When Su Lun harvested August's memories before, he learned many secrets of the Rodriguez family, and was shocked by the wealth of the old aristocracy that had been inherited by the Duke for hundreds of years.
The industries of this kind of big aristocracy involve all walks of life, have unimaginable ability to attract money, and sit on trillions of wealth.
However, although an ancestor of the Rodriguez family has died, the others are still there, so if you want to touch this cake, you have to think long and hard.
Fortunately, the old guy didn't put his eggs in the same basket. He changed his name to "Williams" and rented a secret safe at the Royal Bank.
There were hundreds of banks, large and small, in the Luying Empire, but there was only one with a national name.
That is "Luying Royal Savings Bank".
This is the small treasury of the Bona royal family, the safest bank in Luying, and no agency has the authority to investigate.
Because you can open large anonymous accounts, it is also the favorite secret bank for all kinds of invisible rich people.
The headquarters of the Royal Bank is located at No. 1 Shenghui Road in the affluent area on the north bank of the Locovalen River in Ringtown, less than 800 meters away in a straight line from Frederick's Palace, the Royal Palace of Poland.
Su Lun put on a luxurious classic suit, disguised herself, hired a luxurious retro carriage, and went all the way to Luying Royal Bank.
It was a Gothic-style building that looked like a church.
There is an underground vault of unknown size beneath the bank.
Because he had harvested August's detailed memory, Su Lun successfully entered the bank's large customer hall through handwriting identification and password authentication.
After explaining his purpose, the vice president of the bank led him all the way down to the private safe area.
...
"The defense is really tight."
Su Lun followed the middle-aged president and took the elevator to a depth of tens of meters underground. After sensing the surrounding space, he found that the bank vault had a more complex anti-theft system than the Royal Academy's collection room.
Moreover, the neighbor is the Bona Palace, and there are more secret guards patrolling the nearby streets than normal pedestrians. No thieves have ever thought of stealing here.
Not long after, the middle-aged vice president led Su Lun to a room full of safes. The defensive restrictions here were so exaggerated that it was jaw-dropping.
The middle-aged man used the bank's key to open the safe with the antique pattern number "1062", then said something and left. Su Lun was left alone at the scene.
When the safe was opened, there was a nine-digit alchemical code lock inside that looked like a roller.
This series of authentication methods makes it theoretically impossible for someone other than the person to take away the contents of the safe.
However, Su Lun adjusted the code of the alchemy lock according to the harvest code in the harvest memory, and it opened with a "click".
The moment he opened it, he was immediately dazzled by the luminous gems in the safe.
Su Lun looked at the pile of top-quality gems, energy crystals and magic cores. He had not had the feeling of sudden wealth coming from heaven for a long time, and thought to himself: "I have made a lot of money..."
The gems that can be placed in this safe are all of the highest quality.
Flawless gems, elemental source crystals, seventh- and eighth-level Warcraft crystal cores... dozens of them!
There are still two "cursed source crystals" brought out from Su Lun's warehouse, with a unit price of more than 100 million per piece.
These two were brought out from Old Lington and are not sold on the market at all.
And this kind of top-grade energy gem can only be produced once in a mine, but there are more than a dozen "Elemental Source Crystals" of the same grade in the safe.
These top-level alchemy materials are hard currency and strategic resources in the market, and are in short supply at all times.
There are also those seventh- and eighth-level magic cores, which are essential materials for top-level puppets.
There are eleven or two here by visual inspection.
Just this pile of gems is worth billions of liso!
Su Lun happily put all the gems into the storage space.
The colorful luster in the safe disappeared immediately.
There are two small boxes inside.
Su Lun opened one of the openable ones and found a stack of thick paper and parchment inside. After looking through it, he found that they were stock certificates, bonds and bearer certificates of deposit.
"Luying Royal Railway Company", "Xilian Mining Group", "Lington Water Company", "Imperial Tobacco Company"...
Seeing the stock certificates of these large companies that were the lifeblood of Luying's economy, Su Lun felt like he had seen a hen that could only lay golden eggs.
These profiteering monopoly industries make money even faster and more stably than being a pirate, and are no different from a money printing machine.
Even if the empire falls, these monopoly companies will not fall.
These things are probably the escape route Augustus left for Rodriguez.
Even if the family encounters any big problems, with these things, the family can make a comeback.
Su Lun couldn't help but feel that these top families could inherit the family for so many hundreds of years, which is indeed extraordinary.
