Chapter 44 Darkness and Sleep

In Kane's view, the style of Knockturn Alley is the true portrayal of HP's wizarding society.

The atmosphere is always dark, secretive, uncertain, and looming danger, filled with psychopaths and idiots, wandering around pretending to be psychopaths and idiots, with elusive goals...

That's it, that's the social environment that adult wizards live in.

The wizarding world is not a good society in the first place.

Magic is the ammunition.

Spellcasting is a combat skill.

Wands are guns.

Together, they are an alternative world of western cowboys.

How similar is a wizard duel to a western cowboy duel?

Then, if you think about how people got along with each other in the era of the pioneering west, when there were only bailiffs but no laws, it is not difficult to imagine the relationship between people in the wizarding world.

The self-reliance, tenacity, wariness of others and other characteristics of the pioneers in the west can find a sense of déjà vu in wizards.

This is the real thing. When everyone has guns in their arms, can raise their hands to kill people, and can cheat, play with daggers and cleverly poison, even if they know each other, they are full of vigilance.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine how warm and calculating there are in the lively tavern.

I am afraid that only from the eyes of children, what you see is only lively, funny, strange and so on.

Therefore, Kane's interpretation of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley has never been about good versus evil, light and dark, prosperity and filth.

Various reasons, including the quasi-official deterrence of the Ministry of Magic, make wizards wear masks to live, but since there is this action of wearing, there is also the action of taking it off.

In Diagon Alley, wearing a mask is like going to the Venice Carnival, performing some pleasant and cheerful shows, shopping, chatting, drinking afternoon tea, smiling and greeting each other... Gentlemen and ladies, and Le Taotao The bear children are dotted among them.

And what about in Knockturn Alley?

In the life of a wizard, there is often more heavy content than that of ordinary people, just like for western cowboys, falls from horses and gunshot wounds are often indispensable embellishments.

And appearing in Knockturn Alley, most of them are to solve heavy troubles, and don't need to wear a mask, because no one eats that.

Darkness is the true undertone of the wizarding world.

Little kids occasionally discover the truth.

They will find that Hogwarts, which has lost its lights, can be so gloomy.

As for Diagon Alley, when the night falls, the bustle and colorful colors will completely disappear, and it will become just like Knockturn Alley, rugged and haunted. Those skewed and eclectic that seemed fun and interesting in the daytime have also become twisted and chaotic, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

So Kane never liked the grotesque, because the grotesque is always associated with chaos, and chaos is the enemy of order and civilization.

Most of the wizards in the HP world are from the chaotic camp, including good wizards.

He brought more order to the wizarding world, the Magic Eye Chamber of Commerce, which is the embodiment. The laws are strict and orderly, solemn under the sun and solemn under the moonlight, full of civilized rectification and order.

He who advocates order naturally does not pay attention to the twisted and gaudy alleys. Funny and carnival, in his eyes, this is called teasing.

Like Gringotts, in his eyes, this building also has a sense of sight.

In {John Wick}, the Continental Hotel where killers gather is located in Manhattan. It is one of the early representative buildings of the Chicago School, full of classic style.

Triangular, the main entrance facing the street is one of the corners, with rounded arcs instead of corners, with steps and colonnades...

Then, Gringotts ruined this very sensual architectural style, not only did not have the kind of tall and straight,

It was still crooked and twisted, and Kane felt pain in his balls watching it.

The hall was still neat and orderly, but a bunch of goblins were all dead and they were holding their faces like fathers. The words "unfriendly" were almost written on their faces, and Kane's thoughts were only four words "be crowned with monkeys".

No matter how smart the goblin is, letting this kind of creature control the financial industry of the wizarding society gives Kane the feeling that wizards have given up comparing their IQ with goblins.

You must know that finance is a knife that kills without blood. This knife is in the hands of a foreign race. It is not an exaggeration to say that all wizards work for goblins.

Under the guidance of the goblin, they arrived at a small cliff-like platform from a narrow and steep staircase.

The goblin whistled, and an ore trolley-level rail car moved over by itself, and the roller coaster journey began after riding on this car.

Kane watched the scenery along the way blankly. His sense of space is very good and his memory is even better. It is not a problem at all to memorize the terrain.

The little broken car seems to remember the road by itself, and it doesn't need to be operated by a goblin at all. It rattles along the way, turns left and right in the middle, and passes many forks.

However, in Kane's mind, a three-dimensional orientation map has been gradually generated.

In fact, the underground vault exists in a giant dome. In the dark region of Faerun in his previous life, Kane has seen far more spacious and spectacular, precipitous and magical super giant domes than this one.

Gringotts' small broken car goes around, even if it is not a pretentious trick. The upper level is a maze structure extending in all directions, and the lower level is a large hole that sets up the roller coaster lane. This is such a terrain.

The labyrinth is not much more complicated than the interior of a large office building, but it is built quite irregularly, with depositors' rooms being close and far away.

As for the Great Dome, if you have visited the Colorado Canyon or the Hengduan Canyon, this place is nothing at all. As for the Feijian Waterfall, you don’t need to look at it again after seeing the Kaixian Waterfall in Lushan Mountain. The only thing worthy of praise is that it is underground. , looming, not in the darkness, those who don’t know think how deep it is, but in fact judging by the sound of the water, the drop is less than 300 meters.

After the little broken car went down a steep slope, it began to circle.

Kane saw the Earth Lake at the bottom of the dome through the dim light in the dome.

"This lake is nice, make a wish!" Kane said as he popped out a gold Galleon with his fingers, and the gold coin tumbled and fell into the lake.

The goblin was silent all the time, stopped the car, entered the corridor of the Shafik family vault, took the key from Kane, and then inserted the two keys he had brought, and turned them simultaneously.

A large number of mechanism knobs moved, and after a series of clicks, the heavy door moved silently to one side, revealing the scene inside the vault.

Once empty, it is now filled with Galleons.

Kane was not interested in being a miser. He put money here because some business dealings required a deposit at Gringotts.

To put it simply, many businesses in the wizarding world, in terms of money, are connected with Gringotts. Gringotts internally handles money transfers, tax deductions, and more. Send information to counterparts in foreign countries through Messenger.

Naturally, it is not efficient to do so, but wizards in other countries all use this financial circulation system, and they don't know how to play without it. Dealing with this kind of waste wood can only do as the Romans do.

Kane came here this time not to withdraw money, but to put money in. The high-value magic gems that have been identified are contained in three velvet gem bags, each bag is worth more than half a million Galleons. Gringotts has completed the magic seal and put the gem bag in a conspicuous position, and the task is considered complete.

Kane casually took a box of Galleons from the small pile of gold coins on the side.

The gold Galleons in his family are all stacked in this way. They are stored in crystal boxes. A small box has a hundred pieces, a medium box has a thousand pieces, and a large box has ten thousand pieces. It is easy to calculate.

In the process of leaving, Kane glanced at the ground lake again. He didn't pay attention to the dragon that was enslaved by the goblins here as a guard, but the sleeping creatures in the ground lake made him very uncomfortable. care.

There are very few creatures that can make him feel creepy, so he deliberately left the coordinates, and when the time is right, he will come to find out.

Vaguely, he suspected that it was another guardian of the abyss. He suspected that the inability to cast spells here came from it. He even had a malicious guess:

Were the goblins foolish and bold enough to ignore the perilous side and take advantage of its beneficial side and complacently?

Maybe.

Perhaps the goblins have made an agreement with the guardian, or they are simply their servant race or family...