Valon: Even a supporting character can change his fate.

In Papa's antique shop.

"Uncle Long, Uncle Long, look at this! Look at this!"

Chen Long, who narrowly escaped from the avalanche, wanted to bring the Horse Talisman back to his father for study as soon as possible. He didn't even have any news about rest. He returned to the hotel, picked up his luggage and immediately went to the airport, bought the nearest flight, and went directly to the airport. Fly back.

The only rest is the two hours of sleep on the plane.

Such a short rest time not only failed to allow Chen Long to rest, but made Chen Long even more tired. Even after the plane stopped, Chen Long did not wake up. He was still called by the stewardess for a long time before he woke up from his sleep. come over.

Chenlong originally thought that he could go back to the antique shop and give the talisman to his father so that he could have a rest.

But as soon as he opened the door, Xiaoyu's voice reached his ears, and then Xiaoyu ran out of the back room.

Chenlong knew that this was Xiaoyu's expression of welcoming him home, but now Chenlong was too tired and just wanted to give the spell to his father to study and then go to sleep.

Thinking of this, Chenlong instinctively pushed away Xiaoyu who was about to come forward and hug him, and then walked into the back room like a puppet on strings, stiffly handing the horse charm in his hand to his father.

The father who took over the Horse Talisman originally wanted to drag Chenlong to study it with him.

After all, although my nephew is a Muggle who does not know magic, he is also a serious student of ancient cultural relics. Coupled with his research in this field over the years, he is quite powerful; otherwise many museums would not rush for it. Let Chenlong go and identify the cultural relics for them.

Just seeing Chen Long looking so tired, he couldn't say the words for a long time. Finally, he sighed helplessly and said, "Chen Long, go and have a good rest."

After getting his father's permission, Chen Long dragged his exhausted body back to his room. Almost the moment his head touched the pillow, a deafening snore started.

"Uncle Long, I found..."

Before Xiaoyu could finish her words, she was stopped by her father who came out of the room.

"Xiaoyu, Chenlong is too tired, let him have a good rest."

"But...okay."

Dad went back to the room to continue studying the horse charm. Xiaoyu stood alone at the door, looking at the leaflet in her hand, and seemed to have made a decision after thinking for a while.

If you look closely, you will find that the flyer Xiaoyu is holding is from an auction house that has just opened. Not only does it say that there will be an auction at No. 18, Kings District, New York at [-] o'clock tonight, but in order to increase the appeal, there is also There are many lots that will be auctioned at the auction printed on it.

After Xiaoyu got the flyer, she didn't pay much attention to it, but after taking a closer look, she discovered something was wrong with it.

Among these lots is a desk lamp that looks a bit old. However, the desk lamp is not the focus. The focus is what is embedded in the base of the desk lamp.

Although it was a little blurry, after Xiaoyu's careful identification, it was indeed a talisman embedded in it, but it was not clear which talisman it was.

Originally Xiaoyu wanted to tell Chen Long about this, but now Chenlong was too tired and snoring loudly while lying on the bed, and Xiaoyu couldn't bear to disturb him at this time.

Ever since, a bold idea came to Xiaoyu's mind.

Didn't Uncle Long always preach to him about danger before? In the final analysis, he still looked down on his own strength. But if he can rely on his own strength this time to bring back the talisman single-handedly, let's see what Uncle Long has to say.

Xiaoyu is a person of action, so she does what she says and immediately prepares to participate in tonight's auction, but this first thing stumps her.

The most important thing to participate in the auction is that you have enough funds. If you cannot prove that you have enough financial strength to participate in this auction, I am afraid that you will not even be able to enter the auction venue.

And Xiaoyu is just a student who is still in school. She has no income. Her daily source of income is the pocket money given by Chen Long. But even Xiaoyu didn't save the pocket money. Most of it was used by her to buy Super Moose. Comics and spin-offs.

Now I don’t have twenty dollars left in my body.

Thinking of this, Xiaoyu sighed helplessly and had no choice but to knock on the door of her father's room again, but now her father was fully focused on translating the carvings behind the horse charm and had no time to take care of Xiaoyu.

"So you came to me, right?"

In District [-].

Sheriff Black, who was working in the office, was a little surprised when he saw Xiaoyu suddenly coming to his door. He thought it was Chen Long who wanted to do something to him, so he asked Xiaoyu to come back and send a message.

However, after Xiaoyu told what happened, Sheriff Black also understood the reason why Xiaoyu came to him.

After thinking for a moment, Blake said, "Now that we know the location of the talisman, why don't I just ask someone to stop the auction and take back the lamp with the talisman inside."

After saying that, Blake raised his hand and was about to make a phone call, but Xiaoyu stopped him before he picked up the phone.

"No, no, no, we are not sure yet that the lamp is embedded with a charm. If not, it would be very troublesome. To be on the safe side, we should wait until we attend the auction in the evening and observe it carefully. If it is, we will take a photo of it. An old lamp , how much money can you spend.”

Blake thought about it and this was indeed the case. Even though he was the person in charge of District [-] and still had a lot of power, he was not allowed to use it casually.

If his political opponents caught him and accused him of using his power to stop an auction for a worthless lamp, even though it was just a small thing, it would be enough to make him sick if he made good use of it.

Besides, I don’t have anything to do tonight. I just attend an auction for fun.

As for Xiaoyu, the reason why she stopped Black from sending someone to bring over the old lamp was not that she couldn't confirm whether the embedded lamp was a charm, but she just felt that in this case, all this would have nothing to do with her. Finding the charm All the credit goes to Blake.

Time soon came to night, and Blake, who put down his work, drove Xiaoyu to where the auction was.

After showing that he had enough funds to participate in the auction, Blake took Xiaoyu into the venue.

The entire venue is not big, just a small hall on the second floor that can accommodate 80 people. Ordinary bidders are on the first floor, with some status, or VIPs are in the boxes on the second floor.

Both Xiaoyu and Blake came here temporarily. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Blake did not disclose his identity as the person in charge of District [-]. Naturally, he could only sit on the bench on the first floor with other ordinary bidders.