Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 112 Target, Masonic Secret

After half an hour, the map was completely cleaned up.It was at this time that they discovered that the two lead sheets should be two parts of a map.

Apparently, someone had drawn a map on a piece of lead foil, then cut the map in half and joined the patterned parts together, and then made the bottom of the box.

It's just that a big problem now is that although they can see the target point specially marked with red dots on the pattern, and also see the environment around the target point, the problem is that they don't know where it is.

"The only thing we can confirm is that this lead map is indeed left by the Freemasonry, because we can see a special sign of the Freemasonry in the corner of the map." Pierce said, pointing to the lower right corner of the lead piece.

In the lower right corner of this map, a compass and ruler appear there.From the point of view of craftsmanship, this thing should be the traces of manual stamping with steel stamps.

"Judging from the stamping traces, the Freemasonry should have been a relatively well-organized organization back then, otherwise there would be no need to use this kind of steel stamp that can mass-produce traces."

"In other words, there is probably nothing in this place." After hearing Liang En's words, Pierce immediately realized. "After all, an organization with a high degree of organization should not lose its treasures."

"Yes, this possibility is very high." Liang En nodded in frustration, and then cheered up again. "But this is not absolute. If the inheritance is really orderly, then why did he engrave this map on a lead plate and hide it?"

"What you said makes sense." Fan Meng, who had been silent just now, also reacted. "Hiding in the box in this way is for hiding. If it is for inheritance, it shouldn't be like this."

"So this thing is indeed worth our trip, but the question is where is this place?" Helpless Liang En said while using a [Appraisal (N)] on this map.

[A map made by a member of the Scottish Freemasonry in the 19th century hides a secret about their interior. 】

[Because the church has always been the greatest enemy of Freemasonry, and this member planned to leave Freemasonry and return to religion.So he decided to hide the secret. 】

[This former Freemason has been entangled between the church and Freemasonry all his life, so he hid this secret in a box before he died, and the ending of this secret is determined by the gods. 】

"It seems that cards are not omnipotent—" After reading the words that popped up, Liang En sighed and thought.Because these words did reveal part of the secrets of this item, but they did not tell the address of the most critical hidden evidence.

Fortunately, after this map was thoroughly cleaned up, the map above let everyone breathe a sigh of relief.Because in addition to contour lines, this 19th-century map also shows altitude, scale and surrounding water systems.

After simply converting the 19th century and modern contour lines, they quickly searched this set of maps through some kind of intelligent program.

This program was developed by a number of museums in the United Kingdom in conjunction with a number of universities. It uses artificial intelligence to restore some ancient maps and even simple language descriptions of the terrain, and then compares it with the existing terrain on the earth.

Of course, the overall accuracy of this thing is a bit of a problem. It may display nothing, or it may display more than a dozen alternative regions in one go.But this is much better than randomly rummaging through a lot of information with a broken map.

Because the data on this map is relatively detailed, the system screened out many places in just ten minutes, and Liang En and the others quickly found the target place from them.

The target location is located in a mountainous area in the northwest of Dundee, Scotland. Judging from the satellite map, that area is completely wilderness, without any human settlements, and naturally there are no roads.

"How should we get there this time?" After comparing it with the modern map, Fan Meng put forward a very realistic point of view. "If you just walk, the distance of 20-30km in the mountains may take several days."

"However, I don't think the drop in that place is too big, and the terrain is not particularly rugged. If we have a suitable vehicle, we can directly reach the river valley about 3km away from the target location—"

"It's simple. We can take public transportation to Dundee first, and then rent a few four-wheel all-terrain off-road motorcycles in Dundee to go to our destination." Liang En said after thinking for a while.

So when it was still daylight the next morning, Liang En and Fan Meng boarded the bus and headed straight to the north.Ten hours later, they came to this small town near the coastline in eastern Scotland.

As the fourth largest city in Scotland, the city has only 15 people.But it has the best sunshine in the whole of Scotland, a higher per capita income and lower prices than the British average.

More importantly, there are many universities here, and there are not too few tourists or students, so it is not too difficult to find something like off-road motorcycles, so they can easily rent what they need. means of transportation.

"I really don't know why Mr. Murphy didn't come?" After leaving the urban area, Fan Meng asked Liang En in a puzzled manner. At this time, the two were driving a rented truck with two motorcycles. to the destination.

"He has a very important business to do today, so naturally he can't follow." Liang En said, "And this is just a secret hidden by a certain Freemason, there is no need to mobilize the crowd."

"Please, this is Freemasonry." After hearing what Liang En said, Fan Meng immediately retorted. "The legendary boss who controls the operation of the entire world behind the scenes."

"According to the contents of the books I have read before, it is said that Freemasonry may have originated from the masonry professional groups participating in the ancient Babylonian Tower of Babel, and may also have originated from the builders of Solomon's Temple. According to the Freemasonry Charter, They are the descendants of Cain, and the whole organization was founded in 4000 BC—”

"Mengzi, it's better for us to read less street stall literature." After listening to Fan Meng muttering a lot of rumors about Freemasonry, Liang En shook his head helplessly.

"According to what you said, after such an organization appeared 4000 years ago, after 6000 years of ups and downs, countless wars, famines, and plagues. How many empires and dynasties fell apart. Even the thousand-year-old Roman Empire It has been a record in history and then it survives."

"Then the 6000-year lineage inheritance, heredity, transfer, and even internal changes have not been handed down in history. Isn't it a very absurd thing that it didn't appear suddenly until the 18th century?"

"Uh—what you said makes sense." After being told by Liang En, Fan Meng also realized the irrationality of such an organization.

After all, this is not a fantasy world, there are no gods and no magic.It is hard to imagine that after so many years of ups and downs, such an organization composed of ordinary humans can continue to this day.

(End of this chapter)