Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It was an ordinary morning. Liang En was washing up and preparing to have breakfast when Joan of Arc walked in from outside. In addition to the newspaper, there was a thick letter in her hand.

"Today there is a strange letter." Joan of Arc put the letter on the table and said, "I feel that the envelope does not contain a normal letter, because the envelope looks a bit too bulging, and the style does not look like a normal letter. It’s also different.”

"Let me see." After hearing what Joan said, Liang En was also interested and took the letter. Sure enough, this letter looked completely different from ordinary letters. For example, the seal on the letter There is a wax seal.

To be honest, very few people use wax seals when writing letters in this era. Except for some young people who find it fun, only some old antiques may still use these things.

After turning the envelope over with a curious look on his face, Liang En immediately understood the origin of the letter, because the wax seal had the Golden Dawn logo clearly printed on it.

When the envelope was opened, there was a thin piece of parchment inside, with an invitation letter written in a special blue ink, inviting Liang En to attend a gathering of the Golden Dawn in the summer.

After seeing this letter, Liang En immediately called to inform him that he would participate in this gathering. After all, for Golden Dawn itself, which is a loose organization, there are only two major gatherings every year except for special events.

One of them is in the summer, and the other is in the winter, just enough to stagger the annual social season in London, England, making everyone's schedule easier.

After all, most of the people who join this organization are from the upper class in the UK, and only this group of people have the money and leisure to engage in research in this area. However, this group of people will always be a little busy during the social season, so everyone’s gatherings should be done as much as possible. Stagger the social season.

In fact, Liang En has never been very interested in aristocratic salons or banquets. Fortunately, although the participants of the Golden Dawn organization are mostly upper-class people, such gatherings are generally very relaxing and not as troublesome as aristocratic gatherings.

More importantly, at this party, everyone often exchanges a series of secret information and various items that are absolutely unobtainable in public, and these things are also what Liang En needs.

According to the regulations, everyone who participates is best to bring something for communication. It is just up to the participants to choose whether to bring items or information. The only requirement is that it must be related to the supernatural.

This is definitely not a complicated matter for Liang En. The archaeological survey report of the palace on Crete can fully meet these internal requirements of the Golden Dawn.

So two days later, Liang En came to London, England alone, and then went to a mansion in the Knightsbridge area owned by a member of the Golden Dawn.

As imagined before, this gathering was held in a very relaxed salon format. Everyone gathered together in twos and threes, and from time to time someone came on stage to show off their knowledge or items.

Liang En was naturally eye-opening on this occasion. This place indeed showed many things that he could never see or even heard of in ordinary times.

For example, an old man showed a manuscript attributed to Paracelsus, which recorded some very mysterious-looking alchemical runes.

Because Liang En mastered alchemy, he quickly saw that this manuscript told about the effects of alchemical separation methods, and that powerful medicines could be made even from toxic substances.

According to the above statement, toxic substances can be divided into the three original elements of mercury, sulfur, and salt through methods such as distillation, sublimation, corruption, and dissolution.

It's just that the manuscripts collected by the other party are not complete, and only a part is displayed, so there is no part where the three more critical original elements are purified and recombined to achieve sublimation.

At the same time, from this manuscript, Liang En also saw the very solid academic level of the members of Golden Dawn in this area, because the translation on this manuscript is now very accurate, and it can be seen that the translator has a deep foundation in cryptography and linguistics. .

This also proves that the people of the Golden Dawn all participated in the organization in an individual capacity, but most of them have a whole family behind them, including archaeologists, antiquities appraisers, historians and even cryptographers. team.

Although movies often feature an explorer or archaeologist reading ancient texts after seeing them, or seeing something and identifying what it is, these are actually just interpretations.

After all, whether it is archeology, cultural relic identification or linguistics, they are all knowledge worth learning for a lifetime. Few people can achieve considerable achievements in multiple aspects, but human energy is limited.

Of course, Liang En is a special case in this regard, but cheating with cards and learning honestly are two different concepts, so his case has almost no reference value.

The first two days of the exchange meeting were for everyone to exchange their knowledge and belongings with each other. Because the ruins Liang En dug on the island of Crete were related to ancient European legends, he was specially arranged to discuss this aspect at prime time. speech.

As the discoverer, Liang En has the right to obtain all archaeological-related information. After this period of joint excavation by the international joint archaeological team, the veil of the Minoan palace was gradually unveiled.

So in this speech, Liang En focused on the intricate structure inside the palace, the large number of cattle-related objects and murals, and the large number of weapons found in the palace, especially the many double-headed axes.

The members of the Golden Dawn seemed very excited about this discovery, because it all matched the legend of the Minotaur in the legendary Labyrinth of Crete.

This is definitely a very valuable discovery for the Golden Dawn who pursues all kinds of supernatural beings, because it proves that some legends are not just legends, but content that actually exists in the real world.

So in the following free question and answer time, Liang En gathered at least 1/3 of the Golden Dawn members and began to ask about various details, especially the many things that interested him inside the ruins.

In the free discussion that followed in the evening, most of the people discussed were related to the information Liang En brought this time. At least in everyone's eyes, this can be regarded as the most valuable discovery made by the Golden Dawn organization since its establishment.

It's a pity that everyone can't discuss much valuable things just by talking about it, so many people began to directly apply to Liang En at the small reception after dinner to go to the archaeological site to get close to the ruins and cultural relics.

This type of archaeological sites are often semi-public. After all, the Western world attaches great importance to public opinion, and semi-public archaeology is an opportunity to popularize archaeological knowledge to the public.

Of course, there are certain thresholds for entering the archaeological battlefield. Fortunately, for these people present, their identities allow them to easily cross those thresholds.

Therefore, Liang En also made a favor and compiled a list of people who were willing to go and sent it to the archaeological site, and then the other party directly sent invitation letters to the list.