Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

As soon as Brandon's words fell, the expressions of the two clerks froze slightly, and then their expressions immediately became serious, and one of the clerks spoke bluntly.

"Ah, we have this item, but it is not displayed outside because it is more precious. Come in with us and have a look." After saying that, the clerk left the counter, opened the small door at the side of the room and walked in. , Seeing this situation, Brandon did not hesitate, and directly followed up.

Following the clerk in front of him, Brandon walked through a narrow corridor. At the end of the corridor, he came to a dark and narrow stone room. The stone room was lit by several gas lamps, surrounded by thick and impenetrable stone walls. , there is only a small window in the stone wall in front, most of the window is sealed by thick steel bars, and only a small opening at the bottom can be used to pick up and deliver things. This is a bit like the bank teller window in Dorothy's previous life, but the protective measures Even more frenzied, this thick steel bar and stone wall is extremely difficult to shake even with extraordinary abilities.

"Here is what you need, please leave as soon as possible after the transaction."

The clerk who led the way said so, and then turned around and left the scene. After scanning the surrounding environment, Brandon said to the strict trading entrance.

"Do you have any 'stone'-themed esoteric stories here? How many?"

After Brandon finished speaking, he stood there and waited silently. After a while, there was a heavy sound from the trading portal.

"The secret biography of 'Stone'...we have three volumes here."

"So what's the price of these three books?"

“三本密传,一本70000比塔,一本84000比塔,一本77000比塔,需要获知书名吗?”交易口之后的声音继续的说道,多萝西听了之后在心中合计了一阵,发现这差不多相当于1650铺镑左右,自己当初兑换了差不多2000镑的比塔,算是可以负担得起的.

"There is no need to declare the title of the book, let's make a deal..."

Dorothy asked Brandon to say this, and then directly took out a bearer check and some cash and handed it to the transaction port, and after a short wait, the transaction port handed over three wrapped packages Oil paper pack.

"Thank you for your patronage."

After receiving the oiled paper package, Brandon left the stone room straight away, returned to the watch shop, and then walked out of the shop under the gaze of the two shop assistants, and returned to the Pebble Alley.

Holding the secret biography he just bought, Brandon walked from the alley to the street. Unlike Brandon who was walking quickly on the street, Dorothy, who was still in the restaurant at this time, fell into deep thought. In the process, her thoughts went back to the time before she just entered the José watch shop, and a series of detailed pictures were recalled in her mind, first of all was the scene at the entrance of the shop.

'There is fine dust on the standing clock in the window, it must have not been wiped for a while.'

Then there is the scene inside the store, and Dorothy's attention is focused on the floor and the wall clock on the wall.

'The floor is a bit dirty and should not be cleaned for long. The wall clocks on the wall that run on time are slightly late. Mechanical clocks in this era need to be adjusted frequently to be on time. This is a phenomenon that has not been adjusted for a long time. For a watch shop...it's a little casual...'

After that, Dorothy continued to recall, and this time she focused on the time when she bought a pocket watch alone.

'I bought a watch in a watch store, and the clerk gave me the watch directly. First, he didn’t help to adjust it on time, and second, he didn’t find a gift box to display it. The watch at this price is not cheap...

'There are so many faults in this watch shop, if the stern shop manager named Felipe finds out, he will definitely be scolded seriously... How long did he go before letting these shop assistants What about slack?'

While thinking this way, Dorothy manipulated Brandon to continue walking forward. After walking for a long time, Brandon saw another watch shop on the side of the road, and then left without saying a word Go in and talk to the boss inside.

"Boss, can you help me estimate the price of this pocket watch?"

"Yes sir..."

After receiving the new watch from Brandon, the owner of the watch shop put on his glasses and began to examine it carefully. After examining it for a while, he offered his own quotation.

"Sir, the workmanship of this watch is very good in all aspects. It is an out-and-out exquisite handicraft. It must have come from the hands of an excellent watchmaker. Compared with ordinary clocks, it must have a higher price. , if you want to sell it, I am willing to offer 200 pitas."

