Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 176 Chinatown

It was the first time Liang En saw that kind of completely unscientific power displayed in front of his eyes when he was using the restoration skill.But compared to that skill, this skill called Hellfire is now more than one notch stronger.

He had seen the introduction of his professional history explorer before, specifically stating that the power mastered by this profession at this stage can convert the information condensed in time into energy, and then project it into the real world in a way that modern people cannot understand.

But at that time, at most, he thought that it was a simple power operation like password deciphering or item restoration. He never thought that he could control flames like the legendary magician or even the gods.

However, after calming down from the excitement of mastering a new skill, Liang En also found that although this skill looked very cool, it was actually not of much value.

Compared with firearms, after the Greek fire skill is activated, the range of both the flames ejected and the fireball projected is obviously much shorter, and it is easier to expose one's position.

Even without the long-range weapons such as firearms, this Greek fire-throwing device is more than a star and a half behind those of its modern counterparts.

For example, this Greek fire flamethrower, which looks more than half the size of a minivan, can only spray flames 18m away.But during World War II, the German individual flamethrower could spray flames 35m away.

Therefore, Liang En felt that unless he encountered an enemy in an emergency or needed to clear some tunnels or caves, this skill was basically useless.

"But no matter what, this skill is enough to catch the wind." Even though he realized that this skill is not very practical today, Liang En was still very happy.After all, whether it is strong or not is a matter of version, and whether it is handsome or not is a matter of a lifetime.

Moreover, compared with the restoration skills that must avoid people, the Greek fire skill can be used openly as magic, and the restrictions on its use are much smaller.

After solving the problem about this new skill and harvesting a card that can be called relatively powerful, Liang En began to prepare some popular science speeches about history and archaeology.

In fact, on the third day after his return, the National Museum of Ireland sent him an invitation letter, hoping that he could go to the museum to give a speech about the discovery.

After all, Liang En is now a scholar, so he is often invited to participate in some social activities, such as accepting the invitation of the National Museum to hold some lectures.

Most of this kind of social activities are public welfare. Not only can you not earn a penny every time you participate in this kind of activity, but sometimes you even need to pay for your own travel expenses and meals.

But these things are linked to social status. Since one enjoys the benefits of certain status, one naturally needs to assume corresponding obligations. After all, there is no free lunch in this world.

Fortunately, compared with those papers, this kind of articles that mainly popularize science for ordinary people can be a little bit simpler.So after spending a day writing the manuscript, he called the museum and made an appointment to give a lecture there the next morning.

The process of the speech was very smooth, but in the free question-and-answer process later, the various weird questions raised by the children who came to visit made him feel a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, the personnel sent by the museum had sufficient experience in dealing with this situation, so Liang En was able to barely resist the children's unconstrained ideas, so as not to make a fool of himself on the spot.

"I'm really sorry to trouble you this time, Mr. Liang." After the speech was over, a deputy curator of the museum came to the lounge and said to Liang En, "I'm really glad that you can accept our invitation."

"This is what I should do. After all, cultivating people's love for archeology and history is as important as archeology itself." Liang En said with a smile.

Compared with those veteran archaeologists or historians, Liang En was still too young, and his qualifications were much less.So if you want to improve your reputation in this area, it is naturally necessary to do more public welfare activities of this kind.

Because it was already past meal time after the event, the museum provided Liang En with a free lunch in the attached restaurant.

And during the meal, he got a lot of news about Dublin and its surrounding areas recently related to antiques from those museum staff.

"I heard that a collector in Chinatown recently passed away, and his children decided to sell those collections for cash in order to share the estate equally." A staff member in charge of the acquisition said to Liang En.

"The acquisition department of the museum had looked at it before, but those things were not very suitable for museums, so we gave up. But these things are good for private collections."

The staff of these museums naturally knew that Liang En had the identity of a treasure hunter, so at this time, they consciously shared this kind of information to narrow the relationship between the two parties.

Compared with other methods of shortening the distance between the two parties, using this information to build a relationship is naturally the most cost-effective for the museum.After all, this kind of information is very important to Liang En, but it is difficult for him to collect it.

As for the museum, it is naturally much easier for them to collect this information than Liang En himself. At the same time, the museum party that has no intention of participating in the purchase naturally does not have to worry about the disadvantages of this information leaking to itself.

So after leaving the museum, Liang En took the bus straight to Parnell Street.Although it is said that there is no official Chinatown in Ireland, Parnell Street, where the Chinese live together, is actually the de facto Chinatown, which is what the staff member said before.

According to museum staff, the family has been selling the items for some time.It's a pity that Ireland is not the UK after all, and not many people are willing to come to buy.

Originally, this group of people also hoped to package and entrust them to the auction house for auction, but the quality of their items could not attract big auction houses.And the price of the small auction house was very low.

Soon, Liang En took the bus to the corner of this street.Although this is the de facto Chinatown, it does not have a Chinese-style archway as an entrance sign like San Francisco or London.

From a distance, there is not much difference between this street and the surrounding streets. The whole street is composed of three or four-story red brick buildings commonly seen in Dublin, or five or six floors painted with white paint or milk. Yellow painted apartment building.

But when you step into this block, you will find that both sides of the street are full of bilingual advertising light boxes, whether it is a supermarket, restaurant or Internet cafe.

But after walking into the street, he did not go directly to the residence of the collector surnamed Li, but turned a corner and came outside a resplendent and resplendent restaurant. He raised his head, and there were four characters of Fan's Restaurant written on the door plaque of the restaurant.

That's right, Fan Meng's restaurant is in this place.And Liang En had already made an appointment with Fan Meng on the bus just now, and was going to ask him to go to the collector surnamed Li together.

In addition, Fan Meng's family immigrated here for a long time, so Liang En also planned to ask them about the background of the collector surnamed Li.

(End of this chapter)