Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 582 Discovery
"Someone seems to have moved here." After realizing that something was wrong in the cave, the three of Liang En and the others quickly turned on the bright flashlights they carried with them and checked carefully.

A few minutes later, Fan Meng suddenly pointed to the wall facing them. Hearing what he said, Liang En stepped forward to observe carefully, and found that there was probably a hidden door in this wall.

This secret secret door was made very carefully when it was made, and it looks no different from the surrounding environment, but as time goes by, the different expansion rates between the two still affect the two.

So now if you look carefully, you can find a faint circle of cracks on the wall, which suddenly exposed the hidden door below.

After discovering the target, everyone started digging quickly. Maybe the people who made the door at that time, or maybe they were worried that different materials would cause obvious defects, so the secret door was blocked by a thick layer of rammed earth. .

Therefore, although the thickness of the wall was more than half a meter, it took Liang En and the three of them a few hours to dig a hole with the tools at hand.

As the cave was opened, Liang En and the others also put on gas masks and observed the situation in the secret room with a cold light source, only to find that the secret room was a mess:
There are some painted mounds and soil fragments on the floor of the secret room, which seem to be the remains of some statues. As for the walls, there are large pieces of regular peeling off, which are obviously traces left after the murals were peeled off.

"It seems that what the Tsarist Russian general gave to his boss was probably not a little gold, but a cultural relic found here." Seeing this admiration, Liang En quickly guessed what happened.

You must know that the end of the 19th century was the most rampant era for European colonists. Countless robbers disguised themselves as explorers, historians, archaeologists, etc. entered those backward countries in their eyes and plundered a lot of treasures.

At the beginning, what they plundered was only some movable antiques, but with the development of the times and the advancement of technology, these people plundered more and more things, and the damage to the local culture became more and more serious.

For example, taking away sculptures and sticking away murals like now is what many explorers often did back then, which naturally caused irreversible damage to the overall local situation.

This is the case with the Mogao Grottoes in China. Although a large number of cultural relics have been preserved because the scripture cave has not been discovered, there are still a large number of murals and sculptures in the Mogao Grottoes that were smuggled by those criminals. foreign.

After entering the cave and studying it carefully, Liang En and the others found that the Buddha statues that should have been here had only been destroyed and not taken away. The debris all over the ground was actually what those Buddha statues looked like now.

"Why did that person smash these Buddha statues?" Looking at the fragments, Joan looked puzzled. "If I remember correctly, these cultural relics in Huaxia should be considered very valuable at that time."

"Because there are treasures in these Buddha statues, the other party smashed the Buddha statues to get the treasure." Looking at the mess on the ground, Liang En quickly guessed what happened here.

According to tradition, there are often some treasures inside the Buddha statues. I think that the Tsarist Russian general found traces of the treasures hidden in the Buddha statues, smashed some Buddha statues and took out the treasures before he had the capital to carry out various activities.

As for the pasting of the murals in the back, it is very likely that the other party did it after he was promoted, because professional equipment and corresponding training must be used to paste the murals. at this point.

The ensuing search was not optimistic. They found nothing in it except a small piece of what should be a silver jewelry.

Apparently, the Tsarist Russian officer did clean up the place back then, emptying all the gold, silver and jewels inside.Nothing was left for Liang En and the others.

"Do we need to call the local archaeological department to finish it now?" Fan Meng suggested in a low voice after checking carefully to make sure there was nothing in the house.
. "No, we don't need it for the time being." Liang En shook his head and said, then looked towards the cave outside the secret room. "Do you still remember the corridor on the side of the road before we entered the door just now? The wall on the side of the corridor seems to be empty."

"Yes, you're right." After being reminded by Liang En, Fan Meng, who was still immersed in the ups and downs of discovering the secret room and then finding nothing in the secret room, suddenly realized it.

"We should really look at what's going on on the walls of the cave outside, because it's impossible for normal mines to have interlayers on the side of the cave walls."

It must be admitted that the excavation on the side of the wall is much faster than the bottom or other places. After only five or six minutes of excavation, they found a small piece of ceramic traces under the seven or eight centimeters of soil layer.

The first time they saw the ceramics, Liang En and the others slowed down their movements and began to dig a little bit with the bamboo sticks they carried with them. Soon he discovered that the thing buried in the wall was a small jar.

This small jar is an ordinary ceramic jar, the size of a football, it looks gray and inconspicuous, and it would be good if it can be sold for more than ten euros in the antique market.

"What's the need to hide this thing?" Fan Meng asked with a metal detector after confirming that it wasn't precious metal. "There are at most ordinary metal pieces in it."

"Maybe the value here is not from the perspective of money." Liang En put a flashlight into the hole in the wall and carefully looked around the jar and said, "Be careful, there seems to be more than one jar here."

"More than one, what's going on?" Joan looked at the jar and asked, why would someone put so many jars together? "

"I have an idea, but I'm not sure yet." Liang En looked at the surrounding walls with a solemn expression. "If you want to figure this out, you may have to find more evidence."

So in the next half an hour, Liang En and the others conducted a large-scale excavation around the cave, and they were surprised to find that there were many more ceramic jars than expected.

The results of the final excavation were shocking. They identified a total of 173 ceramic jars of this type in this small cave. It can be said that there are two walls made of jars on both sides of the cave.

"There's something here." After confirming the positions of the jars on both sides of the wall, Liang En, who probed the ground with a steel rod, soon discovered a stone slab buried under the ground on the side of the entrance.

"Quick, see if there are any inscriptions on the stone slabs." Joan of Arc, who had experienced several excavations with Liang En, immediately became excited, because according to his previous experience, this kind of stone slabs were often engraved with words.

In archaeology, things with writing are more valuable than gold, silver and jewelry, so Joan was so excited after seeing this kind of stone slab suitable for carving.

"It's really written!" Liang En's eyes widened after he turned the slate over and took a look. "It's shocking—"

(End of this chapter)