Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 133 Basement

"Now we need to wait for a while to ensure that the potentially harmful gas underneath has dissipated before going down." Taking advantage of this waiting time, Liang En started talking to the camera lens.

After all, this time is different from the previous treasure hunting activities, and the audience in front of the camera needs to be considered, so Liang En also needs to talk to the camera and communicate with each other when he has free time.

Otherwise, it would be bad if he was rejected by the audience at the end of the final selection of the show, and then he didn't get the bonus.

"If such a closed space is closed for a long time, it is very easy to produce some harmful gases to the human body, such as the basement where people have not gone down for a long time."

"So you must remember to ventilate before entering this kind of room, otherwise there may be various serious accidents caused by lack of oxygen—"

Just as Liang En was eloquently popularizing some daily knowledge for the audience in front of the camera lens, his mobile phone rang suddenly.

The caller was from the staff of the Hampton Court Palace Museum who had received them before, and the reason they did this was related to the cigar cartridge that Liang En had taken away from there.

"Sorry, Mr. Liang, the silver-plated cigar cylinder you just took away should belong to our Hampton Court Palace Museum, but it was lost during World War II—"

"So you mean, I need to return this cigar cartridge to you now, right?" Liang En said with some displeasure. Obviously, this was some mistake made by the museum before.

"We will pay you 750 pounds as a reward." The staff member's voice came from the microphone. "It was indeed our mistake, and we are very, very sorry."

"Well, I'm in the Whitechapel area now—" Liang En forgave the other party after hearing the other party's very serious apology.

After all, they were also laborers, so Liang En felt that it was best for him to stop at this point. It was enough to get a reasonable answer, and there was no need to keep pestering him.

Half an hour later, two staff members from Hampton Court Palace walked into the excavation site.Obviously, the other party came here by dragging the car directly.

"Here, here are the things." After seeing the two staff members coming, Liang En handed over the cigar cartridge, "But do you know anything about this cigar cartridge?"

"All we know is that it's from the 17th century and was produced in England," said the younger of the two staff members.

"The internal records of Hampton Court Palace are very vague about this item, only saying that this item was found in a cabinet and was thrown in the warehouse until it was lost during World War II."

"It seems that you don't know the secret here." Liang En smiled after hearing what the staff said, and then told the two staff members what he had just discovered in front of the camera.

From Liang En's point of view, anyway, he just live-streamed the process of finding out the secrets in front of the camera, so it doesn't matter to tell the staff what's inside at this time.

Obviously, this is a very attractive story, and it has something to do with Hampton Court Palace, so the two staff also stayed and waited for Liang En's next search work.

It happened that during this time the underground ventilation work had been completed, so Liang En, wearing a gas mask, climbed down the ladder to the entrance of the secret room below.

After opening the door to the secret room made of wood and iron, Liang En found himself in a tunnel completely paved with bricks.

Unexpectedly, although this place is on the edge of the well, it is not as humid as expected.It's just a little bit of a cold breath.

However, it is not clear whether it is for the convenience of construction or because people in the past were not tall. The height of the tunnel is only about 1m7.So Liang En had to walk forward with his waist bowed.

"Huh——" After taking out the flashlight and taking a few steps forward, he found a silver light flashing on the ground.When he got closer, he found that it was a silver coin.

And as he continued to move forward, more and more silver coins were scattered on the road, as if someone hastily stole the silver coins from the treasury, and then spilled the money all the way because he ran too fast.

"Is this a money cellar for money?" Looking at the thick stack of silver coins in his hand, Liang En frowned.Given how chaotic the place has been in the past, it's likely that some gangster is hiding money.

But if it is a place where gangsters hide money, then these people should have the awareness to be hunted down.It is very unprofessional to miss more than a dozen silver coins along the way.

Thinking of this, Liang En shook his head, and then continued to walk forward. After all, the end of the road is not far ahead, and if there is something, the answer to the mystery will be revealed soon.

At the end of the tunnel is a dark basement, the height is lower than the tunnel just now, and the area is only eleven or two square meters, but the whole house is packed to the brim.

Among them, some wooden boxes and barrels occupy most of the area, but they have obviously decayed due to the passage of time.

After opening some boxes and wooden barrels, Liang En found that there were completely carbonized existences inside.After examining it carefully, he realized that these things were luxury goods from France.

Among them, the boxes are mainly filled with some textiles, such as velvet and lace.And those wooden barrels are filled with famous French specialty wines.

Considering that the consumers of this type of luxury goods are all rich and powerful people, if this is really a smuggler's den, then it is reasonable for the other party to be located in London, a place close to the market.

Soon, photographer Hans and a staff member of Hampton Court Palace also came down from above.Then everyone cleaned up the basement together under Liang En's command.

More than an hour later, as a row of messy debris was cleared away, a new hidden door in the wall was revealed.

"I think the real target is behind this secret door." The staff pointed a flashlight at the secret door on the wall and said, "I don't think it is necessary to use such a secret method to notify the transfer just for the wine and velvet." .”

"You're right." Liang En stepped forward and took out a silver coin that was caught between the secret door and the floor, "Obviously, there should be a small vault behind the secret door, otherwise this silver coin would be Won't--"

Having said this, Liang En suddenly stopped.Because he found that there seemed to be something wrong with the silver coin in his hand.He could see something different from the marks left when he took the silver coin out of the gap just now.

"This seems to be a fake silver coin." Liang En stuck the flashlight on the special clip on the side of the helmet, then took out a small knife and began to scratch on the silver coin.

Sure enough, when the knife dug through the surface layer, what was exposed at the wound was not the silvery color of silver, but an obvious graying.

"That's right, this is a fake silver coin." The staff member said, "In the era when this silver coin was minted, 1/5 of the silver coins circulating in the market were fakes, so it is not unreasonable to find fake silver coins in this kind of place." Nothing out of the ordinary."

"No, no, take a look at these silver coins." Liang En said as he took out the silver coins he found along the way, "Do you think these silver coins are too new?"

(End of this chapter)