Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"When the most loyal men of Constantine XI arrived at Trabizon, things turned bad because the place was completely different from what they had imagined."

In the hotel room, Liang En and Pierce translated the Latin on the photos one by one, gradually restoring the original reasons for Conrad's previous expedition.

"These people from Eastern Rome found that the other party was not only unwilling to admit themselves, but wanted to kill them to silence them so as to avoid being used by the Ottoman Empire as an excuse to attack Trabizon."

"In this case, they could only find a place to hide those things away from the city, and then returned to Constantinople before the fall, and died there fighting with their monarch."

"Fortunately, they finally left some parchments with messages tucked into an ancient book, and after hundreds of years of circulation, the book was collected in the British Empire Museum, and was finally used by these Freemasons found out.”

"Now things are very clear. This group of people should be looking for the so-called last treasure of the Roman Empire." Even Fan Meng, who didn't know much about history, could tell what the group's plan was at this time.

"That's right, but this map looks really troublesome." Liang En nodded, then turned to the last page of the photo album.

The photo on the last page of the album is a parchment map, which was very clear for the time. Unfortunately, the map itself is a standard ancient map, which can be said to be extremely abstract in the eyes of modern people.

Fortunately, ancient people also drew maps to identify directions, so they can still find some identifiable landmarks on the map, which allowed them to roughly deduce the approximate location of the target.

So after eating the next morning, the three people went straight to the airport with this pile of things, then took a private plane to Trabzon, and then rented two off-road vehicles locally and headed towards the destination calculated yesterday. The place opened.

Once off the highway, the road gets rough. The village roads far away from tourist attractions are not only very rugged, but also have steep slopes, with many slopes approaching 40 degrees.

Fortunately, Liang En and the others specially chose a high-horsepower off-road vehicle, so after increasing the horsepower, they were still barely able to climb over those steep slopes.

Also because it was a mountainous road, Liang En and the others' journey was much longer than they had imagined.

According to the odometer, they spent four hours driving 140km on this broken road, but the GPS showed that the straight-line distance between them and Trabzon was at most 60km.

The reason why it took so long was that sometimes the GPS signal could not be received at all in such mountainous areas, so in many places Liang En was required to release the three ravens in the cage to help detect the situation.

Fortunately, Liang En did not need to spend legendary points to empathize with these ravens, because the ravens were big enough to fly in the sky with a camera, allowing everyone to see the situation on the ground through the computer screen.

And this is one of the great benefits of flying on a private plane. Compared with the complexity of transporting animals by airlines, Liang En easily took his three little guys to Turkey using a private plane to provide them with food at such times. Air support.

"I think we should be here." After they drove the car along a dirt road and over a mountain pass, Liang En grabbed the walkie-talkie in the car and shouted to Fan Meng, who was the last one in the car.

Because what appears now at the foot of the mountain is a beautiful valley, with a creek dividing the valley into two halves, and on the edge of the creek is a village that has obviously been abandoned for a long time.

After driving into the village along a path buried in the grass, Liang En and the others got out of the car, then took off the weapons they had previously carried with them from the car and walked into the village nervously.

According to the regulations of the European Union in this world, Liang En and the others have the right to carry weapons across national borders. So in addition to Liang En carrying a semi-automatic rifle, Fan Meng and Pierce also carried a pump-action shotgun.

In addition to these legal weapons, Pierce also obtained six Russian-produced oval grenades through his personal connections so that he could fight back in an emergency.

"Let's check this village first." Liang En and the others loaded their bullets, and then began to carefully search the abandoned village.

The inspection process is very simple, that is, three people work together to confirm the safety of those rooms.

Everything was normal at first, but when they came to the center of the village, a black shadow suddenly opened the door of a nearby house and jumped out against the ground.

"Bang, bang -" Fortunately, Liang En and the others had been alert at this time, so they reacted in time and quickly pulled the trigger to shoot at the black figure.

After being shot, the black figure only rushed forward a few steps and fell to the ground. At this time, Liang En and the others discovered that the person they killed was an adult male wild boar.

"It seems that this village has indeed been abandoned for a long time." Liang En said thoughtfully, looking at the wild boar that was killed and bleeding all over the ground.

Because for wild animals like wild boars, even if humans leave a place, it often takes five or six years for them to return to the place previously occupied by humans.

After further inspection, Liang En and the others discovered that the humans in this village had been away for more than five or six years, because they found a large number of very ancient-looking items in the village.

"This pot looks a bit like the one you found before, but the material is different." Pierce dug out a broken iron pot from the ruins with a rusted and deformed bottom.

"Yes, this is a standard Turkish stew pot." Liang En took the rusty and twisted piece of scrap metal in Pierce's hand and said, "The stew pots in most of the Balkans and most of the Middle East are as long as That’s right.”

"And this pot has already entered the industrial era when it was produced." Liang En said, turning over the scrap iron, and then scraped off the rust at the place where the pot handle and the pot body were connected.

"For example, there is a trademark that was clearly stamped by a machine, and the year 1919 is also marked underneath. This means that this pot should have been produced in 1919."

This pot is not the first item with a date found. Because the mountainous area where this valley is located and the sea are separated by mountains, and the buildings are simply protected, there are many items with a date. was retained.

Judging from the age of the abandoned church in the center of the village and the preserved items, the residents of this village should be some Greeks, but they left here in the 1920s.

The departure of these Greeks should be related to the population exchange agreement signed between Greece and Turkey in 1923. At that time, 1.5 million people left Turkey for Greece, and 500,000 people went from Greece to Turkey.

The population exchange at that time was based on religion. The people in this small village in Turkey who believed in Orthodox Christianity probably left here at that time, and then the village was gradually abandoned.