Castle of Black Iron - Chapter 459

Chapter 459
Honestly, Zhang Tie didn't think that he could find anything valuable in that debris; however, after disguising himself as a pioneer for so long, Zhang Tie indeed wanted to find something valuable here out of curiosity .



It's good if he could find something; if not, it's acceptable . Actually, the course of excavating treasures was more stimulative to Zhang Tie .

Zhang Tie remembered that Donder always sold items in terms of piles . He usually put one or two valuable goods inside the pile of items . By doing this, he could always obtain an unexpectedly better marketing result . Donder said this indicated the pleasure of excavating treasures .

You might not be interested in it if an item was directly put in front of you; however, if you found it in a hidden place or get it by chance, that kind of happiness might leave you with a very deep impression .

The profession of pioneer was thrilling . That was also why so many people would like to join in this action . They could experience the sense of stimulation brought by excavating treasures in the ruins . In the course, you might only find something that was a little valuable or you might become rich over night . Because of such an uncertainty, it became so attractive .

Someone had also considered to explore that ruins these days . However, it would take one person at least 1 month to clean it up while most people's personal supplies could not stand that long . If too many people joined, it would be not economical as that was only a small building between two skyscrapers . They were not sure whether they could find something inside it or not . Although some wanted to have a try but the others didn't want to risk too much . Therefore, there were different opinions between the pioneers .

What's more was that they could discover many valuable items without having to spend so much efforts . Additionally, as the bank vaults of this city had not been discovered yet, it was too silly for them to spend so much efforts in excavating a short building being buried in the ruins without knowing the potential benefits . Based on the pioneers' experience, bank vaults would never be in such a short building .

Later on, if they really could not gain any benefits from other places, some pioneers might work together to try this place . However, at this moment, nobody else would like to try here except for Zhang Tie .

Watching Zhang Tie excavating over there, Sam and Gerri stood still . They also wanted to give Zhang Tie a hand; however, it was completely out of their ability to move the huge blocks .

Additionally, Zhang Tie moved too fast . If they stood their, they would even slow Zhang Tie's working efficiency .

"Peh . . . peh . . . peh . . . " Zhang Tie spat out the dust while a lump of dust fell on his head . Meanwhile, he constantly patted off the dust from his hair, waiting for the cave to recover tranquility .

Dozens of seconds later, it finally recovered tranquility .

The wall with a hole was on the 2nd floor of the ruined building . All the floors above floor 2 had collapsed and turned into ruins . As a result, the building remains was completely buried by the debris of the floors above other wastes . Although floor 1 and floor 2 were also partially destroyed but almost half of its rooms were not completely covered . The items inside the rooms were well preserved .

Watching Zhang Tie opening the hole on one wall of this building in such a rude and barbarous pattern, all the surrounding pioneers were drawn one step forward by the great indescribable allure inside it .



"What? Do you want to pick off peaches at this moment?" Zhang Tie sneered at those pioneers as he inserted that 500-600 kg flange beam into the ruins in front of him like inserting a wood pile .

As a result, the 3-m long flange beam instantly entered the ground for about 1 m, causing a sound of "Puff" .

Realizing the terrifying strength of Zhang Tie, all the pioneers were shocked as they stopped their footsteps .

Zhang Tie glanced at those pioneers' faces with a casual look . Many of the pioneers had stayed here for a long time . Therefore, they didn't know about Zhang Tie . Zhang Tie knew these pioneers clearly . In front of powerful person, they would be docile; while in front of weak ones, they might be as fierce as jackals and wolves .

"Sam and Gerri, come here . Let's take a look inside!" after frightening the others, Zhang Tie waved his hands towards Sam and Gerri .

Sam and Gerri then walked towards him with widely opened eyes . Although they had heard about Zhang Tie's amazing performance on the day when the allied forces occupied the relics canyon, they had not witnessed it themselves . Therefore, they were dubious about that more or less . On the way here, as they had not encountered anything special, they didn't have a chance to witness Zhang Tie's performance until now .

In their opinions, an enormous project which could not be completed in 4-5 hours was completed by Zhang Tie right in front of them . The moment they recalled Zhang Tie's amazing tyrannosaur-like strength, Gerri and Sam felt like dreaming, "Is this Peter? Is he the guy who lived in the sam hatch with me on Polar Light? But I didn't know that he had such a terrifying strength at that moment . Was he always hiding his real fighting strength . . . "

"What . . . what's your level on earth?"

When Gerri finally opened his mouth, Zhang Tie rolled his eyes . Zhang Tie had not imagined that his performance stimulated the "innocent souls" of Sam and Gerri so much .

"Is that important?" Zhang Tie glanced at those onlookers as he didn't want to be too outstanding here . Actually even in the allied forces, very less people knew his real level . Previously, O'Laura and Setton thought he was LV 9; however, since the death game, they were not sure about Zhang Tie's real level either . Many people considered Zhang Tie as a 5-star strong fighter . Some even thought Zhang Tie was a fighting master .

Zhang Tie's reply caused Sam and Gerri to exchange glances with each other before waving heads .

"We'll talk about it later . Now let's take a look inside!" Zhang Tie revealed a smile .

"According to the regulations of the pioneers, as you have opened it yourself, Gerri and I are not entitled to enter this place until you finish your discovery inside!" Sam replied honestly .



"What motherf*cking regulation? We're here together . Therefore I allow you to go in together with me . Nothing to worry about!"

"Fine, we will take a look inside in case you leave something!" Gerri was cleverer than Sam .

