Chapter 40 The Map and the Sword in the Stone
Xu Yue originally wanted to use his mental power to find out why the ring emits magical elements fluctuations, but unexpectedly, as soon as the mental power touched the ring, the ring immediately emitted an obscure fluctuation. Then a picture appeared in front of him.
It was a broken scene, showing the scenery of a certain place. Xu Yue felt like he was moving in the picture from a first-person perspective. Because the scene was incomplete, the moving scene almost jumped. Finally, the picture came to a valley.
The valley was filled with clouds and mist, and it was almost impossible to see things. Then the picture jumped again and came to a cave. At the very bottom of the cave, there was an altar-like thing, and a sword was inserted in the center of the altar. But before Xu Yue could carefully observe the appearance of the sword, the whole picture suddenly disappeared.
Wang Bin next to him saw Xu Yue looking at the ring, and couldn't help but pat his shoulder and said, "If you like this ring, buy it. I'll transfer it to you as soon as possible."
Xu Yue shivered as if she was suddenly awakened from a nightmare. He looked at the people around him and saw that there was nothing unusual. It was obvious that he was the only one who saw the scene just now. He nodded in a daze and said, "Since this thing is really an antique, it's good to buy it and collect it. At least this unique shape is really cool."
Wang Bin smiled and said, "That's right, besides this one I've never seen a ring with a dragon-shaped sculpture in European antiques. However, this thing is not a famous thing, so the collection value is limited. I bought it for about 300 US dollars. You can give me 1,800 yuan of famous coins."
"That's not OK, you can't lose money. It's a little less according to the exchange rate." Xu Yue had recovered and shook his head and smiled. He took out three thousand yuan and handed it to Wang Bin, "Even if you are here to set up a stall to pass the time, you can't lose money and sell it when you have business. Just three thousand yuan! Don't refuse. If you need it in the future, I might have to buy some Western antiques for you and leave a phone number with each other, otherwise it would be really hard to find you if I don't come here often."
Wang Bin was just right. Seeing his firm attitude, he didn't say anything else. He took out a piece of 3,000 yuan and wrote a piece of white paper and handed it to Xu Yue and said, "This is my phone number. It seems that you are also interested in Western antiques. If you need to buy or identify antiques from Europe in the future, you can call me. As long as you are not in class or going abroad, I usually have time."
Xu Yue took the paper and carefully put it away, and then told Wang Bin his phone number. After chatting for a while, he pushed and said that he had something to leave. Before leaving, he suddenly thought of something and turned around and said, "By the way! I forgot to ask. Do you have any other items that can get involved with Western myths and legends or monsters? If so, can I visit it? It would be even better if you are willing to transfer it."
Perhaps it was because he was happy to find someone with a common hobby. Wang Bin smiled and agreed: "There are still one or two items, but these things that are related to legends cannot be verified, so it is very likely that they are just some ordinary antiques that are given myths and legends. However, if you like these things, you can come to my house to visit when you have time. These items are not precious in my collection, and you can transfer them to you if you want them."
"Thank you then! I must go and see you when I have time. Goodbye!" Xu Yue said goodbye and walked out of the Antique Street. Before he left, he could vaguely hear some stall owners in the Antique Street discussing that someone had picked up a big leak, which was worth almost hundreds of millions. It was obvious that their plan had been successful.
For the sake of convenience, Xu Yue didn't drive, so he had to take a taxi when he left. When he arrived at the place he made an appointment with the fat man, he saw that the fat man and Zhang Hao had already ordered a table of wine and food in the hotel private room.
At this time, Zhang Hao had already changed the set of "quasi-farmer outfit" back to his previous clothes, the color on his face also changed back to its true colors, and the fake beard was removed.
After seeing Xu Yue pushing the door in, he hurriedly stood up and said with two points, "Brother Xu, I have been waiting for you for a long time. I thought you were tripped by people in the antique market. How about it? My acting skills are good this time, right? For this reason, I found a professional makeup artist in the crew to draw it. That image and tone are so vivid!"
Xu Yue smiled and patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Of course. You should know that I almost didn't recognize you the moment I saw you. I'm troubled you this time. I'll make you work hard. Let's have two drinks later."
"What's this? Brother Xu, you have helped me a lot this time. You know, if you didn't find your way, I would have to ask my father to make gold through his relationship in two days. At that time, my father would definitely be ridiculed by my father." Zhang Hao waved his hand and said indifferently.
After the three of them sat down again, the fat man asked curiously: "Xuzi, what good thing do you like? I remember you don't seem to understand antiques at all, right? I have been struggling there for so long before coming here. If it's later, Haozi and I will worry that you will be surrounded by those people in the antique market, and we will all rush in and grab people."
