Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 699 Entrance
"It's finally here." After a white off-road vehicle stopped, Liang En immediately jumped out of the passenger seat and complained in a low voice.

Although cars could barely pass through those places just now, the roads in many places are so bad that they need to get out of the car from time to time to clear obstacles on the road.

What's worse is that even the roads that can be walked are generally in terrible condition. Walking from there feels like making a blender for an hour.

"No way, the situation here is like this." Joan of Arc encouraged a car to get down from the passenger seat, and then said with a smile. "It's better than walking through the rainforest with a backpack on your own."

For the last part of the journey, they could only walk on their feet. Fortunately, Liang En and the others only needed to walk for less than 10 minutes, so everyone arrived at their destination quickly.

The destination is a hillside full of tropical vegetation. The feet of the plants are covered with large and small gravel, which is very common in tropical areas. After all, perennial precipitation and tenacious plants are extremely corrosive to local stones.

If they didn't see a difference in the vegetation here from a distance, then they might have walked directly in front of the hill as usual, and no one would have noticed this inconspicuous hillside.

Because Liang En told the results of his observation in the car, the security instructor named Ivanov went directly to the hillside and began to check.

After checking for more than ten minutes, this Ivanov came down from the mountain and said to Liang En. "Your previous guess is right, boss, these stones were formed by explosive blasting, not natural landslides."

"Can you see how much explosives were used in this blast?" Liang En asked looking at the landslide area the size of a basketball court.
"The explosives used should be chemical fertilizers, equivalent to 50-70kgtnt." Ivanov said after looking at the landslide area in front of him and thinking for a few minutes. "The marks don't look like they were made by military bombs."

This news was good news for Liang En, because carrying out the blasting work in such a place that obviously has little strategic value can only show one thing, that is, there are indeed some secrets hidden on this hillside.

As for the opponent not using military explosives, it is also very reasonable. After all, during the Second World War, especially in the late period of the Second World War, the Japanese military supplies were severely lacking, so they did not have much choice in terms of explosives. room.

However, the blasting traces at the scene also gave Liang En more confidence in finding the treasure, because if this place had really been discovered, then this hillside should not be what it is now.

"I have a little question." Joan of Arc asked in a low voice as she left Liang En's side at this time. "You said earlier that both the Japanese and the Americans used to look for that gold. So why did they put this place?"

"Because this place is too remote, the Americans prefer to carry out excavation work on Luzon Island, which they are familiar with." Liang En said with a smile.

"And this place was obviously destroyed by bombing, just like the countless tunnels dug by the Japanese in World War II, so they would not want to risk unexploded bombs without clear evidence Dig here."

Anyone who knows something about the history of World War II knows that during World War II, after the Japanese lost their sea and air control, their favorite thing to do was to dig various tunnel fortifications.

From a series of frontier fortresses in the Puppet Manchukuo in Northeast China, to Saipan, Iwo Jima and even Guadalcanal in the Pacific Islands, the devils have dug countless underground tunnels.

Neither the Americans nor the later Filipinos had much interest in these tunnel fortifications during the war. After all, there is a high probability that there are some weapons and ammunition inside, or even more deadly things.

We must thank the current technological progress, so Liang En and the others can use artificial seismic instruments to confirm the cavity, instead of carrying out large-scale excavation like people in the past.

The principle of this approach is very simple, that is, a small amount of explosives explode to generate seismic waves, and then use instruments to capture the echoes to determine possible cavities.

After three explosions, they successfully found the location of the underground cavity. The good news is that the space is only seven or eight meters away from the surface, and the space required to be excavated will not be too large.

As for the bad news, the opponent was blasting and stuffing explosives into the passage, at least half of the passage was blown down, so the only way now is to dig in directly.

"Fortunately, we rented that plantation, and there is a small excavator in the plantation that can be used to dig canals." Liang En felt a little lucky after seeing the results of the current investigation.

Although they can use explosives when stripping the soil on the surface of the cube, in order to avoid damaging the space inside the mountain, especially the space that is likely to become fragile after a blast, they are unlikely to blow all the way in.

So everyone quickly arranged their tasks, and the demolition team was left to prepare the explosives for the first blast, while the others cleared the road and prepared to drive the excavator in.

It is not easy to drive an excavator into this area. After all, there are basically no roads in this area, or even if the roads built by the devils have been basically abandoned after so many years.

Fortunately, so many of us worked together, and some of them had learned how to use an excavator, so we moved the small excavator to the excavation site in two days.

After two days of blasting, they also successfully removed the nearly 3m thick earth and rock layer on the hillside, and the remaining 1m can only be excavated by physical methods.

"How is the situation now?" While waiting for the excavator to start digging, Liang En asked Ivanov, who was in charge of the blasting before.

"The blasting work is going well." Ivanov nodded and replied. "And we also found part of the concrete structure, and it can be seen that this should be a Japanese stronghold in the past."

"However, the standard of this stronghold is not high. At least only a few key parts of the concrete are reinforced with steel bars, and the rest are made of bamboo bars. Moreover, the entire concrete layer is very thin, and it doesn't look like it was built according to military standards."

"You can't make that kind of judgment yet." Liang En shook his head lightly. "At the end of World War II, the Japanese were at the end of their ropes. The locals even planned to use bamboo guns to resist the American army, so it is normal to build military fortresses without cement in the later period."

Excavators are much stronger than manual excavation, so after only six hours, they successfully dug out all the broken stones and even reinforced concrete, and then revealed a broken entrance.

This entrance wasn't too big, and it seemed that it could only allow three people to enter and exit side by side. At this entrance, they saw several wine bottles and bones all over the place.

"These people don't have any wounds on their bodies." A security guard who has done some research on the matter stepped forward and said, "there is a high probability that they died of poisoning or suffocation."

"In other words, this is very likely to be a laborer who was killed." Liang En nodded, "It seems that this place does indeed look like a warehouse with important supplies, but it depends on us for what it is filled with. This time luck."

(End of this chapter)