"Lin Xue...is this the mysterious old man you were talking about?"
"When did I say that he was a mysterious old man?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes, "I just said that he has something extraordinary."
"Even if he is just an NPC who keeps mysterious items, 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, with the trousers rolled up to his knees, was holding a big bowl and sucking noodles as if he had never eaten in his life.
From time to time, he stretched out his hands to scratch his furry calves. It seemed that he was completely immersed in his own noodle world and did not notice our arrival at all.
"Don't underestimate this old man," Lin Xue whispered, "Gu Zhengfeng was once the most famous tomb robber in China. He robbed more tombs than you have ever entered a supermarket, and he almost never left empty-handed.
It's a pity that during his last tomb robbery, he touched something he shouldn't have touched, and was chased by someone he couldn't afford to offend. In the end, he had no choice but to hide in this place and escape."
"Really..." I looked carefully at the sloppy old man in front of me who was fighting with noodles again. I never imagined that he could be such a powerful person.
Lin Feng came over a little mysteriously and said: "Not only that, it is said that the day after he hid in this exile town, the enemy who was chasing him choked to death on a Sixi meatball..."
"You brat, you came here today to trouble me, right?" The sloppy old man had sucked the last noodle into his mouth at some point, and shouted to Lin Feng with his eyes wide open. It turned out that he had heard our conversation a long time ago.
, just too lazy to pay attention to us.
"Don't you dare!" Lin Feng cupped his hands and said with a chuckle, "Today we are here to see you, old man, and we have something important to ask for. I wonder if we can come in and talk in detail?"
"Stop talking nonsense," the old man picked up the bowl, poured the soup into his stomach, and then said with a swipe of his lips, "You won't let me leave anyway, what else can I object to on your land?"
Following the old man, we entered this mud house that looked ordinary from the outside.
The scene inside was beyond my expectation.
The small room was filled with old bottles and jars and tools with no apparent purpose, leaving almost no place to stay. Even the walls were covered with dirty things that looked like cultural relics.
The not-so-bright room made these shiny black relics of the past polished by the long river of history even darker. As soon as I entered this room, I even felt like I had stepped into a newly excavated tomb.
"It's these things that made me like this," said the old tomb robber, walking through the "rags" on the ground with ease, "but I still can't bear to throw them away."
"Everything here should be priceless if sold, right?" Qian Qian carefully stepped over an old clay pot that looked like it would break into pieces all over the floor if touched, and said softly.
"Don't think about these things," Lin Xue whispered, "otherwise Mr. Gu will definitely fight for you. 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 touch the remaining things here until his death."
The old tomb robber's hearing was obviously very good, and Lin Xue's soft words could not escape his ears. He only heard him chuckle and said: "After I die, these things will naturally be dealt with as you please, but when it comes to death,
One day, I hope to lie in this pile of treasures - Lao Gu has dug the graves of countless princes and nobles in his life, and when I die, I want to lie in this pile of treasures like them!"
After hearing the old man's words, all of us could only roll our eyes in the sky, completely helpless.
"Okay, sit down." After a difficult trek, we finally arrived at the only open space in the room. The old man casually pulled out a few chairs that looked like they were about to fall apart and invited us to sit down.
Sitting among these treasures of our ancestors, we suddenly felt like we were having a meeting in a tomb...
"Tell me, are you here for that thing?" The old man seemed to already know our purpose.
"That's right." Lin Xue replied readily.
"It's not impossible to give you that thing," a flash of light flashed in the old man's eyes. The original slovenliness seemed to disappear without a trace. It seemed that he had regained the spirit of the shrewd and capable tomb robber.
"If I hadn't been greedy and brought it out, I wouldn't be in this situation now. For me, it would be a disaster, but I can't give it to you so easily - you know my rules.
"
At this time, I finally heard that what Lin Xue wanted from this old tomb robber was the thing that almost killed him. At this time, even I became very curious about that mysterious object.
Lin Xue didn't seem to pay attention to the rules mentioned by the old man at all. She pushed Qianqian forward who was curiously observing the antiques and said: "This is Xu Feng's daughter, Xu Qianqian, if your statement doesn't make sense,
Wrong, then this girl is qualified to activate that thing - how about taking it out and trying it?"
"Hey -" I thought Lin Xue wanted Qian Qian 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 for an experiment."
The old tomb robber looked Qian Qian up and down for a while, then he chuckled and said, "Hey, that missing man's daughter? Her father is an avid materialist, and he doesn't even want to believe in your superpowers. Why?
He scolded me a lot, why is his daughter willing to believe these nonsense? Just wait, I will get it for you..."
When the old man got up and went to look for the mysterious thing in the back, Qianqian and I asked together: "Uncle Xu (father) has been here too?"
"Yes," it was Zheng Yiming who answered us this time, "because the ruins they are going to explore are somewhat special, so we arranged for several main members of the expedition team to come here before departure, hoping that they could get the ruins from Gu Zhengfeng.
Important item. Fortunately, Mr. Xu successfully resonated with that thing. However, what we did not expect was that Mr. Xu not only did not believe our words at all, but also dismissed our suggestions as pseudoscience, and dismissed Mr. Gu, who was a tomb robber.
I scolded him a lot..."
Qianqian glanced at us sheepishly, as if she had expected her father's stubbornness.
Hearing Zheng Yiming's description, I became even more curious about the mysterious object they talked about: "You said that thing can resonate with Uncle Xu, and as Uncle Xu's daughter, Qianqian can also resonate with what you said.
'?What on earth is that?"
"You will know after you see it for yourself. One thing is certain, it is a magical item that is even more difficult to explain than the power of us superpowers."
Just then, I heard a noise behind me, and the old tomb robber had already taken the thing.
"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. I didn't know what kind of material it was made of. The surface was covered with a layer of black-red dirt that looked like rust.
Yueyue can also see some incomplete symbols on the surface of this metal plate. Other than that, this thing is just like the scraps in the garbage dump.
Is this thing that looks like a piece of broken iron the mysterious item that is so popular?
Just when I thought I had been deceived 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?"
"The ethereal beacon 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 jumps. I have a similar device, which can be used for a Xiling
For a warrior, the ethereal beacon is a very important thing... How can there be such a thing in this world..."
At this moment, what happened at the scene interrupted the spiritual dialogue between me and Pandora.
Following Gu Zhengfeng's instructions, Qian Qian placed her left hand on the black metal plate that Pandora called the "ethereal beacon". 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 form?"