Chapter 246: Flames in the Staff
Qin Liang knew that these stones were definitely not simple, because they supported the operation of the magic circle on the stone slab, and they still had residual power for many years. ← you must know that Qin Liang once picked a hundred-year-old ginseng nest, and even found a thousand-year-old ginseng plant. This made Qin Liang feel that these stones were not simple.
But no matter how simple it is, Qin Liang doesn't know it, and he doesn't know how to use it, it is undoubtedly in vain. That's why he decided to try his luck at this seemingly extraordinary jewelry store. And he took out a stone that was almost running out of energy to test. But the other party asked for an appraisal fee of 10,000 gold coins, which really shocked Qin Liang.
You must know that the reward offered by his Wind Society to him is only a thousand gold coins, which has driven many adventurers crazy, and the full tenfold gold coins are just an appraisal fee. This fee is higher than Qin Liang thought. But at the same time, Qin Liang's heart instantly became hot, the more expensive the appraisal fee, the better the thing. This is a truth that fools know.
Seeing Qin Liang's face change, the appraiser continued to speak: "If you can't afford the appraisal fee of 10,000 gold coins, you can sell this stone to me." I can tell you what it does and its properties for free, and I can also give you 50,000 gold coins. And what you need to add is where you got it from. ”
"Fifty thousand gold coins?" Qin Liang was instantly knocked down by another number, even Mary's Bar couldn't earn a thousand gold coins a year. Fifty thousand gold coins is equivalent to the income of Mary's Bar for fifty years, which is still the profit that can only be obtained when the high-end liquor is out of stock every day.
The value of this stone far exceeded Qin Liang's imagination, and at this time, Qin Liang couldn't help but regret taking out this stone for identification. And it was also given to an expert for identification, and the other party recognized the origin and function of this stone.
After the pile of 50,000 gold coins floating in his mind was what kind of mountain of gold it was, Qin Liang forced himself to calm down. Although it is true that he has been smashing his dream by 50,000 gold coins all the time in the dark swamp, Qin Liang is also a person who has seen the world and has not been completely blinded.
"One hundred thousand gold coins, you tell me what it does. I'll tell you where I got it. Qin Liang, who had changed his face, was flickering with essence at this time, no longer looking indifferent just now, and the momentum on his body had become a little aggressive.
Although Qin Liang really didn't know the value of this stone, the other party opened his mouth and offered 50,000. Doubling it yourself will only be less, and it will not exceed the true value of this stone. The trembling in the appraiser's voice just now was heard very clearly by Qin Liang.
"Young people's greed is the original sin of all evils." The appraiser leaned back on the back of the chair behind him, took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and looked at Qin Liang with cloudy eyes flashing with fine light. It was sharper than Qin Liang's gaze.
"The thing is mine, and if you take advantage of young people too much, you will be struck by lightning." Qin Liang sneered and stretched out his hand to grab the stone on the table, the other party disagreed, and he didn't even have any interest in knowing what this stone was, so he turned around and left.
"Seventy thousand gold coins can't be more, you tell me its origin so easily, compared to if I go to that place, I won't be able to get such a stone again, right? Or maybe no one can get in that place at all. The appraiser looked at Qin Liang with burning eyes.
"This ......" Qin Liang's expression couldn't help but pause, obviously the appraiser's gaze was extremely vicious, and he could see at a glance the loophole in the transaction after Qin Liang raised the price. After pondering for a moment, the expression on Qin Liang's face continued to change, and finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, but I want to pick one random thing from the outside and take it away." ”
"Yes!" The appraiser's tense face relaxed, and a smile of an old fox appeared on his face.
Although the things outside are also precious to ordinary people, how can the truly precious things be put up for sale. The most expensive thing on display outside is undoubtedly the water system long sword. But its value is around 10,000.
Even if Qin Liang had the vision to choose its appraiser, he would not suffer at all, and even if he used 100,000 gold coins to trade with Qin Liang, the appraiser would still be a sure profit. And this is not counting the premise of whether it is useful for Qin Liang to say where to get the news of this stone.
The smile on the appraiser's face made Qin Liang's heart suddenly break out, and he realized that he had been deceived by the old fox in front of him. He couldn't help but show a look of annoyance on his face, but under the look of chagrin, Qin Liang's eyes also showed a fox-like sly smile.
Ten minutes later, Qin Liang walked out of the appraiser's room with a thoughtful look on his face, energy stone is not a strange word, gems with rich elemental power can be called energy gems, which can be used for inlays and the consumption of magic circles.
But it was the first time Qin Liang had heard of the rechargeable power stone, whether it was a gem set in the equipment. Or a gem used on a magic circle. These gems are constantly being consumed over time and need to be replaced if they are used frequently.
For example, the gems inlaid on Qin Liang's sniper rifle are not infinitely usable. If Qin Liang exhausted the elemental power in it, the gem would shatter directly. The formation of gemstones is a non-renewable resource like the formation of oil in the ground, so it has become a luxury in the eyes of the aristocracy to show off their status and the poor.
