Chapter 545: Chapter 543: Mathematical Drawing thod for Tomb Raiding
Before long, Richard left the courtyard where he had been staying and departed from Florence.
After all, the address of the courtyard had been exposed. Even if he had killed all the mbers of the Mysterious Organization who had co, there was no guarantee that a second wave wouldn’t find him one day. Therefore, the farther away he got, the better—it was part of his plan.
Thus, Richard left Florence City and appeared in an inconspicuous small town outside the city. He entered the small courtyard he had rented half a month in advance, carefully closed the door, and upon entering his room, he opened the Space Handbag and entered the interior of Eden Garden.
…
Several hours later, inside the main laboratory of the Eden Garden.
A vast table was covered with unfurled scrolls and drawings of various sizes, appearing quite ssy. These scrolls and drawings, found inside the Space Iron Rings of the killed Mysterious Organization mbers, recorded so content related to their missions. Although not detailed, and mostly fragnted phrases, they were of significant importance to Richard.
At this point, more than three hours had passed since Richard had entered Eden Garden. In those three hours, Richard had been organizing the content of the scrolls and drawings, ultimately forming a vague outline of the matter at hand.
In front of the table, Richard’s eyes narrowed slightly, and after a mont of contemplation, he walked toward a bookshelf on the side, took down a huge Parchnt map—acquired at an auction.
He spread the map out on the table, revealing the entire scope of the Mo’er Alliance. Richard ran his finger over the map, stopping at a spot to the west of Florence, pressing down firmly.
“Ah, it should be here,” Richard said aloud, his eyes flickering as he nad the place, “Siv City.”
Siv City was a city to the west of Florence. Although not as prosperous as Florence, it was prominent within the entire Mo’er Alliance. Thanks to a mountainous area abundant with silver mines nearby, the nobles who occupied the area were absurdly wealthy.
According to the information he had organized, Richard confird that over the past period, more than half of the dozen or so wizards he had killed had been frequently active around Siv City, carrying out missions. So of these missions involved descriptions filled with words like “Black Spirit Empire, treasure, destruction, blockade, prevent.”
In Siv City, could there be secrets of the Black Spirit Empire, the Black Spirit King’s Treasure?
Richard raised his eyebrows, speculating.
His finger moved across the map again, pausing after a mont at a spot south of Siv City, reading the place na aloud: “Blood Valley.”
Blood Valley, not too far from Florence and located to the southwest of the city, was a valley with copious amounts of dark red stones, considered an ominous place. At the sa ti, it featured countless pits and mines—the dark red stone was Red Iron Ore, which could be slt to produce high-quality iron, hence many nobles had opened mines there. As the number of mines grew and the miners’ numbers surpassed ten thousand, a small mining town gradually erged in the valley.
This place, if Richard rembered correctly, was deduced from the information found in the Space Iron Ring of the first Mysterious Organization mber he had killed—after tracking down Mu’en, the tall figure.
That is to say, the individual had once carried out missions in Blood Valley, and the mission description also involved words like “Black Spirit Empire, secret, information, destruction, damage.”
Richard let out a sigh.
He took a deep breath, his finger gliding over the map once more, stopping montarily at the outskirts of a mountain range.
This area was located even further to the southwest of Florence, hosting an unremarkable little town called Gray Bell Town.
And this place, Mu’en had specifically ntioned once when he returned after a month in hiding. During that ti, Mu’en indicated that so of his subordinates had inadvertently discovered mbers of the Mysterious Organization active near Gray Bell Town.
The specifics of the activities were uncertain. However, Mu’en speculated that it was related to the Black Spirit Empire, aning it was once again linked to words like “Black Spirit Empire, Black Spirit King, secret, blockade.”
So, does that an… the Mysterious Organization controls three places where the Black Spirit King’s Treasure is hidden?
No.
Richard shook his head.
The idea of three treasures is too exaggerated. “Siv City,” “Blood Valley,” and “Gray Bell Town” are not far from each other. If there were treasures in all these places, that would be too concentrated.
A more reasonable explanation might be: There are no real treasures in these three places, but they contain clues about the true burial site of the treasure. That’s why the people from the Mysterious Organization would try to destroy or seal sothing in these places—they are not interested in the treasure itself but do not want others to find it.
So where is the real treasure?
Richard raised his eyebrows, picked up a quill, and with three strokes, “scribble scribble scribble,” connected the three locations of “Siv City,” “Blood Valley,” and “Gray Bell Town.” He saw an irregular triangle appear on the map, and inside the triangle was a sizable mountainous area.
After pondering, Richard felt that the real Black Spirit King’s Treasure was likely located sowhere within the mountainous area inside the triangle, at an approximately equal distance from “Siv City,” “Blood Valley,” and “Gray Bell Town.” That’s why clues were left in these three places at the sa ti.
The next step is simply a Geotry drawing problem.
In Mathematics, a line that passes through the midpoint of a segnt and is perpendicular to that segnt is called the perpendicular bisector or “midline.”
Any point on the perpendicular bisector can be considered equidistant from the two endpoints of the segnt.
Now there are three locations on the map that, when connected, form a triangle, creating three different segnts.
Drawing perpendicular bisectors for each of these segnts will inevitably intersect at one point. This point is the circumcenter of the triangle, the center of the circle that circumscribes the triangle. From this point, the distance to any vertex of the triangle is the sa.
This point is the true burial site of the treasure!
Richard looked at the point drawn on the map and pursed his lips, not too excited.
Because his deduction was based on assumptions and couldn’t guarantee one hundred percent accuracy. Moreover, what’s a point on the map could be a large area in reality. Even if his guess was indeed correct, a slight deviation in the terrain could lead to a range off by several kiloters, ultimately resulting in a suspicious area of tens, dozens, or even hundreds of square kiloters.
Searching for a treasure’s burial site across a hundred square kiloters, especially in mountainous terrain, is certainly not easy. With bad luck, it could take one or two years or even longer to find it.
But Richard did not shrink back; instead, he stared at the map for a long while, his gaze becoming steadily sharper. Because near the marked point on the map, he saw a small line of text: Black Stone Graveyard, abandoned.
Black Stone Graveyard?
A graveyard?
A graveyard!
At that mont, Richard instantly thought of the graveyard outside White Stone City that he had excavated, belonging to the ancestors of the chubby rchant Alex.
“A graveyard, huh?” Richard whispered to himself, his eyes narrowing into slits.
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