The drive from Smolensk to Lake Ladoga is nearly 1,000 kilometers.

Because time was not in a hurry, Shiquan even found a coniferous forest with beautiful snow scenery to stop and stay for one night to adapt.

Needless to say, the result was much more comfortable than when we lived in Mongolia. Both he and the four-legged Bingtang were extremely satisfied.

Slowly and leisurely, it took a day and a night to get to St. Petersburg. Shi Quan parked the car in the open-air parking lot of the Military History Museum and slept comfortably.

As for the two arrowheads dozens of kilometers away, Shi Quan is not in a hurry. Now is not the time to dig them up.

Putting aside the treasure hunt for the time being, Shi Quan focused his attention on this historic city.

Over a week, Shi Quan visited the Winter Palace, the cruiser Aurora, the Peter Fortress, the Catherine Palace and other famous attractions with great interest.

Not only did he go shopping, but he also rode his big chariot to wander aimlessly outside the city from time to time. He always had a diary in his hand to write and draw. It was really like that.

And all of this was actually just for Andre to see.

Shi Quan is not stupid. Andrei will always send people to follow Nasha when she goes to Mongolia. It is a secret that has been passed down by the family for hundreds of years. There is no reason for him to not send anyone and let Shi Quan do what he wants.

This has nothing to do with trust, it's just a back-up plan prepared by a person who is worried that his secret will be exposed, and a person who is worried that his family's secret will be exposed.

"It's almost time. Let's go to Lake Ladoga now!"

A week later, at nine o'clock in the evening, the alarm clock woke up Shi Quan, who was sleeping with his head covered with rock candy.

As the saying goes, too much is too little, there is already enough foreshadowing, and walking further is just a waste of time, and choosing to set off at night is also to avoid trouble.

Following the M18 highway out of the city and heading northeast, it took nearly an hour to run down more than 70 kilometers of paved roads before arriving at the peninsula town of Ligovo, deep in Lake Ladoga.

Parking the car by the lake, Shi Quan jumped up and down on the thick ice.

"There shouldn't be any danger in riding a motorcycle, right? History records that during the Battle of Leningrad, the motor soldiers were driving trucks on the ice in early March. My beloved little motorcycle should not fall off."

Shi Quan stared at the direction of the center of the lake and muttered. At this time, he was still more than 4,800 meters away from the two arrows in the map field of view. If he hadn't checked the mobile phone map to know that there was a small island right in front, Shi Quan would have thought that this treasure had been entrusted to him.

Baron Er has sunk into the lake.

It's no wonder that the Andre family has been searching for more than 100 years. The area of ​​Lake Ladoga is 18,000 square kilometers. There are nearly 700 small islands of various sizes, inhabited or uninhabited, scattered in the large waters, let alone

They only knew that it was near Petersburg, and even if they told him that the treasure was in Lake Ladoga, they would not be able to find it.

In the end, the distance was less than 5 kilometers. After thinking about it, Shi Quan decided to at least give it a try.

Driving the Ural big shoulder bag onto the thick ice, the shoulder bucket was loaded with the necessary engineering shovel, newly purchased mountain pick, tent and small diesel heating stove. This was learned from digging meteorites in a snowstorm in Mongolia.

I bought it after learning a painful lesson.

"Walking in an S-turn, retreat if there is any movement!"

After fixing the tools in the shoulder bag, Shi Quan got back on the big Ural shoulder bag and lowered his speed, drawing an arc on the ice and approaching his destination.

100 metres

500 meters

1000 meters!

2000 meters!

3000 meters!

4000 meters!

4500 meters!

Seeing the small island with the two-color arrow suspended close at hand, Shi Quan gritted his teeth and tightened the accelerator and roared to the shore more than 300 meters away!

Carrying the crime tools on his back, he climbed ashore along the rugged gravel and had an unobstructed view of the entire island under the faint starlight.

This island, which looks square and square, is not very big, with no more than 50 meters on any side.

The only building on the entire island is the remains of the small half stone lighthouse in the center of the island.

"It seems that this lighthouse is at least 150 years old."

The reason why I dare to make such a guess is because the two arrows in the map view have completely overlapped with the ruins of the lighthouse in front of me.

I'm afraid no one knows when this lighthouse was abandoned and when it collapsed. The remaining tower is less than one meter high and is filled with rubble and rotten rafters. Standing on the rubble, you can see the stone springs and arrows pointing straight up.