"Ah...that's it, thank you, but I don't intend to sell it yet, this is the appraisal fee, thank you for your help..."

With that said, Brandon took back the pocket watch he had just bought, and then, under Dorothy's control, he began to wander around the city of Troyes, looking for several watch shops and pawn shops, and bought it for himself. I made an appraisal of this new watch, and the results I got all believed that the value of this watch was between 150 pitas and 300 pitas. Although this span is large, it is higher than the 80 pitas that Dorothy paid for it. height of.

After seeing this phenomenon, Dorothy was sure of one thing, the clerk who gave him the watch did not understand the value of the watch, he did not know the price.

"Heh... I never thought that the front shop of the White Stone Masons Guild would be so sloppy, and such a blood-losing business could be done. It doesn't match the style of those guys... Tivian's The Gold Contract Bank is doing very well in terms of its ordinary banking business alone.'

In the dining room, Dorothy was thinking this way. At this time, she already had some other ideas about this watch shop.

Then, Dorothy controlled Brandon to a secluded place on the river bank, and found an unoccupied place to unpack the oiled paper packages she bought. After unpacking, she saw two worn-out booklets and a The scattered manuscripts, Dorothy temporarily ignored the content of these documents, but opened the spiritual vision to quickly browse through the texts she bought, and then, on the back cover of one of the old booklets, she found a trace of spiritual traces.

This is a trace of the spirituality of the "lamp", and Dorothy identified it a little bit, and confirmed that it is a road sign seal that was pasted on it.

Chapter 430: Walking the Wall

Conquer the north coast of the sea, Troyes.

In the dark night of Troyes, the whole city fell into silence. Somewhere in the outskirts of the night city, in a room in a small villa by the sea, there was a figure sitting in it holding a candle. night reading.

Sitting on the sofa by the window, a handsome young man was looking at the book in his hand while listening to the sound of the tide outside the window by the dim light, with a slightly tired expression on his face.

Accompanied by the ticking sound of the clock on the wall, the time passed by every minute and every second. When the night was getting dark, the young man who was studying yawned, and then took out a new pocket watch on his body to check the time , closed the book and put it back into the luggage on the side cabinet.

Then, the young man stood up from his seat, walked into the bathroom of the room in two or three steps, took a brief wash, and then returned to the room. After taking off his coat and trousers, he closed the room He lay down on the big soft bed and covered himself with the quilt, and in the rhythmic waves outside the window, he fell into a peaceful sleep in a short while.

The young man fell asleep, and the clock on the wall continued to tick. With the passage of time, the bright moon outside the window had reached its highest point, and the night in Troyes was getting deeper.

Just after the young man fell asleep for about an hour, a slight movement gradually appeared in the empty and dark room. On the originally flat wall, a strange bulge suddenly appeared, accompanied by this bulge The expansion, a figure drilled out from the wall.

Quietly, a thin man wearing black clothes and a face mask appeared in the room. After looking around the dark room, he focused his gaze on the other wall of the room, and then that wall There was also a slight movement, and not long after, the wall he was looking at also changed, and another taller figure crawled out of the wall without a sound and stood on the floor above.

Through a strange way, two masked men came to this house that was supposed to be a private space. After they glanced at each other, they began to slowly approach the bed in the room. There was nothing in the process. make any sound.

When he came to the bedside, one of them stared at the young man lying on the bed for a while, then took out a vial from his pocket, he gently put the vial under the young man's nose, unscrewed the cap, and took the vial There was a burst of white smoke, and then the white smoke was inhaled by the sleeping youth.

After seeing that the white smoke was inhaled by the young man, the man screwed on the vial, and then waited silently for a few minutes. After checking the time, he snapped his fingers next to the man's ear. After waking up with a snap of their fingers and continuing to sleep soundly, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Okay, he has successfully entered a deep sleep." Putting away the vial in his hand, the thinner masked man said, and the companion next to him also spoke.

"It's a bit easy. Is this the guy who asked us to pay special attention? It doesn't seem to be a big deal. It feels similar to the guy who attacked before. There is no need to send the two of us at the same time."

