"Boss, this is where I found the gold jewelry." Li Ergou pointed to the waterfall in front of him.
"Everyone spread out and see if there are any other clues nearby." After Chen Sen finished speaking, he took off his shoes and walked into the river below the waterfall. The thirteen sailors nearby immediately dispersed around the waterfall to look for clues.
The small river formed by the waterfall was flowing rapidly, and Chen Sen carefully groped along the river to prevent it from being washed away by the river.
"Boss, come here quickly, I found a cave." Chen Sen was walking forward when he heard the shout and immediately went ashore to follow the sound.
"Where is the cave?" Chen Sen ran to the place and looked at the dense bushes in front of him, but did not find the location of the cave.
"The boss is here." Li Ergou said as he walked to the foot of a hill covered with bushes more than ten meters away, and used a machete to cut down the surrounding bushes, and sure enough, a dark cave entrance was revealed.
"Boss, I just had to pee urgently, so I ran to the foot of the mountain to pee, and found this cave not far from where I was peeing." Li Ergou said, standing at the entrance of the cave.
"This cave is so hidden, maybe the gold is inside. Come with me and clean the entrance of the cave."
More than a dozen people started clearing the thorns and shrubs at the entrance of the cave, and soon saw the entire cave.
The cave is about two meters high and one meter wide. The mountain walls are smooth and neat, and have obviously been artificially repaired.
"Ma Ying, tell the prince about the cave we found. I and others will check the cave first." After discovering a major clue, Chen Sen immediately ordered the men around him.
"Understood." The sailor quickly put on his shoes and left.
"Boss, I heard from the old people in the village that traps will be installed wherever treasures are buried. We must be careful when we enter."
"Well, what you said makes sense. Let's get ready outside and enter the cave right away."
The cave looked pitch black from the outside. Chen Sen estimated that the area inside was quite large. He ordered his sailors to cut down a small oil palm tree and cut it into thirteen sticks for ignition. They tied their clothes on and lit them. The thirteen people cautiously headed towards the cave.
Walk inside.
The tent where Li Mingyuan lived temporarily was more than ten miles away from the waterfall. Chen Sen's sailors ran away and rode horses for more than ten minutes to reach the camp.
"Report to the Crown Prince, the brothers outside have important information to report."
"Let him in quickly." Li Mingyuan put down the book in his hand and stood up immediately.
Li Mingyuan came to Lake Titicaca just for the treasure, and what his men could report as a major event must be related to the treasure.
Ma Ying entered the tent and said directly, "Your Majesty, we found a man-made cave by the waterfall. This cave is probably related to the treasure."
"Take me there immediately. I found the treasure. Each of you will be rewarded." As Li Mingyuan expected, he found a major clue.
"Inform Captain Li to summon all the soldiers in the regiment and head to the destination immediately."
"As commanded."......
After the news that Chen Sen had discovered clues to the treasure spread in the military camp, the soldiers of the cavalry regiment immediately became excited. Under the command of their respective company and platoon leaders, they quickly gathered and headed towards the waterfall.
Chen Sen and his men entered the cave. The firelight reflected on the wall, illuminating a series of strange murals. There were Indians dancing around giant snakes, tall and magnificent palaces, and Indian priests with feathers on them.
"Boss, why do I feel like I have entered a mausoleum? The murals on the walls are for burials of the dead."
"I also feel that the cave is very gloomy. There won't be any monsters."
"Nonsense, there are no monsters in the world," Chen Sen scolded.
However, after what they said, Chen Sen also felt that something was wrong.
The Incas were being invaded by Spanish colonists at the time, so it was impossible to spend a lot of time decorating the treasure site. The murals here took a long time and could not be completed in a short time.
Chen Sen thought and looked at the murals on the wall, suspecting that he was in the wrong place.
"Boss, what do you see in front of you?" Li Ergou's words interrupted Chen Sen's thinking. He looked forward and saw a star-like light flashing inside the cave.
Chen Sen and the others took a dozen steps forward and saw clearly what the shining white object was. It turned out to be a mirror made of silver.
The mirror weighs about five kilograms and feels heavy in the hand.
"Boss, we didn't come to the wrong place. Not even a hundred meters into the cave, we picked up a silver mirror. There might be something taller inside."
When Li Ergou saw the silver mirror, his suspicion immediately disappeared.
"Yes, it's a good start. Everyone, follow me forward."
After getting a silver mirror, Chen Sen and others became more curious about what was inside the cave and couldn't help but speed up and walk inside.
After walking two hundred meters forward, Chen Sen and others entered a wide stone chamber. There were more than a hundred large boxes in the stone chamber, all neatly placed in the center of the stone chamber.
"Boss, is all the gold in the big box?" Li Ergou said excitedly, his eyes shining.
"Will you know if you open it and take a look?" Chen Sen said calmly.
The wooden box had been stored in the cave for hundreds of years, and most of the wooden boards were rotten. Chen Sen's sailors quickly opened a wooden box.
With a sound, the left wooden board of the wooden box fell down. The sailors nearby immediately went up to watch, but the contents of the box were disappointing.
"Boss, there is no gold in the box, it is empty."
"Open the other wooden boxes."
The sailors did not give up and opened ten wooden boxes in succession, only to find that they were all empty.
"Boss, there is no treasure here at all. Our work is in vain."
Chen Sen walked around the stone chamber and found a coffin in the middle of the wooden box.
"Open this coffin door."
The coffin Chen Sen found was also made of wooden boards and was difficult to spot among more than a hundred large boxes.
The material of the coffin was much better than the wooden box, and it took a dozen sailors a long time to open the coffin.
"Boss, there is a corpse in the coffin."
Chen Sen looked into the coffin and saw a white skeleton dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a large chain of gold necklaces hanging on his body, and a huge gold crown on his head.
Chen Sen picked up the crown on Bai Gu's neck with his hand. As soon as he picked up the crown, Bai Gu's head tilted to one side. Chen Sen handed the crown to the sailor beside him. He looked carefully at Bai Gu's neck and found that Bai Gu's head was tilted to one side.
The bones of the neck are dislocated, much like being hanged.
Chen Sen stayed in a South American mine for three years and often saw Chinese workers who escaped and were captured. The mine owners would hang the captured Chinese workers in front of everyone, and then the dead Chinese workers were not allowed to be buried.
Throw it on the mountain and become food for vultures.
In the past three years, Chen Sen secretly buried more than 20 corpses of Chinese laborers that had turned into white bones. He was deeply impressed by the corpses of those who died by hanging.
"Boss, there is a lot of gold in this bones. He must have been very rich before his death."
Li Ergou held the crown and said.
"If my guess is correct, the owner of this body was an Indian king during his lifetime. When we captured Arequipa, we captured a crown just like this one." Chen Sen looked at the body in the coffin and said.
"Boss, since this body was that of a king during his lifetime, then this should be his tomb, but why are there no burial objects?"
"Could it be that the treasures in the box were stolen by grave robbers?"
"Impossible, if there are tomb robbers, the crown in the coffin will definitely be taken away." Another sailor retorted.
There were many doubts in the cave, but Chen Sen was not in the mood to think about it. The purpose of entering the cave was to find treasures, but he only found an empty mausoleum. The people who informed the prince had already set off for half an hour. When the prince arrived, he saw the whole place.