Chapter 66: Harvest
Look away from the rune golem and wander the room.
Gray realized that the room in front of him was supposed to be a place similar to a large hall.
The surrounding walls are carved with beautiful patterns, but they are extremely empty, except for some ornaments such as vases and stone carvings, which are placed in the corners.
At the same time, on the inner walls of the room, and even on the walls on both sides, there are three doors without doors one meter wide and more than two meters high.
The three of them walked into the leftmost room first.
There was also a rune lamp on the roof of the room, but it was much smaller than the rune lamp in the hall, and it was not hanging, but clinging to the wall.
In the room, there are many black wooden cabinets.
These black wooden cabinets, of various sizes, tall and short, were not all decayed as they had seen in the castle buildings before, and although they were mottled in color, there were no signs of decay.
The cabinets had apparently been turned over, as the doors had been opened, and in some places they were locked, but the locks had been violently picked open.
The three of Gray checked one cabinet after another, but found that all the cabinets were clean and there was no residue at all, and they searched all the cabinets, and the three of them didn't even know what these cabinets were for.
One can imagine how clean the group in front of them was.
Leaving the room, the three entered the inner walled room.
The top is also lit with rune lights, and the room is against the wall, there are rows of brackets, the wooden planks of the brackets are slightly slanted, and there are rows of vertically arranged wooden strips on them, and there are obvious card slots on the wooden strips.
Such a structure, which is also available in Fergus Castle, is a stand for weapons, like the last time Gray fought against Bernal, the ironwood sword used was taken from that stand.
If nothing else, these brackets used to be used to put weapons, but the grade is probably much higher than the weapons put in Viscount Fergus's castle, maybe there were magic weapons once placed, but now they are also empty, leaving only the brackets here.
Exiting the room, the three of them went to the last room, the one against the wall on the right.
"Wow......"
Entering this room, Bernal immediately couldn't help but exclaim, and Gray and Viscount Fergus also looked straight in the eyes.
Golden, dazzling gold.
In the middle of the room, on the innermost wall, there was a glittering hill of gold, a man as tall as a man, made entirely of gold coins, and it was difficult to take your eyes off it.
"How much gold does this cost?"
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Gray looked a little sluggish.
Three million, or five million?
The volume is so large and the number is so large that it is difficult to estimate the number of gold coins in front of you with your eyes alone.
In this world, ordinary civilians may not be able to earn a single gold coin in their lifetime, and the amount of gold coins in front of them at this time is full of millions, if it is used to pay the wages of ordinary civilians, it can hire millions of people to do a lifetime of work, you can imagine how shocking the amount of gold coins in front of you is.
"It would be better if the gold coins of the Purple Moon Kingdom were ......"
Bernal had already walked up quickly, grabbed a handful of gold coins and spread them in the palm of his hand to watch, and said with a slight sigh.
Gray walked over as well, grabbed a few gold coins and spread them out in the palm of his hand to watch.
The obverse of the gold coin is printed with a head, and in the head, there is a majestic middle-aged man, even if it is only through the gold coin, the majestic image of the other party also jumps out.
At the bottom of the portrait is the inscription of Palmer III.
What will appear in the ruins of the empire naturally cannot be something from the period of the Purple Moon Kingdom, and the Purple Moon Kingdom does not have such a character as Palmer III.
Therefore, this person called Palmer III must be a person from the imperial period, and Gray estimates that this person is likely to be a certain imperial king, because the person printed on the gold coins of the Purple Moon Kingdom is William I, the founding king of the Purple Moon Kingdom.
On the back of the gold coin, there is a huge and magnificent palace, with a deep moat, high city walls, and minaret buildings like mountain peaks, which are extremely magnificent, but there is no text introduction, I don't know what palace is called this palace, and I don't know if this palace still exists.
It is worth mentioning that Gray was able to read the text on the gold coin, and it is clear that the script of the imperial period is the same as the current mainland script, and has not reevolved into another script.
"Does this indicate that the empire has some kind of connection with the current Four Kingdoms?"
Gray couldn't help but think about the connection between the empire and the four kingdoms, but in the end, he could only shake his head helplessly, just the same words did not prove anything.
