Chapter 32: Gringotts
[Happy May Day, everyone! 】
Tang Bai was wearing a black turtleneck sweater and jeans and stood on a crooked street with no end in sight. The sky was slightly overcast, the cobbled streets were moist after the rain, and there was a faint chill in the air. Breathing into the chest, while giving people a feeling of coldness, it also made Tang Bai's head clear and refreshed for a while.
Compared to the polluted air in the world, the air here is clean and fresh.
The area where Tang Bai is at the moment is the starting place for the protagonist of the Harry Potter world to step into the legendary experience - Daia Palace Road, also known as Diagon Alley.
The time is about three months before the story officially begins.
Tang Bai looked at the pocket watch, and the hands of the pocket watch showed that he had been staying here for about three days. The use of the pocket watch three times in a row also made Tang Bai understand more about its function, and it was no longer as superficial as at the beginning.
Let's not talk about the earth-shaking changes in his body, just in terms of the role of being able to enter various fantasy worlds, the same copper coin stays in different worlds for a completely different time. Tang Bai vaguely speculated in his heart that the cause of this situation should be related to the length of the time span of that fantasy world.
In the Harry Potter world, the time span that accompanied the protagonist's growth was nearly twenty years.
Diagon Alley, strictly speaking, is a commercial street that belongs entirely to wizards. There are a variety of shops related to wizards. Whether it's potions or books, as well as recreational sporting goods, it's got it all. It's just that in Tang Bai's eyes, the surroundings seem a little empty.
There was no shouting around, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets, so it seemed very depressed. Tang Bai walked all the way down the street, and most of the people he met were in a hurry, with gloomy and dignified faces. When passing by passers-by, you can see the strong vigilance and nervousness in each other's eyes!
Thinking about the time when he entered, Tang Bai's heart suddenly suddenly dawned.
According to the development of the story in his memory, the time Tang Bai entered at this moment was the time period when Voldemort and his Death Eaters were wreaking havoc. At this moment, the Potters are not dead yet, and Harry Potter, the protagonist of this world, has not yet become the so-called savior.
In this age of Death Eaters and the Imperius Curse, trust between people has been reduced to a freezing point, and people are always fiercely wary and suspicious of others except for their own family and closest friends. Most of the time, people would rather stay in their own homes than go out easily.
If he had a choice, Tang Bai would not have chosen to enter this turbulent time period, but his experience in the Harry Potter world was zero, and the copper coins in his hand could only enable him to enter this initial time period.
Tang Bai stopped in front of a snow-white building, which stood out from the crowd compared to the nearby shops, and was easy to find. This is one of the destinations of Tang Bai's trip, which can be called the most famous wizarding bank in the Harry Potter world - Gringotts.
Tang Bai's purpose is very clear, he knows what the purpose of his coming to this world is, he doesn't need to have any friendship with the protagonists of this world, what he needs is all kinds of potion materials in this world. For this world, which already has a mature business chain, the easiest way to obtain these potion materials is naturally to spend money on them.
The pure gold coins that were scavenged from the Lighter World before, because the amount was too huge, Tang Bai was worried that it would be too eye-catching, so he only dared to sell a small part, and the rest were temporarily placed in the Mirror World constructed by the Mirror Spirit. According to the plan that Tang Bai and Jing Ling discussed when they entered this world, this time they happened to take out all of them and exchange them for the currency of this world.
Stepping up the white steps, the two goblins in scarlet and gold-trimmed uniforms standing in front of the bronze gate bowed deeply to him.
Step through the first door, and the second door is silvery-white. The door is engraved with the following striking text:
enter,stranger,buttake
Heed [Please come in, stranger, but you have to be careful]
ofwhatawaitsthe
sinofgreed [What will happen if you are insatiable]
forthosewww.xstxt.orgustpaymostdearlyin
theirturn [Blindly taking, getting for nothing, will be punished the most severely]
soifyouseek
BenaTidyHourFloorSatreasureThatwasnEverYours [If you want to take a piece of wealth from our underground vault that never belonged to you]
thief,youhavebeen
www.xstxt.orgorethan
treasurethere [Beware of not attracting treasure, but evil retribution].
Walking into the second silver door and entering the spacious marble hall, Tang Bai saw at a glance more than a hundred and so goblins like dwarves, sitting behind the long counter and hastily registering on the large ledger, some weighing coins with scales, and some using eyepieces to detect gems.
Tang Bai swept it and found that there were many doors facing other directions around.
"Is there anything I can do for you, sir?" A goblin walked up to Tang Bai and asked with a respectful bow.
"I'd like to exchange my gold for some gold Galleons." Tang Bai said.
"Please come with me." The goblin led Tang Bai to a counter, whispered a few words to the goblin in the counter, and then bowed to Tang Bai again before turning to leave. The delicate fingers of the demon in the counter flexed and gently buckled the top of the counter, and the entire counter was cleaned in an instant and became empty. Then the goblin looked at Tang Bai and made a gesture of please.
This place itself is a magical country, so Tang Bai is not afraid of anything shocking, and takes out a round mirror with a diameter of about one foot from his backpack. Tang Bai grabbed the frame of the mirror with both hands, the mirror side down, and his two arms shook up and down slightly.
There was only a clanging sound of a clanging sound, and a gold coin fell from the mirror and fell onto the counter, followed by several gold coins. Under the elf's gaze, the gold coins became more and more dense like a pouring rain.
In the blink of an eye, the counter could no longer hold the gold coins, and like an overflowing stream of water, the dazzling gold overflowed the counter and fell to the ground around it. The anomaly of the counter quickly attracted the attention of many people.
By the time no more gold coins fell on the mirror, the people around them had completely rounded their eyes, and they were a little stunned to look at the mountain of gold that was piled up by the torrent of gold out of thin air.
"It's not a work of magic, it's real gold! …… The purity is also good...... Well, it seems like there's a history. The goblin in charge of Tang Bai pinched a few gold coins in his palm and looked at them, muttering in his mouth.
The goblins who work at Gringotts are almost always masters in the identification of gold coins and works of art! They are able to accurately distinguish the fineness of the various minerals, the age of the artwork, and the value that corresponds to them. It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to deceive these goblins in these aspects.
"According to the exchange rate of gold and Muggle currencies, one gold galleon can be exchanged for five pounds, and one gram of gold can be exchanged for seven pounds. The weight of your gold here is about seven tons, and if you put aside some fractions for a while, you can get 11,170,000 gold galleons. ”;