Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After eating a makeshift dinner of fast food and tea boiled with filtered spring water, Liang En specially used his metal detector to detect all the places around him that had traces of human activity. .

Perhaps because the people passing by were relatively poor at the time, he only found a dozen bullet slugs that had turned into lead lumps, except for a common 1882 Morgan silver dollar.

"This is a bare lead slug from an old pistol, derived from .44 pistol bullets." Barry took the small handful of slugs and said.

"At least in the early 20th century, this kind of bullet, which had become outdated in the east and big cities, still had a large market in the west and Canada. If I remember correctly, my father still had it until I was seven or eight years old. Will buy the same type of bullets for his old revolver."

"It seems that there has been a firefight in this place before." Looking at these deformed bullets, Liang En said in a low voice. Obviously, these bullets should not have been fired by those lawless gangsters when they were having fun.

"By the way, what's the value of this silver dollar?" After throwing away the worthless bullets, Barry looked at the blackened silver dollar in Liang En's hand and asked.

"It's only 30 to 40 US dollars, because the Morgan silver coins issued in this year are really too big, and this one is not well preserved." Liang En threw the silver coin to Barry and said.

As the sun goes down, the temperature suddenly cools down.

Fortunately, the overall feeling of the cave was pretty good with a fire lit at the entrance. At this time, Liang En and Barry were sitting by the fire, warming themselves up and chatting. The loaded rifles were placed within easy reach after they turned off the safety.

Through chatting, Liang En also learned that this Irishman named Barry was a Canadian with a U.S. green card. He had followed Bruce when he retired from the army ten years ago.

Thinking about it, since he can be sent by the tycoon named Bruce as Liang En's collaborator, then this Barry must be second to none among Bruce's men in terms of ability and loyalty.

Because the vegetation coverage on the surrounding surface is very low, the temperature quickly dropped below 0 degrees. Occasionally the howling of wolves can be heard in the distance, but as long as there is a fire burning at the entrance of the cave, there is no danger.

After chatting for a while, Barry went to bed first. Liang En stayed by the fire to take care of the fire and guarded it for half the night. The broken wood previously collected from nearby gold mines was very resistant to burning, which relieved Liang En a lot of the work of adding firewood.

In the middle of the night, after Liang En and Barry changed shifts, they ran into the depths of the cave and got into sleeping bags and fell asleep. They had a peaceful night. Early the next morning, the two of them took a few bites of the bread bought in the supermarket yesterday, filled a bottle of milk, packed up and set off.

Three hours later, they finally climbed to the pass of the last mountain. Standing at the mountain pass and looking east, you can see a small basin surrounded by mountains. In the center of the basin is a dry spring.

"I think we're here." After taking out his phone and pulling out the previous map, comparing it with the surrounding terrain and the local GPS, Liang En smiled at Barry beside him.

An hour later, the two people came to this earth-yellow valley, and Liang En saw the light reflected behind the mound of soil near the spring at his first glance.

I have to say that this place is indeed a good place to hide things, because for locals, they basically will not come to such a dried up spring, and travelers will subconsciously pay attention to it after seeing the surrounding situation. Focus on the spring rather than searching the surroundings.

"We need to dig out this mound next." Liang En pretended to walk around the small valley, which was only the size of a basketball court, and pointed at the glowing mound.

"If I guess correctly, what we are looking for is under the mound."

"How did you figure it out?" Although Barry had promised to follow Liang En's instructions during this treasure hunt before he came, he still couldn't hold back his inner curiosity and asked. "This is no different from the surrounding mounds."

"You only need to look at the cliff above the mound to know." Because of the blessing of the card [Careful Observation (R)], Liang En also saw something unusual about this mound at this time, and then explained arrive.

"This soil is often formed by the weathering of rocks on the mountain that fall down, so the larger the mound of soil below, the higher the degree of weathering on the mountain above."

"But this pile of soil is an exception." Liang En said, pointing to the glowing mound of soil in his field of vision, "You see, the cliff above it is basically not weathered, so theoretically, the pile below should not be so big. A pile of dirt.”

"You're right, it should indeed be like this." Barry nodded, then took out the engineer shovel from his backpack and started digging together with Liang En. Five minutes later, the two people discovered something interesting.

"This stone should have been piled up by hand." Barry suddenly exclaimed after digging out the gravel and soil more than 1 meter deep on the surface. Because he saw obvious artificial traces on the side of the cliff.

After putting on the headband and camera and continuing to dig for a while, a cave on the cliff appeared in front of Liang En and the others. This is a cave that seems to be only about 1m high. Through the newly cleared cave entrance, two boxes can be seen in the cave.

There is a thick layer of dust accumulated on the box, which should be the traces of nearly a century of time. Judging from the style, this box made of wooden boards looks like the most common box used to store explosives on construction sites back then.

"Be careful!" Just after Liang En cleaned up the last few remaining stones, Barry suddenly pulled him back. "What's wrong?" Liang En, who almost fell due to the sudden pull, asked in confusion. "There seems to be a bomb next to that box."

With a nervous look on his face, Barry turned on the flashlight and looked inside. Sure enough, there was a bundle of cylindrical mining explosives placed beside the box.

"The explosives are fake." After checking it out, Barry showed a dumbfounded expression. The bundle of what looked like explosives was just cardboard tubes stuffed with dirt.

Considering that the robber did not injure anyone almost all the time when he robbed people, it is completely understandable to place a fake bomb in this place.

Next, the two people moved the two dusty boxes out of the small cave, checked through the gaps in the boxes to make sure they were safe, and then pried open the boxes.

The box contained coarse cloth bags, half of which contained some well-preserved banknotes. Unfortunately, they are no longer in circulation. The other half contained some bags, boxes and paper rolls of different sizes.

Obviously, it would be very stupid for Liang En and the others to carry these things together in the box, so they decided to count them first, and then they would put these things in their backpacks and carry them out.

There were three to four hundred gold and silver coins wrapped in paper rolls. Unfortunately, most of them are worthless Morgan silver coins, and there are only about thirty gold coins.

The small pieces of nugget gold wrapped in paper and the gold sand packed in corked glass bottles together weighed about two kilograms.

In addition to these hard currencies, the other party also used a series of paper boxes and wooden boxes to contain many handicrafts. The gold and silver watches alone totaled about ten yuan. In addition, there were also a series of rings made of precious metals. , brooches and other jewelry.

The diamond brooch that Liang En was mainly looking for this time was also found in a box. Although almost all the small gems on the brooch were missing, the main body of the brooch and the peanut-sized light blue diamond Still exist.

"Except for the brooch, the total of these things can be sold for about five to six million US dollars." After looking at the pile of things and making a quick estimate, Liang En came to a final conclusion. "It's hard to say if it goes to auction."