The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Cage City, when Leo saw this spherical underground space, the first thought in Leo's mind was Lanxi's Cage City, because the style of the buildings on the walls around this space was exactly the same as that of the Cage City, and it was simply copied from the Cage City. Building style.

Corridors made of steel cover the stone walls around the underground space, linking the opened living spaces. The corridors on each floor are linked together by steel-framed bridges criss-crossing, and some shops are built on the bridges.

Compared with the commercial street on the ground, the commercial atmosphere here is very lively. Although the shops on the ground are very high-end and the goods inside are also extremely expensive, the people who go in and out of those shops are either rich or expensive, and the purchases are not even expensive. Asking, even talking about the price is whispered, always giving people a feeling of unpopularity.

But here, the noisy sound filled the entire underground space, everyone was talking loudly about the price of the goods, even for some goods, two customers would fight, coupled with the shouting of the merchant itself, making anyone Everyone who entered here could feel an explosive excitement.

Aisha, who had never experienced such a scene, was a little dizzy from the sudden sound, her body swayed, and she assisted the iron frame to stabilize her body.

Brown looked at Aisha with a smile, and said loudly with pride: "This is an underground market managed by the Holy Blood Society, and it is also the largest distribution center for mysterious items in the entire Velen Continent. As long as you have money, you can buy anything here. "

"Can I buy things from the first dynasty of Marris?" Aisha, who had recovered, also asked loudly after hearing Brown's introduction.

"Of course you can buy it," Brown said, pointing to a shop with bronze lamps hanging on the second floor below, and said, "You can go to Old William's shop if you have time, he will always have some products there. The unexpectedly good things are all ancient relics from ancient dynasties," he said, then changed the subject and said, "However, there are also a lot of fakes there. If your eyesight is not enough, you'd better look there and buy less. , otherwise it is easy to be fooled."

"Can I buy the items of the tower wizard here?" Leo also asked at this time.

Brown replied without thinking: "It can be bought."

The reason why Leo asked that was mainly because Brown said that everything can be bought here. He just asked casually, and he never thought that he would get any useful answer, but what he never thought was that Brown gave A very unexpected answer from him.

Afterwards, without waiting for Leo to continue asking, Brown pointed to a very luxuriously decorated bronze door on the top wall and said: "There is a black market there. Metal plate, no one knows how this metal plate is made, this metal is a metal that has never been seen before, it can be said to be unique, so the price of this metal plate is also very expensive, participated in three auctions , have not been able to sell, and now it has become the treasure of the black market."

"Isn't Rupert Fitz not interested in this metal plate?" Leo asked in a deep voice, "I remember that he has a large number of steel factories under his name and has also funded a large number of groups specializing in the research of various metals. He should Interested in this new type of metal."

Brown explained: "It is indeed interesting, but the price is beyond his bottom line, and this metal is said to be impossible to imitate, so Mr. Rupert did not buy this thing."

"How much is that thing?" Aisha, who was listening quietly, couldn't help being curious and asked.

Brown spread two fingers and said, "Twenty million Vinaya coins."

Aisha couldn't help but gasp after hearing this. At the time when her wealth was the most, there were only more than 7,000 Maris coins, and when converted into Vinaya coins, it was only about 42,000. It was a huge sum of money, and now there is an item that costs 20 million Venaya coins. Such a huge number is as huge as an astronomical figure in her mind.

However, compared to Aisha, Leo showed a thoughtful look. He felt that the reason why Rupert didn't buy this metal plate was probably not because of the price.

Although 20 million Venaya coins sounds like a lot, if calculated according to the current exchange ratio of 19 to 1 between Vinaya coins and gold flanges, this metal plate from the tower only needs more than one million yuan It's just gold flange. The exchange ratio of nineteen to one is the current exchange ratio of the two currencies. When the Venaya currency was just issued in the past, the ratio between the two was forty-five to one, which means the money that Rupert needs to pay less than now.

