Endless route

Chapter 190 29. Extreme hedonistic explorer

"Wait first, then take a closer look." Zheng Yun quickly stopped Li Xiya and observed the surroundings in more detail.

The study area is larger than the suite.

The golden grandfather clock fell in the dead center on the right front, surrounded by collapsed bookshelves and messy things, including oil paintings, lampstands, wooden boxes filled with luxury decorations, etc.

Li Xiya was able to keenly spot this grandfather clock from a pile of debris, and saw that the hands of the clock were weirdly bent. Her eyesight and ability to find clues were very good.

But she couldn't act rashly.

What if this is a trap?

Or is this a coincidence?

"Chief, there is indeed something wrong with the pointer being parallel to the ground." Kedester also looked at the grandfather clock, then followed the direction of the pointer and looked sideways at the diagonal desk.

Zheng Yun and others also turned to look.

The desk was overwhelmed by two collapsed bookshelves and a large number of books in the bookshelves. It was covered with dust. After the flashlight was shined through, many marks appeared on the surface of the object.

Those marks are handprints, covering the surface of desks and books. Compared with the thick dust around them, the relatively clean handprints are very clear, and you can even see the palm prints.

This scene is very strange.

Because there are too many fingerprints.

It doesn't look like the traces left by normal exploration, but more like a few blind people groping for the desk and bookshelf with both hands, starting from the left hand along the desk to the window in one breath.

"Something's wrong."

Kedester frowned.

Li Xiya remained silent.

They analyze the situation more carefully.

Before the desk was submerged, it seemed that a letter was being written. There were pens and yellowed letter paper on the desk, several opened books, and an fallen ink bottle.

Ink spread all over the table.

But it has long since dried up.

The letters and books were turned over by later explorers and placed in different positions than originally, but they were not destroyed.

"Maybe there's something wrong with the ink?"

Li Xiya said with some fear.

However, this matter was not stressful for Zheng Yun. He casually pointed out a Yin soldier and asked the Yin soldier to walk towards the desk. He walked to the desk smoothly, stretched out his finger, poked the dried ink, and stuffed the into the mouth.

Direct physical testing.

You can tell if there are any problems at a glance.

"Wait." Zheng Yun turned to look in other directions. They now need to wait to see if the Yin soldiers will die. During this period, they can investigate other clues.

"These paintings all have the same tone."

Ji Dao squatted in front of the oil paintings and used his long sword to pick apart the oil paintings one by one. All the oil paintings were scenes of bliss.

"This manor may really be an entertainment venue. This style is common in high-end private manors in the 20th century. All the rooms we just investigated are luxury suites, which should be prepared for the aristocrats and wealthy businessmen of that time."

Kedester echoed Nodomi's speculation.

"But what kind of entertainment is there? There are no bars or casinos, and there are no sexual facilities in the suites. What entertainment do these upper-class people come here for?"

The hunter asked confused.

They saw no entertainment facilities in the conventional sense along the way, which was easy to judge, because the real entertainment facilities in Western upper class society were very conspicuous and crazy.

Oil painting of naked angel.

Maybe a metaphor for prostitutes?

But there was not even a steel pipe in the room, nor any special beds or chairs, nor even auxiliary props.

Unless this manor is playing pure love.

Otherwise it couldn't be like this.

"Probably in the basement."

Zheng Yun raised his head and looked in the direction of Yin Bing.

The Yin soldier was not dead yet. He was standing in front of the desk calmly, looking up at himself with a smile on his dead face.

"Bring the stuff over here."

Zheng Yun remained vigilant and asked Yin Bing to take all the letters and books on the desk to look at them.

Yin Bing immediately did so.

Return to the door with the things in hand.

Zheng Yun asked him to put the things on the ground. Kedester took out a folding knife and carefully adjusted the direction of the letter.

Everyone looked at it immediately.

The content of the letter is in English, in a very elegant cursive style, and the letter paper is very high-end. The floral paper is very thick, but still yellowed. The letter may have been written in the early twentieth century.

"translate."

Ji Dao spoke quickly.

Even Master Xian can understand English. If he hadn't interrupted this sentence, he would have been left alone this time and could only watch.

"Come on." Kedester looked at Licia.

"Okay." Licia nodded. Her Chinese proficiency is higher than that of Keldester. It is very simple to translate this letter:

"Dear Mrs. Kirk."

