Chapter 817 The Old Scholar and the Little Girl
Wallace is now like a curious baby, full of curiosity about everything that happens here.
He really wants to personally investigate and study those things that are truly related to the miracles of the God of Knowledge, but he is stuck by a restriction:
The "miracles" spread among the local people can only be seen by believers who have been blessed by Norwen!
He has to accumulate enough contributions in the local area first.
This makes Wallace very helpless.
Recently, he heard that the gods personally gave revelations, requiring the believers of knowledge to go to the dark cave to fight the monsters inside, so there are "free contribution points" that can be purchased directly on the market.
Of course.
This kind of contribution that can be purchased directly cannot completely replace the normal contribution value.
Norwen has imposed certain restrictions.
When participating in the ranking.
The [free contribution value] obtained by purchase is calculated at most according to 30% of the current accumulated contribution value.
Norwen weakened the "krypton gold players" in this way to prevent them from buying a place on the ranking list directly by spending money.
The role of this thing, Nowen positioned it as "assisting in accelerating the acquisition of contribution value", rather than a channel that can be quickly passed by "paying gold".
The reason why Nowen did this is very simple.
He was once tormented by the so-called "paying gold will make you stronger".
I am afraid that you will not be able to catch up with those who are born rich and born in Rome even if you work hard all your life.
There is an essential gap between the two sides.
Now you have the ability to make your own rules.
Nowen's idea is to make a set of rules that no matter whether you are poor, rich, talented or not, you can achieve a comeback through your own efforts!
Differences exist objectively.
But Nowen does not want the so-called differences to become a natural chasm that cannot be made up in a lifetime.
The contribution value mechanism is an attempt made by Nowen.
Nowen allows a few latecomers to catch up quickly by "paying gold", but does not allow them to dominate the list and monopolize it all at once, breaking the hope of most ordinary people.
At present.
This mechanism designed by Nowen himself is running well.
However, it is not so friendly to old scholar Wallace, who is looking forward to being blessed and becoming a believer as soon as possible.
With the savings in Wallace's hands, it is not a problem to buy the 30% free contribution.
What is difficult for him is the remaining 70% that can only be obtained through accumulation!
In order to earn his contribution, the old scholar had to stay in Dawn City temporarily, and at the same time put up his signboard as a naturalist, and undertake some work such as item identification, valuation, and authenticity verification.
These things were Wallace's previous job. Originally, as he grew older, he had decided to retire. In recent years, he has been focusing his limited energy on studying the void pollution in the Dark Forest.
Now it is a return to the old business.
The young girl named Valerie met Wallace because of the item identification.
At that time, the old scholar had just returned to his old business not long ago. In order to re-establish his reputation, he rented a temporary stall in a large market near Zhushi Third Street in Dawn City and bought the equipment for identification, verification, and valuation.
What a coincidence.
Valerie brought a pearl necklace given to her by someone else, and hoped to ask Wallace to help identify its authenticity.
For such a simple request, Wallace just took a simple look and made a decisive judgment:
"Fake."
"It's just a layer of paint on the cobblestone, a poor counterfeit."
For such a simple identification, the old scholar was too lazy to use divine arts, and just relied on his naked eyes and his years of experience.
"Here, there is a scraper, you can scrape the surface hard a few times, and you should be able to scrape off some paint."
When Valerie heard this, she immediately cursed angrily:
"Okay! I knew that bastard named Edward was not a good person! He also wanted to lie to me that he had a rich family property in the Duke of Levison. It was obvious that he wanted to take advantage of the time when the King's Army was recruited at the border to get me for free!"
The old scholar Wallace looked at the sunny and cheerful girl in front of him with interest.
The other party has a beautiful face, and the temperament brought by youth makes her more feminine. She has a pretty face that many people are willing to pursue.
He knew what happened to the other party as soon as he heard it.
Every year before the monster red tide, the king's army recruits during this period, and adult men of appropriate age from all over the kingdom will come to the border.
With so many men gathered, it is always difficult to control their desires.
Due to military discipline and the jurisdiction of the "knights" who lead them, those hard methods will be prohibited.
But they will have crooked and unorthodox methods.
In the name of "developing a relationship, and taking you back to your hometown to get married after the monster red tide is over", ignorant girls at the border are deceived every year.
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Those with bad luck will enjoy the "love" experience during this period after the monster red tide, and these "swindlers" will pat their butts and leave.
Those with better luck may have the opportunity to leave the border and really follow them to leave the border and go to the west of the kingdom.
Valerie met such a person. His name was Edward. He claimed to be a freeman of the Dukedom of Levison. His family owned a property in the local city and had prepared a wedding house for him. They just waited for him to find his destined person so that they could build their love nest in the new house.
Not only did he draw a big and round pie, Edward even gave her this pearl necklace as a token of love when they met, to prove his determination and importance.
Unfortunately, the current Ceylon Territory is no longer the poor, miserable and dangerous borderland of the past.
Under the rules set by Norman, there is a new order and a bright future here.
Local girls are no longer as easy to pick up as in the past, and they are easily deceived when they hear that there is a chance to leave the border.
Valerie did not immediately agree to Edward's "confession", and cautiously took the so-called token of love sent by the other party to Wallace for identification.
Then with the help of Wallace, he saw through the other party's lie!
The subsequent plot is logical.
The girl Valerie threw the fake pearl necklace with the paint scraped off in front of Edward, and then stood with her hands on her waist and spit wildly.
Using the other party's skin color, beliefs, accent, appearance, etc. as a means of output, the other party was scolded so much that he dared not raise his head and ran away in disgrace.
After this incident, in order to thank the old scholar Wallace for his accurate identification, Valerie specially prepared a hibiscus roll she made by herself to give to him.
Then she asked with hope and curiosity:
"Sir, can I learn your skills of authenticity identification and valuation?"
Wallace wanted to politely tell him that this was not only the accumulation of many years of experience, but also the divine art given to him by Davinson, the god of natural history.
If Valerie could not get the blessing of the god of natural history, then she would only be able to wander outside the "threshold" for the rest of her life, and she would not be able to identify all kinds of items related to gods.
Her upper limit was too low, and no matter how hard she tried, it would be useless.
When the words came to his lips, Wallace suddenly realized a problem.
No!
He forgot the existence of the god of knowledge, Norwen!
A bold idea popped up in Wallace's mind.
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