Deep Sea Embers Chapter 41: Inside the antique store

The interior of this antique store is just as Duncan had guessed - it is full of clutter, decadence, and dismal business. Even just looking at the dust accumulated near the window, visitors can imagine that the owner has What a mess of your life.

The first thing he saw was the storage table near the walls on both sides. Large vases, sculptures and totem-like things of unknown meaning were placed on the low and stable table, while the wall behind the storage table was marked with latticework. , which is used to place relatively small "commodities". The counter is located directly opposite the door. It is a long bar. The shelves behind the counter are also a little dusty, filled with dark picture frames and small ornament.

Behind the counter, you can also see a staircase leading to the second floor, which is drowsy and can't see the structure temporarily.

There is also a small door under the stairs. In "memory", that door should lead to the warehouse at the back of the store - half of the space inside is full of debris.

It's hard to imagine that the cultist he is possessed by is living in such a shop that no one seems to come to visit, and even has spare money dedicated to the priest of the Sun God.

Duncan walked to the deep counter. The old wooden floor was creaking. As he passed the stairs, he noticed the lamp fixed to the wall.

It was an electric light.

Duncan's brow furrowed slightly immediately.

The style of the lamp is unfamiliar. The wrought iron frame and the gray lampshade have an exotic feel, but in any case, the structure of the tungsten bulb inside is clear at a glance - the light source of this lamp comes from electricity.

In this world, is electricity already such a common thing? Do ordinary civilians in Xiacheng also use electric lights in their homes?

Then why was the light source used in the sewers before gas lamps, oil lamps, and torches? Why are the street lights outside also gas lamps?

Huge doubts arose, which seemed unreasonable to Duncan, especially in an environment like the sewer - the presence of open flames, gas lamps that used flammable gases had obvious disadvantages compared to clean and safe electric lamps !

At first, he thought it was because of the limitation of technology that city managers could only use gas lamps as the light source for sewers, but now it seems... at least in the city-state of Pland, technology has long been developed to the point where electricity enters ordinary people. Home level!

A huge sense of disobedience filled Duncan's heart. He tried to search for the corresponding knowledge from the memory fragments in his mind, but only got the answer of "this is common sense" and "urban planning is like this".

It seems that either this knowledge has not been disclosed to the public, so that the cultist he is possessed has no knowledge of it, or the knowledge in this regard is so basic that it has not been disclosed to the public. The cultists leave a strong enough impression in their minds that their corresponding memories after death are quickly blurred and faded, leaving only the impression of "natural".

With a moment of incomprehensible confusion in his heart, Duncan reached out and turned the light on—with a soft click of the switch, the bright light immediately illuminated the area near the stairs and the counter.

There is also a switch on the opposite wall that controls the lights in other areas of the storefront on the first floor, but Duncan isn't going to move it for now.

In the dead of night now, a small light in a closed antique store can be explained by "the owner gets up and walks around at night", but suddenly bright lights may attract unwanted attention.

Using the limited lights near the stairs, Duncan's eyes first glanced at the nearest products. The first thing that caught his eye was a wood-carved totem-like thing less than half a meter high. The red and blue paints paint eccentric face masks, and there are antique vases that are supposed to be ceramic—with price tags in front of them that say outrageous prices.

The original price is 420,000, and the discount is 360.

With such a self-defeating momentum.

Duncan's eyes quickly averted and scanned the entire store.

Wherever there was a genuine item here, he would let the Lost Lands slam into the walls of Pland.

Fakes can't be fake anymore. They don't need to be identified by real collectors. Anyone with normal intelligence will not believe that this antique shop in the lower city will sell real antiques - they can really turn antiques upside down. Will people start a market in such a slum? The oldest thing in the whole store is probably not the sign at the door...

But Duncan wasn't surprised by the existence of this store - the owner knew that he was selling fake stuff, and the people who came to buy things didn't expect to put a thousand-year-old statue at home. Knowing what's going on, the commoners in Xiacheng also need a way to satisfy their spiritual needs - the signboard of the "antique shop" at the door is not displayed by the shopkeeper for others to see, but by the people who come here to buy things for themselves. of.

After all, there are still jadeites sold under the flyovers of the earth. Ninety-eight bracelets are called Laokeng Ice Seeds. When they are worn when they are brought home, they can fall off the door frame if they are accidentally knocked on the ground. Don't you know what's going on?

Duncan is not interested in the poor life of the owner of this shop. He only cares about one thing: this should be the first "stay" on land for the captain of the Lost Homes.

An "outpost" for understanding the terrestrial world and modern civilization.

He has secretly made a decision to maintain his current body as much as possible under the conditions of "walking in the spirit world", and use this "antique shop" as a cover in the Prand city-state If the training of Ay goes well, if Ay can transmit "physical objects" between Homeless and Pland in a stable and controlled manner, this antique store will also become a secret material transit warehouse .

Duncan came to the back of the counter, sat on a chair and carefully combed through the fragments of memory in his mind, scrutinizing all possible hidden dangers.

The original owner of this body was a Sun God believer, but he was only the lowest member of the entire church system. Due to the city-state authorities' continuous crackdown on cult activities, the living space of the Sun God believers in Prand City has been reduced. Compressed to the limit, its members communicate with extreme caution, in addition to wearing a full-coverage hood and face mask when attending any meeting, many lower-level members have only one or two specific connections with the upper echelons of the church. ”, which is undoubtedly a good thing for Duncan today—

This means that even within the cult, only one person knows "his" actual identity and contact methods. Once this person is gone, no one will know about "his" ulterior cult. identity.

He can walk upright in front of the city-state's administrators, and his identity is a clean and good citizen.

The better news is that, after carefully combing through his memory, Duncan confirmed that the biggest hidden danger has actually disappeared.

Because "his" contact person is one of the three black-robed believers that he saw when he woke up...

Those three unlucky eggs have already been pigeons.

He relaxed a little, and turned to sit on a chair in a more comfortable position~IndoMTL.com~ After the biggest hidden danger disappeared, if there was anything to worry about, it was the previous underground meeting. Other Sun God believers who held sacrifice ceremonies, as well as the larger and more mysterious and dangerous Sun God Church behind those believers.

If the memory in my mind is correct, the Prand city-state had a severe crackdown on the church of the Sun God entrenched in the city four years ago. Since then, this heresy has been stagnant in the city-state, let alone Whatever ceremony is held, they are thankful that they can hide themselves well and not be caught by the church guards on weekdays.

But now, these extremely low-key cultists have done a pretty high-profile thing.

The purpose of the sacrificial ceremony was to please the gods, and another purpose was to gather power or enhance the influence of the gods on the real world - the cultists in the assembly hall at that time, even the priest "Messenger" who presided over the ceremony. In fact, they can only be regarded as the grassroots members of the Sun God Church. Will these grassroots members organize themselves to do such a big job?

The memory fragments in Duncan's mind are not too many, and it is even more unlikely that a grassroots cult has access to the core secrets of the church, but only by reasoning from the existing information, he can also guess the evil spirits who have suddenly been rehabilitated. The believers should have been instructed by a higher level.

The heretical sect that worships the "true sun god"... They want to do a big thing in Prand, and they accidentally stir up the sacrifice ceremony by themselves. I'm afraid it's just the most trivial cluster before this big thing starts. Just splashes.

Duncan doesn't have any feelings for this "Pland State", but if he wants to develop from here, he has to consider a group of lunatics like "Helios" roaming the city-state What effect will it have on yourself.