Chapter 51 Locking the target
Not long after returning to St. Petersburg, Liang En's cell phone rang. This was a call from Pierce from Finland, because he had seen some very valuable information from Finland through the power of Earl Bossit's family.
"You are right, those people have indeed forgotten the situation in Finland." Pierce's excited voice came from the microphone, "According to the information I found, there were indeed many deceased people whose identities could not be determined."
"I have said before that the treasure hunters that the count looked for were too mechanical when searching for various things." Liang En replied after listening to Pierce's words.
"And now I deeply suspect that the Earl's family gave the money too freely, so someone may just go on this trip to cheat on food and drink, and may not even remember to check these things."
"What you said is indeed possible, but to be honest, the information in Finland is very vague. Without additional records, it is difficult to rely on that information to determine whether the war reporter was one of these unknown dead people."
After hearing Liang En's criticism of some colleagues, Pierce, who felt it was not easy to comment, quickly changed the subject.
"By the way, have you found any valuable clues there? If not, I think the only feasible option for Mr. Count to find his uncle is to collect these two or three hundred corpses. The tools have been dug up and tested for DNA.”
"I have a big harvest here -" After hearing Pierce's question, Liang En immediately talked about what he had just discovered, especially the ruby that was fixed in the lighter.
Of course, during the narrative process, Liang En attributed the reason for going to the monastery to the fact that the information he searched mentioned that the monastery had been used as a field hospital, and he accidentally found these things when he went there to search for platoons.
"Ha - you must have mastered some Eastern magic, because your luck is so good!" Pierce said jokingly after hearing Liang En talk about his treasure hunting process.
"No, no, no, I think it's just luck. Just like when you were in school and you could suddenly pick up money every day for three days in a row."
Hearing Pierce's teasing, Liang En denied it with a smile, and then he thought of the number he just found on the piece of lead.
"By the way, I also found a piece of lead in the lighter, with the four Arabic numerals 1082 engraved on it." Liang En said to Pierce. "What do you think of that number?"
"Lawrence, you know, we found a crucial piece of information." After hearing Liang En's question, Pierce paused for a few seconds, and then said loudly in a much more excited voice than before.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, Pierce gradually calmed down and told Liang En, who was waiting on the other end of the phone, about some information he had found in Helsinki.
It turns out that on the battlefield that year, although the proportion of such unidentified dead was small, the total number was not particularly small either.
Their faces may have had to be covered due to various reasons such as injuries, or they may have lost their identity documents on the battlefield and fell into a coma.
In this case, the doctors treating them will choose to use their bed numbers as their names to avoid mistakes in subsequent rescue work.
Some of these people may have been eventually identified because they were rescued or something else was found that could confirm their identity, but some of them were still unrecognized until their death.
For those victims who were not recognized until their death, they would be buried with the number in the hospital, and in the end all that was left was a numbered grave.
"Lawrence, so you know what you found now, right?" Pierce said in a very excited tone on the phone, "This number is probably the hospital number of that person back then. As long as we have this, we can find his grave." .”
After saying that, Pierce hung up the phone and left Liang En there. It wasn't until half an hour later that he made another call to Liang En, who was waiting by the phone.
"It's confirmed." Even through the phone, Liang En could hear the excitement in Pierce's words. "There was indeed such an unidentified deceased in the field hospital that was temporarily converted into a monastery."
"So where is the other party now?" Liang En's breathing became rapid because he found that he was getting closer to the final answer.
"The unknown deceased with this number is now buried in a military cemetery near Puumala, Finland." Pierce said while holding the phone while looking at the yellowed document on the computer.
"When the Finns retreated, they took almost everything with them, including various machines, livestock, personal belongings, and even corpses in the cemetery. Naturally, this also included the corpses of those who died in the war."
"For example, this is the case with the body numbered 1082. According to records, this deceased was discovered by chance on the front line. He had severe frostbite when he was sent to the hospital. He died after being treated in the hospital for about a week."
"He was first buried in a temporary cemetery near the monastery, and then after the armistice negotiations were finalized, he and other victims buried nearby were moved to the vicinity of Pumara."
"I understand, please make an electronic version of all your information and send it to me." Liang En said, "With these information, we can make a deal.
"Don't we have to bring things door-to-door to trade this time?" Perhaps because of some nervousness, Pierce subconsciously asked the questions he habitually asked when doing entrusted tasks.
"If you are willing to risk breaking the law and dig that kind of military cemetery late at night, I don't have any problem with it." Hearing this question, Liang En suddenly laughed.
"Remember, we are now entrusted to find something very important to someone, so it is enough to tell our employer the information. There is no need to do the work of a grave robber."
"I'm just too excited." Pierce said helplessly after hearing Liang En's laughter. "You know that neither I nor my father have ever received such a job, so we subconsciously brought in our previous work habits."
After laughing and teasing each other for a while, Pierce sent the information he found. Maybe because everyone is in a big city, the Internet is finally much faster than in the wild.
Therefore, it only took half an hour for Liang En to successfully receive the information, organize the information and send it to the housekeeper.
"Mr. Liang, are the messages you are sending me now true?" 15 minutes after the message was transmitted, Liang En received a call from the housekeeper.
Different from the usual elegant tone, this time the butler's voice sounded very anxious, even giving people a slightly harsh feeling.
"Yes, these are all true, Butler Robuchon." Liang En said while looking at the ruby placed on the table in front of him.
"At least according to the information we have now, the missing Master Dulis should be buried in the military cemetery near Pumala."