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Treasure hunt begins in England

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Amateur internet writers come to a parallel world.

This world as a whole is not much different from his last world, but there are obvious differences in many details.

Ryan discovered that there were too many things he could do in this world, but just when he was gearing up to do something big, a card system put him on the road to global treasure hunting.

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Chapter 0001 The job of a treasure hunter
In a London suburb, a van that looks new is parked in front of a red-brick Victorian townhouse. The rare sunshine in the British Isles shines on the white cars and roads, making the area at the door of the room look much brighter. In the house closest to the car, the sound of objects colliding could be heard from the open windows on the second floor. "Bang -" A large pile of thick books and magazines were placed heavily on the ground from the bookshelf, and then some books originally hidden behind these books were revealed. "It seems that my guess is correct. How can such a wide cabinet only hold one layer of books?" Ryan shined a flashlight into the depths of the bookshelf, and then used his hands wearing thick tool gloves to take out the items inside. Items were taken out. Perhaps it's because these things have been there for a long time, and even on an island like the UK, which is not very dusty, these things are each covered with a not-so-thin layer of dust. When these books were taken out from the partition of the bookcase, the small room was suddenly filled with dust. Fortunately, Ryan was wearing a spray mask and was not hit. For some reasons, Ryan did not engage in a job related to his major after graduating from university in Ireland. Instead, he chose to go to London and become a freelance treasure hunter. Unfortunately, due to bad luck, his job for the past two months has been to act as a porter and recycle all kinds of garbage. After visiting six houses in vain, he finally found something valuable in the seventh house that needed cleaning. "If it doesn't work out, I'll have to ask my parents for living expenses. Let's make more money this time -" Ryan muttered in a low voice while carrying things. There weren't many books hidden behind the bookcase, and he didn't look so old that he might fall apart at any moment. So in just ten minutes, a dozen things were lined up on the table by the window. These things all look like leather or faux leather bound books. Considering that book prices are generally high across Europe, hardcover books, even second-hand ones, can fetch a hefty price. Next, another round of rummaging around. After making sure that all the items in the small living room were checked and nothing was missing, Ryan began to organize the trophies placed on the table in front of the window. “Pride and Prejudice in 1962, The Hobbit in 1968, A Tale of Two Cities in 1951…” After wiping away the thick dust on the covers with a dry cloth, Ryan discovered that these books were all hardcover books from before the 1970s. Although these dozen books seemed to be old books, after opening the books, Ryan found that these books were basically brand new and seemed to have no trace of being read at all. Second-hand books in the UK are not cheap, so these books can be sold for at least three to four hundred pounds. Obviously, given that the residents of these terraced houses are low-income manual laborers, they themselves would most likely not have purchased this hardcover literary book. Based on the current situation, Ryan can easily judge that the previous residents should have obtained these books by accident, and then were left here to eat ashes. It wasn't until the landlord wanted to sell the house that Ryan was hired to clean out the house, which had been abandoned for at least a year or two, and discovered the books. This discovery made Ryan quite excited, because although these hardcover books are bulk commodities, if you find a suitable place and sell them as second-hand books, you might be able to sell them for four to five hundred pounds. For his current job, simple cleaning work doesn't actually save much money. The real money comes from discovering something great during the cleaning process that others didn't want or forgot about. For example, the contract Ryan signed this time is like this. The landlord only paid Ryan half of the market value, but specified that everything found belonged to him except the house itself. But whether you can find something good is purely a matter of luck. In the previous two months of cleaning work, Ryan's biggest achievement was finding a limited edition silver-covered zippo among a pile of garbage in a house, and then redeemed it for 150 yuan. More than ten kilograms. After checking all these expensive books, I put them one by one into the big bag I brought. Ryan moved a stool from the side, took off the gas mask on his face, and sat down facing the window. Then he breathed the fresh air and stared at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky. He is 24 years old and comes from parallel space Earth. As a result, when I woke up two months ago, my life was already like this. Changed, I became myself in another world. Ryan spent a few days summarizing the memories in his mind and found that the history, geography, and politics of the two worlds are very different. They can be said to be twin worlds. For example, there are Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang in this world, as well as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Even his relatives were the same as in his previous life, with almost no changes. The word "almost" is used because there is not much difference between the two worlds in general, but in some small aspects, the two worlds are very different. For example, compared with his previous life, Ryan's biggest change is from being Chinese to being Chinese-Irish. The reason for this change is that a relative who has been missing in this world for more than half a century chose Ryan's father as his heir instead of an uncle from the original world. The reason why I am doing this job now is very simple, that is, in addition to my memory, I also have a heritage called a historical explorer. To activate this cheat, a series of conditions must be met. But what he didn't expect was that it was too difficult to make money in this job, and he now only had enough money to make ends meet. "Cards." I thought about this. Ryan immediately activated the only available function of Goldfinger with his mind, and then, a card began to appear in front of his retina—— This is Ryan's current golden finger, and it is also the embodiment of that inheritance. Unfortunately, this card is now gray, which means it hasn't been successfully activated yet. In the center of the card, a line of golden text floats above the card. [Exploration completed, can be activated] "Huh?" Seeing the words "Activatable" in the last status column, Ren stood up from his seat suddenly, even knocking over the stool. Because before this, the text before this line of text always showed that the exploration was not completed, and the last line of text always showed the words "inactive". "In other words, my behavior of finding these books is actually a recognized exploration. Before, neither reading books nor finding a silver lighter was considered a kind of exploration." After calming down, Ryan quickly concluded a pattern. According to his guess, these books could barely be regarded as items of historical value, so finding these books was an exploration recognized by Goldfinger, and the previous lighters were obviously not as valuable as this in terms of historical value. "Okay, let me see what you are-" Ryan took a deep breath and clicked on the card with his own consciousness.

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