Chapter 1851: A Large Number of Discoveries

I don’t know whether it was because of his experience on the desert island or because of his own personality. Bernardo was particularly fond of books, but he loved books differently from scholars. Except for a few books that he would read carefully, most of the other books I browsed through them casually, and even bought many books without reading them, just to collect them.

This habit of Bernardo is also very famous in Ma Tau Bay. Many people suspect that Bernardo's private collection may be larger than the total collection of all the officials in Ma Tau Bay. This suspicion has become the case this time. The leader of the pioneering group received confirmation when he left Ma Tau Bay.

Perhaps he thought he would not return to Nags Head Bay this time, so when he left, he took away what he considered the most valuable part of his book collection, and the part he took away filled five cars. The number of books that were not taken away by carriage could have been enough to build a large library.

Leo naturally covets these books by Bernardo. He has been paying attention to those books since he left Ma Tau Bay. Now that he has reached a cooperation agreement with Bernardo, he will naturally not miss the opportunity to read those books.

Bernardo did not refuse, and he readily issued a certificate to Leo that he was allowed to read books, and also provided him with some paper and pens so that he could copy some books. The only thing not allowed was that the books could not be taken away from where they were stored. carriage.

Although Bernardo only took away part of his book collection, there were more than four hundred books in this part. In the past two days, while Bernardo was busy setting up a new temporary camp and contacting the Nature Association, Leo Just stay alone in the carriage where the books are stored, and look through these precious books.

These books are precious not just because of the knowledge recorded in them, but more importantly because these books are the private collections of some well-known scholars in Novatia and their unpublished research materials. The reason why they are not published may be due to some social issues. The reason may also be personal.

According to the customs of the Novat Continent, all kinds of materials and collections of papers that were not published after the death of these scholars will be donated by the scholars' friends or colleagues, plus the kingdom's relative appropriation, and then compiled into a volume and handed over to the scholar's heirs for safekeeping.

Because these types of books contain a large number of scholars' fantastic ideas and research results of unknown value, they are extremely valuable in the book market of Novatia. Some books by famous people that involve some secret matters are even astronomically expensive. For example, a court scholar inadvertently recorded the events of a very important palace coup in one of his research notebooks. This notebook was later inadvertently included in the scholar's collected works after his death. As a result, the collected works were The mysterious man bought it for an astonishing price that could buy a manor in the capital of that country.

Of course, the books Bernando purchased cannot be of such high value, but some of the collections compiled by scholars after their deaths are also very expensive, and the collections purchased by Bernardo are all related to geography, history and folklore. Related, very targeted, and the value of such books in the market is slightly lower, which is why Bernardo was able to buy so many books with his net worth.

The reason why books on geography, history and folklore are not expensive is because the content in these books does not bring any value to buyers. Most books such as history and folklore are classified into Some useless pillow books and the like.

Although geography books sometimes mention the distribution of mineral veins, the problem is that except for a few countries in the Novat continent, most other countries do not allow private mining. All mineral deposits belong to the country or the king. Even the lords of the territories where the mineral deposits are located do not allow private excavation, otherwise they will be convicted of treason. Therefore, even if someone who studies geography knows where rich mineral deposits exist, it is impossible to give any benefit to the person who obtains the book.

After Bernardo bought these books, he obviously read them many times, because there are many reading experiences he left behind in these books. Unfortunately, these reading experiences are of little value to Leo. Compared with the reading experience left by Bernardo, some of the written content left by other book owners in the past are somewhat useful.

For example, in a folklore book, there is a folk legend about the white-haired ranger. The content of the legend is very simple, that is, a white-haired ranger was discovered in a certain area in the past. This ranger specialized in robbing bad nobles, and then Distribute the looted money to the poor.

The story is very simple and very common. There are similar legends in the folklore of various countries in the Novat continent. However, the previous owner of this book should be a scholar who specializes in folklore research. He believes that this book The folk legend about the white-haired ranger in this book should be the earliest legend of the white-haired ranger on the Novat continent.

For this reason, he specially went to the birthplace of this folklore to conduct an investigation. The investigation lasted three years, and the investigation data was compiled into a book. However, Bernardo did not have this book in his hands, but fortunately The scholar left a few pages of information related to the investigation results and glued them to the pages of the folklore book, sandwiching them in the book. These pages of information were of great use to Leo.

In these pages, the scholar mentioned that the White-haired Ranger in folklore is actually a woman, and this woman has a pair of emerald pupils and has extremely superb swordsmanship. The reason why the scholar knows so much is that he found a statue of the White-haired Ranger from the same period as the White-haired Ranger legend. Although the statue is a little damaged, the general shape can still be seen clearly, and the eyes decorated with emeralds are also intact, which allows the scholar to confirm that the White-haired Ranger has green pupils.

In addition, there is a wolf head ornament and a symbol of a bird on the statue. The scholar thinks that this may be a badge of some nobles, so he speculates that the White-haired Ranger is actually a noble, and may have lost his noble status for some reason, so he is very sad about those bad nobles and regards them as targets for robbery.

After seeing these contents, Leo immediately had associations in his mind. Emerald green pupils, white-haired women, and extremely high swordsmanship, plus the wolf head ornaments and bird symbols, etc., made him think of the girl named Ciri that he had seen in the world with the demon hunter. He remembered that he had read some books that mentioned the legend of the ancient blood. It was said that people with ancient blood could travel freely in space, and the girl named Ciri seemed to have ancient blood and had traveled through different worlds.

