Rhode Island School of Design, located in Rhode Island on the east coast of the United States, is a world-class design school integrating art and design disciplines, with 18 majors including graphic design, photography, illustration, industrial design, architecture, and jewelry design. Among the 25 best design schools in the world, Rhode Island School of Design topped the list, beating out well-known powerhouses such as Yale and MIT. It was also selected as the second-ranked art college in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

Located at the foot of College Hill and connected to the Brown University campus, the Rhode Island School of Design shares social, academic, and community resources, as well as opportunities for students from both schools to choose courses and dual degrees.

It is the most ideal choice for countless students who want to engage in design careers.

After his graduation trip, Carlos joins the Rhode Island School of Design's most mysterious Society, the No. 2 Society, with an invitation to the club in exchange for two bottles of fine wine. As a secret elite society lurking on campus, it doesn't follow the same style as the Skull Society at Yale University.

Most of the people who came out of the Skull Club were successful celebrities in politics, business, and education, and they were extremely well-known in the world. And the people who came out of the No. 2 Society are basically not famous, but as long as you open the collection of the club, the list of personal collections will shock the eyes of the whole world.

No. 2 Society is a club of high-end collectors, and most of its members are descendants of super wealthy families, and their family businesses are all privately owned, and they are not well known among ordinary citizens. The accumulation of wealth over decades or even centuries has filled their family's treasury with rare collections from all over the world.

Its community motto is:

War is the gateway to hell.

It is not money that measures the level of collection, but cultivation.

The Second Society was founded during the Second World War by a few wealthy men in the art collecting profession. Since most of the members of the club were from European countries, they were worried that the collection inherited by the family would be destroyed due to the impact of the war, so a few good friends met to form a campus club, and made an album of the collections inherited by themselves in the family, which has been preserved.

For the same consideration, some family descendants of other majors have also joined the No. 2 Society.

It can be said that the first batch of members of the No. 2 Society included nobles and even royal descendants from many European countries, which also laid the threshold for the second batch of applications for joining the Society.

Due to the huge financial resources gathered by the Society, for security reasons, the Second Society has taken root in Rhode Island College and is hidden, and no one knows how many members the Second Society currently has, nor how much of the contents of the Society's collection album have been updated.

It's like an open secret in Rhodes.

――――――――――

After the first month of the war, Carlos has fully integrated into college life, but a few months are still not enough time for his classmates to get used to his appearance, as long as there are people, he is the focus.

Finally, late one night, after relying on the system map to avoid the new classmates who were extremely concerned about his life and rest, he came to the venue of the No. 2 Society's activities tonight. After being confirmed by the gatekeeper, he entered the room inside.

"Poor Carlos, living like a flustered little mouse, scurrying around, what a waste of the enthusiasm of the beauties."

A tall man sat cross-legged in a living chair and looked at Carlos with a smile in his eyes.

"I can't blame them, Carlos is the only one who has joined the society as a 'living collection', and I am also very excited, but more because I want to seal him in Zài Formalin, so that he can keep his eternal beauty and accompany me to the burial."

On the other side of the room stood a beautiful woman, her slippery tongue licking her red lips, full of seduction.

"You're so obscene with my **, are you a man in your family?"

Every time he faces this pair of beautiful big eyes that can't wait to swallow himself alive, Carlos is always speechless, this eldest lady is from a small European country, it is said that she is a member of the royal family, born with the S attribute, and is currently deeply in a state of ice love, before Carlos appeared, the male god in his mind was Tutankhamun, and there were a lot of pharaoh's funeral goods in his personal collection. Now, start collecting Carlos' cups, saucers, and stuff.

"Carlos, what you said last time, has already come to fruition."

The man's voice drew the attention of both of them, and Carlos sat down on the couch to the side, tilting his head to listen intently. Another woman sat across from him.

