Chapter 167 Strange Store

Arriving in front of the largest bookstore in Mahogany Town, Lane and the others discovered that because today was the school's student purchasing day, the bookstore took this opportunity to invite several famous writers to attract customers, and the entire bookstore was covered by wizards who came here. They were so packed, it seemed likely that they wouldn't even be able to squeeze in.

In this case, the bookstore can only be crossed out from the travel destination regrettably. After all, it is really not suitable for reading books in this way.

Since this kind of big bookstore can't work, Lane immediately thought of going to the second-hand bookstore Taobao. As a place where books are as expensive as the UK, there are naturally not too many second-hand bookstores. However, because the profit of second-hand books is not high, bookstores will definitely not be located on such a prosperous commercial street. After all, the profit may not even be able to pay the rent.

Are you talking about selling other things in the name of second-hand books? Well, things that need to be sold under other names are really not suitable for such a crowded street.

Because I was a little worried about going to the back streets and alleys, especially the description of the law and order in South America in the previous life news was not very good. So Ryan made an excuse to put something in the pocket of his carry-on space out of Hermione's line of sight before continuing their journey.

After asking several people, I walked around the street a few times. Lane and Hermione finally found a second-hand bookstore on a less crowded side street.

The shop looks a bit like Ollivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley, with a very small facade but a mysterious feel to it. There were piles of books in the grey window. On the window is a heavily oxidized metal sign that reads in Spanish the Little Shop in Skorzeny.

Pushing the door open, Ryan realized that the front of the store is not big, but the space inside is not small, and all kinds of goods fill the shelves one after another. After roughly scanning the items on the shelves, Lane found that this was not a simple used bookstore, but a large thrift store.

Strings of colorful feathers, old wands with all kinds of scratches, strange stone carvings, all kinds of herbs (as plant-savvy Ryan swears most of them are fake) props with colorful lights and Magic books, these things are stacked on the shelves. Except for the simplest sorting, the whole store looks like a large garbage recycling station.

After walking around a small pile of stuffed objects with no discernible original and stepping over a broom with nothing but sticks left, Lane saw the owner of the shop, an old man with white hair who looked to be in his 70s. He was sitting behind the counter in a black wizard robe and dozing off.

After seeing Ryan and the two of them standing in front of him, he just waved his hand weakly and said, Every shelf has a price, after you choose something, just come to me and check out. Remember, once you take it off the shelf, You must buy it, there is magic surveillance in the store, don't try to get away with it.

Ryan returned to the shelves and took a closer look, only to find that the prices marked on these shelves ranged from one sieke to ten gallons.

After browsing several shelves, Lane came to the conclusion that the owner of the shop was a black-hearted businessman. Because he really couldn't see why the pile of junk dared to bid such a high price. On top of that, there are runes on each shelf to block magical perception, which allows you to reach into the shelf and look at those things, but only when you take them out will you know what they're like, no wonder the store The goods that are required to be taken off the shelf must be bought.

Seeing Hermione flipping through some of the textbooks of Ilvermorny and Castro Brusso on some shelves, Ryan quietly walked aside to explore the goods on other shelves.

Although the magic of concealment and isolation is released by magical means on each shelf, it does not mean that these magics are foolproof. When Ryan began to perceive the goods on the shelf using the Taoist perception method, he found that he could vaguely feel the magical energy contained in some things.

It's no wonder, after all, Taoism is an extraordinary power of a completely different system. It is very likely that the boss didn't think of such a thing when he set up the magic. So it is to be expected that Ryan caught some loopholes.

In Taoism perception, Lane discovered that the owner of this shop was darker than he thought. For example, something called wood essence (there is a non-magical subspecies of this thing called American ginseng) was introduced in Castro Brusso's potions class, because it has the effect of replenishing vitality and low production. , so it's expensive.

Lane saw a complete wood essence on a shelf with a price of ten Galleons, which was far lower than the market price. However, in the perception of Taoism, the wood essence on the shelf actually has only the outermost layer of skin, and the inside is filled with the rhizome of another plant that is unknown.

Seriously, even without these magical barriers, it is estimated that many people will still be fooled by such a subtle degree of fraud.

However, although there are many fakes in this store, it does not mean that there are no good things. After all, the shop seems to have been operating in this place for a long time, and the wizarding world is only a small number of people. If there were only fakes, the store would have been smashed long ago.

For example, Ryan found an arm-sized thousand-year-old lightning strike wood in a pile of garbage. The only regret is that it is mahogany instead of mahogany, but it is enough for Ryan to be a magic sword. Depending on the size of the wood, in addition to making a sword, it is enough to make a set of talismans.

In addition to this, Ryan also picked out some ores that had magical reactions in pieces and prepared to go back and see what was the use.

When he went to the counter with a bunch of things to check out, he accidentally found a black leather notebook under the counter of the boss. The cover of the notebook reflected the sunlight outside the window. Ryan could see a triangle, a circle and a letter stamped on it. The vertical symbol looks a lot like a triangular eye.

Lane's movements paused, as he recognized the symbol on the notebook for the saints of Grindelwald. Also think about the age of the owner and the German name of the shop, Skorzeny. Lane felt that the shopkeeper was probably one of the saints back then.

Thinking of this, Ryan felt that his cold sweat was about to break down. After all, the shadow of the famous tree of people. Unlike Voldemort's rabble group of Death Eaters, Grindelwald's saints are far more organized than the Death Eaters. Once the shopkeeper knows what will happen when he finds out his secret, he can't say for sure, so Ryan just wants to call Hermione to leave the shop right now.

But sometimes he will come to whatever he is afraid of. After seeing what Ryan took out, the store owner suddenly smiled at him and said, Boy, your eyesight looks good, do you want me to take a look inside the warehouse in the back? good things?

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