"This is just for the sake of caution. The guy who can buy three secret biography books in one go is probably not an ordinary Extraordinary. Now it seems that Mister is a little too worried."

The thin man responded to the companion beside him, after glancing around again, he continued to speak.

"Let's start, hurry up. After pulling out the things on his body, take away the people and things separately, and don't leave anything on him."

While talking, the two men immediately started to act. One of them who was a bit stronger first went to search the suitcase of the young man, and the other thinner went straight to work to search for the coat that the young man hung on the hanger beside him. After searching the coats, he even started to search the coats on the hangers, and even lifted the quilt, and began to search for the sleeping young man in underwear.

"I found the secret pass he bought. Other than that, it's just a pistol and some raw guns. I don't see anything special. I feel like a poor ghost. Where are you?" Dizzy with the lantern, the man who searched the suitcase said this while looking at the messed up suitcase in front of him.

"I didn't find anything special here, but it's not the time to confirm the harvest yet... I'll take a photo of everything on him..."

While talking, the man who was body-searching the young man began to pick off the young man's clothes. He carefully took off the things worn by the young man one by one, and finally he took off the young man's innermost clothes. When he saw the young man's chest, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

"this is......"

What appeared in front of the young man at this time was a male body covered with many deep old wounds. On the young man's skin, there were many wounds vertically and horizontally, some of which were even fatal. After seeing these wounds, the man For a moment, I felt something was wrong.

"No... this guy has a physical problem, he seems to..."

Before the thin man finished speaking, suddenly, the young man who was supposed to be in a deep sleep suddenly opened his eyes. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the man turned his head to talk, the young man suddenly sat up on his bed, She stretched out her own hand and hugged the skinny man firmly, restraining him with great strength so that she couldn't move.

And at the same time as this grapple came, there was a numbness and tingling feeling throughout the whole body of the thin and small man. The man began to tremble uncontrollably under the stinging pain, his eyes widened and his expression showed pain, but even so, the thin and small man But he didn't lose consciousness immediately, his struggle didn't stop completely, and the young man named Brandon had no choice but to continue to restrain him with all his strength.

"woo woo woo woo..."

Facing the sudden scene, the thin man began to struggle hard, trying to get rid of the sudden restraint, but due to the strength of the opponent, his struggle was not enough to free him from the restraint, and the other side was turning over. The stronger man who was looking for the luggage immediately put down his work after seeing this in astonishment, pulled out a knife and planned to rush forward to help.

At this moment, the closet in the room suddenly opened, and several tall corpse puppets in different clothes came out of it, the leader of which was holding a pistol in his hand, and was about to help when he saw it. The strong man of the companion raised his hand without saying a word and shot twice. Accompanied by the loud gunshot, this shot accurately hit the strong man's chest. The man who was shot fell backwards directly, and then the wardrobe The corpse puppet rushed out of it and ran quickly towards the strong man who had arrived on the ground.

However, what people didn't expect was that the strong man who was shot in the body could still move. Before the corpse puppets rushed in front of him, he actually struggled to stand up and dodged the head of the wardrobe corpse puppets. Wheel bashing.

The first round of pounces failed to capture the strong man, and the closet puppets immediately launched the next round of attack, rushing towards the strong man, as if they wanted to block him in the corner and catch him, facing such a situation , the strong man leaned against the wall behind him, and the whole person escaped into the wall, and all the corpse puppets flew into the air for a moment.

The strong man disappeared into the room, but it didn't take long for him to reappear. In the distance of the closet corpses, next to Brandon who was restraining the thin man, the strong man rose directly from the floor, his hands Holding the dagger and slashing towards Brandon, the muscular man had a very clear idea, that is to kill this young man first, and then liberate his restrained teammates!

Under the sneak attack, one of Brandon's arms was directly cut off by a sharp dagger. Brandon, whose arm was cut off, lost the means to restrain the thin man for a while, but just as Brandon's arm and body just Breaking, when the skinny man was about to be free, strange things happened.

