Chapter 1644 Power
Now Lin Nian finally knew where the gold that the natives used to make spears came from. He looked back at the corner of the wall behind him, which was piled up like a hill of gold sand surrounding the huge space. This was not like the gold sand mixed with gravel on the beach. The gold sand here was fine and pure, and each grain was the product of being killed and resurrected by alchemy. It can be called the consumables that alchemists dream of.
So the story mentioned in the previous story that the dragon liked to pile up gold and silver treasures in the cave was not racial discrimination or stereotype. It’s just that piling up gold and silver treasures is not simply a love of shiny things, but these things are needed as consumables for studying alchemy.
Indeed, as Yelena said, this is a real reward level. If the gold stored in the internal space of this mountain can be emptied (including the gold on the inner wall of the mountain), then the United States will have to take off the title of the world’s largest gold reserve and pay a respect to Lin Nian.
Just talking about the total amount of gold sand piled up in the corner of this space, if it is taken out, it can directly have a severe impact on the gold market price in the world. The sharp depreciation of gold has led to gold price volatility, gold-linked currencies and stock prices in the financial market, even black market money laundering and illegal transactions, and international trade export income will have a huge impact. In a slightly more serious case, it will cause some small countries to go bankrupt directly.
However, from a realistic point of view, even if there are so many gold reserves, it is impossible to realize the value in one go, because countries will inevitably control the large amount of gold pouring into the market, and monetary policies will be adjusted quickly, including adjusting interest rates or implementing other measures to stabilize the currency market, and simultaneously start investigating the source of these unnamed gold.
What is hidden behind the stone gate? What is hidden in the library?
Power.
The word that Yelena always enjoys talking about.
Wealth is sometimes also a kind of power, and it is a very brutal and direct power, which is exactly what Lin Nian lacks.
In the library of the escapist dragons, apart from the books on the bookshelves, the only thing that Lin Nian can use directly is probably the gold sand, which is all alchemical consumables. Putting aside the value of gold itself, the role of the perfect alchemical consumables alone is enough for the people who study alchemy all over the world to use. This is an energy that even the secret party cannot underestimate.
Lin Nian bent down and casually scooped a handful of gold sand from the pile of gold sand in the corner, feeling the heavy weight and the delicate touch of the gold sand sliding on his fingertips. Such a casual handful of alchemical consumables is enough for him to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, and this is just a scrap consumable of alchemy for the former dragons. Those powerful dragons can directly retrieve gold mines from the earth veins, and then use alchemy to directly extract high-purity gold and extract it from the surface. For them, gold is really no different from stone.
If Lu Mingfei was called here, that guy would probably be stunned, right? Maybe even snot bubbles would come out of his nose in excitement, and he would say that the budget problem of opening an Internet cafe could be thrown away directly. In the future, his Internet cafes would be opened everywhere in China. As long as you mention his name, Lu Mingfei, you can go online wherever you want, stay overnight, and you can add three more instant noodles and boiled eggs, and a bottle of Nutri-Express would be given as a gift.
"When you see the treasure of the giant dragon, your first reaction is not to take it for yourself, but to think about pulling your brothers who have never seen the world to open their eyes? It seems that you have not yet become a qualified greedy dragon."
Yelena stood up in the beam of sunlight and ended the chanting of the hymn. However, the sound of nature still echoed in the space of the mountain, as if it was recorded forever by the matrix. The living spirit in the orchestra hidden high on the bookshelf was still full of energy after thousands of years, and kept repeating the performance.
"Discovering and seeing does not mean that you have obtained it." Lin Nian shook off the remaining gold sand on his hand, turned his head and looked at the blonde girl who came from the passage of the towering bookshelves.
"I think you should have a way to take these things out. Maybe you can contact your powerful friends?"
"Are you talking about Elizabeth Laurent?" Lin Nian glanced at the magnificent mountain natural library made of gold and shook his head slightly.
He walked to a nearby sky-high bookshelf, pushed aside the vines, and took out a book made of bamboo and wood slips that had not accumulated any dust for thousands of years. This form of book had a long record of use between the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The bamboo and wood were trimmed into pieces of the same length, and then the pieces were split into strips of the same width. They were finally woven together through drying, polishing, and waxing.
The end of the slip that Lin Nian took out was trimmed into a semi-arc shape, decorated with bluish-white ribbons and ropes. After untying it, the handwriting inside should be from the Han Dynasty. As for whether it was from the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, he couldn't tell clearly. After all, he specialized in dragon history, not human history.
But the most important thing is the content recorded in this volume, which is the analysis of "prophecy and divination theology". Because the orthodox exchange teacher had taught courses at Kassel College for a period of time, Lin Nian knew that prophecies and divination came from theology. Prophecy was the cryptic language of the pictures made by the alchemists to transform Confucianism, and divination was relative to Confucian classics, that is, the Confucian classics were attached and explained with theology.
