Chapter 144: The Explorer's Club (2)

(Aoshan who strives to renew it asks for a monthly pass)

Cheng Mo looked up towards the entrance, behind the iron fence was a heavy concrete pedestal, on top of which were various straight and thick steel pillars, which grew regularly in the brilliant light that shone in the sky, and the brown semicircular canvas roof with dim light extended towards the steel cast Eiffel Tower, like a tunnel to the steampunk world.

Li Jiting raised his head and walked towards the entrance, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun followed side by side, and when he walked to the entrance, Cheng Mo saw the golden stainless steel billboards on both sides that read in English and French: Jules Verne Restaurant/Private Elevator, no entry.

There is also a diagonal French tricolor flag below the billboard, a red octagonal sign in the middle of the diagonal white vertical bar, an iris sign in the middle facing the top corner, a horizontal railway sign above the 45 degrees of the octagon, and a horse shoe sign below the 45 degrees. The style of this flag is exactly the same as the logo of a movie website called "Explorer's Club" that Li Jiting asked him to board in the afternoon.

Li Jiting looked back and saw Cheng Mo's gaze fall on the flag, "Hehe" smiled and said, "Do you recognize it?"

"The logo of that site in the afternoon?" Cheng Mo said.

Li Jiting shook his head and smiled: "It's not just that simple. ”

Xie Minyun glanced at the special flag and said lightly: "I have seen this flag, it was taken to the moon by Armstrong (the first American astronaut to land on the moon), and it was also inserted on the moon..... But that photo is only visible at Space Center Houston, not online. ”

Li Jiting nodded and said in a low voice: "That's right, if there is any elite society in this world that is more powerful than the Illuminati, there is only the 'Explorers Club'......."

Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun followed Li Jiting towards the inside, and encountered an ancient elevator at the end, although the elevator door did not have a trace of rust, and the polished oil was shiny, but the heavy metal door full of bronze texture always reminded people of the iron door of a certain ancient castle dungeon in the Middle Ages.

Li Jiting stretched out his hand and entered a password on the keys engraved with Arabic numerals in the middle of the iron door, which were like round buttons on a typewriter, and there was a bang, Li Jiting opened the veneer, and a dark brown wooden car appeared in front of Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun.

"Even I don't know how old this elevator is..... It's also three hundred years, maybe four hundred years, in any case a lot earlier than 1854. Li Jiting said as he stepped into the elevator.

Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun didn't speak, but after entering the elevator, they slowly went up with the elevator, carefully observing the elevator full of nicks and much older than the Eiffel Tower.

Li Jiting shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is nothing strange, for this club disguised as a restaurant, things that are ahead of the times are just ordinary objects, and you will definitely be more surprised later...... I dare to say that this is definitely one of the most demanding places in the world, you two wait to take some photos and post them in the circle of friends, which is guaranteed to be much better than any Internet celebrity Michelin restaurant....."

Li Jiting's tone exaggerated depicted how incredible Jules Verne's restaurant was, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun were a little indifferent, the two of them were also well-informed, and they didn't feel that they would be shocked by a restaurant.

The moment the elevator door opened, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun's expressions were still normal, although the Eiffel Tower was equipped with a marble arch, which was a bit incredible, but it was not an unacceptable thing.

Li Jiting smiled and said: "This door was moved from a 15th-century French monastery in the Pyrenees, and its value will not be ..... lower than the bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace."

The three of them walked past the round archway, the black-painted wooden door was nailed with countless iris rivets, and entered into an antique front desk living room, the living room was full of ancient atmosphere, and at first glance, these wooden furniture, leather sofas, glass lamps and Persian carpets were all cultural relics. The butler, who was wearing a tuxedo and white gloves and combing his big back, bowed slightly to Li Jiting and said in French with a very accented Toulouse: "Dear Monsieur de Lyon, welcome to you and your guests. With that, the butler-like man took the lead and walked towards the door directly opposite the foyer.

Li Jiting followed the housekeeper forward, and when he walked through the living room, he casually pointed to the wooden coffee table placed next to the sofa and said: "Only this table is not a cultural relic, it is the warehouse .....cover of the USC&GS Explorer (one of the few surviving ships in the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack)" After speaking, Li Jiting pointed to the carved wooden chair placed next to the fireplace and said: "This is the chair in Puyi's room..... It can also be called a dragon chair, do you want to sit on it and try it?"

Seeing Li Jiting stop, Cheng Mo looked at the carved chair and hurriedly shook his head, he always felt that the chair was gloomy, and he felt a sense of being cursed, although Cheng Mo was not superstitious, but when he saw this old chair, he couldn't help but feel a chill.

