Chapter 1250 Old Fairy Country

Vaults with numbers less than 100 are not allowed to be opened?

Although the chief goblin had stated that it was for safety, if that was the case, why didn't Gringotts simply suspend all services? Even if it doesn't pretend to be a ruin like the Dark Spirit Pavilion, at the moment, it seems to be a reasonable choice to stop business.

However, not only did Gringotts not do that, but it only restricted the treasury within 100 numbers... Isn't this a bit of a cover-up?

Remember that the smaller the number of the Gringotts vault, the bigger the vault and the more important it is. Vaults with a number below 100 are usually owned by wizard families who have accumulated a lot of wealth. These families usually store a lot of valuable but not practical collections here, and they generally don't use them very much.

Obviously, if Maca was not in need today, Mr. Parkinson would not have come to open the family treasury. And this means that no one will notice this matter at all.

Presumably, it was precisely because of such considerations that the goblins at Gringotts used the appearance of providing normal services to cover up to the outside world, instead of choosing to seal up the entire underground vault. Because in that case, it will actually come true afterwards.

Of course, the premise is that Gringotts is really planning something in the dark.

"Don't open it within number 100?" Maca thought for a while, and quickly said, "Forget it, let's go to my vault instead! Number 213——"

As he spoke, he took out his vault key from his waist and put it on the counter casually.

Originally, when I first came to Gringotts to rent a vault, because there was not much money in Maca at that time, I only used the smallest model numbered above 1000. It wasn't until later that he earned more Galleons that he replaced it with a medium-sized vault located deeper underground.

Now Maca is a little lucky. Since the vaults below are all occupied by people, when he replaced the vaults, he could only change the ones with numbers above 200 at most. If he had changed to a number less than 100 at that time, he would probably have to sneak in with Mr. Parkinson today.

"Oh... 213, um... ok."

The chief goblin picked up the key to look at it, paused for a moment, and then nodded.

"Griphook, take Mr. McLean and Mr. Parkinson to No. 213... You know, take the track from the Anti-Thief Falls!"

"Yes, sir."

In the seat not far from the side,

One of his assistants jumped off the high stool, walked around the counter and gestured to Maca and the others:

"Two, please go this way."

Maca shrugged, put away the staff in his hand, and followed the chief assistant named "Griphook" to the side passage. Seeing this, Parkinson behind him looked somewhat confused, but quickly put away his key and quickly chased after him.

The two followed Griphook from the side door corridor to the back of the hall, passed through three safe passages guarded by goblin guards, and finally arrived at a place that looked like a Muggle subway station.

There are quite a lot of mine car rails lined up quite densely here, and under the criss-crossing tracks is a huge bottomless pothole.

Just standing on the edge and looking down, it seems that the bottom is straight to hell. People with fear of heights definitely don't like this kind of place very much.

It is worth mentioning that the underground vault of Gringotts is definitely much deeper than that of the Dark Souls Pavilion-the deepest part of the two may actually be similar, but the Dark Souls Pavilion itself is underground after all, which is undoubtedly determined by their respective locations. determined differences.

"this way please."

Griphook pointed to the second rail on the right, and stepped forward, raised his leg and kicked the rail. Immediately, a mine cart suddenly fell from above their heads and landed on the railway track accurately.

Then, he took the lead in turning over and crawling in.

"Come on, Mr. Parkinson."

Maca turned his head and motioned for the other party to follow, and then he also got on the slightly narrow mine cart. After Parkinson came up with him, the pull ring immediately pushed the middle pull rod forward, and the mine cart carried the three of them and slid forward along the track.

As the minecart was speeding all the way, sometimes swirling and sometimes diving, the pull ring was also constantly turning the lever left and right to switch the fork, which made the minecart shake very badly.

In some places, there is even a section of rail missing, and the mine carts rely on inertia to fly over.

Seriously, if any Muggle amusement park dared to build a roller coaster like this, it would definitely lose money.