The gem can be recharged and used repeatedly, and the level is so scary that it is at least more than the level of the eighth-level gem. This really broke Qin Liang's conventional perception of gems, and now Qin Liang seemed to understand a little bit that the magic circles he encountered on the grassland had obviously existed for many years, and for the sake of these stones, they still hadn't been consumed.
It turns out that these circles are in addition to absorbing the energy in the stone and releasing it for the herbs on it to grow. When the herbs above ripen and wither, the energy released is also absorbed by the gems, creating a cycle. This can be seen from the difference in the size of the stones that Qin Liang dug out from under different herbs.
For example, the stone under the medicinal field where Qin Liang obtained the thousand-year-old ginseng has almost been consumed, this is because the life span of ginseng is extremely long, and the older you get, the more energy you absorb. The energy absorbed by the circle from all around it had no way to replenish the consumption of the stone, so the stone continued to consume its own power and eventually became smaller and smaller.
And those who wither and flourish every year, or more than ten years. The size of the stones underneath the herbs, which wilt once in a few decades, has hardly changed. Because after the herb that absorbs its power grows dies, it can absorb the power released by the herb after death and so on.
Of course, this process of charging is very complicated, and it requires a special magic circle and finding a place with rich energy. But for others, it's difficult. It was extremely easy for Qin Liang, because there were several stone slabs lying in his broken world.
When the energy in the stones was exhausted, all he had to do was bury the slabs in a place with plenty of energy and re-inlay the stones into the grooves, all he needed to do was wait for a while. The appraiser only asked about the provenance of these stones, except to see if he could get such a reused power stone in the past.
What I wanted to get more was a magic circle that could charge the energy stone, and Qin Liang naturally pretended to be stupid and stunned for this. said that after entering the misty swamp, he fell into the pursuit of lake mosquitoes. I accidentally rushed into a cave to pick up such a stone, and I picked it up for identification because I felt that the stone was not simple.
As for the magic circle that charged these stones, I had never seen it at all, Qin Liang's words were true and false, and his acting skills with a look in his eyes were definitely at the level of an Oscar-winning actor. Therefore, although the appraiser was puzzled, he didn't see any flaws, and seeing that he couldn't get the results he wanted, the appraiser decided to study the energy stone in his hand and let Qin Liang leave.
"Why do you feel that something is wrong there?" The appraiser who was playing with the energy stone in his hand recalled the conversation with Qin Liang just now, and had a bad premonition in his heart, but he couldn't say what this premonition was. Then there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." The appraiser leaned back in the chair, and the energy stone in his hand disappeared in a flash, and he didn't know where he was hiding, and when he saw the clerk who opened the door and came in, the appraiser frowned, "I'm tired today, so I won't give anyone an appraisal." ”
"No, Appraiser. It was the guest who had just entered your place and made him choose an item according to your instructions. He's now chosen to leave, so he's here to let you know. The clerk said very respectfully.
"Well, I know, how much the value of the item is directly deducted from my income." The appraiser waved his hand to let the clerk out, but when the clerk turned to leave, he suddenly asked, "What did that guy choose?" ”
He took the staff that adorned the statue in the hall. The clerk said with a strange expression.
At the beginning, when she got the appraiser's approval to let Qin Liang choose a thing, she originally wanted to lead Qin Liang to the counter of the most valuable items outside. After all, if you are not a fool, you will definitely choose the most precious thing outside, after all, the opportunity is rare.
But to the surprise of the clerk, Qin Liang did not follow her, but walked directly to the decorative statue in the hall, picked up the staff in the statue's hand like a twisted tree root, and said that it would be good to ask for this. And then it doesn't matter and just leaves.
At that time, Qin Liang gave people the feeling that he was a poor man being inside the rich. He has a lot of self-esteem, and he proves his dignity with his actions, full of the dignity of a little person. In the eyes of the clerk, he gave up such a great opportunity for the sake of the so-called dignity. It's just a bad head, and she even guessed in her heart that Qin Liang regretted it if he didn't walk out of the gate.
"What did you say?" The appraiser, who was originally leaning back in the chair and playing with the power stone in his hand, suddenly got up, and disappeared directly into the room before the female clerk could answer. The next moment, the appraiser appeared directly at the door of the jewelry store.
Customers who want to enter the jewelry store and who want to come out of the jewelry store have a brief freeze and then return to normal. But when they returned to normal, they were not surprised by the appearance of the old man at the door, and continued to go about their own business. It seems that at the beginning they saw that the appraiser was here, and there was nothing to be surprised about.
"Don't let me catch you bad boy." Glancing around where there was still Qin Liang's shadow, it was obvious that the guess in the appraiser's heart had been verified again. Qin Liang took the staff on the statue not on a whim, but really knew what was on it.
"But I can't even see the origin of that thing, how did this little guy come out?" The appraiser's eyes couldn't help but show a look of doubt.
The staff had been acquired by the appraiser when he went on a trip with a few old friends to explore a ruin, and the encirclement appraiser was no exception when everyone was dividing up the ruins. It was only when he was finally ready to leave that he found the staff in a corner.
