The impact of jumping from the second floor is not a big problem at all for a young man with very good physical fitness like Victor. Besides, the green belt along the street also gives him a big buffer.
It happened in the blink of an eye, and Dilio's servants had no time to catch up with him.
Victor put on his hat to cover his red hair, ran across a street and disappeared into the crowd. When the servants ran out of the door, not even his shadow was seen.
……
Back at Xianxiang Mansion, Victor entered the bedroom alone and checked the contents of his wallet.
There are a lot of messy pieces of paper inside, as well as banknotes and coins of different denominations, a total of 4 farka and 53 farfen.
A golden card was sandwiched among the yellowed pages. It was very obvious. Victor took it out and looked at the lines on it carefully.
It was an engraving similar to an astrolabe. There were many mysterious symbols inside and outside the large and small circles nested inside and outside. I don’t know what they represented, but Victor couldn’t understand them anyway.
Although he doesn't know how to play Tarot cards, he has been exposed to it and seen some patterns in the past. The Wheel of Fortune in his memory is indeed such a disk-like figure.
"Is this the rumored first deck of tarot cards?" Victor played with it doubtfully.
Who invented the Tarot cards? The world in the previous life has not yet been determined. However, looking at the world after time travel, everyone who has studied the mysterious side of knowledge seems to have determined that the first deck of Tarot cards was made of pure gold.
Made.
If what Vincent said in his notes is correct, then this golden tarot card contains the secret of sexual transformation.
But where is the secret?
Victor turned over and over again and still didn’t understand.
In addition to the disc pattern on the front of this card, there are only pits on the back, which look like some words engraved on it.
At first glance, I couldn't tell what the font was. Victor sprinkled some ink on it and found that the lines that emerged were more similar to cuneiform characters.
"No...that's not right, writing is more mature than cuneiform writing, and it should have appeared later."
Victor observed carefully. Although he didn't know what these words actually said, he had learned some about the development history of human writing from the database earlier.
The earliest writing was cuneiform, which was born before the Shadowless Empire and was also the predecessor of the Astrian language in the Shadowless Empire.
Scholars like to call it ancient human language, and its stone slabs were unearthed in the southern part of the Western Continent, the red land across the sea.
This is interesting, because now it seems that the territory of the Shadowless Empire should be the Greybean Empire and the Kingdom of Gordon in the Western Continent.
This means that the first human beings should have lived on the red land, but later, through some unknown method, they moved across the sea and settled in the Western Continent.
Although that area of the sea is not a vast ocean, it cannot be used casually for boating.
So some people suggested that maybe a long time ago, the Red Earth and the Western Continent should have been connected, but later they were separated due to crustal movements. Humans on both sides also lost communication, and the ancient cuneiform script evolved into Astrian and Red Land respectively.
Hieroglyphs of land.
Returning to the Golden Tarot Card, Victor recognized that this writing was not the oldest cuneiform writing, but very similar to the Astrian language of the Shadowless Empire recorded in documents.
Cuneiform is the predecessor of Astrian, and Astrian is the predecessor of all national languages in the Western Continent.
Unfortunately, Victor neither understands cuneiform nor has he learned Astrian. This kind of ancient writing can only be understood by university professors.
The rules for converting Golden Tarot cards are probably recorded in the ancient words on the back.
"This will be troublesome..."
After Victor made the assumption, he became restless.
He finally got the gold medal and was about to get a copy of Secret Butterfly 2, but unexpectedly he got stuck because he couldn't understand the text.
"Secret promotion is really too difficult..."
Just when he was dejected, he finally noticed the withered yellow papyrus wrapping the golden tarot cards.
Huh?
He picked up the straw and took a look, and found that there were words on it, like notes written by someone.
The note reads:
——
To my dear brother.
There are some things I must explain to you.
After returning from that mission, I sold all my treasures, except for this pair of gold cards...
Originally, this treasure would also be sold, but when I thought about the confessions of those cultists, I hesitated again.
If this card records some kind of forbidden knowledge, or hides a mysterious power... Why can't I steal this power and use it for my own use?
The text on the back of the card is very complicated, which is still too difficult for a veteran like me.
But it doesn’t matter. With my current financial resources, I can just spend some money to find a doctor who understands history to help me translate it.
In fact, that's what I did. Before I got well, I went to the University of San Francisco and got the translated text from a scholar.
The approximate content of his translation is as follows: Wheel of Fortune - "In the ethereal mist that cannot be seen clearly, I sometimes outline my emerald dreams, sometimes transforming into a black and white butterfly, but I know that I have witnessed the fate of my life.
Reversal and cycle.”
This is this passage. It seems quite profound at first glance, right? But this is just a literal translation, "literal translation", do you understand?
Later, I sorted out many different opinions through some shady channels, and finally came up with a "popular translation" of this translation!
My dear brother, Dirio Konova, you will never believe this is a way to change the power of a seer!
Seer! The rumored mysterious and invisible technique!
This is the knowledge and power hidden in the cards, and this is what the cultists are after!
I will write down the results first. If there is a chance in the future, you may use this method, or you can exchange this card for something more useful.
The specific method is as follows. First, you have to obtain a rumored secret transmission, which is said to be the key to becoming a seer.
Then enter the secret place that is often mentioned by extraordinary people. If you have a chance, you can check where it is.
You need to witness your own destiny inside... If you can reverse this destiny, then the secret message in your hand can be changed into another gender.
I know, you must ask why you want to do this, so my brother, you don’t understand the value of this item...
The power of the seers is divided into different promotion paths. If you obtain a method that can change the sexual path...
In short, it is temporarily useless in our hands, but for those seers who pursue mysteries, it is a priceless treasure. You can exchange it for money, or even extraordinary relics...
Okay, this is my message to you. My health is deteriorating now. I also squandered too much in the early years and left no heirs. You are destined to inherit everything from me. How you deal with this card in the future is up to you.<
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But remember, don’t expose this thing. It’s hard to say whether those cultists are still alive. If they come looking for you, you may be in danger!