He looked away from the rune puppet and scanned the entire room.
Gray discovered that the room in front of him should be a place similar to a hall.
The surrounding walls are carved with beautiful patterns, but they are extremely empty. Except for some decorations such as vases and stone carvings placed in the corners, there is nothing else.
At the same time, on the inner wall of the room, and even on both sides of the wall, there are a total of three doors that are one meter wide and more than two meters high without door leaves.
The three Grays entered the room on the far left first.
There is also a lit rune lamp on the top of the room, but it is much smaller than the rune lamp in the hall, and it is not hanging, but tightly attached to the wall.
In the room, there are many black wooden cabinets.
These black wooden cabinets were of different sizes, ranging from tall to short, but they were not all rotten like they had seen in the castle buildings before. Although the color was mottled, there were no traces of decay.
These cabinets had obviously been turned over, because the cabinet doors had been opened, and some parts were locked, but the locks were forced open by force.
The three Grays checked cabinet after cabinet and found that all the cabinets were clean with no residue at all. They searched all the cabinets. The three of them didn't even know what these cabinets were used for.
One can imagine how cleanly the group of people in front of them searched.
Leaving this room, the three of them entered the room against the inner wall.
There are also rune lights on the top, and there are rows of brackets near the wall of the room. The wooden brackets are slightly tilted, and there are rows of vertical wooden strips on them. There are obvious slots on the wooden strips. .
Such a structure is also found in Fergus Castle. It is a bracket used to hold weapons. For example, the ironwood sword used in Gray's battle with Bernal last time was taken from that bracket.
If nothing else, these stands were once used to hold weapons, but they were probably of a much higher grade than the weapons placed in Viscount Fergus's castle. They might have also been used to place magic weapons, but now they are empty, leaving only the stands. here.
After evacuating this room, the three of them came to the last room, which was the room against the right wall.
"Wow… "
Entering this room, Bernal couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, and Gray and Viscount Fergus also looked straight in the eye.
Gold, dazzling gold.
In the room, on the innermost wall, there is a gleaming golden hill, which is as tall as a person. It is completely made of gold coins. It is difficult to look away when one's eyes fall on it.
"How many gold coins does this cost?"
After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Gray looked a little dull.
Three million coins, or five million coins
The size is so large and the number is so great that it is difficult to estimate the number of gold coins in front of you just by looking at them.
In this world, ordinary civilians may not be able to earn even one gold coin in their lifetime, but the number of gold coins in front of them now is millions. If they are used to pay the wages of ordinary civilians, they can hire millions of people to work for a lifetime. You can imagine how shocking the number of gold coins in front of you is.
"It would be better if it were gold coins from the Ziyue Kingdom..."
Bernal had already walked up quickly, grabbed a handful of gold coins, spread them out in his hands, looked at them, and said with a slight sigh.
Gray also walked over, grabbed a few gold coins, spread them out in his hands and looked at them.
There is a portrait printed on the front of the gold coin. In the portrait, there is a majestic middle-aged man. Even just through the gold coin, the majestic image of the other party emerges.
At the bottom of the avatar, there are the words Palmer III.
Naturally, the things that will appear in the ruins of the empire cannot be from the period of the Purple Moon Kingdom, and there is no such person as Palmer III in the Purple Moon Kingdom.
Therefore, the man named Palmer III must have been from the imperial period, and Gray estimated that this man was probably a certain imperial king, because the person printed on the gold coins of the Purple Moon Kingdom was the Purple Moon King. William I, the founder of the Moon Kingdom.
On the back of the gold coin, there is a huge and magnificent palace, with a deep moat, high city walls, and a spire building like a mountain peak. It is extremely spectacular, but there is no written introduction. I don’t know what the palace is called, and I don’t know. Does this palace still exist
It is worth mentioning that Gray was actually able to understand the text on the gold coins. Obviously, the text in the imperial period was the same as the current mainland text, and no other text evolved again.
"Does this indicate that the empire has some kind of connection with the current four kingdoms?"
Gray couldn't help but think about the connection between the empire and the four kingdoms, but in the end he could only shake his head helplessly. Merely having the same words proved nothing.
