Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 685 Locking the Position
"Judging from the time difference between seeing the fire and the sound, the explosion point is about 20 kilometers away from us." Soon, Fan Meng revealed his investigation situation.

"And judging from the location of the explosion, it is very likely that the explosion occurred near the road we came over before. I suspect that this may be related to the attacker."

Fan Meng's guess was quickly recognized by everyone, so everyone became nervous that night, and everyone put their weapons within reach.

The chaotic night passed quickly, and the next morning, everyone's spirits were not very good. After all, the explosion made everyone a little worried except Liang En and Joan of Arc.

However, no one proposed to retreat. After all, they were fully prepared, and they didn't have to worry about any problems even if they encountered an attack.

After a simple breakfast, except for the patrolling personnel, the others returned to yesterday's excavation site to continue the excavation work.

Because of the positioning of the things dug out yesterday, they quickly found the location of the second totem pole, which was placed in the center of the settlement, and the houses where the elders lived.

The room where the elder lived was the only brick building here, and there were obvious signs of burning on it. Judging from the remaining bones and weapons in the room, these people should have hid in the room and tried to resist after being attacked, but the house was burned directly.

Most of the things in the room were destroyed or distorted by the flames, but they found many intact things in some corners.

The most attractive are several exquisitely crafted aboriginal pipes and five or six natural gold nuggets in the floor interlayer, some as big as quail eggs and as small as soybeans.

After taking out the gold from the interlayer, Joan took out the silver glasses case from the inside, but after opening the box, there were no glasses inside, but only a thin piece of animal leather, and the words written on it could be vaguely seen.

Because the box was better sealed before, the overall condition of the piece of leather inside is now in good condition, so Liang En carefully opened the leather volume with the help of the crude tools he brought.

The words on the leather scroll were very scribbled, and the color was a bit weird brown. With rich experience, Liang En easily judged that these words were written with blood.

"I think I know what's going on here." After checking the contents of the document, Liang En said with a sigh, "As we guessed before, this tribe was indeed destroyed by the attackers. "

According to the scroll, this tribe called Big Tree has less than a hundred people. It is one of dozens of tribes living in this wasteland. They usually make a living by fishing and hunting, and sell fur to the outside world to obtain various supplies.

It's just that the transaction in 1923 turned into a nightmare. A group of white people came here in the name of a transaction to deceive their trust, and then attacked them while they were drunk after the banquet.

According to what the leader heard, these white people were a group of gold diggers, and the goal of attacking them was for the gold they had collected before.

And at the end, the leader wrote that he had made an appointment with another group of wise men among the white people to receive their expedition two or three days later, hoping that the wise men of white people would see his message and avenge them after they arrived.

"In other words, the Brown expedition also arrived at this place, and was killed by the previous criminal gang for killing people." After reading the words on the leather, Joan showed a thoughtful expression.

"But there is also a problem, that is, what happened to the remains of the scientific expedition team? At least I can be sure that they were not thrown into the lake."

The reason for making this judgment is simple, because this lake and another lake next to it have rivers leading to the outside world, and there are many settlements on both sides of this river.

Obviously this kind of lake is not suitable for throwing corpses, because once the corpses are thrown into the river, it is easy to be discovered by the settlements downstream and call the police. After all, it is not normal for every river to be full of corpses like the Ganges.

Especially for Canada at that time, no one would pay attention even if the entire aboriginal tribe was massacred or disappeared mysteriously, but a whole expedition group mainly composed of whites was another matter.

"Indeed, but no one would run around with a dozen corpses. So I prefer those corpses to be hidden under this landslide area." Liang En looked at the landslide area stretching hundreds of meters in front of him. nodded.

"But the problem now is that the landslide area is too large. Even if there are a dozen corpses at the target site, it is not easy to find."

"Does that mean we need to search the entire landslide area? The workload is too great." Looking at the size of their team and the huge landslide area, Joan showed a distressed expression.

"No, this range can be reduced." Liang En took out a local map with contour lines marked on it, and pointed to the landslide area on the map.

"If this group of so-called gold diggers really killed that group of expedition members, then the other party definitely doesn't want their bodies to be rushed into the lake or exposed to the ground, so there are not many options."

"So after my analysis, those corpses should be hidden in a small swamp not far from the lake, because this place is not far from the place where the bullets and binoculars were found on the shore of the lake just now, and it is also very simple to move the items."

"How do you judge that this place is a swamp?" Joan asked curiously, looking at the ground that didn't look much different from the surrounding area.

"Smell, didn't you smell a rotten smell when you walked over it?" Liang En smiled and revealed the answer. "The smell in the wild often comes from rotting items in the swamp."

"In addition, the terrain like the lake is mostly flat, but there is an obvious depression in that place, which looks like a subsidence caused by an unstable foundation."

Although this is only a guess rather than a definite conclusion, it is much more convenient for Liang En and the others than to dig a little bit of the landslide area of ​​thousands of square meters, so soon other people besides the guards started digging. middle.

"That's right, there are indeed some things under here." After using the metal detector, they quickly discovered that there was an obvious metal reaction underneath, so they started digging without saying a word.

"This feels like my first garbage job out of high school," Tyson mutters as he digs, his voice muffled by the gas mask.

"This work environment smells like a trash can that hasn't been emptied in a long time, or a septic tank that just took the lid off—"

"Okay, be quiet, don't talk about this at this time." Captain Louis said after shoveling a shovel of black mud aside. "The smell here is very strong. If you continue to talk about it, I don't think I can eat lunch."

"Okay, I'll shut up." Seeing everyone glaring at him, even Tyson, who is usually a little slow, knew that it was really inappropriate to say these things at this time.

"I hope we can quickly find what we are looking for. I don't want to stay here for a second."

(End of this chapter)