Chapter 7: Intelligence
In the context of the world war, many countries with a long civilization were swept away by the wave of the world, and they were unable to protect their cultural relics, so they were packed and taken away by these outsiders in batches, which is why the Bermense market is a place to pick up leaks.
There are many magicians who like to go to the market to find some surprises, use their knowledge to resell their living expenses, or become the pick-up man of antique dealers, and occasionally one or two lucky people can really pick up the leak.
The market is full of battles between the real and the fake.
However, Chen Qi knows very well that most of the leaks are simply trusted, as far as the truth is concerned, if you want to find gold here, the probability is tantamount to pie in the sky.
The good things have long been booked and taken by the first people to buy them, as well as the high-ranking people, and digging up the grave soil to find the treasure is an operation that some professional tomb robbers have been hired to complete.
The items that are then screened will go through multiple inspections and identifications.
Some of them flow into the market and are kept in the store as goods sold for a reasonable price, and a small number of them flow into the market, and if there are still antiquities that are looked at, then there is a possibility that they will be picked up.
It's just that some magicians are not as good as these tomb robbers for the identification of cultural relics, and with the feedback and intuition brought by magic, they can't help those basic magicians to come and go here.
The person who can really pick up the leaks must at least have the level of a master, and this master must also happen to have no money to come to this kind of place.
The question is, how can there be such a poor master, and he doesn't have to come here often.
Complaining about the Bai Mengsai market, which had just opened in the early morning, Chen Qi shuttled through it with a cat in his arms, although it was not so smooth to get rid of the eyeliner because of the small number of people.
But when he bypassed the same booth for the third time, the stalker who followed behind him had lost Chen Qi's figure.
"You really have a bad taste, you brought these puppies to the door of my store early in the morning, don't you go to a woman for a morning tea if you are bored, Chen Qi, or do you know that you are not likable."
The old man holding a pipe let out a breath of white air angrily, and seemed to be equally dissatisfied with the gray sky, so he decided to contribute a little more to make it even more gray, looked at the folded ear cat, and said playfully: "Oh, I haven't seen you for a while, you kid actually changed his sex, is this your little pet." ”
"It's been a while." Coming out from the side and back of the store door, using the visual blind spot to shake off the followers, Chen Qi took the butt of the folded ear cat, and said with a smile: "Come, say hello to your senior, he is Tom, the overlord of the cat world with the supreme name." ”
"Ask a fart! If you have something to say, get out of here if you have nothing to do! Tom was furious when he grinned at the smoker's teeth, and the most hated thing at his age was to be talked back to by the imp.
But since he met Chen Qi, this guy has been constantly ridiculing his name.
Tom Cat, Tom Cat, Evil Tom Cat!
"Meow~!" The folded ear cat stretched out his paws and shook it, and greeted Tom very seriously, while Chen Qi walked into the store and moved a chair and sat down: "Don't be so irritable, just came to ask you something." ”
Tom's temper is not good, and Chen Qi has no intention of continuing to tease him, and the business must come first.
"Oh? When did you change your career to become a detective, first say okay, fifty pounds for a piece of intelligence, and there will be no counteroffer. Tom glanced at Chen Qi casually, thought about it, took out the high-grade cookies from the drawer, broke a few pieces and put them on his tea tray, and said casually: "Or, you can also help me palm the eye." ”
"See, if you want to be a cat, you must first learn to have a black heart." Bringing the tea tray over, Chen Qi's eyes remained unchanged and teased, and he looked at the goods displayed in the store, and just when Tom's face was about to get angry again, he said the purpose: "The reason why I came to you this time is to inquire about someone." ”
Inquiring about someone? Tom knocked on his pipe, his expression was slightly unkind: "Then you are looking for the wrong person, come to me to inquire about the shipment information, it's almost the same, I'm not good at finding people, this business can't be done." ”
"How do you know he hasn't visited your shop?"
Chen Qi took a pen and paper from Tom's desk, sketched out what he saw in his observations.
