Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 830 Judgment
During the next day, he conducted a large-scale search of the castle hoping to obtain more clues, but except for the symbols on the top of the tower, they found nothing suspicious.

"I feel like I can't go on any longer—" When she arrived at the castle on the third morning, Mary looked visibly depressed. "Although we found more than 300 runes. But we can't see anything at all.

""If I really have to say something has been discovered, I can only say that these symbols are indeed beautifully painted, at least they look more like paintings than some words. "

"Wait, are you saying that these symbols are like paintings instead of words?" Liang En, who was thinking about a lot of photos, raised his head and asked, "Are you sure about this?"

"It's basically certain." Mary pointed to the symbols on the screen and said, "For example, the fish symbol is a symbol of early Christianity, but the carvings here have added a lot of details, not as simple as the original—"

As Mary spoke, she pointed to the symbols on the screen and explained one by one. According to her, these are artistic symbols, which are only used in a few places.

"That is to say, these things cost more to produce than imagined." Liang En nodded slightly, "And I also discovered a strange thing just now, that is, there are basically no repetitions of these symbols."

"If there is no repetition, then the possibility that these symbols are used to convey information is not very likely to be words." After hearing the news, Mary thought deeply.

"Different from Chinese characters, our European characters are alphabetic characters at the beginning, so if we want to convey enough information, then repeated symbols are inevitable."

"So I think we can temporarily give up the idea that the information conveyed by these symbols is text information. At least it seems that this is unlikely." "This is a very bold, but very reasonable guess."

Mary's analysis gave Liang En an important inspiration. "We see symbols and subconsciously think they are encrypted text, but is that really the case?"

At this time, Liang En realized why the people from the Rose Cross had been busy here for a long time but still didn't understand the reason for the situation here. After all, no matter how powerful they are, it doesn't make sense to go in the wrong direction.

To be honest, the level of the Rosicrucians can definitely be regarded as the top level in code deciphering, and they can even be comparable to the Golden Dawn.

After all, alchemists like to use various codes to hide their research results, so a research organization that focuses on alchemy naturally needs to master enough secret code deciphering methods.

Unfortunately, judging from the information collected so far, these symbols are probably not encrypted text, so no matter how strong the deciphering ability is, it will not be of great help to unlock the secret, and it is easy to go astray.

After getting rid of a stereotype and broadening their thinking, Liang En and the others immediately made a new discovery: when they put the photos together and observed them as a whole, they found that the arrangement of these symbols was weird.

"If we put all the symbols on the wall and the ground together, we will find that these symbols form an irregular oval." Liang En said, pointing to the assembled photos.

"Do you think this looks familiar?" "Indeed, but I can't remember where I saw it." Elizabeth frowned, and at the same time zoomed in and out of the big picture that was stitched together on the screen of her mobile phone, and turned To and fro.

"This is very similar to the bird's-eye view of the island under our feet." Joan of Arc, who was scrolling around on the phone just now, said suddenly, and then uploaded a photo to the computer.

This picture is the panorama of the top of the tower that Liang En sent to everyone just now, but she connected the outermost circle of symbols with black lines to form a closed pattern, which looks almost exactly the same as the map of the island .

"This kind of creativity is simply—" Liang En said to that after realizing what was going on.The person who designed this thing admires it, because this design makes full use of the weakness of normal people's thinking.

Because after seeing this series of symbols that they don’t know, the first reaction of normal people is to decipher the secrets hidden in these symbols.

Therefore, they never imagined that these symbols have no meaning at all, but are just one point after another for positioning.

"But what does this map want to tell us?" Elizabeth looked at the island map with a thoughtful expression, "I think anyone standing on that tower should be able to see that the environment on the island does not need a map at all."

"Let me think about it, do you think there is a depiction of the castle under our feet?" Liang En said while zooming in on an area on the screen, and then pointed to several symbols crowded together and asked.

"Yes, this is it." Elizabeth pointed to a gear-like sign after taking a closer look and said, "In ancient maps, this sign was often used to represent fortified armed fortresses."

"In other words, these symbols are not completely made up, but they drew the symbols that carry information and other symbols together." Liang En looked at the gear-shaped symbol and nodded.

"So I figured if this thing is really a map, there must be some kind of markings pointing to the real whereabouts of the things they're trying to hide."

"Do you see this thing?" Liang En's voice fell within a minute, and Mary suddenly pointed to a place on the edge of the photo and said, "I remember that many maps I looked at back then had this symbol on them."

The symbol of her finger is a symbol composed of a sixteen-pointed star and a circle. Among the sixteen corners, four are the longest, four are medium, and eight are the shortest, forming a centrally symmetrical figure that is very friendly to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"This is indeed related to the map, because it is a pattern that belongs to navigators." Liang En explained after carefully looking at the pattern.

"This pattern is called the rose in the wind. It appeared around 1300 AD. It was a sailor's amulet. It was widely used in tattoos in the 18th and 20th centuries, and was sometimes drawn on maps."

"As for why it appears here, I probably hope that people who can see these patterns in the future will understand that what is hidden in this pile of symbols is a map."

The discovery of the rose in the wind greatly boosted everyone's morale, because it represented that the direction they had guessed before was correct.Under this encouragement, they quickly completed the overall analysis of these symbols.

The result of the analysis is that less than ten of the more than 300 symbols may be related to geographical location, and judging from these symbols, it can basically be determined that the other party's treasure location is near the castle, or even inside the castle.

"We have achieved a very important result, but this does not mean that the next work will be any easier." When everyone had lunch together at noon, Liang En and everyone summed up the current situation.

"After all, the area of ​​the castle and its surroundings is really too large. If the four of us want to dig it, we won't be able to dig it out until next year, so the next step is to find a way to find a more detailed location."

(End of this chapter)