Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Mu Xia's wife and religious place?" Fan Meng also fell into thinking after hearing Liang En's speculation. “There will be neither too little nor too much intersection between the two, and definitely not too much.”

"Especially since you said before that Mucha lived in and around Prague during the last period of his life, so if the scope is limited to Prague and its vicinity, we might be able to visit all these places in a few days."

"What you said makes sense." Liang En nodded and handed the locket over, "Help me check this thing again to see if there is any mechanism?"

Compared with Liang En, Fan Meng had received a lot of professional training, including training on searching for various hidden objects, so Liang En gave this to him to see if he could find more clues.

"This piece of glass is a special piece of optical glass." After briefly looking for the locket, Fan Meng didn't know which mechanism he had moved, causing the glass that Liang En thought was used to hold the photo to bounce up and hang up. The locket is vertical.

At this moment, the sun shines in from the window and shines on the table through the glass, showing a figure of a human skeleton.

"This is glass etched with some corrosive liquid. Because the carving is not too deep, it cannot be seen against the box." Fan Meng pointed at the piece of glass.

. "This technology was relatively common in the military and some special departments of that era, but for ordinary people, except for a small number of glass workers and glass artists, few people would master this technology."

"If this thing was left by Mu Xia, then it is indeed possible for the other party to master this ability." After listening to Fan Meng's words, Liang En whispered. "Musha is a master of photography, so it makes sense to know this skill."

"But what does this human skeleton mean?" Jeanne asked looking at the skeleton formed by light. "Is it a threat or a warning?"

"No, this is a symbol of love. The skull means longevity, and when placed in such jewelry that is obviously related to love, it is a blessing." Liang En said with a smile.

Although this tradition already existed in Joan of Arc's time, it was mainly popular in aristocratic circles, and it was normal for Joan of Arc not to understand this because of her status as a commoner.

"But Jeanne, you are right. The skeleton here is probably using this fact as a cover. In fact, the information it wants to tell us is the death represented by the skeleton itself."

"That is to say, the keywords we are looking for now include Mucha's wife, religious sites and death." Fan Meng nodded, and then the three of them took out their mobile phones almost at the same time and started searching.

Because what they were looking for now was obtained from various public information, they found their target after only 15 minutes.

Of course, being able to find a target so easily has something to do with Mucha himself. Unlike many romantic artists, Mucha was a very clean and tidy man with no scandals until he was in his forties. He had no love history or gossip at all. .

It wasn't until 1903 that he met an art student, and he gained a love that could be said to be very late at that time, even though he was more than twenty years older than the student.

For this reason, Liang En and the others were able to lock their target in a short period of time: a church in downtown Prague, one of the several churches that Mucha often went to with his family after returning to the Czech Republic.

As mentioned before, the painter himself is a devout Catholic, so he naturally goes to church every week, and when he has a family, he takes his whole family with him.

However, unlike several other churches, this church has its own cemetery because it was located in the suburbs in Mucha's time, and this is related to the death shown by the skeleton.

"How should we find it?" Jeanne asked. Half an hour after discovering the clues on the locket, Liang En and the three of them came to the church cemetery with the pile of jewelry from before.

Like most churches, the cemetery of this church is also open to the public, so Liang En and the others quickly walked into this somewhat desolate cemetery.

The reason why it is desolate is that with the development of the city, the church and the cemetery were surrounded by urban buildings, and naturally could not expand. Therefore, after the entire cemetery was full, it naturally became abandoned.

However, this is good news for Liang En and the others, because it means that their search work will not be subject to unexpected onlookers and will not cause any problems.

"I think you should already know Mucha's painting style." After listening to Joan's inquiry, Liang En asked his two companions.

"Of course!" Joan of Arc and Fan Meng nodded at the same time and said that Mucha's painting style is very unique, so even people who are not very sensitive in art can easily identify his painting style.

"So next, let's look for something in this cemetery that is more consistent with Mu Xia's previous painting style." Liang En said, looking at the depressed cemetery in front of him.

"If he really hid something in this place, then there is a high probability that he will leave some marks, such as paintings made in his own style or something like that."

"Also, you'd better pay attention to the things from 1938 to 1939. I guess these things are probably things that Mucha hid to avoid World War II, so there is a high probability that they will be buried in this year."

After giving instructions on the key points of the search, the three people quickly dispersed and began the search. Only seven or eight minutes later, Joan of Arc discovered a suspicious target and called Liang En and the others over.

This is a stone sculpture that looks to be at least as big as a minivan. It can be said to be outstanding in size in this cemetery, and above the tombstone is a sculpture of an angel.

The sculpture of the angel is very ordinary, and it is considered to be a common level of angel sculptures among the tombstones in European and American cemeteries. However, there are four relief sculptures of girls in the obvious Mucha style on the table below this sculpture.

"I thought the thing I found would be a tombstone." Fan Meng looked at the stone sculpture in front of him and said, "I didn't expect that it would be a monument in the cemetery."

Like most cemeteries, this cemetery also has commemorative statues. For example, this statue commemorates the Czechoslovak soldiers who were buried in this cemetery and died in World War I.

At the same time, the date of construction is written below in 1938, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of World War I.

To be on the safe side, the three of them looked through all the remaining places in the cemetery, and found that there was nothing similar in other places. Only this stone sculpture had an obvious artistic style of Mucha.

"It seems this is where it should be." Fan Meng said after taking a look at the stone carvings in front of him and then at the church behind him. "But how do we open this thing next?"

Different from the wilderness where they found things before, this place is a church cemetery in the city center. Although the purpose has been discontinued, the church in front is still in use, and there are people everywhere around it.

So trying to excavate here is completely different from previous excavations in the wild. For example, it is impossible for them to excavate this statue in a short time without others knowing.