It was a fragment of non-gold and iron, with sharp edges, the size of a Moyo's palm, and even if it was sketched in pencil, it had a sense of sacred solemnity, and on the edge of the shield there were several symbols that constituted monotony, but contained infinite mystery.
This thing was a parting gift that Chen Qi had given Tom before he left here.
It took more than half a year for Tom to find a good buyer who offered a satisfactory price.
– Deacon Fernandez.
Tom's hand holding the pipe sank, his brow furrowed, and he puffed out his cigarette and said, "I see, you are here to find this man, that is really unlucky, he died three days ago." ”
Chen Qi looked at the folded ear cat with his cheeks bulging and eating, and said casually: "Who said I was looking for him." ”
It's not what you say...... Wait, this guy?
Tom seemed to come back to his senses, and his eyes were a little dumbfounded: "You shouldn't be still doing that." ”
In the field of magic, séance, as a specialized discipline, has its own uniqueness, among which being able to ask the soul of the dead is one of the famous methods of séance, and it is very useful to sell intelligence and favors.
Of course, the field of magic is deep enough that many magicians can learn this kind of magic, which is not a unique secret, but according to the level of séance, there is a clear difference between the intelligence and persistence of the soul, and magicians in need are generally willing to find experts in this area.
Here I have to talk about Tom's impression of Chen Qi.
Chen Qi is a guy who can be poor enough to pick up garbage when he is not open, and if you want to ask him about ordinary information, even things published in newspapers, many times he doesn't know anything.
But it's just such a guy, but he can always get some unique information somehow, and become a very famous psychic in the Bomonse market, if it weren't for the concealment of his appearance and name, Tom can be sure that this guy would have been made into a specimen a long time ago.
Sometimes it is more important to keep the chicken from being snatched away and to reveal some secrets than laying golden eggs.
But Chen Qi is not a psychic maker, which Tom can confirm.
The so-called psychic master refers to a magician who is proficient in séance and has a special physique.
And Chen Qi is just a magic layman, how can he be a psychic matchmaker, this is like casually pointing to a mineral and saying gold, even if the mineral is actually a diamond, it can't match gold.
"Sooner or later, you'll be dragged to dissect because of your secrets, and there's no good thing in magicians."
After warning Chen Qi, Tom bit his pipe angrily, and finally sighed, "Say, what do you want to ask?" ”
He knew very well that Chen Qi was a master who didn't see rabbits and didn't scatter eagles, and since he had already sat here, there was no need to hide it.
"You know everything." Without hesitation, it can even be said that he made his request greedily, Chen Qi's straightforwardness made Tom roll his eyes: "You're really welcome, although I don't know much, yes." ”
Taking Chen Qi's pencil, Tom left a line of address on the sketch: "This is the address I used to deliver to him, because it is close and generous, so I remember it more clearly, if you want to find any clues about his life, you can go here." ”
Druid Street, 986.
Chen Qi read the house number and asked, "Are you sure, I don't remember that there is this number on Druid Street." ”
It was Tom's two big eyes that answered Chen Qi: "Since you want to find a magician, you should know that those guys are always hiding and hiding, for fear of being discovered by anyone, I didn't see this place when I was delivering goods, I just dropped the goods at the intersection and took away the settlement handed over by the puppet, if you guess, it should be because of the enchantment." ”
John, who speaks of enchantments very awkwardly, is very uncomfortable with this word coming from the east, and he prefers the new guns he saw when he was a soldier to the magic used by these sissies, which is the romance of men.
After a pause, Tom added, "Druid Street is not our exclusive place, and the person who can see the whole thing here must be a magician. ”
"Alright, fifty pounds, or give me an item." Pursed his pipe, Tom looked up a little upset, but found that the store was already empty, not to mention Chen Qi, even the black cat that was still eating cookies just now was gone.
By the way, the box of cookies he took out in excellent condition was all smoothed out, and he really didn't even leave a cat hair to pay the bill.
"Chen Qi, you bastard!" Tom's roar rang out from inside the store.