Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 701 Treasure

It's not just Joan who finds this strange, at least for Liang En, the underground base reveals a strange atmosphere, and the whole seems to have too many contradictory things.

For example, the fact that the other party was able to kill a bunch of Japanese soldiers here to silence them, and even let a low-level officer take his own life to set up a defensive trap in this area shows that there are indeed important secrets hidden here.

But the strange thing is that compared to this strict security measure, the hardware of the entire base does not match this situation at all: only some wood, bamboo concrete and a small amount of steel are used for the cave.

The protection standard is not to mention the military standard, and it is not even the standard of some important civilian material warehouses.

As for the gate, it looked even worse. It was just an ordinary iron gate on the outside, and there was not even a metal gate on the inside, only a thick wooden gate.

However, after checking the wooden gate, Liang En found that the devils built the base like this because they really didn't have much material, because the wooden gate was exquisitely crafted and made of solid materials.

"This is the gate of striped ebony, which is considered the top quality wood in the Philippines." A security guard stationed in the Philippines said after checking. "The thickness of this door exceeds 15cm, and even pistol bullets cannot penetrate it."

This kind of wooden door is much easier to disassemble. After using the gaps on the door to insert fiber optic probes to confirm that there is no trap behind the door, everyone quickly destroyed the hinges on the side of the door.

It was a simple job. Seven or eight minutes later, with a heavy impact, the heavy wooden door weighing hundreds of kilograms crashed down.The channel was opened by them.

As the aroused dust fell, Joan was the first to go in, and then waved for everyone to come in. "Everything is safe here, everyone can come in and take a look."

"What the hell is this?" Liang En frowned after entering the door, because in his impression, the treasures should be some large and small boxes, with gold, silver and jewels piled all over the floor.

But the situation here is obviously different. There is only a small house of about ten square meters behind the wooden door. Four or five ammunition boxes are piled up in the corner of the room, and the boxes are still covered with dust.

"It contains silver pesos issued during the US occupation of the Philippines, as well as some scattered jewelry. After opening the box and taking a look, Liang En shook his head.

These silver coins are not worth much, and some of them are even more expensive than the silver ones that are not equal in weight. The total price of all the items in the boxes is [-] to [-] US dollars. For Liang En, the harvest is not even worth the expenditure this time.

After reading these things, everyone was obviously a little discouraged. The things they found before raised everyone's expectations to the highest level, so they will naturally feel greatly disappointed when they see the last finds.

"It's not right, absolutely not." Liang En shook his head, because everything seems unreasonable now, at least this little thing will definitely not pay so much for it.

"There must be a secret hidden here, but I haven't found it yet." Liang En muttered in a low voice while carefully inspecting the cave.

At first, Liang En thought that there was a hidden space in the cave, but after careful inspection, the cave was only this big, and only when he hit a piece of cement on the side did he hear the hollow sound.

"Open this place." After knocking a few times, Liang En, who was sure that there was indeed something hidden behind, said to the accompanying security personnel. "There may be something hiding behind this."

Everyone carried all kinds of tools with them, and the cement in this place was really not thick, so after only 10 minutes, everyone knocked off the cement layer and took out a silver box from it.

After opening the box, a lake-like green color appeared in front of Liang En and the others. Inside the box were a pair of jade bracelets, a jade necklace, a jade ring and a pair of jade earrings.

"What is this, emerald?" Looking at the translucent green jewelry in front of him, a security guard behind him asked curiously. In the impression of Europeans, the only translucent green gem should be emerald.

"No, no, it's not emerald, but emerald." Jeanne shook her head and said.She didn't know much about it before, but since she went to Guatemala, she also has an understanding of this gemstone that Chinese civilization is particularly looking for.

"Emerald?" a security officer asked, repeating the word in an odd voice. "I've almost never heard of this gemstone before."

"Because this kind of gemstone is only recognized by the Chinese. Of course, from the perspective of archaeology, the ancient Mayans also recognized it." Liang En carefully took out the silver box and said at the same time.

To be honest, the aesthetics of this world is directly linked to the strength of civilization. For example, because of China’s decline in the modern century, China’s jade is basically no one recognizes it outside the Confucian cultural circle.

Jadeite may be one of the few traditional Chinese jades that has a certain degree of acceptance in the world, but this is purely due to the fact that jadeite jadeite is closer to emeralds and there are too few natural green gemstones.

"How much is this thing worth?" After seeing Liang En put this set of jewelry into the backpack behind his back and asked everyone to spread out and search for a mezzanine in the room, Joan of Arc leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"More than 1200 million US dollars." Liang En thought for a while and came up with a price. "I have only seen similar jadeite jewelry in the photos of the Huaxia National Museum before."

"Is it so valuable!" Jeanne's eyes widened sharply. "It seems that it is indeed worth using some means to hide."

"No, that's not the case. Jade became so expensive after 2000 with the rapid economic growth of China." Liang En shook his head slightly.

"This set of things was placed at the level of 6 to 8 oceans in the era of World War II. Although it is not cheap, it is by no means necessary to build this underground fortification to hide."

"Then what's going on here?" Joan of Arc frowned and asked, "Why did the other party build this secret warehouse?"

"I have a little guess now, so I asked everyone to search the surrounding rooms." Liang En looked at the hole in the wall where the jade jewelry was hidden just now and said in a low voice. "If I'm not wrong, there should be some similar darkrooms in the walls of the surrounding rooms."

The development of the matter was no different from what Liang En and the others had guessed before. After more than an hour, we found the hidden compartments set on the wall in four of the six houses, and found some things inside.

These included a jewel-encrusted Patek Philippe gold pocket watch, a set of Napoleonic-era sapphire jewellery, a narwhal horn encrusted gold and gemstone cup and an exceptionally long pearl necklace.

"This thing should actually be the court beads used in China's Qing Dynasty." Liang En pointed to the last string of pearls and said, "This is the Eastern Pearl Chaozhu. Basically, only members of the royal family can use it. I don't know how it got here."

"Is this the mission of this building? Is it used to hide the wealth that the Japanese invaders plundered in Southeast Asia?" After looking at the found things, Joan asked in a low voice.

"Yes, and no." Liang En replied to Joan with a very British answer, "This building was indeed built to hide treasures, but certainly not just to hide these things."

(End of this chapter)