Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Judging from the on-site inspection, Liang En was basically certain that these items did come from a ruins, because the rust stains on these antiques and the styles of these items were indeed consistent with being unearthed from the same ancient battlefield.

In addition, this group of people released these things purely to test the waters, because these things are just fragments with a little archaeological value, and their economic value is not great.

Liang En even suspected that the people selling goods may not be criminals at all, but people directly hired by the other party. Once a problem occurs, this group of criminals will quickly smell the danger and run away.

"When can the other party come again?" Liang En asked after completing the inspection of these items. He now had a vague guess, but he needed more items as evidence to prove his guess.

"It should be tomorrow, when we meet at a warehouse in the suburbs." Pierce smiled, "That's why I called you here today, because I guess the other party is very likely to come with good things in person this time."

"Because I warned him before that my place is not a garbage dump, and he had better bring something of value over here instead of using this garbage to prevaricate me. So the other party said that he would come over with something of value tomorrow."

"That's fine if that's the case, but if it's convenient, I'd like to go there with you tomorrow." Liang En thought for a moment and said, because he hoped to get as much first-hand information as possible.

"That's fine, but you may have to hide for a while during the transaction." Pierce thought for a moment and said, "After all, you are a public figure now, and I'm worried that the other party may know you."

Although Europeans are generally more face-blind when looking at Asians, if there are one or two less face-blind people on the other side who discover Liang En's identity, there is a high possibility that things will go wrong. That would be troublesome.

So after breakfast the next morning, Liang En and Pierce split up. According to the plan, Pierce would arrive at the warehouse in advance to open the lock on the rear window, and then let Liang En go in through the window.

After arriving near the warehouse, Liang En released the three ravens he carried with him to observe. As expected, he found someone sitting in a car staring at the door of the warehouse wall.

It seems that today's criminal gangs will indeed send their core personnel, because only in this way can they explain why the other party is so nervous.

Fortunately, because of the raven, Liang En discovered the other party's security personnel, so he bypassed the other party's surveillance line of sight and climbed in from the back, and then followed the window Pierce opened to the attic of the room.

There is only one ladder that can go up and down between the attic of the room and the first floor of the room. Judging from the thick dust falling on the cover, Pierce has not been up to this attic for at least a year or two.

The attic seemed very empty, with only two empty cardboard boxes stored there. After arriving at a corner of the house according to the location mentioned by Pierce, Liang En quickly found a crack through which he could see the warehouse door below.

It is very common for such an old room to have various cracks, so this place where the door can be observed will not arouse anyone's vigilance.

The same thing happened after that. Two strangers quickly walked into the warehouse to check it out. When they saw the dust on the ceiling and stairs, they declared it safe without even going up to the attic to check.

In the next ten minutes, the two of them had a verbal exchange with Pierce downstairs, and then each handed over and exchanged the boxes they had brought.

"This is the Roman dagger, the most representative weapon of the ancient Roman era." After finishing the transaction and waiting for the other party to leave, Pierce said while opening the box. "At least that's evident from the precious metal decoration on it."

"The dagger of a high-ranking ancient Roman officer, this is a rare thing." Liang En, who came down from upstairs, opened the long box and found that there was indeed an ancient Roman dagger in the box.

However, the moment he opened the box, he smelled an obvious smell of earth. It seemed that it could never have taken more than three days to dig this thing out of the ground.

"It seems that we can't keep this thing." Liang En raised his eyebrows and said, because this thing is obviously something that was dug up by theft. It is not a thing for Liang En and the others to keep it in their hands. Good thing.

"But that doesn't mean we can't get benefits from it." Pierce also smiled at this time. "What's more, for us now, we have gone from pursuing money to pursuing something more valuable."

The overall condition of this dagger can be said to be very bad. The scabbard and hilt made of wood have completely rotted, and the steel part has become a piece of rusty scrap metal.

The only ones that are well preserved are the decorative plates made of silver-gilt metal sheets on the upper part of the scabbard and the tail of the scabbard, and the patterns and Latin on them record many important things.

"Centurion of the 14th Legion." Liang En glanced at the Roman numeral 14 and the symbol composed of two pairs of wings and crossed lightning bolts, then raised his head and looked at Pierce. "I think you should know what this means."

"The 14th Regiment of the British Conquerors." Pierce also recognized what this sign represented. "The only thing I don't know now is the scale of the battlefield. If I know-"

The 14th Legion cannot be called a legion with outstanding military achievements at all. Although it was formed by Caesar in 57 BC, it was common for most of the subsequent wars to be spent in the rear watching the camp. Naturally, there was nothing wrong with it. An incredible achievement.

Even historically, three years after its establishment, this legion was directly ambushed in the Gaul region because it believed false news of transfers and suffered the humiliation of being annihilated.

Even in the civil war at the end of the Roman Republic, the Fourteenth Legion could not be said to be very outstanding. At best, it was just a qualified Caesar veteran legion. Basically, it did work such as protecting the rear and protecting the camp.

But by the Imperial period, the Fourteenth Legion was one of the most powerful Roman legions in the first century AD. The defeat of Boudica at Whitling Avenue was enough to immortalize the Fourteenth Legion in history.

This is why Liang En and Pierce are excited, because Queen Boudica is so famous in British history, so any historical relics related to her are worthy of all the attention.

"Don't worry, I have a way to track these guys now." Liang En whispered to Fan Meng. At this time, his raven had already flown high into the sky and was monitoring the vehicles of the group of sellers.

The sellers drove all the way north in an inconspicuous SUV. They were not fast, so they were able to be detected and targeted by the ravens from high altitudes.

"It's best to be able to pinpoint the other party's specific excavation location. This is very important to us." Pierce also showed a nervous expression at this time, because as a professional, he also understood how important these things found by the other party were.

"Believe me, although my ravens seem to be a little oversized, their detection skills are definitely not bad." Liang En said with a smile, "I believe we can figure out what these rats are after just a little while." Where is it?