Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 356 find
"Let's confirm the specific situation here first." Liang En thought for a while and said, after all, whether or not to dig this statue depends on the specific situation of the statue. If it is just an ordinary statue, excavation will only destroy it.

With this in mind, they quickly removed from the car a small ground-penetrating radar they had obtained from the museum that Scudder had just acquired.

Then the three of them sneaked into the cemetery through the back door with the radar, which was about the size of a lawnmower, and then inspected the monument and the surrounding land.And the results of this test came out very quickly.

From the results shown by the ground penetrating radar, there is a space under the statue covered by high-density materials such as cement or stone, which is directly under the base of the statue, about 30 square meters, and close to 3m high.

"This should be an underground space." Fan Meng quickly came to a conclusion. "There's absolutely no need for the statue to be this big, so I think it should be a small space to hide some secrets."

"That is to say, there might really be something hidden in the pendant and the place it led us to find." Liang En nodded slightly, "It seems that our previous suspicions were not mental allergies."

"But how do we dig this thing out?" Joan frowned. "It is definitely not possible to dig out this space made of reinforced concrete and stones with a shovel, and these mechanical tools are very noisy when used."

"I don't have to dig secretly." Liang En said with a smile. "We are not grave robbers, so we can use legal means to complete the next work."

So in the following time, Liang En quickly called the local archaeological department and sent an invitation to Mr. Scudder, who was staying here to deal with a series of matters related to the museum he just bought.

"What did you say, you may have found a batch of things that the painter Mucha hid before World War II, this is simply—" After hearing Liang En's narration, Scudder also had to admire Liang En's luck in this regard and knowledge level.

At least in his opinion, someone else would definitely not notice any clues that might exist on the locket, let alone follow the clues and find something.

"Okay, just wait there and don't move. I'll bring a lawyer to help you. Before that, you mustn't sign any agreement with those local archaeologists."

The reason why Scudder said this is because the official archaeological institutions of these Central European countries are not particularly credible, so now that he and Liang En have become partners, he naturally cannot watch his partner jump into the ditch. .

However, his worry was obviously superfluous, because when he brought his lawyer to join Liang En and the others, he found that the local archaeological department hadn't come at all.

So they waited while drinking coffee in a cafe near the church. After waiting for nearly an hour, the group of archaeological agency personnel arrived late.

But when Liang En and the others told each other the cause and effect of all the previous events, as well as the results of the ground penetrating radar detection, the group of people suddenly became excited.

Negotiations with the church were very quick, because although the cemetery is under the management of the church, the land belongs to the state, which is different from the situation where the church building belongs to the church.

After solving the possible procedural and legal problems in the excavation work, the excavation work began that day. When the reliefs were removed from the base, they found that Mucha's name was engraved on the back of the reliefs.

"This sculpture has not been recorded in Mucha's work list, but theoretically we should not miss this monument to the fallen soldiers of World War I in the capital." While recording, a local archaeologist told Liang En said.

"Such a monument like this should have a record." Liang En looked at the angel sculpture wrapped in straw by the staff and said to the archaeologist, "I think the World War I monument should be an official monument anyway."

"We think so too, but official monuments have archives, and this monument is indeed not recorded in the archives." The archaeologist shook his head and sighed.

"We found the records of the church." At this moment, another archaeologist came out of the church in front, holding a blue plastic folder in his hand.

After turning this folder to one of the pages, the yellowed document was written in blue ink on the permit for the construction of the Memorial to the Fallen Soldiers, and said that the official will pay for materials, supplies and labor costs.

"After all, it was built on state-owned land by the government, and the church didn't need to pay anything, so the church just let the other party build it." The young man who came out with the file talked about the news he just asked.

This is actually quite in line with human nature, because human beings will pay more attention to what they have lost or what they have gained, but basically they will not invest too much energy in paying attention to things that have nothing to do with them.

For the church, the whole thing was to build sculptures that were very fitting to the surrounding environment on a piece of land that they didn't own, so they didn't pay attention to it except for a few people who looked at it curiously at first.

For ordinary residents around, since the church did not raise any protests, then this sculpture is a normal existence, and naturally not many people will pay attention to it.

Judging from the current known information, Mucha should have taken advantage of a loophole around everyone back then, and then took the opportunity to exploit his own stuff.

Even Mucha thought about the problem of the Germans, because Czechoslovakia belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Germans were allies, so even if the Germans came to such a monument, they would not take the initiative to destroy it of.

Because of the official support now, the overall excavation progress is very fast now. By the time it gets dark, all the buildings on the ground have been cleaned up, and the roof of the underground secret room has been exposed.

In order to prevent anyone from getting wrong ideas about this place, Liang En and the Czech officials all sent people to guard the place that night, and continued digging until the next morning.

Because of this open excavation, all kinds of machinery can be used directly in the daytime.So at noon that day, they successfully opened the entrance to the basement.

Soon, Liang En, as the first group of people who used to enter the secret room, walked into the tent on the passage, then each put on protective clothing, carried an oxygen tank on their backs, and walked down a crude concrete step into the basement.

The reason why I wear this set is because everyone knows that the things below are related to the great painter Mucha. Considering that these leftover things are likely to be organic matter, so in order to avoid unnecessary damage, it can only be so troublesome.

As soon as they got to the basement, everyone found that the basement, which was relatively small in the inspection, couldn't even find a place to stay, because the whole house was occupied by a large number of cabinets and boxes.

After careful inspection, they found that these things had been carefully handled.All containers and furniture were covered with wax, apparently to prevent oxidation.

(End of this chapter)