Chapter 289: An Antique Shop in the Dungeon
After coming out of the Holy Blood Society's residence, Leo did not leave immediately, but walked around in this dungeon controlled by the Holy Blood Society.
Although this is a place controlled by the Holy Blood Society, and more than half of the people who live and trade here are dependents from local or foreign places in Vinaya, most of these clansmen have not undergone much physical mutation, and even if they do, they are hidden in places covered by clothes, and on the surface, they are no different from ordinary people.
Only a small part of the body has undergone great mutations, and has long been out of the category of human form, and can no longer survive outside, but can only live in this underground world. For this kind of completely mutated clan, the Holy Blood Society did not let them go freely, but made some proper arrangements for them according to their abilities, such as contributing money and land, helping these people to open shops underground, and so on.
Now Leo is in this antique shop, which is a shop opened by an elderly family whose body has completely mutated, and the body of this family member has obvious signs of insectization, not only the limbs have begun to show the characteristics of arthropods, but even the eyes have become compound eyes, which makes people can't help but have an inexplicable fear when they look at it.
It's just that the mutated body also brings him extraordinary abilities, the old man was a well-known appraiser in the Sigma Kingdom when he was still an ordinary person, and the mutated eyes allow him to identify jewelry, minerals, antiques and other items with increasing ability.
It's just that this ability didn't bring him any good luck, he had to go into hiding because of his physical mutation, and then he was caught by the gangsters, locked up, and specially identified various valuables for the gangsters. It wasn't until two years ago that the Holy Blood Society took action to destroy this gang specializing in family trading and rescued the old man, and the old man regained stability.
When he was in the gang, the leader of the gang cut off the old man's feet in order to prevent the old man from escaping, and then locked him in a basement that did not see the light of day. After being rescued by the Holy Blood Society, he joined the Holy Blood Society, specializing in identifying all kinds of mysterious objects for the Holy Blood Society, and the Holy Blood Society also made a very delicate prosthetic leg for the elderly, and opened an antique shop.
This shop was specifically suggested by Brown when Leo left the Blood Society, and according to him, there were many mysterious objects that could not be identified.
Leo didn't care at first, in his opinion, the Holy Blood would have a mysterious psionic creature from the Tower, and even if there were good mysterious items, the Crows would find out and leave them for the Holy Blood Society's own use, where would they be sold to others.
What really attracted Leo to this shop was the crystal wall that the Holy Blood Society had built specifically for this shop. It is said that this crystal wall is opened on the outer wall, facing the mouth of the port of Venaya, and every day you can see the endless sea view and the scene of thousands of ships swimming on the sea, almost everyone who comes to the underground city will take a walk here, even if you don't buy anything, it is also nice to see the scene that represents the prosperity of the port of Venaya.
It's just that after arriving at this antique shop, Leo realizes that he seems to be underestimating this shop, because the waves of chaotic psionic energy fluctuations that come to him after entering the store are like a litmus test, sifting through anyone who tries to enter the store.
Leo didn't need to think much to easily judge through the Turing magic array he saw by his vision that the layout in this shop must be the work of crows. The Turing Magic Circles scattered throughout the shop connect the mysterious items stored in the storage compartments, channeling the spiritual energy fluctuations of the mysterious items themselves, and forming a spiritual wall at the entrance of the antique store.
This psionic wall can help shopkeepers identify people's identities, ordinary people will not have any problems passing through this psionic wall, just like passing through the air, they will not be affected, and those who have a little bit of psionic energy in their bodies will experience more or less discomfort no matter what kind of psionic energy they have, and the stronger the psionic energy they have, the stronger the discomfort.
When Leo walked through this psionic wall, he felt as if he had sunk into the viscous heavy oil and died, and at the same time felt the pressure coming from all directions, and even felt a sense of suffocation.
And the psionic energy in Leo's body naturally produces a stress response under this pressure, and there is almost no need for Leo to drive, and the psionic energy fluctuations of a near-level fifth-level psionic person are like electric waves emitting from his body, resisting the surrounding psionic energy wall. And this psionic confrontation was also transmitted along the Turing magic array to the storage compartments on the walls where the mysterious items were stored, causing the storage compartments to vibrate violently.
The shaking of the storage compartment naturally alarmed the owners and customers in the store, who thought it was an earthquake and fell to the ground or leaned against the wall, looking around in fear.
Fortunately, the spiritual energy wall created by the Turing Magic Array did not last too long, and it disappeared automatically, and after losing the external force, the spiritual energy in Leo's body naturally calmed down, and the surroundings returned to calm.
Seeing that the abnormal situation had calmed down, the customers in the store didn't understand what was going on, but they breathed a sigh of relief, sorted out their somewhat messy appearances, and then pretended that nothing had happened just now, and continued to talk to the people in the store about the unfinished transaction just now.
After recovering from the initial panic, the owner of the store soon realized that something was wrong, because the other items such as tables and chairs in the store showed no signs of earthquakes, only the storage compartment where the mysterious items were stored vibrated and he understood what was going on, and immediately looked towards the entrance of the store.
The shopkeeper's mutated compound eye has many abilities, many of which are similar to Leo's psionic skills, and he can also see psionic fluctuations, which is one of the reasons why he can become the top connoisseur in the world of Velon.
At this moment, Leo is like a torch formed by psionic energy in the eyes of the shopkeeper, and it is not very appropriate to say that it is a torch, it should be bigger than the torch, like molten steel in the furnace of a steel factory, dignified and hot, giving people the illusion that if you get closer, you will be burned.
