Chapter 295 Genuine Goods and Good Value?

Vader stood silently next to Professor Murray, and heard the professor urging him: "You don't have to follow me, Vader, you can be more casual and look at the items you like."

Wade shook his head, did not speak, and did not leave.

——After all, he is still a child.

Professor Murray thought to himself, smiled gently, and stopped urging Wade to act alone.

While admiring the stone tablet with the words engraved on it, he explained to Wade in a low voice:

"Gul has previously told us about the items he prepared for exhibition this time, and this is one of them... The stone tablets unearthed from ancient Egypt are said to have been carved by Democritus himself."

"The magic of that era was very primitive and pure. It was much closer to the essence of magic and the truth of nature than it is now. It is said that there were magical technologies that could make humans equal to gods."

"Like this stone slab?" Wade asked.

Professor Murray smiled and said: "Of course this needs to be translated and researched before we can know what the content is. But I can temporarily interpret part of it..."

As he spoke, Professor Murray began to carefully study the text above, mumbling words and gesturing with his fingers to understand the content.

The writing on the stone slab is different from anything known so far, and ancient characters can often express complex meanings with a simple symbol.

Professor Murray had great difficulty in interpreting it. After a few minutes, he muttered: "What's going on...it's so strange..."

The old professor went back and interpreted it again.

"Strange...that's right...could it be that these words were engraved wrong?"

He observed the stone slab with obvious traces of time. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong, Professor?" Wade asked.

"The text is not quite right." He turned to Wade and said, "Maybe Gur was deceived and this is a fake. Let's go and look at something else."

Vader turned around and looked. The red-robed wizard was standing next to the wooden bronze mirror with a smile. He was talking to Orlando of Beauxbatons. There were also several young alchemists surrounding him, looking at him with awe from time to time. That mirror.

The elevator entering here has been closed, and the floor display above is dark without any text.

Vader could see chain-like magic patterns coiling around the elevator door. It would definitely not be easy to open that door.

Taking a closer look, you can see that the ancient portraits hanging on the wall were all in a normal sleeping state, but at this moment, a small number of them have opened their eyes, and some of them squinted, as if they were secretly observing.

Even the location of the statue has undergone some subtle changes.

But the alchemists in the hall were so absorbed in the exhibits that no one noticed these changes.

So Wade withdrew his gaze and did not reveal his findings. Instead, he followed Professor Murray and continued to see the wreath of thorns.

"It looks like an ordinary garland, but in fact, it is probably related to the legendary great magician Merlin..."

Professor Murray still introduced the background information first:

"Vivian, the fairy of the lake, trapped Merlin with the wreath of thorns on her head, making him unable to find his way, and finally imprisoned him in an oak tree forever..."

Suddenly, his voice paused, and he stared at the garland in the barrier for a long time, unable to speak.

Under the magical barrier that protects the exhibits, the alchemists cannot use detection magic to further detect the exhibits. They can only use their own eyes to appreciate and imagine.

But for an experienced alchemist like Professor Murray, he has an almost intuitive sense of alchemy items. Even if he only sees the appearance, he can detect something strange.

Professor Murray's fingers gently slid in mid-air, tracing the shape of the garland of thorns through the barrier.

Then the old man laughed angrily.

"How could this be something from a thousand or two thousand years ago...Isn't it just made a day or two ago?"

Professor Murray's expression became sharp: "Wade, under what circumstances would an alchemist who has been working in this field for thirty or forty years make mistakes twice in a row?"

Vader said softly: "Under threat or control, right? Look, professor, others have also discovered the problem... We'd better not act rashly."

Professor Murray originally thought that the red-robed wizard Gur was defrauding his reputation for decades, and was very angry. Hearing Wade's words, he immediately calmed down.

Later, he also discovered the problem.

The young people were still wandering around admiring the exhibits, while the older alchemists almost all frowned and exchanged glances with each other.

Only Orlando was still talking to Gull about the legend of Death, and was trying to find out if the mirror could be discounted.

An old man with wrinkled clothes and spots on his face quickly looked at all the exhibits, then walked straight over and interrupted the conversation between the two.

"Gul!" he asked in a bad tone: "What the hell are you exhibiting? Do you expect to use such things to deceive our eyes?"

It seemed that rather than "the exhibits were all fakes," he was more angry that someone actually thought such things could be hidden from his eyes.

Gu paused, smiled and asked: "What? Mr. Mathias, which one are you referring to?"

"All of them!" the old wizard said angrily: "Just like the damn mirror in front of you! It's not a magic mirror at all!"

"What?!" Orlando was shocked and immediately rushed to the barrier to observe carefully.

Gur paused again, his smile still warm: "How could it be? This mirror comes from ancient things and has the function of communicating with the dead. If you are interested, I can introduce it to you in detail..."

"I'm not interested in fakes at all!" Wizard Mathias shouted loudly: "Did you hear what I was saying clearly?!"

Gul's smiling expression changed slightly, and then the corners of his mouth curved again, and he asked:

"Are you doubting my professionalism? I have been in this business for thirty-nine years! My friend, please believe me - I would never put it in my website if I had not identified the authenticity in advance. During the exhibition.”

Wizard Mathias did not refute this time. He stared at Gur for a while, and then became even more furious: "The Imperius Curse?! Who dares to use the Imperius Curse on people?!"

Before he finished speaking, a "plop" sounded in the hall.

A young wizard suddenly fell down.

Then the second, the third...

The alchemists fell down one after another, and some hit the stone platform and suffered severe head injuries.

Gur seemed not to have seen it, and still smiled and said: "...You can rest assured, I will guarantee with my life that the exhibits I sell are genuine!"

Someone shouted: "Run!"