Mysterious journey

"You already know almost all the theoretical knowledge. As long as you integrate these two books and add practice, you will get started. Today's task is to officially start reading these two books. You can also take them back and read them yourself. Verbal Everything I can say is in this book. If you have any questions after reading it, come back and ask me." The old man said slowly.

Garen nodded, opened the book, and began to read carefully from the beginning.

Time passed quickly, more than two hours passed. Garen let out a long sigh of relief, wrote down the pages he saw, and closed the book gently.

"Today is the carnival. Old man, I have to go back to spend the festival with my family. It's almost three o'clock now, so I have to go back."

"Take the book and go quickly. I have to meet some old friends here soon. Don't delay my business." The old man looked down at the book and waved it impatiently, as if he wanted him to leave quickly.

Garen smiled and picked up two books.

"Then I'll go back first. Come back tomorrow."

"Well, hurry up and go! It makes me upset when I see you taking such a long time!" The old man still didn't raise his head. "Remember to write down the questions you need to ask on paper tomorrow."

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Garen laid out the books and walked out of the shop. He looked back at the old man with a smile on his face.

"You obviously don't have anyone to celebrate the holidays with you, so why are you talking about going to see old friends? If you really had friends, no one would come to see you for so long. This old man is just stubborn."

After walking a few steps along the street, the street was filled with pink petals and white paper flowers scattered during the festival, as well as some pigeon feathers and trampled cakes.

Before Gallon had gone far, he saw Grace standing next to a white car at the entrance of Burnington Street with a serious expression, as if she was waiting for him.

Garen walked over quickly.

"What's the matter?"

"Tali Mercury is here. He asked my company to help identify something!" Grace replied in a low voice, "Let's talk in the car first."

Garen frowned. When he heard that Mercury in the tower came to find Grace, his heart suddenly jumped.

Opening the car door, the two of them sat in the front seat side by side, slammed the door, and rolled up the window. The sound of the festival procession outside suddenly became much quieter.

Grace then took out a photo from her bag and handed it to Garen.

"This morning Tali Mercury suddenly came to visit and took out this thing, saying that he wanted me to identify it."

Garen took the photo and looked at what was on it, and was suddenly startled.

In the photo, it is the Bronze Cross Medal he left in Yinsha Castle.

"This is it." He looked carefully at the medal on the photo. It was a black and white photo taken from a very close angle and looked very clear.

"Didn't Mercury in Tali investigate Yinsha Castle very carefully? Doesn't he know the origin of this medal?" he asked in a low voice.

"Of course I know, but what the great detective wants to investigate is not the origin of the information." Grace's eyes were extremely serious, "but the origin of this medal before Yinsha Castle!"

"Before!?" Garen was shocked, and suddenly recalled the series of strange events he encountered in Yinsha Castle. At that time, his arms were almost broken, and he fled back in embarrassment.

"It seems that they are in the same trouble as me." He looked out the window at the festival procession passing by. A group of children wearing knights' fake armor were holding balloons and feather rackets and waving them constantly.

Garen closed his eyes and opened them again. There was a hint of heaviness and seriousness in his eyes.

"Where is the great detective now?"

"It's in our company."

"Let's go find him." Garen said solemnly. He looked out the window and murmured, "If possible, maybe I can use the hands of this great detective to figure out what I encountered in Yinsha Castle last time."

He had a vague feeling that Yinsha Castle might be the beginning of everything.

"Okay." Grace responded, started the car, and drove forward slowly along the flow of people.

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In a small room in a building facing the street.

"Hahaha Mr. Tali Mercury, long time no see." Garen laughed and gave Tali Mercury a hug.

"It's been a long time indeed." A happy smile appeared on Tali Mercury's face, "Mr. Kelly, the person from Jinhuan didn't make things difficult for you at that time, right? I asked people to look for you everywhere afterwards, but unfortunately there was no news. I didn't expect that I would I met you here. Everything in this world is really amazing."

The great detective still held a pipe and wore a black windbreaker.

Standing next to him was a beautiful lady in a white dress and a feathered round hat. Her hands were naturally folded on her lower abdomen, showing a graceful and elegant temperament.

"Who is this?"

"This is my wife Marianne." Mercury introduced the woman.

"Hello, dear Mrs. Quicksilver." Garen smiled and nodded.

"Kelly, you're welcome." Marianne responded with a gentle and elegant smile.

The three of them sat down on the sofa.

After Gallon sat down, he carefully took out a photo, which was a photo of the Bronze Cross.

"Mr. Mercury, in fact, I am a professional appraiser of Manleyton Company. The thing you want to appraise happened to pass through my hands. As soon as I heard that it was your object, I immediately took it over and came to see it in person. It's been a month or two since we last said goodbye, and time really flies by."

