Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 132 Discover the secret room
The reason why the landlord proposed the excavation fee of 2000 pounds is also very simple, that is, he does not believe that anything can be dug out from him this time, so he hopes to get a visible remuneration in advance.

After all, treasure hunting is a very popular activity in the UK.The landlord had gone through several similar treasure hunting requests before and promised to share the unearthed wealth equally, but nothing was dug up.

As a result, the landlord not only failed to earn a penny, but also needed to spend a lot of energy later to fill back the excavated soil.

Because of the previous failures, the landlord simply asked for cash when encountering such incidents this time, so as not to be as busy as before and empty-handed.

"How much would it cost to excavate the empty site behind this building?" Liang En asked. "Compared to the empty space behind the building, the history of your building is too new."

"You're right, but I want 1500 pounds just for the venue." The landlord thought for a while and said, obviously he saw that Liang En came for a certain goal this time, so naturally the lion opened his mouth.

What followed was a 20-minute bargaining time, but it took a long time for the landlord to agree to give the price 300, and said that if it was lower, then forget it this time.

"Okay, 1200 is 1200." Liang En sighed helplessly, then paid the landlord with a credit card, and then led everyone into the building.

In fact, it was very valuable for Liang En to basically determine the target after locking the target with the card. In this case, it didn't make any difference to him to spend a few hundred pounds more or a few hundred pounds less.

It's just that in order to prevent the other party from realizing that he is really eager in this regard and then raising the price skyrocketingly, Liang En had to bargain to dispel the landlord's wariness.

After paying the money, several people walked through the dark corridor surrounded by graffiti and came to the open space behind the room, and then checked the environment here.

The open space is in the middle of several small four-story buildings, which are the common space in these small red brick buildings that have been low-cost apartments in the past.

Most of the buildings in this block are closed buildings of this type, that is, 3 to 4 small buildings are used to surround each other, and the open space in the middle is used as the public space of these three or four buildings.

Although this architectural model is completely unpopular in modern times because of the lighting and the small public area, it was the most common urban architectural model at that time in the Victorian era built around these buildings.

It's just that the open space now looks crowded, and a lot of wooden sticks and steel pillars have been artificially placed, and these pillars are connected by ropes, and clothes are still drying on them.

This is not a common practice.The British are more accustomed to using a dryer, and at worst they will choose to dry in the room.On the one hand, this is the requirement of the appearance of the city, and on the other hand, the local climate is a little more cloudy and rainy, and it is really not suitable for drying clothes.

But because the building area of ​​the rooms in the Whitechapel area is not only small, but also the occupants are from South Asia and the economic status is very average.So residents sometimes struggle to stick to their traditional methods of drying clothes.

However, this caused Liang En a lot of trouble. The biggest one was that the metal detector was basically useless in this environment, because the metal used to fix the stick was all over the place.

"What should we do next?" Fan Meng asked Liang En helplessly after he took out the portable metal detector he was carrying and checked for a round, and found that the metal detector was beeping non-stop.

"Use a probe." Liang En and the others took out two steel rods from the backpack and connected them together, finally turning into a steel rod about 30cm long and the thickness of an index finger.

This probe is a prop specially made for treasure hunting in the city. Through this tool, it is possible to feel whether there are any hard objects under the shallow layer of the ground and the shape of those hard objects.

After all, treasure hunts in urban areas generally do not involve deep places below the ground, so simple equipment of this level is enough, and getting a ground-penetrating radar would seem like a big deal.

More importantly, Liang En judged from the location of the target he found with the card just now that the location where the thing was hidden was likely to be a well.So the probe should be able to detect the location of that well.

Sure enough, within 5 minutes after Liang En and Fan Meng started working, they found a hard structure 20cm below the ground and about [-] meters long at a place three or four meters away from the center of the yard.

Digging a layer of soil with a thickness of about 20cm was not too complicated, so as Liang En and the others waved their engineering shovels, a stone platform with a side length of about 2m slowly emerged from under the soil.

"What is this, a flagpole?" Fan Meng tapped the metal pipe that was obviously pieced together in the center of the stone platform with a shovel, and then denied his statement.

"No, it's not a flagpole. If it's a flagpole, this kind of flagpole with a diameter of about 3cm is too thin. But other than that, I can't figure out what this kind of two pipes are put together."

"The bottom half is the pipeline of the hand-pressed well." Liang En walked up to the stone platform and took a look at the pipe and said, "You know that I grew up on a farm, and there is a spare old-fashioned hand-pressed well in the farm. "

"And if the mechanical structure above the well is removed, it looks like this is a stone platform with a half-meter-high pipe inserted into it."

"As for the half of the iron pipe on the top, it was obviously added later. It is obvious that later people found this steel pipe exposed on the ground and directly used this steel pipe to fix the steel pipe to dry clothes." Liang En looked at it. Said after the weld marks.

The next job was pure physical work, but fortunately there were many idlers in the surrounding houses, so Liang En quickly spent 300 pounds to hire three people to destroy the concrete platform with them.

Just as Liang En guessed before, the bottom of the stone platform is not the ground.As the stone platform was destroyed in a large area, an ancient well was exposed under the remains of the stone platform.

Obviously, with the advancement of technology, the potter's wheel and buckets in the past were replaced by hand pumps, and then they were completely forgotten because of the popularity of tap water, so that they have now become clothes poles.

"This place is probably a trap door." Liang En said looking at the smashed wreckage of the stone platform.Because he found a metal door and door hinges under the stone platform.

After careful inspection, Liang En confirmed that this place turned out to be a secret door that could be opened.It's just that it was completely sealed up with stones and cement for unknown reasons.

After this trace was discovered, Liang En and the others became excited.Because this is obviously not what should happen on a normal well.

After taking photos with a flashlight at the head of the well, Liang En found that the bottom of the well had dried up, and there was obviously a place on the side of the well wall that looked different from the surrounding area.

"Is there a camouflaged secret room on the side of the well? It seems that the things hidden here should be quite valuable." Liang En thought after realizing that something was wrong on the side of the well. "I just don't know what is hidden inside. It was too vague to give a hint before."

(End of this chapter)