"Not as exaggerated as you said. Even if those people really recognize me, can they still hold me off?" As he said that, he took out the ring he bought from his pocket and threw it to the fat man and said, "I saw this thing in a stall at the time, so I bought it. I didn't expect that I had a very speculative chat with the stall owner, so it took a little longer."
The fat man took the ring and took it in his hand and looked carefully. After he said in confusion: "You weren't cheated, are you? How can this thing be like the crafts made around the game?"
Zhang Hao next to him also came over curiously and looked at him and said, "This cool ring looks like an antique no matter how you look. Brother Xu, maybe you can really cheat people."
Xu Yue smiled indifferently and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's cheating or not. This thing looks simple and elegant. I prefer it. And after chatting with the stall owner for a long time, I felt that the stall owner was not the kind of person who would fool people. If this thing really happened to him, it had been about 1,400 years and was not expensive, so I bought it."
The fat man knew Xu Yue so well. He knew that Xu Yue must have something else to say. I'm afraid there was something on this ring that they didn't find. However, Zhang Hao was not telling him clearly, or there were some things here that were inconvenient to tell him. So he blinked and said casually: "Okay! If you like it, you won't have that two of you anyway." After that, he handed the ring back.
The three of them didn't talk about the ring. After chatting around the world for a while, several people had enough food and drink. Because they had to hand over the agreed gold to Zhang Hai, the fat man drove the three of them to Xu Yue's villa. After moving the 120 kilograms of gold to the fat man's car several times, Zhang Hao and the fat man said goodbye. Xu Yue directly asked the fat man to help bring Fang Yu's ten kilograms of gold over there, and he didn't plan to go there.
After everyone left, Xu Yue quickly came to his bedroom. He closed the doors and windows of the bedroom and pulled the curtains. He took out a piece of magic crystal placed inside from the safe in the bedroom.
After getting the ring carved with a dragon-shaped sculpture, he already knew that this ring was definitely a magic item. However, after simple contact, he found that this magic item may have been in an environment with low magic element concentration for a long time, so the magic array inside and the magic materials used in the ring itself were almost half-scrapped. Not only was the magic array engraved inside damaged due to the passage of magic power, but the materials of the ring itself almost turned into ordinary metal because of the loss of magic elements.
He held the ring and the magic crystal in his hands, and then Xu Yue mobilized his mental power to stimulate the magic crystal. He saw a fiery red spot of light scattered out of the magic crystal like a firefly, and then under the influence of his mental power, he was thrown into the ring.
As the ring touched those magic elements, it immediately began to swallow magic elements like a sponge that had been exposed to the sun in the desert for several days and contacted the water source. As more and more magic elements were absorbed, a faint red light began to appear in the eyes of the dragon-shaped sculpture carved on the ring.
After completely absorbing the magic elements inside a whole piece of fire magic crystal, the magic ring stopped. At this time, the entire ring did not have the gray and simple style that was before, but became bright and new. The dragon-shaped sculpture on the ring became more vivid, as if it came to life.
Xu Yue threw the magic crystal that had turned into a pile of white powder in his hand into a plastic bag and put it back in the safe. Then he picked up the ring that had changed a lot and touched the ring with his mental power again.
The obscure fluctuation appeared again, and the scene I saw before suddenly appeared in front of him. However, what made him frown was that these scenes were still intermittent, but they became much clearer than before.
"What a pity! The scene should be recorded by the internal magic array. Now the magic array is damaged by a small amount, so the scene has also been lost a lot. You can't just rely on replenishing your magic power." He shook his head with a pity.
The scene recorded in this ring is obviously a map-like thing. The thing Wang Bin mentioned before may be the legendary magician Merlin. In addition, the sword inserted on the altar seen in the scene made him think of the legendary King Arthur's sword in stone. In the legend, the sword is quite legendary, and it has almost deified it in both movies and comics.
However, Xu Yue was not moved by this. The biggest question he was thinking about now was why magical objects could be found on earth. You should know that based on his previous experience, it is almost impossible for a profession like a magician to appear on earth. The low concentration of magic elements here that makes people crazy is probably only barely sensated by a first-level magician.
It is simply impossible to complete a task to use the thin magic elements to practice magic. No matter how talented you are, it is probably difficult to complete a meditation that is extremely inefficient in this environment.
"It seems that I will go to Wang Bin in the future. Maybe the earth is not a completely magical desert as I imagined, but I will finish the work before this!" Xu Yue thought silently in his heart.
Chapter completed!