Imagine you’re doing some home DIY, you knock through a wall, discover a safe and inside find US$50,000 and a treasure hunt.

    It’s almost too fun to be true, but it happened to a couple in Phoenix, the United States. Posted on imgur, a woman has described an incredible tale of finding a series of clues inside a decades-old safe. She and her partner were demolishing their kitchen when they found the safe.

    They remembered that when they moved in they found a safe code in the back of a medicine cabinet and after half a dozen attempts the safe opened.

    Inside it they found US$51,080, mostly in US$100 notes and a bottle of bourbon dated 1960. She writes, “We stared in disbelief. I started to reach in the safe and Eddie yelled, ‘Wait, it might be booby trapped!’ I’m still laughing at that one.” Also inside was a book entitled “A Guide for the Perplexed” by E.F. Schumacher published in 1977.

    Inside that was a black and white photo of a mystery man and written on the back is the message, “Alan, I have a book you must read. I’ve underlined a few key passages. Your friend, Vincent.”

    On several pages there are a series of what seem to be clues. On page seven, an underlined passage of the chapter titled “On Philosophical Maps” reads: “One way of looking at the world as a whole is by means of a map, that is to say, some sort of plan or outline that shows where various things are to be found.” And tucked into page seven is a card with the state of Arizona on it. Then on page 11 is a photo of a house with “there yielded such fruitful results” written underneath. On the back of the photo, which depicts a tree split into three, “Where one tree becomes three” is written. The woman writes, “There might be a keen eye out there who recognizes this place and I’d be curious about that three-headed tree!” And even more — a Bingo card has three numbers circled.

    The woman and her partner said they don’t know what they will do with the money yet but she wrote, “If Alan is still out there, it was meant for him after all. But we’re keeping the bourbon!”

想象一下，你正在动手整修住宅，敲穿一处墙壁后，发现了一个保险箱，里面有5万美元和一个寻宝游戏。这种事太美妙，不大可能是真的，但美国凤凰城的一对情侣就遇到了。

一名女子在图片分享网站imgur上晒出了自己的离奇经历：她在一个有几十年历史的保险箱里发现了一系列线索。

她和伴侣拆厨房时发现了这个保险箱。他们记得搬进来时曾在药柜后面发现一串保险箱密码，试了好几次，保险箱终于打开了。

里面有51080美元现金，大多数是面值100的美钞，还有一瓶1960年的波旁威士忌。她写道：“我们难以置信地瞪大了眼睛。我试图把手伸进保险箱，埃迪大叫：‘等等，万一有陷阱呢！’现在想想还觉得好笑。”

里面还有一本书，是1977年出版的E·F·舒马赫的著作《迷途指津》。书中夹着一张黑白照片，上面是个神秘的男人，照片背面写着：“艾伦，我有本书你必须读读。我在几个关键段落划了线。你的朋友，文森特。”有几页上的内容看上去像是线索。在第7页，《论哲学地图》这一章内容里划了这样一段：“全面看世界的一个方式是看地图，也就是有助于找到各色事物的某种平面图或草图。”第7页还塞有一张画有亚利桑那州地图的卡片。另外，第11页有一所房子的照片，下面写着“此处硕果累累”。

照片背面画着一棵一分为三的树，并写着“在一棵树一分为三的地方”。

这位女子写道：“要是有谁眼光好，能认出这个地方，我很好奇那棵三头树的事！”

里面还有张宾果卡，上面有三个圈着的数字。

该名女子和她的情侣说还不知道该怎么处理这些钱，她写道：“如果艾伦还活着，这钱是他的。但波旁威士忌我们要啦！”

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【拆除】chāichú demolish destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose, tear down

【设陷阱】shè xiànjǐng booby trap set a trap for an unsuspecting person