After a thorough search, not much evidence was found, but a considerable amount of money was indeed scraped up.
After all, those who could join such a secret society and participate in evil sacrificial activities couldn't be ordinary people. At the very least, they must have a certain social status, money, leisure, and resources, as well as certain obsessions or desires, to place unrealistic expectations on evil gods.
As for truly ordinary people, they are already struggling with all their might just to live. Where would they find the time, energy, or spare money to procure offerings and conduct sacrifices?
"It's a pity. Most of the demonic creatures were dragged into the Abdomen Universe by the Chang Gui (伥鬼) silhouettes and disappeared. Otherwise, I could have scraped up more wealth."
After meticulously searching the crime scene, Yuan Zhu picked up a small amount of jewelry, watches, and wallets, and also scraped up nearly a thousand yuan in banknotes.
As he continuously picked up these items, whether precious or common, a large amount of memories belonging to his predecessor were passively triggered, constantly surging forth and merging into his current personality and worldview, helping him better understand and integrate into the New World. The sense of immersion was getting stronger.
Over a thousand yuan in banknotes might not seem like much to Earthlings. But by comparing it with the prices in Yuan Zhu's memories, a rough conclusion can be drawn: the exchange rate between the currencies of the two worlds is approximately 1:20.
He would spend only one and a half to two yuan for a full meal at a restaurant. If he bought groceries and cooked himself, he could keep it under one yuan, which was enough for the daily expenses of both brothers. After proportional conversion, meat prices were slightly higher than in Earth's Celestial Dynasty, but seafood and vegetables were very cheap.
The currency maintained a 1:20 ratio with Earth in terms of clothing, food, housing, and transportation. For other daily necessities, the prices of goods would increase. The reason was simple: the productivity of this world was inferior to that of the industrialized Celestial Dynasty, so the cost and added value of goods were higher.
In other words, the banknotes he held had a purchasing power of roughly over twenty thousand soft currency yuan. This was not just twenty thousand yuan from Earth; in this world, it was equivalent to the annual income of poor families.
Of course, this conversion was not perfect. Because the era this world was currently in was completely different from the fully industrialized and information-based Celestial Dynasty; it could tentatively be described as modern or old-fashioned.
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According to the knowledge learned in geography class from his memories, this planet was called Du Ling Star. Yuan Zhu wasn't sure what its specific meaning was; he only knew that the teacher made them memorize it by rote.
Du Ling Star was clearly not Earth; its geographical structure, planetary rotation, seasonal changes, and racial composition were all different.
The land on this planet was composed of two supercontinental plates: one horizontal and one vertical:
The horizontal continent, located in the Northern Hemisphere, was similar to Earth's Eurasian continent but larger in area and longer in length. It was called Geng Continent, also known as Middle Earth, Central Immovable Land, and Eternal Continent.
Although the vertical continent had existed since ancient times, it remained unknown and isolated from Geng Continent due to the perilous oceans.
It wasn't until over three hundred years ago that a 'magic plane fragment' from an alien Universe broke through the constraints of its original Crystal Wall System, traveled through space and time, fell into the ocean, crashed into Du Ling Star, and triggered a super-tsunami that swept across the globe.
This 'magic plane fragment' from another Universe brought not only the natural disaster of the tsunami but also dissipated and released vast amounts of magic power, triggering the momentous 'First Magic Revival Great Transformation + Alien Race Cultural Invasion + Magic Ecosystem Invasion', historically known as the Great Magic Race Crossing Event! (The Wandering Earth Magic Edition)
Countless aliens and otherworldly humans from the Magic Universe rushed out like mad dogs, riding magic-enhanced floating magic ships to explore the unfamiliar world beyond the 'magic continent fragment (super large island)'.
Eventually, they successively made contact with the humans of Geng Continent and were the first to discover the New Continent, which was also inhabited by natives. This was considered an alternative form of geographical discovery.
This vertically oriented New Continent was located exactly symmetrically to Geng Continent in the standard East-West hemispheres.
It can be simply understood as a combination of North and South America, forming a single entity extending towards the North and South Poles. This discovery was later referred to by the residents of Geng Continent as Great Wilderness Continent, New Continent, and Tremor Continent.
The action of the Magic Universe alien races crossing over with the continental fragment triggered a century-long global upheaval and also initiated the first revival of extraordinary powers on the planet's native land.
The first round of direct impact caused by the Great Magic Race Crossing Event was a global tsunami disaster, which afflicted countless countries. It also prematurely dragged the Xi Country, a super feudal Dynasty on the east coast of Geng Continent that had prospered for over a hundred years, into a historical cycle of decline.
A large number of natural and man-made disasters erupted concurrently, the world underwent strange changes, folk cults proliferated, aliens invaded, Empires fractured, otherworldly cultures clashed, magic revived, feudal lords carved up territories... leading to an unprecedented war of conquest.
The otherworldly aliens who possessed 'magic civilization' were regarded by the feudal Empires of the time as overseas Qi cultivators and treated as honored guests. The magic continent that had crossed over was referred to as an overseas Immortal island.
The current Yuan Zhu is a descendant of the remnants of that ancient Eastern Empire on Geng Continent that failed in its struggle for dominance.
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The aftermath of the Great Magic Race Crossing Event lasted for about 150 years before completely subsiding. And the magic energy came quickly and dissipated quickly.
After all, the 'magic plane fragment' from the other realm, having left the unique environment of its original Crystal Wall Universe, was unable to perform the macroscopic energy cycle of magic. It encountered changes in cosmic rules and, like the Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture, suffered from incompatibility.
