Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 167 Greek Fire

In addition to some pillars in the center of the hall, this church located in the mountain also has many decorative false pillars on the stone walls, making this hall look more like those churches outside.

Under normal circumstances, each pillar should correspond to a corner of the dome, but the false pillar where the cross is now placed in the church is obviously much denser.

Although false arches are also made on the top of these false pillars with high density, compared with the content above other pillars, these false arches look very blunt.

"These false pillars are made of volcanic cement, and they are not the same thing as those carved directly from the stone walls around them." After scraping off several layers of plaster on the false pillars with a knife, Fan Meng said .

"That is to say, this pillar was added later." Liang En carefully looked at the structure of these pillars and the false arch above them, showing a thoughtful expression.

After Liang En summoned three ravens and let them fly up with a light source and a camera, the three of them saw more special structures through the display screen.

"It feels like someone used this kind of fake pillars to put a few stone slabs on top." Because the top is relatively high, the previous renovations were often not repaired, so some cracks appeared naturally.

These cracks close to the stone wall made Liang En realize that the bulge above the false arch was not directly cemented, but a structure independent of the stone wall itself.

"But how do we take these things down?" Fan Meng looked at the stone slabs and said with a depressed face. "These stone slabs weigh at least a hundred catties, and they are 4-5 meters above the ground. If we just rely on the three of us—"

"Call someone, use the satellite phone to call Mr. Scudder and the others, and ask them to come quickly with the tools." Liang En said after thinking for a while. "Now this situation is obviously not something we can handle by ourselves."

So, Liang En quickly took out his satellite phone and walked to the entrance of the cave, and contacted Mr. Scold. After learning that his uncle might have been found, he immediately agreed to send support personnel .

Before the support arrived, Liang En and the others conducted a near-comprehensive inspection of the entire church, but found nothing of value except that there were six stone slabs erected on top of those false pillars where the church was located.

"Your Excellency, why are you here?" Just a day and a half after the notification call, a team came to the small valley below the church guided by the clues left by Liang En. Unexpectedly, Scudder Actually also in this team.

"Of course I want to come. I was not in very good health when I was young, so basically I could only stay at home. Therefore, I was most looking forward to my uncle being able to tell me his adventure stories after the adventure was over.

""At that time, my uncle also took good care of me. Every time I went on an adventure, he would bring me some interesting gadgets, and then set aside a day to explain the outside world to me. "Speaking of this, Scudder's eyes turned red.

In the next hour or so, the pastor brought by Mr. Skold said a simple prayer to the remains, and then zipped the zippers on the body bags of these corpses.

After finishing all this, Mr. Scudder left early with the body bag containing the remains, but he specially left two strong men and a lot of supplies to assist Liang En and the others in the next work.

After receiving these help, Liang En and the others quickly took down the six stone slabs that were erected on the top of the stone wall intact.

What was different from the imagination was that after removing the stone slabs, what was exposed behind was a whole intact mosaic texture. After checking with the newly brought detection radar, they determined that there was only a solid mountain behind, not There is a secret room.

"Don't tell me that these stone slabs are the last relics of the Eastern Roman Empire." Fan Meng said with a look of disbelief after seeing the stone slabs safely placed on the ground.He thought that what was hidden would be something like a crown or a scepter.

"Wait, there are words on these slabs." Immediately after the slabs were put down, Liang En immediately took out a brush and cleaned up the slabs with Pierce, and then found the writing on the side of the slabs that was close to the wall. . "

What is this recorded?Treasure map or something else? Looking at the unfamiliar words on the slate, Fan Meng asked curiously.

"This seems to be some kind of strange formula." Liang En muttered in a low voice, and then read out the contents recorded in Latin that he had translated. "Pine resin, olive oil, tartar, pitch, sulfur—"

"This formula is supposed to be used to set fire." As a former soldier, Fan Meng quickly understood the effect of these ingredients in this formula.

"Set it on fire, you mean set it on fire?" After being reminded by Fan Meng, Liang En immediately thought of something and quickly turned his head and said to the two strong men who were waiting by Mr. Skold to help, " Quick, clear out these stone slabs."

Under Liang En's command, each of the five people on the scene climbed up on the ground with a small brush to clean up the stone slabs. This job did not have much technical content, so even those two had never done it before. The strong men in this line also quickly got started.

It has to be said that the number of people and the strength are very reasonable, so after more than 40 minutes of starting work, one side of the six stone slabs with an area of ​​about one square meter was cleaned.

Among the six stone slabs, four are engraved with Latin characters, while the other two are engraved with several sets of mechanical design drawings.Because of the reason these slabs are hidden, the slabs are in a very good state of preservation.

"These things can indeed be regarded as the last treasures of the Eastern Roman Empire." After looking at the Latin text and pictures on the stone slab, Liang En nodded beside him and said.And Pierce also showed an expression of approval.

"Quickly tell me what it is!" Seeing the expressions of Liang En and Pierce, Fan Meng showed a curious look on his face. "The only thing I can see in these two pictures are two pumps that also operate on the siphon principle."

"You're right. Those patterns are indeed things used to spray liquids. And the liquids sprayed are the special liquids recorded in the formulas of the other four slates." Having said this, Liang En deliberately paused, and then uncovered the answer.

"The content recorded on these six slates is all the secrets about Greek fire." "Including those important fuel formulas, production methods, and the most important drawing of the flamethrower and the key points of its production."

Just as Liang En finished speaking, a bronze-colored card and three black iron-colored cards appeared in Liang En's mind.Obviously, his inference is correct, so this kind of positive feedback will appear.

"Greek fire!" Both Fan Meng and the two strong men who came to help were all shocked.They had thought about countless possibilities, but they didn't expect that what was left behind was actually such a legendary existence.

"Are you sure this is really Greek fire?" Fan Meng asked in a trembling voice.

"I'm 100% sure about this." Liang En pointed to the slate and said, "Because the reason for the whole thing was written on the slate, which specifically pointed out the identities of these things as the Flowing Fire and its launcher."

(End of this chapter)