Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 547
"I've never heard of such a relic in my territory." Looking at the excavation at the scene, Mr. Varma thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"To be precise, I've never heard of this ruin. If it wasn't exposed by the last storm, I wouldn't even know the existence of this place."

"As for the illegal digging you said more than 100 years ago, we don't know much about it, but if I'm not wrong, only the British were able to do this."

It is easy to determine who the guy who destroyed this relic is, because at that time, only the British who were colonists were able to use a large amount of explosives to do this without attracting the attention of the local rulers.

More importantly, as a religious place, this place is very sacred in the hearts of Indians. Even if it is stolen, it will not be completely destroyed by explosives.

"There is a question, why those people blasted this kind of place." Joan of Arc asked during the excavation.As the excavation work progressed, more and more questions were raised about the situation at the site.

To give the simplest example, for those thieves, it is nothing more than to find some valuable things here in exchange for money, and the cost of blowing up this thing is obviously too high, and it is obviously a loss.

Not to mention that their actions are definitely covert actions and cannot be put on the bright side. If they explode, it is obviously easier for others to find out. It doesn't seem like something they do to cover up their traces.

"The other party's current actions seem a little weird." Liang En said, looking at a series of small sculptures found in the previous discovery. These sculptures are some very well-carved Hindu gods.

Although this temple is obviously much smaller than the large temples, the overall level should not be low, so the sculptures inside also look extremely exquisite.

"If it is for profit, they should take away this small and exquisite statue. After all, Europe at that time had a high demand for these cultural relics from other civilizations. These things should be able to exchange for a lot of money. "

"This explanation is very reasonable." Joan of Arc looked at the relief of a snow mountain girl that had just been made up and said, "but the question now is why the other party did this."

"Not sure—" Liang En shook his head helplessly, because what this group of people are doing now is completely crazy, and it is really too difficult to figure out what the crazy is thinking.

"We found a secret room—" Just as Joan of Arc was talking to Liang En, an Indian ran over and said in relatively standard English.

Labor costs in India are so low that anyone with a little money can afford servants.For example, those small landlords in rural India may not live as well as some richer farmers in China, but they can afford four or five servants.

As for Varma's servants, there are more, probably hundreds of them, and there are strict ranks in them. People who speak English fluently like this are almost all the most senior servants.

Especially as an ancient family, Mr. Varma naturally does not want all his staff to be illiterate, so although this servant is of a low caste, he has also gone to college.

These old Indian nobles like to train the children of housekeepers and senior servants to become talents, and then put them in local government departments, so that they have a voice in the government that they can fully control.

And the Indian government has been working hard to increase the proportion of lower caste people in government, which in turn helps people like Mr. Varma --

Even in Kerala, the level of education received by the poor cannot be compared with that of servant children specially trained by rich and prestigious families, and the result has not changed the status quo.

While thinking about what was there, Liang En also came to a large pit that had been dug out. Because a ground paved with stone slabs was found here a few days ago, it was naturally the focus of the next excavation work.

After all, among the buildings built on a piece of mud, the one that can be paved with stones is only [-] to [-] square meters, and it seems that it should belong to the core area of ​​this ancient building.

What I didn't expect was that after the excavation work, the workers found that there were several stone slabs underneath that seemed to be empty, so they immediately reported to Liang En after they uncovered the stone slabs and found a stone door.

The stone gate was carved very rough, it seemed that a stone was flattened to block the opening, but under the command of Fan Meng, those Indians had already used elephants and some simple tools to dismantle the stone gate, and set aside.

The cave under the stone gate smelled very bad, as if something was rotten, so after everyone waited for half an hour to confirm that the ventilation inside had been completed, Liang En and Fan Meng entered the basement fully armed. .

Somewhat different from the imagined situation, the basement is not as simple as imagined, but looks like an underground palace.

Of course, the underground palace here does not mean how luxuriously built this place is, but it means that this underground building is very solidly built, even surrounded by a large number of stone slabs and stones.

"I even suspect that the cost of this underground building will be higher than the one above it when it was built." Through the throat microphone, Liang En expressed his findings after observation.

"Because it is not an easy task to build underground buildings in this kind of place. Because this needs to consider the root system of plants and the erosion of groundwater."

"Your guess is very reasonable. After all, it is not an easy task to build an underground building in such a place. I remember that the Foreign Legion once built an ammunition depot in a place with a high underground water level, which was very troublesome."

Fan Meng nodded, and then looked at the thick layer of mud accumulated on the stone slab with a depressed expression. "Fortunately, although it is humid here, the groundwater level is not high because of its high altitude, so there is such a little mud on the ground."

The mud concealed a lot of information, but after using small metal detectors, they quickly found a few metal coins from the mud that came from hundreds of years ago. .

After wiping off the mud on it, Liang En found that what he found was a gold coin that was like new and several silver coins that had turned black and had green sleeves.

After simple confirmation, he found that this coin was the currency of some small states in southern India about 600 years ago, and it is quite normal to appear here.

"This may be a treasure trove. According to the information I read, temples in India seem to be used to storing large amounts of gold, silver and jewelry." Fan Meng said after seeing these precious metal coins clearly.

"Don't tell me, it's really possible." After shining the flashlight directly on the corner, Liang En showed a pensive expression. "But thinking about the dynamite, I don't think there's much good left here if that's the case."

"After all, since those thieves are able to blow up the entire building and the hill behind it, they certainly don't mind sweeping away all the gold and jewelry here!"

(End of this chapter)