291 Leak Picking (I)

Who is this?

Originally, Straun was sitting in a chair behind a glass window, where he was flipping through a thick book with a black cover, a travelogue of a transcendent man in the New World hundreds of years ago.

The travelogue is a wonderful record of many different landscapes, plants and animals that are very different from Noah's, the indigenous people of the New World, and the various earth gods they worshipped, some powerful and some weak, and they were natural enemies of the Templars who came for missionary purposes, so war was inevitable.

This transcendent was nothing more than a member of a quest team before the war.

These so-called exploration teams are ostensibly for exploration, for the resources of the New World, but in reality, they are just mercenaries, hired by the Templars or the empires on the continent of Noah.

Now, hundreds of years later, the great wars of conquest have ended, and the indigenous inhabitants of the New World have been driven out into the remote mountains and jungles, and the plains along the vast rivers and lakes have become conquered lands, and in the villages and towns founded by the immigrants, churches have been established and the fire of God's faith has been kindled.

Now, there is a steady stream of immigrants coming from Noah's continent to those places.

At the beginning, Ryan almost boarded the big ship to the New World, compared to the early period with criminals as the main body of exile, the current stage of immigration is mostly ordinary people, bankrupt families who have fallen behind in the changing times, and the main body of immigrants based on family units is increasing, rather than mainly bachelors like more than a hundred years ago, at that time, the battle between new immigrants and natives was still very fierce.

Even now, some of the indigenous gods on that continent have not fallen, as long as the indigenous humans have not been completely extinct, the faith will not fall, it is nothing more than sleep, and the divine fire will not be completely extinguished.

Of course, they are losers.

can only be silent, if you are too much to appear in front of people, you will also be hit by the full force of the Holy Church, you know, the elders of Heavenly Mountain will have one hundred and eight elders, and the worst strength is also the cardinal in white, now, there are at least more than thirty elders stationed in the New World, not counting the main force placed in the Inquisition there, in the team fighting against the evil gods and heretics, the Inquisition is the main force.

Straun also participated in the Pioneer War, well, it was a small-scale Pioneer War in the later period, against the defeat of the indigenous people, he stayed in the New World for more than ten years, fighting for the opening of the territory of the French Empire, until five years ago, he returned to the empire, because he had established a lot of meritorious deeds, he had the title of Lord, and he also had a small asset, which led to the birth of the thrift store.

Today, there are still beacons in the New World, but instead of fighting between immigrants and natives, there are small conflicts and frictions between colonies, empires, and empires.

Once all the land has been explored, there will inevitably be disputes between empires and empires.

In the middle of the New World, there are several lakes as vast as the ocean, and the lakes are surrounded by rich alluvial plains, among them, the French Empire occupies the land in the south, while the colonies of the British Empire are mainly in the north, in addition, the Bernese also have some settlements, but, they do not exist in the form of a state, after all, the Bourne Empire is located in the middle of the Noah's continent, and the only outlet to the sea is located in the North Sea, and the port is closed for several months every year, and the sea power is very weak.

Therefore, in the competition for the New World, the French Empire, which has a vast sea territory, and the British Empire, an island country, have the upper hand.

Sooner or later, the two nations will go to war over the ownership of the New World, and as for the Templars, no matter which nation wins, the faith in God will not disappear, but the battle between Paradise Hill and Westminster Abbey over clerical authority will not disappear.

Yes, although the people of the British Empire believed in God, however, the Templar priests on those islands did not come from Paradise Hill, but from Westminster Abbey, a miracle established by a group of priests whom Paradise Hill called a rebel.

Originally, Heavenly Mountain held the Holy Fire, and if you wanted to become a warrior of the gods and receive the Divine Factor, you needed to go to the Holy Church Headquarters on Heavenly Mountain, so the Pope firmly held the divine power and had the right to interpret the Holy Scriptures without error.

However, thousands of years ago, when Louis I led a large army to expel the Amurs from Noah's continent and create the French Empire on Noah's continent, forcing the pope to retreat, and the theocracy was declining, the British Isles were crossed by saints.

Yes, the then saint John and the pope were at odds, and there was a conflict over the interpretation of the holy scriptures, so St. John left the Heavenly Mountain, left the continent of Noah, and went to the British Isles, which was still a three-kingdom conquest at that time.

In the eyes of many people, if St. John had not broken with the Pope at that time, the two joined forces, which was enough to suppress Louis I's ambitions, but unfortunately, there were problems within the Templar, and after the split, the strength also declined, and it was impossible to stop Louis I, unless, with the determination that the entire Heavenly Mountain was broken.

