NOVEL NEXT Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 56 Accidental Discovery
Chapter 56 Accidental Discovery
After confirming that this thing was a canister, Liang En and the others threw it into the trash.After all, the output of this kind of thing is too high, and this rusty one is no different from scrap iron.
Next, the two separated and continued to search the yard, and at this time luck fell on Liang En's head.
"Silver coin!" Liang En dug out a standard-sized machine-made silver coin from the small pit after digging for a while after hearing the excavation from the metal detector.
On the front of the silver dollar was a portrait of a king wearing a crown, but when he turned it over, he found that 1 Indian rupee and 1917, the Arabic numeral representing the year, were written in English on the back.
"What did you find?" Pierce, who was carefully probing the ground on the other side of the yard, asked, because he saw Liang En dug something out of the ground and kept looking at it in his palm.
"A 1917 Indian silver rupee." Liang En threw the rupee over and said, "The current market price is about ten pounds, which is not worth much at all."
"But it's a good start, isn't it?" Pierce said after taking the silver dollar and looking at it for a while. "Compared to the canister just now, this thing is obviously better than garbage."
In addition to this silver coin, Liang En and the others cleared out three penny coins and one ten-pence coin used by Britain during World War II from the yard in the next hour, as well as a military bayonet with only half of it left. .
However, when the two of them walked along the corner of the wall and were about to detect it and then entered the room to continue searching, they heard the biggest reaction of the metal detector after coming here in a place near the root of the wall.
"It seems that there should be a big guy here." Liang En said excitedly after the metal detector gradually expanded its search range, because he could feel that this thing was not much smaller than a schoolbag.
"It feels like an ammunition box." After cleaning up the dirt, Liang En frowned.Because this thing is an iron box with a handle on the side, it looks like the ammunition box in the historical pictures.
"This is the ammunition box." Pierce pointed to a protruding place on the box with a hand wearing a work glove. "Don't you see the mark of the British War Department here?"
"What?" Liang En moved his face closer, and saw a slightly blurred coat of arms on the stamped steel plate, which should be the badge of the disbanded British War Department.
"We'd better be careful." This badge made Liang En vigilant all of a sudden, after all, not all ammunition boxes would bear the badge of the Ministry of War.Unless the contents of this box are directly distributed by the War Department.
But as long as you think about it with your brain, you will know that something that can be specially distributed by the highest authority of a country's army is definitely not too simple, and if it is related to the army, it may even be more dangerous.
"Shouldn't be a booby trap or something like an easy-open cover that would be triggered." Pierce said after thinking for a few seconds.
After all, even if this place was a suburb back then, it should be not far from the capital, and it was not an enemy territory.So those people should not have converted this thing into a dangerous bomb back then.
Even so, after being reminded by Liang En, Pierce naturally became vigilant.So after digging out half of the box, he simply stayed away, and then used the crowbar he carried with him to open the lid of the tin box.
Perhaps because of the severe rust, the lid of the box fell off the box after it was opened, revealing the previously stored items in the box.
"This thing is a bit like canned beef." Looking at the almost rusted cylinders in the box, Pierce said to himself, because the size of this thing is indeed close to the canned corned beef distributed by the British army during World War II.
"It's definitely not canned beef." Liang En showed a nervous look on his face, "Because canned beef can't be put in an iron box with the logo of the Ministry of War on it, and then there is a special iron frame inside to fix it."
There are a total of ten cylinders in the box, which are divided into two rows, and five in one row are neatly placed there.In order to fix these cylinders, there is also an iron plate with round holes on the inside of the box, just like an enlarged test tube rack.
"You're right." Liang En's reminder made Pierce's expression serious. Obviously, canned beef doesn't need to be preserved with so many special methods.
"Then what should we do next?" Pierce asked in a low voice after carefully looking at the writing box and the contents inside. "It must not be buried back, otherwise if this thing is really dangerous, the workers who build the house behind will be out of luck."
