of a hand. After careful observation, he found that the concrete around two stone slabs was different from other concrete. There were obvious traces of being pried open and then repaired again.

After taking out a large iron hammer and chisel from his side, Liang En began to hammer hard on the two stone slabs.

This was indeed not an easy task. Fortunately, these stone slabs were not too big, so after more than an hour, with a few slight collisions, he successfully pried the two stone slabs apart.

But unlike what he imagined, what was exposed under the stone slab was tamped soil. There were no holes or containers filled with treasures as he imagined, but just some tamped soil.

This gave Liang En a blow. Feeling a little unwilling, he quickly took out a steel drill and began to explore the soil under the two stone slabs bit by bit.

As a result, after he spent 20 minutes poking the two small pieces of land into briquettes, he had to admit that there shouldn't be anything hidden underneath.

"Did someone take the things away before, or did I misunderstand something?" A somewhat frustrated Liang En sat down on the ground that had been cleaned before, and then showed a thoughtful look.

After a few minutes, he realized that he had missed something, so he stood up and began to examine the two stone slabs that had just been cut out.

Sure enough, there is a difference between the two stone slabs. The bottom of one of them is uneven and it is just an ordinary paving stone, but the bottom of the other stone is smooth and has a lot of words carved on it.

"Mmp, was that Frenchman someone who designed decryption games before?" The moment he saw the inscriptions under the stone slab, Liang En felt a rush of blood rush to his brain.

At least in his opinion, the guy who could design such a link-by-link treasure hunt plan is obviously out of his mind, because it is really impossible to figure out whether he wants people to find the things he left behind, or whether he doesn't want people to find them. people found.

Soon, he translated all the French on the slate. It turned out that this time the stone slab only told about the origin of the village.