"The other party has 11 pieces of the first batch of oracle bones unearthed in Yinxu in Anyang from 1898 to 1899, and he doesn't change the collection, he only needs money, 1.5 million US dollars."

"Yes, when to trade."

"Carlos! You are crazy! These 11 oracle bones are only worth 1 million at most! ”

Although a woman is also a master who doesn't treat money as money, what is wrong with things that are obviously only worth 1 million have to be bought for 1.5 million!

"He's not crazy, few people have shot those oracle bones, there are official people in China and Japan who have been in contact with each other, the source is a bit dirty, and he doesn't want to mess with the two state institutions, so he sent a message to the collecting world. This is still first-hand information, and if it drags on any longer, he can only auction it. What do you think the price of these oracle bones would be if they were to be auctioned? ”

The man's words succeeded in making the woman shut her mouth, and she stroked her red lips with her fingers and looked at Carlos with her eyes.

"It's really getting more and more interesting, my family has a collection of jade seals used by Emperor Kangxi, are you interested?"

"What do you want?"

No matter what the jade seal is used for, a set of Kangxi is special, and the single product will exceed 10 million yuan, let alone a set. And the woman in front of Carlos will definitely not be short of money, and for her, how can there be a collection of money.

"You become the nationality of our country, and then marry me, and that set of jade seals is considered a wedding gift."

It's a good idea, when she is alive, she is her person, and when she is dead, she is also her person, and when she dies, isn't the collection directly inherited by his wife or children? Carlos gave the other party a "don't make trouble" look, and turned to finalize the details of the deal with the man.

As for where to keep the artifacts that were sent in a week, Carlos refused the man's suggestion and directly said that he had a place. There's no safe in the world that can match his bucket list.

"I hope you don't think of these bone fragments as a new decoration to decorate your luxurious pavilion."

Carlos was a little embarrassed by the other party, the starting point of the two was not the same at all, for Carlos, the antique furnishings in the luxury pavilion were just simple furniture, which could be bought with money, not priceless collectibles such as cultural relics.

And the other party obviously doesn't see it that way.

Just like when he brought wine to Yang Batian, as soon as the other party heard that he had opened two bottles of highly collectible wine, the whole person fell into that kind of despair that had nothing to love, and finally Xiao Tian, who came with him, dragged the person away, and after that time, the group leader directly changed Carlos's group name to a loser.

Carlos said that he was very innocent, if he had an expansion piece of world adventure, then it would really be sent, and there should not be too many wines of various BC years!

――――――――――

After determining the trading time, Carlos left the club activity point with satisfaction, and he was also introduced by Yang Batian, only to know that there was such a powerful club in the university he was about to enroll, and it was also a flash of inspiration at that time, since the club included wealthy collectors from all over the world, the news of the lost overseas national treasures would definitely be more or less there.

Relying on the plug-in of the system, will he be able to make some contributions to his motherland? It's certainly not possible to rush into a national museum and steal it, but what if it's a private collection? Is it possible to recover one or two cultural relics by smashing it at a large price?

He also had the mentality of giving it a try, and proposed his idea to Yang Batian, who just gave him an indescribable look and gave him an invitation the next day.

"I can see that your mother is a great woman full of patriotic feelings."

What's wrong with the Chinese-British mix! He was a native Chinese in his last life! Don't you look down on half-breeds! How difficult it is to make a pure Chinese male baby in M3!

Fortunately, Carlos still remembered that he was currently in the stage of asking for help, and after receiving the letter of recommendation, he still got on the plane back to the United States with a smile on his face.

Yang Batian, a senior, is also hard enough, not only helped Carlos get the application for admission to the No. 2 Society, but also put Tom and him in the same two-person dormitory by the way. Fortunately, it is a familiar friend, if it is another strange classmate, it is estimated that Carlos will rent a house near the school directly.

University life in Rhode Island is basically no different from domestic university life, except that the courses are a little tight, there are a lot of club activities, and the late-night party is a bit noisy.