Because it was a hidden retreat, all these bond certificates had nothing to do with the Rodriguez family, and Su Lun accepted them without politeness.
He thought about giving these securities to Reina when he went out. If he really managed it well, it would bring a steady stream of huge profits. He also wanted to give the business secrets about the Rodriguez family that he had stripped away to people who knew business.
If you control it, you can definitely make a huge profit from him.
Su Lun rummaged around again and found that in addition to bonds and other items, there were also some antique items in the box. Some of them had the noble coat of arms of the Rodriguez family. They seemed to be old tokens passed down by the family.
Suellen had no interest in these things, but was curious about their age.
Those stone carvings were estimated to be tens of thousands of years old?
The origins of these antiques are so long ago that even the ancestor Augustus didn't know when they were passed down.
If it wasn't picked up somewhere, then the Rodriguez family really has a long history.
Su Lun looked through it, and suddenly, a snake-shaped fragment caught his attention again.
【Fragments of Ouroboros】
Detailed explanation: Only a quarter of the extremely precise alchemy fragment is engraved with the name of the dwarf master craftsman 'Iswit Hammer'; in addition to the smell of original matter, you see more incomprehensible things**
*information;
"I actually found another piece..."
When Su Lun saw this thing, his expression was slightly strange.
Because he also has a piece in his hand.
In the sea ruins, he encountered the soul monster of Francis Drake, the "Pirate Emperor" more than two hundred years ago. That guy once snatched about one-half of the fragments from the Marfa Empire. Now the fragments are here
In the small void world.
Su Lun tried it, and the fractures of the two fragments were just enough to be inlaid, but the overall gap was about a quarter.
Originally, it was only half, and he wasn't too concerned about it.
After all, if the former Marfa Empire had been complete, it wouldn't have been only half robbed.
Now that he has found another quarter, Su Lun has some hope.
I thought I'd find someone to inquire about it first, and if I had a chance to raise it all, I'd also like to see what this thing was.
Then.
Su Lun set his sights on the last treasure box in the safe.
This is a magic sealed box, with some special symbols on it that look like runes, but are completely different from the runes of alchemical civilization.
It looks like a treasure chest for storing important items.
The identification shows [an unknown advanced magic pattern language system], and its function is a kind of magic secret lock, which requires a specific method to open.
Su Lun saw the box and began to wonder: "What could be inside?"
This box was so old that even Augustus didn't know where it came from.
Anyway, it has been passed down in the family for generations and no one can open it.
This box, the [Sigurd's Dragon Slayer's Dagger], and the knight training method are all inherited items of the Rodriguez family.
Su Lun studied for a moment and couldn't find a way to open it.
After thinking about it, he decided to go to Mr. Hei, who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable.
...
Su Lun finished raiding August's secret vault and left the Royal Bank smoothly without encountering any mishaps.
Not long after, he rode his motorcycle to the Library of Congress in Franklin District.
He walked in with familiarity, and then looked for Mr. Hei who was working hard among the piles of ancient books in the book collection area.
Seeing Su Lun coming, Mr. Hei greeted him: "Su Lun, you're here just in time. The one in the 'Twenty-Two Secret Tarot Cards' that you asked me to help you decipher was the One-Eyed Hanged Man card.
I have deciphered it for you."
Su Lun also had a look of expectation in his eyes as he listened. He walked over and sat on a chair beside him without anyone else, and asked, "Oh? What big secret is really hidden in it?"
That tarot card was obtained on the Queen Roderica cruise ship. He couldn't decipher it himself, so he entrusted it to Mr. Black.
I didn't have much hope at first.
After all, Su Lun himself is a master of deciphering, and even the Eye of Omniscient has not been able to decipher it, so imagine how difficult it is to decipher.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Hei gave me a surprise.
Hearing this, Mr. Hei put down the ancient books he was sorting and responded: "The deciphered content is a treasure map. It records a place called [Mimir's Spring]. There is also a mythological epic, roughly
It is said that in an ancient civilization period, a giant sacrificed an eye by the spring and then obtained some runes. The person who made this card left a treasure map on it, saying that
I can find the spring water. Oh, there is also a sacrificial ceremony. But I looked through it carefully and compared it. The sea area on the card is an unknown area that is not marked on any of Lu Ying's charts..."
"this..."
After hearing these plots, Su Lun's pupils shrank slightly.
