Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 159 Clues
In the next three days, Liang En, Fan Meng, and Pierce, who came from England after receiving the notice, gathered together to check the information in the room, without even leaving the small building.

Food and drink are sent in by servants through the communicator in the room, and when tired, they directly rest in the room next door. After waking up, they simply wash up and return to this room to continue searching for analysis data.

"Okay, I think we have been able to roughly establish a list of the time of this Mr. Conrad and that expedition team since they went to Turkey." On the third day of searching for information, Liang En and the others finally sorted it out. Cleared up this pile of information.

These materials let him understand a lot of things, including but not limited to the character and habits of the missing person, Mr. Conrad, as well as a lot of details about this trip.

"After the other party arrived in Constantinople, they first checked the information for a week, and they should have found something. So after writing the letter, they went straight to Trabzon." Liang En took out his notebook and said.

"After arriving in Trabzon by boat, he rested for a day. Then he and the whole team left the city to start the real exploration work."

After Mr. Conrad and the others left the city, they were out of sight until 28 days later, when two seriously injured members of the expedition returned to Tela in a Willys Jeep that appeared to have crashed several times. Buzon.It looked as if it had been robbed. "

"After entering the urban area, they were sent to the hospital in a coma by passers-by. The strange thing is that they were saved from danger after being rescued, but after staying in the ward for one night, they died inexplicably the next day."

"Because the two people didn't have any identity documents on them, the hospital cremated each other quickly in order to avoid infectious diseases, and the remaining relics were fortunately bought by old Scudder. These are the ones on the table."

After speaking, Liang En pointed to the contents in a small box on the table.This small box looks about the same size as makeup, and only a ring and a pendant with a family photo are placed inside.

"According to the news from the Skold family, both the ring and the pendant have been disassembled and inspected before, but nothing unexpected was found."

"However, during my inspection, I accidentally discovered that there are some patterns on the pendant that are likely to be carved by the scientific expedition team, so I suspect that this may be some information left by the other party, but there is no more information. The message could not be deciphered before."

What Liang En didn't say was that he also tried the [ciphertext cracking (R)] skill after feeling that this thing might have left some information, but what he translated was a simple English phrase Love You.

"Okay, let's talk about the doubts we found earlier." After hearing Liang En's general summary, Pierce continued.

"For example, Conrad would write letters or send telegrams to his family to report his safety wherever he went, but why didn't he do anything after arriving in Trabzon?"

"He may have written a letter, but he failed to send it." Fan Meng suddenly took out a document from a pile of documents and said, "Because the hotel waiter walked to the mailbox after seeing Conrad coming downstairs that day. there."

"It's just that in such a small place, the postman will come to collect ordinary mail every three days. However, the mailbox in the hotel caught fire the next day because the oil lamp fell down, so part of the letters in the mailbox were burned. "

"I remembered." Pierce also thought of this part of the information. "The previous detectives also suspected that this might be a man-made incident, but the fire scene had been reconstructed when they went there, so the matter could not be further investigated."

"That is to say, Conrad's team may have been targeted by someone at least after they arrived in Trabzonspor." Liang En seriously analyzed.

"However, we don't have any more information on this for the time being, so let's start by analyzing the information we have at hand, and deduce where Conrad and the others might have gone at that time."

"Someone has analyzed this from this angle before." Fan Meng pulled out a document and said, "The jeep mailbox driven by the two people who fled back to Trabzon had only 1/3 of the fuel left. .”

"At that time, World War II had just ended, and the military surplus of the US army was sold all over the world. And this Jeep was bought by a local car rental shop, and was later rented by Conrad's expedition team."

"According to the boss, the jeep has been modified, and the biggest modification is to replace a 35-liter fuel tank. Considering that the survivor who drove back to Trabzon was seriously injured, the other party probably won't do it before the fuel runs out. Come on."

"The jeep on the mountain road near Trabzon consumes 12 liters of fuel per 15 kilometers, and those novices may consume 150 liters. Therefore, considering various considerations, the place where the expedition team died will not exceed [-] kilometers from the city."

"Actually, it should be shorter than that." Liang En took out a case report and said. "The injuries on the survivors are very serious. If they were bumped for hundreds of kilometers, they would have disappeared. Even considering the will to survive, the other party would not be able to drive for an hour."

"In this way, the place where the opponent was attacked should be about 50 kilometers away from Trabzon as the center, otherwise the wounded would not be able to stay in the city at all."

"But such information doesn't have much effect on us." Pierce shook his head and said. "The area centered on Trabzon is not enough to rely on the three of us, even if we increase our number by a hundred times, it will be useless."

"So I think deciphering the message left on the pendant is the most important thing." Liang En looked at the patterns on the pendant and fell into deep thought, "Otherwise, we can only express our apologies to those two Mr. Scout. "

"Then have you figured out what's going on with the pattern on it?" Fan Meng asked curiously.

"I can only say that I've figured out part of it." Liang En pointed to the dots and lines that were rather weird in the eyes of others, "If I'm not wrong, these patterns should record a piece of Morse code."

Because Liang En deciphered the secrets of these patterns through the cards before, he also deduced what these patterns mean.

"Starting from the top, each flower is a letter. The upper flowers represent the dots in the telegraph, and the leaves represent dashes. The order of the letters is from top to bottom."

"Wait, if that's the case." Fan Meng immediately took out a notebook and a piece of paper and quickly deciphered it, but quickly raised his head. "Love you, it's normal for such a phrase to appear behind a pendant with family portraits."

"But if this is the case, the other party can write the word directly, there is no need to use such cryptic means." Liang En raised an objection. "So I think that should be the message."

"Yes, this is probably the last signal Mr. Conrad tried to send when he realized something was wrong, and the secret should be contained in this phrase."

Pierce looked at the pendant in front of him and what Fan Meng had just translated next to him, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"For example, why does the other party use Morse code?"

(End of this chapter)