Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Over the next day, he conducted a large-scale search of the castle in the hope of getting more clues, but except for the symbols on the top of the tower, they found nothing suspicious.

"I feel like I can't go on anymore -" By the time they arrived at the castle on the morning of the third day, Mary looked visibly depressed. "Although we found more than three hundred runes, we can't see anything at all.

"If I really have to say something, I can only say that these symbols are indeed beautifully drawn, at least they look more like paintings than some words." "

"Wait, you mean these symbols look like paintings rather than words?" Liang En, who was meditating on a lot of photos, raised his head and asked, "Are you sure about this?"

"It's basically certain," Mary said, pointing to the symbols on the screen. "For example, the fish symbol is an early Christian symbol, but a lot of details have been added to the carvings here. It's not as simple as the original one -"

As Mary spoke, she pointed at the symbols on the screen and explained them one by one. According to her, these are artistic symbols that are usually used in only a few places.

"That is to say, the production cost of these things is higher than imagined." Liang En nodded slightly, "And I just discovered a strange thing, that is, these symbols are basically not repeated."

"If there is no repetition, then it is unlikely that the messages used to convey these symbols are words." After hearing the news, Mary mused.

"Unlike Chinese characters, our European writing was originally alphabetical writing, so if we want to convey enough information, repeated symbols are inevitable."

"So I think we can temporarily give up the idea of ​​guessing that the information conveyed by these symbols is text information. At least for now, it seems unlikely." "This is a very bold, but very reasonable guess."

Mary's analysis gave Liang En an important inspiration. "When we see symbols, we subconsciously think of them as encrypted text, but is this really the case?"

At this time, Liang En finally realized why the people at Rose Cross had been busy here for a long time but still didn't understand the reason for the situation here. After all, no matter how strong the strength was, there was no point in going in the wrong direction.

To be honest, the people of Rose Cross are definitely at the top level in code deciphering, and can even be as good as the Golden Dawn.

After all, alchemists like to hide their research results with various passwords, so as a research organization focusing on alchemy, it is natural to have sufficient means of deciphering secret texts.

Unfortunately, from the information collected so far, it seems that these symbols are probably not encrypted text, so no matter how strong the deciphering ability is, it will not be of much help in unlocking the secret, but it is easy to go astray.

After breaking a stereotype and broadening their thinking, Liang En and the others immediately made a new discovery: when they put the photos together and observed them as a whole, they found that the symbols were arranged strangely.

"If we put all the symbols on the wall and the ground together, we will find that these symbols form an irregular oval." Liang En said, pointing to the photos put together.

"Do you think this looks familiar?" "Indeed, but I can't remember where I've seen it before." Elizabeth frowned and at the same time zoomed in and out of the large photo that was put together on the screen of her mobile phone. Come and go.

"This is an aerial view of the island that looks very much like the one below us." Joan of Arc, who was swiping around on her phone just now, suddenly said, and then transferred a photo to her computer.

This picture is the panoramic view of the top of the tower that Liang En just sent to everyone, but the outermost circle of symbols was connected by her with black lines to form a closed pattern, which looks almost exactly like the map of the island. .

"This kind of creativity is simply——" After realizing what this was going on, Liang En said yes to that. The person who designed this thing was in awe of him, because this design made full use of the weaknesses of normal people's thinking.

Because after normal people see this series of symbols they don’t recognize, their first reaction is to decipher what secrets are hidden in these symbols.

Therefore, they would never have imagined that these symbols had no meaning at all, but were simply points used for positioning.

"But what does this map want to tell us?" Elizabeth looked at the island map with a thoughtful expression. "I think anyone standing on that tower should be able to see that the island's environment does not require a map at all."

"Let me think about it, do you think this depicts the castle below us?" Liang En said, zooming in on an area on the screen, and then pointed at several symbols crowded together and asked.

"Yes, this is it." Elizabeth came up to take a look and pointed to a gear-like sign. "This kind of sign is often used on ancient maps to represent a fortified armed fortress."

"That is to say, these symbols are not completely random, but they have drawn all the symbols that carry information together with other symbols." Liang En looked at the gear-shaped symbol and nodded.

"So I figured if this thing was really a map, there would be some markings pointing to the true whereabouts of the things they were trying to hide."

"Do you see this?" Less than a minute after Liang En finished speaking, Mary suddenly pointed to a place on the edge of the photo and said, "I remember that many of the maps I saw back then had this symbol on them."

The symbol on her finger is a symbol composed of a sixteen-pointed star and a circle. Among these sixteen corners, four are the longest, four are medium, and eight are the shortest, forming a centrally symmetrical figure that is very friendly to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"This is indeed related to the map, because this is a pattern that belongs to sailors." After looking at the pattern carefully, Liang En explained.

"This pattern is called a rose in the wind, and it appeared around AD 1300 as a sailor's amulet. It was widely used in tattoos from the 18th to 20th centuries and was sometimes drawn on maps."

"As for why it appears here, I probably hope that people who see these patterns in the future will understand that what is hidden among these symbols is a map."

Rose in the Wind The discovery of this pattern greatly boosted everyone's morale, because it meant that their previous guesses were correct. Encouraged by this, they quickly completed an overall analysis of these symbols.

The result of the analysis is that among the more than 300 symbols, less than ten may be related to the geographical location. Judging from these symbols, it can basically be determined that the opponent's treasure hiding place is near the castle, or even inside the castle.

"We have achieved a very important result, but this does not mean that the next work will be any easier." When everyone had lunch together at noon, Liang En summarized the current situation with everyone.

"After all, this castle and the surrounding area are really too big. If the four of us want to dig it out, we won't be able to dig it out until next year, so the next step is to find a more detailed location."