Chapter Twenty-Six: Diagon Alley
You must know that it is now 91 years, and you can buy a big villa for 30,000 yuan, and 150,000 pounds can set up a company. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info put on a commoner can instantly make the other party jump into the depression era of the middle class! is not the rich era of the later generations with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan at every turn, so you can imagine how dark this guy is.
However, even if he was hacked, Lin Yiyan had no way at all, as he knew at the beginning, this was an era without the Internet explosion, even if there were magic weapons such as Jarvis and quantum computers, but in the face of this era, they could not play their significance at all.
It is even more impossible to smoothly hack into the banking system and obtain money without physical connection, and can only rely on this old method of exchanging goods for money to obtain the first pot of gold in this world.
Glancing at the dead bill in his hand, Lin Yiyan rubbed it casually, and threw it in the trash can not far away, and then stretched out his arm to stop a taxi, which is taxi! Lin Yiyan opened the door in the passenger seat, sat on it and ordered, "Go to Charling Road in Westminster." ”
Because he was not familiar with the path of this era, Lin Yiyan, who originally planned to fly over by himself, also gave up directly, and only used this relatively old method for Lin Yiyan.
"Okay! Mr! The driver responded to Lin Yiyan very politely, quickly restarted the car, and drove towards the destination that Lin Yiyan said. After about ten minutes, the car stopped at the entrance of a street that looked a little shabby.
"Sir, it's here." Driver's Road. Lin Yiyan glanced out at the environment of the street, didn't talk nonsense, paid the car and got out of the car, and then walked slowly along the street.
"I wonder if I can see the Leaky Cauldron Bar? If so, isn't it more likely? While walking, Lin Yiyan, who was looking around and searching for something, muttered secretly.
The so-called Leaky Cauldron Bar is actually a small, dilapidated inn and bar located on Charing Cross Road, which sounds terrible, but it has a very special ability, that is, it cannot be seen by ordinary people, and only people with certain qualities can discover its existence. And for those who have this kind of special system, there is a special title to describe them in this world, and that is wizards!
Lin Yiyan first glanced around the area, and then, according to the memories in the story, finally, Lin Yiyan stopped in front of an intersection. Then he moved slightly to a portal that existed at right angles from the road to the east and south.
The portal was small, about the height and width of an adult, and the surface was pitch black, the same color as the surrounding walls, and if you were not particularly distinguishable, you would not even be able to tell that there was a door.
And this is the entrance to the cauldron bar that Lin Yiyan is looking for!
Seeing this, Lin Yiyan was slightly excited, took a deep breath at the door, and without any hesitation, Lin Yiyan stepped forward, pushed open the door, and entered the bar.
"Jingle bells." In an instant, a dilapidated bar hall that looked like a low-class pauper or mercenary in the Middle Ages, as he knew, came into view. Inside, it is dimly lit by firelight and natural light, and the drinkers are dressed in strange clothes similar to those of medieval Europeans, and the furnishings are ancient and simple, like scenes from a play.
Seeing a child in his bar, Tom, the owner of the bar, and the other drinkers all cast strange glances, as if wondering, how can a child of this age not have an adult by his side? Just so relieved that he was walking around alone outside? You know, the wizard's world is not a peaceful world!
On the other side, Lin Yiyan, who took the environment in the bar into his eyes, looked a little trance. It seems that he is not used to the changes in the environment, and at the same time, he is not used to the dim environment and the faint strange smell - too choking, but he didn't speak, just frowned slightly, and walked straight to the other door in the depths of the bar.
Because, there! It is one of the destinations of Lin Yiyan's trip, and at the same time, Lin Yiyan also knows that in that direction, it is also the only way for Lin Yiyan to go to Diagon Alley!
After a while, Lin Yiyan walked to the door, stretched out his hand to push the door open, and walked into the small patio exposed behind the door. Then he closed the door with his backhand, walked around the erected tin bin in front of him, and walked to the wall with a gap on the opposite side of the door.