These tens to millions of money seem scary, and to ordinary people, it is an astronomical figure, but to Rupert, it is just pocket money. Not to mention a world-class businessman like Rupert, even Leo, who just made a fortune from the gang leader of Miria City not long ago, can easily take out the money, so Rupert does not The reason for buying this sheet metal is definitely not the price as Brown claims.

As for the fact that metals cannot be imitated, this is not the reason, because maybe this kind of metal cannot be imitated now, but it may not be impossible in the future. It is possible to store a unique and rare metal and save it for future research when it is needed and the technology is credible. is the best way to deal with this metal plate, so the other reason Brown said does not hold.

Leo thought about it for a while, and soon discovered an important point, so he asked Brown again: "Is the requirement for trading this metal plate in the black market that it can only be traded with Vinaya coins?"

"Yes." Brown nodded and asked, "Is there anything strange about this?"

"No, nothing." Leo didn't ask any more questions because he already knew the answer.

As a new currency issued by the region, the Vinaya currency itself has little circulation, and it only circulates in the urban area of ​​Vinaya Port, and most of the transactions of the chamber of commerce here are in the port exchange, using other currencies When the transaction is completed, there is almost no need to use Vinaya coins, so the circulation of Vinaya coins is very small, which is why the value of this currency will double or triple in just a few years.

Therefore, according to Leo's inference, there may not be many Venaya coins issued by the United Kingdom General Chamber of Commerce in recent years. Whether there are 20 million or not is still unknown, and the actual circulation of Vinaya coins may be less than 20 million.

The reason why he made such a judgment is because he didn’t use Venaya Coins many times when he was living in the hotel these two days. He only used Vinaya Coins when paying for meals and tips. As for other times , such as room rent, mostly by cash check.

However, the transaction request for that metal plate turned out to be 20 million Venaya coins. Doing so is equivalent to hollowing out the new coins issued by the General Chamber of Commerce in Venaya Port. Once the transaction is completed, the joint All the commercial actions of the Kingdom General Chamber of Commerce in Venaya Port are a heavy blow, and may even cause the newly established financial order in Vinaya Port to collapse.

With the wisdom of Rupert Fitz, it is impossible not to see the trap inside, so he will give up this tower item worthy of collection.

As for the practice of issuing a large number of Venaya coins, it is not feasible, not to mention whether this Venaya coin can be produced at will, even if it can be produced like other currencies, the General Chamber of Commerce under the control of Rupert Fitz may Wouldn't do that either. Because once too much Venaya currency is invested, it will definitely cause the depreciation of the Vinaya currency, which will cause great panic among the citizens of Venaya Port, who use the Vinaya currency as the main currency, and eventually sell the Vinaya currency, making the Vinaya currency Asian currencies become worthless currencies.

Therefore, Leo feels that the owner of this metal plate is probably not only targeting Rupert Fitz's commercial control of Venaya Port, but also targeting the Church of the Goddess of Commerce, because once the Venaya currency loses its role The value of currency, then the belief in the transformation of commercial transactions naturally does not exist.

Thinking of this, Leo felt that the calm and stable Venaya Port on the surface may also be undercurrents in the dark. Now that some forces have begun to plot against Rupert Fitz secretly, then other people attached to the Venaya Port's underground Forces and organizations may also be targeted. According to this estimate, the degree of danger of Venaya Port may not be much lower than the current Miria City.

Perhaps to confirm his guess, Leo felt that there was a lot of malice in his surroundings, and most of the malice was the kind of malice that looked at the prey, as if Leo and Aisha were two delicious fat sheep, But there are still a few malicious eyes that are pure disgust and hostility, as if they are natural enemies.

These waves of malice were not only aimed at Leo and Aisha, but more aimed at Brown who was leading the way ahead.

Because of the surrounding environment and the interference device for the spirit net here, Leo couldn't confirm the correct position of those lines of sight, and could only vaguely feel a few general directions.

