Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 922
"Let's see what's inside—" After gently removing the copper plate at the bottom of the Buddha statue, Liang En looked at the filled cavity, only to find that there was a large pile of black solids emitting a strange smell.

"What is this? It looks like a briquette?" Jeanne, who had seen the contents clearly and smelled the smell, took a step back, and then showed an unhappy expression on her face.

"Let's dissipate the smell first, I don't think the smell should be too strong." Liang En used a knife beside him to dig out a thumb-sized piece from the stuffing and said.

As soon as Liang En picked up the thing, Liang En roughly guessed what the light and fluffy thing was. Sure enough, after further careful observation, he confirmed that it was a mixture of paraffin wax and sawdust.

This is a very flammable mixture, and it is also an efficient firelighter. In the era of burning briquettes in the past, this kind of thing can use a match to ignite the briquettes in the entire briquette stove.

But other than that, this kind of thing has other functions. For example, it is actually a kind of protection for cultural relics like now, which can prevent those hollow cultural relics from being damaged or deformed due to external impact.

Therefore, it is understandable that the other party uses this kind of thing to pour into the Buddha statue. Apart from protecting secrets, the existence of this kind of thing will not cause too much suspicion, which is conducive to the hiding of the item.

There is good news for Liang En, that is, if he is operating here himself, it is not too difficult to clean up the things inside.

I saw that Liang En first used his extraordinary power to make the paraffin disappear from the container, and then poured the sawdust out of the cavity of the Buddha statue, and successfully completed the work.

"It's just—" Seeing the other party's rough handling, Liang En subconsciously complained, because if it weren't for his extraordinary power, it would definitely be a difficult task to clear this.

Although the method of mixing paraffin wax with sawdust is indeed a method of cultural relic protection, the prerequisite is that this cannot last for too long, otherwise various problems will easily occur.

For example, there are a lot of rust spots inside the bronze Buddha, which is likely to be caused by some impurities in paraffin wax and wood chips that corrode the metal.

This forced Liang En to consume a [Repair (N)] card to repair the rust spots inside the bronze Buddha statue, and then to study what was going on inside.

Just as he had perceived through his extraordinary power before, there were two lines of characters engraved on the inner wall of the bronze Buddha. After rubbing those characters, Liang En found that these characters were two strings of Arabic numerals separated by some symbols. open.

"This thing should probably be latitude and longitude." Looking at the two strings of numbers, Liang En quickly realized that this person is a modern person after all, so it is most likely to use a string of numbers to indicate the location.

After consuming more than a dozen legend points, he successfully divination and proved this through the power of the card. Through the power of the card, he confirmed that these things are indeed a latitude and longitude.

"If it's longitude and latitude, it means a problem, that is, where is this place? After all, it is not easy to figure out these things without marking the east-west longitude or north-south latitude."

Joan looked at the two strings of numbers with a thoughtful expression. He was very interested in the convenient and accurate positioning method of latitude and longitude, so he naturally knew a lot.

In this case, she also discovered the problem exposed in the data: the latitude and longitude of the other party was not written in full, so the numbers behind this string represent four locations.

"Ah, it's very simple to determine which location is the real location." Liang En said after checking all four locations by entering the latitude and longitude on the map that comes with the phone.

"Because only one point is in the United States. As for the other three points, two are in the sea and one is in China. It is impossible for an American officer to hide in these three points with hundreds of tons of things."

"Your analysis makes sense." After you glanced at Liang En's mobile phone, Joan admitted that Liang's guess was correct, "But why didn't the other party hide Dong XZ in Nevada instead of Washington State? "

"This is probably related to the climate. Washington is located in the southwest corner of the continental United States, and it is also close to the ocean. Although it is a very good place for human life, it does not mean that this place is conducive to the protection of cultural relics."

After being asked by Joan of Arc, Liang En was stunned for a moment, but soon he deduced from Zhu Si's traces why that person put the things in the inland Nevada.

"The thing we are looking for is a large metal product after all. Although it is said that as a copper temple, this thing was designed with anti-rust issues in mind, but it was based on continuous maintenance."

"So for this former US military officer, if he doesn't want to depreciate the value of the treasure in his hand, it is not suitable to put that thing in the rainy and humid Washington State, but it should be placed in a relatively dry place."

"If you look at it that way, it's definitely a good idea to put something in the Nevada desert, because in that dry place, an alloy like bronze that is relatively resistant to oxidation by itself will have no problem maintaining it for hundreds of years."

"At the same time, for that officer, if he really has a way to transport more than 200 tons across the Pacific Ocean from Asia to America, it will not be so difficult to transport it from Washington State to Nevada for a week. matter."

"Then shall we go to Nevada next?" Joan asked while looking at the map. "I see this place is in southern Nevada near Las Vegas, so I figured I could just fly there."

"That's right, go to Las Vegas to search first, and then take a look at those friends from the Otter Tribe." Liang En said with a smile. "It also happens to provide cover for our operation."

So they flew directly to Las Vegas early the next morning, and then rented an off-road vehicle here and drove towards the southwest of the city.

To the southwest of Las Vegas is a desolate Gobi Desert. It was originally sparsely populated because it was far away from the water source of the Hoover Dam. It was not developed until the increase in new immigrants in recent years.

The Hoover Dam can be said to be the core of Las Vegas, and even the city was first established because of the existence of this dam: it was originally a camp for construction workers.

It is also because of this dam that water and electricity began to be available here, and then this pearl in the desert developed after finding the right development path.

However, even if it is the pearl in the desert, not all places are very good. For example, the housing price in the southwest of Las Vegas is incomparable with that in the downtown area. For example, a two-story, two-garage and four-bedroom house with a total area of ​​224 square meters The home only sells for around $35.

Considering that the houses in the United States are equipped with decoration and furniture, you can basically move in with your bags, so it can be seen how desolate this place is.

But this is a good thing for Liang En and the others, as it can avoid some curious eyes.The car quickly crossed the road with few pedestrians and vehicles, and then left the community and entered the wilderness.

(End of this chapter)