I thought it was a treasure, and the appraiser was happy for a long time. Because everyone else had left, he had picked up the staff for himself. But after bringing it back, the appraiser tried to identify and search for historical materials in various ways, but did not find anything corresponding.
You must know that appraisal is not to mention well-read, and his insight to become an appraiser is absolutely extraordinary, and he even knows some materials and things that other people of the same level do not know. Therefore, after various experiments and identifications, no effect of the staff was detected, and gradually the appraiser gave up.
And placing the staff in the hall outside was actually a whim of the appraiser. At the time, it just felt that the decorative statue was too monotonous standing there. So he put the staff on it. At the time, the appraiser wondered if anyone would be able to recognize the staff in the future.
Although the appraiser is well-informed, he is not so proud that he knows everything in the world. However, when he put the staff on it, the appraiser really had something that he couldn't identify, and others would definitely not recognize it.
After a long time, no one recognized it, and finally even the people in the jewelry store thought that the staff in the statue was just an ornament, so gradually the appraiser forgot about it. But what he didn't expect was that he was a perennial goose, and today he was pecked by a house sparrow.
recalled the conditions that Qin Liang put forward when he negotiated with himself. Obviously, it's not because you feel that you are suffering a loss because of your own bargaining, and you want to make up for it from other aspects. But as soon as he went up to the second floor, he saw that the staff was extraordinary, and he just happened to find an excuse to take the staff for him.
Thinking that he had taken the initiative to send the staff to Qin Liang to be injured, the appraiser was glared at by the angry blowing of his beard, and the joy of obtaining a power stone for spending a few tens of thousands of gold coins just now was instantly replaced by a haze.
"Boy, don't let me find you." The appraiser's eyes flashed with a gleam, and the glint had the atmosphere of being played with, but more of curiosity. If he did believe that Qin Liang might really be lucky to obtain this energy stone just now, then now that he was thinking about it, he was definitely kicked in the head by a donkey.
Qin Liang, who left the jewelry store, did not return to the place where he lived. Nor did he leave the city immediately. Instead, he walked directly into a small alley where no one was around, and when he came out again, he had already changed into another face and clothes.
Fortunately, Qin Liang calmed down and didn't leave the city, because after Qin Liang was not found at the door of the jewelry store, the figure of the appraiser appeared directly on the wall of Black Snake Town, and he sat there until dark before leaving. Although Qin Liang quickly left the jewelry store and was not caught by the appraiser, if he left the city as soon as he left the city, he would definitely crash directly into the appraiser's pocket.
Qin Liang, who had changed his face, did not return to his residence, in fact, he did not leave anything left in his residence at all, and even the backpack on his back had been thrown into the broken world when he entered the city. Therefore, there was no need for Qin Liang to go back at all.
With this new face, Qin Liang entered a three-star hotel and opened an ordinary room. Then, after the layers of prohibition in the room, he couldn't wait to enter the broken world directly. After obtaining the staff and leaving the jewelry store, Qin Liang was afraid that the appraiser would leave some marks on it. Throw it straight into the shattered world.
Entering the broken world and seeing the staff again, Qin Liang's spiritual power directly extended over, and then Qin Liang felt his head bang and the scenery in front of him changed and reappeared in a volcanic group. This time, in the jewelry store, Qin Liang restrained himself, and only felt the difference of a boundless volcano.
At this time, Qin Liang, who let go of all his spiritual power to feel it, seemed to be really standing in the middle of the volcanic group, and there were erupting volcanoes everywhere, emitting hot magma. His clothes and hair turned to ashes in an instant, and the blazing energy made his skin as red as a boiled prawn, and blisters began to bulge on the surface.
Qin Liang felt as if his body was about to be cooked. It's even like it's going to be melted. You must know that after Qin Liang's body was reshaped by the second Immortal Gate, it was already a powerful mess. Not to mention the spirit level, even among the general-level powerhouses, there are few existences comparable to Qin Liang's physique.
But even with such a powerful body, just feeling the aura emanating from the wand gem was about to be melted by the blazing heat. The high temperature of this gem was beyond Qin Liang's imagination. Qin Liang didn't dare to retreat from the scene of the volcano because he hurriedly harvested his spiritual power.
After withdrawing, Qin Liang couldn't help but be stunned in place, because the clothes on his body were really gone at this time. Moreover, the skin is extremely red, and there are even a lot of blisters, as if it has been thrown into a pan of oil and fried, exactly like the illusion I saw before.
Finding the changes in his body, Qin Liang looked at the staff again, and found that the staff was no different from before, as if everything had nothing to do with it just now. This made the gaze in Qin Liang's eyes flicker continuously.
Without the blazing heat, Qin Liang's crimson body quickly returned to its original color, and the blisters on his body quickly disappeared. This also proved the strength of Qin Liang's physique, otherwise it would be impossible for him to recover from the injuries caused by such a blazing heat.
As his body recovered, Qin Liang's eyes couldn't help but flash a strange light, because he faintly felt that his body seemed to be a trace of strength. At the same time, the understanding of the third level of the fire elemental mystery has progressed, and it seems that it is possible to enter the fourth layer at any time. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)