Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 577 Expand the search
The reason why three people acted this time instead of two was mainly because Russian is the common language in Central Asia, and Fan Meng also learned Russian because Ukrainian was his mother tongue before, so it was more convenient to communicate.

In fact, after returning from Chernobyl last time, Liang En began to try to learn Russian by himself, but due to lack of time, it was limited to ordinary daily conversations, so an interpreter was necessary.

Of course, this does not mean that Liang En's level of Russian learning is not high, because of the repeated reinforcement before, his overall learning ability can now be called a genius among ordinary people, but unfortunately he is too busy , don't have much time for this.

The road through the snowy jungle was not as difficult as imagined, because the slope of the hill was not too steep, and there were some roads that could help them cross those hills.

Soon, the few of them came to a gentle slope. After searching left and right, Liang En and the others found the half-burned tree that the earl said was used as a marker for the cemetery.

"The cemetery should be ten steps north of this tree, let's look for it first." Liang En said after seeing the tree, and at the same time took out a metal detector from his bag.

At the same time, Joan of Arc and Fan Meng also took out their metal detectors and started to search the tree trunk as the center, and then searched all the way to the north.

"It doesn't seem to be here." After searching five or six meters to the north, which is ten steps away from normal people, Joan raised her head and said, because they didn't find what they were looking for.

If the body was really buried in this place, then there must be a metal reaction in this place. After all, the ancestors of the person who sold this thing to the earl only took away the valuables from that person, not other things.

This is not to say that he is willing to give the deceased a face, but that it may not be a good thing for a poor shepherd to have too much wealth.

So at that time, the shepherd only took away the gold coins that were not easy to be found and the valuable jade cup. He didn't touch anything other than that, but completely buried the man's body and other things on his body here. Among the wilderness mountains.

Even so, he only used those gold coins when he went back, and the jade cup that might be recognized was buried in the ground near his home, and he didn't tell his son until he was about to die.

In other words, the guy who froze to death was buried entirely, so there must be metal parts on his body. Anyway, a person who can carry so much money should use metal for both buttons and belt buckles. right.

More importantly, the pit dug by the opponent was not deep, and there were not many carnivores here who would dig the corpse out of the ground.So no matter from which point of view they should be able to find each other with metal detectors now.

"Did I find it wrong?" Liang En frowned at the current situation. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any problem with the information, so it wouldn't take a long time to find it like this.

"Wait, I think there might be something wrong with our way of finding the destination just now." Just as the three of them stood on the snowy ground and began to think, Fan Meng said as if he remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Joan of Arc looked at Fan Meng after thinking about all the things just now and asked, "Unless the information given by the Earl was wrong."

"No, the clue given by Mr. Earl is probably correct, but our understanding may be wrong." Fan Meng shook his head and said, "For example, how far is one step?"

"A step is a step." Liang En took a step and said, "The shepherd was an adult man back then, and it was normal to take a step of more than half a meter, so what's wrong with me looking for it five or six meters away?"

"That's right, but people have different views on different steps. For example, many people think that one step forward with each foot is one step, which is our two steps." Fan Meng said with a smile.

"Yes, you're right." Liang En came to his senses when he reminded him this way, because the Chinese traditionally used to calculate the first step in this way, so it can be seen that this is also a relatively common calculation method.

After realizing this, Liang En and the others quickly set their target 10 meters away from the tree stump. Sure enough, the metal detectors in their hands rang soon after arriving here.

"It should be here, let's dig." Liang En said after repeated detection several times, and then replaced the metal detector in his hand with a shovel and started digging.

The excavation process was very smooth. Although the ground was a little frozen due to the cold weather, but because the pit dug by the other party was very shallow, they could smell a faint smell from the black soil after digging less than 1m away. A rancid smell was emanating from the soil.

"It seems that we are already close to the goal." Liang En became excited when he saw the soil that obviously had more organic matter, because this meant that the earl's news was true.

So after the three of them dug fiercely, the sharp-eyed Joan first discovered the outline of half a boot from under the soil.

Anyway, he did a lot of homework before coming here, so Liang En could recognize at a glance that this was a pair of long leather boots with iron nails. It seemed that they should have been issued to the Tsarist Russian cavalry during World War I. Can't go wrong.

Without saying anything, the three of them clenched their shovels and carefully dug forward along the boots. Gradually, a corpse lying prone at the bottom of the ditch revealed its true face.

Digging up a corpse on a mountain in the wilderness is still a bit weird, especially when it is accompanied by bursts of stench.Fortunately, the few people present were not sensitive to this aspect, so the excavation work went very smoothly.

"It should have been buried for 100 years, how come there is still a smell?" Fan Meng said a little puzzled, "I thought the smell would disappear in a year or two."

"It's fine if it's in an open environment, but it's hard to say in a closed environment." Liang En shrugged, "Especially in a place like this on a hillside where the groundwater level is not high, the organic matter rots slowly, so after opening it The smell is unavoidable."

Even from Liang En's point of view, the smell here is not necessarily a bad thing, because it means that the organic matter underneath has not been rotted, and it is also convenient for them to obtain more information.

Sure enough, the corpse lying at the bottom of the pit now looks very complete, and even many metal objects on the body don't look very rusty.

Of course, this is also within Liang En's guess, because in his opinion, the temperature in this place is not high and the soil moisture content is relatively low.So neither the speed of metal oxidation nor the speed of organic decay will be too fast.

After eating some self-heating food to warm up, Liang En and the others quickly searched carefully, and soon, they found a lot of leftover things.

It seems that it is the same as the information received before. After the herdsman discovered the corpse, he only took away a small half of the things, and then buried most of the other things with the corpse to avoid disaster for himself, so There are so many things left on site.

(End of this chapter)