"If it were melted into gold nuggets and sold, the value would be reduced by more than half."
Bernal's voice in his ear brought Gray back to reality. Bernal was already calculating how to convert these imperial-era gold coins into money.
"Brother Bernal, there are so many, there is no way we can take them away."
Gray answered helplessly.
He probably understood why the other rooms were empty, but this room alone had so many gold coins piled up.
There are simply too many of them, and this place is in the Red Leaf Forest, where blood beasts are rampant, so it is impossible to get a carriage or anything like that. To put it simply, it's not that the people in front of them don't want them, but that they can't be taken away at once.
"pity."
Of course Bernal understood this, he was just shocked by the number of gold coins.
"There is actually a book here..."
Looking away from the gold coin, Gray discovered that there was a book with a purple leather cover on the top of the gold coin. He had previously ignored the existence of the book because the light of the gold coin had attracted all his attention.
Picking up the book, Gray looked at the name on the cover.
""Bloodline Catalog"."
Gray muttered the name softly, but he could not infer the content of the book from the name, so he opened the cover and looked at the title page.
"Any kind of low-level blood beast, if you trace the source of its bloodline, it can be traced back to a certain powerful blood beast. The reason why this phenomenon occurs is that the bloodline has a deterioration phenomenon, and there is a chance that it will deteriorate from a high-level bloodline. It’s a low-level bloodline.”
"This book arranges common blood beasts according to blood concentration. Many of them have been verified from the perspective of blood methods, and some are the editor's speculations. Welcome to discuss them together, Porsis."
The word "Porsis" at the back should be the author's name. Seeing this title page text, Gray couldn't help but think of the book "The Origin of Species" that he had seen before.
Although the arguments are not the same, or even completely opposite, one is based on the degradation of the species, and the other is based on the evolution of the species, but they have the same effect.
It has been confirmed that there is a blood connection between high-level blood beasts and low-level blood beasts.
"Gray, what's the book about?"
Seeing that Gray actually found a book, Bernal asked curiously.
"It's about the blood beast."
Gray handed it to Bernal. After reading it, Bernal handed it back, obviously not that interested in books.
He would rather spend an hour practicing than reading a book. This can be seen from the fact that he does not know about the "Empire Ruins".
Although there was very little information about the ruins of the empire, there were still mentions of the ruins of the empire in the books in the Fergus Castle library, but he did not know about it. Obviously he had not read these books carefully.
"Father, what should I do with these gold coins?"
Losing interest in books, Bernal once again became concerned about gold coins.
Although it is a gold coin from the imperial period and is no longer in circulation, it can be smelted into gold nuggets and sold.
Upon hearing the inquiry, Viscount Fergus frowned. If all these gold coins could be taken away, the Fergus family would definitely make a fortune, at least one or two million gold coins. Compared to the Fergus family's hundred It’s a lot more accumulated over the years.
It's just a pity that there are too many and they are deep in the red leaf forest, so they can't be taken away all.
Without affecting the action, each of the three of us took away part of it and gave up the rest. "
He decided immediately.
"Give up? Father, do you mean you don't plan to come again next time?"
Bernal frowned after hearing the meaning of Viscount Fergus's words.
"Um."
Viscount Fergus nodded affirmatively.
"Is father worried that the group in front of us will come back again?"
Bernal was not a fool and immediately guessed Viscount Fergus's worries.
"Yes, I'm afraid they will come back. Load up the gold coins and leave here as soon as possible."
Viscount Fergus ordered.
"yes."
Gray and Bernal nodded, took out a large leather bag from their respective backpacks, and began to fill it with gold coins.
But during the process of loading it inside, Gray couldn't help but have a guess in his mind that these gold coins might have been abandoned by the group in front.
However, after guessing it, he immediately denied it himself. The Marquis family would probably not let go of the gold coins worth one or two million. It stands to reason that the option of the previous group to give up the gold coins was absolutely impossible.
Perhaps it was the entrance to the secret room that had not been closed after it was opened that led him to speculate like this, but he secretly kept an eye on it and decided to come and explore it again when he had the strength in the future.
(End of chapter)