"Good, if there's something inside, each of you can select one . If there's nothing inside, we will just take it as a free travel!" Zhang Tie answered .

Hearing Zhang Tie's words, Sam and Gerri both nodded .

After glancing at those excited onlookers, Zhang Tie didn't say anything; instead, he just walked inside the hole with his fluorite lamp .

As that hole was about 1 m in height, they had to lower their bodies to access to it .

Under the green light of fluorite lamps, everything inside was coated with a weird green color . It was very disordered inside the room, being covered with dust all over . With the help of his dark vision, Zhang Tie could see everything inside the room . Besides some chairs and a broken desk, he saw nothing else . A small part of the big sharp block penetrated through the solid load-bearing floor, exposing some steel bars .

From the building material, Zhang Tie could imagine what happened here when the Catastrophe arrived . Thankfully, the quality of this building was not bad . Although the upper floors collapsed, the bottom two floors still remained complete .

With a sound of "Kacha", Zhang Tie lowered his head and found he broke the hands of a skeleton who was lying on the floor, facing the sky under the thick dust .

If he was timid, he might have been crying in fear . However, finding that skeleton was almost like an animal fossil, Zhang Tie looked as calm as before .

"Wait a second . . . " the moment Zhang Tie wanted to leave, he found Gerri walking towards him . Gerri started to fumble on the ground carefully .

After fumbling over the two hands of the skeleton for a short while, Gerri revealed a big smile as he took up a ring . He then cleaned the ring adroitly on his clothes and weighed it in his hand in front of his eyes .

"Platinum ring, with diamonds, ha . . . ha . . . good luck!" after saying this, Gerri passed the ring to Zhang Tie .

Before the Catastrophe, such jewelry was neither average nor precious . The same jewelry is worth 3 times in this age . Diamond was the most expensive jewelry before the Catastrophe; however, in this age, as humans intensify their exploration and development of the underground world, they discover a lot of diamonds, causing the sharp decline of diamond value . As a result, diamond was only an average jewelry in this age .

"Take it first!" Zhang Tie smiled . He felt very happy although this ring was only worth about 100 gold coins .

After searching over this room carefully, they did not find anything valuable; therefore, they came to another room .

Only a metal framework was left on the door which connected the two rooms, leaving glass fragments over the floor .

Being similar to the last room, this room was also very concise in arrangement . With fewer furniture, it looked more like a senior business reception center or a conference room . Some paintings were hanging over the wall . However, they were already heavily degenerated like the sofas . Some ornaments and art works were scattering over the floor, most of them had been destroyed, except for some special metal art works .

"Peter, come over here . . . " Sam exclaimed with a remarkable sense of excitement .

Zhang Tie walked over there and found Sam was holding a 33 cm high pitch-black vase and was wiping it with his sleeves . As he accelerated his wiping speed, Sam became more thrilled .

"It seems . . . like a eastern good . . . " Sam forcefully swallowed his saliva before passing it to Gerri, "Take a look . . . "

"This pattern might be from the Eastern Continent . But I've not encountered such a precious eastern good before . Therefore . . . " Gerri revealed a solemn look, "Additionally, this vase is made of brass . The colors of the decorative patterns looked weird . They were not drawn on it; instead, they were inlaid on it . But why it's so plain? It seems like a special manufacturing process" .

"Let me see . . . " Zhang Tie took the vase and started to wipe it with his sleeves forcefully like Sam . Gradually, the purple body became clearer . They saw a very vivid flower, above which was a Chinese character "福" which was coated with silver .

"This is indeed an art work from Eastern Continent . . . " Zhang Tie confirmed .

"How do you know that?"

"This is a Chinese character, which means luck, wealth and success . It's a propitious Chinese symbol!"

Hearing Zhang Tie's explanation, Gerri and Sam both became thrilled .

"What?"

"We're rich!"

"This is just an art work . It should not be more valuable than that art work that you took out last time!" Zhang Tie said with a doubtful look .

"Don't you know that all the artworks from Eastern Chinese before the Catastrophe are very valuable . If it is a genuine one, many rich Chinese people would like to buy them at high prices . This is a best-seller in cultural relics market and auction houses for sure . " Gerri told Zhang Tie while taking a deep breath .

"Let's search carefully, if we can search more items like this, each of you can take one . . . "
　
There were 6 more rooms on the 2nd floor . After searching over all the rooms, they only got 3 brass vases like that one in total . They found them in the same room . The 3 vases had same patterns . The only difference was the 3 Chinese characters, "福" which means luck, "禄" which meant wealth and "寿" which meant longevity . They should come from the whole set . . .

Zhang Tie was already very happy with the discovery of Chinese cultural relics before the Catastrophe here, even though they didn't know the value of these items . This was the pleasure through excavating treasures .

After searching over the 2nd floor, the 3 people came downstairs to the 1st floor . It looked like a lobby on the 1st floor . It was much better that upstairs . Besides some dust, they saw few wastes . Rows of counters were placed in the four directions of the lobby . After about 900 years, those counters still remained unchanged and tightly closed .

Those counters reminded Zhang Tie of Donder's grocery . To be honest, after thousands of years, the counters and showcases which were used to display commodities in human stores had not experienced any change essentially .

Zhang Tie walked to the nearest counter and wiped off the thick dust over the counter . The moment he caught sight of those items inside the counter, Zhang Tie widely opened his mouth . . .

When he caught sight of the 3 vases above stairs which were featured by Chinese cultures, Zhang Tie had already realized that the boss might be a Chinese or Chinese items seller .

Actually, Zhang Tie was right . . .