The arm that was cut off by the strong man, before it fell off, suddenly took it back automatically, and even healed without shedding a drop of blood. The weak and thin man struggled, as if the broken arm scene just now was a hallucination, as if it never existed at all.

Chapter 430: Walking the Wall

Seeing this strange scene, the strong man was stunned, but he didn't have much time to marvel at this moment. He swung his hand holding the dagger again and directly pierced Brandon's neck, but even this The fatal blow still failed to make Brandon fall, but a strange stabbing pain was transmitted from the dagger that pierced Brandon's body to the strong man. twitch.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the closet puppets who had been empty before rushed forward and grabbed the strong man tightly to his uniform. This time the strong man failed to escape, and was directly restrained by several corpse puppets. The man struggled hard, but he couldn't break free at all, he couldn't touch the wall and the ground, and he couldn't even escape through the wall and through the ground.

The two intruders were subdued, and the next thing was much simpler. Under the force of the corpse puppets, their mouths and noses were tightly covered, and they could not breathe smoothly. In the end, the two of them whined for a long time. After Wu struggled, his body spread apart, and he didn't move at all. After both of them lost any movement, the corpse puppets finally let him go, ending this brief fierce fight.

In a hotel room far away, Dorothy, who was sitting on the sofa, couldn't help saying with a long sigh of relief after seeing this scene.

"Phew... It's finally settled, a lot of accidents happened... I didn't expect that it would be two wall walkers..."

Rubbing the center of her brows, Dorothy's originally relaxed expression revealed a trace of solemnity. Although the ambush was successful in the end, it didn't make her feel very satisfied. The result now is not her best. want.

'Listening to the conversation between those two guys, they seem to be planning to take all the people and things back...but I didn't expect that they would take off their clothes before taking them.'

Thinking like this, Dorothy originally wanted to let the two of them fight Brandon back to his lair, but after the fatal scars on Brandon's body were discovered, Dorothy knew that Brandon's body was dead. Their identities might be discovered, so they decisively took tough measures and directly pushed them down.

However, during the implementation of this tough measure, some accidents also occurred.

'These two wall walkers... seem to be more resistant to electric current than other Beyonders. When I used the galvanic body to shock that thin guy, I didn't shock him immediately lose consciousness.

'When on the Shining White Pearl, this current was enough to kill a water spell user, but it was impossible to knock down the wall swimmer immediately, because the hardening of the 'stone' also weakens the current Could it be? Because he couldn't bring down the skinny guy immediately, Brandon, who was stuck on the ground, had no way to immediately transfer to support, but was forced to continue to clamp down, making the whole battle protracted invisibly.

'The other most important point is... as soon as my corpse came out of the closet, I shot the strong man twice. After that, the guy stood up like a normal person and walked through the wall. The bullets seemed to be empty. The effect is the same, isn’t the wall walker the main ‘shadow’ and the auxiliary ‘stone’? Can the hardened skin of this apprentice level resist bullets?’

With such doubts in her heart, Dorothy began to control the corpse puppet at the scene in the distance and scratched off the clothes of the person who was shot by her, and checked the wound of the other person, and found that the skin of the person hit by the bullet was like Cracks opened like spider webs, and blood oozes from the cracks.

She has seen this kind of wound before. The bone makers under the two deer skeletons in Igwent were shot with similar scars, but the problem is that the two bone makers are hardened skin of the black soil step. .

Dorothy started shooting after seeing that the other party was a wall walker, thinking that the hardened skin of the other party's apprentice should not be able to block the bullet, but she did not expect that the other party not only blocked it, but also ran away. If he came back to save his teammates and created another opportunity for Dorothy, he would have successfully escaped.

All in all, the unusual hardness and resistance to electric shocks of these two wall walkers caused Dorothy's plan to change, and in the end she had to waste some spirituality in vain.

After Brandon's hand was severed, Dorothy used the damage transfer ability to transfer Brandon's injuries to other corpses that did not participate in the battle, so that Brandon could maintain the suppression of the thin man, but at a cost But Dorothy used a few more "cups" of spirituality. This spirituality was unnecessary and wasted originally, all because Dorothy misjudged the strength of the two wanderers' abilities.

