Chapter 49: The Federal Store
Through a straight corridor, the scene in the room surprised Lucien a little. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
I thought it was a fantasy scene, but I didn't expect it to have a bit of steampunk.
A huge cylindrical room paved with marble, with a strange machine with a bulging belly and a lanky body in the middle, resembles a big turntable in an amusement park, but a big turntable placed horizontally. More than a dozen stout blue wires are connected to the ceiling along the "long body" of the machine, and on the side of the "bulging belly" are twelve cylindrical transparent glass covers, each with a large blue crystal at the top and bottom ends, and a workbench at the front.
The worktop is very basic, with a sensor, several buttons and a notch.
"It's such a powerful wizard civilization, but it's a pity that the machine is densely patched, and it looks quite ancient, and it should have been produced in the last era. ”
Lucien observed for a moment and made a judgment in his mind.
After the observation, Lucien stepped forward and walked to an operating table, and it was lucky that there was no one else here, so that Lucien had enough time to read the instructions next to the operating table, without being looked at by a "hillbilly".
After reading the manual, Lucien took out the badge and placed it on the sensor on the console, and then followed the prompts to put eighteen medium-grade magic stones into the slot, and then pressed the yellow button, and the cylindrical transparent cover on the top of his head slowly lowered until Lucian's entire body was covered.
Before Lucien could get ready, the red light on the chassis under his feet made a "beep, beep, ......" sound.
Immediately afterward, Lucien suddenly felt the world spin, and the surrounding scenery was like a rapidly changing slide, blurred for a while.
Then, by the time Lucien was able to see clearly, he had come to a strange place.
A very wide white hall, and there is nothing to describe, just white.
Directly in front of him is a floor-to-ceiling mirror ten meters high and five meters wide, and Lucien in the mirror, without a face or feet, is floating thirty centimeters above the floor, wearing a watch-like thing in his right hand, which shows Lucian's amount: 177 magic stones: 0 contribution points.
Virtual projection technology?
This strange floor-to-ceiling mirror seems to detect that Lucien has not signed the "Knowledge Pact", and the Eye of Judgment immediately appears on the mirror, and underneath the Eye of Judgment is a blood-red text, which is the "Knowledge Pact".
Lucien swore the full text of the Pact of Knowledge, in the presence of the Eye of Judgment, against the contents of the Pact of Knowledge. When Lucien finished reading, the five white walls around the hall changed into five passages.
The right wall of the first four passages is engraved in Modo language: Emergency Communication, Auction House, Wizard Trading Platform, Apprentice Trading Platform, etc., while the last passage has nothing written at all, except that the light in this passage is red, not white like the other passages, which is very different.
According to Hathaway's instructions, Lucien could only take the two passages of the apprentice trading platform and the auction house, and if he took the other passages, Lucian's communication with the federal store would be immediately cut off.
In this case, the communication fee of the three magic stones will be wasted.
Lucien didn't have the money to go to the auction house, so he had to go to the apprentice trading platform to have a look.
Because he had no feet, Lucien could only float into the passage, which was a very interesting way of walking, as soon as his mind moved, his whole body floated out.
And the speed can be adjusted with your mind.
Drifting for more than 30 meters, a right turn corner, and drifting for more than 100 meters, at the end of the passage, is an open warehouse, dozens of shelves are placed in the room, and large and small balls of light are placed on the shelves.
If you connect your consciousness to the ball of light, you will be able to see the textual description of the cargo. Some products will also add a recorded video for consumers to choose from.
"Sir, welcome to the Federation Store, a virtual shop built by the four major forces in conjunction with the Federation Headquarters, selling all the knowledge and goods that are allowed to be sold. Knowledge is transmitted immediately after payment, and the cargo needs to cooperate with the flight of the fast airship, if there is any delay, please understand. A ghostly figure similar to Lucien floated over, and his voice floated through the empty hall, sounding rather eerie.
Lucien didn't hesitate, and asked straightforwardly, "Thank you, may I ask if there are spell models for sale here?"
"Sorry, sir, according to federal law, the sale of spell models by the four major powers and the Federation is prohibited in any form, however, you can go to the auction house, where there are private spell models for sale. ”
Although he knew the result, he still felt a little lost when he got the answer, and Lucien then asked, "What about the demonic objects?
After all, in the absence of offensive sorcery, Lucien wants to strengthen his combat effectiveness, and can only hope for the offensive type demon, the rattan wood in his hand is a control type of demon, and when he encounters a difficult opponent, this kind of demonization can only play a role in harassment,
"The Federation has a special system of demonic objects, but you need to contribute points to buy them, and if you don't have contribution points, you can go to the auction house, where there are private demonized objects for sale. ”
Lucien frowned and said, "I have military merits, isn't it useless?"
"The role of the battle merit is to increase the authority, and the contribution points are similar to special currency, sorry for the uselessness. ”
Lucien nodded slightly, and said, "Then I still want to know some common knowledge about wizards, such as the history of wizards, magic pets, commonly used materials, etc., where can I find them?"
Although Lucien would like to say that he wants to see the knowledge of the contract signed by the Eye of Judgment, according to the content of the contract, he cannot take the initiative to say the word "contract" or similar words to outsiders. There was no way, Lucien could only vaguely say that it was to look at the history of wizards.
"It turns out that you are here to borrow general knowledge books, the general knowledge library is in the back, the green light curtain is behind, you can go through it, the fee is two magic stones an hour, and you need one of the five magic stones for copying or copying. ”
Although Lucien had been mentally prepared for the charging price of knowledge in the wizarding world, he was still a little surprised to hear this price
What he wanted to read was not books about witchcraft, supernatural powers, or potions, but some general common sense knowledge, and the fees were so high.
Thinking in his heart, he didn't pause under his feet, and floated straight towards the green light curtain
Behind the green light curtain is another scene, with a dazzling array of shelves arranged in different categories throughout the room, and the books placed on them seem to be real, and you can turn the pages when you hold them in your hand.
The working principle of the contact room is virtual projection, not an advanced technology such as soul transfer, Lucian's body and soul are still left in the cylindrical glass cover of the contact room, and naturally, Lucien can also summon the data chip in his mind.
Lucien first found the bookshelf where the contract books were located, picked up the books on this shelf, and looked at them one by one, very quickly, each page was directly scanned with a data chip, and then analyzed and sorted out after he returned.
There weren't many books on contracts, about two hundred, but Lucien scanned them for an hour and a half.
Since it is only a general knowledge library, it is not a library dedicated to contract books, so many of the contents of the books related to contracts are useless introductory content.
For example: the soul contract, who invented it, followed by a crackling historical introduction, with more than a dozen historical celebrities sandwiched in the middle, and ...... Not later.
If it weren't for the data chip, Lucien wouldn't have tried to find useful information from it.
After scanning the contract books, Lucien returned to the center of the room to check the catalog, and found the bookshelf where the demon books were located.
"Only a dozen copies?"
There were very few books about demons, only a dozen or so, much to Lucian's surprise.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was currently an apprentice wizard, after all, very few apprentices had access to demons.
The content of the book is also lackluster, similar to what Mislanda explained in class, much to Lucian's disappointment.
He shook his head, and found another book about magic pets, and the content of it was not very good.
After looking through it, not to mention the abyss demon bone burial flower worm, even the insect demon pet is almost not involved, there is no way, Lucien can only go to the material book area to find clues to the living human stone.
Perhaps, there are clues there!!