Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 686 Find the target
For archaeologists, the poor environment during archaeology can be said to be a very normal situation, but such scriptures like those excavated in Ollie still make people feel that it is really hard to explain.

Now, besides Liang En's good reward, what can keep everyone's morale up is also a very important reason why he and Joan of Arc took turns entering this small wetland to take the lead in digging.

But it must be said that the old mud in these wetlands smells very bad, even wearing a gas mask can't stand it.After all, in this cold climate, various organic matter decays very slowly, so it will naturally form an unbearable smell.

However, thanks to this humid and anoxic environment, the overall preservation of the things that were previously hidden at the bottom of the wetland was much better than expected. In the afternoon of that day, they hooked them with the help of probes and iron hooks. A human remains.

The body of this human remains is preserved unexpectedly intact, and the whole body has begun to be mummified. From the clothing on the body, it can be seen that this person should be a person from the early 20th century.

As for the specific identity of the other party, it is still unclear for the time being. Even if the body has not decomposed, the mummified body is naturally far from the appearance of this person in life.

"This corpse doesn't look like it died a century ago." Watching the mummy being dug out of the wetland, Louis showed a curious expression.

As a former officer of the Foreign Legion, when he was on mission in Africa, he had seen corpses with different methods of death and different times of death, but he had never seen such a corpse that looked very fresh but was actually very old.

"Yes, that's the magic of this thing called a swamp mummy." Liang En and Joan of Arc sorted out the relics on the body that could help determine the identity, and introduced it to everyone who was curious.

"The low-oxygen environment in the swamp and some special microorganisms that can leatherize the human body prevent it from decomposing. In the process, it will turn the skin of the dead body into leather."

"After entering the 20th century, humans dug up many such mummies in Europe, and the oldest mummies came from Denmark, which is more than 6000 years old."

While explaining the story inside, Liang En conducted a comprehensive search of the remains. With the progress of the detection work, a lot of information was confirmed.

The person they dug up now is a white male in his 30s, and he should be a manual laborer. Judging from the 4 or 5 bullet holes on his body, he should have been killed in a firefight.

After further examination, they determined that the money, the ring on the hand and the gold teeth in the mouth had all been taken from the man.This is quite in line with the style of the group of gold diggers.

The other party was wearing a common outdoor adventure clothing in the early 20th century, with a sweater inside and a coat outside.

However, judging from the texture of the remaining parts of the sweater and overcoat, this person's status is not too high, and it is very likely that he belongs to the manual labor workers in the expedition team.

After completing the inspection, they put the valuables they found in special boxes, and then put the remains in the body bag they had carried before and zipped it up.

During the last step, Joan took out a small Bible from her body and knelt on one knee next to the body, and then prayed for the deceased.

As the first body was dug out, everyone basically confirmed that this place was indeed one of the important targets they were looking for, and after gaining experience, their subsequent search and excavation progress was much faster.

The only person who can be directly identified is the chef in the team, because he is the only black person in the entire expedition.

When they salvaged the sixth body the next day, they successfully salvaged their target Mr. Brown, but compared to the best-preserved first body, only half of this body was well preserved .

What's worse is that this half of the body is the lower body below the waist. As for the upper body has been completely skeletalized, it is basically impossible to see why without professionals.

Fortunately, before the murderer who killed these people threw these bodies into this small wetland, he only searched for valuable items from this group of people, and did not take off their clothes, so it is not too difficult to confirm their identities .

As for this Mr. Brown, it is also very easy to confirm, because Mrs. Hannah told Liang En all the information about her grandfather that could be used for other things, including not only the clothes, but also various traces on the other's body.

The most important of these clues is about the injuries this Mr. Brown suffered back then. As a field explorer, no matter how high his status is, some injuries are unavoidable.

By examining the remains, Liang En found signs of being broken and healed from the opponent's right index finger, left forearm arm bone, and three ribs, which also proved the opponent's identity.

"Shall we continue to fish?" After confirming the identity of the deceased, Louis stepped forward and asked. "After all, we have now accomplished our main purpose of coming here."

"Can everyone persist?" Liang En looked at the other party and said, "If you can persist, I think it's better to bring these people back from here."

"Of course everyone can persist." After hearing what Liang En said, Louis immediately gave a positive answer. "As long as you give the order, we can hold out for at least a week."

"Don't worry, it won't take that long, the situation will be much better than expected." Liang En said with a smile and shook his hand. "The depth of this wetland is not deep, and the area is only two basketball courts, so it is not difficult to fish all 12 people."

Although it is said that digging is necessary to find those remains, everyone's digging speed is not slow when the soil is soft and the depth of digging is less than half a meter.

Of course, the more important reason is that they are not archaeologists this time, so they only need to ensure the integrity of the remains, and do not need to consider the preservation of the surrounding environment, so the difficulty of excavation will naturally be much smaller.

As the excavation work progressed, the speed of excavation also slowed down. This was not because everyone couldn't keep up, but because the search became more difficult.

Finally, on the fourth day after digging out the first body, they found all the members of Brown's expedition that year.It seems that this wetland was completely regarded by those attackers as a good place to destroy corpses and traces.

Among other things, they checked it out during their spare time during the search.And it was confirmed that in addition to the dead aborigines, there were dead gold diggers in the remains of that village.

This is not such a surprising thing, after all, those gold diggers are not very good people.So don't expect them to be able to restrain the remains of their companions, naturally they can handle them however conveniently.

Because considering that the supplies carried have been exhausted, and it is impossible to carry out follow-up search work with these remains.So Liang En contacted Golden Dawn directly and asked them to send a plane over to replenish their supplies and take away the remains.

(End of this chapter)