Leo didn't deliberately turn his head to look at those places, but when Brown introduced the surrounding shops and commercial companies to Aisha, he followed Brown's introduction and glanced at those places casually.

Soon Leo found out the reason for these lines of sight. It wasn't that Leo's ability to find people was so good, but that the aura of those people was too obvious, even if they were far away, they could feel it. The smell of blood on several people. Although the people around them are not as sensitive as Leo, they can also instinctively feel discomfort and subconsciously avoid these people, which makes an invisible space appear around these people, and it is difficult to pay attention to it.

"The Orthodox Court." Leo hardly needed to do any analysis, and he could tell from the standardized standing posture that these people were all knights trained by the Orthodox Court, but it was impossible to judge whether these people were knights because they had no close contact. They are not paladins of the Orthodox Church, and they cannot judge the strength of these people. They can only be seen from some clues that they have undergone very rigorous swordsmanship training. No matter what their standing posture is, their hands are always placed on the ground. A position where you can draw your sword at any time.

"Do they know?" Leo looked at Brown who was leading the way ahead, and a question arose in his heart.

It was not beyond Leo's expectation that the Orthodox Church would send people to Venaya Port. On the contrary, if the Orthodox Church did not send people, it would make him feel strange, because whether it is the appearance of the Church of the Goddess of Commerce or the gathering of the family members, it is enough alarmed the Orthodox court.

Although the influence and power of the Orthodox Church in the current Vinylon world is far from being comparable to that of ancient times, and the governments of various countries are subtly suppressing the religious authority, the Orthodox Church still has extraordinary power even if it has to be suppressed like this. Just like the current Church of the Goddess of Commerce, once it is recognized as a heretical or evil sect by the Orthodox Church, no matter how influential Rupert Fitz is, no matter how powerful and powerful he is, it is impossible for the Church of the Goddess of Commerce to appear again. In the sun, it can only become an underground church like other churches of evil gods.

Just when Leo was thinking about something. Brown led the two to a crude-looking wooden door on the uppermost floor of the underground space near the black market, then motioned the two to wait for a while, then walked forward, picked up the door knocker and knocked.

Although this wooden door looks crude, Leo will not underestimate the defensive power of this wooden door at all, because he can feel very strong spiritual energy fluctuations from the wooden door, and after turning on the spiritual vision, he can see the surface of the wooden door The magic circle composed of dense Turing roots.

Leo quickly analyzed the structure and connotation of Turing's magic circle on the wooden door. Although this magic circle is different from the rune magic circle in the dream world, the structure of the magic circle is very similar. Soon he learned Find out the real radical hidden under some false Turing radicals.

By analyzing these Turing roots, Leo was able to infer that if someone tries to open the door forcibly, the intruder will be subjected to a strong mental attack, and the soul will be extracted by the magic circle, turning the intruder into a person without a soul. A vegetative state of the soul.

"Attacks aimed at the soul can at least pose a threat to fourth-level psychics." Leo quickly judged that this Turing magic circle is very complicated, and he can only analyze it from the interpretation of some key Turing radicals Find out the general power of the magic circle, and feel the threat of the magic circle to yourself through vague perception, so as to judge the fuzzy strength range of the magic circle.

Of course, Renault would not take his judgment seriously, because he knew very well that the magic circle on the door might hide other more powerful forces. If he broke through the door rashly, he would only encounter a stronger attack than expected.

At this time, Brown announced his identity through the microphone installed outside the door, and then the wooden door creaked and opened from the inside. The moment it opened, a black shadow came out of it and flew in front of Leo.

Leo reacted in an instant, directly sold and grabbed at the black shadow, but the black shadow was extremely flexible, moved a little in the air, avoided Leo's hand, and landed on Leo's shoulder, while using The bird's beak combed its feathers, and said to Leo: "Boy, you are too strong, Mr. Crow can't stand your grasp."