Chapter 285: The People of the Orthodox Court
Cage City, when he saw this spherical underground space, the first thought in Leo's mind was Lan Xi's Cage City, because the style of the buildings on the walls around this space was exactly the same as Cage City, which simply copied the architectural form of Cage City.
Steel corridors cover the stone walls around the perimeter of the underground space, connecting the living spaces that have been carved out, and each corridor is crisscrossed by steel bridges, on which shops are built.
Compared with the commercial street on the ground, the commercial atmosphere here is very lively, although the shops on the ground are very high-end and the goods inside are extremely valuable, but the people who enter and exit those shops are either rich or expensive, and they don't even ask about the price of things, and even if they negotiate the price, they are all whispering, which always gives people a feeling of lack of popularity.
But here, the noise fills the entire underground space, everyone is talking loudly about the price of goods, and even for some goods, two customers will fight, coupled with the shouting of the merchants themselves, so that anyone who enters here can feel an explosive excitement.
Aisha, who had never experienced such a scene, was a little dizzy by the sudden sound, and her body swayed for a while, and the iron frame on the side helped stabilize her body.
Brown looked at Aisha with a smile, and said loudly with pride: "This is the underground market managed by the Holy Blood Society, and it is also the largest distribution center for mysterious items in the entire Velen Continent, as long as you have money, you can buy anything here." ”
"Can I buy something from the First Dynasty of Mareth?" Aisha, who had recovered, asked loudly after hearing Brown's introduction.
"Of course you can buy it," said Brown, raising his hand to a shop with a bronze lamp hanging on the second floor below, "You can take a look at old William's shop when you have time, he always has some unexpected good things there, all of them are antiquities from ancient dynasties," and he said, "However, there are many fakes there, and if you don't have enough eyesight, it's better to look more and buy less, otherwise you can be easily deceived." ”
"Is it possible to buy items for the Tower Wizard here?" asked Leo at this time.
Without even thinking about it, Brown replied, "You can buy it." ”
The main reason why Leo asked so much was because Brown said that everything could be bought here, he just asked casually, and he didn't think that he would get any useful answer, but what he didn't expect was that Brown gave him a very unexpected answer.
Then, without waiting for Leo to continue asking, Brown pointed to a very richly decorated bronze gate on the top wall and said: "There is a black market, it is said that there is a tower witchcraft item there, it is a metal plate with a pattern, no one knows how this metal plate is made, this metal is a metal that has never been seen before, it can be said to be unique, so the price of this metal plate is also very expensive, I participated in three auctions, but I failed to sell it, and now it has become a treasure of the black market." ”
"Rupert Fitz isn't interested in this metal plate either?" asked Leo in a deep voice, "I remember that he had a large number of steel mills under his name, and he also funded a large number of groups specializing in various metals, so he should be interested in this new type of metal." ”
Brown explained: "I was interested, but the price was beyond his bottom line, and the metal was said to be impossible to imitate, so Lord Rupert didn't buy it." ”
"How much does that thing cost?" Aisha, who was listening quietly, couldn't help but be curious and asked.
Brown spread his fingers and said, "Twenty million Vinayas." ”
Aisha couldn't help but gasp when she heard this, her wealth was only more than 7,000 Mares coins at most, and it was only about 42,000 when converted into Vinaya coins, which was already a huge amount of money in her eyes, and now there was a thing that cost 20 million Vinaya coins, such a huge number was as huge as astronomical in her heart.
It's just that, compared to Aisha, Leo showed a thoughtful look, and he felt that the reason why Rupert didn't buy this metal plate was probably not because of the price.
Although 20 million vinaya coins sounds like a lot, if the current exchange ratio of vinaya coins to gold flanges is 19 to 1, this metal plate from the tower only needs more than one million gold flanges. The nineteen to one exchange ratio is the current exchange rate between the two currencies, and in the past, when the Vena was first issued, the ratio between the two was forty-five to one, which means that Rupert had to pay less money than he does now.
These tens or millions of dollars seem scary, astronomical to the average person, but to Rupert they are just a pocket money. Not to mention the world's wealthy businessmen like Rupert, even Leo, who had just made a windfall from the gang leader in Miria City not long ago, could easily come up with this money, so the reason why Rupert didn't buy this metal plate was definitely not because of the price as Brown said.
As for the fact that the metal cannot be imitated, this is not the reason, because it may not be possible to imitate this metal now, but it may not be impossible in the future, and the best way to deal with this metal plate is to store a unique and rare metal and save it for later needs and when the technology is credible, so the other reason that Brown said is not valid.
Leo thought for a moment, and soon found a point, so he asked Brown again, "Is the requirement to trade this metal plate on the black market only in Venaya?"
"Yes. Brown nodded and asked rhetorically, "Is that anything strange?"
"No, nothing. Leo didn't ask any more questions, because he already knew the answer.
As a new currency issued by the region, the Venaya currency itself is not very liquid, only circulating in the urban area of the Venaya Port, and most of the trade of the Chamber of Commerce here is in the exchange of the port, and the transaction is completed with other currencies, and there is almost no need to use the Venaya coin, so the issuance of the Venaya currency is very small, which is why the value of this currency will increase by one or two times in just a few years.
Therefore, according to Leo's inference, the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce has probably not issued many Venaya coins over the years, whether there are 20 million or not is still unknown, and the actual circulation of Venaya coins may be less than 20 million.
The reason why he made such a judgment was because he didn't use the Venaya Dollar much in the past two days when he lived in the hotel, but when he paid for meals and tips, he would use the Venaya Coin, and as for other times, such as the room rental, it was mostly directly by cash check.
