Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 734 Strange Ruins
Regarding underground treasures, Swiss law stipulates that unless they can prove that those things belong to them, otherwise these things will belong to the owner of the land, and the excavators only have the right to claim.

So Liang En and the others had to obtain permission before starting the excavation work, otherwise, the subsequent series of procedures would become very troublesome.

It was also for this reason that they did not start digging directly, but chose to come in first to investigate in the ruins and check what was going on in the ruins.

"This should be a residential area, and it belongs to the kind of residences that were not low in the past." After going closer to the room and inspecting it carefully, Liang En pointed to the wall of the room and said.

"If you look carefully, you will find that there are still some white wall ash in the gaps in the walls of this room. In the era when this room was built, it was possible to smooth the walls in the room and apply a layer of wall ash. It’s something ordinary people can’t do.”

"Then who do you think this house should belong to? Or who does it belong to?" After checking the surroundings as well, Joan looked at Liang En and asked curiously.

"I guess this house should belong to a professor at the University of Basel at that time, or some wealthy student." Liang En said looking at the University of Basel not far away.

"Because this house is too small, the real rich and nobles would not live in such a big house, but the interior decoration is very delicate, too luxurious for ordinary citizens."

"So after ruling out those improbable situations, we can basically confirm that this room belongs to the university, and it is likely to be part of the former university housing complex."

"Then there is a question, why did they abandon the residential area here?" Joan of Arc looked at the remaining wall foundation and said, "You also said that the construction of the rooms here cost a lot of money."

"Because the address structure of this place is not suitable for building a house." Liang En looked at the wreckage of the building and said, "If you pay attention, you will find that the wall as a whole has obvious curvature."

"I thought it was intentional by the builder." Joan raised her eyebrows and said, "It's just like the Gaudi building we saw in Barcelona last time, in order to imitate nature with curves."

"No, no, before the invention of reinforced concrete, basically there would be no such curved walls as the load-bearing walls of the room." Liang En shook his head and said.

"Because if a curved wall is used without reinforced concrete, the uneven force in the same wall can easily lead to the collapse of the whole building."

"This kind of curved wall can only be sustained after the invention of steel bars, and if you look closely, the bending here seems very random."

"That is to say, this is not a deliberate bend, but caused by the uneven sliding of the mountain on the hillside, which also explains why this house with a very good location is abandoned."

Liang En could even imagine how beautiful this building on the mountainside overlooking the whole city would be after it was built. Unfortunately, the unstable foundation made this very good building combined with the environment have to be abandoned .

In many cases, the level of technology will lead to incompatibility between artistry and practicality. To give the simplest example, there is a building called Falling Water Villa in the United States.

According to some art and architectural magazines, the stream in this building floats into the villa with a moist breeze and murmuring sound, and the smooth and square modern structure is interspersed with rough stone cliffs.

Designer Wright's magical strokes are like Mondrian's highly abstract paintings, blending with the natural environment in subtle changes to achieve a poetic visual balance.

Fallingwater caused a great commotion shortly after its completion. As Wright's most representative work, this villa perfectly embodies Wright's concept of "organic architecture", and was called the 20th century building by the American "Time" magazine. The greatest residence ever.

If these honors are put there, many people may think that this building is like a fairy palace, but this is not the case.

In fact, this villa with a famous architectural history is located on the Xiongpao River because the water vapor diffuses, and the rooms in the villa are humid and uninhabitable all the year round.And every time the flood season comes, the flow of the stream increases, and the water even flows into the room, and the furniture has to be moved out.

Because the location of this place is really good, but it's a pity that the wrong location led to the collapsed room. After a few words of emotion, Liang En found the place where the box was excavated based on the location he remembered just now.

That place is now full of rubble and bricks, but after gently pushing it away with hands, a shallow pit of more than 30 centimeters appeared in front of the two people.

"This should be the place where the box just now was unearthed." Seeing the pit, Liang En bent down to check it, and said to Joan at the same time. "From this pit, we can roughly restore the original situation, for example——"

Speaking of this, Liang En frowned, because he found something that should never be here on the wall of the pit - a cigarette butt.

After carefully taking out the cigarette butt with plastic gloves on, Liang En found that it was a Marlboro brand cigarette butt, and judging from the traces on it, it must have been buried in the soil for no more than three months.

"Could this cigarette butt be left behind by the two American treasure diggers?" Looking at the dirt-covered cigarette butt, Joan frowned, "I remember that Marlboro is an American cigarette."

"No, this thing is integrated with the soil in that pit." Liang En exhaled slowly and said, "This thing should be buried together with the box we got, isn't it? what the diggers left behind."

After discovering the cigarette butt, Liang En immediately took out the previous box from his backpack and checked it carefully. As a result, he found more clues from the box.

"It seems that I was still careless before. Sure enough, I can't relax my vigilance just because I have special skills." After putting down the magnifying glass in his hand, Liang En nodded with a serious face.

"Is this box wrong?" Looking at Liang En's serious expression, Joan of Arc leaned over and said, "But you also said just now that these things are true."

"Yes, that's right, these things are indeed real, but the rust on them is different from what we imagined before." Liang En pointed to the dusty box and said. "This thing has been repaired before, and there are two layers of rust on it."

"One of the layers is the original rust, but it has basically been treated, and the other layer is newly formed after being buried in the soil, which will not exceed three weeks."

"That means this thing was just put in temporarily, right?" Jeanne frowned. "But why bury things in this place?"

"This location is very close to the city, but because it is a park, few people usually check it, so it is a good place to hide things." Liang En said seriously.

"If someone has something that is inconvenient to be known, I think it's a good idea to hide it here. Because this place has both elements of easy transportation and privacy. Whether it needs to be moved in the future or simply hidden is very convenient .”

(End of this chapter)