Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 123 Unexpected Discovery

The miniature Masonic symbol stamped on the silver coin, apparently stamped with a steel stamp, makes things suddenly interesting.

Apparently, besides the ex-Masonic who left the previous messages, another group of Freemasons had been here.

It's just that this group of Freemasons didn't know what the previous Freemason had discovered, so they took the murals inside and left after finding the Sun Cave that was obviously in a worse overall condition.

The reason why the latecomers discovered this simpler cave is because this cave is a little further outside than the previous cave, so it was found by the latecomers first.

Because people have not found two sun caves connected together in history, those latecomers did not continue to search after finding this cave, but kept the more magnificent sun cave.

As for the reason why the Freemasons wanted to take away the murals, Liang En felt that it was probably related to some revived pagan beliefs. After all, at least half of the existing pagan beliefs in Britain were related to Freemasonry.

"Since the contents inside cannot be taken away, let's take some photos in the cave." Looking at the entrance of the Sun Cave filled with statues, Fan Meng suggested.

Liang En thought for a while and agreed. After all, they went through a formal process for this treasure hunt, so it wouldn't have any impact if they revealed the news.

It's a pity that they can't use flash to protect the cultural relics.However, with the help of the low-brightness lighting originally arranged in the cave, the result is that the overall illumination is dark.

"It feels really beautiful." Although the photo was taken a bit badly, after taking the photo and looking at the beautiful creations in the cave, people's mood suddenly improved a lot.

Especially the very beautiful starry sky map on the ceiling, combined with the stars made of broken glass under the dim light, has a feeling of the ceiling of the Hogwarts auditorium in the novel.

"I think that's how the torches and oil lamps were used to illuminate the place when it was in operation." Liang En muttered softly, looking at the artificial starry sky on the roof of the cave that had been smoothed out.

"If it was completely bright, this map of the starry sky might not look as it does now. Instead, the hazy feeling created by the dim light now makes the whole picture look a lot more sacred."

"But anyway, this is just a layer of putty on the top of the cave, painted blue, and then inlaid with a layer of glass." Fan Meng didn't care much about Liang En's emotion.

He doesn't know much about history, so it's hard to resonate in this kind of place.So when Liang En expresses emotion.He subconsciously checked the surrounding situation carefully.

As a result, when Liang En finished expressing his emotions, he also found that there was something wrong with a stone used to build the altar near the altar, so he took out a small knife and scraped lightly in the crevice of the stone.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Fan Meng bent down and began to scrape the altar with a knife, Liang En quickly walked over and asked.

"There's something wrong with the gap in this stone." Fan Meng said to Liang En while gently surrounding the stone he selected with the tip of his knife.

"When we were trained to eliminate IEDs, the instructors specifically told us what the stones or bricks would look like when they were pried off the wall and then re-inserted into the wall."

"And the color of the plaster around this stone is somewhat different from that of the surrounding plaster. It looks like it was taken out and put back in again, which means that there may be some other things placed behind this thing. .”

"Your judgment is indeed correct. This stone is indeed somewhat different from the surrounding area. It is likely that the ratio of the various components of the mortar used to bond the stone is different."

Liang En bent down and observed carefully, and found that compared with the mortar in the cracks around the stones, the mortar around the target stone looked darker in color.

What's more interesting is that this stone is the seventh stone whether it is counted from left to right or from bottom to top.And that's obviously unlikely to have happened by chance.

After realizing this, Liang En immediately took out the tools and guided Fan Meng with professional knowledge to clean up the mortar used to fix the stones bit by bit.

Because of the passage of nearly 2000 years, the mortar has obviously become somewhat brittle due to weathering.So under the hard work of the two people, it quickly turned into small pieces and fell down, and then Liang En easily removed the loose stone.

As soon as the stone was removed, a cave that looked significantly longer than the stone appeared in front of the two people.Under normal circumstances, this should be a solid stone wall.

"Gold!" Liang En and Fan Meng uttered a word in Chinese almost at the same time as soon as they shone the flashlight in, because a golden light shone deep in the cave like this.

When most of the metal cultural relics were dug out, they were oxidized for a long time and became gray, even full of rust.

Not so with gold.As long as the purity of the gold reaches a certain level, these cultural relics will look like they were buried when they were dug up, and they will look the same as new ones.

"Let me do it—" Because the hole was a bit small, they could only take off their gloves and use a long wooden tweezers to pinch the contents out, which was obviously not what Fan Meng was good at.

"Come on, I think my hands are shaking when I do this." After hearing Liang En's words, Fan Meng immediately handed the wooden clip in his hand to Liang En, and then retreated to the back. "When I was in bomb disposal training, I was always criticized for being too rough."

Soon, Liang En took out the gold inside with tweezers.At first, they thought it looked like a golden ball a little bigger than a pinball.It was only after they took it out that they discovered that it was gold leaf that had been balled up.

"Gold often represents the sun in religion, and the god Mithra is also a sun god, so the gold leaf hidden under the statue of the god is likely to record some important information."

While Liang En was explaining, he walked out of the cave with Fan Meng. As soon as he got out of the cave, he saw Professor Brown standing alone at the entrance of the cave, looking into the cave.

"My student discovered this just now. I think I should tell you." After seeing Liang En walk out, Professor Brown immediately talked about his student's discovery just now, and then handed over a thumb-sized badge made of gold enamel.

"Freemasonry!" Looking at the golden ruler pattern on the black enamel background of the badge, Liang En's pupils suddenly shrank. "Where was this found?"

"In a gap in the cave before." Professor Brown stared at Liang En seriously, and then said. "Half the badge is exposed, it feels like it was done on purpose."

"Then what are you going to do next?" Liang En looked at Professor Brown and asked. The professor showed Liang En the badge at this time, apparently to ask him for an idea.

Freemasonry still exists, after all, and can be considered part of a sort of high-end circle.In this case, even if he mastered the other party's crime of stealing murals, he might not be able to do anything to the other party.

(End of this chapter)