The distance between them is 2.94 meters. He roughly calculated the amount of work. If he relied solely on himself with so much rubble, it would take at least three or four hours to clear a safe enough space.

"It's half past ten in the evening. If we dig all night, we can definitely finish it before dawn tomorrow!"

Now that we have found the location, why not dig?

First clean up the garbage and soil on the surface, and then use a mountain pick to dig up rocks the size of a rice cooker.

Except for the trouble of moving rocks, the rest of the work is actually not tiring.

The real problem is the lighting problem.

In order to avoid accidents, Shi Quan only turned on the low-light mode of the headlight.

This little light can only see things within one or two meters of the soles of your feet at most, and if it spreads out for up to a hundred or ten meters, it will merge with the darkness.

Although the speed was slowed down by the lighting, it was a long night after all. When I was tired of digging, I went back to the light-blocking tent to rest briefly. After I had enough rest, I continued digging. After moving the big rocks intermittently all night, the interior of the lighthouse wreckage was finally exposed.

The way it is.

After cleaning up the floating soil on the ground, the floor inside the lighthouse was paved with stone slabs. There are still brown marks left on the stone slabs left by the decay of the wooden boards.

"The last two meters seem to be under these stone slabs."

Shi Quan glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. It was already past five o'clock in the morning, and there would only be less than two hours until dawn. He had to speed up.

The sharp pickaxe was raised above his head, and the sharp pickaxe struck hard on the stone slab, splashing sparks.

In just three or five strokes, a gap opened in the bluestone slab at Shiquan's feet. Use the mountain pick to pry along the gap, and half of the stone slab was lifted up easily.

Once we had started, the subsequent work became much simpler. As the stone slabs were lifted and moved away, a one-meter-square bluestone slab was finally revealed.

Lifting the bluestone along the edge, a square hole less than one meter wide was exposed to the cold air.

"It should be right here!"

Shi Quan threw away his pickaxe and returned to the tent while it was ventilating. He took out an action camera from his backpack and fixed it on his forehead.

Turning on the video, Shi Quan held a strong flashlight and got into the basement of the abandoned lighthouse. The height of this basement was less than 1.5 meters. Shi Quan, who was over 1.8 meters tall, could only move in a semi-crouching position. Not only was it short, but the area inside was also small.

The extremely small basement, less than four square meters in total, was dark and damp, and there was even a thin layer of ice on the ground.

In such a small space, the sight was unobstructed, and with the two arrows in the map's field of view, even if he was blind, he would not be able to ignore the dark, flat box near the entrance of the cave.

The box was only forty centimeters high and about one meter wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Shi Quan even highly suspected that the box was cut from a coffin and remade.

It really looks more and more like a tomb robber.

After walking around the black box, Shi Quan discovered that the outside of the box was coated with a thick layer of asphalt, and something seemed to be written with unknown characters on the asphalt.

The moment he touched the box, the two arrows in the map's field of view automatically disappeared, which also meant that the map hand-drawn by Baron Thor had completed its mission.

Try dragging the box. The box looks quite big, but its weight is surprisingly light. If it weren’t for the clattering sound when moving, it would be easy for people to mistakenly think that it is empty at all.

The process of moving the boxes out of the basement was unexpectedly simple. After checking in the basement to make sure nothing was missing, Shiquan packed up all the things, loaded them into the truck, tied them tightly, and roared towards Tatra who was waiting on the shore.

When he got back to the car, regardless of what time it was, Shi Quan directly dialed the phone number Andre left for him.

After waiting for half a minute, someone on the other end of the phone finally picked up the phone.

"You'd better tell me some good news."

There was a sleepiness in Andre's tone. Anyone who is woken up by a phone call at the most comfortable time of the day will always feel the urge to wake up.

"I found the treasure you wanted."

Shi Quan's faint words made Andre on the other end of the phone wake up instantly.

"Found it? So quickly? Where is it?"

Faced with Andre's three consecutive qualities, Shi Quan smiled at the corner of his mouth, gently touched the asphalt box placed on the floor of the RV and replied: "If you can, fly to Petersburg, we will make an appointment, you will make an appointment at

Where is the treasure left by Baron Thor."

"I will arrive in Petersburg on time before nine o'clock, and we will meet at the airport!"
Chapter completed!