Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 160 Identifying Goals
"The Morse code should be typed out with a transmitter." After hearing what Pierce said, Liang En immediately fell into thinking. "In other words, the other party may want to remind us that these words were produced by tapping."

"And the one that can display text by tapping - the mobile phone." Following a certain train of thought, Liang En subconsciously thought of the mobile phone, but soon realized that it was definitely not this.

"No, in that era, let alone mobile phones, even telephones were not common." He shook his head, then raised his head sharply and said to his two companions. "I thought of it, yes, it should be like this."

"Like I said, showing the phrase in Morse code is to focus our attention on typing, and the most common thing that can type words in those days is a typewriter."

"Typewriter!" Pierce and Fan Meng showed puzzled expressions at the same time, and then Pierce asked. "But is there any difference between typing on a typewriter and writing by hand in this place?"

"Of course there is. Considering that the other party is British, they should be using an English typewriter." Liang En said excitedly, and at the same time called up a pattern of a typewriter keyboard on his mobile phone.

"This English typewriter is almost identical to the distribution of buttons on a regular computer keyboard, which means that the top of each vertical column of letters corresponds to a number."

"And if I match these numbers one by one according to my previous method, you will find that the number corresponding to this word is 9943 697."

"It's probably a code somewhere, or something like that." Pierce obviously had some experience in this area, so he began to speculate. "But that's something we'll have to ask those two Mr. Scudders."

"Since the Skold family is so closely related, his family members should also know something. At the same time, the other party's engraving of this information on the back of the portrait pendant should also be a reminder of this."

"It's very likely that it has something to do with the bank." When Liang En went to find old Mr. Scudder alone with these evidences, old Scudder answered after a short thought.

"This is an agreement we made before. If we want to leave any traces in an emergency, we will find a bank to rent a safe for 99 years, and then leave the information to other family members."

"I guess that's what my brother wanted to send back in Trabzon in the letter, but unfortunately the letter was burned."

"And it's impossible for me to investigate the bank without obtaining key information. Otherwise, this kind of movement is enough to let those who killed my brother hidden in the dark get the things in the bank in advance and destroy them."

"I think the only thing to be thankful for is that those people may have chosen to burn the letter directly at that time, instead of peeking at it. So my brother's hidden secret should have been preserved until today."

"So my last plan is to wait for 99 years to pass, or after the bank collapses, my descendants will find a way to find my brother's relics from the cleared things in the bank, and then find the clues he left."

"But now we have a better plan." Speaking of this, old Skold showed a smile on his face, "I think the number you found is probably the bank's vault number and password."

But we don't have a key. Liang En said suddenly. "Don't you need a key to open the bank safe?"But I didn't find any keys or anything related to keys in it. "

"In the past, this kind of private safe didn't necessarily require a key. Some only needed the safe's number, password and agreed private mark." Old Scudder looked at Fan Meng and explained.

"It's very important for my brother because if it's the key, it's likely to disappear with him, so it doesn't make sense."

"But how do we determine which bank is behind these two numbers?" Liang En asked puzzled. "According to the timeline, this thing should be hidden in Istanbul, but there are many banks in that place."

"Maybe there are not many banks that can open 99-year-old safes without keys." Old Scudder said with a smile. "I've been looking at these specifically, and I've targeted three banks before."

"As for the imprint, in fact, members of our family have two. We carry one with us and keep one at home. I will give you the imprint belonging to my younger brother that I keep at home."

After chatting with Old Scold, Liang En left the room with a cross. The so-called imprint was a very simple cross with a small seal at one end.In addition, there is only a little simple pattern on the top of the cross.

This is a characteristic of Lutheranism. If you go to several Lutheran countries in Northern Europe, you will find that the facilities related to religion in this place are very simple, not as complicated as orthodox Catholicism.

"It seems that we are going to Constantinople next." Pierce said after Liang En returned to the room and finished talking to his two companions about all the information he had just exchanged.

"I went there with my father during the summer vacation of my sophomore year. To be honest, that place is indeed a good place to do antique business, and you can buy a lot of good things, but thieves and gangsters are too too much."

"Anyway, we're not going to buy antiques this time, so we just need to keep an eye on our wallets on the way." Liang En said with a shrug. "But if you can find clues in the bank, the real journey has just begun."

"Yes, after all, it is absolutely impossible for Mr. Conrad to appear in Constantinople." Fan Meng added at this time. "So we need to be prepared, especially for field operations."

"Don't worry, our family knows a lot of people, and we have always had some reliable channels to get a lot of important items." Pierce lowered his voice and said in a voice that only three people could hear.

"So you can write me a note for anything you need but it's not easy to say. As long as you don't go too far, I can basically find a way to get it."

"It's fine if that's the case." Fan Meng nodded, and then went to the side to write in his notebook. As the security director of this team, he naturally has a lot of things to prepare.

"Most of them can be found here, and a small part can only depend on luck." After Fan Meng finished writing the cake, tore off the paper from his notebook and handed it to Pierce, Pierce glanced at it and said, then turned to Liang En asked. "By the way, how long can we spend on preparation?"

"The time given by the other party is very loose on this point, as long as we can leave within a week." Liang En said briefly as he recalled. "They said they would fly us to Constantinople on a private jet."

"Private jet!" Pierce and Fan Meng asked at the same time, because for the vast majority of people, private jet is just a noun, and it is impossible to get close contact in their lifetime.

"Yes, because we are going to act secretly this time." Liang En nodded, "So in order to avoid some unexpected situations, the Skold family is willing to use a private jet to send us there."

(End of this chapter)