Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"What on earth is this?" Seeing Liang En put down the things with a look of realization, Jeanne turned her eyes from the piece of metal to Liang En's face.

"I don't think it can be seen at all." "Actually, this thing is pretty easy to deduce." Liang En took out a metal block from the table and handed it to Joan of Arc, and then said. "You can probably guess what it is just by rubbing it with your hands and smelling it."

"Let me try -" Joan of Arc took a piece of metal, rubbed it with her hands, then put it under the tip of her nose and sniffed. Soon, a look of understanding appeared on her face. "I smell a fishy smell of the sea. Is this fished out of the sea?"

That's right, and it shouldn't take too long to fish these things out, otherwise the smell of the sea would have dissipated long ago. Liang En said, pointing to the black piece of metal.

"And you can see that those gray-white dots above are left behind after marine organisms parasitized on it, which means that this thing has probably stayed in the ocean for a long time."

"So that's it!" A knowledgeable expression appeared on Jeanne's face, but soon he had new doubts. "Then can you tell where this was fished out from?"

"It's hard to see, but I think I can find someone to ask what's going on here." Liang En was a little embarrassed after being asked by Joan of Arc, but he quickly thought of a plan to deal with it.

"If there are no accidents, we can track the logistics of these things by finding the identity of the mailer and harvester of this thing, and then figure out where these things come from."

It must be a complicated thing for ordinary people to track these things, but for Liang En, he has enough connections and methods to figure it all out.

The way to figure out these questions is to ask on the Golden Dawn organization's internal website. This website was built by the organization ten years ago to facilitate internal personnel to communicate with each other and help each other.

In fact, Liang En now habitually logs in to this website every morning to see if there is any interesting news and answer the questions he can answer.

For the Golden Dawn organization, people often have a lot of ancient books or materials that need to be identified, and Liang En, who has mastered a large number of ancient texts, can easily translate those ancient texts.

According to his point of view, these things are just a piece of cake for him, so it is very worthwhile for me to be able to build relationships with a large group of people in about ten minutes a day.

Of course, these things also brought him a lot of rewards. For example, after he put this matter on the Golden Dawn website and asked about it, he found part of it through a member of the Golden Dawn at noon the next day. detailed information.

"The information is very detailed. I think we should be able to take action soon." Joan looked at the printed sheets filled with several large sheets of paper and nodded with satisfaction, then asked as if she remembered something. “Is the source of information reliable?”

"Of course it is reliable. This is one of the top private detectives in the UK." Liang En said after flicking the printed information, "I am familiar with this person because we had a relatively close relationship a while ago. More, so that’s for sure.”

On the other hand, this private detective is a fanatical lover of ancient Egypt, so after learning that Liang En could translate the ancient Egyptian language, the two quickly became familiar with each other. Liang En also helped him translate a lot of things, so this time he learned After Liang En needed help, he provided the help he could.

This help was very valuable, because it allowed Liang En to understand the causes and consequences of this pile of things, and then roughly figured out what was going on here.

As he had guessed before, these things came from an illegal salvage group in the Middle East. On the surface, they were an ordinary fishing company, but they were actually engaged in illegal salvage of underwater cultural relics in the Eastern Mediterranean.

It’s just that this illegal salvage group suffered a devastating blow some time ago: when they returned to Lebanon, which is their base, they mistakenly entered Israeli territorial waters and were attacked and destroyed by the Israeli navy.

After seeing the interception, this group of people ran away frantically and refused to stop the boat even after being warned many times. As a result, the Israelis believed that they were terrorists who used violent interception methods.

Due to the loss of core personnel and ships, this organization can be regarded as existing in name only. According to the information obtained by this private detective through his own connections, this organization's overseas shipping channels have completely collapsed.

This is probably the reason why this pile of things was left at Edinburgh Airport. It is probably because the entire organization fell apart and the people who were supposed to receive the goods left no one to receive the goods.

It is a pity that the so-called anti-terrorism methods of the Israelis are absolutely brutal, so that no one has any idea what the group of people dug up before.

At least after the Phalanx's 20mm artillery fired once and then took two precision-guided Hydra rockets, the gang, including men and ships, stayed on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. There is definitely no way to ask about these situations.

As for those who receive the goods on land, they have no idea where they have gone, because this group of people have to guard against being cheated by some opponents, so they absolutely need to stay hidden every time they travel.

So now the investigation has fallen into a dead end. Fortunately, after realizing that there was no information to be investigated through this channel, Liang En quickly changed his approach and started cleaning up these metal blocks to see if there was any valuable information. .

After all, Liang En has gained enough experience after going through so many archaeological expeditions, so he hopes to use his own power to find the secrets behind these things. If he can't, he will use cards again.

Cleaning these metal blocks was obviously much easier than cleaning other things, so Liang En cleaned up these small metal blocks in a short time.

Previously, Liang En and the others removed a total of 17 small metal pieces from the machine, which were about the size of an adult male's index finger. Each piece had a thick black oxide layer on it, and there were also many traces of marine life attached to it.

But after cleaning the oxide layer above, they found that the metal was actually golden yellow, and the traces on it also proved that these metal blocks were simple ingots.

"In other words, these things should come from the cargo on a cargo ship." Looking at the cleaned ingots, Liang En showed a thoughtful expression, "And this kind of metal should have been very valuable in that era."

According to his previous knowledge, this type of metal ingot as raw material has a characteristic, that is, the smaller the metal ingot, the higher its value. Of course, this situation is not absolute, but generally there is nothing wrong with it.

"I remember that the earliest large-scale smelting of brass by humans was probably in the ancient Roman era, and the earliest brass products were discovered in China."

Joan of Arc has read a lot of books since she came to this world and discovered that she could read, so she quickly judged the materials of these metals and revealed the relevant knowledge.

"But this also brings us a huge problem, that is, it is difficult to determine the era from which this simple metal ingot comes."