Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Liang En didn't know what kind of waves his thesis caused in distant Paris. After writing the thesis, he just wanted to take a good rest at home and wait until Christmas was over before resuming work.

But things often don't develop as people imagine. For example, Liang En was unable to find a suitable job before, so he ended up going to work to finish his thesis. But just when he was finishing his thesis and preparing to take a rest, he received an unexpected treasure hunt invitation.

This invitation came from across the Atlantic in New York, USA. The inviter was Mr. Bruce, a big businessman who runs real estate in New York.

In fact, I didn't know this businessman Liang En before, so when I first received the call, I heard that there was a treasure hunting commission and I almost hung up the call because I thought it was a scam.

The good person promptly reported the name of Dr. David Caldwell, the head of the Scottish underground treasure department, who had a tacit understanding with Liang En when he handed over the Iron Age gold collar. Only then did Liang En realize that the other person was not a liar.

It turned out that the American rich man had a very good relationship with Dr. Caldwell, so when he was looking for something, he naturally thought of his friend, and Dr. Caldwell recommended Liang En.

"You mean, you want me to help you find Butch Cassidy's treasure?" After the other party stated his wish, Liang En asked while using the computer to look up the name of the person.

"Yes, I recently obtained a note left by Butch Cassidy, which mentioned something about a treasure. That's why I asked someone to help me find this treasure." The middle-aged man on the other side of the phone the man said.

"To be precise, I hope you can help me find a diamond brooch that the other party took away when they robbed a Union Pacific Railroad train in 1899. That brooch belonged to my ancestor and is a very important thing in our family history."

"So in this treasure hunt, if you find this brooch, then everything except the brooch belongs to you. If you don't find the brooch but find other treasures, then you can get half of the treasures. If there is nothing If you find it, I will pay for the intermediate expenses."

"Okay, I understand the general situation." After listening to Mr. Bruce describe the general situation, Liang En said into the microphone, "Please give me half an hour. I will call you in half an hour. It’s your decision and mine.”

After hanging up the phone, Liang En looked at the computer screen in front of him. Unlike those treasure hunters decades ago, the biggest advantage of today's treasure hunters is that they can find information they don't know through the Internet.

The target this time was Butch Cassidy, the prototype of the protagonist of the famous American movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". His original name was Bob Parker, and he was born in a Mormon family. Born in 1866, he was the eldest of thirteen children.

In 1879, at the age of 13, he had his first brush with the law when he stole a pair of trousers from a shop, and this time he became dissatisfied with society.

Butch Cassidy later worked in a butcher shop and on a farm, and learned to train horses and shoot from an old man who was a former cattle rustler.

When he turned 18, he left his hometown of Utah and wandered for several years in the sparsely populated and chaotic Western states of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

It was not until 1889 that Cassidy completed his first robbery. At that time, he and several companions escaped from the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride with more than $20,000, which is equivalent to $600,000 today.

After serving nearly two years in prison for horse stealing in 1894, he robbed a bank in Montpelier, Idaho, taking cash, gold, and silver coins that may have been worth as much as $16,500.

The next year, he and his companions robbed a coal company in Castle Gate, Utah, and stole more than nine thousand dollars. The gang then robbed the train several times and obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from the train's safe.

According to records obtained by modern people, this gang robbed a total of various wealth equivalent to more than 3 million US dollars today in multiple robberies, and the brooch that the client was looking for this time was included in this wealth.

As for the reason why the client can believe that this brooch still exists, it is also very simple, that is, in the eight years from the train robbery to the death of the other party, although Butch Cassidy spent a lot of money, he got far more money. Overspending.

Considering that the other party obtained a large amount of cash during the robbery, there is a high probability that gold and silver coins and jewelry that are easier to store for a long time and retain their value will be hidden for later use.

Especially considering that the other party died in a firefight with the Bolivian army, there have always been legends that some of the things they grabbed back then were turned into treasures and hidden somewhere where they had been.

"It turned out to be a treasure hidden by a famous robber. If so, you can go and have a look." After reading the information on the computer screen, Liang En quickly made a decision and then dialed Mr. Bruce's number. .

Two days later, Liang En said goodbye to his parents and boarded a plane from Dublin to New York, pulling a suitcase. It was a six-hour transatlantic flight, and I felt fine when I got off the plane because I was flying first class.

It was already 7:30 pm when he arrived at the New York Airport, so Liang En did not go directly to the rich man, but directly found a hotel next to the airport to check in.

At 8:30 the next morning, Liang En took the hotel car to Mr. Bruce's office near Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York.

Fortunately, the other party has nothing to do today. So after confirming with the front desk that he had made an appointment, a front desk staff immediately took him to the office on the 17th floor of the building.

"I think you should know what you are here for, Mr. Liang." After a few polite greetings after entering the door, Bruce asked sitting in his spacious and luxurious office.

"Of course." Liang En smiled and nodded. "But if you want to find something, you need to look at the notebook you are collecting now. I don't think you can determine the location of the treasure just by relying on legends."

"That's natural." Bruce said, taking out a notebook with black cover and yellowing pages from a small iron box on the table, and then handed it to Liang En.

"This was found in Bolivia by the private detective I hired, and the note analysis expert I hired confirmed that the content written in this notebook indeed came from the target I was looking for, Butch Cassidy."

After taking the notebook, Liang En immediately opened the notebook and saw that in addition to the list of robberies the owner of the notebook had taken after coming to South America, the pages of the notebook also drew a few pictures at the end.

You could tell at a glance that the artist of these pictures was a kind of soul painter. After looking at it for a long time, Liang En realized that these pictures should be topographic maps near the treasure location.

But except for the dots marked with red pen on the last picture, which should be used to indicate the location of the treasure, the content that looks like children's graffiti makes it really difficult to determine the location of these treasure locations.