Chapter 1: Island Treasure Hunt(1/2)
If you don’t get the ak, you won’t be able to mess with the troll!
The guy Li Ming used to steal money can be considered embarrassing!
He finally found such a metal detector worth hundreds of pounds in his hand from the second-hand flea market on the island!
Even though Li Ming's hand is only considered an ordinary product in the amateur treasure hunting world, it still makes him feel very distressed when he is currently nervous.
Jersey is only half the size of Hong Kong Island.
It was June and the island was full of tourists!
As the world's number one tax haven overseas, Jersey has gathered nearly two trillion dollars in wealth around the world.
Whether it is the Queen of England or the tech giant Apple, you can almost find a shadow here for countless multinational groups, with an average of more than $40 billion in tax avoidance funds per square mile on the island.
But the population here is only 90,000!
Can there be so much money in a place with a bigger fart?
Li Ming, who only had a tourist visa for one month, came here from thousands of miles away, of course to grab money!
As a fanatical amateur treasure hunter, no matter how high or low, there must be a metal detector in the essential equipment on him.
In fact, this is the same as the Luoyang shovel for tomb robbers.
Every treasure hunter firmly believes in his heart that one day he will discover the treasure that shocks the world.
According to statistics, only 5% of the world's important treasures were discovered by archaeological experts and other professionals.
The remaining 95% of the treasures are accidentally discovered by people while farming, organizing houses, building buildings, and digging foundations.
accidental?
No accident!
This kind of probability learnt does not exist for Li Ming!
The treasure he wants to find must exist!
In the suburbs of St. Helier, Jersey, Li Ming was using this metal detector worth hundreds of pounds in his hand to search for his dreams around this wasteland.
He is here to grab the money!
He must hurry up!
He must find the silver coin treasure under his feet before others find it!
He had explored the wasteland in front of him for a whole morning, and according to the established plan, he would explore the remaining area under his feet today.
A black woven bag under a big tree in the distance contained his receipt today.
The ordinary can, with a rusty keychain and a hammer without a handle.
The difference between these broken copper and iron is a bit big from the silver coins he wants.
After a busy morning, the scorching sun at noon made me dizzy. Li Ming's face was covered with sweat under the white fisherman's hat, and his clothes were already soaked.
It is necessary to take a break at this time to accumulate energy for the afternoon search.
It has been almost three weeks since I came to this British island, and Li Ming’s receipt today is still filled with sorrow!
However, he firmly believed that he would definitely find the treasure of silver coins he had dreamed of.
The most important thing in treasure hunting is patience!
The areas searched in the morning were marked by Li Ming. Even if he poured two bottles of mineral water in a row, he would not reduce the enthusiasm in his heart in half...
After almost the rest, continue working.
Another two hours passed, and just as Li Ming was a little irritated, suddenly, a clear alarm sound came from his headphones!
“Beebee…”
This is the sing of the detector discovering metal.
The sound came to the position in front of his left foot!
Li Ming squatted down and carefully cleaned up the surrounding weeds and soil with the shovel he carried with him.
Digging requires some skills at this time!
Experienced veterans usually start from around 15 cm from the place where the signal is strongest, so that they can avoid damaging buried items underground.
After he quickly spread open the soil, a silver light mixed in the soil attracted Li Ming's attention.
In stock!
The unexpected discovery made Li Ming feel excited. He focused his attention and continued to pull out the soil next to him.
With the gentle movements on his hand, a bright silver ring broke through the soil and rebuilt the light of the sky!
Looking at the freshly unearthed ring in his hand, Li Ming felt a little disappointed.
"What a pity, it's just an ordinary silver ring. I thought it was a good product from last year."
Things like silver, which have been buried in the soil for a long time, will only turn black after being oxidized, so Li Ming probably won’t have been in the soil for a long time;
It is very likely that a tourist was left behind!
However, compared to the cans, keychains and hammers found in the morning, this silver ring is also a good consolation prize for Li Ming.
After careful cleaning, he found that the ring on his hand was smooth and shiny, and it looked pretty good at first glance.
Such good luck never happened in the afternoon.
Until night fell, the starry sky above my head was particularly clear, and the town in the distance was still hustle and bustle, and insects were already ringing around Li Ming.
In this open space in the forest where insects were chirping, there was a station wagon that Li Ming had rented for two hundred pounds alone.
In the car, he was facing the dim light and carefully marked the map on his hand with a red pen.
The locations on the map that have been drawn with red circles are the areas he has searched for.
Someone used to joke about the Three Treasures of Britain: fried fish, potatoes and gay men.
Now Li Ming's dinner accounts for two...
The fried fish and chips on the table were neatly arranged, and there was a bottle of fat house happy water next to it.
This is his third week in Jersey. Whether it is his visa time or the money in his pocket is enough to support him in the last week.
Like most treasure hunters all over the world, before they can discover the real treasure, treasure hunters often spend all their only last copper plate first;
Li Ming, who had eaten and drunk enough, lay on his back and looked at the charming starry sky outside the window, and sighed faintly.
He is 27 this year and comes to another earth in parallel time and space!
The familiar history here has not changed, my name has not changed, my handsome appearance has not changed, and there are still some subtle differences.
The turning point of fate caught people off guard. Li Ming didn't expect that one day he would be able to travel through time!
Unfortunately, he still went to work from 9 to 5 until one day he accidentally discovered a surprise!
In my memory, those well-known treasures in history, whether they are the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs or shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea... the world has not been discovered yet.
Li Ming read a lot of books and went through online searches to confirm that such surprises were truly true.
Next is his time to party!
The treasure I had always dreamed of now seemed to be within reach of him.
He will have the opportunity to witness it with his own eyes and experience the opening of legendary treasures. At this moment, Li Ming was so ecstatic that he danced with joy.
As an amateur treasure hunter, he dreamed more than once that he could discover a treasure, and he was an active member of the Treasure Tieba Forum on weekdays.
Unfortunately, reality is always a passionate start and goes home in a mess.
Now that his grandmother has traveled through time, she has discovered another surprise, and it is impossible to continue working.
There are no various entertainment circles, music circles, and the mutated Ultraman has a golden finger, and he can't show off! Li Ming had to plan to dig out his treasure and get rich overnight so that he could maintain his life.
After considering it, Li Ming traveled thousands of miles to the UK. As for why he came to Great Britain first, he knew that there were several treasures here and the cost of finding them was the lowest.
Just a simple and crude metal detector is enough!
Thinking about the lucky ones who obtained millions or even tens of millions of pounds because of discovering the treasure, Li Ming was so excited.
For the earth that has been around for billions of years, there are so many treasures under the soil.
Whether it is the ancient animal and plant fossils, the gold, silver and jewelry hidden in the soil, or even the interstellar meteorites left in the sky, every treasure hunter believes that the earth under his feet is silently buried with countless secret treasures.
What treasure hunters have to do is find them.
Although most treasure hunters swear by the idea of recreating the sense of accomplishment and pleasure brought by the lost history.
But Li Ming is different. He traveled thousands of miles to the territory of the foreigner, with his purpose that was particularly fresh and refined!
Because of poverty!
Now three weeks have passed, and Li Ming has realized what reality is like after time.
When I was excited, I impulsively quit my hard life in the office building, and then embarked on a treasure hunt in a foreign country with a beautiful dream;
Now there is a pile of rags in the black sack of the station wagon, reminding him what a dream is.
To be continued...