Struggle in the Steam Age

　　 Early the next morning, Lawrence appeared at the door of the antique shop with a middle-aged gentleman in a tuxedo and a top hat, and at the same time he held a carved wooden figure about the size of his forearm in both hands. If you look at it carefully, you can see that the wood carving is dark on the top, which is obviously burnt.

　　 Standing across from them was an elderly man in his 50s, who also wore a tuxedo and a top hat. In his hands, he was leaning on a stick with a topaz inlaid on the top in the style of cloth.

"--Yes, it's like this. In the end, we successfully wiped out the evil spirits, and the problem of the mysterious shadow in your store was also solved." Lawrence roughly described the 50-year-old man in front of him. How did you eliminate the evil spirit yesterday? During the whole process, the old man opposite said nothing, just watching Lawrence quietly.

　　 "You mean you found that the dark shadow is the evil spirit, and you burned the statue of me by the way when you eliminated the evil spirit?" After Lawrence finished speaking, the old man opposite him questioned.

　　He is Henry, the owner of that antique shop. This Mr. Henry looked like a kind-hearted gentleman. But a single mouth reveals his meanness.

　　 "Sir, I'll say it again." Lawrence felt a little tired facing such an unreasonable guy, but he still emphasized one fact. "We have stipulated in the contract before that the inevitable loss caused when solving the problem is not our fault, and your statue is the sustenance of the evil spirit. After we destroy the evil spirit, it will burn itself. Woke up."

"Then why don't you want to strip off the evil spirit on my antique?" Shopkeeper Henry quibbled, "If you choose to strip off the evil spirit, it won't destroy my antique. I think you people solve the extraordinary problem. Time should be able to take this into account—"

　　 "Old Henry, enough." The middle-aged gentleman who came with Lawrence finally couldn't stand it anymore. "I don’t know them very well about the transcendents. But I know one thing, the evil spirit’s sustenance and the evil spirit itself are one. Even if the sustenance is not destroyed in the process of the evil spirit’s destruction, this thing is also very important. It’s easy to grow new evil spirits again. Do you want to sell this dangerous thing on the street in Lime Tree?"

　　 "No, of course not." Old Henry glanced around his eyes nervously, and then said to the vice president of the Lime Tree Street Self-Government Committee standing next to Lawrence. "Sir, I just want to protect my legal rights and interests. By the way, please wait for me, I still have to check whether there are other losses in my shop."

After speaking, he rudely grabbed the key of the shop from Lawrence, then turned around and opened the door and walked into the antique shop. After watching his figure disappear into the slightly dark shop, the vice chairman was a little helpless. With both hands, he turned his head and said to Lawrence: "Old Henry has always been like this, but since his grandfather, his family has been operating an antique shop on this street, so sometimes we don’t have much to do with them. ."

"This is why the Lime Tree Street Self-Government Committee will complete this task as a prerequisite for accepting you into this street. If you can deal with the most difficult people on this street, then we believe that you can naturally I get along with everyone on this street." As the middle-aged gentleman shrugged, it seems that old Henry's reputation on this street is not so good, so that the vice president is all involved in this matter. Prefer newcomers like Lawrence to his old neighbors.

　　 Ten minutes later, old Henry walked out of his shop. From his plain expression, it was obvious that he hadn't noticed that Lawrence and the others had destroyed anything else yesterday.

After 　　 walked out of the shop, old Henry continued to struggle with Lawrence about the burned portrait. He even offered to let Lawrence pay him 100 yuan according to the price.

　　 Lawrence repeatedly explained that it was not his fault, but old Henry kept holding on to his own statue being burned, even if the vice chairman explained it many times beside him. In desperation, Lawrence could only use his assassin to threaten him to report the evil goods in the shop to the Church of the Lord of Dawn.

　　 The threat finally worked. Old Henry no longer insisted on Lawrence's compensation, but he also refused to pay Lawrence's due 25 yuan, saying it was compensation for destroying the statue. The good vice president worked hard to get the statue that was burnt into a ball of coke and gave it to Lawrence.

　　 "I have done my best." When leaving the door of the old Henry antique shop, the middle-aged gentleman as the vice president said. "Old Henry has always been like this. Seriously, it was beyond my expectation to be able to get this statue from him today. I just mentioned it casually. I didn't expect that he really gave you this thing."

　　 "Yes, so I really appreciate your help." Lawrence smiled politely. He felt that the only reason why old Henry was willing to give this statue to himself was that he was a little worried about this kind of thing again after he knew that this thing was the carrier of evil spirits. After all, there has never been a good thing with evil spirits in the legend.

　　After returning to the detective agency, Lawrence told Sefil and Fatina the result of the whole matter. They all showed dissatisfaction after listening to this process, because they did not expect that some people could be stingy to this degree.

"By the way, what are you doing back with this piece of charcoal? Why don't you find a place to throw it away?" After cursing old Henry for a few words, Syfiel focused his attention on the burned one held by Lawrence. On the statue.

"Anyway, this is the first business we did after opening. It's okay to keep it as a souvenir." Lawrence put this thing on the table and said, "And I'm also a little curious about what it is. ?"

　　 After saying that he put an appraisal technique on the statue on the table. Unexpectedly, the content contained in the long list of information floating in front of him made him sober.

　　【Southern Continent, the first generation of indigenous gods of the Sun Dynasty, the **** of war and the **** of war, Vero Bochetli, used in the blood sacrifice. But after the fall of the gods, the idols have lost their divinity and are now completely destroyed. 】

　　 [Because of the unique characteristics of the deity's shielding magic detection, this deity was later used by the tribal elders to store treasures. Now, it is not empty. 】

Lawrence had read about the **** Vero Bochetli in his studies before. In the record, he has always been known for his brutality and moodiness, so he was finally stabbed in the battle of the old world colonists after the arrival of the old world. Overthrown by God and the people. This has also led to the fact that to this day, as a member of the good gods, Quetzalcoatl is still the patron saint of the Sun Dynasty whose land area has shrunk by more than half.

　　 Lawrence might be interested in studying the matter about the gods at other times, but now, he has been attracted by the last sentence of the information he observed before.

　　 "Which of you has a knife? A screwdriver will do." Lawrence straightened up and said to the two ladies onlookers. "I found that there is something wrong with this statue. Just after entering from the crack above, I felt that the statue seemed to be hollow."

　　 "Use me." Fatina took out a small blade from her body and handed it over. As a rat person, she was stuffed with all kinds of odds and ends. "Hurry up and open this statue. Maybe there is some treasure in it."

"Yeah, hurry up." Saifei said, "Generally, the things that can be hidden in this kind of place are usually some of the more precious things. I can't wait to see what is hidden inside. Up."