Lao Luo had no way of knowing the situation of the people in Athens, and of course he didn't know that the shrewd old merchant Soratinok was guarding his return in Athens, and when he saw that Christmas was close to the church and was half a month away, Lao Luo found that his opportunity had come.

The inhabitants of Constantinople were mostly Christians, and although the local church was different from the Church of Rome and officially split a few decades later, all Bible worshippers had a holiday, Christmas. Although Christmas in this era was not as lavish as later generations, the Byzantine government and church organizations also organized grand gatherings and celebrations.

All the middle and lower echelons of the Grand Palace, including the guards and handymen, began to be busy with preparations, and the scholars at the top stopped patronizing the academic library because they had to reunite with their families and prepare for Christmas.

In addition to the management personnel, the academic library usually has a regular miscellaneous work responsible for sprinkling and cleaning, and the guards are only on the periphery, and the scholars who can enter the interior are the emperor and some direct ministers, of course, the emperor and the ministers may not enter once in three or five years when they are fine.

Without the patronage of scholars, the academic library was simply temporarily closed, anyway, no one would patronize during the festival, and the miscellaneous servants who sprinkled and swept were busy with other things, and the guards guarding the periphery were also absent-mindedly amusing and laughing with each other, because since the founding of Byzantium, there has never been theft and murder here, and the occasional fire that has been extinguished in time has been the biggest accident here.

Lao Luo specially chose a night when the moon was early, but fortunately, the houses and roads in Constantinople were already familiar, and the soldiers who missed the night patrol walked through the narrow alleys and ridges, but the figure of Nuo Da was just like a tanuki, light and agile.

The guards who were busy preparing for the festival during the day had long lost their energy at night, and they were sleepy-eyed, where would they notice a professionally trained special soldier like Lao Luo? Therefore, the faint sound of the wall on the wall of Lao Luo's room did not alarm anyone, as for the door of the library, it is an ornament, although the building of the Grand Palace is majestic, and the internal square is open enough, but there will always be a small and sheltered space, Lao Luo sneaked in silently from the ventilation window above the library palace.

Although Lao Luo walked the streets of Constantinople these days, and saw many extravagant and wealthy residences among wealthy merchants, and also looked at this grand palace from the outside, he really didn't expect that this large palace was full of brilliance.

All the pillars are carved with plant or animal patterns, gilded surfaces, and even the protruding parts are inlaid with gems of different colors. Even the walls are lightly depicted with patterns, with murals of turquoise or ruby inlays in the main places, and long hardwood bookshelves with a large number of well-bound parchment books on the ground in the middle.

Of course, the absence of guards here does not mean that there is no danger, and in ancient Greece, poisonous snakes or scorpions were used to guard valuables in the treasure room. Lao Luo didn't bother to check the contents of the books on the shelves, just walked back and forth, killed the poisonous snakes or pythons hiding on the shelves, and then loaded the bookshelves weighing four or five hundred catties into the ring space together with the books, and by the way, loaded the corpses of various dead snakes into it.

For Lao Luo, these snakes are not the slightest threat, just twist their necks and squeeze them hard, and then the best place for these things to go is to turn into a bowl and a jar of delicious snake soup.

Although Lao Luo's movements occasionally made some noises, the guards outside thought that it was a snake movement in the palace at most, and no one would venture in to check it, you must know that until this era, there was still a hidden animal worship in Byzantium, and poisonous snakes were creatures that few people wanted to approach.

There are about a dozen bookshelves in each palace, and there are about dozens of books on each shelf, and the books of this era are not like later generations, where the font can be printed very small, and the paper is very thin. Each parchment book is carefully crafted, most of them are only a few dozen pages, the books are very large, some even have a very heavy shell, and some even have gems.

It is really impossible to count how many palace rooms in this library, and it takes a lot of time to walk around during the day, Lao Luo began to distinguish the categories of some books, and later only saw the items stored in the palace room and put them into the ring space, and then left an empty space, it is estimated that only the indentations on the carpet on the ground and the clean ground left by removing the bookshelves can prove that there are a lot of things placed here.

The area of this library is really not small, in addition to the above-ground part, the underground is also divided into two floors, by chance directly Lao Luo actually found a very hidden secret door, the door of the secret room is no different from the wall, but the pull ring not far away leaked the secret. The pull ring of the secret room, which usually requires three or four people to pull hard, was dragged open by Lao Luo alone, and a huge inner chamber was displayed in front of Lao Luo with the sound of clicking.

