Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 46: Ancient relics at auction
Su Lun emptied his savings and took a picture of the [Eight-Armed Spider Divine Spear Planting Drawing].
While he was happy, he also felt strange.
This alchemy plant installation blueprint is almost like an exclusive blueprint customized for his "Puppet Master" profession. Whether it is the harsh usage conditions or the efficacy, it is almost a perfect fit.
In this world, there is a saying of "occupation-specific plant equipment blueprints", which are blueprints that have been improved and perfected by countless generations of alchemists in order to achieve the greatest fit between plant equipment and professions.
But generally speaking, only the big families in the inner city would be so particular about professionals + exclusive equipment.
For people from outside the city, being able to change jobs is already the best among thousands. Being able to find an almost suitable alchemy plant equipment is not bad, and what kind of exclusive blueprints are there for you?
What's more, a golden blueprint might not appear in the black market for several months, but I just happened to encounter it. Isn't it too much of a coincidence?
However, before long, he realized that it was not because he was lucky, but because this black market auction really brought a large amount of amazing treasures.
The golden drawing he took, which seemed useless to others, was just an appetizer.
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Su Lun was still feeling pained about his 800,000 yuan, but the next auction item was already projected on the rock wall.
That is a black hand bone.
The product introduction shows that this is a cursed object of excellent silver quality [Hand Bone of the Balrog], an inauguration material for the rare legal profession "Dark Fire Warlock", and it is also a newly unearthed ancient relic.
As soon as this item came out, it immediately aroused fierce looting on the black market, and finally fell into the hands of a mysterious buyer for a high price of more than 4 million.
However, the climax doesn’t stop there.
The next item is another gold-level blueprint, melee type [Diamond Skeleton Implantation Blueprint], the auction price is 1.9 million...
The next item is a "Secret Book of Alchemy" unearthed from ancient ruins. The content has not yet been deciphered, but it is suspected that it records elemental conversion techniques and sealing methods of second level and above. Auction price, 2.1 million...
The next item is an antique alchemy scroll made of animal skin. Also undeciphered, the identification of suspected recorded high-level rune knowledge was finally auctioned for 1.3 million...
One after another, rare products are unveiled one after another, and the prices are getting higher and higher.
The atmosphere in the dark underground black market auction house has also been heated up to a very heated level.
It seems that some wealthy bosses have received certain news in advance and have already prepared a large amount of cash waiting for this batch of good goods. They spend a lot of money and will not hesitate to bid on an item they like.
Su Lun lamented that there were so many invisible rich people in the outer city. At the same time, he also understood that most of these treasures today are the products of hunting in the same ruins.
He immediately realized that a new large-scale ruin should have been discovered.
Obviously, the facts are as he guessed. Su Lun is not the only one who has this idea.
With so many ancient relics appearing in this black market auction, everyone guessed that large-scale relics must have been discovered. There were also small whispers from people whispering to each other on the streets of the black market.
“Large ancient ruins?”
Su Lun didn’t know why, but suddenly thought of the ruins of the city hidden in the fog that he saw deep underground when he traveled through time.
Thinking about it again, could it be that that city was discovered?
Although the auction did not explain where these things came from, and Su Lun had no way to confirm his suspicions, there are also powerful people in the outer city. Since it is an ancient relic, it must have been brought back by the hunting group. There is no airtight wall in the world. A large number of people will become rich after this auction, and information will probably come out soon.
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This is a rare auction, and even the shop owners in the black market are amazed by it.
If you go out at this time, you will definitely be followed as fat sheep by the homeless people squatting outside the black market.
So Su Lun took pictures of the drawings and didn't leave in a hurry.
Most of the shop owners in the black market have better information channels than the average person.
Perhaps because of selling materials before, the owner of Gessen Alchemy Shop also made a small profit. At this time, he also opened his mouth to send Su Lun a message for free.
The old man said: "There are rumors that this batch of goods was brought out by the Inner City Hongge Wilderness Hunting Group from the ancient ruins discovered underground in the 'D33 Wasteland'. However, before the hunting group entered the city, They were ambushed by a group of mysterious plunderers, and the whole army was destroyed. The things... were naturally stolen goods. That's why I couldn't go to the inner city auction house to put them up for auction..."
"Predators" are actually professional bandits. They will choose to ambush the hunters who are out on the way back to the city.
But usually, those people are professionals, maybe mercenaries, gangsters, or other hunters.
Su Lun also had a look of surprise on his face when he heard the old man say this.
Sure enough, these things can obviously be sold at a better price in the inner city, but now they appear on the black market in the outer city. Only the shady stolen goods can explain it.
However, when Su Lun heard this, he frowned slightly and thought to himself: "D33 Deserted Area? If it's nearby, it could really be something produced in that ruined city..."
Hearing this news, he even felt that the [Eight-Armed Spider Divine Spear Planting Blueprint] might really be the alchemy planting blueprint for his "Puppet Master" profession.
If it is true as he suspected, then the place where the blueprint was found is most likely the "Storm Manor".
Could it be that after he left, some hunters went to clean up the "cursed space" in Storm Manor?
No, Pestoya is obviously very strong.
From Su Lun's point of view, she has at least a cadre-level combat capability, and is also a very troublesome "ghost species" that ordinary hunting teams can't do anything about.
The "Hongge Wilderness Hunting Group" he heard from the boss seemed to only have a few senior first-level professionals, not even a second-level one. Otherwise, he would not have been intercepted so easily and his entire army would have been annihilated.
Perhaps it was found elsewhere?
Those guys went to the city?
Su Lun’s mind wandered a bit as he thought about it, and he felt that it was even more impossible.
He still clearly remembered that there were more terrifying aberrations wandering in the ruins of the ruined city.
At this time, the boss spoke again: "Although the news of the specific location of the ruins has not spread yet, it probably won't be long before there will be a hunting craze in Jiulindun, and business will be better again. Yes."
After saying this, the little old man added something that sounded like he was feeling emotional: "Tsk, tsk, what a pity, many people will die..."
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Su Lun listened, his thoughts racing.
As he learned more and more about the world, instead of feeling that he understood it, he felt that it became more mysterious.
There are so many treasures left in the ruins, which means that there was a very brilliant civilization in the underground city, and there were also very powerful alchemists.
Since there was such a powerful civilization...how was the city destroyed?
The change of civilization will inevitably lead to catastrophic disasters.
Intuition told Su Lun that the ruins of the ancient city were definitely not simple.
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“Things don’t seem quite right. I feel like someone is deliberately spreading the news about the ruins through auctions, so as to attract people to look for the ruins...”
Su Lun instinctively thought of a conspiracy theory.
But he didn't worry too much.
If someone really takes such a deadly "bait", the hunters will continue to fight even if they know that the mortality rate is high.
In Old Lington, human life is not that valuable.