book of old days

Chapter 163 Treasure Chest
Walking along the steps into the basement, there was no torch lit in the dark secret room, and Sean didn't care anyway. He put the bottle on the table in the corner, took a few steps back, and frowned again.

Although it is a secret room, but just leave it like this, it always feels unsafe, very unprofessional at all.

In the future, the secret room should be remodeled to create many sealed small compartments. The gaps are all made of concrete to ensure the distance between each other, and a thick anti-theft iron door should be installed in each compartment.

In the end, a guard has to be arranged in the secret room, maybe you can find a suitable thing from the Book of the Old to guard it...

Xiao En feels that judging from his current developments, there will probably be many things like this bottle in the future. This kind of sensitive item that is neither safe nor willing to throw away is somewhat risky if you carry it with you. It's not fun to accidentally knock off the lid while touching something.

But if the number is too large, it will be time bombs one after another, and there must be a foolproof sealing place.

After hesitating for a while, Sean put the bottle on the table, turned around and left the secret room, sealed the stone door at the entrance, and Sean returned to the dungeon.

Next, he was preparing for a new round of summoning, and he still planned to use this spell. Although the bottle was risky, it was still within the controllable range, and there was no need to modify the content of the spell.

Standing in front of the summoning circle, Sean chanted the spell again.

"An ordinary thing from the world of Atlanta."

"Common objects and ordinary materials can be used to contain the strange existence of matter."

"Use Graham's magic circle to open the door to another world."

"In my name, Sean Forrest."

"I summon you to come into this world."

The rift opened slowly, and then slowly closed. When the red light dissipated, what appeared in front of his eyes was a box—to be precise, a treasure box.

The reason why I think it is a treasure chest is because it looks like a treasure chest in some fantasy games. It has a rectangular body and a semicircular lid on the box. The surface of the box seems to be plated with a layer of gold, or it is itself It was made of gold, and a few precious stones were even inlaid on it. It looked extremely gorgeous, as if the person who built this box was afraid that others would not know that the box contained treasures.

But looking at the gorgeous shape of the box, Xiao En felt a little vigilant in his heart.

Because of a certain game he played in his previous life, he was full of vigilance against things like treasure chests. Once encountering such things as treasure chest monsters, they will leave a very deep psychological shadow. Something like this will appear. Once the box is opened, it will turn into a bloody mouth or something. Think about it, the picture is not too beautiful.

He resolutely did not step forward and waved his hand.

"Number Ten, go and open that box."

Last time it was No. [-], this time it's natural to change someone, and you can't always keep a dwarf scourge, right, the risks have to be shared.

Sean doesn't think he is a benevolent person, but even so, for his subordinates, he still believes that every dwarf should be given a chance to survive, so every time he takes an adventure, he will replace a new dwarf, and if he is lucky, he can survive. Go on, if they can't survive, it's their bad luck, and it has nothing to do with them.

It's somewhat hypocritical to think so, but Xiao En feels that sometimes it's better to be hypocritical. At least in this way, he can think that he is not a villain who doesn't care about the life and death of his subordinates.

No. [-] walked over very obediently, and opened the box as soon as he stretched out his hand.

With a bang, the lids of the box were flipped over, but the tragedy as imagined did not happen. The box seemed to be just an ordinary box, without any bloody mouth, and there was not even a little unnecessary movement.

Number Ten looked at him, and stretched out his hand towards the box, (It's open, do you want to see it?)

Sean walked over cautiously, with a bright blade condensed in his hand, ready to strike at any time, but the inside of the box was empty, and the wooden bottom of the box could be seen clearly.

Hey, it's really an empty box.

Sean kicked the box and poked it again, but nothing happened. It seemed that his worries were unnecessary.

However, he didn't think that the box summoned from the Chaos Sea would really be just an ordinary box. There must be something to this thing.

He wandered around the box, thinking about how to experiment, when Alhaz suddenly said, "Throw something in and have a look."

Sean thought it was a good idea.

He took a tin water jug ​​from his pocket and threw it in.

Nothing happens.

"Close the box again and have a look."

Xiao En nodded, closed the box, waited for a few seconds, and opened it again. The tin kettle disappeared, but there was an extra teacup inside.

This... Xiao En picked up the teacup and looked at it. The teacup is made of rough pottery. motifs of beasts as decoration.

It feels like an archaeological artifact.

Sean was a little puzzled, what does this mean?Could it be that this box can transform matter?Convert tin to pottery?
But it's not right, the kettle has become a teacup, which shows that it is not as simple as just transforming substances.

Instead, it directly replaced the contents inside. Is this the box?Where did the tin kettle go?He lifted the box up and looked, but didn't see any sandwich or anything like that.

He put the teacup aside, thought for a while, and took out a piece of nut muffin from his pocket and put it in the box. This nut muffin was bought at the night market in Norem back then. It should have expired, but because it is made with honey and lard, it has not become moldy, but has become hard.

Close the box again, open it again, and the muffin is gone, replaced by an apple with a bite on it.

Sean picked up the apple and looked at it. It was red and looked very attractive. The bitten apple reminded him subconsciously of Snow White, but looking at the tooth marks on it, it was definitely not bitten by any princess. A full third of it was bitten off in one bite.

He threw the apple to number ten.

"Eat it."

Ten shook his head.

It was only then that Sean remembered that gnomes don't eat anything other than acorns, "Then go and catch two mice."

Among the materials Sean prepared were more than a dozen mice, not guinea pigs, which are not so high-end in this era, but ordinary mice, specially prepared by Sean for experiments.

Soon the two mice were sent over in a cage. Sean cut a piece of the apple and threw it in. The two mice sniffed it and gnawed it.

He ate up all the apples in a short while, and it didn't look any different. He didn't get any super powers, and he didn't die from poison. It seemed to be just ordinary apples.

Sean became interested now, and this replacement should be regular. The first time the tin kettle became a teacup, both of which were containers, and the second time the sponge cake became an apple, both of which were food .

But who replaced these things?Is it the box itself?Where did these things come from?Could it be created by magic, then this magic is too amazing, something out of nothing?Create everything?
He fumbled in his pocket for a while, found a silver table knife and threw it in.

After a while, the box was opened again, and the table knife inside turned into a rose.

He picked up the roses and looked at them. They were so fresh that they were even covered with dew.

Silver knives and roses?Is there any connection between the two?He thought it would be replaced with a weapon or other metal objects, so his previous judgment seemed to be wrong again.

This time he decided to spend a little money.

He found a ruby ​​ring, which is a good thing, one of the treasures he brought back from Sindora's treasury.

He put the ruby ​​ring in, closed it—opened the box, the ring was gone, but inside was a white handkerchief with a red lip print on it.

Sean picked up the handkerchief in a daze, wondering why he felt like he was being scum.

This handkerchief couldn't have been made out of a box, right? Especially the lip print on it, it looks like it was left by a woman. Could it be that this box has a gender?That would be too weird.

Gritting his teeth, he took out another ring and put it in.

The chest opens, the ring disappears, and this time a dagger appears.

(End of this chapter)