"You and Viscount Kirk have not been to Good Manor for a long time. How is Viscount Kirk's health? I wonder if you still remember the wonderful night in heaven you experienced at Good Manor, as well as the wonderful gift I gave you What you bring is the ultimate pleasure and pleasure like a dream.”

“That night is something I will always remember.”

"I will keep it in my heart forever."

"But there were some minor episodes that night, because of the mistakes made by the manor's maid, which ruined the pleasant atmosphere of Viscount Kirk's experience."

"Half a year has flown by now."

"I still remember the fragrance of the snake orchid on your body, and I also remember the strong figure of Viscount Kirk. The twenty-one hours I spent with you are fleeting and repeated in my dreams."

"Good Manor has improved its mistakes. I swear to you and Viscount Kirk that the last mistake will not happen again. Maybe you can persuade the Viscount to forgive me for my mistakes."

"I invite you and Viscount Kirk to visit Goode Manor again and visit the manor as a critic. This experience will definitely exceed the limits of your imagination..."

The letter ends.

Only the conclusion is left in this letter, and the entire content has been presented, that is, the owner of Goode Manor invited a viscount and his wife to come to the manor to enjoy a wonderful experience.

"What exactly is this estate running?"

Licia turned to stare at Kedester. This guy was a knighted explorer and a member of the upper class of the West, and her ex-wife's family was even more classy and prominent.

He should know this.

After all, he is over fifty years old.

"Haha, this damn Bichi."

Kedester took out a cigar from his pocket, lifted up the gas mask and stuffed it into his mouth, lit it and took a deep breath. Curses mixed with thick smoke escaped from the corners of his mouth.

He didn't give an answer.

But it has actually been answered.

Jia Si Aileen is the only person who can make him lose his temper and break his guard. Every time he mentions his ex-wife, he always curses.

"So what does this mean? What is the relationship between this Goode and this Viscount Kirk's wife? Is this entertainment venue specially provided for this occasion?"

Ji Dao frowned deeply.

It's not like he hasn't heard of this stuff, most of it is in banned books, but as an entertainment venue open to the public, he really rarely hears of it, and Goulan doesn't play like this.

"The scent of agave on the lady, the strong figure of the Vicomte, the wonderful night and pleasure brought to the lady, the maid who ruined the atmosphere... it makes people feel sick."

Licia spoke calmly, pushed the letter paper at her feet aside with a folding knife, and opened other books.

"Not necessarily."

Zheng Yun felt that there was something wrong with this letter. The key lies in the descriptions in several places and the rhetoric used in the descriptions:

A night as wonderful as heaven

The ultimate pleasure and pleasure like a dream

If according to their guess, Goode Manor was an entertainment venue in that area, then these two sentences were a metaphor for that matter, and the rhetorical technique seemed a bit exaggerated.

It’s not that I can’t understand it.

Just another guess.

What if these two sentences are true? The keyword paradise is filled in every corner of the abandoned manor, starting from the pool fountain at the door to the oil paintings hanging in the corridor.

‘Heaven’ is a metaphor for pleasure.

A heavenly pleasure.

It's not easy to comment, but Zheng Yun is a little wary of these keywords and always feels that they represent some kind of danger.

No matter what, it can be determined that this Goode Manor must be a place that provides entertainment to the upper class. As for their entertainment methods, it remains to be explored.

"These books are weird."

Li Xiya opened the page and said to Zheng Yundun.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the ground again. Ji Dao glanced around them and leaned his head to take a look.

These books are older, probably from the 19th century, and are extremely delicately packaged, with a large amount of text on the dark yellow pages and many illustrations.

The page that Li Xiya opened at random was page 203 of the book. On it, very simple sketch lines were used to draw several scenes that were so weird that they were incomprehensible.

There are four in total.

It's like a continuous cartoon.

It's also like an instruction booklet for something.

The content of the pictures does not need to be translated. Ji Dao can see it clearly. These four sketches depict a story:

Man dressed as an explorer.

Deep in the tropical rainforest.

He squatted under a tree, holding a small knife in his hand, and cut the roots of the big tree next to him. Some sap overflowed from the roots, and the man stuffed it into his pants...

"Maybe it's some kind of ancient Western witch doctor who uses tree sap to treat certain male diseases." Li Xiya explained.

Then she turned to page two.

There are still some pictures on it.