After St. John's appearance in the British Isles, the trilateral conflict soon subsided, and he founded Westminster Abbey, in which the three kings prostrated before St. John in the basilica.

In front of St. John, there was a boulder with a sword stuck in it.

St. John said that whoever can draw the sword in the stone will also be able to become the new king, and the other two kings can only become dukes and must accept the leadership of the new king, which is the famous covenant of the sword in the stone.

In the end, it was the Charles family who pulled out the sword in the stone.

This is how the United Kingdom came from, until hundreds of years ago, when Sir York Newton came out of nowhere, and the United Kingdom became a behemoth with colonies all over the world, becoming the so-called empire.

York Newton was of noble blood, from the York family thousands of years ago, and once stood side by side with the Charles family, but unfortunately, his distant ancestor could not draw the sword in the stone, so he could only be a hereditary duke.

The topic is far away!

In short, in order not to get caught up in new strife, Straun, who had reached retirement age, returned to the French Empire, and instead of returning to his northern homeland, he stayed in the city of Reims.

After all, he has been wandering for decades, he has no relatives and no reason, and he has been lonely all his life, and it doesn't matter where he is.

Compared with the icy northern winter, Lance, who is located in the south, is a little more friendly to an old man like him.

He is an experienced old man, basically, just need to look at it to know what the situation of the person on the other side is about, and few people can hide his sharp eyes like a falcon.

However, he couldn't define Ryan.

It looks like a noble boy, but he doesn't have the arrogance of an aristocratic boy, he says that he is a commoner, but he doesn't have the crampedness of a commoner, he says he is an extraordinary person, but there is no energy fluctuation, at least, the magic circle in the store has no stress reaction, which proves that he has no spiritual factor in him, however, it is said that it is an ordinary person, but it is not quite right, it is obvious that his eyes are mostly on those things from the strange world.

A smart boy with a transcendent family?

You should have heard a lot of urban legends and thought that you were born lucky, so you appeared here?

Spare time, Straun likes to study those customers, but there is no purpose, nothing more than to pass the time, now he, like the sun in the west, will soon set on the other side of the mountain, once the light is extinguished, death comes, so, there is no purpose in life, for him, the inner feeling is the most important, and the enjoyment outside the body is dispensable.

The reason why this thrift store was opened is also for this reason.

He likes to watch all kinds of life, and he likes to see those who think they are clever and suffer a big loss in order to take advantage, so he has several traps left on the shelves.

Watching Ryan walk to the shelves in Area A, Straun stroked his fluffy beard and narrowed the corners of his eyes slightly.

It seems that this little guy is just a bluff, just a fool who thinks he is smart, a fool who has fallen into urban legends!

Ryan needed some spiritual material.

Normally, he would have walked straight to the glass window, which was simple, only there were genuine and extraordinary materials, and of course, the amount of money would have been astronomical.

If it weren't for secrecy, he could actually ask Livingston to get the material from him.

After all, he had a transcendent material entrusted to Livingston to sell, and even though he had left headquarters, Livingston could not have coveted his material, which Livingston knew more or less about his background.

Because the Divine Soul and the Golden Book are one, Ryan has a very keen sense of energy fluctuations and spirituality.

Especially after devouring Godot's energy space, this kind of induction has been amplified, just like the radar has been replaced, so Ryan wants to try to see if he can find what he wants on the shelf.

When he was on the water blue star, Gu Chaoyang, who was an archaeologist on the surface, liked to visit those antique streets when he was fine, and picking up leaks was also a hobby of his.

Of course, although he went to the antique street a lot of times, he really picked up very few leaks, only once or twice in more than ten years, and it was not as described in those treasure hunts.

The reason why this is so is not because of his poor eyesight, but because there are really few genuine goods.

In front of Ryan's eyes was an amber with a golden beetle wrapped in it, which looked delicate and transparent, with a vague spiritual fluctuation floating, like an electric wave.

Straun watched Ryan from a distance.

It's a trap.

Although that thing came from the Secret Realm, although it had spiritual fluctuations, however, the spirituality was too weak to become a transcendent material, and could only exist as a plaything, so he placed it there.

If, someone thinks they can pick up the leak.

He'll teach you a good lesson.

He would have asked for a high price for this thing, but it couldn't reach the price of a truly extraordinary material.

In that case, there will be a good show.

However, in Straun's sight, Ryan didn't pick up the thing and left Section A, but he wasn't disappointed because the boy was heading towards the second trap.