Extreme eyes on the edge of the spring...
Isn't this the myth and legend he saw in the giant ruins in the Silent Forest before?
The same story is actually recorded in the cards?
After a brief word, Mr. Hei saw that Su Lun was very interested, so he took out the tarot card and said, "You can read it yourself."
Su Lun immediately focused his attention on the card.
Because he had already deciphered the encryption method, he glanced over and saw a sea map that looked like a holographic projection appearing under the Hanged Man pattern on the card.
In the center of the chart is a huge "horseshoe-shaped" island.
Then there are the myths and legends of eye sacrifice that Mr. Hei mentioned before, and a mysterious ritual of obtaining spring water.
"It's true."
Seeing this, Su Lun's thoughts started to spin.
He had never seen the mythical story of eye sacrifice in any classics, and Mr. Hei said he had never heard of it either.
But the giant ruins and the [Hanged Man Tablet] both recorded the same legend, so the matter is worth pondering.
Before, Su Lun didn't believe that this set of "Twenty-Two Secret Tarot Cards" was really the work of the Five Elders of Dawn. After all, legends are legends, and merchants who sell these antiquities like to add some mysterious backgrounds to their products so that they can be sold
Higher price.
But now, he really believes it.
But anything related to mythical civilization is by no means simple.
"Then [Fountain of Mimir] really exists?"
Su Lun felt that this might be an opportunity closely related to the origin of his [Eye of Omniscient] talent, so he must go and see it if he could.
But obviously, the conditions are not mature.
The sea map on this card only shows the scene near "Horseshoe Island", which roughly indicates that it is in the West Sea.
But trying to find that island in the vast ocean with just this little information is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Mr. Hei has a photographic memory. If he says he has never seen it, then it means it is really not on Lu Ying's chart.
It was like a little hope suddenly came, and then completely lost.
Su Lun pursed his lips, showed a helpless smile, and complained: "The senior who drew this treasure map really deliberately made things difficult for others. How can we find it without a detailed route map?"
Mr. Hei smiled and put forward another idea, "Have you ever thought that it was because the sea area was too dangerous? The person who left the treasure map on the tarot cards did this in order to prevent innocent people from losing their lives.
No specific route was drawn? Even if a ship approaches that sea area and has passed through it, this information is enough to determine the location. It is not on the chart now, which means that no one has ever approached it alive."
When Su Lun heard this, his eyes turned and he immediately understood, and suddenly said: "That's right."
The current level of navigation in the Luying Empire is not low. Countless adventurers have sailed for thousands of years and have expanded the empire's sea chart countless times.
But that sea area has not been discovered so far, which means it is either extremely remote or extremely dangerous.
Either way, they are sea areas currently inaccessible to humans.
Su Lun sighed slightly again, "It's another headless treasure map."
Although this card has been deciphered, there is a high probability that it will gather dust in the warehouse.
Exploring unknown waters is not something you can just do if you want to. It may take decades or hundreds of years...
However, the holographic projection-like map on the card also reminded Su Lun of the [Black Sam's World Map] he had obtained before. The production techniques seemed to be the same.
Thirty years ago, the Pirate King went to explore the unknown sea and never came back...
Su Lun felt a slight pain in his balls when he thought of this.
...
There was no need to think about the Tarot cards for the time being. Su Lun remembered the purpose of his trip again and took out the treasure box with a special seal.
He asked: "Mr. Hei, can you help me see what restrictions are on this magic box? Can you decipher them?"
When Mr. Hei looked at the box, his eyes immediately showed a cautious look.
He pushed up his glasses that were sliding up and down the bridge of his nose, took the magic treasure box and observed it carefully.
Su Lun just watched quietly and said nothing.
After studying it for a while, Mr. Hei finally said: "This is not a rune from the alchemical civilization system. It seems to be a high-level magic script."
Su Lun was slightly surprised when he heard this uncertain tone and said, "You don't know Mr. Hei either?"
"It's normal that I don't know him. The river of civilization is as bright as the sea of stars, and the knowledge we know is only one part in a billion."
Mr. Hei smiled slightly, as modest as ever.
But the topic changed and he added: "But I have seen similar symbols on some antiques from ancient civilizations before. Because there are so few of them in existence, the alchemy world is not yet sure what they must represent. By the way, this thing you
Where did you get it?"
Su Lun had nothing to hide from this person and directly told Augustus's situation.
