Although they can't afford the real thing, middle-class people like to put a few pieces of porcelain on display to show their taste, Lawrence doesn't like antiques or appreciate exoticism, and the porcelain in the basement is supposed to be prepared for possible accidents.

Turn the code disk, and with a click, the iron door will open automatically.

When Downey walked in, he found that there were many strange lines carved into the back of the iron door.

With some shallow occult knowledge, Donnie was able to tell that it was a magical symbol that had been passed down from the Radiant Continent, and that it was said to have the power to resist the sneaky presence in the darkness.

There was an electric light behind the door, and when the basement was illuminated, Donnie was a little stunned.

Lawrence, who has never liked to read, actually has a study room located underground, and the small basement is lined with bookshelves on three sides.

Most of the books on the shelves are related to the occult, and a few are colorful magazines, most of which are covered by oriental girls, and several porcelain vases of various sizes stand in the corners with plastic fake flowers.

“emm...”

Downey bypassed the desk surrounded by bookshelves with a slight disgust, tried not to look at the magazines spread out on the table, and took the red wooden box that Lawrence had spoken of.

The box was light, there didn't seem to be much inside, it wasn't locked, and it was easy to open.

In the crimson velvet padded package inside the box, a dark red badge seemed to flicker with a faint light.

The pattern in the badge is made up of a jumble of red lines that look like a burning flame when viewed from any direction.

[Strange Object: Volcanic Lava Master - Sirte's Lower Flame Emblem.]

Item Info 1: A badge from the Lava Church; Normal-grade oddities.

Item Info 2: This is a badge with extraordinary powers, which, when worn, can intimidate weak strange and transcendent lifeforms, and can dispel normal-level anomalous auras and curses except for the Volcanic Lava Master.

Item Info 3: Wearing this badge creates a closeness to the flames and the 'giants', and the weak-willed may convert, causing the wearer to suffer from thirst for water, and eight glasses of water a day are no longer a dream. 】

After reading the badge information, Donnie breathed a sigh of relief, this badge was just right for his current situation.

And Donnie happened to know that this volcanic lava lord Sirte, this was originally a Titan god, the giants called his god Surtr, and after the belief spread to all the spirits in the world, in order to separate it from the once tyrannical Titan god history, the god's name was shortened by a syllable.

According to the factions of the Esoteric Realm, although Surtr is irascible, cannibalistic, and always likes to drown entire cities with monstrous eruptions, he is a righteous god.

The deity's whereabouts were unknown during the last mysterious war, and since then, none of the believers have received His oracle.

Downey had read the news in his previous life and knew that Surtr would awaken in the early stages of the resumption of the next mysterious war, and become an evil god, and changed his side, and the next step was likely to carry countless flame giants out of the volcano and participate in the final battle.

It is conservatively estimated that it would be at least three hundred years before Surtre woke up, and considering that Donnie didn't hear from him until the late stages of his gaming career, wearing the badge now would not attract the god's attention.

Of course, even if He was awake, he would not care about such trivial matters, unless some extremely cautious gods would do so.

After wearing this badge, Donnie immediately felt that he was surrounded by a sense of warmth.

Winter was fine, but now it's summer, so Donnie, who is not very physical, quickly sweats.

In addition to this badge, Downey discovers the holy water contained inside the vase.

Lawrence's basement obviously still has a lot of good things hidden, but Donnie doesn't plan to rummage through it now, and after making sure that the status bar in the attribute template is normal, Donnie immediately returned to the ground with the vase, washed the mail box and the ground with holy water, and smashed the vase and stuffed it into the broken and deformed wooden box.

But what Donnie didn't notice was that when the property template was hidden, the status bar was constantly jumping...

By the time he was clearing the ground, Downey had already heard the commotion outside, and presumably the police or first responders had arrived.

The reason why the postman Bert came here has something to do with Downey, his death is so strange that the police will definitely find Downey to investigate.

After the disguise was ready, Donnie returned to his studio with a glass of water, waiting for the police to come to the door.

There was little time for the apartment door to knock again.

Standing outside the door were two police officers, a man and a woman, dressed in dark blue uniforms, the man looked like an Incas, smiling, and the woman was blonde and blue-eyed, and tall.

"Hello, we are police officers from the 13th Precinct, my name is Mazi, my partner's name is Abi, this is my ID."

As he spoke, the male police officer handed in his ID through the crack in the door.

Ma Qi. Nat, judging by his documents, is indeed a police officer of the Thirteenth Precinct.

"Can you let us in? After all, the postman who delivered you something blew up, and we need to find out what happened. ”

Downey returned the document to Marzie, unchained and said, "Come in, I already guessed you were going to come for me." ”

Marzie's attitude was good, but the female police officer named Abiy had a very average attitude, she glanced at Donnie, did not speak, and walked into the house before Mazie.

A pair of partners, there will always be people who pretend to be red faces, and some people who pretend to be white faces, which is already the norm, but in this era, women are still a little despised and coldly treated, so Abi can take the initiative in the combination, either early, or strong in strength or background.

But whatever the possibility, it has nothing to do with Donnie right now.

After sitting down, Marzi glanced around the room and said, "We want to see the mail from the deceased, Mr. Bert, is that okay?" ”

"Of course, I've had an argument with Bert before, because he obviously drank and broke the fine porcelain vase that someone else gave me."

At that time, the postman stood at Donny's door and scolded for a while, this building is not just Downey's alone, there will definitely be other people who will hear it, so there is no way to hide this matter, it is better to say it directly and generously.

Downey didn't feel guilty about the courier's death, and he didn't tell the truth and didn't have any psychological pressure.

Mazzie opened the wooden mail box containing the broken porcelain pieces, and found nothing wrong.

"Maybe Mr. Donnie has nothing to do with Bert's death, but I'm going to take this email, okay?"

Donnie directly agreed, the porcelain vase had been broken, it was worthless, and he would take it if he wanted to.

As for whether or not to find compensation from the 'Rapid Fat Bird Express', that is a matter after Lawrence returns.

Officer Mazi asks a few more questions and finds nothing suspicious about Donnie, so he leaves Donnie's apartment with Abi.

I don't know if it's Donnie's delusion, he thinks that the female police officer Abi glanced at him when he went out, and it seemed to have a deep meaning.

Am I still flawed?

Donnie thought about it, and felt that what he did was not perfect, at least he should not be too calm and not panicked at all.

Forget it, everyone is gone, and it's too late to show your acting skills now, and Downey is sweating, which can also be seen as being frightened by Potter's tragic situation.

When the two officers walked away, and the stall at the door was cleaned up and taken away, Downey breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tons tons tons tons tons ..."

Raising his head and drinking a whole glass of cold water, Donnie suppressed the thirst in his heart.

He can't stay at home all the time, he has to go out, and the sketch he finished last night will be delivered to the magazine today.

Lawrence has a black Impala muscle car, but he has driven it away, and Donnie comes out of the house with a bag of drawings and bottled water, and gets in the car and goes straight to the Uncanny Valley Magazine.