Chapter 311: Cursed Gold Coins

Finding that someone had gone in early, Lawrence and the others suddenly became nervous.

There are many modern items found around the cave, and Indians would never have smoked Marlboro cigarettes with filters thousands of years ago, right?

Some of the bottles were produced four years ago, which means that there were people who came here a long time ago, and I don't know how many times they came, and they also saw a few fallen rough gemstones, which proved that they had been stolen, and that there was indeed a treasure here.

Erna was shocked to hear the news, and for countless nights he slept on it, and someone quietly burrowed into the underground palace below.

The Harvard University archaeological team did not bring all the things with them this time, and after exploring to a depth of 30 meters, they came across a cave and temporarily stopped going back to prepare.

For two days, Han Xuan asked the bodyguards to bring fishing nets to catch those hagfish.

Although it looks a little disgusting, it is a precious delicacy in Western recipes, hagfish usually live in deep-sea caves, and can occasionally be found in the remains when salvaged fish carcasses, twenty or thirty dollars a pound, and the market is in great demand.

After seeing their entwined shapes, Han Xuan vowed never to eat this kind of thing again, and the shore was so dense that he could stand directly on the hagfish.

Hundreds of square meters of dark river, a total of more than 80 tons have been fished, the treasure has not been seen, these fish alone are worth millions of dollars.

They were sent to the SOS Transport Company refrigerated truck, handed over to the old man's convenience store to digest, and stood speechlessly by the empty underground river with a check signed with his grandfather's name on it.

The two cows leisurely ate the grass material, and Pooh and the others did not resist coming in, and the animals were much more alert than humans, proving that there was nothing wrong with the air.

Several Harvard students were copying the murals on the wall, fearing that the air would damage the patterns, so they saved and recorded them first.

From time to time, bubbles bubbled on the surface of the water, and after a while two people in wetsuits swam out. Struggled to walk to the shore, sat down and took off his mask, gasping for air.

"Rice, George, what's going on down there?" Han Xuan walked over and asked.

"It was very narrow, I swam in from the sea and almost got stuck in the hole several times. The wetsuit was scratched by a rock, and I guess the blood came from that, or it was bitten by those hagfish, and you didn't see the bottom of the water, it was full of fish bones. ”

Rice took a deep breath, his body trembling slightly from tension.

Through the submarine channel of several tens of meters, if you get stuck and can't even retreat, you will probably die. I thought it would be easy for others to come in, but now I want him to do it again, and I won't do it.

George's bodyguard threw two gold coins to the boy, "I picked them up in the passage and dropped several pieces."

It can only accommodate one person to pass through, and it is estimated that not much can be taken out, and there were hagfish here before. They are not good-natured fish, and blocking the passage can kill people. Those people shouldn't have come much. ”

Han Xuan wiped it clean and looked at the gold coin, not to mention the weight of the gold coin, it was a work of art in itself.

The four-centimeter gold coin has an eight-pointed star on it, and many places are hollowed out, pronounced according to Spanish. Say the letters: "Aztec." ”

Not the plot in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, the real Aztec gold coins appeared!

Holding the gold coin, the pores on his body were all open, and he was numb for a while, and his eyes widened. This small gold coin can prove a piece of history!

In his grandfather's house, there is a wall with Western antique books, Han Xuan clearly remembers that among the numismatic books, there is a picture introducing the Asterk coin, and the picture is replaced by a blank space, because no one has ever found it before!

As the book suggests, this gold Aztec coin was a gift minted in the 16th century by the Aztecs, one of the three major civilizations of Mesoamerica, along with the Inca and Mayan civilizations, to avoid massacres and bribe the Spanish colonizer Hernando Coste.

The notorious Hernando Coste accepted the gifts, but broke his promise, greedily destroying the Aztec civilization, taking advantage of the contradictions between the Indians and attacking the Aztecs.

So the Aztecs cursed the gold coins before the gods, and anyone who took them would be punished for eternity!

Historically, Hernando Coste did die shortly after returning to Spain in 1519.

His fleet was shipwrecked, and the gold coins that the Aztecs had carefully minted for him were gone.

This history is indeed recorded in the book.

Han Xuan held the gold coin and wanted to put it back, countless strange things had happened to him, and he would rather believe the curse than not believe it.

George noticed that his face was wrong, stood up and took off his wetsuit, and asked, "What's wrong with you, you know it?"

"Well, the gold coins of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Han Xuan looked up at him, and wanted to say that it was George who took it first, and that a curse would happen to him first, to see what would happen, and then decide whether to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and ask the Bodhisattva for blessing.

The other gold coin is much more normal.

A typical ancient Spanish gold coin with a man's head and the letters "Philip-II" printed on the obverse.

It is stated that it was built during the reign of Philip II, the king of Spain, who was ambitious to dominate the world, and the wealth plundered by colonial expansion at that time was processed and transported to the country by sea, and it seems that they were also plundered by the Indians and sent here as trophies to worship the gods.

The Aztec gold coin alone weighed more than a million dollars, and the historical significance it could represent was priceless, and if there was only one, it would be worth even more!

Turning to the dark interior of the dungeon, guessing what was hidden inside, Dr. Lawrence of the archaeological team would be back in the afternoon.

Exhale deeply, and you'll know when the time comes.

A young Harvard female student saw what he was holding, and when she copied it, she approached and asked, "What are you holding the gold coin of Shaztec!?"

Without waiting for Han Xuan to speak, she saw the letters on the gold coin clearly, and exclaimed: "It really exists!?"

"You know that, too?"

"Of course, boy, can you show it to me? you can take it without gloves and it will damage the coin!"

The schoolgirl's voice was pleading.

Han Xuan nodded and handed it to her, and said in a deep voice: "After picking up this gold coin, you will be cursed like us, and you will turn into a skeleton on the night of the full moon and never die." ”

The schoolgirl picked up the gold coin and pouted, "If I could not die, I would rather take it, the curse that the Aztecs gave it, it is clear that whoever takes it will die, oh my God!"

George pricked up his ears and cried with a sad face, "Really?"

"Of course, so be careful lately. Han Xuan joked, "It's always uneasy to find someone to seal the bottom of the dark river, pump out the seawater, and leave a passage there." ”

At this time, Fat Ding ran in from outside, raised his head and meowed.

"Let's go, my mom told us to go back to lunch. ”

"Can you understand cats?"

"Miss, this is also one of the curses......"

"Wow! I want it too!" (To be continued.) )