Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 832 Excavation

Everyone enjoyed the dinner. Although there were not many raw materials in the castle, Liang En made up for it with his cooking skills, making everyone present very happy.

Although the three ladies expressed their willingness to cook, considering the cooking skills of the three ladies, especially the two nobles who have basically never cooked, Liang En felt that it would be better for him to do it himself.

After dinner, the four of them quickly walked up the narrow stairs to the top of the tower, and then started searching with flashlights.

At the beginning, Liang En felt that finding the answer to this question was a very complicated matter, but it was not the case, and even the process was obviously much simpler than before.

Less than a minute after they came to the tower and started searching, they discovered a relief on the outside of the east wall of the tower.

"What is carved on the relief?" Liang En asked while hugging her leg when Joan poked his head out to take pictures of the relief outside.

"I think this looks like a sun, and it's a relatively common sun sculpture." Joan quickly finished taking photos, then returned to the platform at the top of the tower, and then shared what she had just taken.

Although it is nighttime, the photographed object looks a little blurry, but it is not unrecognizable, so they can easily see that it is a sun relief with a human face painted on it.

The popularity of this sun relief with a human face is due to the Tarot cards, but it was actually created much earlier than the Tarot cards. In most cases, this pattern represents joy, happiness and success.

In appearance, the radiant sun symbol is a disc surrounded by a zigzag pattern. This symbol was often used by the ancients to express divine blessings.

Although the blessing of the sun has a pagan content for Christianity, this symbolism is still used in various colloquialisms to this day.

For example, the phrase "good luck shines on them" that appears in many movies and novels is used to express the luck and success of someone in the process of struggle.

Of course, this thing also has its own meaning in occultism. It is often used in alchemy and represents gold, and the corresponding moon represents silver.

It's just that the things that can be used in buildings must only have the meaning of the sun. After all, alchemy has been rejected from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, so it is impossible to display it in public.

However, since this thing has always represented a very positive meaning, it was indeed often used in the decoration of castles in history, so it is not surprising that there is a relief of the sun in this place.

The only difference is that this sun is different from ordinary sun reliefs in that the light of this relief is not the usual 16, but 12.

As a response, they also found a moon relief with a human face on the outer wall on the other side of the tower, which is also a relatively common decoration method in the past.

But now Liang En and the others had other ideas, and soon, the four of them collected all the data and returned to the computer, and then began to study it.

"If there is no accident, then when the sun and the relief form a straight line at 12 o'clock in the noon, the top of the shadow cast by the tower on the ground is the location of the hidden treasure." Liang En pointed to the crude schematic diagram made temporarily on the computer Speaking of.

"At least those 12 sun rays should imply 12 o'clock noon, and now the final question is, what time of day is it?"

"Since you said that, you must have an idea." As someone who was familiar with Liang En, Joan of Arc knew that Liang En was just cheating now, so she urged her to ask.

"Of course it's the vernal equinox or the autumnal equinox." Liang En said with a smile, "Just now the sun and the moon sculptures are opposite, which implies that our day and night are the same length, and such days are only the vernal equinox every year. Autumnal equinox for two days."

"——If that's the case, then the place where the other party hides his things should be here." After a few minutes of quick calculation, Elizabeth finally circled a point on the map, and then said.

"It needs to be extended by another 2m5~3m." Liang En said after taking a look at the picture, "It turns out that there was a conical roof on the top of the castle tower, but it has been demolished now, but after calculating time to add."

"Ah, I almost forgot." After hearing Liang En's reminder, Elizabeth also reacted immediately.As a person who has remembered in the castle for more than half a century, she now remembered some of the facilities on the tower.

Traditionally, this kind of tower built for war often has a roof on it. On the one hand, it is to give the guards a shelter when it rains, and on the other hand, it is to prevent the enemy from projecting weapons.

Of course, the projectile weapons here refer to things like bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, javelins or stones. Early matchlock guns can barely resist them, but if they are artillery, they will definitely not be able to withstand them.

So it is very normal for a military castle like this to have such a roof, but because the structure is made of wood instead of stone, it is normal that the castle was not preserved after it was abandoned.

As for the guy who took over later, he just wanted to turn it into a shelter, so he did a full renovation of the interior and connected the water and electricity directly, but he didn't restore the now basically useless roof.

So now the top of the tower of the castle looks bare. If Liang Enlai hadn't checked the information about the castle before, he might not have realized the existence of that roof.

But then again, although it is said that hydropower is installed here, it is also the old standard decades ago. Although there are diesel generators, there is no reserve diesel.Therefore, some household appliances that consume a lot of power are basically useless.

This made them burn firewood for dinner last night. Fortunately, both Liang En and Joan were good at these tasks, so they finally had a hot meal instead of eating emergency food to fool their stomachs.

Because it was already dark, they didn't start work that day. Instead, after resting all night, they each ate a sandwich the next morning and brought their tools to the place designated yesterday.

"Let's get started, first scan it with a metal detector, and then use a probe to detect it again." Looking at the lawn that is not much different from the surrounding area, Liang En gently waved the detector in his hand and said.

He was not sure what was buried underground, because as a researcher of occultism, Liang En knew that sometimes the things buried by his colleagues in history were not necessarily metal objects.

"There doesn't seem to be anything down there," Mary said after running a metal detector. "Although in order to avoid false alarms, our sensitivity is not high. But I think the other party should not hide a metal that is not as big as a coin."

"Change the probe." Liang En said as he put the metal detector aside, then pulled out a probe from his waist and said. "I think it's very likely that the other party is not using metal."

(End of this chapter)