Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 62 The Robber's Treasure
Liang En didn't know what kind of waves his thesis had caused in far away Paris. After finishing his thesis, he just wanted to rest at home for a while and resume work after Christmas.

But things often didn't develop as people imagined. For example, Liang En hadn't been able to find a suitable job before, so that he finally went to the liver to finish his thesis.But just when he finished his dissertation and was about to rest, he received an unexpected treasure hunting invitation.

This invitation comes from New York, USA on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.The inviter was Mr. Bruce, a big real estate businessman in New York.

In fact, this businessman Liang En didn't know him before, so when he first received the phone call saying that there was a treasure hunting commission, he thought it was a scam call and almost hung up.

The good partner promptly reported the name of Dr. David Caldwell, the head of the Scottish Underground Treasure Department, who had a tacit understanding with Liang En when he handed over the gold collar from the Iron Age last time, which made Liang En realize that the other party was not a liar.

It turned out that the American rich man had a very good relationship with Dr. Caldwell, so when he wanted to find something, he naturally thought of his friend, and Dr. Caldwell recommended Liang En.

"You mean, you want me to help you find Butch Cassidy's treasure?" After the other party expressed his wish, Liang En asked while using the computer to look up the name of the person.

"Yes, I recently got a note left by Butch Cassidy, which mentioned something about the treasure. That's why I asked someone to help me find the treasure." The middle-aged man on the other side of the phone The man said.

"To be precise, I hope you can help me find a diamond brooch that was stolen by the other party when he robbed the Union Pacific Railroad train in 1899. That brooch belongs to my ancestors and is a very important thing in our family history."

"So in this treasure hunt, if you find this brooch, then everything except the brooch belongs to you. If you don't find the brooch but find other treasures, then you can get half of the treasures. If you don't have anything If you find it, I will pay the cost in the middle."

"Okay, I understand the general situation." After hearing the general situation from Mr. Bruce, Liang En said into the microphone, "Please give me half an hour, and I will call to notify you in half an hour. Your decision."

After hanging up the phone, Liang En looked at the computer screen in front of him.Unlike those treasure hunters decades ago, the biggest advantage of today's treasure hunters is that they can find information they don't understand through the Internet.

This time the target character Butch Cassidy, the prototype of the protagonist of the famous American movie "The Tiger Cub", whose original name was Bob Parker, was born in a Mormon family.Born in 1866, he was the eldest of thirteen children.

In 1879, at the age of 13, he broke the law for the first time because he stole a pair of trousers from a store, and this time he also became dissatisfied with society.

Butch Cassidy then worked in a butcher shop and on a farm, and learned how to train horses and shoot from an old man who had been a cattle thief.

When he turned 18, he left his hometown of Utah, and then wandered for several years in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, which were sparsely populated and chaotic western states.

It wasn't until 1889 that Cassidy pulled off his first robbery.He and a few companions fled with more than $20000 from the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, an amount equivalent to $60 in today's dollars.

He then served nearly two years in 1894 for stealing a horse before robbing a bank in Montpelier, Idaho, taking cash, gold and silver coins that could be worth as much as $16500.

In the second year, he and his companions robbed a coal company in Castle Gate, Utah, and stole more than $9000.Next, the gangsters robbed the train several times and obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars of wealth from the train's safe.

According to the records obtained by modern people, this gang has robbed a total of various wealth equivalent to more than 300 million US dollars in multiple robberies, and the brooch that the client was looking for this time is included in this wealth.

As for why the consignor can believe that the brooch still exists, it is also very simple, that is, in the eight years from the train robbery to the death of the other party, although Butch Cassidy spent a lot of money, the money he robbed was far more overspending.

Considering that the other party obtained a large amount of cash in the robbery, there is a high probability that those gold and silver coins and jewelry that are easier to store for a long time and preserve their value will be hidden for later use.

Especially considering that the other party finally died in a firefight with the Bolivian army, there have always been legends that some of the things they grabbed back then became treasures hidden somewhere where they used to be active.

"It turned out to be a treasure hidden by a famous robber. If that's the case, you can go and have a look." After reading the information on the computer screen, Liang En quickly made a decision, and then called Mr. Bruce .

Two days later, Liang En bid farewell to his parents, then took a suitcase and boarded the plane from Dublin to New York.It was a six-hour transatlantic flight, and I felt fine when I got off the plane because I was flying first class.

It was already 7:30 in the afternoon when he arrived at the New York airport, so Liang En didn't go directly to the rich man, but directly found a hotel next to the airport to check in.

At 8:30 the next morning, Liang En took the hotel's vehicle to Mr. Bruce's office near Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side of New York.

Fortunately, the other party has nothing to do today.So after confirming with the front desk that he had made an appointment, a front desk staff immediately took him to the office on the 17th floor of the building.

"I think you should know what you are here for, Mr. Liang." After greeting each other a few times, Bruce asked in his spacious and luxurious office.

"Of course." Liang En smiled and nodded. "However, if you want to find something, you still need to look at the notebook you are collecting now. I think it is impossible to determine the location of the treasure by relying on legends alone."

"Naturally." Bruce said as he took out a notebook with black leather and yellowed pages from a small iron box on the table, and handed it to Liang En.

"The private detective I hired found this in Bolivia, and the note analysis expert I hired confirmed that the content written in this notebook did indeed come from the target I was looking for, Butch Cassidy."

After receiving the notebook, Liang En immediately opened the notebook, and saw that in addition to recording the list of robberies after the owner of the notebook came to South America, Liang En also drew a few pictures at the end.

The painters of these maps knew at a glance that they were soul painters. It took Liang En a long time to realize that these maps should be topographic maps near the treasure location.

But except for the dots specially marked with a red pen on the last picture that should be used to indicate the location of the treasure, the content that looks like children's graffiti makes it really difficult to determine the location of these treasure locations.

(End of this chapter)