Section 31 Golden Lake

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spaniards overthrew the Inca Empire, and at the beginning of the 16th century, plundered all the gold and precious stones.

When the Spanish commander Pizarro heard that all the gold of the Inca Empire had been brought from Manoa, ruled by a chieftain named Patti, and that there was a mountain of gold and silver treasures, Pizarro immediately organized an expedition to the Golden City, located deep in the Amazon forest.

However, in this vast primeval forest, every step forward means fear and death, there are fierce beasts and poisonous snakes, savage cannibal tribes, lost paths and threats, expeditions are disappointed or missing, so that Pizarro can only imagine this forest from afar**.

Later, the Spanish, Portuguese, English, Dutch and Germans heard of the Golden City, and everyone wanted to grab a fortune, so they flocked to the Amazon jungle.

Among them, a Spaniard named Caesada, led an expedition of about 716 people to the Golden City, and after paying a terrible price of 550 lives, he finally discovered the Golden City and the legendary Golden Lake in the Kandina Marga Plain, and found an emerald gem worth 3 million US dollars, but this is only a small part of the treasure that the Golden City is difficult to estimate.

Chen Rui's target is the Golden Lake, located in Colombia, deep in the Amazon jungle.

The legendary Golden Lake is none other than Lake Guadaveda in Colombia.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the nephew of the last king of the Indian tribe described the traditional coronation ceremony held on the shores of the Golden Lake: at that time, the heir to the throne was coated with gold dust all over his body, like a golden mold, and then swam in the lake to wash away the gold dust, and his subjects offered gold and jade, piled at his feet, and the new king threw all the gold into the lake as a sacrifice to God.

Since the 16th century, the salvage of the Golden Lake has not stopped.

In 1545, a treasure hunt organized by the Spaniards retrieved hundreds of gold items from the shallow bottom of the lake in three months.

In 1911, a British company dug a tunnel to drain the lake, but the sun quickly dried the thick mud into a dry slab, and when the British brought in drilling equipment from England, the lake was filled with water again, and the costly salvage failed.

Many people believe that there are still treasures of astonishing value buried at the bottom of the golden lake, hundreds of thousands of tons of gold, 5,000 gold products.

The reason why Chen Rui chose the target was Golden Lake.

The reasons are simple, one is that the search range is small.

Compared with the treasure sunken in the sea, the search is extremely difficult, like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it takes several years or even more than ten years for treasure hunters or treasure hunting companies to find treasure at the bottom of the sea.

And the Golden Lake is just a lake, with an area of only a dozen square kilometers, and it only takes 40 minutes by car in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, to reach the legendary Golden Lake, with a very clear goal.

Second, the Golden Lake is not just a pure treasure legend. Rather, there is a lot of conclusive evidence that there are indeed hundreds or thousands of tons of gold at the bottom of Lake Guadavida.

For example, it is recorded that the Indians of Guadavida were the best craftsmen in making gold, and that the craftsmen who lived on the shores of the 'Golden Lake' were the leaders of the Musca Empire.

Gold mines are abundant near the Guadavida Golden Lake. In Colombia, almost every family has a few pieces of ancient gold that have been passed down from generation to generation, and some families claim to know some secret gold deposits.

In 1913, the British explorer Walker used diving equipment to excavate from the shallow bottom of the lake, and unearthed hundreds of gold objects, gold cups, gold bowls, gold pots and gold magic vessels of various sizes.

This series of examples shows that the Golden Lake is not just a treasure legend, but a real treasure that is truly amazing, with hundreds of tons of gold and countless precious stones.

In fact, due to the simple technical equipment of the time, treasure hunters or explorers limited their treasure hunting activities to the shores of the lake, and no one was able to touch the treasure at the bottom of the lake.

Therefore, Chen Rui set the goal of treasure hunting on the Golden Lake, and wanted to go deep into the bottom of the Golden Lake, which no one could touch before.

A week later, Chen Rui appeared in Bogota, the capital of Colombia.

After resting a little in Bogotá, replenishing supplies, tools, and various preparations, Chen Rui took a car to Lake Guadavida.

Since 1974, the shores of Lake Guadavida have been guarded by a large number of Colombian troops to protect the treasures at the bottom of Lake Guadavida from being stolen, and no one has been able to approach the place since.

However, this is not difficult for Chen Rui.

Chen Rui approached Guadavida Lake very lightly and dived into the lake silently.

The area around the shores of Lake Guadavida has been visited by countless treasure hunters and explorers, and even if they find gold, there is nothing left, so Chen Rui's goal is the bottom of the lake, which no one can reach.

Chen Rui walked at the bottom of the lake, and the more he walked towards the center of the lake, the deeper the lake became.

Until he dived to the bottom of the lake at a depth of four or five hundred meters, Chen Rui turned on the underwater mine lamp, held a metal detector in his hand, and began to search carefully.

The sunlight at the bottom of the lake is very weak, and there are no aquatic plants.

However, the mud at the bottom of the lake is very thick and the water is very turbid, which adds great difficulty to Chen Rui's search work.

In addition to the traditional coronation ceremony on the shores of the Golden Lake, described by the nephew of the last Indian king, the subjects offered gold and precious stones, which were piled up at his feet like a hill, and then the new king threw all the gold and silver treasures into the lake as an offering to the sun god.

This shows that the gold and precious stones are not piled up in one place, but scattered all over the bottom of the lake.

This made Chen Rui's search more difficult.

Suddenly, Chen Rui saw a touch of golden yellow in the mud.

Chen Rui swam over and dug out of the mud.

It is a gold vessel with a toad carved on it.

This is exactly the device of the Paleo-Indians, because the Paleo-Indians recognized the toad as the embodiment of auspiciousness and wisdom, it symbolized a good harvest and a full house of descendants, and the Paleo-Indians at that time worshipped the toad.

Immediately, Chen Rui found dozens of gold objects nearby, including good men and women who reflected various postures of religious ceremonies, as well as utensils that held offerings during sacrifices to the heavens, and various utensils were engraved with patterns such as deer, eagle and toad.