116 Reconnaissance
Because this was the first time to come to the United States and the first time to New York, Liang did not return to Italy directly after finishing his business negotiations, but toured here.
New York is an all-encompassing city, and some people love it and some people hate it. Here you can see countless skyscrapers, endless traffic, and homeless people rummaging through small dilapidated houses and garbage cans for food.
Naturally, there are countless places to visit in such places. From the Statue of Liberty to Chinatown, from Wall Street to Fifth Avenue, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Metropolitan Museum, it's home to the best of human civilization.
In addition, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and a series of other cities on the east coast of North America are all about the history of the country, and there is a lot to see.
So after handing over the gold handbag to Ahmadi, Liang decided to take a few days out to walk around the place and see the long insights. The ancients read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, since there is an opportunity to open their eyes, it is best to seize it, after all, they have come.
After a brief planning, Liang focused his visit on a series of museums, especially those related to culture and jewelry, both to find inspiration for his big orders and to find out if there were any extraordinary items.
Among the transcendent items found in this world before, both the spirit iron and the source of the plague had brought him a lot of benefits, so he naturally hoped to get more here.
For example, when Liang went to the Smithson Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., he focused on the diamond called "Hope", which is the prototype of the heart of the ocean in the movie "Titanic".
According to legend, the dark blue diamond, which now weighs 45.52 carats, was originally the eye of a deity in a temple in India, but was poached by diamond merchants.
So the gods cursed that mortals whose souls were polluted by greed would pay for the blasphemous sin with their lives, so that the owners of this diamond would always die inexplicably and unnaturally for all ages.
It is believed that at least 30 people died as a result of the diamond, including three French kings, a French queen and a dozen wealthy people, and one king abdicated.
At the same time, it sank the Titanic and shot down several planes transporting it, and it was not until 1948 that the doomed diamond was sent to the museum for placement, which stopped its sonata for disaster.
Since these stories had been read from a mess of books at a very young age, Liang was thrilled to see the diamond, and even had an elaborate blue glass gemstone in his pocket.
But when he actually came into contact with the diamond, he found that it had no supernatural powers at all: no spiritual power, no curse.
After thinking about it carefully, Liang found that the previous legends were probably false: because the diamond was only a rough triangular rough stone when it first arrived in France, and it was obviously impossible to be the eye of the deity, which was supposed to be round.
And the first Sun King Louis XIV, the first to own this diamond, lived for nearly half a century after getting the diamond before he died, but Louis XVI and Queen Mary, who were beheaded by the guillotine, most likely never saw it-
Because the gem had not been taken out of the royal warehouse since the death of Louis XV, it was not until the outbreak of the French Revolution that a group of thieves fished in troubled waters to bring the diamond to London.
At the same time, there are only two bankrupt people who have owned it historically, but they are only one of the countless billionaires who went bankrupt during the Great Depression, while the other owners have survived an average of more than 20 years after getting the diamond and made more than £100,000 in profits from it.
From this incident, Liang also deduced that at least in the modern world, it is impossible to create items with extraordinary power simply by relying on the gathering of people's minds.
It's just that Liang En has so little information at hand right now that he can't judge for the time being whether the beliefs in the modern world are completely incapable of being transformed into supernatural powers, or whether they can be transformed with the help of some special medium.
Over the next few days, he visited the famous Independence Bell, the Declaration of Independence, and other important things
but still no otherworldly powers have been found.
"Isn't it possible that the United States, which is so big, can't find the existence of transcendent objects?" After visiting the Declaration of Independence that day, Liang frowned. "And said I was looking in the wrong direction—"
Thinking about these questions, Liang En walked out of the museum with a little absent-mindedness, so much so that he accidentally touched a young man.
"I'm sorry, this gentleman—"
The young man apologized to Liang En and ran away as he had come before, and at the same time, Liang En felt a spiritual power mark in his mind that was getting farther and farther away from him.
That's right, the young man just now didn't accidentally bump into Liang En, but wanted to steal something from him.
After all, many people in Europe and the United States think that Asians will carry a lot of cash on them, and even if they are discovered, they can directly turn theft into robbery without encountering too much resistance.
As a result, this time the thief hit the iron plate, and instead of stealing it, Liang En laid a spiritual mark.
If this spiritual power mark is placed in the ancient world, let alone a cultivator, even some ordinary people who are a little more sensitive to spiritual power will perceive it, but in this world, it has become the most secret way of positioning.
As for the reason why Liang En laid this spiritual power mark, it was also very simple, the thief before was a little too agile, and it was obvious that he had received some kind of professional training.
So when it was stolen just now, Liang En had an idea and planted a spiritual power marker, intending to track down the other party's lair, and then see if there were any clues related to the transcendent in the hands of the power behind this elite-trained thief.
Behind the other party is a force entrenched in the heart of the United States, and it can also cultivate such a professional thief, so maybe you can really get some information related to the extraordinary.
Of course, if the other party doesn't have this information in his hands, it won't have any impact on Liang En, after all, he plans to stay in Washington, D.C. for two days, and now he is idle, so it's better to go out and try his luck.
So when night fell, Liang En climbed out of the back window of the hotel where he lived and crossed to the top of the building a few times, and then briefly identified the direction and rushed towards the destination.
In just a few minutes, he approached the neighborhood in the southeast area of Washington, D.C. And as Liang En moved, the surrounding streetscape looked worse and worse.
Although it's in the nation's capital, it's not as clean as the White House, the Capitol or the Washington Monument – the streets are lined with accomplished buildings and graffiti of all kinds.
The streets were littered with garbage, with syringes faintly visible, and dirty-clad people wandering among the tattered tents, looking a little delirious.
"It's good that I haven't been on the street." Looking at the messy streets, Liang En was glad to have chosen the path he had just chosen, and then hurried in the direction of a dilapidated apartment building.