Chapter 150: The Golden Pocket and the Fountain of Youth
After Andy said that gold coins were not a problem, old Brin seemed to be the same miserly and shrewd alchemist again, and he hooked his hand like Andy, and walked to the small wooden door behind the counter.
"It's something I stumbled up a long time ago, maybe in a corner, and needs to be looked for. ”
Old Brin said, pushing open the wooden door.
After a tingling sound, Andy subconsciously waved his arm a few times to drive the dust away, and his vision became clearer.
Behind the door was a deep corridor, and by the dim light, Andy could see the two dilapidated oil lamps in the corridor, but due to the lack of oil, they could no longer provide light for this dark corridor, and a thin layer of dust had fallen on the ground, and it seemed that no one had come to clean it for a while.
Andy doesn't know when Jeff, the elder Brin's apprentice, had an accident, but the last time Roger came to Old Brin to ask him to make a bow portrait, he was still very normal, maybe Jeff's accident was after Andy left, and it was only more than two months.
Judging by the situation in this corridor, this is probably the first time that old Brin has walked into this place in so many days.
Old Brin didn't think much of it, he frowned when he saw the extinguished oil lamp, turned around and took out a bottle of yellow oily liquid and flint from under the counter, and then went in, poured the oil into the lamp, and lit it with flint.
"It's whale oil, enough to burn for a long time......"
Old Brin's voice echoed through the corridor, and Andy shrugged his shoulders and followed.
There was a peculiar smell in the corridor, and Andy took a deep breath, which was produced by the mixing of multiple smells, at least Andy smelled gunpowder, rotting corpses, some special alchemical materials, and the fishy smell of sea fish.
At the end of the corridor was a huge secret room, and old Brin stopped, he looked back at Andy, smiled self-deprecatingly, took a key from his bosom, and opened the door.
"This is what I've saved up all my life, don't ......," old Brin smacked his lips, "I warn you, little thing, it's best not to take something that doesn't belong to you out of this room, maybe you'll pay a price you can't imagine." ”
Old Brin walked into the room, Andy closed his eyes and felt it carefully, there was a faint power of contract hidden in the room, maybe this was the reason why Old Brin warned him, if you want to take anything from the house, you have to pay, this is the rule of the contract, the purpose is to protect Old Brin's property.
It seems that this room is also one of Old Brin's alchemical masterpieces.
Andy walked into the house, it looked small from the outside, but it was filled with a lot of things, most of them were boxes of gold coins and various alchemy materials, and some special things were placed in various corners.
"Let me think about where I put that thing, you know, people forget a lot of things when they get old, maybe I should get a monkey to help me...... You can take a look and if you want something, you can tell me and if you have enough gold coins, you can take whatever you want......"
Old Brin and Andy spoke, walked to a corner, crouched down, and rummaged through the pile.
Andy looked and walked over to a couple of tattered boxes, he wanted to see if Old Bryn would have some good stuff here.
The first wooden chest was a little smaller, but it was filled with yellow-orange-orange gold coins.
"Huh?"
Andy picked up a gold coin and looked at it carefully, the style of this gold coin was not the same as ordinary gold coins, you must know that in order to facilitate trade between various continents, gold coins had been completely unified thousands of years ago.
"Is this a gold coin from thousands of years ago?"
Andy looked at this box of gold coins, his face was a little strange, old Brin is so rich? This box of gold coins is less than fifty, this is simply an incalculable value, many nobles have the habit of collecting ancient gold coins, they are willing to pay dozens or even hundreds of times the value of it.
Old Brin didn't know when he came over, maybe he heard Andy's startled voice.
He crouched down, tossed the gold coin, and reached under the box.
"These coins are indeed in the style of thousands of years old, but this is where they come from. Old Brin took out a peculiar money bag from under the chest, and said with a hint of exclamation, "This is the most outstanding work of his life, which my teacher left me." ”
"What is this?"
Andy looked at the money bag and became a little interested.
"You know...... Are there three treasures in the world?"
Old Brin didn't answer him, but sat down and asked Andy.
Andy shook his head, and Old Brin smiled with satisfaction, and he stroked the money bag and sighed.
"It is said that once upon a time, there was a mysterious tribe of the sea, and their chief, Patty, was the greatest alchemist in the world of all time, who stole his skills from the gods and produced the most outstanding alchemical works. ”
Old Brin shook the money bag in his hand and said word by word, "Endless ...... Gold Pocket. ”
"It is said that that the pocket produces hundreds of gold coins every day, and Patty made a huge gold city out of these gold coins, and he hid that gold pocket, and no one knows where the gold city and the pocket are, and the army of the West Spotted Empire attacked the island, and after finding Patty, he has become a corpse. ”
"This is the Golden Pocket?"
Andy pointed incredulously at the pocket in old Brin's hand, and his tone was a little strange.
"Of course not, many people suspect that the real gold pocket is on Treasure Island in the Central Sea, which is why there are so many gold coins there, which is a wealth that the gods covet...... This pocket yields only one gold coin every two months, and ......," Old Brin grabbed from the chest and let them fall through his fingers into the box, "these coins are fake, and their purity is too low. ”
"That's pretty good, your teacher, that's amazing. ”
Andy said from the bottom of his heart that to be able to produce such a work, Old Brin's teacher must not be an unknown person.
"yes...... My teacher is amazing. ”
Old Brin nodded his head as he put the money bag into the box, put it aside, and began to rummage through the piles of things on this side.
"Aren't there two more treasures, out of Patty's Golden City, and possibly on Treasure Island's Golden Pocket, what else?"
Andy helped old Brin remove a box of jewels and pulled out the contents behind the box.
"And ...... The Fountain of Youth, which has been remembered by the emperors of all major empires, is said to have been acquired by Juan Ponce, the great explorer of the Western Empire, who made two crystal cups and drew a mysterious nautical chart...... But Juan Ponce died at sea on his way back, and the map and crystal cup he drew were lost in the chaos......"
Old Brin thought for a moment and suddenly laughed, "The royal families of the major empires have been looking for the Fountain of Youth, but no one has been able to unlock its secrets. ”