Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 162 Village
"When these most loyal men of Constantine XI rushed to Trabzon, the situation turned bad, because the place was completely different from what they had imagined before."

In the hotel room, Liang En and Pierce translated the Latin text on the photos one by one, and gradually restored the original cause of Conrad's previous expedition.

"These people from Eastern Rome found that the other party was not only unwilling to admit themselves, but wanted to kill them, so as to avoid being found by the Ottoman Empire to attack Trabzon."

"In this case, they can only find a place to hide those things away from the city, and then return to Constantinople before the fall, where they died fighting with their monarch."

"Fortunately, they finally left some parchment with information in some ancient book, and this book was collected in the British Imperial Museum after hundreds of years of tossing and turning, and was finally taken by these Found by the Freemasons."

"It's clear now that this group of people should be looking for the so-called last treasure of the Roman Empire." Even Fan Meng, who didn't know much about history, could hear what the group's plan was at this time.

"That's right, it's just that this map looks like a real headache." Liang En nodded, then turned to the last page of the photo album and said.

The photo on the last page of the album is a parchment map, which was very clear at the time. Unfortunately, the map itself is a standard ancient map, which can be said to be extremely abstract in the eyes of modern people.

Fortunately, ancient people also drew maps to identify directions, so some recognizable landmarks can still be found on the map, allowing them to roughly infer the approximate location of the target.

So after eating the next morning, the three of them went straight to the airport with this pile of things, and then took a private plane to Trabzon, and then rented two off-road vehicles locally to move towards the estimated value yesterday. The place opened up.

After leaving the highway, the road becomes rough.Those village roads far away from tourist attractions are not only very rugged, but also very steep, with many slopes approaching 40 degrees.

Fortunately, Liang En and the others specially chose a high-powered off-road vehicle, so they could barely climb over those steep slopes after adding up the horsepower.

Also because of the mountain road, Liang En's journey this time was much longer than previously imagined.

According to the odometer, it took them four hours to drive 140km on this broken road, but the GPS showed that the straight-line distance between them and Trabzon was at most 60km.

The reason why it took so long was because sometimes the GPS could not receive signals at all in this mountainous area, so Liang En had to release the three ravens in the cage to help investigate the situation in many places.

Fortunately, Liang En didn't need to spend legendary points to empathize with these ravens, because the ravens were big enough to fly in the sky with a camera, allowing everyone to see the situation on the ground through the computer screen.

And this is one of the great benefits of taking a private jet. Compared with the complexity of airlines transporting animals, Liang En took his three little ones to Turkey very easily by using a private jet, so that they can be provided at this time. air support.

"I think we should be here." After they drove the car over a mountain pass along a dirt road, Liang En grabbed the intercom on the car and shouted to Fan Meng who was the last car.

For what now appeared at the foot of the mountain was a beautiful valley, divided in two by a stream, and beside the stream was a village that had apparently been abandoned for a long time.

After driving the car into the village along a small road buried in the weeds, Liang En and the others got out of the car, then took off the weapons they had carried with them and walked into the village nervously.

According to the regulations of the European Union in this world, Liang En and the others have the right to carry weapons across national borders.So in addition to Liang En carrying a semi-automatic rifle, Fan Meng and Pierce also each carried a pump-action shotgun.

In addition to these legal weapons, Pierce also obtained six Russian-made oval grenades through his connections so that he could fight back in an emergency.

"Let's check this village first." Liang En and the others loaded the bullets, and then carefully searched the abandoned village.

The inspection process is very simple, that is, three people cooperate to confirm the safety of those rooms.

Everything was normal at the beginning, but when they came to the center of the village, a black figure suddenly knocked open the door of a nearby house and rushed out against the ground.

"Boom, boom—" Fortunately, Liang En and the others had been vigilant at this time, so they reacted in time, and quickly pulled the trigger to shoot at the shadow.

After being shot, the black figure only rushed forward a few steps before falling to the ground, and it was only at this time that Liang En and the others realized that what they had killed was an adult male wild boar.

"It seems that this village has indeed been abandoned for a long time." Looking at the wild boar that was beaten to death and bleeding all over the ground, Liang En said thoughtfully.

Because for wild animals like wild boars, even if humans leave a place, it often takes five or six years for them to return to the place previously occupied by humans.

During further inspection, Liang En and the others found that the humans in this village had been away for far more than five or six years, because they found a large number of very old-looking items in the village.

"This pot looks a bit like the one you found before, but the material is different." Pierce dug out a broken iron pot with a rusted and deformed bottom from the ruins.

"That's right, this is a standard Turkish stewpot." Liang En took the rusty pick and twisted scrap iron in Pierce's hand and said, "The stewpots covering half of the Balkans and half of the Middle East are as long as That's right."

"And the production of this pot has already entered the era of industrialization." Liang En said as he turned over the scrap iron, and then scraped off the rust on the place where the handle of the pot was connected to the body of the pot.

"For example, there is a trademark here that is obviously stamped by a machine, and the words 1919 are marked below it. It means that this pot should be produced in 1919."

This pot is not the first item with a year to be found, because the mountainous area where the valley is located and the sea are separated by mountains, and because of the simple protection of the buildings, there are many items with a year was preserved.

Judging from the abandoned church in the center of the village and the age of these preserved items, the residents of this village should be some Greeks, but they left here in the 20s.

The departure of these Greeks should be related to the population exchange agreement signed between Greece and Turkey in 1923. At that time, 150 million people left Turkey for Greece, and 50 people went from Greece to Turkey.

The population exchange at that time was based on religion. The people in this small village located in Turkey but believed in the Orthodox Church probably left here at that time, and then the village was gradually abandoned.

(End of this chapter)