What is very interesting is that the orthodox teachers exchanged from Kassel College at that time also popularized the complex contents of the study of prophecy to these foreign mixed-race elites, such as the concepts of destiny, divine power, and the induction of heaven and man. The latter part also extended to Hetu The knowledge of Luo Shu and astrological fortune-telling even mentions that the Yellow Emperor is the god of the Big Dipper, Confucius is the seed of the "black dragon" and other interesting concepts.
The book Lin Nian is holding now can be regarded as an analysis and science popularization of the true essence of "Prophecy Theology". If you turn to the back, you can even find relevant documents on poems to predict disasters and rituals and fortune telling in simple books.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is such a simple book. If it is thrown out to the outside world and picked up by a history college student, it might immediately become a popular online novel "I was abandoned by the school belle and had to go to fortune telling". serialized.
However, "Prophecy Theology" is just a book that Lin Nian casually pulled out from the bookshelf. Here are countless documents on mysticism and alchemy collected by a group of dragon clans over countless years. The hybrid race is now developing The knowledge system is not even comparable to any row of bookshelves here, and it also proves that the hybrid's claim to have analyzed the so-called "small piece" of dragon civilization is ridiculous.
"The golden library contains not only gold, but also a library." Yelena walked along the bookshelves in a circle, gently stroking the spines of the neatly arranged books with her fingers, "The Book of Enoch", "The Voynich Manuscript·True Interpretation" "Naxi Bible", "Bohemian Slate", "Tuibei Diagram", "Giant Magic Book" and "Solomon's Golden Key", even if most of them are copies, knowledge is knowledge, and it will not depend on the origin or copy. And cut it down a notch.
Her ethereal voice floated leisurely in the golden space filled with hymns, "Although most of the knowledge here is from the street, it is still from the pre-dragon civilization era. It is difficult to hold a fragment of a bronze pillar in the modern era." For someone who has studied mixed-race species for decades or hundreds of years, it is already a rare thing that opens the door at a glance."
In fact, Lin Nian has also seen a library that is more precious than this golden library. It is Norton's library in Baidi City. However, now that library has been completely closed with Norton's death. What is now in front of him But the treasures he was allowed to access contained enough knowledge that the entire mixed-race group could make a "eureka" leap like a rocket in their understanding of dragon civilization.
"But is this really good?" Yelena said quietly, "Trivia, this is the first time in history that a hybrid has been closest to a complete treasure trove of dragon civilization knowledge. Any such level The knowledge base is protected by a considerable level of alchemical matrix. With the current alchemical knowledge reserves of hybrids, it is almost impossible to completely break through the door, but this time is different——"
Because this time, it was Yelena who broke through the door. She is a master of alchemy herself, and she had personally participated in building this knowledge base, so she could open it so easily.
This is also something Elena secretly reminded her.
This treasure can be regarded as a gift from Elena to him. How to deal with it is up to him.
Elena stood in the golden halo and looked up at the tall bookshelf and said,
"If you hand a hot weapon loaded with bullets and without safety to a group of indigenous people, especially a group of indigenous people who are not united and have bad intentions, what do you think will happen next? Everyone is working together to contribute to the cause of dragon slaying. Or should we enter a new Cold War era with weapons in hand, and use this knowledge to continuously explore and conduct new arms races? You know, this is how the 'Butterfly Project' came about."
She smiled and said another thought-provoking sentence:
"Actually, when I think about it, the secret party is really interesting. The purpose of everything they do is to slay the dragon, but slaying the dragon is not the only one."
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Lin Nian fell into silence. Yelena's purpose of persuading him to keep all this for herself was obvious, but she had to admit that what the other party said had her own reasons.
Lin Nian himself only responded to this knowledge with awe and emotion, and did not have the strong possessiveness and greed in it. To put it bluntly, compared with this knowledge that can disrupt and destabilize the structure of the outside world, those golden Maybe it's more attractive to him.
After all, the financial support required for subsequent plans to be implemented is not low. If everything depends on the connections and relationships behind him, then his actions will inevitably be monitored and controlled.
His current political leanings in the secret party temporarily belong to the faction of Hilbert Jean Angers, and the representative and figure of this faction is Elizabeth Laurent, who is also a member of the school board. To break away from the shackles of the school board, he needed to have some "power" of his own.
The golden library in front of you is the richest treasure and the most solid and powerful power.
But before that, Lin Nian had more things to care about.
"You said that this place can be regarded as a treasure trove of knowledge from the pre-dragon civilization, so the documents preserved here should cover a very wide range." Lin Nian looked at Elena and asked, "Then are there any documents in this library that record how Lift the 'curse' brought about by the contract?"
ps: The 6.5 million-word book club notification is late. In fact, there has always been a book club group. Now it is placed in the introduction. You can apply to join the group with one click. This function is really cool, but I only discovered it now.