"Before that, I'm curious how you know the names of the people in the photo." Wei Ran asked his doubts first.
Charlotte picked up the glass and took a sip of whiskey with ice cubes, and said with emotion, "The names of these people in the photo were told to me by my mother. According to what she said during her lifetime, I The accident happened just because his father went to Libya."
"Didn't your mother mention the treasure?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.
Charlotte shook her head, "I asked my mother more than once, but she didn't know. She only said that my father brought this photo back from Libya after the war and took it with him. Also coming back is the oil drum you saw outside.
And after getting that photo, my father became obsessed with it and went to Libya almost every winter until he did. He had an accident in that desert and never came back."
Brought back from Libya after the war? Why not meet...
Wei Ran sighed secretly. It seemed that Pierre and Trento, who survived the war, had visited the dry well in the desert and left that photo together. . If Pierre and Trento could have met Harry at that time, maybe there would not have been the tragedy that followed.
"Now can you tell me how you got this map?" Charlotte asked.
"I found it together with the code book"
Wei Ran once again gave the exact same answer as not long ago, and then used the tried and tested excuse, "But the other party I didn’t want to reveal my identity. It was only after I promised him that I had the opportunity to buy these things. And I have already inquired, and he only bought these things from others a few years ago.”
The messy study room fell into silence for a while. After a long silence, Charlotte drank all the whiskey in the glass, looked at Wei Ran and asked seriously, "Victor, are you interested in following this contract?" Use the map’s guidance to find this treasure?”
“Not interested”
Wei Ran rejected the other party’s proposal without even thinking about it. More than seventy years ago, artillery fire was flying all over Libya. Today's Libya is no less unsafe. Although he regrets what happened to Harry and the short-lived friendship, he will not rush to Libya to die in a sudden move.
"Um..."
Charlotte didn't expect Wei Ran to refuse so simply. After being stunned for a moment, she asked, "You don't want to unlock this treasure?" "Is it a secret?"
"I'm not an explorer"
Wei Ran picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured half a glass of whiskey for each of them, speaking frankly. Said, "And Libya is too dangerous. I don't want to go to that place and die. But I suggest you ask Herbert, maybe he is willing to take the risk and see it."
"Do you have this map? No..."
"Don't worry, Mr. Charlotte"
Wei Ran finally knew what the other party was worried about.Simply put it plainly, "At least after I got this map, I didn't follow the marks on it to visit Libya. And from the time Mr. Herbert sent the oil barrel to my studio to the time I decided to meet you , there was only a week in between, and even if I wanted to go, I would not have the time or opportunity.
The reason why I chose to come to the UK from the distant Volgograd after I got enough commissions. When you meet me, you don’t want to sell it for a good price. I just want to hand over the map to you in person to avoid leaking the information about the treasure."
Wei Ran took a sip of wine and continued, "Xia. Mr. Lott, handing this map to you personally is the only way I can help you. As for the adventure, forget it, I am just an ordinary person who has never touched a gun, museums and historical archives. The room is what interests me."
"So you don't need extra compensation?" Charlotte looked at Wei Ran in surprise.
"No need, not even the travel expenses of one thousand pounds per day."
Wei Ran said matter-of-factly, "Of course, if possible, I hope to have the opportunity to go Try your luck on Loch Ness and see if you can capture the water monster with your camera. This is the only thing I am interested in besides coming here to meet you."
A surprised Charlotte stared at it. Wei Ran looked at it for a long time, then shook his head and smiled with some disinterest, "It seems that I am the only one who cares about this treasure hidden in the desert. But no matter what, Victor, I still want to thank you. .
Let’s take a rest at the hotel today. I’ll find someone to take you on a boat trip to Loch Ness tomorrow morning. If you can really find a water monster, maybe that’s the treasure you’re interested in. "
"If the Loch Ness Monster can be found, it will indeed be a treasure."
As Wei Ran spoke, he touched the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand. That flash of heat made him just want to find a quiet place to see what good things he got.
A few words temporarily dispelled Charlotte's doubts. After Wei Ran waited for the other party to call Herbert back on his mobile phone, he simply followed him and checked into a small hotel less than 5 meters away.
"Victor, where is the treasure?" Herbert asked in a low voice in German before closing the door.
"Sorry, I can't say that." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he closed the door directly, and then quietly put his eyes on the cat's eye.
Herbert, who was outside the door, subconsciously took a step back, frowned and whispered something in French, then turned around and got into the room opposite the door.
At this point, Wei Ran locked the door and carefully checked the entire room inside and out. Then he took advantage of opening the window for ventilation and looked outside without leaving any trace.
When he turned around, a disdainful smile appeared on his face. With the "cold knowledge" he learned from Hongqi Forest Farm, he could see the outside world almost at a glance.Facing his window, there was someone sitting in the car, monitoring his room in a very amateurish way.
No need to guess, it was definitely arranged by Charlotte, the old gentleman next door who was obsessed with looking for treasures and demons. It was obvious that the other party was still worried that someone would appropriate his treasure in advance.
How did that guy Harry give birth to such a good son? Wei Ran muttered to himself, kicked off his shoes and lay on the bed, then covered himself with a quilt.
With the light of his cell phone, Wei Ran took out the metal book and watched helplessly as it turned to the back of page 14, showing the extra blue under the red whirlpool with three oil barrels. Colored counter-rotating vortex.
Under Wei Ran's gaze, the metal quill wrote under the blue vortex, "Dear friend, I am very happy that you came to my house as promised. Please accept this small gift!"< /p>
When the metal quill hit the soft bed, Wei Ran's only trace of dissatisfaction with Charlotte disappeared. He reached into the blue vortex and took out an extra Beautiful silver flask.
This small hip flask is only about the size of a palm and is flat. It can only hold a hundred milliliters at most. Although the size is smaller and the overall shape tends to be flatter, the shape is very similar to the kettles distributed by Germany during World War II.
The left half of the silver pot body has a beautiful hollow pattern. The hollow part can be clearly distinguished as a well in the desert.
Quite cleverly, the hollow outline of the well is presented by a crystal glass bottle wrapped in a silver body. Under the light of the mobile phone, the crystal clear crystal glass and the brown-red whiskey contained inside reflected beautiful light, giving the group photo carefully carved on the right half of the pot body a strange brilliance.
The engraved group photo was not the one taken by Wei Ran at his birthday party, but the one taken by German memory Pell before he decided to set off to find water. In this photo , Wei Ran was once again lucky enough to be among them.
Turn the jug over, and you can see the hollow patterns on the other side, which are not many but occupy almost the entire area. They express exactly the picture that was found at the bottom of the well and pointed out the way for them to survive. hand drawn map.
In addition to these beautiful hollow patterns, Wei Ran also found the Lydian amber gold coin that he had not given to him. This gold nugget was only the size of a thumb joint and had a clear lion pattern. inlaid on the lid of the wine flask.
Look at the bottom of this hip flask. On a not too large area, the same sentence is engraved in three rows in Italian, German, and English that Wei Ran cannot understand. , "Cheers to our friendship!"
"Cheers to our friendship..."
Wei Ran unscrewed the lid of the pot and muttered to himself, He put the crystal glass spout to his mouth and took a big sip of whiskey that he was still not used to drinking under the quilt.