Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After breakfast the next morning, Liang En and the others went to the garden downstairs to meet Nelson, and then discussed the details of the treasure hunt.

The first thing the two sides discussed was naturally the issue of remuneration. Unlike the traditions of Northeast Asian countries, even friends in Europe prefer to discuss remuneration first and then start work.

Obviously, Nelson is absolutely very generous in terms of remuneration. Even if he gets nothing, he will pay Liang En 100,000 euros, and as long as he finds the target, he will give Liang En one-third of what he found, and Liang En has the corresponding priority. Option.

In other words, when the time comes to choose items, there will be twelve rounds to choose from. Liang En can make his own choice on the four numbers 1, 3, 6, and 10.

This remuneration is absolutely generous. If Liang En had not fully proven his ability before and the relationship between the two parties was good, Nelson would never have been able to pay this level of remuneration.

So from a certain perspective, the most important thing in this industry is personal ability. If the ability is not enough, no matter how good other conditions are, you will not be able to get the job.

"Okay, this reward is very good." After reading the reward, Liang En nodded and said, "Now can you tell me the information you have. I think you should have some important information in your hand, otherwise you wouldn't open this time. Search jobs.”

"Yes, I do have some important information." Nelson said, passing a document to Liang En via Bluetooth. "This is a note I found before."

"Notes?" After hearing what he said, Liang En quickly opened the file on his phone and checked it. It was obvious that these yellowing documents were old, so they could only be inspected through photos.

The first document was actually a diary. At the beginning, it only recorded the contents of ordinary colonists' lives in the colony. However, from October 1941, the diary began to contain a sense of panic.

Although the Pacific War broke out in early December 1941, in the month or two before that, the shadow of the war permeated the entire Pacific region, and even the dullest person could feel that something was wrong.

For example, this is the case for the owner of the diary. His last entry was on the third day after the war. He abandoned all his belongings and boarded a ship to Australia with his family.

In this diary, he wrote that he saw the ship used to evacuate museum collections on the pier in Jakarta, that is, Batavia. It was transporting some small but heavy things at the time.

"That is to say, the things transported back then were not just antiques, but even some precious metal reserves." After seeing this, Liang En frowned.

Because according to this narrative, it was not only cultural relics that were sent to that ship, but there might even be things similar to bank reserves.

But think about it, it is a 1,200-ton ship, and it is also a rare fast cargo ship, so it is very normal for some important things to be transported on that ship.

It is a pity that this ship, which is considered very safe by everyone, has not reached its destination. At least so far, only a few clues about this ship have been left.

The second document is a very messy record left by an explorer during his expedition to Papua New Guinea in the 1950s.

According to the manual, he came to the island to study the local primitive tribes, hoping to help him achieve success in anthropological research.

I have to say that his choice was very correct. This land consists of Papua and New Guinea, which means "the land of the curly-haired people". This fully explains the appearance of the local indigenous people.

The land now known as Papua New Guinea lies in the western South Pacific. There are about 600 large and small islands including the eastern half of New Guinea and the nearby Bismarck Islands and Bougainville Island.

Because of this extremely fragmented terrain, it is almost a museum of humanity, characterized by huge cultural diversity. Although it has a population of just over 7 million, there are approximately 800 different languages ​​spoken.

Even to this day Papua New Guinea is one of the last homes in the world where indigenous people can maintain their traditional way of life.

The island has undulating mountains and deep canyons. This unique geographical condition makes the modern world only exist in coastal areas and stops in front of the mountains. So many anthropologists now choose to go to that place to carry out research work.

More than half a century ago, this place was a pure wilderness, so it naturally attracted many scholars to carry out research work in this area, including the owner of the record that Liang En was looking at.

It was at this time that Liang En realized that the book in his hand was actually a purely academic note, so it was normal for the records in it to be confusing under such circumstances.

After all, Liang En himself is considered a scholar, so he has a notebook very similar to this one in his hand, mainly to record fleeting inspirations.

These documents are basically observations of those tribes, especially detailed descriptions of some tribal folklore, and many modern traces of primitive tribes are recorded in these records.

Those modern traces mainly come from the traces left by the armies of various countries in World War II. In early 1943, after the Japanese army was frustrated on Guadalcanal Island and the Papua Peninsula, it continued to increase its troops in the northeastern part of New Guinea in an attempt to establish a stronghold. Rabaul's outer defense.

After obtaining this information, the U.S.-Australian Allied Forces launched an offensive campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea and its nearby islands from June 1943 to July 1944, and finally successfully defeated the Japanese army's attempt.

Historically, only 10,000 of the 200,000 troops thrown into the battlefield survived successfully, and only half of them actually died in the battle, while the other half died in the vast tropical rain forest.

For this reason, a large amount of military supplies were left in the area. Due to the terrain, those items were almost impossible to recycle, so they were naturally used by local tribes.

This incident was a very normal thing for those who had just ended World War II, so the scholar just made ordinary records, but Liang En discovered strange parts in the seemingly ordinary records.

"Judging from the accompanying photos, the things found by this tribe are likely to come from the missing ship, because the pattern drawn on the iron sheet that the group used as a roof happens to be the emblem of the missing ship."

Just when Liang En was looking at the content on the photo and was lost in thought, Nelson explained in a low voice what the slightly blurry pattern on the photo was.

After being reminded like this, Liang En also realized that the pattern on it was indeed the emblem of the missing merchant ship called the Voyager, so he turned his head and asked.

"If I'm not wrong, you should have sent someone to observe the location of that tribe. Can you tell me what you found there?"