Therefore, Leo suspected that Ciri might have come to this world and stayed here for a long time, creating the legend of the white-haired ranger before leaving.

Leo was also very interested in how Ciri left this world. He guessed that it was related to Ciri's blood. Perhaps this power from the blood did not need to be released outside the body, and could directly pass through the space barrier, because in the relevant legends, it was mentioned that the white-haired ranger could enter any place without being released, including the private chambers of the nobles, which made Leo feel like some kind of space travel ability.

Discovering that this world and the world where the demon hunter lived might be connected was only one of the gains Leo got from these books. The gain that Leo really valued was that in the books about history, he found that the connection between this world and the Vilen world was closer than he guessed. This closeness was not only reflected in history, but also in the gods.

Yes, not only the people of the Vilen world had come to this world in the past, but even the gods were very likely to have come to this world and stayed in this world for a long time.

The reason why Leo thought so was that in the history of the countries in the Novat continent, some particularly famous political reforms were almost exactly the same as some political reforms in the Vilen continent. The only difference might be that the names of the two were different because of the different languages.

For example, the most famous noble power bill of the Fran Empire appeared in the Kingdom of Anris, the largest inland country in the Novat continent of this world, and became the core bill that could stabilize the regime of the Kingdom of Anris. In a related history book, all the contents of this bill were recorded in detail, and these contents were exactly the same as the Noble Power Bill of the Fran Empire that Leo had read. This kind of sameness was not only the same in content, but also the same in wording and sentence. It was just a different language, and even the name was the Noble Power Bill.

Although from the perspective of time, it seems that the Noble Power Bill was first announced by the Fran Empire, but after experiencing the appearance of the Queen of Xi Ni, Leo already felt that although this world and the Viren world were connected to each other, the speed of time was different, so it was also very likely that the Noble Power Bill was first announced here, and then someone from the Fran Empire came to this world to see the bill, and then returned to the Viren world, and then submitted the bill, and announced it in the Fran Empire, becoming one of the many bills in the Fran Empire to restrict the power of the nobility.

The reason why he made such a guess is that from the content of this bill, it is completely aimed at the political system of the Kingdom of Anris in the Novat Continent. Therefore, even now, the Kingdom of Anris can still rely on this bill to strengthen the royal power, restrict the power of the nobles, and make the domestic political situation extremely stable.

On the other hand, although this set of bills can still be implemented in the Fran Empire, many of the clauses in it are not suitable for the political structure of the Fran Empire, so the effect is not particularly large, so that it is necessary to continuously issue relevant supplementary clauses to strengthen the enforcement of this set of bills. However, even so, this set of bills still cannot save the collapse of the Fran Empire, so from the implementation effect of this set of bills, we can judge where the source of the bill is.

In addition, Leo also learned from the information on the Fran Empire that the proposer of this set of bills was Earl Wilmans, who was born as a military noble and has always been extremely hostile to the traditional noble system. Although the proposed set of noble power bills will restrict military nobles to a certain extent, the traditional noble system will be hit harder.

The identity of Count Wilmans is also unusual. Although he took his mother's surname, his father's surname is Belmont, which means he is a member of the Belmont family. This also makes Leo suspect that he will lose a part of his memory and then come to this world, perhaps it is related to Sylvia, and Sylvia is also very likely to be in this world.

In addition to the Noble Rights Act, these historical books also record some bills that Leo is also familiar with. Although some of these bills have slightly different names and some contents have been slightly deleted, they are generally consistent with some representative bills in the Veron world. Even a blind person can see that the two are related.

However, this is not what Leo cares about most. What really concerns Leo is the gray fog that once existed on the ocean of this world.

Bernardo is obviously also very interested in the gray fog at sea, so there are a lot of books about gray fog research in these books. There are not many truly valuable books among these books. Only two are the most valuable, one is called Gray Fog Observer and the other is called Ghost Ship in the Gray Fog.

Gray Fog Observer, as the name suggests, is a book that specifically records the changes in gray fog. In fact, this book is not the work of a certain researcher, but an organization called Gray Fog Observation Lighthouse established by a coastal kingdom named Jemor. The observation record of gray fog over the years. This book is also the thickest and most numerous set of books among all Bernardo's books, with as many as thirteen books, and the thickness of each book is three times that of other normal books.

The content of this book is extremely boring, similar to the records of chronicles, with one line of date and one line of observation records. The content of most of the record lines is the same as above, because the gray fog is very stable and rarely changes. Even if there are changes, only one line is needed to record it, such as the gray fog color becoming lighter or darker, the gray fog rolling like clouds, etc.

It is these boring records that allow Leo to determine that the disappearance of the gray fog on the sea in this world is related to the appearance of the gray fog in the Vilen world, because these records mention more than once that huge monster images appeared in the gray fog, and the observers also recorded the appearance of the monsters in detail, but these observers only recorded a part of it, and the following content became some meaningless random words. It feels as if the person who recorded this content quickly stripped away rationality and became a madman.

Even if only a part of the appearance of the monsters in the gray fog was recorded, Leo could find that these monsters with obvious characteristics had also appeared in the gray fog in the Vilen world. The only difference is that the number of times these monsters appear in this world is very low, while the frequency of appearance in the Vilen world is very high.

From this, Leo made a bold guess that the gray fog in this world did not actually disappear, but was transferred to the Vilen world.