Chapter 282

Theodore is a second-hand bookseller.

According to legend from his ancestors, when he was about twelve years old, he started to help his father manage a bookstore called Tulip, and then he worked in this line for a full thirty years, which is enough to be called an old seniority, even in NUO. Is a little famous.

In addition to buying and selling second-hand books, he also collects some rare books or books that interest him, which is his personal hobby.

In other words, everyone who runs a bookstore has more or less special feelings for books.

However, it was this ordinary hobby that got him into a lot of trouble...

Theodore has no way of judging how big the trouble is, but he vaguely understands that the high probability cannot be solved by himself as a bookseller.

Even because of some out-of-print precious books, he had some kind of friendship with some powerful nobles in the Central District, but it was of no use at all.

Because things have exceeded the predictable scope, and they are rushing towards the unknown direction of ordinary people...

Theodore received the book from a downtown smuggler.

It is strictly forbidden to come and go between the upper and lower urban areas. The only passage is underground in the central area, which is guarded by Rolle Resources and the Central Army. In theory, it is impossible for smuggling to occur, and I don’t know where the other party came from. way.

The guy was very tight-lipped and refused to say anything. Naturally, Theodore knew the rules and didn't ask any questions.

But there is no doubt that smuggling between the upper and lower cities can bring huge benefits, not only books, but also many more valuable things.

This book is just an incomprehensible and incomplete ancient book that the other party sold off by the way.

It happened that Theodore was more interested in this special book, so after getting the news, he entrusted someone to make a secret deal with the other party and got the book.

But I don't know which link went wrong, which led to the sudden leak of news. The smuggler with a strong background disappeared directly from the world after a few days, and there was no more news.

The middleman whom Theodore had entrusted at the beginning also disappeared, and only left a sentence when he visited in a hurry a few days before his disappearance-"Don't admit it!"

While Theodore was puzzled and vacillating, things fell silent for a while.

He almost forgot about it, until...a guest suddenly came to ask about the book.

"I know from Julina that you have goods brought from the lower city here. I am very interested in these. Can you let me have a look?"

Julina is another intermediary known by Theodore, a long-term partner, and the guests introduced are very reliable and trustworthy.

Theodore didn't take it seriously, thinking that no one had come to buy the things from the city for a long time, so he was going to bring the other party to the inner room and show his collection.

But the words were in his throat, and he suddenly remembered the eyes of the missing middleman who stared at him like a trapped animal before leaving.

"Don't admit it!"

Theodore looked at the guest's sincere eyes that were deeper than ordinary people. Out of an instinctive intuition that he didn't know where it came from, he showed a embarrassed expression without changing his face, and said that he had entrusted the missing person because he thought it was dangerous. The middleman in the middle handed everything out.

"I'm so sorry."

Theodore said so.

The guest fell silent suddenly, stared at his face for more than half a minute, and then said softly: "That's really a pity."

and left.

Theodore breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, only to realize that his back was drenched in sweat, and he was glad that he remembered the warning.

But he was obviously too happy too soon.

After that, the whole thing really starts.

From time to time, some people would come to inquire about the condition of the book in his hand, and among the daily guests, there were also some people who were obviously not right.

Theodore could feel that some of them had obvious malicious intentions, but he didn't take further action as if out of some fear he didn't know.

He once heard one of the customers murmuring: "Bookstore? It won't be another one, right?"

Then the man looked at Theodore with an inscrutable and speculative look in his eyes, as if thinking about whether he might be an alien creature, very bizarre eyes.

Theodore seemed to understand a little bit, the so-called fear seemed to be because of a certain bookstore, which made them feel a little awe of the "bookstore".

I don't know... What kind of bookstore can make them avoid snakes and scorpions?

But this kind of fear did not last long. As more and more people came to visit, the eyes of those people gradually stopped hiding, and their words became more and more oppressive.

The crisis came quietly.

Until one day, Theodore accidentally saw with his own eyes a guest who came to inquire about the books in his hand. After walking out of the Tulip Bookstore, he turned into an eagle at the corner!

That's right, directly from a human to a bird!

And before the eagle flew away, it deliberately looked back at him, which was full of naked malice and no longer concealed it.

Theodore immediately understood that this was a real big deal for him!

He had heard a long time ago that Nuo Jin still had some existences beyond mortals—"transcendents", including those wizards, knights, elves, or dragons that appeared in the legends that have been handed down to this day!

But he had never seen it before, so he took it as a joke after dinner.

But now, he really met him!

Moreover, it was all directed at him.

This realization simply made his scalp tingle...

After panicking for a while, Theodore finally calmed down, remembering the advertisement of Roller Resources' new business district between 23rd and 24th streets.

Considering Luo Er's huge resources, no matter what these extraordinary people are, it is impossible to start there, right?

Theodore did not stop, at all costs, got the contract of one of the shops, and successfully moved the shop and most of the things in the shop here as quickly as possible.

"I hope that Luo Er's resources will make them fearful...but if they still come after me, what should I do?"

Theodore could only smile wryly.

What can he do as an ordinary person with no power to restrain a chicken?

"What the hell is this book...?"

Theodore looked at the book in his hand, and couldn't help murmuring this question from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't get an answer and didn't dare to ask.

He secretly took it out and looked at it, but he couldn't understand what was written on it.

It is said to be a book, but it is actually more like a notebook. It is full of handwriting, and there are some incomprehensible hand-painted patterns. A large number of pages are incomplete and bloodstained.

In addition, the only few characters that can be understood are also scattered and scattered on the pages of the book without meaning, and the handwriting is very strange, as if a child who has just learned to read has copied a few words by force, and there are pictures on the side. Something like a large number of suspected comments.

Theodore thought for a long time, and after repeated comparisons, he vaguely felt that the writing form of this book was very similar to——

Some kind of research note?