Because Carlos had already become a celebrity on campus before entering the university, and was directly under the name of the most famous painting professor, when the school officially started, countless clubs threw olive branches to him, some went to his face, some went to his fame, and some went to his talent.

Carlos studied his figures, and since his painting skills were already level 8, his mentor was also a very good contemporary painter, and under his guidance, within a year, the painting skills were sure to be at the full level. Then there is no need to spend time on related art clubs.

After referring to various factors, except for the No. 2 club, he only participated in the sports basketball club and the outdoor survival club, the former to maintain the amount of exercise every day, and the latter purely for interest. As for the other sororities, he only joined the Chinese Society, which was mostly mixed race people from all over the world with Chinese ancestry.

Tom applied to the Brothers, the Photography Society, and the Outdoor Survival Society.

I have to say that the days of survival in Brazil are very important in their whole life.

――――――――――

Immersed in university life, Carlos lived a fulfilling life, and his mentor was an old man with a passion for art, who was not confined to the classroom, and often took his proud students on trips to Europe to visit his old friends, each of whom was a well-known celebrity in the art world.

Visiting old friends, visiting local art exhibitions, creating, communicating, and competing. It only took half a year for Carlos' painting skills to be brushed directly to level 9. He has participated in several international painting competitions, and has no opponent in the Youth Cup, and his works have become well-known in the art world.

After entering the middle of winter, the mentor's European tour has finally come to an end. And Carlos finally had time to participate in the basketball club competition, and the eight-pack abs hadn't come out yet, and the daily workout couldn't be stopped!

In the basketball hall, chasing, jumping, and dunking, two hours later, Carlos was sweating and clapping his hands with his friends to exchange and exit.

He walked to the bench and grabbed his own towel to wipe the sweat that was about to fall to his eyes, and suddenly a bottle of drink reached out from his side, he habitually put the towel on his shoulder, took it with his other hand, and drank it in a big gulp, the warm boiling water overflowed from his mouth, and slid along the graceful chin through the throat and into the collar.

Carlos seemed to want to replenish the missing water for two hours at a time, a 1-liter bottle of mineral water was left a quarter of the time he drank, and the white jersey with the red letter 11 was wet from the collar to the trousers, the wet fabric was tightly attached to the lower abdomen, and the six-pack abs were clearly visible under the translucent fabric.

Coupled with his handsome and crying face of the whole school, even the senior seniors who had been on the bench couldn't help but whistle. Sure enough, it's a man who is known as the public enemy of the whole school.

"Gavin, aren't you going to play?"

Finally moistening his throat, which was about to smoke, Carlos smiled and looked at the white boy who was handing him water.

The boy known as Gavin has slightly long orange-red hair, a pair of jewel-like blue eyes, deep facial features, and a somewhat silly smile, but still does not diminish his beautiful manly demeanor. If there is no Carlos appearance, it is estimated that this guy will be the first in appearance among the freshmen.

Unlike Carlos's delicate handsomeness, Gavin is the handsome of the American warm and sunny young man. Standing two people next to each other can often cause the rotten girl to scream. At least when Carlos was participating in the activities of the Chinese Society, he was often caught by the bunch of rotten girls and asked if he liked the ordinary-looking Tom who had been silently with him for many years, or the handsome Gavin who invaded his life with great enthusiasm.

Since Tom and Carlos have always been in and out of pairs, although his appearance is really a bit ordinary, the majority of those who support them together, and even high school friends from other states have stood in line on Facebook.

Tom's little girlfriend Ann even posted directly on Facebook, asking Tom to stick to his position as the first lady of the male god.

"Not today, by the way, just now the president of the boxing club came to you again, he has been chasing you for more than half a year, and he still refuses to let go?"

Speaking of which, the president of the school's boxing club is a student of American Dad, a drunk who participated in the plan to beat up Middle Easterners last time. This is the last time the basketball club was held next door to the boxing club, and the two met. How could the president, who knew Carlos's strength, give up such a superb fighter, so he immediately launched a fierce pursuit of Carlos, and he must drag people into the boxing club.

