030 Reason

The moment the box was opened, four cards appeared in Leonard Ethan's mind.

Three of them were N cards, two of which were [Detection (N)] and one was [Identification (N)]. The other was the first card he obtained this time: [Logical Enhancement (R)].

[Logical Enhancement (R): Often, people hiding their wealth would choose a series of riddles as protective shells, concealing their treasures beneath layers of baffling puzzles. In such situations, extra help is indispensable.

Skill Card (Passive) (Permanent): When holding this card, it will take effect, making the user's logical thinking more meticulous and easier to find clues from the information they have.]

"Ah, finally another skill card." Looking at the new card he obtained today, Leonard Ethan's face showed a smile. He preferred skill cards over one-time use cards.

After accumulating four [Identification (N)] cards, Leonard Ethan found that, like [Detection (N)], the [Identification (N)] cards also showed the ability to synthesize new cards. But, for various reasons, he chose not to synthesize these cards.

After looking at the new card, he began to examine the items in the box. Most of the small box was filled with uniformly-sized gold bars, which appeared to be just a bit larger than an adult male's thumb.

After taking a few gold bars out, Leonard Ethan found that they should all be privately cast, with not only a very rough exterior but also only a capital letter B stamped in a box on the surface.

Although these gold bars were small, each one felt heavy in his hand. After weighing them with his portable electronic scales, he found that each gold bar was about 200 grams.

He estimated that there were more than 570 gold bars in the box, and considering that they were all about the same size, their total weight was around 110kg.

In the middle of these gold bars were two soap-box-sized silver boxes. Upon opening them, they were revealed to be filled with jewelry.

One box contained jewelry adorned with many gems, while the other contained pieces that didn't have many gems but were decorated with enamel and mosaic craftsmanship, showing exquisite workmanship.

After taking some time to move the gold bars and jewelry back onto the car, Leonard Ethan sat in the darkness of the driver's cabin, taking a few deep breaths to compose himself before driving back to the city center.

Early the next morning, Leonard Ethan, who had hardly slept the night before, got up at 6 am and drove back to his house in Treasure Sword Town.

After greeting his mother, he went straight back to his room to study the gold and jewelry he had previously discovered.

Upon closer inspection, he found that several gold bars were engraved with dense text.

Clearly, the person hiding the treasure had considered the potential corrosion of various items over time and had chosen to engrave the information they wanted to leave behind directly onto the gold.

It must be said that the choice of the treasure hider was correct. The reinforced wooden boxes used to store these valuables, even after multiple layers of anti-corrosion treatment, still suffered severe corrosion, while the text on the gold appeared as if it had just been engraved yesterday.

All of these characters were in French and were left by Jack De Brian. The content within them told the story of a noble who had been exiled abroad during the French Revolution.

The whole story starts from the escape of Louis XVI. At that time, when Louis was trapped in Saint Manuel after the failed escape, he was not completely isolated but had the opportunity to communicate with the outside world.

However, what Louis XVI did not expect was that the National Assembly could react so fast. He was found and sent back to Paris the next day, leaving almost all his contacts with the outside world in vain and failing to save himself.

It was then that Jack De Brian, as a messenger, met Louis XVI, who asked him to deliver the rabbit lock to an earl.

Unexpectedly, at that time, the area around Saint Manuel was already occupied by the National Guard. Although Jack had disguised himself as much as possible, he was still captured and imprisoned for several days.

By the time he was released, the rabbit lock had disappeared. Then there was a tremendous change in the political situation in France, and Louis XVI and his wife were sent to the guillotine, and the nobles began to flee.

In this process, Jack and the earl he was looking for met on the run and then sought exile together in the United Kingdom.

The impact of the French Revolution spread across the entire Europe, especially for the UK as a troublemaker. Supporting various organizations against the French Republic was a regular practice.

As loyal subjects of the Bourbon Dynasty, Jack and the aforementioned earl joined one of these organizations. The earl, because of his title and ability, became the person responsible for fundraising within the organization.

This organization operated for many years, but a significant part returned to France when Napoleon became emperor. After all, for these nobles, so-called loyalty was just a bargaining chip for gaining benefits.

Since Napoleon was willing to recognize their status and return part of their wealth, it was not unusual for them to kneel before him and swear allegiance.

Those who returned to France included the earl. But after Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena Island and Charles X was restored to the throne, the earl cut off his ties with the UK for various reasons.

For Jack De Brian, this was a terrible situation, because at that time, the organization still had a lot of wealth left in the UK, and everyone had acquired many properties in the UK during the lengthy exile period.

So even though most of the organization's members returned to France, Jack De Brian stayed in the UK, meticulously managing those properties.

After cutting off contact with the earl, some people came to Jack to take away this wealth.

However, since the organization's internal regulations stipulated that only the earl had the right to take away the wealth from Jack, he, out of respect for the commitment between nobles, did not give the wealth to others.

Until 1842, a serious illness made Jack De Brian realize that his life might not belong to this world for long. It was then when the old man in his seventies began to deal with this wealth belonging to the organization which he controlled.

He sold all the properties of the organization in the UK, turned them into gold bars, and hid them together with the wealth previously collected from the nobles in this box. He then left a secret record in the well-used Bible.

The reason for doing this was quite simple because he could not find a reliable person to help him continue looking for the earl and return these things to the other party. So he decided to leave it to the deity to choose an inheritor through this method.

However, what he didn't expect was that the wait would last for over a hundred years. It wasn't until Leonard Ethan found the information left by Jack De Brian through a series of coincidences and finally unearthed the wealth according to the clues.