Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 495 Research
"What the hell is this?" Seeing Liang En put down the thing and showing a sudden understanding expression, Joan of Arc turned her gaze from the piece of metal to Liang En's face.

"I don't think it's obvious what it is." "Actually, it's pretty easy to deduce." Liang En took out a metal block from the table and handed it to Jeanne, then said. "You can probably guess what it is just by rubbing it in your hands and smelling it."

"Let me try—" Jeanne took a piece of metal, rubbed it with her hands, put it under the tip of her nose and sniffed it.Soon, a clear expression appeared on her face. "I smell a fishy smell, is this from the sea?"

That's right, and it shouldn't take too long for these things to be fished out, otherwise the smell of the sea should have dissipated long ago. "Liang En pointed to this black piece of metal and said.

"And you can see that the gray dots on the top are left by marine organisms after they parasitized on it, which means that this thing probably stayed in the ocean for a long time."

"So it's like this!" Joan of Arc showed a knowledgeable expression on his face, but soon he had new doubts. "Then can you see where this fished out from?"

"It's hard to tell, but I think I can find someone to ask about the situation here." Liang En was a little embarrassed after being asked by Joan, but he quickly thought of a solution.

"If there is no accident, we can track the logistics of these items by looking up the identity of the mailer and harvester of this item, and then figure out where these items came from."

Wanting to track these things must be a bit complicated for ordinary people, but for Liang En, he has enough contacts and methods to figure it out.

The way to understand these questions is to ask on the Golden Dawn organization's internal website. This website was built by the organization ten years ago to facilitate internal communication and help each other.

In fact, now Liang En habitually logs on to this website every morning to see if there is any interesting news, and by the way, answer those questions that he can answer.

For the organization of the Golden Dawn, people often have a lot of ancient books or materials to identify, and Liang En, who has mastered a large number of ancient characters, can easily translate those ancient characters.

From his point of view, these things are just a piece of cake for him, so it is very worthwhile for me to be able to build a good relationship with a large group of people by being busy for about 10 minutes a day.

Of course, these things also earned him a lot of rewards. For example, after he put this matter on the Golden Dawn website and asked about it, he found a part of it through a member of the Golden Dawn at noon the next day. detailed information.

"The information is very detailed. I think we should be able to take action soon." Jeanne nodded in satisfaction looking at the printed out several large sheets of paper, and then asked as if remembering something. "Is the source of information reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable. This is one of the top private detectives in the UK." Liang En flicked the printed information and said, "I'm familiar with this person because we had a good relationship a while ago. Many, so you can be sure of that."

On the other hand, this private detective is a fanatical ancient Egyptian lover, so after knowing that Liang En can translate ancient Egyptian languages, the two of them quickly became familiar with each other. Liang En also helped him translate a lot of things, so this time he learned that When Liang En needed help, he provided as much help as he could.

This help was very valuable, because it allowed Liang En to understand the cause and effect of this pile of things, and then roughly figured out what was going on here.

As he had guessed before, these things came from an illegal salvage group in the Middle East. On the surface, they were an ordinary fishing company, but they were actually engaged in illegal underwater cultural relics salvage in the Eastern Mediterranean.

It’s just that this illegal salvage group suffered a devastating blow some time ago: they strayed into Israel’s territorial waters when returning to Lebanon as their base, and were attacked and destroyed by the Israeli navy.

This group of people fled frantically after seeing the interception, and refused to stop the ship even after being warned many times. As a result, the Israelis believed that terrorists had resorted to violent interception.

Because of the loss of core personnel and ships, this organization can be regarded as dead in name only. According to the information obtained by the private detective through his own relationship, the organization's overseas shipping channels have completely collapsed.

This is probably why this pile of things was left at Edinburgh Airport. It is probably because the entire organization fell apart, and the people who were supposed to pick up the goods caused no one to pick up the things.

It's a pity that the so-called anti-terrorism methods of the Israelis are absolutely brutal, so that everyone doesn't even know what the group of people dug before.

At least after one strafing of the Phalanx 20mm guns and then two precision-guided Hydra rockets, the gang stayed with their men and boats on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.There must be no way to ask about these situations.

As for the people who received the goods on land, they didn't know where these people went, because this group of people had to guard against being hacked by some opponents, so they absolutely needed to stay hidden every time they traveled.

So now the investigation is in a dead end. Fortunately, after realizing that there is no information to be investigated from this channel, Liang En quickly changed his method and began to clean up these metal pieces to see if there is any valuable information. .

After all, Liang En has gained enough experience after going through so many archaeological works, so he hopes to use his own strength to find the secrets behind these things, and use cards if he can't.

Cleaning up these pieces of metal was obviously much simpler than cleaning up other things, so Liang En cleaned up these small pieces of metal in a short time.

Liang En and the others removed a total of 17 small metal blocks about the size of an adult male index finger from the machine. Each block had a thick layer of black oxide on it, and there were many traces of marine life attached to it.

But after cleaning up the layer of oxide on the top, they found that the metal was actually golden yellow, and the traces on it also proved that these metal blocks were pure ingots.

"That is to say, these things should come from a cargo ship." Looking at the ingots that had been cleaned up, Liang En showed a thoughtful expression, "And this kind of metal should be very valuable in that era."

According to his previous knowledge, this type of metal ingots used as raw materials has a characteristic, that is, the smaller the metal ingot, the higher the value.Of course, this situation is not absolute, but in general there is no big mistake.

"I remember that the earliest large-scale smelting of brass by humans should be in ancient Rome, and the earliest brass products were discovered in China."

Joan of Arc has read a lot of books since she came to this world and realized that she can read, so she quickly judged the material of these metals and shared relevant knowledge.

"But this also brings us a huge problem, that is, it is difficult to determine the age of this simple metal ingot."

(End of this chapter)