Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 645 Confirmation and Search

Restoration of cultural relics is a knowledge that can be studied for a lifetime, and Liang En and the others only learned the superficiality back then. Even after Liang En learned a lot of knowledge and mastered the technology in this area, it was only the most basic That's all.

Fortunately, what Liang En needs to do now is much simpler than imagined. He only needs to clean up the rust on the place where there may be inscriptions on the tail of the cannon, and perform basic repairs.

It has to be said here that cards are not omnipotent. For example, those repair cards, no matter what level they are, can only repair the whole thing, and cannot choose to repair a part of the same thing.

Fortunately, learning before and strengthening his body allowed Liang En to not miss when repairing this simple thing, so the overall speed was only slower than using cards.

So before lunch at noon the next day, Liang En finally cleaned up the tail of the door, and then found what he needed at the tail of the cannon.

"Nuestra Senora de Atocha, Lady Atocha, we found it." After cleaning off the copper rust on the tail of the gun, Liang En quickly recognized what was written on the tail of the gun.

As best they had imagined before, this ship was the wreck of the Madame Atoka, the target they were looking for this time, because both artillery and silver could provide evidence for this conjecture.

After reporting this news to everyone, the morale of everyone on board was boosted.Although everyone vaguely felt this situation before, the morale boost brought to everyone by clear recognition and speculation is completely two levels.

So in the following search work, everyone directly raised the level of carefulness of the search by more than one level. The underwater divers carefully searched the seabed where the treasure was found.

In this round of searching, they found more interesting things, such as shards of glass the size of a palm, and navigational instruments and binoculars that were so rusted that they could barely see their original appearance.

These things are obviously not very good, and they don't even have high archaeological value, but based on these things, it can basically be judged that what they found should be the tail of the Madame Atoka.

Because in the age of sailing, the only place where glass windows can be used on a large scale is the cabin at the stern of the ship. At the same time, the gold and silver tableware they found before also proved that this should be the place where the higher-ranking crew on the ship lived.

Of course, the most important piece of evidence is the silver bricks they unearthed. According to the records that year, Mrs. Atoka’s stern was loaded with more than 300 silver bricks, and it was also the residence of the captain, missionaries and noble passengers.

Although the Spaniards also tried to salvage after the storm that year, it was a pity that the second storm that followed completely destroyed the sunken ship, and the whereabouts of these jewels remained unknown until Liang En and the others found them now.

"We're going to turn over the whole bottom of the sea." Lao Zhang told Liang En about the next plan during lunch. "Because we thought if this was really the stern of that boat, there must be a lot of stuff on the bottom of the sea."

"Your plan is very reasonable, because I guess the other party is likely to put the most precious part of the stern, which is also a practice in the age of sailing. And these things may not be detected by metal detectors." Liang En nodded and said seriously.

Although it is well known that the Spaniards plundered a large amount of gold and silver and other precious metals in the American colonies, in fact, the other party's plunder was not limited to precious metals.

During the Spanish rule, a series of things such as spices, sugar, dyes, textile raw materials, etc. were continuously transported from the Americas to the Spanish mainland, and supported Spain's battle for hegemony in Europe at that time.

Although most of these things are organic matter, even if these things were really carried in the fleet back then, they are basically rotten now, but the gems transported away on the ship back then can definitely be preserved to this day.

You must know that the Spanish colonies in the Americas were very large, and many of them are important gem producing areas today, so the Spaniards naturally took a lot of gems from here.

Considering the value of the gems, there is a high probability that the opponent should store those gems in the captain's cabin or in a warehouse near the captain's cabin, that is to say, it is likely to be hidden on the nearby seabed.

Unlike the found precious metal ingots and jewelry, those precious stones cannot be found by metal detectors alone. The only way is to use the most primitive manual screening method.

After all, although gems are hard, they often have poor toughness. If you use mechanical excavation, it is easy to directly turn one gem into several pieces, which greatly reduces the value of the salvaged treasures.

Fortunately, in theory, those things should be put together with those things found before, so it shouldn't be too difficult to search for them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En also learned about diving from everyone. Because of the repeated enhancement of the card, he learned diving in three days with the help of several professionals, and Joan of Arc only spent for five days.

This speed shocked the divers so much that Liang En had to say that he had learned this with Joan before, but not professionally.

In fact, Liang En discovered before that no matter whether he has been repeatedly strengthened, the main reason is that he still does not know whether he is a human being or not. His historical entourage has a characteristic, that is, the learning ability has far exceeded that of normal human beings.

It's just that this kind of strengthening is subtle and not done in one step, so Liang En didn't have a comprehensive understanding of his situation until today.

Of course, this learning tool is not perfect.For example, although Liang En and the others have mastered the basic diving skills, they still need to practice if they want to be like those professionals.

After all, mastering is mastering, and proficiency is proficiency. If you want to be like these experienced divers, you need to practice for a long time. Fortunately, it is no problem to follow everyone to do simple underwater operations in shallow water.

Because of the high visibility underwater, the excavation work is not difficult, especially for Liang En and Joan of Arc whose bodies have been strengthened repeatedly, this kind of physical work is definitely what they are good at.

Of course, strength does not mean that it can be wasted recklessly, so Liang En performed a divination the night before, roughly divining the approximate location of the most valuable things on the bottom of the sea that he had drawn.

The skill of divination is quite restrictive. Although in theory, divination can be done in any situation, but in most cases, Liang En simply cannot afford the cost of divination.

After many experiments, Liang Enfa found that the more vague the content of his divination, the smaller the range of options for divination, and the lower the price he had to pay.This also summed up a rule for using this skill.

For example, the divination this time was to limit a relatively vague target in a not-so-large area, so after he consumed all the legend points, he finally got a fairly accurate result: a seabed of less than ten square meters.

(End of this chapter)