Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 494 Metal Ingot

"Today is a bit unlucky. The value of that item is too obvious." Pierce, who gave up and continued to increase the price and sat back on his seat, turned his head and said to Liang En.

"The most important thing is that there are several people here who seem to have stepped up. I guess they will probably add more than 2000 pounds to the price, which is not profitable for us."

What happened next was exactly what Pierce had imagined, and after five or six minutes of contention, one man finally bought the table for £6.

However, Pierce did not show any regrets, because this is a price that is purely losing money for him, and even if he buys it, it is of no value.

As for the upcoming auctions, Liang En and the others had some auctions, but some didn't.Three hours after all the auctions were over, they quickly paid the organizers and received their purchases.

Everyone first checked the gadgets they bought at the beginning, such as some knick-knacks and decorations from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Although these decorations are exquisitely made, they are basically mass-produced high-end goods, so under normal circumstances, almost no one will imitate them. At least Liang En can basically confirm that these things are genuine after inspection.

But the real thing is the real thing, but the price is not very valuable.After all, the mass production produced by industrialization or even after more than 100 years is not small, so it is impossible to sell at a high price anyway.

Of course, for emerald thrift stores, this kind of more popular products is more valuable than those boutiques, because although antique stores like them need some high-end products for the public, the core products are still relatively common. s things.

According to the estimates of several people, these things, which cost them more than 2000 pounds, could be worth more than 6000 pounds if they were all sold.

"Okay, let's see what you found this time." After checking the appetizers, Fan Meng looked at the six big boxes. "Hopefully these things will be as valuable as you imagine."

Soon the box was opened with a crowbar and the metal parts inside were exposed. It was the same as the label on the outside of the box. The inside of the box was full of metal parts full of dangdang, which seemed to be removed from the same machine. of.

"It seems to be a large air compressor with an air pump." After all the boxes were opened, Pierce looked at the pile of metal parts in front of him with a thoughtful expression.

"What is this thing mainly used for?" Liang En raised an L-shaped pipe and asked. "At least I don't think I've ever seen this kind of thing. It shouldn't be something common."

"It's really not common. As far as I know, this kind of portable air pump is more used by grave robbers for people like us." Pierce patted a tube with his hand and said.

"For those guys who are engaged in illegal work, it is naturally impossible for them to dig the ruins and dig down slowly and layer by layer like us."

"In order to obtain valuable things as quickly as possible, they will directly dig a robbery hole from the periphery to the core area. Of course, if this is the case, this kind of air pump must be needed to provide oxygen to those people in the hole."

"You're right. Concealment and speed are the most important things for them, so these special equipment are naturally needed." Liang En said after careful inspection. "If I'm not wrong, this should be the equipment used by those illegal organizations."

"How did you determine that this thing came from a tomb robbery group?" Joan of Arc asked a little puzzled after checking it out. "I don't see any difference between it and normal equipment."

"There are two reasons, one of which is that there are some unusual things here." Liang En said as he took out a beautifully crafted metal cylinder from a box.

"This is used on the air compressor inside. It is a powerful muffler, but if it is used by normal people, it will never use this kind of muffler."

For ordinary users, the only use of the muffler on this type of machine is to reduce noise and avoid the hearing of the surrounding staff, so it will not be too high-end products.

On the contrary, in order to prevent people around from discovering their actions, those tomb robbers prefer to remove the original simple mufflers and replace them with these high-quality mufflers to improve the concealment of their actions.

"On the other hand, if this kind of facility is used by industrial and mining enterprises, it will often have a nameplate to indicate the situation of this machine, but this thing not only has no similar identification, even the original identification has been erased."

"I see." Joan nodded with a serious face. Obviously, this is the same as the way criminals wipe off the car body or the body of the gun, obviously to cover up their crimes.

People who normally buy these items will never do this, because if these numbers are erased, those manufacturers will refuse to carry out after-sales repairs.

After conducting the preliminary inspection, they determined that there were two complete sets of air pump equipment in the box. However, when the two sets were compared together, Liang En found that these parts seemed to be somewhat different.

Realizing that something important might be hidden there, he immediately stopped further inspections and repacked the items, said goodbye to Pierce and returned to Ireland.

"Okay, now can you tell me what you found in those machines?" It was already night when I returned to Ireland, and when the car drove into the yard of her ranch room, Joan couldn't bear the doubts in her heart and asked .

"There seem to be some compartments inside these two machines, which obviously don't belong to the machine itself." Liang En pointed to the several large boxes in the pocket behind the broken pickup truck.

"Considering that the origin of this thing is rather suspicious, I suspect that these things are likely to hide some valuable things, so I came back in such a hurry."

Ten minutes later, the two came to the underground warehouse with the suspicious equipment they picked out.Then he took out the tools and began to disassemble those suspicious parts.

When they saw open the shell of the machine with a small chainsaw, a welding seam appeared in front of them. This hidden welding seam was obviously left after hiding something, not during production. down.

"There's something inside." Just as Liang En carefully removed a piece of metal that was only half the size of the phone's screen, Joan of Arc, who had been helping out by the side, discovered the thing hidden in the interlayer at first sight.

The thing that was found was several finger-sized irregular pieces of metal, with a black outer layer on it. At first, Liang En thought it was some kind of precious metal, but after weighing it with his hands, he found that the thing was too light. , not like the imagined precious metal.

After careful observation with a special magnifying glass, Liang En found that these black things should be just a layer of oxide layer on the surface of the metal ingot, with some inconspicuous off-white irregular spots on it.

"It seems that there are stories behind these things." After confirming that he had completed the inspection, Liang En put down the metal and magnifying glass and said, "I'm a little interested now."

(End of this chapter)