During this time, they also passed a huge waterfall. The ever-flowing water curtain looked very real, but when the minecart passed through the middle, it didn't touch the slightest splash.

This is the anti-thief waterfall in the underground vault of Gringotts. It is said that all vicious curses with continuous effects will be washed away when they pass through. There was even an interesting story about wizards who suffered powerful curses here for free. story.

When Maca passed by there, he also had to secretly cast magic to block it, so as not to wash away some of the permanent magic he left on the run.

Not long after, when he tilted his neck slightly to look deeper into the huge pit, Griph suddenly pulled the metal rod back forcefully. Immediately afterwards, with a burst of sparks and a harsh "creak", the mine cart stopped immediately.

"Vault No. 213 is here, please get out of the car, both of you."

Seeing that Griphook was about to jump onto the rock platform next to him, Parkinson subconsciously wanted to move, but Maka, who was sitting next to him, gave him a slight tug.

"Mr. Parkinson, do you remember the exact location of your family vault?"

"what?"

Hearing this, the other party froze for a moment.

"Oh... no, actually I rarely come to Gringotts, and you see, the tracks are so messed up that most people really can't remember them."

"Then there's no way."

Maca nodded, and suddenly looked at the goblin Griphook who had been transferred to the rock platform, and a little power of soul rules flickered in his eyes.

"I don't need to open No. 213, just take us to No. 83 vault!"

"Oh, that's not okay, we can only... only..."

Griphook spoke in a daze, his expression becoming more and more hesitant, as if he had encountered some difficult problem that caused him a psychological conflict. But at the end, he still nodded slowly,

"...Okay, number 83...but down there we might meet President Algort, who...he won't let you in."

"Really?" Maca nodded slightly, "What is he doing there? Are you planning to take the biggest vaults for yourself?"

"'For my own'? No, no..." Griphook said in a daze, "We are just cleaning up some large vaults that no one has inherited... They are no longer claimed, they are abandoned property, who picks them up? It will belong to whoever arrives."

Maca couldn't help shaking his head when he heard this, and then said to Parkinson beside him: "It seems that at least your family's vault should be fine."

After that, he turned his head to Griphook and asked:

"There's one more question—why did you choose this timing to clean up the vault? Could it be that...you want to run away?"

Before the words fell, Griphook immediately replied:

"Whether you run or not depends on the situation... We have just received a notice from our fellow clansmen in the Dark Souls. We, Gringotts and the Dark Spirits, have unanimously decided not to participate in the struggle outside... So, if Diagon Alley is still , we won’t run away; and if we can’t even defend Diagon Alley, we will immediately retreat into the ruins of the old underground country.”

"The old underground country?"

When Maca heard this, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly.

Yes, he also knew that goblins used to have their own country, but the country of goblins recorded in history is located on the ground like human beings, they just naturally like to dig out caves to live in. That's all.

But later, no matter how tenacious the goblins were, their land was always being compressed and eroded by wizards. In particular, several wizard wars involved the country of goblins, which eventually led to their complete destruction of the country.

And this, in fact, was only a few hundred years ago.

Just judging from what Griphook said, the Goblin Kingdom might not have been completely destroyed back then, but chose to go deep underground to preserve its strength in order to avoid the war.

It's no wonder that after the war subsided a bit, many goblins emerged from every corner, and took advantage of the chaos after the war to sneak into the wizarding society in one fell swoop.

However, Maca has no interest in the survival of the Fairy Kingdom. What he is most concerned about now is, how big is the so-called "underground ruins of the old country" that Griphook said?

According to the current situation, that might become their last retreat in the fight with Hai Erbo!

"Well, anyway," Maca shook his head and said, "Griphook, take us to Vault 83, and you don't need to worry about anything else."

It is obviously too early to consider those things. Although it is necessary to plan ahead, there are obviously more and more urgent things to do.

Soon, Maca let Griphook get on the mine cart again, and continued to drive deeper into the underground vault.