Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The reason why three people acted instead of two this time was mainly because the language commonly spoken in Central Asia was Russian, and Fan Meng also learned Russian because Ukrainian was his mother tongue before, so it was easier to communicate.

In fact, Liang En began to try to learn Russian by himself after returning from Chernobyl last time, but due to lack of time, he is now limited to ordinary daily conversations, so a translator is necessary.

Of course, this does not mean that Liang En’s level of Russian language learning is not high. Because of repeated reinforcement in the past, his overall learning ability can now be regarded as a genius among ordinary people. Unfortunately, he is too busy. , not much time is spent on this.

The road through the snowy jungle was not as difficult as expected, because the slope of the hillside was not too steep, and there were some roads that could help them cross those hills.

Soon, a few of them came to a gentle slope. After searching around, Liang En and the others found the half-burnt tree that the count said was used as a cemetery marker.

"The cemetery should be ten steps north of this tree. Let's look for it first." Liang En said after seeing the tree, and at the same time he took out a metal detector from his bag.

At the same time, Joan of Arc and Fan Meng each took out their metal detectors and started searching with the tree trunk as the center of the circle, and then all the way to the north.

"It doesn't seem like there is one here." Jeanne looked up and said after searching five or six meters to the north, which is where a normal person would walk ten steps, because they did not find the target they were looking for.

If the body was really buried in this place, then this place must have a metal reaction. After all, the ancestors of the person who sold this thing to the earl only took away the valuable things from that person, not the valuables. other things.

This is not to say that he is willing to treat the dead with dignity, but it may not be a good thing for a poor shepherd to have too much wealth.

So at that time, the shepherd only took away the gold coins and the valuable-looking jade cup that were not easy to be found. He didn't touch anything else. Instead, he completely buried the man's body and other things on his body here. In the wilderness.

Even so, he only used the gold coins after he returned, and the jade cup that might have been recognized was buried underground near his home. He didn't tell his son until he was about to die.

In other words, the guy who froze to death was buried completely, so there must be metal parts on his body. In any case, a person who can carry so much money should use metal parts for both buttons and belt buckles. right.

What's more important is that the pit dug by the other party was not deep, and there were not many predators here that would dig the corpse out of the ground. So no matter from any angle, they should be able to find each other using metal detectors now.

"Did I find the wrong one?" Liang En frowned at the current situation. Logically speaking, there should be nothing wrong with this information, and he wouldn't be unable to find it for a long time like this.

"Wait a minute, I think there might be something wrong with the way we searched for the destination just now." Just as the three of them stood on the snow and started thinking, Fan Meng said as if he remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Joan of Arc thought about everything just now and looked at Fan Meng and asked, "Unless the information the earl gave before is wrong."

"No, the clues given by Mr. Earl are probably correct, but there may be some mistakes in our understanding." Fan Meng shook his head and said, "For example, how far is one step?"

"One step is just one step." Liang En said, taking a step forward. "Back then, the shepherd was an adult male. It was normal to take a step of more than half a meter. So, is there anything wrong with me looking five or six meters away?"

"That's right, but people have different views on different steps. For example, many people think that one step forward with the left and right feet is considered one step, which is our two steps." Fan Meng said with a smile.

"Yes, you are right." Liang En reacted after being reminded like this, because Chinese tradition sometimes calculates the first step in this way, which shows that this is also a relatively common calculation method.

After realizing this, Liang En and the others quickly set their target 10 meters away from the tree stump. Sure enough, the metal detectors in their hands started ringing soon after they arrived.

"It should be here, let's dig." Liang En said after repeated detection several times, then he replaced the metal detector in his hand with a shovel and started digging.

The excavation process went very smoothly. Although the ground was a bit frozen due to the cold weather, the pit dug by the other party was very shallow, so they smelled a faint smell from the black soil after digging less than 1m away. The rotten smell was emanating from the soil.

"It seems that we are close to the goal." Liang En became excited when he saw that there should be more organic matter in the soil, because this meant that the earl's news was true.

So after the three people dug hard, the sharp-eyed Joan first discovered the outline of half a boot from underneath the soil.

After all, he had done a lot of homework before coming here, so Liang En could recognize at a glance that these were long leather boots with iron nails. It looked like they should have been issued to the Tsarist Russian cavalry during World War I. Now Can't be wrong.

Without saying anything, the three men held the shovels in their hands and carefully dug forward along the boots. Gradually, the true appearance of a corpse lying prone at the bottom of the trench was revealed.

It's a bit weird to dig up a body in the mountains in the wilderness, especially when it's accompanied by waves of stench. Fortunately, the few people present were not sensitive to this aspect, so the excavation work went very smoothly.

"This should have been buried for 100 years, why is there still a smell?" Fan Meng said with some confusion, "I thought the smell would disappear in a year or two."

"If it's an open environment, it's really no problem, but it's hard to say in a closed environment." Liang En shrugged, "Especially in a place like this on a hillside where the groundwater level is not high, the organic matter rots slower, so after opening The strong smell is unavoidable.”

Even from Liang En's point of view, the smell here is not necessarily a bad thing, because it means that the organic matter underneath has not rotted away, and it is also convenient for them to obtain more information.

Sure enough, the corpse lying at the bottom of the pit looked very complete, and even many of the metal objects on his body didn't look very heavily rusted.

Of course, this is also within Liang En's conjecture, because in his opinion, the temperature in this place is not high and the soil moisture content is relatively low. Therefore, neither the speed of metal oxidation nor the speed of organic decay is too fast.

After eating some self-heating food to warm themselves up, Liang En and the others quickly started searching carefully. Soon, they found a lot of things left behind.

It seems to be the same as the information received before. After discovering the body, the herdsman only took away a small half of the things, and then buried most of the other things with the body to avoid causing disaster to himself, so Only so many things remain on site.