Xyrin Empire

Chapter 24: Shilling relics

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"Lin Xue...is this the mysterious old man you mentioned?"

"When did I say he was a mysterious old man?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes, "I just said he has something unusual."

"Even if it's just the NPC who keeps the mysterious item, he should have something special... This image..."

In front of us, an old man with dark skin, a dirty shirt on his upper body, and a pair of gray trousers on his lower body, trousers rolled up to his knees, was holding a large bowl, sucking noodles desperately as if he had never eaten in his life. From time to time, he stretched out his hand to scratch his hairy calf. It seemed that he was completely immersed in his noodle world and didn't notice our arrival at all.

"Don't underestimate this old man," Lin Xue said in a low voice, "Gu Zhengfeng used to be the most famous tomb robber in China. He has robbed more tombs than you have ever entered in supermarkets, and he almost never left empty-handed." After all, it’s a pity that when he robbed the tomb for the last time, he moved something that shouldn’t be moved, and was chased and killed by someone he absolutely couldn’t afford to offend, so he had to hide in this place to escape the catastrophe.”

"Really..." I looked at the sloppy old man in front of me who was fighting with noodles seriously again, but I never thought that the other party was such a powerful person.

Lin Feng came over mysteriously, and said, "More than that, it is said that the second day after hiding in this exile town, the enemy who chased him was choked to death by a Sixi ball..."

"Stinky boy, you came here today to make trouble for me, didn't you!" The sloppy old man had already sucked the last noodle into his mouth, and yelled at Lin Feng with his eyes wide open. It turned out that he had heard our conversation a long time ago. , just too lazy to talk to us.

"Don't dare dare!" Lin Feng cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Today we are here to ask your old man for something important. I wonder if we can come in and discuss it in detail?"

"Stop talking nonsense," the old man picked up the sea bowl, poured the noodle soup into his stomach, and then said with a wipe of his mouth, "Anyway, you won't let me leave, so what can I object to on your land?"

Following behind the old man, we entered this earthen house that looked ordinary from the outside.

The scene inside was beyond my expectation.

The small room is full of worn-out bottles and jars and useless tools, making it almost impossible to step down. Even the walls are covered with dirty and relic-like objects. The not-so-bright room made the glossy black relics of the ancestors polished by the long river of history even darker. As soon as I entered this room, I even had the feeling of stepping into a newly excavated tomb.

"It's these things that made me like this," said the old tomb robber, walking through the "junk" all over the ground with ease, "but I still can't bear to throw them away."

"Anything here should be priceless if you sell it, right?" Qianqian carefully stepped over an old clay pot that looked like it would shatter into pieces all over the floor if touched, and said softly.

"Don't think about these things," Lin Xue said in a low voice, "Otherwise, Mr. Gu will definitely look for you desperately. When he came to this town, he donated a total of 227 cultural relics and his own. All the family property, and made a request, that is, no one is allowed to tamper with the remaining things here until his death."

The old tomb robber's hearing was obviously very good, and even Lin Xue's soft words could not escape his ears. He only heard him giggle and said, "Of course you will deal with these things whatever you want after I die, but when it's really time to die One day, I hope to be able to lie in this pile of treasures—Old Gu has dug the graves of countless princes and nobles in his life, and when I die, I will be like them, lying in this pile of treasures!"

Hearing what the old man said, all of us could only roll our eyes to the sky, completely helpless.

"Okay, let's sit." After a difficult journey, we finally came to the only open space in the room. The old man casually pulled out a few chairs that seemed to be falling apart and beckoned us to sit down.

Sitting among these ancestral treasures, we suddenly have a meeting in the grave…

"Tell me, is it because of that thing that you came to me?" The old man seemed to already know our reason for coming.

"That's right." Lin Xue replied straightforwardly.

"It's not impossible to give that thing to you." A gleam flashed in the old man's eyes, and the original slovenliness seemed to disappear without a trace, as if he had regained the look of the shrewd and capable grave robber. "If I hadn't brought it out for a moment of greed, I wouldn't have fallen into this field. It would be a disaster for me, but I can't give you things so easily—you know my rules."

At this time, I finally heard that what Lin Xue wanted from this old tomb robber was exactly the thing that almost brought him death. At this time, even I had a strong curiosity about that mysterious item.

Lin Xue didn't seem to care about the rules mentioned by the old man at all. She pushed Qianqian who was curiously observing the antique, and said, "This is Xu Feng's daughter, Xu Qianqian. Wrong, then this girl has the qualifications to activate that thing—how about it, take it out and try it?"

"Hey—" I thought Lin Xue wanted Qianqian to do something dangerous, so I couldn't help but stop her.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt your sweetheart, I just need her cooperation to do an experiment."

The old tomb robber looked up and down Qianqian for a while, then laughed and said: "Hey, the daughter of the missing man? Her father is a materialist who doesn't even want to believe your supernatural powers. He yelled at me, why, his daughter is willing to believe these messy things? You wait, I will get you... "

When the old man got up and rummaged through the mysterious thing, Qianqian and I asked together: "Uncle Xu (father) has also been here?"

"Yes," it was Zheng Yiming who answered us this time, "because the ruins they are going to explore is a bit special, so we arranged for several key personnel of the expedition team to come here before departure, hoping that they can get the ruins from Gu Zhengfeng. Fortunately, Mr. Xu successfully resonated with that thing, but what we didn't expect was that Mr. Xu not only didn't believe our words at all, but also dismissed our suggestion as pseudoscience, and called Mr. Gu, who was a tomb robber, I scolded..."

Qianqian gave us a look of embarrassment, as if she had expected her father's stubbornness.

Hearing Zheng Yiming's description, I was even more curious about the mysterious item they were talking about: "You said that thing can resonate with Uncle Xu, and Qianqian, as Uncle Xu's daughter, can also resonate with what you said '? What the hell is that?"

"You can see it for yourself. One thing is certain, it is a magical item that is more difficult to explain than the power of our supernatural beings."

At this moment, I heard a sound behind me, and the old grave robber had already brought the thing over.

"That's it?" I looked at the inconspicuous thing in the old man's hand in surprise. It was a hexagonal metal plate the size of a palm. Jojo could also see some incomplete symbols on the surface of the metal plate, other than that, this thing was no different from a scrap in a junkyard.

This thing that looks like a piece of broken iron is the mysterious item that has been blown up like a god

Just when I thought I was being fooled by an old man who liked to play tricks, Pandora's voice came through the spiritual connection: "This is an ethereal beacon!"

"What?!" I was shocked, "Pandora, do you know this thing?"

"Ethereal Beacon, which is used by members of the Imperial Legion for emergency teleportation to evacuate the battlefield in critical situations. It can also be used as a navigator for small-scale space transitions. I have a similar device, which is useful for a Xiling For fighters, ethereal beacons are very important things... How could there be in this world... "

At this moment, what happened on the scene interrupted the spiritual dialogue between me and Pandora.

According to Gu Zhengfeng's instructions, Qianqian put her left hand on the black metal plate that Pandora called "Ethereal Beacon", and immediately, the metal plate made a slight buzzing sound.

"How is it possible!" Pandora's surprised voice came from my spiritual world. I have never seen her have such violent emotional fluctuations. "How can something from the Xiling Empire resonate with a carbon-based life?"