'Anyway, it is now completely certain that the watch shop sold me the things with road signs, and its purpose was to deceive me. They marked the products to locate the location of the purchaser, and then To stun customers, harvest money, and even kidnap people?...Is this kind of behavior done by the people of the White Stone Masons Union? These guys just make money, what is the reason for kidnapping people?'

Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she focused on the "Wen Hai Hang Zhi" on the table beside her. Regarding the possible problem with the White Stonemasons Guild in Troyes during the day, she had already It was reported to Beverly through "Wen Hai Hang Zhi". Before leaving Tivian, she also made a special trip to leave a contact text for her good neighbor. .

Unlike Vanya and the others, it is impossible for Dorothy to leave a puppet mark on Beverly, so it is impossible to remind the other party to receive the message. Therefore, after sending Dorothy's message, she can only wait for when the other party will receive the message. Seeing when to reply, because Beverly hadn't responded all afternoon, Dorothy set up a simple strategy to deal with the possible situation.

The house that Brandon lived in was a seaside villa that Dorothy had specially picked out in the suburbs of Troyes where the owner was away. After Dorothy managed to get in, she asked Brandon to use it as her own. I stayed at home, and waited until night to see what the road signs on the secret transmission could attract, but I didn't expect that two wall walkers would be attracted in the end.

"Wallwalkers who are so hard, who knows what's wrong with the white stonemason's guild stronghold, customers are being targeted for harvesting... I feel like I'm dealing with 'Stone' this time... I want to get it To find out the situation, I still have to contact Beverly. I don’t know if that guy has the habit of checking the books I send her every day...'

Dorothy cleaned the battlefield while controlling the corpse puppets in the distance, and at the same time began to open her "Wenhaihangzhi" to check. On Beverly's contact page, Dorothy had already observed the watch shop during the daytime. I have written all the abnormal situations to the other party, and now I am waiting for a response.

Looking at the pages of the book, Dorothy wondered when Beverly would reply to her letter. On the blank pages of the book, new letters suddenly appeared, a series of standard printed letters like a typewriter.

This was Beverly's response. After waiting for a long time, Dorothy finally got it. Seeing the words constantly appearing on the white paper in front of her eyes, she immediately cheered up and began to read.

"Good evening, dear neighbor lady, I hope it's not too late for me to reply to your message, I only check this thing you gave me about every three days, I hope you didn't give me these messages three days ago

"First of all, I wish you a good time in Castile. I have seen your experience in Troyes. I am sorry that you bought something that is not in compliance with the rules in our artisan guild. If it is a true artisan, it will be sold to you. Yes, you can claim a large amount of compensation. But I think it is not the Craftsmen Guild that made the deal with you, but another group of dirty, despicable and bottomless guys...

"Their name is 'Dark Gold Society'... Listening to your description, our poor Troy branch may have been secretly infiltrated, swallowed, and replaced by this group of guys. They should be working now Using our name, harvest the hidden world of Telua as much as they have done in other places in the past.

"Perhaps Miss Neighbor, you may be a little unfamiliar with this 'Dark Gold Society'. For him, you just need to remember the key point. This so-called Dark Gold Society is a very small number of sworn enemies in the eyes of our so-called neutral craftsman union. , they are other so-called 'merchants' throughout the Hidden World."

Chapter 430 IX Dark Gold

"Dark Gold Society?"

In the hotel room, Dorothy, who was sitting on the sofa, looked down at the "Wen Hai Hang Zhi" on her lap, and looked at Beverly's response to her on it, and her expression became solemn.

'So... all this is the ghost of this dark gold association? Listen to the name, this association should believe in the god of the 'stone' field that Beverly mentioned before, and it is said that it is a pure I remember she said at the time that the association that believed in the dark gold was a secret business society, but how did it become the dark gold society here? Is the dark gold a god with different associations and beliefs at the same time?'

