In the late autumn morning, Kalmar Street, which has a modern European style, is already quite lively with cars, horses and pedestrians passing by.
There are plate-armored vehicles that carry goods like trucks.
There are horse-drawn carriages that carry passengers like taxis.
There are luxuriously decorated private carriages pulled by solid-colored horses, just like high-end cars.
There are men and women walking on both sides of the street, rushing to go to work.
There are housewives holding paper bags with food, who have gone out to buy food and are returning home.
There are newsboys carrying cloth cross-body bags and hawking.
…
After having breakfast, Felin opened the door of the "Felin Laboratory" and saw this scene.
He has watched this scene for twenty years, but Felin still feels a little unreal, as if he is in a dream.
There is a secret in Feilin's heart. His soul is not from this world, but from a blue planet.
However, unlike many senior time travellers, he has not been able to awaken the golden finger, at least for now.
Although he didn't have a golden finger, he successfully learned a skill with his early wisdom.
At the age of 20, I opened my own jewelry and antiques appraisal laboratory, earning an income of about 4 gold pounds per week.
1 gold pound is equal to 20 shillings, 1 shilling is equal to 12 pence, and 1 penny is approximately equal to about 4 yuan in the previous life.
Calculated, his monthly income is roughly equivalent to about fifteen thousand in his previous life.
In Kangston City, there are not many people whose income can reach this level. Although it is not as good as the upper level, it is more than the lower level. It is well above the middle level.
Today, he did not wear his usual formal clothes, but wore black clothes.
Black represents solemnity and mourning, which is the dress code for funerals.
He put down his work and was going to attend a funeral.
I bought a bouquet of white chrysanthemums at a flower shop and took a taxi to the cemetery outside the city.
An hour later, the carriage stopped at the cemetery outside the city.
Many people in black clothes had gathered at a certain location in the cemetery, and Felin walked towards that place.
After getting closer, Felin saw some acquaintances among the people in black, and these acquaintances also recognized Felin.
However, both parties just nodded slightly and did not say hello to each other, because it was not a suitable occasion.
At one location in the cemetery, a rectangular pit has been dug and a tombstone has been erected.
On the tombstone, the name and life story of the tomb owner are engraved.
The owner of the tomb is Ray Romano, an archaeological scholar who has devoted his life to discovering the truth of history and has made outstanding contributions to the archaeological community.
It has cultivated many outstanding students and provided many outstanding talents to the archaeological field.
"teacher……"
Felin muttered softly, and the image of a skinny little old man appeared in his mind.
He is one of Ray Romano's many students, and his knowledge of jewelry and antique appraisal was taught by Ray Romano.
From learning the knowledge of jewelry and antique appraisal to opening the appraisal office, he received the care of Ray Romano.
It is precisely because of Ray Romano's care that he was able to own a store of his own at such a young age.
One after another, more people arrived, some of whom Feilin knew and some who he didn't.
At ten o'clock, a plate-armored carriage slowly arrived. Inside the carriage was a coffin covered with cloth, and in the coffin lay the body of Ray Romano.
Behind the carriage were Ray Romano's relatives, including his son, his daughter-in-law, and his grandchildren and granddaughters.
As for his wife, she had died long before him.
Everyone faced the coffin, and a distinguished old man stood in front of the coffin and recited a eulogy.
"Mr. Ray Romano was a great archaeological scholar. During his lifetime, he had been committed to..."
If we say that the biggest difference between this world and previous modern times in Europe is that there are no churches or priests in this world, and all religious beliefs are not allowed.
Anyone who believes in religion will be considered a cultist and will be wanted and arrested by the kingdom, so the person who reads the eulogy is not a priest but an old man with a higher status.
After the eulogy was recited, the coffin was buried, and everyone came forward one by one to offer white flowers to express their condolences.
The funeral ended here, and everyone dispersed one after another. Felin did not leave immediately, but stayed behind.
