The situation inside this antique store is just as Duncan guessed - it is full of chaos, decadence, and bleak business. Even if they just look at the dust accumulated near the window, visitors can imagine that the owner has put his own things into it.
How bad life has become.
The first thing he saw was the storage tables near the walls on both sides. Large vases, sculptures and totem-like objects with unknown meanings were placed on the low and steady table. The wall behind the storage table was patterned with grids, and there were
For placing relatively small "goods", the counter is located directly opposite the door. It is a long bar. The shelves behind the counter are also somewhat dusty and filled with dark-colored picture frames and small ornaments.
Behind the counter, you can also see a staircase leading to the second floor. It is so dark that the structure is temporarily unclear.
There is also a small door under the stairs. In "Memory", that door should lead to the warehouse behind the store - half of the space inside is filled with debris.
It was hard to imagine that the cultist he possessed was living off a shop like this that no one seemed to visit, and even had some money left to offer to the priests of the Sun God.
Duncan walked towards the counter at the back. The old wooden floor creaked a little. As he passed the stairs, he noticed the lamp fixed on the wall.
That's an electric lamp.
Duncan's brows immediately frowned slightly.
The style of the lamp is unfamiliar, and the wrought iron frame and gray lampshade both have an exotic feel, but no matter what, the structure of the tungsten filament bulb inside is clear at a glance - the light source of this lamp comes from electric energy.
In this world, has electricity become such a common thing? Ordinary people in Xiacheng District also use electric lights in their homes?
Then why were the light sources used in the sewers previously used gas lamps, oil lamps, and torches? Why were the street lights outside also using gas lamps?
Huge doubts arose, which seemed to Duncan to be unreasonable, especially in an environment like a sewer - there is an open flame, and gas lamps that use flammable gases have obvious shortcomings compared with clean and safe electric lamps!
At first, he thought it was due to technical limitations that the city managers could only use gas lamps as the light source for the sewers. However, it seems now... at least in the city-state of Puland, technology has already developed to the level where electricity can enter the homes of ordinary people.
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A huge sense of dissonance filled Duncan's heart. He tried to search for corresponding knowledge from the memory fragments in his mind, but he only got the answers "This is common sense" and "This is how urban planning is."
It seems that either this knowledge is not disclosed to the public, so that the cultist he possesses knows nothing about it, or the knowledge in this area is too basic, so that it is not in the mind of the cultist.
It left a strong enough impression on him that the corresponding memory quickly became blurred and faded after his death, leaving only the "natural" impression.
With a temporary unsolved confusion in his heart, Duncan reached out and turned on the light - with a soft click of the switch, a bright light immediately illuminated the area near the stairs and counter.
There is a switch on the opposite wall that controls the lights in other areas of the store on the first floor, but Duncan doesn't plan to touch it yet.
Nowadays, in the dead of night, a small light shining in a closed antique shop can be explained by "the shopkeeper gets up and walks around at night", but suddenly the lights are brightly lit, which may attract unnecessary attention.
With the limited light near the stairs, Duncan's eyes first glanced at the nearest products. The first thing that caught his eye was a totem-like object less than half a meter high, carved from wood. The wooden totem was decorated with red and blue colors.
The colorful paint depicts weird facial patterns, and there are antique vases that should be made of ceramics next to them - there are price tags in front of them, and the price tags are marked with outrageous prices.???.
The original price is 420,000, with a discount of 360,000.
There was such an air of self-destruction.
Duncan's eyes quickly moved away and scanned the entire store.
If there was anything genuine here, he would make the Lost Home smash against the city wall of Plande.
It can't be fake anymore, and it doesn't need to be authenticated by a real collector. Anyone with normal intelligence will not believe that this antique store in Xiacheng District will sell real antiquities - someone who can really pick up antiques will be there.
This kind of slum market is developing? The oldest thing in this whole store is probably not the sign at the door...
But Duncan is not surprised by the existence of this store - the store owner knows that what he sells is fake stuff, and the people who come here to buy things don't expect to actually have a thousand-year-old statue in their home. Everyone knows it.
What's going on? The common people in Xiacheng District also need ways to satisfy their spiritual needs - the "antique shop" sign at the door is not hung by the shop owner for others to see, but for the people who come here to buy things.
After all, there are still jade sellers under the earth’s overpass. Ninety-eight bracelets are known as the old pit ice type. If you accidentally knock the door frame when you go home, glass particles will fall to the ground - the buyer and the seller don’t
Do you know what's going on?
Duncan was not interested in the bad life of the owner of this shop. He was only concerned about one thing: this place should be his first "foothold" on land as the captain of the Lost Home.
An "outpost" for understanding the land world and modern civilized society.
He has secretly made a decision to maintain his current body as much as possible as long as the conditions for "walking in the spirit world" allow, and use this "antique shop" as a cover to move around the city-state of Puland, and
If Ai's subsequent training goes well, and if Ai can really transfer "real objects" between the Lost Home and Plande in a stable and controlled manner, this antique shop will also become a secret material transfer warehouse.
Duncan came behind the counter, sat on a chair and carefully sorted through the memory fragments in his mind, and considered all possible hidden dangers.
The original owner of this body was a Sun God believer, but he was only the lowest member in the entire church system. Due to the city-state authorities' continuous crackdown on cult activities, the living space of the Sun God believers in Puland City has been compressed to
To the extreme, its members are extremely cautious in contacting each other. In addition to wearing full-coverage hoods and masks when attending any gathering, many lower-level members even only have one or two specific "connectors" with the upper echelons of the church.
This is undoubtedly a good thing for Duncan today——
This means that even within the cult, only one person knows "his" real identity and contact method. Once this person is gone, no one will know "his" ulterior heretical identity.
He can walk upright before the administrators of the city-state, and his identity is a pure and good citizen.
The better news is that after carefully sorting out his memory, Duncan confirmed that the biggest hidden danger has actually disappeared.
Because "his" contact person was one of the three black-robed cultists he saw when he just woke up...
Those three unlucky guys have been pigeon-holed.
He relaxed a little and sat in a more comfortable position on the chair.
After the biggest hidden danger has disappeared, if there is anything else to worry about, it is the other Sun God believers who previously held sacrificial rituals in the underground assembly hall, and the even larger, more mysterious and dangerous Sun God Church behind those believers.
If the memory in your mind is correct, the city-state of Puland carried out a severe attack on the Church of the Sun God entrenched in the city four years ago. Since then, this heretical faith has been in decline in the city-state, let alone holding any ceremonies.
, on weekdays, they can hide themselves well and are not caught by the church guardians. Thank God.
But now, these extremely low-key cultists have done something quite high-profile.
The purpose of the sacrificial ceremony is to please the gods, and the other purpose is to gather power or enhance the influence of the gods on the real world - the cultists in the assembly hall at that time, and even the priest "messenger" who presided over the ceremony, were actually all
They can only be regarded as grassroots members of the Church of the Sun God. Will these grassroots members organize themselves to carry out such a big task?
The memory fragments in Duncan's mind are not too many, and it is even less likely for a grassroots cultist to have access to the core secrets of the church. However, just by reasoning from the existing information, he can also guess who the cultists who suddenly came to life should be.
Received instructions from higher ups.
That heretical sect that worshiped the "True Sun God"... They wanted to do a big thing in Puland, but they accidentally interfered with Huang's sacrifice ceremony. I'm afraid it was just the most insignificant splash before the big thing started.
Duncan can't say he has any feelings for this "Pland City-state", but if he wants to use this place as a starting point for development, he has to consider that a group of lunatics like the "Sun God Cultists" will do whatever they want to him in the city-state.
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