America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 199 That's it?

Chen Jianqiu followed Holmes and continued to walk along the lake.

"It's just ahead." Holmes led the way ahead, walking in small steps.

Chen Jianqiu stuffed a piece of chocolate into his mouth, and trotted after him.

He had simply taken off his clothes and was shaking the water off his clothes while running.

The water in the lake just now was really icy cold. Even though he was physically strong, he still felt the rapid loss of body heat.

Chen Jianqiu missed the bonfire in the illusion just now.

"Here we are, right here." Holmes stopped in front of a half-person-high stone.

The shape of this stone is the same as the ones Chen Jianqiu saw in the square before, with a strange shape.

"What's wrong?" Chen Jianqiu took a look, but didn't see anything special.

"You come to my side." Holmes waved at Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu walked to Holmes' side and turned to the other side of the stone.

With the help of the fire, he discovered that the top of the stone had been hollowed out by someone, and there were some white solids inside, and the twigs could still be vaguely seen on it.

"I guess it's some kind of animal fat," Holmes said. "I want to wait until you decide what to do with it."

"Try to see if you can click on it."

Chen Jianqiu stretched out his torch and moved it to the top of the stone.

What he didn't expect was that a small flame appeared on the stone soon, and then it gradually grew bigger, just like a bright light.

Using the light, they saw another stone of similar size appearing in front of them, but it seemed that this stone had been moved by someone.

Chen Jianqiu and Holmes walked over, and also found white solids and wicks on the stone.

Next, they also found the third and fourth lights...

These simple lighting fixtures made by the Nahua people were all ignited one by one.

And the cave gradually became brighter.

Seeing the movement here, Sean and others came over holding torches, and they helped light the remaining lamps.

They found a total of 22 similar stones, and they were basically concentrated on the opposite side of the entrance, which is where Chen Jianqiu and the others were.

These stones are scattered on the edge of the lake, which is far from regular.

As the light gradually brightened, everyone gradually saw the situation in the cave.

This is a natural cave with two entrances and exits, one is where they came down, and the other is on the opposite side.

They stood on an irregular land island, as guessed before, at least half the size of a football field, and now because of the 22 lights, half of it was dark and half was bright.

This land island divides the entire cave into two halves, with lake water on both sides.

Holmes checked the hole on the opposite side and found traces of human manipulation. If he guessed correctly, it should be the path they chose before.

If they had continued to walk down that road just now, they should have entered the cave from that cave.

This cave, the end of the two routes, is the bottom of the cave.

There is also a high probability that it is the legendary treasure place!
So, where is the treasure?
Holding up torches, the crowd scattered around the island and began to search everywhere.

After half an hour, they returned to the vicinity of the stone lamp.

Everyone was dumbfounded again.

Nothing was found.

The land island under their feet was unbelievably flat, half the size of a football field, except for those scattered stones, there was almost nothing.

Have an agency?
The first possibility that came to Chen Jianqiu's mind was whether the descendants of the Aztecs had set up some subtle mechanism in this cave, just like in many tomb-robbing novels and treasure-hunting novels he had read before traveling. Same.

But he quickly dismissed his thoughts.

A movie is a movie after all, and a novel is a novel after all.

Whether it is from the entrance on the edge of the cliff, or the artificially leveled road along the way, including these simple lights.

The descendants of these Aztecs are really limited in terms of technology and manpower.

They are not their miraculous and glorious Aztec ancestors, nor the mysterious Mayans in legends, nor the Egyptians and Chinese who shocked the world with their wonders and continued their civilization to this day.

They are just a surviving tribe of the Aztecs who fled to the southern part of the United States, without the ability to get such a complicated mechanism.

Is it really just a hoax, as Hanif and Holmes say?

Then the makers of these maps did so many bells and whistles just to make a joke with future generations?
How boring is this? !
Chen Jianqiu looked at Holmes, and found that he might be thinking the same as himself at this moment, and he was sitting on the rock slumped.

Seeing Chen Jianqiu approaching, the geologist looked frustrated:

"Chen, there is nothing here. This is a natural cave." Holmes covered his face, "I should have thought about it, how could those Nahua people have the ability to transport so much gold all the way from Mexico?" to here."

Chen Jianqiu's heart sank to the bottom, but the expression on his face did not change much.

Holmes patted the stone with his hands resentfully, regretting that his hope had been dashed.

But when he patted the stone twice, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

He raised his head, his eyes met with Chen Jianqiu's.

This stone is empty!

Chen Jianqiu brought the torch over.

The two carefully checked the stone, and finally found something wrong.

There is a broken mark in the middle of this big rock.

"Come here!" Chen Jianqiu waved to everyone.

At this time, everyone was wandering blindly on Ludao like headless chickens. When they heard Chen Jianqiu's call, they hurried over.

"Come and help me." Chen Jianqiu greeted Danny and several others.

Everyone supported the upper part of the stone, and under Chen Jianqiu's command, they exerted force "one, two, three".

The fast stone is broken in the middle, revealing a natural cavity inside.

Several torches shone into the empty chamber at the same time.

Sure enough, there is something in it!
Holmes reached in and pulled out the contents.

He squinted his eyes by the light of the fire, and began to observe the things in his hands.

It was a piece of black pottery with some patterns engraved on it, which were similar to those recorded on the human skin map.

"Pottery seal," Holmes said, "an Aztec artifact."

"Go and see other stones." Chen Jianqiu greeted.

It took them some time to remove all the other hollow stones, and found that they were indeed hiding something.

From necklaces to bracelets to pendants, everything is beautifully crafted.

The craftsmanship of these things made Holmes admire, saying that no matter which one it is, it embodies the wisdom of the Aztec civilization and has high research value.

But without exception, these things are not made of gold, and there are not many of them.

"That's it?" Sean was disappointed.

Except for Holmes, other people also showed disappointment on their faces, which was far from their expectations.

Chen Jianqiu didn't know much about the market of these things in this era, so when he was free, he asked Astor to ask him about it.

However, he still felt that something was wrong.

Even if these things can be sold for a good price in New York, for those descendants of the Aztecs, it is far from spending such a lot of trouble and hiding them so deep.

Just when everyone was not around Holmes, studying those things.

A voice came from the hole:

"Oh! I found something good, let me have a look! Let me have a look!"

When everyone turned their heads, they saw Hanif running over holding a torch.

"You're not staying up there, what are you doing running down?" Chen Jianqiu asked suspiciously.

"There is no danger up there, hehe, those Pinkerton idiots are all dead." Hanif ran up to the crowd, stuck the torch on the rock, and said excitedly while rubbing his hands, "By the way, you found what?"

He couldn't wait for Chen Jianqiu to fulfill his promise. When the treasure was found, he was the first to pick it.

But when he saw the black things in the hands of Chen Jianqiu and Holmes, he was dumbfounded.

"Choose." Chen Jianqiu looked at him with a smile.

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