Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 879
Because the working area is not too big, not everyone can enter the front line to carry out excavation work. Taking advantage of this spare time, Liang En carefully studied the target hill.

I have to say that the guy who chose this hill had enough vision. Although it is not far from the sea, because of the uplift of the entire terrain and the overall terrain, this hill is surrounded by a series of hills.

That is to say, the natural environment around the hill isolates as much as possible the impact of the ocean and the surrounding mountains on the mountain itself, reducing the impact on the hill.

This is very valuable for potential treasures, after all, the more likely those things survive today if the impact can be reduced.

Thinking back to those guys who hid treasures back then, they probably only wanted to store treasures here for a short time, not for a long time, so now better natural conditions are conducive to maintaining the state of the treasures as much as possible.

After three days of cleaning, the collapsed things were finally cleaned up, and a cave hidden under a large pile of mud and stones was also exposed.

"This should be a natural cave." Liang En stepped forward to study it while the cave was ventilated, and then said, "Only the entrance of the cave has been artificially filled."

"It seems that your analysis is correct. They did use the existing natural caves for concealment work." At this time, they also walked to the entrance of the cave and looked at the traces of artificial filling on the ground. I looked around in the cave.

"If I'm not mistaken, this place should be a cave, but I'm curious why the cave looks different from what I imagined. I can feel the unexpected dryness inside the cave."

"This is probably due to the surrounding environmental problems. Many times, some small changes will cause a series of problems similar to changes in the groundwater level, so the water source that originally formed the cave here will naturally disappear."

"However, the disappearance of the water source will not affect the cave that has already been formed, which is why you will see stalagmites and stalactites inside. If you look closely, you will find that these stones have a lot of weathering."

After the ventilation was over, Liang En and the others entered the cave.The same as what they felt at the entrance of the cave before, the cave is indeed very dry, even compared to the surrounding area, it can be called very dry.

At the same time, the smell inside the cave was much better than expected, with only a slight rotten smell, unlike the kind of place that had been closed for more than half a century at one time.

After putting on the protective equipment, Liang En and the others entered the cave, and the first time they entered the cave, they found traces of human intervention: a warehouse had been cleared out of the stalagmites on the opposite side.

"I think the next job will be a lot easier—" Looking at the rough path in front of him, Liang En nodded and smiled with satisfaction, and then walked forward, but the first thing they saw was Several corpses lying on the side.

Although this place had been sealed for decades, the corpses had been skeletalized because of the time, leaving only some relics for identification.

Some of the White Knight security personnel who came this time had special forensic training, so a trained security personnel quickly came to a conclusion after checking.

"Half of these people were shot in the back of the head at close range, while the other half had their throats cut. Judging from the posture of these victims, they should have been tied up and killed."

"Yes, although the clothes on these people are almost rotten, judging from the remaining bits and pieces, they should be the group of missing crew members." Liang En also checked the relics on them at this time and concluded concluded.

"For example, this belt buckle has the name of the ship on it, and even the name of one of the missing crew members on the back. I think this should be able to explain a lot of things."

Before coming here, Liang En got the crew list of the missing ship from the documents, and the names engraved on the back of the belt buckle and another badge just matched the two people on the missing list.

After putting all this information together, everyone present immediately realized that the crew members were likely to be killed and silenced by the Japanese devils directly after carrying the things.

However, in addition to the remains of the crew, they also found more than 30 remains on the other side, but unlike those remains of the crew, these remains included men, women and children.

Although Liang En hadn't studied forensic science, he keenly noticed that there were obvious differences between these skeletons and which crew members. For example, these people were obviously shorter in stature, and there were obvious signs of tooth decay and wear on their teeth.

It is not normal for these people to appear here, especially if there are children or even babies among them, so it becomes a very valuable thing to figure out the identity of these people.

After more than ten minutes of searching, Liang En and Joan of Arc found some small artifacts from the soil around the bones.

These included animal teeth with holes punched in them, arrowheads cut out of flattened tin cans, and an abstract human figure carved out of charred wood.

These distinctive features allowed Liang En to immediately understand who the group of victims who were not recorded in the records were: some indigenous people who lived nearby.

For those Japanese devils, whether it is to catch strong men or kill them afterwards is a routine method of operation, so arresting some aboriginals to work and then shooting them is very in line with the character of the devils.

After placing the remains at the entrance of the cave with the body bags they carried with them, they finally saw the complete situation of the big pit that was originally pressed under the corpses.

The diameter of this large pit was more than 8m, and the top was covered by a pile of gravel. After peeling off some gravel with a shovel, a corner of a wooden box wrapped in iron appeared in front of several people.

"Great, it seems that we have found the right place." The first time Liang En saw the iron sheet, he turned around and gave Nelson a high-five, and then said excitedly.

Hmm, "As for finding out what this place is, the rubble may have been cleaned up. Fortunately, the other party did not completely seal it with cement, otherwise the work would be several times more difficult than it is now."

"It's impossible to seal this kind of place. After all, the Japanese only have one submarine. How could they bring cement?" Nelson said, shrugging his shoulders.

"So if I'm not wrong, it's pretty good that the opponent can use explosives to complete the basic concealment function. As for further actions, they simply don't have enough materials and manpower."

The source of these broken stones is obviously the stalagmites and stalactites that were cleaned up before, so it is much more convenient to clean up. In just half an hour, the layer of stones was cleaned up and the hidden treasures underneath were revealed.

These are nearly 80 boxes of different sizes, each of which seems to be well preserved, and these boxes are obviously the things that were originally placed on the ship and then disappeared with the ship.

(End of this chapter)