Looking at this wall, Lin Yiyan began to recall the plot of the story, and muttered in a low voice, "Count three pieces up the trash can—and then two pieces in the horizontal lane—"
Lin Yiyan recalled the plot of the story, while reaching out and banging on it, after Lin Yiyan knocked the last brick, the brick began to shake, only to hear the sound of 'oh, oh, oh', the brick began to move, first a small hole appeared in the middle, and then the hole became bigger and bigger, and soon in front of them appeared a wide archway large enough for people to pass through, leading to a winding cobblestone street with no end in sight.
Lin Yiyan walked along the archway, and when he looked sideways, he saw that the archway had narrowed all of a sudden, and then it had become the original solid wall. The dazzling sunlight casts on a stack of pots outside the door of the nearest store. Above the pot hangs a cauldron made of copper-brass-tin-silver, complete in models, automatically stirring and foldable.
The width of the street is about half of the neighborhood street, and there are enough for four or five people to walk side by side. It is very bustling, and there are a large number of men and women dressed in robes, like magicians in a play, walking in it one by one, browsing the streets to the dense rows on both sides, full of British style and illegal buildings.
"It's a feeling...... It's getting more and more wrong. Looking at the bustling street in front of him, Lin Yiyan sighed helplessly.
It can be said that since he entered the Leaky Cauldron Bar, Lin Yiyan has a feeling of being out of place with his surroundings, and this feeling is still very sudden and weird, as if everyone in the world is drunk, but he suddenly came to his senses.
But it's normal to think about it carefully.,If you describe it according to the words of the anime.,This is the dark side of the world.,A world full of magic.,It can also be said to be a different world.,It gives people a feeling of sudden crossing.。 One moment it was modern city life, the next moment it became medieval European life, if there is no strange feeling, then it is weird, right?
"Jarvis!" Lin Yiyan opened his mouth and said, "Show me the information prepared at the beginning!" ”
"Okay! Mr! The next moment, the vision in Lin Yiyan's eyes suddenly changed, and a page full of handwriting was revealed.
"The names of all the books are too." Then, another page full of handwriting came into his sight.
Lin Yiyan took a cursory glance at what Jarvis had shown, and as soon as he turned his steps, he walked towards Gringotts, an all-white two-story building in the center of Diagon Alley that was shaped in the style of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy.
Gringotts, the bank of the wizarding world, the sole issuer of the common currency of the wizarding world, the golden galleon, has an unshakable position in the entire wizarding world like the Federal Reserve of the United States and the People's Bank of China.
There are three main types of business, first, Muggle coins, which are the exchange of pounds sterling and gold galleons. The main targets are Muggle families who have given birth to children with wizarding qualifications, as well as Muggle-born wizards. The ratio is 5:1.
Second, save business. Both safe deposit box business to help some people save some valuables.
3. Normal savings business. It's the storage of the Golden Galleon, and there's not much to say about that.
Therefore, Lin Yiyan's purpose of going to Gringotts is very simple, that is, to exchange the pounds in his hand for gold galleons. After some movement, Lin Yiyan came to a snow-white building that stood tall above the surrounding shops, Gringotts!
It looks a little different from the distance, but if you look closely, there is a shiny bronze gate at the door, and there is a figure wearing a scarlet gold uniform, a goblin! Lin Yiyan saw this creature for the first time, and he looked at each other slightly out of the corner of his eyes, looking so short than the current Lin Yiyan, with a swarthy face and a pointed beard, Lin Yiyan found that his hands and feet were particularly long.
When Lin Yiyan entered the door, the goblin bowed to them. After that, a second door appeared in front of Lin Yiyan, which was silver, and the following words were engraved on the two doors: Please come in, stranger, but you have to be careful of what will happen if you are insatiable, blindly asking for it, and getting it for nothing, you will be punished the most severely, so if you want to take a wealth from our underground vault that has never belonged to you, thief, you have been warned, beware of attracting not treasure, but evil retribution.
The two goblins bowed to Lin Yiyan and led Lin Yiyan into a tall marble hall. About a hundred or so elves sat on high stools behind a long row of counters, some weighing coins with copper scales, others examining gems with eyepieces, and hastily registering them in large ledgers. There were countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many elves directed people in and out of these doors.
Moreover, Lin Yiyan found that the attitude of these goblins was not very good, especially when facing humans. The attitude is very unkind, if it were in those banks in their own world, these bankers have this attitude, and they have long been blown away by bank executives. (To be continued.) )