Li Jiting smiled "haha", and then pointed to the huge globe that was placed next to the coffee table and covered with a glass cover and said: "This is also a good thing, Sotheby's auction house auctioned a sky-high price - the globe used by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his expedition....."

Li Jiting introduced these old antiques that only appear in the auction house, so that people like Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun, who are quite knowledgeable, finally understand what it means to be extravagant and quiet. However, this is only the beginning, walking through the front hall is a long gallery hung with countless photographs and paintings, and on one side of the corridor stands a lifelike "velociraptor dragon".

Cheng Mo just glanced at it at first, he thought it was just a model, and then felt that it didn't seem right, so he stopped in front of this "Velociraptor Model", studied it carefully before saying in surprise: "This is a specimen?"

Li Jiting smiled: "Of course, do you think there will be a model used in "Jurassic Park" here?"

Xie Minyun also opened his mouth in surprise, and walked to the side of the "Lingraptor Specimen" to observe with Cheng Mo, the blue feathers and yellow beak on its body are still very bright, such a preserved specimen is only a hundred years old at most, it cannot be a thing that has survived from ancient times.

"How did this come about?" Cheng Mo hesitated for a moment and asked very curiously.

"Only Mr. Clark knows how it came about, the Explorers Club collects rare treasures from all over the world, as long as it is a rare object, it will give a fair and reasonable price here, and I will bring you here today, that is, I will give Mr. Clark the registered Uloporos for identification, and then the SS skill you want 'Tesla Death Light' should only be here, if you want Stern King to get it with you, it will be the year of the monkey." But even if you get to the Explorer's Club, it's up to you to be lucky..... One is that the Explorers Club has 'Tesla Deathlight', and the other is that they think Stern King's Uloporos is worth the price....."

Cheng Mo nodded absentmindedly, his eyes still lingering on the specimen of the Lingluoptiraptor dragon.

"There are a lot of interesting things in front of you, you can take your time to watch .....," Li Jiting said casually, as if he was accustomed to dinosaur specimens.

Hearing Li Jiting say this, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun were not embarrassed to look at it for a long time, and followed Li Jiting through the corridor, and sure enough, as Li Jiting said, in addition to a large number of photos taken by the expedition team around the world, they were full of strange treasures, such as the relics of Robert Peary's 1909 expedition to the North Pole, including seal skin gloves and canned milk from the expedition, the slender front teeth of narwhals, the rare specimen of four-horned antelope, and the specimen of mammoths.....

Seeing that Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun were amazed at the mammoth specimen, Li Jiting said with a smile: "This is just a dish, you can taste the mammoth crushed meat steak later!" In addition, there are also freshly cut roasted Orinoke crocodiles, possum pies, roasted tarantula skewers, ...... here."

At this moment, the butler in the tuxedo had already pushed open the door of the restaurant, and the whole hall was decorated with simple and elegant decoration, with many mammoth tusks hanging on the dome, as well as the heads of many extinct animals, and even a polar bear in a rather large glass box in the center of the hall, which was lying on the glass and looking at Cheng Mo and his party.

There was only one old Mediterranean man sitting by the window, eating quietly outside the window with the lights of Paris shining at night, while the others were either waiters or cooks.

Li Jiting walked straight to the old man sitting by the window and greeted him loudly: "Hey! Clarke..... It's been a long time, and your business is still so bad......"

The old man from the Mediterranean, who was holding a knife and fork and cutting meat, looked at Li Jiting and said with a noncommittal smile: "Isn't this just waiting for you to take care of my business?

Li Jiting smiled and said: "It's already on your website in the afternoon, but I guess you haven't read it yet, so I specially brought the main owner over to take a look, can you help me operate it in advance!"

The Mediterranean, which Li Jiting called Clark, glanced at Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun casually, his gaze did not stay on Cheng Mo for much, but he stayed on Xie Minyun's body, and looked up and down for a long time, until Xie Minyun frowned dissatisfiedly, Clark sighed with a serious face: "This girl is a real work of art, I am willing to take half of my property to collect her." ”

No sooner had Clark finished his words than the steak on his plate, which was bigger than a keyboard, popped up and hit his mustachioed cheek. However, the meat chop manipulated by Xie Minyun did not hit Clark's face, and froze on Clark's mouth, he picked up the knife and fork while cutting the meat elegantly, and said to the cold-faced Xie Minyun: "Oh, beautiful girl, do you know that half of my wealth is enough to buy the whole of Paris! Become my collection, you will be the most valuable woman in the world!"