In the boxing club, everyone is a strong muscular person, and they are all disgusted by the president chasing a little white-faced freshman and begging others to join the club, not to mention that the other party is still a freshly baked public enemy of the whole school.

So one day, this group of bear men carried their own president behind their backs and blocked Carlos, who was rushing back to the dormitory to call He Man, in a corner, planning to teach him how to be a man.

Needless to say, he was taught to be a human being by people with full motor skills in turn, and Carlos's bad eyes came up again and hit them in the face. In this way, he thought that the president of the boxing club would have to die, after all, he had offended the men of the whole club.

However, what he didn't expect was that those men were actually M attributes, and after being beaten, they were even more active in inviting Carlos into the club than their president. After being blocked several times in a row, Carlos had to blow up, which aspect of it is for you to enjoy! I can't change it!

The reasons for the men are also very good, first of all, Carlos can fight, and he is very powerful! All of them are militants, and they often contact other colleges for friendship and exchanges, saying that friendship comes first and competition is second, and everyone knows what the truth is, after all, no one likes to lose.

Second, the average muscle level of the boxing club is high, and it is inversely proportional to the appearance level of all members. Every time they see the small vests and small skirts on the sidelines of the basketball team and the football team, they are congested. Look at other people's cheerleaders, Dora morale, and then compare yourself with the rough man in the stands, and feel sorry for yourself!

But it would be different if Carlos joined the boxing club! How amazing is the influence of Rhode Island's first appearance! Look at the stands when the basketball team is training! It's full of beauties from all departments! Two-thirds of them didn't know basketball, and they all went for Carlos' face.

And when you play basketball, you wear a team uniform, and when you play boxing, you wear a topless shirt! The influence of face + six-pack abs is leveraged.

In front of those drunkard faces, Carlos was also speechless. You can't let him be disfigured.

Finding that he couldn't communicate, Carlos still chose to hide.

"What? So don't you want to be my teammate? What are you doing here? ”

With a playful smile, Carlos glanced at Gavin, and this time he noticed that the other party had a hemostatic patch wrapped around his left hand. As the main force of the basketball team, they pay attention to the maintenance of their hands, and they will not let their fingers hurt. He grabbed Gavin's hand, flipped his palm up, and looked at it closely. It doesn't seem like much of a problem.

"Ahem, I was careless when I cut the steak."

The palm of his hand was grabbed by someone else, and Gavin shrank a little uncomfortably, and his cheeks and ears gradually reddened.

Seeing this cute reaction, Carlos's own characteristics began to brush up on the zài sense again. He let go of his hand, which was not much of a problem, and instead pinched Gavin's earbone. looked at the person's obvious trembling body, and the corners of his mouth showed a wicked smile.

"Oh, this body is too sensitive, it's so cute."

In the face of Carlos's teasing, Gavin's brain was blank for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, Carlos's mobile phone just rang. I saw that his brows furrowed first when he saw the call, and the smile that was still there gradually disappeared, and after answering the phone, his voice was gentle and smiling, completely out of sync with the expression on his face.

Out of politeness, Gavin took the initiative to turn his back to Carlos and help him stuff the towel and change of clothes back into his backpack, but his ears listened intently to the conversation behind him.

"Jiayi?"

Thunderbolt on a sunny day, Chinese incomprehensible!

"You're at the gate of my school? What happened? Do you have an XXX café near you? Okay, you go in first and wait, I'll come out right away. ”

After hanging up the phone, Carlos took the backpack that Gavin handed him.

"It's a pity, it seems that I can't participate in your party tonight, see you tomorrow, I'll go first. Be careful with your fingers and don't touch the water. ”

After a few quick explanations, Carlos left the basketball hall. Gavin, on the other hand, kept saying something in his mouth and ran to the dormitory.