"Yeah. I didn't expect that Mr. Kelly himself would actually hinder the work of Manleyton Company. This is also a coincidence." Tali Mercury nodded and smiled, "I just don't know if Mr. Kelly has identified the origin of such a thing?"

When Garen heard this, he frowned and fell silent. He seems to be thinking about something to remember.

The other two were not in a hurry, they just sat quietly, waiting for him to speak.

After a few minutes, Garen slowly spoke.

"To be honest, this kind of thing is probably a legacy of a huge country more than a thousand years ago."

"A product from a thousand years ago?!" The Mercury couple were both shocked.

"Yes, thousands of years ago, there was an ancient empire called Natama, which existed in what is now the federal territory. There is very little information left about this empire. I can only judge from the style of this medal. It is The products of that time, the specific origin. I’m sorry that I can’t do anything about it.”

Garen sighed. This was not his own identification, but the identification result given by the appraiser of the Manleyton Company. She was just telling the truth.

"Is that so?" Tali Mercury and his wife looked at each other, their expressions a little ugly.

"But..." Garen hesitated. "There are some things I don't know whether to say or not."

Tali Mercury narrowed his eyes and said quickly: "Mr. Kelly, speak directly if you have something to say. We are friends who share weal and woe, so there is nothing to be scrupulous about."

Garen glanced at him, saw his affirmative look, and made a determined look.

"In this case, whether you believe it or not, I will tell you some other identification results."

He paused, "No, maybe it shouldn't be the result of the appraisal, but a special feeling of mine." He glanced at the two of them, "I think this medal should be an antique of bad luck."

"Antique of bad luck!?" Tali Mercury was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted and murmured, "I should have thought of it! I should have thought of it earlier."

Mrs. Mercury sat aside, with a slight sweat on her forehead, looking at her husband's actions with a hint of worry.

"Yes, they are antiques of misfortune." Garron confirmed, "I have an extraordinary talent for antiques of misfortune. As long as it is this kind of antique, I have enough confidence to identify it. But... I don't know if Mr. Mercury can identify it." Let me see this medal for myself. Before I returned to the company, the other appraisers returned the item to you two, and I didn’t have time to get it."

"This is no problem." Tali Mercury reacted immediately, with a hint of anxiety in his eyes, and hurriedly took out a small black box from the inner pocket of his jacket.

Garen took the box and opened it with a snap. Lying quietly inside the black velvet was a purple-red medal, which was exactly the medal he left in Yinsha Castle.

Galen carefully placed the box on the coffee table and gently picked up the Bronze Cross.

As soon as he got it, his face was shocked.

I feel that the potential contained in the medal is even greater. A biting cold breath slowly flowed from the medal into Garen's body. Holding the medal in your hand is no different than holding an ice cube. This already has one-tenth of the potential content of the black jade plate. At least twice as many medals as before!

"Could it be?!" Garen's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly thought of a possibility. He looked up at Tali Mercury who was sitting opposite and said in a deep voice. "Mr. Tali, please answer my question. Did someone get into trouble before you got this medal!?"

"How do you know?!" Tali Mercury's eyes opened, he stood up suddenly, his breathing suddenly became rapid.

"Calm down! Calm down!" Mrs. Mercury quickly supported her husband and pushed him down to sit down. "Listen to Mr. Kelly first."

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Tali Mercury took a deep breath.

"Sorry Mr. Kelly, I was rude."

"It doesn't matter, just call me Kelly. We should be considered friends, right?" Garen nodded.

"Okay, Kelly, can you tell me why you can tell that someone is in trouble?" Although Tali Mercury sat down, his eyes were still staring at Garen's eyes. "This is very important to me!"

"Did something happen to your relatives and friends?" Garen continued without waiting for his answer, "I'm sorry, but this is actually a talent of mine. I can actually identify the status of the antiques of misfortune. This may have something to do with my feelings. Maybe it has something to do with the fanatical attitude held by Doom Antiques. It’s a feeling that’s hard to explain clearly.”

"Feeling? Well, your feeling is indeed very accurate. Presumably because of your hobby, you are the real expert who is extremely sensitive to doomed antiques. It just so happens that I need your help now." Tali Mercury said seriously, "You know how to remove it? Is this the bad luck of antiques? Something happened to the son of my friend Bai Ying! "

"Something happened?! What happened!?" Garen asked in a deep voice.

He owed Tali Mercury a favor because of the black jade plate, but he had paid off the favor after saving someone last time. Although he doesn't like Tali Mercury's daughter very much, he still has a favorable impression of him himself. After all, no matter what, the black jade plate helped him tremendously. Now he is getting stronger every moment.