The shopkeeper immediately got up from his chair, walked up to Leo, and saluted, "Welcome to our store, I don't know what this lord wants to buy." ”
Leo didn't answer immediately, but looked at the shopkeeper's prosthetic leg very rudely. Although he had long known that the mechanical craftsmanship of this world had reached a very high level, after seeing the beautifully made mechanical prosthetic in front of him, he still couldn't help but sigh at the exquisiteness of this prosthetic, and he couldn't help but compare the mechanical craftsmanship of the Dream World Silver Moon Lake Lake Town with the craftsmanship in front of him.
Although due to environmental reasons, the kinetic energy that can be generated when the mechanical parts of Hushang Town are running, a half-human-high steam engine can drive objects that are more than ten times or even hundreds of times larger than it, but in addition to the huge difference in kinetic energy caused by the environment, in terms of the sophistication of the mechanical process, the mechanical technology of the Weilun World is indeed slightly better than that of Hushang Town.
In the prosthesis wrapped in transparent resin, a large number of mechanical gears can be clearly seen rotating, and the artificial nerves in the resin will be triggered while rotating, and then transmitted to the user through a certain characteristic shrapnel at the junction of the prosthesis and the residual limb, which will bring some nervous vibration and touch to the user, just like a real limb.
Although biochemical limbs and even clonal limbs already existed in the Earth Federation, the current way of mechanical gears and some special wires has created a prosthetic limb that can produce nerve touch, which makes Leo marvel at this mechanical process, and this mechanical manufacturing process also reminds him of the wheelchair of the old man Rembrandt and the people with mechanical stumps in the tavern in Miria City.
"Do you need me to take it down and show you?" the shopkeeper didn't seem to have met someone like Leo for the first time, and instead of being angry at such an excessive behavior, he asked Leo.
"No need!" Leo shook his head, then said somewhat casually, "I've seen similar prosthetic processes in Miria City, but your prosthetics are much more elaborate than the ones I've seen." ”
"Oh! I know who you're talking about. My prosthesis should have been made by the same person, and only that gentleman could have made such a perfect prosthesis. The shopkeeper blinked his compound eyes, did not shy away from his mutilated body, and said with a smile: "Originally, that gentleman was going to install a small set of steam power for this pair of prosthetics, saying that it could make the prosthetics gain great strength. However, I didn't think I was a combatant, so I didn't need to have any additional steam power on my prosthesis, so I refused. ”
Leo was also impressed by the old man's open-mindedness, and instead of mentioning the old man's prosthesis, he turned to the store's merchandise, saying, "I was introduced by Brown, and he told me you had something interesting here." ”
"What Mr. Brown introduced, I understand. The shopkeeper nodded, gave a word to the shopkeepers, and then led Leo to a small separate room next to the shop, and after asking Leo to sit down, he asked, "What do you want?"
Leo thought for a moment and said, "Do you have anything related to the outer gods here?"
"Is there anything related to the outer gods?" The shopkeeper was silent for a while, as if he was a little worried, and after a while, he said with a serious expression: "I do have a few things related to the outer gods here, but those things are very evil and terrifying, and those who come into contact with them will be affected. ”
As he spoke, he paused, as if to calm down, and then continued: "Although I believe that Mr. Brown will introduce you to me, it must be a confirmation of your strength, but these items are too dangerous, and may be beyond your ability, you see if you are ......"
"Don't worry, even if something happens, you won't be responsible. Leo raised his hand to interrupt the shopkeeper's persuasion, and then said with a little doubt: "I don't understand, since this thing is so dangerous, why don't you find a safer place to store it?
The shopkeeper said with great confidence: "Please rest assured, my shop is the safest in the entire dungeon, except for the residence of the Holy Blood Society. If someone can snatch those items from my shop, they'll be snatched from them even if they are placed elsewhere. ”
After saying that, he did not persuade Leo again, but motioned for Leo to wait in this room for a while, while he walked to a certain wall in the room, raised his hand and quickly pressed some parts of the wall to make notes. A slight sound of machinery running was heard from inside the wall, and the wall slowly cracked, revealing a numbered adjustment gear set. Then turn the adjustment gears like a lockbox, adjust them to the right position, and then press down the lever next to the gear set.
With the sound of gears turning through the wall, a sealed box underneath the gear set slowly opened, followed by a tray holding a small box out.
The shopkeeper picked up the small box and set it aside, and in the same way, took out two identical boxes from the storage room built in the wall.
After the items were taken out, the shopkeeper pressed the notes on the wall again, causing the machine to slowly retreat into the wall.
Looking at the shopkeeper's movements, Leo couldn't help but want to laugh in his heart, thinking that the shopkeeper's actions on different parts of the wall were not touching any mechanism, but a complete set of camouflage actions, and his actions should be transmitted to the real controller of the storage room machinery through some kind of monitoring ability, and then control them to take out the items.
If someone really believes in this set of actions and does it as it is, not to mention whether they can make the mechanism in the storage room move, even if they do, I am afraid that it will be some weapon that poses a deadly threat to the people in this house.
Leo didn't demolish the shopkeeper's actions, his attention was already attracted by the three boxes, because the surface of the three wooden boxes didn't have any wizard magic arrays or anything like that, just a beautiful box made of wood, but the wood used in the boxes was very special, so special that the moment Leo's spiritual net touched it, it was absorbed by the box.
When the shopkeeper put the box on the table, Leo immediately reached out and touched the box, and he found that in addition to the previous spiritual net, all the spiritual energy in the body, the pressure of the palm, and all other forces would disappear immediately as long as they touched the box.
Leo looked at the shopkeeper's arthropod-like hands again, and it was clear that the hard shell that replaced the skin on the outside did not only increase defense, but also other abilities, and perhaps it was because of these abilities that this old man, who did not have much power himself, was able to sit in this antique shop with a large number of psionic items.