Chapter 44: Darkness and Sleep
In Kane's view, the style of Tumbledown Alley is the true portrayal of HP wizarding society.
The atmosphere is always dark, mysterious, uncertain, and looming dangerous, and the psychosis and fools are everywhere, wandering around pretending to be psychopaths and fools for elusive purposes......
That's it, that's the social environment in which adult wizards live.
The wizarding world is not a good society in the first place.
Mana is ammunition.
Spellcasting is a combat skill.
Wands are firearms.
Together, they are the world of an alternative western cowboy.
How similar is the wizard duel to the western cowboy duel?
Then, if you think about how people got along with each other in that era when the West was pioneered and there were only bailiffs and no formed laws, it is not difficult to imagine the relationship between people in the wizarding world.
Traits such as self-reliance, tenacity, and wariness of others can be found in wizards.
This is the real thing, when everyone has a gun in their arms, they can raise their hands to kill, they will all go out of their ways, play with daggers and skillfully poison, even if they know each other, they are full of vigilance.
In such a situation, in the lively tavern, how warm and calculating there is, you can imagine.
I'm afraid that only from the eyes of children can they see hilarious, funny, strange and other content.
So Kane's interpretation of Diagon Alley and Tumbledown Alley is never good over evil, light and dark, prosperity and filth, these statements are too emotional, and he feels that they should be described in terms of masks and truth.
For various reasons, including the official deterrent power of the Ministry of Magic, wizards wear masks to live, but since there is this action, there is this action of unloading.
In Diagon Alley, wearing a mask is like a Venetian carnival, with some delightful and cheerful programs, shopping, chatting, drinking afternoon tea, smiling and greeting each other...... Gentlemen and ladies, as well as happy bear children.
And what about in Tumbledown Alley?
The life of a wizard often has more heavy content than the average person, just as for the western cowboy, falling from a horse and a gunshot wound are often an essential embellishment.
And appearing in Tumbledown Alley, most of them is to solve the heavy trouble, and there is no need to wear a mask, because no one eats that set.
Darkness is the true undertone of the wizarding world.
Occasionally, the bear children can also discover the truth.
They will find that Hogwarts, which has lost its lights, can be so eerie.
Diagon Alley, when night falls, those lively and colorful colors will disappear completely, and it will become like Tumbledown Alley, rugged and ghostly. The crookedness and eclecticism that seemed playful and interesting in the daytime also became distorted and confusing, making people feel uncomfortable.
So Kane never liked the grotesque, because the grotesque is always associated with chaos, and chaos is the enemy of order and civilization.
However, the wizards in the HP world are mostly from the chaotic camp, including good wizards.
He brought more order to the wizarding world, the MONOCULUS Chamber of Commerce, which is the embodiment of the Vision. The law is strict, there are eyes and plates, solemn in the daylight, solemn in the moonlight, full of civilized uprightness and a sense of order.
Advocating order, he naturally does not take the twisted and crooked, bells and whistles of the little broken alleys in his eyes, funny and carnival, in his eyes this is called funny.
Like Gringotts, in his eyes, this building is also very visual.
In "The Hunt", the Continental Hotel, located in Manhattan, is one of the early Chicago School buildings.
Triangular, the main entrance facing the street entrance is one of the corners, with rounded arcs instead of corners, with steps and colonnades......
Then, Gringotts ruined this architectural style that seemed to be very sensitive, not only not so tall and towering, but also crooked and twisted, and Kane felt a pain in the eyes when he looked at it.
The hall was still neat and orderly, but a bunch of goblins were all dead, and the three words of unfriendliness were almost written on their faces, and the thoughts in Kane's heart were just four words: 'Mu Monkey and Crown'.
No matter how smart the goblins are, letting this creature control the financial industry of wizarding society gives Kane the feeling that wizards have given up on comparing IQ with goblins.
You must know that finance is a knife that kills people without seeing blood, and this knife is in the hands of aliens, and it is not an exaggeration to say that all wizards work for goblins.
Led by the elves, a narrow and steep staircase leads to a small cliff-like platform.
The goblin whistled, and an ore cart-level rail car moved over on its own, and the roller coaster journey began on board.
Kane watched the scenery along the way with a blank face, his sense of space was very good, and his memory was even better, so it was no problem to memorize the terrain.
The little broken car seemed to remember the road, and it didn't need to be operated by a goblin at all, clicking all the way forward, turning left and right in the middle, passing through many forks.
In Kane's mind, however, a three-dimensional map of the location had been created.
In fact, the underground vault exists in a giant dome, and in his previous life, Kane had seen a super-giant dome that was more vast, more magnificent, steep and magical.
Gringotts' little broken car is almost the same, if not pretended, with a labyrinth structure extending in all directions on the upper floor, and a large hole in the roller coaster lane below.
The labyrinth is not much more complicated than the interior of a large office building, but it is built rather irregularly, and the depositors' rooms are closer and farther.
And the big dome, have visited the Colorado Canyon or Hengduan Canyon, here is nothing at all, as for the Feijian Waterfall, I have seen the Lushan Kaixian Waterfall, there is no need to look at it anymore, the only commendable thing, that is, in the underground, looming, not in the dark, I don't know how deep I think, but in fact, judging by the sound of water, it is less than 300 meters of drop.
After descending another steep slope, the small broken car began to circle.
Kane saw the lake at the bottom of the vault through the glimmer of light in the vault.
"This lake is good, make a wish!" Kane said, popping a gold Galleon with his finger, and the coin tumbled and fell into the lake.
The elf remained silent, the car stopped, entered the corridor of the Shafiq family's vault, took the key from Kane, and then connected the key he had brought with him, inserted two of them, and twisted them at the same time.
A large number of knobs moved, and after a series of clicks, the heavy door moved silently to one side, revealing the inside of the vault.
Once empty, it's now full of gold galleons.
Kane is not interested in being a miser, and he puts money here because of some business dealings and needs to leave a security deposit at Gringotts.
To put it simply, a lot of business in the wizarding world, in terms of money, is connected with Gringotts. Gringotts handles transfers, tax deductions and other business in-house. Convey information to peers in foreign countries through letter birds.
Naturally, there is no efficiency in doing this, but wizards in other countries use this financial circulation system, and they don't know how to play if they are separated. Dealing with this kind of waste firewood can only be done by following the local customs.
Kane didn't come to withdraw money this time, but to put money, the high-value magic gems that have been identified are contained in three velvet gem bags, each worth more than half a million gold galleons, and the three gem bags that have been sealed by Gringotts are placed in a conspicuous position, and the task is completed.
Kane casually took a box of gold Galleons from the small pile of gold coins on the side.
His family's gold gallons are all stacked in such a way, with crystal boxes, a small box of 100 pieces, a medium box of 1,000 pieces, and a large box of 10,000 pieces, which is very easy to calculate.
As he was leaving, Kane glanced at the lake again, the dragon that was enslaved by the elves and used as a guard, he didn't pay attention to it, but the creatures that were sleeping in the lake made him care.
There were very few creatures that could make him feel creepy, so he deliberately left the coordinates, and when the time was right, he would come and find out.
Vaguely, he suspected that it was another Abyss Guardian, he suspected that the inability to cast spells and other special conditions in this place came from it, and he even had a malicious conjecture:
Are elves stupid enough to ignore the unusually dangerous side and take advantage of its beneficial side and become complacent?
Maybe.
Maybe the elves have made a pact with the Guardians, or maybe it's simply their minus race or kinship......