Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It's not just Joan who thinks this is strange, at least for Liang En, the entire underground base has a strange aura, and there seem to be too many contradictory things overall.

For example, the other party can kill a bunch of Japanese soldiers here to silence them, and even let a low-level officer take his own life to lay defensive traps in this area, which shows that important secrets are indeed hidden here.

But the strange thing is that compared to this strict confidentiality measure, the hardware of the entire base does not match the situation at all: only some wood, bamboo reinforced concrete and a small amount of steel bars are used in the cave.

The protection standards are not even military standards, they are even lower than the standards of some important civilian material warehouses.

As for the door, it looked even worse. It was just an ordinary iron door on the outside, and there wasn't even a metal door on the inside, just a heavy wooden door.

However, after inspecting the wooden door, Liang En found that the Japs built the base like this simply because they did not have much supplies, because the wooden door was exquisitely made and made of solid materials.

"This is a striped ebony door, which is considered to be the top quality wood in the Philippines." A security guard stationed in the Philippines said after coming forward to inspect it. "The thickness of this door is more than 15cm, and even pistol bullets cannot penetrate it."

It was much easier to dismantle this kind of wooden door. After using the gaps in the door to insert fiber optic probes to confirm that there were no traps behind the door, everyone quickly destroyed the hinges on the side of the door.

It was a simple job. Seven or eight minutes later, with a heavy crash, the heavy wooden door, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, collapsed. The passage was opened by them.

As the dust that was stirred up fell, Joan of Arc was the first to walk in, and then waved for everyone to come in. "Everything is safe here, everyone can come in and take a look."

"What the hell is this?" Liang En frowned after walking through the door, because in his impression, the treasure trove should be filled with boxes of various sizes, with gold, silver and jewelry piled all over the floor.

But the situation here is obviously different. There is only a small room of about ten square meters behind the wooden door. Four or five ammunition boxes are piled in the corner of the room, and the boxes are still covered with dust.

"It contains silver pesos issued during the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, as well as some scattered jewelry. After opening the box and taking a look, Liang En shook his head.

These silver coins are not valuable, and some are even more expensive before the weight. The total price of all the items in the box is fifty or sixty thousand US dollars. For Liang En, the harvest is not even worth the expenditure.

After seeing these things, everyone was obviously a little discouraged. The things found before had made everyone's expectations the highest, so they would naturally feel disappointed when they saw the final finds.

"This is wrong, absolutely wrong." Liang En shook his head, because everything seemed unreasonable now, at least this thing would definitely not cost so much.

"There must be a secret hidden here, but I haven't discovered it yet." Liang En muttered in a low voice while carefully examining the cave.

At first, Liang En thought there was a hidden space in the cave, but after careful inspection, the cave was only so big. Only when he knocked on a piece of cement on the side did he hear an empty sound.

"Open this place." After knocking a few times, Liang En, who was sure that there was indeed something hidden behind, said to the accompanying security personnel. "There might be something hidden behind this."

Everyone brought various tools with them and the cement in this place was indeed not thick, so in just ten minutes everyone knocked off the cement layer and took out a silver box from inside.

After opening the box, a lake-like green appeared in front of Liang En and the others. Inside the box were a pair of jade bracelets, an jade necklace, an jade ring and a pair of jade earrings.

"What is this, emerald?" Looking at some translucent green jewelry in front of him, a security guard behind him asked curiously. In the impression of Europeans, the only translucent green gemstone is emerald.

"No, no, no, it's not emerald, it's jade." Jeanne shook her head and said. She didn't know much about it before, but since going to Guatemala, she has learned about this gem that the Chinese civilization is particularly looking for.

"Emerald?" a security guard asked, repeating the word in an odd tone. "I had almost never heard of this gem existing before."

"Because this kind of gem is only recognized by the Chinese. Of course, from an archaeological perspective, the ancient Mayans also recognized it." Liang En carefully took out the silver box and said at the same time.

To be honest, the aesthetics of this world are directly linked to the strength of civilization. For example, due to the decline of China in the modern century, China’s jade has been basically unrecognized since it left the Confucian cultural circle.

Jadeite may be one of the few traditional Chinese jades that has a certain degree of acceptance in the world, but this is purely because jadeite, as jadeite, is closer to emerald, and at the same time there are too few natural green gemstones.

"How much is this thing worth?" After watching Liang En put the set of jewelry into the backpack on his back and asking everyone to spread out to search if there was a mezzanine in the room, Joan came up and asked in a low voice.

"More than US$12 million." Liang En thought for a while and gave a price. "I have only seen jade jewelry of this grade in photos from the National Museum of China."

"Is it so valuable?" Jeanne's eyes widened suddenly. "It seems that it is indeed worth using some means to hide it."

"No, that's not the case. Jade only became so expensive after China's rapid economic growth about two thousand years ago." Liang En shook his head slightly.

"This set of equipment would cost between RMB 60,000 and RMB 80,000 at the time of World War II. Although it is not cheap, it is definitely not worth building an underground fortification to hide it."

"Then what's going on?" Joan of Arc frowned and asked, "Why did the other party build this secret warehouse?"

"I have a little suspicion now, so I asked everyone to search the surrounding rooms." Liang En said in a low voice while looking at the hole in the wall that was used to hide the jade jewelry. "If I'm right, there should be some similar darkrooms in the walls of the surrounding rooms."

The development of the matter was no different from what Liang En and the others had guessed before. After more than an hour, we found the secret compartments set up on the walls in four of the six houses and found something inside.

These included a gold Patek Philippe pocket watch encrusted with gems, a set of sapphire jewelry in the style of the Napoleonic era, a cup made from narwhal horn encrusted with gold and gems and an extraordinarily long pearl necklace.

"This thing should actually be a court pearl used during the Qing Dynasty in China." Liang En pointed to the last string of pearls and said, "This is an Dongzhu court pearl. Basically only members of the royal family can use it. I don't know how it got here."

"Is this the mission of this building? Is it used to hide the wealth plundered by the Japanese invaders in Southeast Asia?" Joan asked in a low voice after looking at the found things.

"Yes and no." Liang En answered Joan of Arc with a very British answer, "This building was indeed built to hide treasures, but it is certainly not just for hiding these things."