After most of the funeral attendees had left, he walked up to Ray Romano's son, Josey Romano, and shouted.
"Mr. Josie."
"You are my father's student, right? Is something wrong?"
Josie Romano's eyes were slightly red. When he saw Felin walking forward, he asked.
"Yes, I am Mr. Romano's student."
Felin hesitated and asked.
"When we met some time ago, the teacher was still in good health. How could he suddenly...?"
"He died of an illness during an archaeological excavation not long ago."
Josh Romano said in a low voice, feeling depressed.
"How could this happen... Teacher has stopped going to the grave now, why did he go to the grave again?"
After learning the cause of the teacher's death, Feilin couldn't help but feel even more sad, because the teacher's death could have been avoided.
"It was a tomb from the imperial period and was of great archaeological value. My father didn't want to leave it to anyone else, so he went to the tomb."
Josh Romano sighed.
"Imperial tombs?"
Feilin looked surprised. He understood why the teacher who had stopped going to the grave would go to the grave again.
In this current era, the Kingdom of Heidelberg, the Kingdom of Ercano, and the Kingdom of Porto, where he resides, are standing at the same level, which is called the Kingdom Period.
Earlier, about 600 years ago, there were dozens of principalities, large and small, which was called the principality period.
Further back, about a thousand years ago, there was only one empire, which was called the Imperial Period.
It was an extremely powerful empire that ruled the territory of the three major kingdoms today, and its history of rule lasted for thousands of years.
But such a powerful country suddenly collapsed one day.
Its destruction has become the biggest unsolved mystery in the archaeological world and a history that almost all archaeologists want to explore.
As an archaeologist, how could the teacher resist going down to explore such a tomb?
"Shortly after going to the grave, one of them kept coughing up blood and died soon after."
"Father and the others noticed something was wrong and immediately left the tomb."
"But even if they leave immediately, they will not be able to save their lives."
"Like the previous person, they also developed symptoms of coughing up blood one after another."
"Although the pharmacist was invited, he was helpless and they died one after another not long after."
Josie Romano said sadly.
"Teacher, did they come into contact with something poisonous in the tomb?"
Felin asked with a frown.
In the tomb, due to long-term closure and decay, highly toxic substances can easily breed.
Although live birds will be used to explore the tomb when going down, it cannot be completely avoided.
Because some toxic substances are not gases at all, they may be moss on the walls or some invisible mold.
"have no idea."
Josie Romano shook his head sadly.
"Please forgive me!"
Felin comforted Josie Romano and left after a long time.
In late autumn, the sky is gray and there is no sunlight. It is obviously daytime, but it feels like evening.
"Wow, wow, wow..."
At this time of year, many trees in the cemetery have lost all their leaves.
Several black crows, symbolizing ominousness, stood on the bare branches, making a harsh and even penetrating sound.
Their bloody eyes looked at the cemetery below without blinking.
There was obviously no one there, but they seemed to see some "person".
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The next morning, Felin, who had been closed for the day, started working.
The job of an appraiser, as its name suggests, is to appraise jewelry and antiques.
Most of them accept entrustments and go to the homes of certain wealthy businessmen and nobles to conduct professional appraisals of antique jewelry for them.
Leaving the home of a wealthy businessman, Felin took a taxi back to the appraisal office.
"The teacher's residence is right in front..."
Passing a street, Felin looked at a place.
As a student of Ray Romano, he went to Ray Romano's residence, which was located on this street.
"Well, what's going on? Why are there police officers in front of the teacher's house?"
Several people wearing police uniforms appeared in front of the teacher's house, and the teacher's son, Josie Romano, was talking to them.
His intuition told him that something bad might happen.
As a student of Ray Romano, he naturally couldn't turn a blind eye and quickly asked the coachman to stop the carriage in front of Ray Romano's door.
"Mr. Josie, what happened?"
Looking at Josh Romano, Felin asked.
"This morning the gravekeeper discovered that my father's grave had been dug up and his body was missing."