It was still in the rain forest just now, and it was the same explorer just now. This time he found a mushroom, sliced ​​it and ate it, and then lay on the ground with a smile.

The smile is weird.

It can be seen that he is really happy.

There are text notes on this page. These notes are extremely detailed. From identifying the mushroom to using it, there are thousands of words, describing this mushroom in great detail.

The author who wrote this note said that this mushroom has a strong hallucinogenic effect and is more pleasurable than tree sap.

Flip back again.

The next page shows two explorers, a man and a woman, who capture a special goat and then use it.

On the next page, the explorer captured a black snail with a human face. A group of people sucked the snail's liquid, showing expressions of extreme enjoyment, and then used it on each other until dawn.

"It's absolutely disgusting."

Li Xiya turned through twenty pages at a time. This page was the introduction page of volume six, with a short sentence written on it:

W-06 The rainforest of the southwest continent is a paradise for people who love adventure. There are magical products here that you can't imagine, and they can bring more temptations to humans than gold.

——April, 1811.

——Ulysses Smith.

Following this page, the next page shows the return of the explorer and a loach in his hand.

"hiss."

Ji Dao was shocked.

This cultural shock was so intense and shocking that even he was shocked, his head was empty, and he gasped!

"An extreme hedonistic explorer."

"They were considered heretics by the church and hunted down."

Kedester explained to Zheng Yun that he is a senior explorer and has been familiar with the history of explorers since he was a child.

"heard about it."

Zheng Yun nodded.

This is clearly a natural history book similar to the "Compendium of Mountains and Seas", which records the journey of exploring a strange continent. It records the inaccessible primitive rainforest and its products.

But it is different from the ancients in Tiangong.

The author of this book, his purpose of exploring the primitive rainforest of a strange continent is to find things that can give him pleasure, and the way he pursues pleasure is enough to send him to hell.

Zheng Yun heard about these people when he was in college. They also made great contributions to modern science, especially modern medicine and human neurosensory related majors.

And they are all rich.

During the Great Gold Rush era, in addition to gold mining and related service industries, there were also more profitable businesses.

Even more profitable than gold mining.

The content of this book is one of a kind.

Those hedonistic explorers searching throughout the Endless Passage would gain far more than an entire gold mine if they could find just one new thing to extract.

This is the most profitable business.

Moreover, what they found could only be enjoyed by the wealthiest people, and the customers were all prominent members of the upper class.

As long as they can please the upper class, those explorers can get other things besides money, such as being awarded a knighthood and entering the upper class like Keldester.

In this way.

They can quickly acquire a large amount of wealth and status, and even eventually transform into famous explorers, appearing in newspapers and on television and leaving their names in history.

But the job is extremely difficult.

Without the level and strength of a senior explorer, it is simply impossible to go deep into these inaccessible rainforests and survive there for a long time, let alone find weird products.

And after they find a certain product, most of them have to capture or pick it alive and try it themselves.

If something works, it does.

But for some things that are not feasible, they have to test them themselves, even if those things make people's scalp numb just looking at them.

You also need to have some resistance.

Many newcomers were poisoned when they first entered the industry, or were coaxed by senior explorers and experimented with their lives...

Make money, make money, the threshold of this industry is too high, the danger is too high, and most of them use slaves for experiments, and use guns to force those dark slaves to do those experiments.

This incident is a stain on the history of gold mining.

Among the many stains, it is neither a big nor a small one.

"Perhaps the owner of Goode Manor, Lord Goode, is also a hedonistic explorer, or he is a heretical businessman who goes against the church."

Li Xiya looked at Zheng Yun quietly.

When she brought up the human rights of the Yin soldiers in the Underworld Pavilion and passed the blame to Gu Dongfang, her main purpose was to restrain Zheng Yun from gaining freedom. In fact, she was not an activist.

But now she is still embarrassed.

Embarrassed by those words.

The solid evidence is right in front of us. Compared with the ancient East that used weird products as ghosts and ghosts, the outrageous purposes and cruel methods of some explorers in the West are shameful.

"Not necessarily. This may also be the personal hobby of the manor owner, or he needs some kind of medicine to help the upper class enjoy themselves. It is possible."

Kedester shook his head.

None of these things can be said.

Many upper-class people may seem to have an extremely vulgar temperament, but secretly they are also passionately pursuing something.

Heretics are heresies.

This means that they are indeed very tempting, and their energy is constantly bringing new people to join, and the church is endlessly killing them.