Su received Jasmine's look, nodded, and walked to a box.
He slowly raised his hand, and a miniature gray wind blade formed and slid gently over the lock of the box. With a "click", the lock on the box was cut open.
With a "squeak" sound, Su opened the box, and colorful light suddenly released from inside. Everyone couldn't help but look around. After seeing the contents of the box, their breathing froze.
I saw that it was filled with jewelry, including fist-sized gems, extremely precious spider silk crystals, and rare colored diamonds...
Simply put, there is a lot of money in it.
Richard looked at it, his expression obviously stunned, and then turned to look at the other boxes.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."
Su had already opened all the other boxes in a timely manner. The contents inside were all similar. Maybe the specific contents were not exactly the same, but they were indeed jewelry that could be sold at very high prices.
The slightly curious light in Richard's eyes flickered for a moment, then suddenly became disillusioned. A pair of eyes dimmed, and the whole person's expression tightened, and he pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.
Jasmine had been paying attention to Richard with the corner of her eyes. After noticing Richard's appearance, she turned around in surprise and asked, "Are you... a little disappointed?"
"Well..." Richard hesitated for a moment, then sighed softly, "I'm indeed a little disappointed. To be precise, I was surprised. I thought it would be something else. I really didn't expect it to be jewelry, but if I think about it seriously, That’s reasonable—well, unexpected, and reasonable.”
It is indeed unexpected and reasonable.
From the beginning of exploring the ruins, he had guessed that Jasmine's target was anything - it might be a powerful magic item, more powerful than an energy furnace, it might be a terrifying spell that could destroy all enemies in the way, but he never expected it. , it will be a pile of jewelry, a pile of jewelry sold for money.
But calm down and think about it, this is actually reasonable.
Spell props more powerful than energy furnaces and spells that destroy everything are certainly desirable, but if Jasmine wants to successfully restore her and regain the throne of the Sika Kingdom, she cannot rely on pure force. Even if it can be recaptured, stability cannot be maintained. In order to truly regain the throne and achieve a successful restoration, she needs many, many people to support her. In this process, money may not be the most important, but it is the most indispensable.
Without money, the people who unite around her will not be able to do various things smoothly, and will suffer setbacks at the beginning of the restoration.
Jasmine should have understood this truth, so she used intelligence and worked hard to obtain an astonishing amount of wealth from the ruins to use as military expenses to start the road to the second restoration.
It's just that... it doesn't make much sense to him.
After all, he is not short of money!
The last thing he lacks is money!
He's really not interested in money!
"well-"
Richard exhaled and couldn't help but shake his head.
Jasmine looked at Richard, confused by his reaction. She didn't understand why she was so disappointed when she saw a pile of jewelry.
He opened his mouth, thought for a moment and said: "No matter what you think, according to our previous agreement, half of the jewelry here is yours, and you can choose first. After the selection, the rest is ours."
After Jasmine's words came out, all of Jasmine's subordinates looked at Richard calmly and became a little wary.
They were not sure whether Richard's disinterest in jewelry was real or a disguise. But they have all seen people who are blinded by money, whether they are ordinary people or powerful wizards.
Therefore, they were very afraid. When Richard had an idea, he suddenly became greedy and wanted to swallow all the jewels.
In fact, according to Richard's current strength in the four energy furnaces, they really don't have much ability to resist if they really do this.
Therefore, they must be vigilant and alert that Richard will suddenly kill them and make them die without knowing how.
However, Richard did not do this.
After listening to Jasmine's words, Richard glanced at all the opened boxes, looked at Jasmine and shook his head: "Forget it, I don't want my half of the achievements, I'll give them to you - don't be embarrassed, just give them to you. Consider it my investment in you."
"You really don't want it?" Jasmine was quite surprised after hearing this, and asked with a frown, "You should know that if you take the things here out, you can exchange them for astonishing wealth, right? Even if you only get half of it, you can buy a small town. "
"Of course I know." Richard said, his face extremely calm, "But I'm not short of money - I have money."
"This is different."
"Why is it different?"
"That's a lot of money."
"Actually, my money is more than you estimate."
"Uh, this..."
"Okay, you all can take it." Richard waved his hand and said without interest, "If it's not enough, you can borrow it from me, and it will be regarded as additional investment for you... But I hope you can take it at that time Come with a plan and let me see the value of investment..."
The first half of what Richard said was still understandable to Jasmine and her group, but the second half was a bit confusing.
Without further explanation, Richard waved his hand again and said, "You guys are here, keep a good count of your income. I'll go outside first and see what else is in the ruins."
After speaking, under the watchful eyes of Jasmine and the others, Richard walked through the entire palace and walked out.
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Walking to the area behind the palace, Richard saw that here, the ruins seemed to have reached the end, and what he saw was a tall stone wall, like a wall in front of him.
In the middle of the stone wall, there is a dark blue gate standing, which is ten meters high and more than ten meters wide. There are some lines carved on the surface, like words, but they are unreadable.
This is the entrance to the second half of the ruins that Jasmine mentioned... Richard guessed.
He did not enter rashly, but carefully observed the door for a while, thinking about what dangers there would be inside the door and how to deal with it.
After ten minutes of this, there were footsteps behind him. When he turned around, he saw that it was Jasmine and her group.
After seeing this, Richard chuckled: "I thought you would selectively forget your promise to help me explore the second half of the ruins."
"Since you can keep your promise, we can also keep our promise." Jasmine responded with a serious face.
"Besides." Su suddenly interrupted and said with a bit of venom, "In this situation, we can't help you. After all, Hulk's energy furnace cannot be restarted in a short time. Without you, we can only stay on the other side. , unable to return with the jewelry.”
"Okay." Richard shrugged, "Before exploring, let me make it clear that I gave you all the profits from the first half of the ruins exploration. Is it okay that all the profits from the second half belong to me?"
"No problem." Jasmine nodded, "But I also want to make it clear that according to what you said, once we think there is an unavoidable danger, we can voluntarily withdraw and stay outside this door waiting for you to return."
"Okay." Richard nodded and asked, "So, what information can you provide about this sect?"
"Actually, there is no information at all." Jasmine shook her head. "Don't get me wrong. The information I have has ended in this hall. Even the hall is vaguely mentioned. The specific information is not available in the water area. Regarding the inside of the door, The only intelligence connection was a vague warning to enter with caution, because if we made a mistake, we might never get out.”
"Is that so? It seems that there is indeed some danger inside. Let me see what it is." Richard said. The four energy furnaces that had stopped running in his body suddenly started up, releasing dazzling light and generating a protective energy film. He strode to the door and pushed it open.
"Kakaka!"
Then the moment the door was pushed open, a flood of white light poured out from inside the door, instantly engulfing everyone outside.
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