It's just that the Immortal Scripture was trash; as soon as it arrived, it was cornered and brutally beaten by a bunch of third-rate evil gods. Before it could even scream, it was sent directly to the ICU, allowing Yuan Zhu to take over as the spokesperson for the 'Old Immortal Scripture' and secretly plot to inherit its legacy.
As for the magic continent from over three hundred years ago, it had been thoroughly infused and tempered with magic power before crossing over, carrying incomplete Magic Universe rules and possessing a semi-closed ecosystem within the continent.
Therefore, the foundation of this continent (super large island) was extremely strong. Even without any external magic input, it continuously performed unilateral magic output + natural environment modification on Du Ling Star for over a hundred years.
This once caused 'magic' to flourish throughout the world, only to collapse and crumble at light speed afterward.
During the period from approximately 200 to 150 years ago, this world encountered a new powerful invasion from an external Universe. This triggered the Second Magic Industrial Revolution, the significance of which was no less than Earth's Second Industrial Revolution, perhaps even more exaggerated.
It also caused the local humans and otherworldly magic races, who had already accumulated numerous conflicts, to erupt into a world-class great melee that lasted for over 50 years. Many lingering conflicts remain unresolved to this day.
At that time, a brand new Empire rose in the Eastern Divine Land of Geng Continent. Meanwhile, the remnants of Xi Country, who had struggled several times and ultimately failed to rise again, crossed the vast ocean and settled on the West Coast of the New Continent.
On this unfamiliar New Continent, they went on a rampage, brutally clearing out the natives, enslaving and oppressing the magic races who had lost their magic privileges, and established a new homeland.
The completely different geographical structure all indicated that this place had nothing to do with Earth. Because Yuan Zhu remembered very clearly that there was a chapter in the middle school geography textbook that specifically recorded the seven great world wonders of Du Ling Star.
One of them was the 'super large. extraterrestrial Buddha head. satellite' floating above Mercury Province in the central part of Geng Continent.
He had seen the illustration in the textbook. Looking up at the sky from the ground, one could see a super massive 'unfamiliar Buddha head', with only half a face facing the ground, quietly suspended outside the atmosphere, rotating along with Du Ling Star. It was like a geostationary satellite.
This Buddha, which had always existed in historical records, was named Arya Kirti by scholars of later Eastern Empires and was also regarded as the starting point of Du Ling Star's Buddhism civilization, the most ancient Buddha.
However, within the local Buddhism System, there were different views on this. They believed that although Arya Kirti was sufficiently primitive and ancient, he was merely a natural wonder. Conversely, the origin of Buddhist culture stemmed from the Consciousness-Only school of thought in the ancient Eastern country.
When his predecessor was in school, he had a hazy understanding of this information, neither interested nor comprehending it. But now that Yuan Zhu recalled it, he immediately had a look of utter disbelief.
Is this Consciousness-Only school the one I know?!
Of course, for him, what was more shocking than the Consciousness-Only school was the giant Buddha head satellite of 'Arya Kirti'. This damn thing meant that in ancient times, on this zero-magic planet with no extraordinary powers whatsoever, there existed such a huge 'Buddha head'! (Frantically spreading his arms, trying to gesture 'big'.)
Such a Heaven-Defying supernatural phenomenon, listed alongside the 'Overseas Immortal Island, Yingzhou (Magic Plane)' that crossed over from another realm as one of the world's seven great wonders, seemed to have no problem at all.
It's just a pity that the 'Buddha head satellite' has always been anchored above Mercury Province in Geng Continent since ancient times and is very close to Du Ling Star, which is why it appears incredibly huge. Unlike the moon, which orbits Earth from afar and can be seen from anywhere in the world.
Therefore, to witness the 'Buddha head wonder' firsthand, one must cross the ocean to the distant Middle Earth Mercury Province.
As he recalled, more and more bizarre pieces of knowledge slammed into Yuan Zhu like a storm.
In response, he could only exclaim repeatedly: "Holy crap!", "Holy crap!!", "My goodness gracious!!!"
It can be confirmed that this is definitely not Earth, nor is it a proper and peaceful planet.
No wonder as soon as he crossed over, he was sacrificed by people and had his door blocked by a group of evil gods. Even amateur-level Mortals weren't afraid of death and dared to engage in reverse bargaining with evil gods like playing Pinduoduo, forcing the evil gods to cut prices.
If viewed from a global perspective, then this is simply too normal.
This planet is really too strange, too abnormal! In today's high school textbooks, it's directly laid out, openly and honestly announced to the outside world that 'Du Ling Star' is simultaneously dating 8 different external Universes and maintaining unclear relationships with all of them.
This kind of Heaven-Defying 'scumbag girl' operation, maintaining contact with eight external Universes at the same time, keeps various parts of the world shrouded in endless disasters and crises. Therefore, the proliferation of evil gods is absolutely the most normal phenomenon!
He even felt that the major heinous murder case he was involved in didn't seem like such a big deal anymore?
The Little Sprite was equally shocked by this, so shocked that her worldview collapsed and she almost crashed. She was a super cheat designed specifically for invading the Immortal Dao Universe; what grand scene hadn't she seen in her life?
Damn, this Du Ling Star is absolutely Heaven-Defying; she really hasn't seen anything like it: "Holy mother of turtles! See, I told you I was right! What a filthy world, this is truly a naturally evil planet! Can we run? It's so dangerous here, I want to go home!"
You ask me for the world view? Then let Du Ling Star give a little demonstration of its talents first.
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