Leicester, a small city 75 minutes north London, has a population of 300,000 people, 10% of whom are students, which makes the city vibrant.

It has been an important trading centre in the Midlands since Roman times, and today it is home to countless immigrants and students from all over the world studying and working here.

Liang En's previous university was at the University of Leicester in the city, and because he didn't want to ask his family for money, he brushed cups and plates in many restaurants and bars, and worked as a porter in a supermarket, so he naturally has some special feelings for the city.

After getting off the plane, Liang took the bus straight to the University of Leicester, where he met Ms. Langley with a pile of papers on a table in a café near the university.

Since neither of them was very good at dealing with strangers, they began to get straight to the point after a few greetings in person, and exchanged plans for this search work.

"What I know for sure is that the local legend that Richard III's grave was ransacked by an angry mob shortly after burial and that his body was thrown into a nearby river is false, and that the story of Richard III's brutality was fabricated by later generations to counterpoint Richard III's brutality."

Ms. Langley looked at Liang En and said seriously.

"So I'm sure he's still in the same place where he was buried, but when the church was destroyed, he was forgotten underground, and there's probably a new building on it."

"Makes sense." Liang En nodded, after all, since the victor side allowed the burial, it would not engage in any trick of opening the coffin and whipping the corpse, and the locals knew that Richard III was buried naked after his death, so naturally he would not invite tomb robbers.

The only thing to worry about is that the tomb where the bones are located has been accidentally destroyed due to urban construction, and there is no record of whether people in the past were aware of this or not.

"I don't think it's very likely to be destroyed." After hearing that Liang was worried, Langley took out a map of the current city of Leicester and overlapped it with a map of the medieval city of Leicester drawn on transparent plastic paper, and continued.

"This is where the church may have existed back then, and from municipal records, none of these five sites have had any large-scale construction, so it is very unlikely that the underground tombs will be disturbed."

"Oh, let me see." Liang took the map from Ms. Langley's hand, looked at it for a moment, and then drew a cross on each of the largest parking lots and the yard of a school.

"These two places can be ruled out." Liang En explained in a whisper, "The school yard used to be an old river channel, which was cut and straightened in the late 19th century during the municipal planning, and the soil used in this process may contain ancient cultural relics, which will be misleading. ”

"As for the large parking lot, the water table has always been high, but Leicester Church records that there is a cellar of no small size, and if you dig here at the level of waterproofing at that time, you can only dig a well."

"Well, that makes sense, if that were the case, I wouldn't have to deal with the owner of the parking lot, who kept rejecting my requests to dig - but where did you get this information?"

Ms. Langley looked curious, for she didn't know how Liang En had found this very remote knowledge, at least she had been busy here for more than a year without finding any information on it

"Because I studied history at the University of Leicester!" Liang En smacked his lips and recalled, "As for the origin of these contents...... My dissertation was "On the Links between Water Sources and Human Activity in the Leicester Region". ”

"I'm more confident that I've found Richard III this time." Miss Langley looked visibly excited, "I think we'll be able to find the king this time." ”

After locking on the target, Liang rented a few ground-penetrating radars that looked like weeds, and then went to his alma mater to visit several professors, and hired a few juniors through their connections.

Because Liang En paid for it, everyone quickly took their own tools and worked in full swing, and in just two days, they successfully completed the exploration of the underground structure at the three target sites.

"I think it should be in this place." The next night, after dinner, Liang En showed in the lobby of the hotel what he had found after a thorough search using ground penetrating radar over the past few days.

"If the historical record is correct, it's likely that the king is now hiding in the smallest parking lot, because in this parking lot we found the foundations of some large buildings—"

It must be said that with the advancement of technology, many things that used to be complicated have become simpler, for example, if you wanted to find ruins in the past, you could only dig up one probe after another, and then determine the local situation through multi-point sampling.

Today, however, GPR can easily detect tens of centimeters or even meters of underground structures, and deduce what kind of structures once existed in the area from those remnants.

"You're right. It should be in this place. After looking at the results of the previous GPR search, Langley nodded approvingly.

"I saw the foundations of a standard Romanesque church here, for example, this should be the side wall of the church lobby, but there are signs of damage—"

Because of the homework they had done before, Langley quickly began to gush, and in the midst of your words, they quickly locked on to a space the size of half a football field.

The excavation was carried out, but it was not as smooth as the search: the parking lot was an outbuilding belonging to a social service center, and after learning that they were going to excavate, the head of the service center turned them down.

After all, there was only a middle-aged woman and a young man who had just graduated from college in front of him, and he asked for excavation in the name of a private person, which was really unreliable from any point of view.

Fortunately, Liang En now has enough money in his hands, and after the 15,000 pounds were smashed down, Liang En and they successfully obtained the excavation permit, as long as they don't dig the pipe leaks, they can dig casually, and the service center will be responsible for filling those pits back after digging.

The main force in the excavation was hired by Liang from the University of Leicester, as it was the only professional archaeological digger he could find in the country in a short period of time.

To be precise, this is the excavation work carried out by several professors of history and archaeology with their students, which can be regarded as a valuable internship opportunity for the students.

The excavation work began by cutting through the cement in the parking lot, and because Liang En had enough funds, they hired three small excavation tools suitable for municipal excavation.

In just two days, they completed the foundation cleaning and dug two large pits.

Because Liang En is a professionally trained archaeologist. There were several mentors of Liang En in the excavation team, so he himself changed into professional clothes and went into the excavated pit to start the excavation work.

"That's right, the location gave me a special feeling." Ms. Langley said to Liang En, who was digging.

"So I think we can dig up here and see what's down there, maybe the king we're looking for is buried here."