After killing the many snakes pouring out of the secret room, Lao Luo found that it was full of the most precious books, including several works of Ptolemy, precious manuscripts of Archimedes, and even Euclid's original "Geometric Primitive", Socrates, Plato, Aristotle...... There are also many cuneiform clay tablets that Lao Luo can't even understand, and the gains in this secret room alone make his trip worthwhile.

After being busy for most of the night, Lao Luo secretly estimated that there were almost tens of thousands of books and scrolls that he had harvested, plus some incomprehensible classical text records, as well as some miscellaneous items, which occupied a lot of positions in the entire ring space, and he was secretly glad that the space had become inexplicably larger a few days ago, otherwise he really couldn't store all the information here.

After inspecting all the palace chambers and finding a secret room, Old Rosso tapped all the suspicious corners of the walls with his hand. It's a pity that good luck will not always come, seeing that the sky will turn white after a while, he erased all the traces that he might have left behind when he touched it, and returned quietly along the way he came, but it was a pity that the guards who worked duty, Nuo Da sneaked in and out without the slightest notice.

During the day, the energetic Lao Luo still stayed outside the Grand Palace to paint, and even painted bust portraits of several guards wearing holiday dresses as gifts. It was probably the holiday approaching, the library was closed, and no one noticed that it was empty.

Looking at the Grand Palace without any abnormal movements, Lao Luo said to a few guards who were watching the excitement on the side: "These days, I am painting here, and I have disturbed you a lot. ”

"Sir is polite, where will ordinary scholars and adults pay attention to us little people." The one who spoke was the guy with a big nose who accepted Lao Luo's portrait, "What's more, Mr. also gave us these portraits of small soldiers, which we can't ask for in normal times." ”

"Mfilo is right, he is a true scholar." The guard next to him said.

"Well, seeing that it's Christmas, my trip is over, I won't be here tomorrow, buy some holiday gifts, and I'm going back for the holidays." Lao Luo no longer talked nonsense, "I wish you all a happy holiday!" ”

"Happy holidays to Mr. too!" "Merry Christmas!" "......" was the blessing of the guards, Lao Luo drew a perfect end to this easy stepping action, even if someone later suspected Lao Luo, the "painter" who walked the streets and alleys, no one would suspect that the "painter" was a big thief.

When he had nothing to do during the day, Lao Luo really went to a few markets, bought some holiday items, and planned to go back to Athens to give gifts to a few friends and entourage. All the places are full of people who are ready to buy or sell holiday items, and Lao Luo is mixed in and is not conspicuous at all. If the news of the library theft is not revealed, there will be no chaos.

In the evening, Lao Luo then went to the libraries of several other colleges to hang out, this is much easier than the library of the Grand Palace, Lao Luo will not pack all the books, just select some more important books to collect, or occasionally find more hidden things that are not understood, and store them to prepare for someone to interpret later.

As for the jewelry and utensils that I occasionally came into contact with during this period, I took them easily, and I didn't deliberately collect those things, for Lao Luo, the so-called treasures can't be eaten or drunk, and they are the most worthless things Even so, from the Grand Palace to the library of the academy, Lao Luo's ring also has thousands of gold and silver artifacts.

After doing this for three or four nights, finally one day, Lao Luo, who was eating in a restaurant, heard something like this, "Do you know? Books from several faculties have been stolen recently, and some scholars have said that their most important notes have been stolen. ”

"Really? Who's going to steal at this time? Or stealing books? ”

"It's a strange thing, it is said that all the guards on the scene have not found any traces."

"Hmph, it's not an inner ghost, it's a guard guarding and stealing!"

"It's hard to say, General Sommere of the North City is in charge of investigating this matter, and it is said that all the on-site guards have been arrested."

"Stupid Sommeer, he only knows how to arrest people, and all the guards' homes have been searched, and there is no clue."

“……”

Lao Luo was too lazy to listen to it anymore, and the last place to collect it was in the evening, a library of an academy involving military technology. I don't want to find any new weapon design drawings in this era, but I just understand the production process under the craftsmanship of this era, after all, the technology of materials such as ironmaking and forging steel is not very clear, and there are already some mature models in this era.

Although you can find your own technology with a little time, if you can shorten this time limit, or find some ready-made processes for reference, after all, you can avoid some detours, right?

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