"It's very simple, call the police directly." Liang En took out his mobile phone and pressed 999, and then clearly described the situation he encountered to the other party, emphasizing the logo of the Ministry of War on the box and his own suspicions .
Not long after the call to the police was hung up, Liang En received a call claiming to be a police officer.In this phone call, he asked Liang En to take a photo of this metal box, and then stay away from that box.
"It seems that this thing is really dangerous." After hanging up the phone, Liang En shrugged at Pierce, and then retreated with him into the almost emptied room and climbed up to the second floor.Compared to the outside, this house can obviously provide them with a shelter.
"This house doesn't seem to have been built during World War II—" While waiting for the police to arrive, Liang En carefully observed the room, only to find that the style of this red brick three-story building was earlier than he thought.
"It seems that this place used to be an office in London of a regiment of the British Army stationed in Dublin." Pierce frowned and said after thinking for a while.
"After Ireland gained independence, the regiment was disbanded, and the office was of course abandoned. It was not until the Second World War that the place was reopened."
"No wonder you can see traces of wallpaper or something here." Liang En looked around the room he was in, then kicked the needle under his feet and said, "It's a pity that this place has been abandoned for too long, otherwise we will definitely have a big harvest this time .”
"But if this place hadn't been abandoned, you wouldn't be able to come in for £150." Pierce complained after hearing what Liang En said. "It's a pity that what we have dug up now is not enough for the capital here."
Just as Liang En and the others were complaining, a police siren sounded at the door. Ten seconds later, Liang En and the others met a vigilant policeman at the door.
"You are the ones who called the police, right?" The policeman asked after watching Liang En and the others come out, and after the two of them ran to show that they were indeed the ones who called the police, he asked about the whole process.
"That is to say, when you saw the metal container inside, you called the police." After Liang En finished describing the process, the policeman asked.
"Yes, because this place used to be a military facility, and the iron box had the logo of the Ministry of War on it. So we were worried that the box contained a bomb, so we called the police." Liang En said seriously.
At this time, two personnel wearing chemical protective suits walked in from the gate of the yard, and then walked carefully towards the iron box.
(End of this chapter)
After confirming that this thing was a canister, Liang En and the others threw it into the trash.After all, the output of this kind of thing is too high, and this rusty one is no different from scrap iron.
Next, the two separated and continued to search the yard, and at this time luck fell on Liang En's head.
"Silver coin!" Liang En dug out a standard-sized machine-made silver coin from the small pit after digging for a while after hearing the excavation from the metal detector.
On the front of the silver dollar was a portrait of a king wearing a crown, but when he turned it over, he found that 1 Indian rupee and 1917, the Arabic numeral representing the year, were written in English on the back.
"What did you find?" Pierce, who was carefully probing the ground on the other side of the yard, asked, because he saw Liang En dug something out of the ground and kept looking at it in his palm.
"A 1917 Indian silver rupee." Liang En threw the rupee over and said, "The current market price is about ten pounds, which is not worth much at all."
"But it's a good start, isn't it?" Pierce said after taking the silver dollar and looking at it for a while. "Compared to the canister just now, this thing is obviously better than garbage."
In addition to this silver coin, Liang En and the others cleared out three penny coins and one ten-pence coin used by Britain during World War II from the yard in the next hour, as well as a military bayonet with only half of it left. .
However, when the two of them walked along the corner of the wall and were about to detect it and then entered the room to continue searching, they heard the biggest reaction of the metal detector after coming here in a place near the root of the wall.
"It seems that there should be a big guy here." Liang En said excitedly after the metal detector gradually expanded its search range, because he could feel that this thing was not much smaller than a schoolbag.
"It feels like an ammunition box." After cleaning up the dirt, Liang En frowned.Because this thing is an iron box with a handle on the side, it looks like the ammunition box in the historical pictures.
"This is the ammunition box." Pierce pointed to a protruding place on the box with a hand wearing a work glove. "Don't you see the mark of the British War Department here?"
"What?" Liang En moved his face closer, and saw a slightly blurred coat of arms on the stamped steel plate, which should be the badge of the disbanded British War Department.