Mr. Hei seemed to have thought of something when he heard this.
After pondering for a moment, he asked again: "Su Lun, what difference does your omniscient eye see in these symbols?"
Su Lun checked it again and said: "I saw some extraordinary characteristics similar to advanced runic language."
After hearing this, Mr. Hei fell into deep thought. After a while, he said: "That must be it. This is probably the 'Dragon Language Magic'."
Su Lun was also surprised when he heard this, "Dragon language?"
This is an existence where he has harvested so much knowledge but has blind spots.
"Um."
Mr. Hei nodded, and when talking about this kind of topic, his extensive knowledge was immediately reflected, "In the mythical civilization, Dragon Language, together with Demonic Language, Elf Language, and Divine Language, was known as the 'Four Higher Languages'.
This is not a text that mortals can understand, because the characters of the high-level language system are not just patterns. They are like alchemical runes themselves, containing certain specific laws and extraordinary properties. In layman's terms, the high-level language system is like magic.
Like a spell, it has magic power in itself."
Su Lun listened thoughtfully, seeming to understand but not understanding.
After a pause, Mr. Hei gave another example: "It's like the whispers of gods brought by certain cursed objects. Ordinary humans can't accept the words that contain extraordinary characteristics, and they will become mentally distorted."
As soon as Su Lun heard this, he immediately understood.
He is very familiar with the situation of mental aberration!
Mr. Hei added: "I have previously suspected that these symbols are related to the dragon civilization, because most of the ancient artifacts in which these symbols appear are related to some ancient civilizations where giant dragons existed. But because those artifacts have lost those extraordinary characteristics, the symbols alone
It has lost its expressive meaning in advanced languages, so nothing can be determined. And this box is the only magical artifact that I have ever seen that is so well-preserved, and it comes from the Rodriguez family, so it is most likely the 'Dragon Language Magic Treasure Box'."
After listening to some popular science, Su Lun became more knowledgeable and asked again, "Mr. Hei, can you crack it?"
Mr. Hei spread his hands, showing a helpless expression, and said decisively: "No. This is beyond the scope of my current level of knowledge. I can't even see the extraordinary characteristics contained in these symbols."
"..."
Suellen shrugged.
Without the eye of omniscience, he himself cannot see.
But it’s also expected.
After all, the Rodriguez family has been in the family for thousands of years and no one has ever opened it, so this box must not be easy to open.
It's said that it's dragon language magic that humans can't understand, and everything makes sense.
From this point of view, the "descendants of dragon-slaying warriors" that the Rodriguez family has always boasted are really not just trying to put money in their own faces.
Maybe it's still true?
Unexpectedly, Mr. Hei added: "But you can ask the teacher. She should know more. After all, the master was once a demigod, and he once saw a giant dragon with his own eyes."
When Su Lun heard this, he suddenly said: "Yes!"
Sir Isaac once saw a giant dragon with his own eyes. As his own daughter, Mr. Mirror may know some dragon language magic?
There was no generational gap between Su Lun and his senior sister like Mr. Hei, so he dialed the communicator directly.
This question,
Mr. Jing really knows some dragon language!
...
Su Lun came to the Library of Congress and stopped running around. He just stayed here.
He has just advanced to the sixth level, and he has too many professionals of the same level who need to be able to communicate with him.
Mr. Hei is just right. He has recently advanced to the sixth level, and he is a polymath who can solve various problems.
And when Su Lun mentioned that he had brought the Mirror Library of the Royal Library into the Little Void Realm, Mr. Black was not jealous.
The most important reason why Mr. Hei chose to be this administrator is because he can be exposed to countless knowledge here, which not only satisfies his thirst for knowledge, but also helps him advance in the career of [Eruditionist].
But although the administrator's position is very leisurely, there are still many chores that will delay some time.
Moreover, the Royal Library has a much richer collection of books than public libraries like the Library of Congress, and there are many more high-level alchemy books... It can almost be regarded as a difference between gold and silver.
Mr. Hei immediately said that after handing over some of the intelligence work of the Mirror Organization, he planned to live in the Little Void World permanently.
Su Lun also thought it was pretty good.
The two of them stayed in the library, reading various books and exchanging advanced experiences.
It was not until two days later that Mr. Jing suddenly received a message saying that she had arrived in Lington by boat.
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I didn’t make it in time today, so the leader’s update has been postponed.