Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 272
"Everything below is normal." Because the cave is not deep, Fan Meng quickly reached the bottom of this underground space, and turned on the headlights to check and confirm the surrounding situation.

"There is a passage leading to another basement here, but there seem to be some shelves on both sides of the passage, and there are some bottles and boxes on it."

"Bottles and boxes?" Liang En frowned after hearing Fan Meng's words, because this was completely different from what he had expected before, so he asked Joan to keep watch on it, and then he himself climbed down the rope .

And when he climbed down about five meters along the rope and stepped on the ground, he found himself in an underground space with about 50 square meters.

Perhaps because no one had cleaned up this place for a long time, the entire space was filled with empty dust. When Liang En fell, the dust flew up, and it shone golden under the sunlight at the entrance.

After looking around, Liang En found that this place looked like an underground warehouse excavated by some private individuals, and his location was at the end of the warehouse passage.

This passage is about seven or eight meters long. The passage where Liang En is now is a wall, and the other side is another entrance and exit of this space.

The previous cover fell to the ground and turned into a pile of debris. After a simple inspection, Liang En found that the cover was actually a camouflage valve made of a layer of cement pasted on the wooden board.

It's just that after a long time, the rainwater leaked from the cement gap, causing the wooden board below to decay gradually, so it broke from it in the airflow fluctuation caused by the previous blower and fell to the ground.

On both sides of the aisle, there are three rows of shelves respectively, and each shelf is full of piles.Although the shelf and the things on the shelf were covered with a thick layer of gray, it could be seen that the things on the shelf should be some boxes and glass bottles.

"It's actually brandy." After stepping forward to take a bottle from the shelf and lightly dusting it off, Liang En found that the gilded label on the bottle was written in French.

After briefly looking at the label, Liang En found that it was a bottle of Calvados brandy produced in the 20s in the Calvados province in the Normandy region of France.

Just like the sparkling wine produced from Champagne is called Champagne, Calvados apple brandy is also a product of protected origin and one of the three major brandies in France.

However, because this brandy was produced in the famous Normandy region, it was hidden under the other two major brandy cognac and Armagnac after the depression of World War I and World War II, and its popularity was significantly lower.

But then again, although Calvados brandy is not very well-known, its price is not cheap. Can sell for 500 euros.

After spending a little time checking, I found that there were more than 100 bottles of brandy in this warehouse. Except half of them were Calvados brandy, the others were some cognac and Armagnac.

According to the information found, these brandies are basically some brands in the middle reaches of the 50s, but the prices of these things are definitely not low today.

Thinking about it, the group of smuggling groups would definitely not choose high-end wine when they chose the brand of wine to smuggle, because the consumption places of high-end wine have relatively fixed purchase channels, so they would not choose smuggled wine.

As for low-end wine, it can be produced locally, and consumers of this kind of wine only need to have a taste of wine.So even the trans-Atlantic transport costs of smuggled wine without expensive taxes make this wine unable to compete with those local blends.

Therefore, under such circumstances, smugglers with a normal mind will often choose this type of mid-range spirits that are easy to sell and cash in as their smuggling targets.

"Are these brandies what we're looking for?" Seeing Liang En find bottle after bottle of wine, Fan Meng asked beside him. "To be honest, such a harvest is quite good. These brandies should be able to sell for [-] to [-] euros."

"[-] to [-] euros? No, it will be much higher than this." Liang En shook his head with a smile after basically checking the things in this room.

"These wines are very well preserved because they have been in this kind of cellar for a long time, and the loss rate will not exceed 1%, so the things in the whole room can probably be sold for 50 to 60 euros, even if they really like these wines. Dongxi’s customers may increase to 70 euros.”

"More importantly, according to the information I found in that bar before, the robbers who robbed the Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology were a group of bootleggers."

"So if the information is true, what we are looking for should be inside the door in front, right?" After hearing what Liang En said, Fan Meng pointed to the exit at the end of the passage and asked.

"Yes, that should be the case." Liang En nodded and calmed himself down, then went through that exit with Fan Meng and entered another underground building.

Unlike the previous space, which was obviously dug out by the group of bootleggers themselves, this room is four or five times the size of the previous room. At the same time, it is surrounded by cement and there are some pipes and valves. It should be the supporting facilities of the factory.

Considering the location and structure of this underground space, Liang En felt that this thing was probably a pool for softening boiler water.

After all, if the local mineral-rich water is burned in the boiler, it is easy to cause mineral deposits and cause pipeline blockage, so the boiler naturally needs an additional sedimentation tank to treat the water.

However, since the factory was closed, the pool has never been filled with water, so it also happens to be a hidden item storage place. For example, there are dozens of wooden boxes, large and small, here.

"Open this first." After looking at these wooden boxes, Liang En immediately greeted Fan Meng to a box that was more than two meters long and wide, and about 60 cm high, and then used the tools in his hand to pry open the box. build.

As previously imagined, a large amount of shavings were put into this box as a buffer, and when Liang En and Fan Meng gently cleaned the shavings away, a relief sculpture with a width of more than 2m and a height of 1m7 appeared in front of them.

The main part of this relief is a group of horses standing there with all kinds of harnesses. On the left is an ancient warrior in armor standing in front of the horse's head, holding the horse's chest with his hand. Arrow drawn.

"It should be this—it should be this—" Liang En whispered excitedly, and then he and Fan Meng opened another wooden box that was similar in size to this one.

Sure enough, there is also a relief stone slab that is almost the same size as the other stone slab in this box, but on this stone slab, there is only a relief of a horse with two hooves on the ground and two hooves raised to walk, but it is also a variety of harnesses. complete.

"It seems that we have found our target this time." Liang En rubbed his hands while suppressing his excitement and muttered, "The batch of things that disappeared in the Huaxia Round Hall back then should be here."

(End of this chapter)