"We'd better be careful." This badge made Liang En vigilant all of a sudden, after all, not all ammunition boxes would bear the badge of the Ministry of War.Unless the contents of this box are directly distributed by the War Department.
But as long as you think about it with your brain, you will know that something that can be specially distributed by the highest authority of a country's army is definitely not too simple, and if it is related to the army, it may even be more dangerous.
"Shouldn't be a booby trap or something like an easy-open cover that would be triggered." Pierce said after thinking for a few seconds.
After all, even if this place was a suburb back then, it should be not far from the capital, and it was not an enemy territory.So those people should not have converted this thing into a dangerous bomb back then.
Even so, after being reminded by Liang En, Pierce naturally became vigilant.So after digging out half of the box, he simply stayed away, and then used the crowbar he carried with him to open the lid of the tin box.
Perhaps because of the severe rust, the lid of the box fell off the box after it was opened, revealing the previously stored items in the box.
"This thing is a bit like canned beef." Looking at the almost rusted cylinders in the box, Pierce said to himself, because the size of this thing is indeed close to the canned corned beef distributed by the British army during World War II.
"It's definitely not canned beef." Liang En showed a nervous look on his face, "Because canned beef can't be put in an iron box with the logo of the Ministry of War on it, and then there is a special iron frame inside to fix it."
There are a total of ten cylinders in the box, which are divided into two rows, and five in one row are neatly placed there.In order to fix these cylinders, there is also an iron plate with round holes on the inside of the box, just like an enlarged test tube rack.
"You're right." Liang En's reminder made Pierce's expression serious. Obviously, canned beef doesn't need to be preserved with so many special methods.
"Then what should we do next?" Pierce asked in a low voice after carefully looking at the writing box and the contents inside. "It must not be buried back, otherwise if this thing is really dangerous, the workers who build the house behind will be out of luck."
"It's very simple, call the police directly." Liang En took out his mobile phone and pressed 999, and then clearly described the situation he encountered to the other party, emphasizing the logo of the Ministry of War on the box and his own suspicions .
Not long after the call to the police was hung up, Liang En received a call claiming to be a police officer.In this phone call, he asked Liang En to take a photo of this metal box, and then stay away from that box.
"It seems that this thing is really dangerous." After hanging up the phone, Liang En shrugged at Pierce, and then retreated with him into the almost emptied room and climbed up to the second floor.Compared to the outside, this house can obviously provide them with a shelter.
"This house doesn't seem to have been built during World War II—" While waiting for the police to arrive, Liang En carefully observed the room, only to find that the style of this red brick three-story building was earlier than he thought.
"It seems that this place used to be an office in London of a regiment of the British Army stationed in Dublin." Pierce frowned and said after thinking for a while.
"After Ireland gained independence, the regiment was disbanded, and the office was of course abandoned. It was not until the Second World War that the place was reopened."
"No wonder you can see traces of wallpaper or something here." Liang En looked around the room he was in, then kicked the needle under his feet and said, "It's a pity that this place has been abandoned for too long, otherwise we will definitely have a big harvest this time .”
"But if this place hadn't been abandoned, you wouldn't be able to come in for £150." Pierce complained after hearing what Liang En said. "It's a pity that what we have dug up now is not enough for the capital here."
Just as Liang En and the others were complaining, a police siren sounded at the door. Ten seconds later, Liang En and the others met a vigilant policeman at the door.
"You are the ones who called the police, right?" The policeman asked after watching Liang En and the others come out, and after the two of them ran to show that they were indeed the ones who called the police, he asked about the whole process.
"That is to say, when you saw the metal container inside, you called the police." After Liang En finished describing the process, the policeman asked.
"Yes, because this place used to be a military facility, and the iron box had the logo of the Ministry of War on it. So we were worried that the box contained a bomb, so we called the police." Liang En said seriously.
At this time, two personnel wearing chemical protective suits walked in from the gate of the yard, and then walked carefully towards the iron box.
(End of this chapter)
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