Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Let's see what's inside -" After gently removing the copper plate at the bottom of the Buddha statue, Liang En looked at the filled cavity, only to find that there was a lot of black solid inside that exuded a strange smell.

"What the hell is this? Does it look like coal cake?" Joan of Arc took a step back after clearly seeing the contents and smelling the smell, and then showed an unhappy expression on her face.

"Let's disperse the smell first. I think the smell shouldn't be too big." Liang En used a knife at his side to dig out a thumb-sized piece from the stuffing and said.

As soon as he picked up the object, Liang En roughly guessed what the light object was. Sure enough, after further careful observation, he determined that the object was a mixture of paraffin wax and sawdust.

This is a very flammable mixture and an efficient fire starter. In the past, when burning briquettes, this kind of thing could use a match to ignite the entire briquettes in the briquette stove.

But in addition, this kind of thing also has other functions. For example, like now, it is actually a kind of protection for cultural relics, which can prevent those hollow cultural relics from being damaged or deformed due to external impact.

Therefore, it is understandable that the other party uses this kind of thing to infuse it into the Buddha statue. In addition to protecting secrets, the existence of this kind of thing will not arouse too much suspicion and is conducive to the hiding of items.

The good news for Liang En is that if he was operating here, it would not be difficult to clean up the things inside.

Liang En first used his extraordinary power to make the paraffin disappear from the container, and then poured the sawdust out of the cavity of the Buddha statue to successfully complete the work.

"It's just -" Liang En subconsciously complained when he saw the other party's rough handling, because if he didn't have extraordinary power, it would definitely be a difficult thing to clear it up like this.

Although the method of mixing paraffin with sawdust is indeed a method of protecting cultural relics, the prerequisite is that it cannot last too long, otherwise various problems will easily occur.

For example, there are a lot of rust spots inside the bronze Buddha. This is most likely caused by the corrosion of metal caused by some impurities in paraffin and wood chips.

This forced Liang En to spend a [Repair (N)] card to repair the rust spots inside the bronze Buddha statue, and then study the situation inside.

Just as he had sensed through his extraordinary power before, there were two lines of text engraved on the inner wall of the bronze Buddha. After rubbing those words, Liang En discovered that the words were two strings of Arabic numerals separated by some symbols. open.

"This thing should probably be the latitude and longitude." Looking at these two strings of numbers, Liang En quickly reacted. After all, this person is a modern person, so using a string of numbers to indicate the location is most likely.

After spending more than a dozen legendary points, he successfully divined and proved this through the power of the card. Through the power of the card, he determined that these things were indeed the same latitude and longitude.

"If it's latitude and longitude, this represents a question, that is, where is this place? After all, it is not easy to figure out these things without marking the east-west longitude or north-south latitude."

Joan of Arc looked at the two strings of numbers with a thoughtful expression. He was very interested in longitude and latitude, which is a convenient and accurate method of positioning, so he naturally knew a lot about them.

In this case, she also discovered a problem exposed in the data: the other party's longitude and latitude were not fully written, so the string of numbers represented four locations.

"Ah, it's very easy to determine which location is the real location." Liang En said after checking all four locations by inputting the longitude and latitude on the map that came with his phone.

"Because only one point is in the United States, and the other three points are two in the sea and one in China. It is impossible for an American officer to hide in these three locations with hundreds of tons of stuff."

"Your analysis makes sense." After you checked Liang En's phone a few times, Joan admitted that Liang's guess was correct, "But why didn't the other party hide the item in Washington state instead of in Nevada? "

"This is probably related to the climate. Washington belongs to the southwest corner of the continental United States and is close to the ocean. Although it is a very good place for human life, it does not mean that this place is conducive to the protection of cultural relics."

Liang En was stunned for a moment after being asked this question by Joan of Arc, but soon he deduced from Zhu Si's traces the reason why the man put the things in inland Nevada.

"The thing we are looking for is, after all, a large metal product. Although as a copper palace, rust prevention was considered when designing this thing, but it is based on constant maintenance."

"So for this former U.S. military officer, if he doesn't want to devalue the treasure in his hand, it is not suitable to put it in the rainy and humid state of Washington. Instead, it should be placed in a drier place."

"If you look at it that way, it's definitely a good idea to put things in the Nevada desert, because in that dry place, alloys like bronze, which are relatively resistant to oxidation, can last for hundreds of years."

"At the same time, for that officer, if he really had a way to transport more than two hundred tons across the Pacific from Asia to America, then it wouldn't be that difficult to transport it from Washington state to Nevada in a week. thing."

"Then let's go to Nevada next?" Joan of Arc asked, looking at the map. "I saw this place is in southern Nevada, close to Las Vegas, so I thought I could fly there directly."

"Yes, let's go to Las Vegas to search first, and then take a look at those friends from the Otter Tribe." Liang En said with a smile. "It also just provides cover for our operations."

So they flew straight to Las Vegas early the next morning, then rented an off-road vehicle and drove southwest of the city.

Southwest of Las Vegas is a desolate Gobi Desert. It was originally sparsely populated because it was far away from the water source of Hoover Dam. It was only developed in recent years due to the increase in new immigrants.

The Hoover Dam can be said to be the core of Las Vegas. Even the city was first established due to the existence of this dam: it was first used as a camping ground for construction workers.

It is precisely because of this dam that water and electricity began to be available here, and then after finding the right development path, this pearl in the desert was developed.

However, even the pearl in the desert is not good in all places. For example, the housing prices in southwest Las Vegas are incomparable with those in the downtown bustling area. For example, a two-story, two-car garage with four rooms and a total area of ​​224 square meters The house only sells for about $350,000.

Considering that the houses here in the United States are all decorated and furnished, and can basically be moved in with a bag, it is obvious how desolate this place is.

But this is a good thing for Liang En and the others, as they can avoid some curious eyes. The car quickly crossed the road, which was almost empty of pedestrians and vehicles, and then left the community and entered the wilderness.