In the days that followed, Richard settled in the city of Florent.

The first thing I did when I settled down was to follow the clues left on Heidi's letters, a cat slave girl, and try to find the other party's whereabouts.

But Florent has great advantages and big disadvantages. The disadvantage is that without specific information, it is too difficult to find a person. Rao hired a large number of people, so that everyone braved the cold wind, looking for people on the streets, looking for things related to markers, but still could not find them.

After an initial period of unsuccessful efforts, he had to lower his expectations, asking his hired to continue his efforts and tell him any news immediately, while he began to get busy with the rest, such as research projects, such as the secrets of the Black Spirit King.

After all, he came to the North, to Moore, to Florentine, not only to meet the cat slave girl, but also for other purposes.

In this way, time passed day by day, and the whole cold winter slowly slipped away - to Florence, it was already the end of the year - the snow moon of December, after the ice moon of January, the frozen moon of February, and then it was March.

March, the warm month.

According to the East Coast tradition, spring is the month of March, April, and May, and the rest of the seasons are postponed in turn, and March is the beginning of spring, the day of recovery—also known as the month of recovery.

This month, the beginning of the month.

Florent, a corner.

A dilapidated looking stone building stood, with cracks in the walls that looked like it was about to collapse at any moment, burying the people who lived in it and those who passed by. Pedestrians passing by this stone building do not dare to stop at all, for fear of bad luck. Almost no one thought that under this stone building, there was another scenery.

The underground of the stone building is a secret underground hall, about more than 300 square meters, a wooden platform occupies one-third of the area of the hall, and the rest of the position is scattered with more than 50 chairs, almost half of which are sitting on people.

Everyone who sat wore a cloak to hide their faces from being recognized. Occasionally, he raised a wooden sign to announce the numbers, and he also used a false voice, which was extremely cautious.

On the wooden platform, there was a thin man, wearing a shiny dress covered with glass shards, talking loudly, introducing items one by one, trying to make the people in the audience want to buy.

Obviously this is an auction.

To be precise, this is a gray auction on the verge of breaking the law.

About half a month ago, Richard learned about the existence of this auction in contact with some people, and after a lot of effort to get an invitation, he came here.

To be honest, he didn't want to come if it weren't for the lack of material. Because it is really a bit informal here, the auctioneer will basically not guarantee any interests of the bidder except for collecting money to sell things, so the auctioneer will try his best to protect his identity.

Even so, there were bidders in the previous auctions, who were followed as soon as they went out, and then they were ambushed and attacked and robbed of everything they had - not even their clothes.

Affected by this negative impact, the people who dare to come to the auction now are some people who have confidence in their own strength, there are very few ordinary people, most of them are wizard apprentices, and there are some wandering wizards.

Everyone was extremely vigilant, and seemed to sit quietly in their seats, their eyes fixed on the wooden platform. But in reality, less than one-third of the attention is paid on the wooden table, and the other seven is on the person sitting next to him. If you want to find out if the person next to you has bad thoughts about yourself, wait a while to make a move.

Richard sat in a corner of the auction room, feeling the tense atmosphere around him, and couldn't help but shake his head. He was here, but he didn't feel much nervous, on the one hand, he was very relieved of his strength, and on the other hand, the white feathers in his arms gave him some kind of special reminder.

Yes, White Feather, gave him a reminder.

After a winter's time, he didn't quite figure out what the white feather was, but he did figure out some of its functions - the main function was two.

The first one is the Cracking Illusion that I've seen before. According to the test, the white feather has a strong defensive effect against some offensive and confusing spiritual spells, and it can be said that as long as the white feather is worn, it will basically not suffer because of the spirit spells.

The second one has to do with spirituality, or rather with emotions. White feathers can feel some of the obvious, emanating malice and goodwill, resulting in some changes.

This change was actually noticed by him on the sea ship at the beginning, but because there was too little data to draw conclusions. Now, after a winter, it is certain that white feathers will become hot if they feel definite kindness, and cold if they feel definite malice.

In a sense, white feathers are equivalent to a kind of identifier, which can quickly determine whether a person is good or bad through hot and cold. Of course, if a bad guy hides his emotions and heart very well, it is difficult to detect white feathers, but this situation is very rare.

Breaking illusions, and identifying good and evil, are the two major functions of white feathers.

To sum up, white feathers can be described in two words - pure, and in one word - true.

White feathers have a certain meaning, as if they exist specifically to distinguish between the unreal and the real, the disguised and the friendly.

Richard wasn't sure of the Joker's mentality for giving him this gift, and he wasn't sure if the white feather had a more important role, but as far as he knew now, the white feather made him easily think of an item in earth legend - the feather of truth.

Feather of Truth!

The Feather of Truth comes from ancient Egyptian myths and legends.

Legend has it that when everyone in ancient Egypt died, they would enter the world of the dead, "Duat", where they would meet Anubis, the god of death with the head of a jackal.

Anubis had a scale of judgment to judge a person's good and evil, and he placed the heart of a dead man on one end of the scale of judgment, and the feather of truth, taken from the goddess of truth and order, "Matt", on the other end of the scale of judgment.

If a person is kind, his heart will be lighter, higher than the feather of truth, and he will receive eternal life. If a person is evil and has done all the bad things, his heart will be heavier, lower than the feather of truth, and he will be punished as he deserves.

In Richard's view, the fact that the white feather was now being used by him on the rest of the people was a weakened version of the "trial". Maybe there are some loopholes, and it won't be deceived in any way like the legendary Anubis, but it's not too bad to fully meet the daily needs.

Therefore, he decided to call the white feather the "feather of judgment", which he would not rely solely on to determine whether a person was good or bad, but could be used to determine the complexity of the surrounding environment to a large extent.

Now, for example, he could determine that there were at least three people in the vicinity who harbored ill will towards him through the coolness that sometimes appeared on the surface of the Feather of Judgment. However, this malice is only the lowest, and it has not reached the level of killing people and goods, and it seems that he is safe at the moment and can continue to stay at ease.

With that in mind, he looked towards the wooden platform.

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