Dorothy thought about it like this, and then she immediately picked up a pen and wrote down her own questions on the "Wen Hai Hang Zhi", taking advantage of Beverly's "online" state to quickly ask her some questions, otherwise If so, I don't know how long it will take for her to see the reply after she goes offline.

Soon Dorothy finished writing her question. She silently watched her handwriting sink into the page, and then quietly waited for the other party's response. Not long after, Beverly's clean and tidy Printed handwriting appeared on the page again.

"Yo, Miss Neighbor, I didn't expect you to be here at such a late night. I thought I was doing an experiment so late that you were already asleep. It's a rare coincidence that I can chat with you.

"Different from the belief of the White Stone Craftsman's Guild, which is the core of the craftsman's god, Dark Gold is known as the God of Commerce and the God of Wealth. It is a god whose belief is very hidden and unknown to the public. One of the hidden gods other than the three sages. Since ancient times, the association that believes in dark gold is the secret business society, and the dark gold society is actually the result of the split and evolution of the secret business society. You can think of the dark gold society as It is an association that evolved from a secret business society."

"Evolved? That is to say, there is an inheritance relationship between the Dark Gold Society and the Secret Business Society?"

Seeing Beverly's response, Dorothy touched her chin with great interest, and then continued to write on the page, and not long after, Beverly's handwriting appeared on the paper again.

"In a sense, it is almost like this, but if it is said to be completely inherited, it is somewhat inaccurate. It is not only the Dark Gold Society that inherits the Secret Trading Company, but also our Artisan Guild."

"The Artisan Guild? There is also a connection between the secret trading company and the Artisan Guild?" Dorothy wrote on the page in surprise, and the other party responded quickly.

"Of course there is, in fact, the business tradition of the White Stonemasons Guild comes from the secret trading company.

"What you may not know is that the Whitestone Craftsman's Guild was not an association with a strong commercial nature like it is now. The essence of the Craftsman's Guild is a craftsman alliance, a platform for countless extraordinary craftsmen to communicate and inherit each other. The core is craftsman Although the former artisan union had a platform for trading various resources internally, the scale was not very large, and it was only to meet its own needs. It was far from undertaking most of the secret transactions in the entire secret world like it is now. degree.

"During most of the Fourth Epoch, it was actually secret trading companies that took on the function of trading platforms in the hidden world. Compared to craftsmen's unions, they were simply chambers of commerce composed of various merchants, specializing in all kinds of secret transactions. , the gods they believe in are also the core of the structure of the God of Commerce rather than the God of Craftsmanship."

"So...the real merchant association should be the Secret Merchant Association instead of the White Stone Masons Guild?"

"Yes, at least it was like this in the past. 400 years ago, the secret trading company was the largest neutral merchant organization in the secret world, and this situation came to an end because of the split of the secret trading company.

"The specific reason for the split of the secret trading company is rarely explained clearly. Many people only know that it seems to involve some kind of secret about dark gold. In short, on the day of the split, a tragic accident happened to the top management of the secret trading company. Two of the famous dark gold nobles died, and the last remaining black coin nobleman claimed that he became the incarnation of the dark gold and took full control of everything in the secret trading company, and promulgated new regulations, and then the huge secret trading company began to split.

"Those members of the secret trading company who did not obey the black coin nobleman left the secret trading company in large numbers. The black coin nobleman organized a force to retaliate. Just when he executed a large number of traitors. The core of the craftsmen's union issued a divine order to the three golden seats. The decree required shelter for all the secessionists of the secret trading company. As a result, most of the members of the secret trading company were absorbed by the artisan union. While the artisan union was able to expand, it also accumulated a lot of commercial talents.

"After the split, the secret trading company was renamed the Dark Gold Society. Under the leadership of the black coin nobleman, the Dark Gold Society abandoned almost all the regulations formulated during the secret trading company period, and used all means to carry out various secret businesses. Expansion A market that has never existed before, using all conceivable means to squeeze profits crazily."

Neat letters floated line by line on the blank pages of the book. Dorothy looked at Beverly's reply with a serious expression, and after reading all of them, she immediately wrote again.