Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 312 Search
For Liang En and the others, the ruins hidden in the valley were obviously more interesting than the tourist attractions in the urban area, so the next morning, they set off along the path behind the mountain.

At the beginning, Liang En was a little worried about getting lost, but after asking the locals, he found out that he only needed to go upstream along the small river that passed through the village, and there was no fork in the road where people would get lost.

"I really have to thank that old cousin of yours." During the break, Liang En lightly tapped another small ax on his waist with his finger and said to Fan Meng.

After learning that they were going into the mountain, Fan Meng's cousin whom he met yesterday directly lent them a complete set of tools, including not only axes and shovels, but also two spears that were obviously made by himself.

Although there are not many dangerous beasts in this area, there are still things like wild boars or poisonous snakes, so it is always a meaningful thing to bring some self-defense things.

"The locals must know about this kind of thing." Fan Meng, who was leaning on a pickaxe as a cane, said with a smile. "So naturally we will prepare the most suitable tools for us."

"And we are also carrying a satellite phone this time, so we can contact people outside at any time, so we won't be in any serious danger if we encounter an accident."

Soon, the rested people walked along the slippery mountain road due to yesterday's rain all the way to the depths of the valley, and at the same time looked around curiously.

Although this place is not a famous scenic spot, the gurgling water of the small river below the road and the lush trees on the hills near the path still made several people feel the beauty of nature.

"Why do you think there is a road in this place?" As she walked, Joan of Arc suddenly became interested in the road under her feet, because although this road is a dirt road, it can be seen from the traces on it until recently This road is still in use.

"I remember you said before that the village we visited before is already the closest human settlement to the mountain, and there are no human settlements when we go further into the mountain, so what is going on with this road that seems to be often used by people. "

"I know that." Fan Meng pointed to the surrounding hills, "Look, there are some high-voltage transmission towers on those hills, and these simple roads are used by those maintenance personnel."

"So it's like this, these maintenance inspectors are really hardworking." Joan of Arc sighed after looking at the gray high-voltage transmission towers on the top of the hill.Although these hills are not high or steep, it is not easy to climb up.

Follow the path used by these inspecting workers and maintenance personnel until it is close to the end of the valley, and then they leave the path and let a nearby mountain climb up.

Soon, several people saw what the villagers said before, the half-person-high wall and the square foundation made of stones, as well as the large stone platform on the higher mountain.

"I think we've arrived." Liang En looked at Fan Meng and said, "Now we can release the drone. It's best to find out the overall situation in this area before we start."

Because this is a seminar for professionals, it is not appropriate to bring a raven. Fortunately, the development of modern technology allows those consumer drones to complete most of the investigation work.

Soon, Fan Meng took out a safety box from the mountaineering bag, and then released a small Huaxia civilian drone, and used a tablet computer to operate the plane to gradually rise into the sky.

As the drone avoids the branches and leaves of those trees and rises above those trees, and begins to circle a few meters above the treetops, the specific situation of the entire mountain is gradually revealed on the tablet.

Due to the humid climate in southern China, local buildings tend to use bricks and stones instead of rammed earth when laying foundations. This makes it easier to see the specific conditions of the entire building from the air.

"This architectural structure looks like a temple." Liang En compared the information he had seen before with the high-definition images sent by the drone, and quickly came to a judgment.

Different buildings in ancient China often had different layouts, and the layout of temples is even more so. Judging from the remaining foundations, this building originally faced south and north, and was symmetrically distributed on the central axis. There is also an octagonal pagoda behind it. foundation.

It's just that it's different from ordinary temples. Judging from the remaining architectural structures, this temple doesn't know why many buildings that are obviously military facilities have been built around it.

However, considering that many famous temples had monk soldiers and monks, if this temple was destroyed in troubled times, it would be normal to leave traces of military facilities on the ground.

"Where do we start looking?" Joan asked curiously, looking at the building that occupied the entire hill. "This mountain is so big, it's not easy to find it all."

"From here." Liang En pointed to the largest and most damaged foundation on the screen. "This should be the Daxiong Palace. Under normal circumstances, the most important place in the temple. If there is anything interesting, there is a high probability that it will stay here."

"It seems that this is not an ordinary small village temple—" Liang En said with emotion when he walked along the main road covered by plants to the edge of the very damaged foundation.

Although most of the foundation was obviously destroyed due to the passage of time, the remaining foundation is still more than 1m high. More importantly, Liang En found a lot of processed stones from the foundation.

Stones and processed stones are completely two concepts. People living in mountains and other places can easily get all kinds of stones for construction, but it is not common to want to process stones into regular stones. people can do it.

Especially before the Industrial Revolution, the stone masons had to chisel out the stone strips bit by bit by hand, so it is definitely not an ordinary temple that can afford such regular stone strips.

After boarding the wreckage of the foundation, they found that the building should have been about 100 square meters at the time, and it was already covered with weeds and shrubs.

Fortunately, because there were some blue bricks on the top of the original foundation, there were not so many plants that could emerge from the bottom, so they could still see the broken bricks and tiles that fell on the floor.

During the cleaning process, they found some pure white marble fragments, which are called white marble, and after carefully observing those fragments, they unexpectedly discovered that there was an eye engraved on the fragments.

"Collect all the surrounding white marble." After discovering the carvings on the white marble, Liang En quickly gave the order to search, and several people searched immediately.

At the beginning, they found two pieces of white marble the size of a palm plus five or six pieces the size of a walnut on the foundation.

Although it can be determined from the thickness of the stone slab that it should come from the same stone slab, but because too few parts were found, it can only be determined that the carving on this white marble slab should be a human figure, but the details cannot be known.

Fortunately, this white stone is very prominent in the surrounding environment, so as the three people gradually expanded their search area, they found more white marble fragments from the surrounding places, and gradually pieced them together.

(End of this chapter)