Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 520 Goal
Liang En's destination village is located in a basin between mountains.From various perspectives, it is just a very ordinary small mountain village in the valley.

The whole small mountain village is a village mainly for grazing, and many places around it are small mountain pastures covered with green grass, where there are many goats or cows.

Perhaps because of the remoteness of the village, most of the villagers in the village are middle-aged and elderly people, and almost all the young people have gone to live in the surrounding big cities.

Rural hollowing out is a global problem, especially in countries with large income gaps between regions.

Liang En and the others also saw many hollow villages like the current village, but this one was just an ordinary one among countless villages.

Fortunately, this small village called Oak Village is not very far from the surrounding cities, and the surrounding lakes and mountains are still worth viewing and traveling, so the hollowness of this village is much lighter than that of its surroundings.

The hotel where Liang En and the others lived was run by local young people, and it was the only hotel among the surrounding villages. After staying in, Liang En found that the situation here was different from what he had imagined.

Because the hotel seemed to have very clean rooms, and the provided dinner tasted very good, at least everything was far beyond Liang En's previous guess.

Fortunately, Liang En figured out the current situation while having dinner. It turned out that the owner of this hotel was a local who worked in a hotel in a big city in his early years, and later even became the manager of a five-star hotel.

But after working in a big city for a few years, because of missing his hometown and thinking about his own future, he finally decided to bring his savings back to his hometown to open a hotel.

Judging from the situation during dinner, the overall situation of this small hotel is really good, at least it is not the peak season now, but the occupancy rate of guests has reached 60%.

Fortunately, because the store itself is not too big, the staff here are not very busy.So after paying some tips, Liang En quickly inquired about his target.

"The place you mentioned should be Eagle's Mouth Rock." A local boy with curly black hair said after Liang En briefly described his goal.

"I don't know where you know this place, because it's a small place that only locals know. Although the scenery is good, it's obviously not worthwhile to go to this place for more than three hours. I went there once when I was young—”

According to the local waiter, Eagle Mouth Rock is actually the location of an ancient watchtower. After all, this place used to be near the border between Hungary and Bohemia, so it is normal to have some outposts.

However, after the Habsburg family ruled the two countries together, except for some checkpoints used for tax collection, most of the rest of the outposts were abandoned.

The outpost at Yingzuiyan was abandoned under this background. Originally, the outpost on the high ground could monitor a large area around it and prevent the enemy from infiltrating, but the meaning of changing from the border to the inland naturally disappeared.

More importantly, the location of this outpost is too remote, so it belongs to the first batch of abandoned locations after losing its own meaning. After all, no one wants to be stationed in such a remote place, or give gifts to people in such a remote place. supply.

After being in disrepair for a long time, the stone outpost was completely destroyed by time, so if you look at it now, you can only see a lot of messy ruins covered with a layer of plants.

But what's interesting is that Liang En's destination this time is located around the checkpoint. If there is no accident, the target is likely to have some relationship with the checkpoint.

So early the next morning, after breakfast, Liang En and the others left the hotel with their bags on their backs and climbed along a small path towards Yingzui Rock. At the same time, three ravens flew up into the air and surrounded Liang En and the others to carry out investigation work.

Of course, this kind of local reconnaissance is not to prevent human attacks, but to avoid wild animals. Fortunately, the sparse vegetation on the rocky mountain is conducive to aerial reconnaissance.

However, it may also be due to the lack of vegetation around, so apart from a few hares and some small birds, the ravens did not find any larger creatures.

Under such circumstances, the two of them quickly came to the place called Eagle Mouth Rock with their backpacks on their backs. Sure enough, there were several piles of ruins up to two stories high.

The reason for calculating by pile is because this ancient defense facility has completely collapsed, and all the buildings have been completely destroyed except for several walls that are still as tall as a person.

But the scenery here is indeed as good as the waiter in the small hotel said before. At least if you stand here and look down, you can have a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery. It can be said to be a good place to take pictures.

"No one has visited this place for at least 200 years." After checking it out, Liang En had a deeper understanding of this outpost.

Judging from the architectural style of the outpost and the style of the overall layout, this building should have been a medieval fortress building at the earliest, but it was modified accordingly after entering the Gunpowder Age.

However, this modification also created obvious hidden dangers for the entire building.At least from the current situation, that renovation damaged the structural integrity of the building itself.

As a result, although the overall condition of the building was not bad during the use stage, it collapsed much faster than normal buildings after losing maintenance.

Liang En even suspected that the reason why this ancient defense facility was abandoned so quickly was probably because at the end of the period of use, the house had become a dilapidated building, so that it could not be used normally at all.

"What should we do next, do we need to find what we want from this pile of ruins?" Joan asked the pile of ruins in front of her.

"If this is the case, it may take a long time for the two of us to work alone. Especially we need to consider that there is no way to use any machinery for this kind of place, and we can only dig by hand."

"No, this ruin is just a designated location for us to find the target." Liang En shook his head, and then pointed to an open space behind the pile of ruins that was no different from the surrounding area.

In his current vision, he can see the soft white light exposed below the ground, which is the kind of light that only he can see that the card uses to indicate the target.

"It doesn't look any different from the surrounding area." Looking at the flat ground, Joan scratched her hair, but she quickly took out the shovel from her backpack and started digging with him according to the place Liang En pointed out.

Fortunately, the buried place of the treasure was not too deep, so after more than an hour of digging, they dug a wooden box hidden under 50cm of soil.

It's just that the preservation of the wooden box is obviously not optimistic. The iron bars used to reinforce the box have fallen off from the box itself, and the top is also full of rust, and the wooden boards of the box are almost scattered.

(End of this chapter)