Chapter 2: The Parchment
For an entire week, Magellan did not leave the Royal Trinity College, where he was located. Although there are also reasons for the busy communication of familiar new colleagues www.biquge.info the most important reason is that it is too crowded and noisy outside.
On the last day of the fair, Magellan finally dared to go out.
Although the fair is not over yet, there are very few exhibitors or visitors.
Whether it is for the doorkeeper or the layman, the Inventors' Fair has come to an end two days after the results of the Senate Awards were announced.
Most of the booths in the venue were empty, and the staff hired by the organizers were cleaning up the booths and cleaning up at the same time, occasionally giving the exhibitors who remained here a roll of the eye.
Among the people who enjoyed this treatment was the spicy girl Magellan saw that day, who looked so depressed that she didn't even have the mood to fight back.
The semi-finished product of the small essence furnace that Magellan gave to Sherlock Holmes for exhibition won a special prize from the Council, bringing him a windfall of 2,000 gold Victoria, and this time he ran out to visit the fair that had already ended, also because of the excessive amount of money.
Eventually, Magellan took a fancy to the red-haired girl's oil separator and a down-and-out uncle's primitive internal combustion engine, called them together, and gave them five hundred gold Victoria.
Leaving the deserted fair, he went to Baker Street.
"All in all, we have received a bounty of four thousand gold Victoria, the friendship of three great men, ah, Professor Magellan, I believe that the countess brought good luck, go after her!" Arthur exclaimed with an exaggerated expression when he saw Magellan.
"Did you really catch the strange thief Luo Ping?"
"It's easy to get by. ”
"I heard he had escaped. ”
"From prison, it's not me who is ashamed anyway. ”
"I think he was caught by you on purpose, and Lato Island is a sieve anyway. ”
"No, I caught him because I was better than him. Besides, it's best if he escapes, and there's hope for my next prize. Arthur laughed extraordinarily arrogantly, "By the way, here you go, I found it from him." ”
"Ah, the parchment scroll, at least seven hundred years ago, the ancient orc seal," Magellan said, opening the scroll, "Ah, a lost place name, where a mighty knight is buried, and his relics are greedy......"
"Wow, it's Professor Magellan!"
"Why do you think this thing is worthy? Luo Ping must have dug up the treasure. ”
"No, in fact, Luo Ping didn't know the words on it at all, it was one of the dozen or so little things he threw out to attract attention when he was chasing after me. ”
"I have to say, it's worthy of the strange thief Luo Ping......" Magellan sighed, and then put the scroll in his pocket, "but the value of this scroll is indeed not high, as a cultural relic, it is not rare, as for the tomb of that knight, after a few hundred years, it will definitely not be found." ”
"Isn't there a place name?"
"Do you know how many places in the world are called that?"
"Ahh......h......h
"Then he might ask me to organize an expedition to the desert, don't even think about it, Arthur. ”
"Well, what have you been up to lately, so great detective Mr. Holmes?"
"The piece that won the Gold Medal of the Council of Inventors Fair, the design drawings and samples of the Magic Gem Engraver were stolen. ”
"Hmph, Luo Ping did it. Arthur seemed to blurt out.
"Yes, but there are signs that he didn't take either of those things with him. ”
"Looks like this Mr. Strange Thief is provoking the country's detectives, it's a fantastic script, isn't it, Sherlock Holmes?"
"Ah, it's a pity that such a mystery is about to be solved, and I don't know when the next one will come. ”
"Have fun, but unfortunately I have to follow Professor Cook on an archaeological expedition, and I can't see the look on your face as you explain the case. ”
"I wish you a happy life in a far and poor place, maybe there will be an affair, haha!"
Magellan waved his hand with his back to Arthur and left.
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Two months later, the Orc Alpha Empire meets the Duchy of Selilos, Barony Leto, Stonewall Village.
Magellan looked at the smoke not far away, removed the scarf from his mouth, and carefully took a sip of water.
Two months earlier, Professor Cook had told him to take him on a "real archaeological expedition," and a month later, Magellan had been taken to the sandy place.
For a whole month, the expedition was digging in a step-by-step manner, and at first Magellan was expecting to find anything, but now, out of boredom, he left the excavation site and went to the nearest local village.
The evening sun looked like a white disc in the wind and sand, and a child with a dirty face watched curiously as Magellan walked into the village, and then ran away at the call of the adults.
Magellan walked past the low houses and stopped in front of the largest building in the village: a chapel.
Passing through the doorless door and around the dusty chapel, he met the caretaker in front of a small low room.
Magellan gave him ten thin copper coins with lion's heads, and he agreed to Magellan's request to spend the night here, and after a little conversation with him in the local dialect, he enthusiastically took Magellan to the well hidden behind him, and filled the kettle for him.
It is clear that this "Leon" rarely has the opportunity to meet such a "big man" as Magellan, and even rarely has the opportunity to meet someone who is willing to gossip with him.
As the sky grew darker, the janitor carefully took out his treasured half-cut mutton fat candle and had a good conversation with the "guests from outside".
As he narrates, Magellan gradually learns about the village.
Baron Leto was a good man, and the most convincing evidence is that he only exercised ****** to brides over the age of thirteen. The people in the village are grateful to him, but unfortunately, he is not a person who has the ability to improve the situation, and the villagers here are no different.
This Stonewall Village is the southernmost of the baronies, and like the rest of the baron's domains, the wind and sand are constant all year round, and the villagers live on a little bit of crops, "in the glory of the god of science".
Of course, in Magellan's eyes, it was simply destitute.