However, the transaction of the metal plate turned out to be 20 million vinaya dollars, which is equivalent to hollowing out the new currency issued by the Chamber of Commerce in the port of Vinaya, and once the deal is completed, it will be a heavy blow to all the commercial activities of the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce in the port of Vinaya, and may even collapse the newly established financial order of the port of Vinaya.
With Rupert Fitz's intelligence, it was impossible not to see the trap in this, which is why he would give up this collectible tower object.
As for the mass issuance of Venaya coins, it is not feasible, not to mention whether such Venaya coins can be produced at will, even if they can be made like other currencies, the general chamber of commerce under the control of Rupert Fitz probably will not do so. Because once too much Venaya is invested, it will inevitably cause the Venaya Currency to depreciate, which will cause great panic among the citizens of the Venaya Port, who have Venaya Currency as the main currency, and eventually sell the Venaya Coin, making the Venaya Currency a worthless currency.
Therefore, Leo feels that the owner of this metal plate is probably not only aimed at Rupert Fitz's commercial control of Venaya Port, but also against the Church of the Goddess of Commerce, because once Venaya Currency loses its value as currency, then the belief in the transformation of commercial transactions will naturally not exist.
Thinking of this, Leo felt that the port of Venaya, which was calm and stable on the surface, was also surging in secret, and now that some forces had begun to secretly calculate Rupert Fitz, then other underground forces and organizations attached to the port of Venaya were probably also targeted, according to this estimate, the danger of the port of Venaya was probably not much lower than the current Miria City.
Perhaps to confirm his suspicions, Leo felt that there was a lot of malice in the sight around him, most of which was the kind of malice that looked at the prey, as if Leo and Aisha were two delicious fat sheep, but there were still a few malicious sights that were pure disgust and hostility, as if they were natural enemies.
These malicious intentions are not only aimed at Leo and Aisha, but also at Brown, who is leading the way ahead.
Due to the surrounding environment, and the fact that there is also a kind of interference device for the spirit network, Leo is unable to confirm the correct position of those sights, and can only vaguely feel a few general directions.
Leo didn't deliberately turn his head to look at the few put back, but followed Brown's introduction to the surrounding shops and commercial companies as Brown introduced them to the surrounding places.
Soon Leo found out the reason for these sights, not how good Leo's ability to find people is, but that the temperament of those people is too obvious, even if they are far away, they can feel the bloody qi on several people. Although the people around them are not as sensitive as Leo, they can also instinctively feel uncomfortable, and will subconsciously avoid these people, which makes a vacant space appear around these people, and it is difficult not to pay attention.
"The Orthodox Church. Leo hardly needs to do any analysis, he can see from the standardized standing posture that these people are knights cultivated by the Orthodox Church, but because there is no close contact, it is impossible to judge whether these people are Paladins of the Orthodox Church, and it is impossible to judge what the strength of these people is, only from some clues, it can be seen that they have undergone very strict swordsmanship training, no matter what the posture of standing, their hands are always in a position where they can draw their swords at any time.
"Do they know?" said Leo, looking at Brown, who was leading the way, and a question arose in his mind.
It was not unexpectedly that the Orthodox Church would send people to Venaya Harbor, but if the Orthodox Church did not send people, it would make him feel strange, because whether it was the appearance of the Church of the Goddess of Commerce or the gathering of the clans, it was enough to alarm the Orthodox Church.
Although the influence and power of the Orthodox Church in the current world of Velun are far from being compared with ancient times, and governments are imperceptibly suppressing the clergy, they have to suppress it even so, and the Orthodox Church still has extraordinary power. For example, once the current Church of the Goddess of Commerce is recognized as a heretical sect or a cult of evil gods by the Orthodox Church, then no matter how influential Rupert Fitz is, no matter how powerful and financial he is, it is impossible for the Church of the Goddess of Commerce to appear in the sun, and it can only become an underground church like other cults of evil gods.
Just as Leo was thinking about things. Brown led the two to a rudimentary-looking wooden door on the top floor of the underground space, near the black market, motioned for them to wait a moment, followed them, picked up the knocker and knocked on it.
Although this wooden door looks simple, Leo will not underestimate the defensive power of this wooden door at all, because he can feel very strong spiritual energy fluctuations from the wooden door, and after opening the spiritual vision, he can see the magic array composed of dense Turing roots on the surface of the wooden door.
Leo quickly analyzed the structure and connotation of the Turing Magic Array on the wooden door, although this kind of magic array is different from the rune magic array in the dream world, but the structure of the magic array is very similar, and he soon found out the real root hidden under some false Turing roots.
By analyzing these Turing roots, Leo was able to deduce that if someone tried to force open the door, the intruder would be subjected to a strong psychic attack, and the soul would be extracted by the magic circle, turning the intruder into a soulless vegetative person.
"An attack on the soul can pose a threat to at least a fourth-level psionic. Leo quickly made a judgment that this Turing Magic Array was very complicated, and he could only analyze the approximate strength of the Magic Array from the interpretation of some key Turing roots, and judge the fuzzy strength range of the Magic Array by perceiving the vague sense of the threat of the Magic Array to himself.
Of course, Renault would not take his judgment seriously, because he knew very well that the magic array on the door might hide other more powerful forces, and if he broke the door rashly, he would only encounter a stronger attack than expected.
At this time, Brown announced his identity through the microphone installed outside the door, and then the wooden door creaked open from the inside, and the moment it opened, a dark shadow came out of it and flew in front of Leo.
Leo reacted instantly, and directly sold and grabbed the black shadow, but this black shadow was extremely flexible, and moved a little in the air, avoiding Leo's hand, and then landed on Leo's shoulder, while combing the feathers with the beak of the bird, and said to Leo: "Boy, your strength is too great, Lord Crow can't withstand your grasp." ”