Chapter 479 - 271: Opening 2 Treasure Chests Together!
Chapter 479: Chapter 271: Opening 2 Treasure Chests Together!
This kind of rubbing is not simply a matter of having hands.
Especially with the small gold plaque that Chu Qing had, it wasn’t originally meant for rubbing, making it quite troublesome to extract a complete pattern.
After trying for a while, the results were unsatisfactory.
However, he explained last night’s events clearly to Wu Qianhuan.
Then Wu Qianhuan had Chu Qing pack up the items and dragged him outside.
If you can’t figure it out yourself, then ask someone for advice.
Sword City is large, and there are many experts; those who excel in martial arts are masters, and those who excel in other fields are also masters.
The two wandered around for a while and eventually found a suitable candidate.
After speaking good words and giving some silver, the person hesitantly told them the method.
These methods were somewhat reserved, as it’s their livelihood and they couldn’t reveal everything, but what they shared was enough.
Then the two of them went shopping in the street, buying some items like paper and brushes for the rubbing.
But as they walked along the street, they suddenly realized it seemed like their first time strolling leisurely together.
After exchanging glances, they both felt a strange, indescribable sensation.
Finally, Chu Qing grinned:
"If you fancy anything, just tell me, and I’ll get it for you."
Wu Qianhuan pinched him secretly on his waist, not amused:
"What nonsense... I have no money, using you, bah!"
Chu Qing found it amusing yet helpless, but it seemed to have opened a new world for Wu Qianhuan.
She looked at this stall and that one, picking up a hairpin and giving it a glance, shaking her head, then picking up another box of rouge to sniff its scent.
Chu Qing waved a big hand, buying everything!
He was not short of money.
Killing has always been a very profitable business.
Although the wealth in his hands wasn’t calculated, the batch of gold leaves obtained long ago hadn’t been used up yet.
Not to mention the subsequent rewards that easily reached a thousand ingots.
Moreover, during several raids on the Sin-Extinguishing Mirror Platform’s branches, he gathered quite a lot of gold, silver, and treasures.
These things were properly hidden by him to be used when needed.
Seeing that Wu Qianhuan fancied these trinkets, Chu Qing naturally bought them unhesitatingly.
Seeing him being so generous, Wu Qianhuan didn’t hold back either.
The roadside stalls could no longer satisfy her, so she started going into the roadside shops, where the good stuff was.
They looked and bought along the way, and Wu Qianhuan got her fill.
She not only bought for herself but also for Chu Qing, buying both innerwear and outer garments.
Knowing that Chu Qing had only one style of clothing, which was either blue or black, Wu Qianhuan waved her small hand and headed directly to a tailor shop.
If not stopped by Chu Qing, she might have moved the whole shop back.
Forcibly, she got him a set of white, a set of moon white, and a set of red clothes, making three full sets.
Chu Qing didn’t mind the white and moon white, but felt somewhat awkward with the red one.
A big man like him, wearing red?
Later, after changing into them at the inn, he found... hmm, it actually looked quite handsome.
Finally, the two of them returned to the inn with large and small bags, almost reaching noon.
They had the waiter bring lunch to their room, and began working on the small gold plaque.
The rubbing method involves moistening a piece of paper and fitting it tightly over the object to be rubbed.
In fact, this method is more often used for things like steles; the paper takes on the inscription marks, and once it’s dry, ink is evenly applied over the non-inscribed parts.
Peeling it off then yields a print.
At first, Chu Qing thought it was simple: just cover the small gold plaque with ink and stamp it onto the paper.
But the gold plaque isn’t a seal; it’s not that simple, and the results were disappointing.
Now, using this rubbing method on a smaller scale, they initially encountered many failures, but gradually the two found the trick.
The success rate kept increasing.
Until midnight, the two finally completed rubbing all the gold plaques.
Under the lamp light, Wu Qianhuan glanced at it, waving her hand:
"No, no, my eyes are blurry, I can’t see... you look at it yourself."
Chu Qing nodded:
"Looks like your inner power still needs some work..."
At this point, he seemed to suddenly remember something.
He opened the system to take a look and found two unopened chests.
Notably, in the ’Nameless on the List’ chest, there was an Inner Power Treasure Chest, an extraordinary item, perfect for nighttime opening.
Thinking of this, he exhaled gently, temporarily calming himself, and began fiddling with the puzzle in his hand.
He first found a blank sheet of paper, placed the rubbings in the middle, and began piecing them together like a puzzle according to the marks.
Compared to the previous extraction of the rubbings, assembling the puzzle was not complex.
Chu Qing quickly pieced the diagrams together, forming half a map.
Unfortunately, from this half map, it was impossible to see the exact location.
There were indeed words at the bottom, but only half... the other half should be on the other half of the map.
Setting this sheet aside, he took another sheet, dabbed it with paste, and stuck the rubbings on it, piece by piece.
In doing so, he obtained a complete half of the Treasure Map.