"If it is melted into gold nuggets and sold, the value is more than half of the difference."
Bernard's voice pulled Gray back to reality, and Bernal was already calculating how to convert these imperial gold coins into money.
"Brother Bernard, there are so many, we can't take them."
Gray reluctantly answered.
He probably understood why the other rooms were empty, but this one was the only one with so many gold coins.
There are too many of them, and this place is in the Red Leaf Forest, blood beasts are rampant, and it is impossible to get a carriage or something, to put it simply, it's not that the group of people in front of them don't want it, but they can't get it at all at once.
"It's a pity."
Bernal, of course, understood this, but was only shocked by the amount of gold coins.
"There's a book here......"
Looking away from the gold coin, Gray realized that at the very top of the gold coin, there was actually a book with a purple leather cover, and he had actually ignored the existence of this book because he had been attracted by the light of the gold coin.
Picking up the book, Gray looked at the name of the book on the cover.
"Bloodline Catalog."
Gray muttered the name softly, but he couldn't deduce the contents of the book from the name, so he turned the cover open and looked at the title page.
"Any kind of low-level blood beast, if you trace the source of its bloodline, can trace it back to a certain kind of powerful blood beast, and the reason why this phenomenon occurs is that the bloodline has a deterioration phenomenon, and there is a chance of deterioration from a high-level bloodline to a low-level bloodline."
"This book arranges common blood beasts according to the concentration of blood blood, many of which have been verified from the aspect of blood law, and some are the editor's speculation, welcome to discuss together, Polcis."
Polceth in the back, which should be the author's name, saw this title page text, Gray couldn't help but think of the book "On the Origin of Species" that he had seen.
Although the arguments are not the same, or even completely opposite, one is speculated through the deterioration of species, and the other is speculated on the evolution of species, but they have the same effect.
It has been confirmed that there is a bloodline connection between high-level blood beasts and low-level blood beasts.
"Gray, what is the book about?"
Seeing that Gray had actually found a book, Bernal asked curiously.
"It's about blood beasts."
Gray handed it to Bernal, who read it and handed it back, apparently not so interested in the book.
He would rather spend an hour on cultivation than an hour on reading, as can be seen from the fact that he doesn't know about the "Imperial Ruins".
Although there is very little information about the relics of the Empire, there are still references to the relics of the Empire in the books in the library of Fergus Castle, but he is not aware of them, and it is clear that he has not read them carefully.
"Father, what about these gold coins?"
Losing interest in books, Bernal once again became concerned about the issue of gold coins.
Although it is a gold coin from the imperial period, it is no longer in circulation, but it can be smelted into gold and sold.
Hearing the inquiry, Viscount Fergus frowned, if he could take all these gold coins away, the Fergus family would definitely make a windfall, at least one or two million gold coins, more than the Fergus family's accumulation in the past hundred years.
It's just a pity that there are too many of them, and they are in the depths of the Red Leaf Forest, so they can't all be taken away.
Without affecting the operation, the three of us took some of it, and the rest, gave up. ”
He immediately decided.
"Give up? Father, you mean you don't plan to come back next time? ”
Hearing the meaning of Viscount Fergus's words, Bernal frowned.
"Hmm."
Viscount Fergus nodded affirmatively.
"Dad is worried that the gang ahead of us will come back again?"
Bernal was not a fool and immediately guessed Viscount Fergus's concerns.
"Yes, I'm afraid they'll come back, pack up the gold coins, and get out of here as soon as possible."
Viscount Fergus commanded.
"Yes."
Gray and Bernal nodded, took a large leather bag from their backpacks, and began to fill it with gold coins.
It's just that in the process of filling it in, Gray can't help but have a guess in his heart that these gold coins have probably been given up by the gang in front of him.
However, after guessing it, he immediately denied it himself, and the marquis family probably would not let go of one or two million gold coins, and it stands to reason that the option of the previous group to give up gold coins is absolutely impossible.
Maybe it was because the entrance to the secret room that was not closed after it was opened made him have such a guess, but he secretly kept an eye in his heart, and decided to come and investigate again when he had the strength in the future.