In the following days, Richard settled in the city of Florence.
The first thing to do after settling down is to follow the clues left in the letter of the cat slave girl Heidi and try to find her whereabouts.
But Florence has great advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it is too difficult to simply find a person without specific information. Even so, he hired a large number of people and asked everyone to brave the biting cold wind and search for people on the street, looking for things related to the mark, but they still couldn't find it.
After the initial period of efforts failed, he had to lower his expectations. While asking the employer to continue working hard and tell him any news immediately, he started to get busy with other things, such as research projects, such as Black Spirit. King's secret.
After all, he came to the north, to Moore, to Florence, not only to meet the cat slave girl, but also for other purposes.
In this way, time passes day by day, and the entire cold winter slowly slips away - when we come to Florence, it is already the end of the year - the Snow Moon in December, the Ice Moon in January, and the Ice Moon in February. After the freezing moon, it’s March.
March is a warm month.
According to the tradition of the East Coast, March, April, and May are spring every year, and the other seasons follow in sequence. March is regarded as the beginning of spring and the day when all things revive—also called the Recovery Month.
This month, the beginning of the month.
Florentine, one corner.
A dilapidated-looking stone building stood there. The walls were full of cracks and looked like they would collapse at any time, burying the people living inside and the passers-by. Pedestrians passing by this stone building dare not stop for fear of getting into trouble. Almost no one thought that there was another scenery under this stone building.
Underground of the stone building is a secret underground hall, which is about more than 300 square meters. A wooden platform occupies one third of the hall, and about fifty chairs are scattered in the rest of the place. Almost half of the chairs were occupied by people.
Everyone sitting wore a cloak to hide their faces and prevent others from being identified. Occasionally, he would raise a wooden sign and announce the numbers, also in a falsetto voice, extremely cautious.
On the wooden platform, there was a skinny man, wearing a shiny suit covered with glass shards, talking loudly, introducing items one by one, trying to make the people in the audience have the desire to buy.
Apparently this is an auction.
To be precise, this is a gray auction that is on the edge of illegality.
About half a month ago, Richard learned about the existence of this auction through contacts with some people. After a lot of effort, he got the invitation letter and came here.
To be honest, if it weren't for getting some missing materials, he wouldn't want to come. Because this place is really irregular, the auctioneer will basically not guarantee any benefits to the bidders except collecting money to sell things, so the auctioneers will try their best to protect their identities.
Even so, there were still bidders in the previous auctions. They were followed as soon as they went out, and then they were ambushed and attacked, and everything on them was taken away - not even their clothes were left behind.
Affected by this negative influence, those who now dare to participate in the auction are those who are confident in their own strength. There are very few ordinary people. Most of them are wizard apprentices and some wandering wizards.
Everyone was extremely alert and seemed to be sitting quietly in their seats, staring at the wooden platform. But in fact, less than three-thirds of the attention is on the wooden platform, and the other seven-tenths of the attention is on the people sitting next to you. I want to find out whether the person sitting next to me has any evil thoughts about me, and whether I should take advantage of him later.
Richard sat in a corner of the auction house, feeling the tense atmosphere around him, and couldn't help but shake his head. He didn't feel much nervous here. On the one hand, he was very confident in his own strength, and on the other hand, the white feathers in his arms gave him some kind of special reminder.
Yes, White Feather gave him a reminder.
After a winter, although he didn't fully understand what the white feathers were, he also figured out some of its functions - there were two main functions.
The first one is the cracked illusion that has been seen before. According to tests, white feathers have a strong defensive effect against some aggressive and confusing mental spells. It can be said that as long as you wear white feathers, you will basically not suffer from mental spells.
The second one is related to spirit, or emotion. White Feather can feel some obvious malice and goodwill emanating from it, resulting in some changes.
He had actually noticed this change on the ship, but because there was too little data, he could not draw a conclusion. Now after a winter, it is confirmed that if White Feather feels clear kindness, it will become hot, and if it feels clear malice, it will become cold.
In a sense, the white feather is equivalent to a kind of identity identifier. It can quickly determine whether a person is good or bad through hot and cold. Of course, if a bad person hides his emotions and heart extremely well, it will be difficult for Bai Feather to detect him, but this is extremely rare.
Breaking illusions and identifying good and evil are the two major functions of white feathers.
To sum up, you can use two words to describe Baifei - pure, and one word - true.
White feathers have a certain meaning, as if they exist specifically to distinguish between illusion and reality, disguise and friendliness.
Richard was not sure about the clown's mentality in giving him this gift, nor was he sure whether the white feathers had a more important role, but as far as he knew now, the white feathers reminded him easily of an item in the earth's legend— Feather of Truth.
Feather of truth!
The Feather of Truth comes from ancient Egyptian myths and legends.
Legend has it that after death in ancient Egypt, everyone would enter the world of the dead, Duet, where they would meet Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death.
Anubis had a Scale of Judgment, which was used to judge a person's good and evil. He placed the heart of a dead person on one end of the Scale of Judgment, and placed the Feather of Truth on the other end of the Scale of Judgment - from truth and Taken from the goddess of order "Mat".
If a person is kind, his heart will be light, higher than the feather of truth, and he can have eternal life. If a person is evil and has done all bad things, his heart will be heavy, lower than the feather of truth, and he will receive the punishment he deserves.
In Richard's opinion, now that White Feather is used by him against the others, it is considered a weakened version of "judgment". There may be some loopholes, and it won't be deceived like the legendary Anubis, but it won't be too different, and it can fully meet daily needs.
Therefore, he decided to call the white feather the "Feather of Judgment". He would not completely rely on this thing to judge whether a person is good or bad, but it could be used to determine the complexity of the surrounding environment to a large extent.
For example, now, he can determine that at least three people nearby have malicious intentions towards him through the coolness that comes out from time to time on the surface of the "Feather of Judgment". However, this malicious intent is only at the lowest level, and does not reach the level of killing and stealing. It seems that he is safe for now and can continue to stay at ease.
Thinking like this, he looked towards the wooden platform.
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