Gold and Silver Alchemist

We got out of the jungle and moved to the city of Pucallpa.

It is about 40 km away from the Boiling River.

This place was called ‘Entrance to the Amazon’ because it is closest to the jungle among Peruvian cities.

The size of the city was quite large.

There is also an international airport and several large hotels.

After taking a break here, we will proceed to the next itinerary.

“Let’s start with the lodging.”

“Yes, boss!”

Because I had officially entered Peru, I was able to use the hotel here.

I entered a hotel located in the center of the city and checked into a large room.

As soon as I entered the room, I locked the front door.

I also hit a magic barrier for sure security.

After that, I checked carefully to make sure there were no voyeur cameras in the room.

I checked everything and nothing was wrong.

‘Shall we go inside the gate now?’

I was very excited to see what was on the other side of the teleportation gate.

I wished for a mountain of gold and a large amount of elixir.

I had a hard time going back and forth between the Amazon jungle and the museum in Lima, but it would be rewarding to get that much harvest.

‘Expansion of space.’

self-

The distance between the walls of the room began to increase.

The ceiling has also risen significantly.

In an instant, the room grew to the size of a middle and high school auditorium.

hiss-

I took the arch I had obtained from the boiling river out of my inventory.

cool-

The space under the arch shuddered and the teleportation gate opened.

“I’ll go in first!”

Kim Seo-yeon bravely passed through the gate.

After a while, telepathy came from her.

[president! There is also a passage like Factory 2 here! Shall we go inside?]

[No, wait on the spot.]

Teleportation gates cannot pass through electromagnetic waves or even telepathy.

The telepathy sent by Kim Seo-yeon was reaching me from a very far place, not from the gate.

It was 500km away from where I am now.

I opened the map app and compared it to the location.

‘It was the Andes Mountains.’

The other side of the gate was deep underground somewhere in the Andes Mountains.

Like Lake Baikal, the place where the gate was hidden was quite far from the elixir extraction facility.

hiss-

Go through the gate and enter the underground space.

Then, a long passageway resembling the entrance of Factory 2 caught my eye.

The manager who came in after took a close look at the wall in the aisle and opened his mouth.

“The way the stones are stacked is different from Factory 2!”

The overall structure was similar to Factory 2, but the construction method was different.

It must mean that the designers are the same, but the workers are different.

“Let’s go inside.”

“Yes, boss.”

I led the golems through the passage.

Then a huge underground space appeared.

A cube-shaped building in the center was visible in the distance.

Judging from the distance to the building, the area of this place was similar to that of Factory 2.

It was another private land that was 10 times larger than Yeouido.

However, unlike Factory 2, which was only sandy, this place was a dense jungle.

The air was also very humid.

And there was something else.

and-

A golden road four lanes wide stretched straight to the building in the center.

It was a road made of brick-sized golden blocks.

I pointed to the block and shouted.

“Could this be all gold!?”

If all those blocks were gold, the amount of gold was several times greater than that of Factory 2.

The manager examined the block and shook his head.

“No, it is plated on ordinary bricks.”

Chet!

It was good.

‘Still, it’s cool.’

It was beautiful and mysterious as the wide golden road cut through the lush green jungle.

Walking along the golden road reminded me of the novel ＜The Wizard of Oz＞.

The main characters in the novel also travel along the yellow brick road.

trudging-

After walking for some time, a large overpass came out.

A clear river flowed under the bridge.

‘There was a robber!’

pudduck-

A fish the size of a forearm jumped out of the water.

Me and the golems stopped on the bridge to admire the surrounding scenery.

Piri-Rik-

When I turned my head to the unique cry of a bird, colorful parrots were sitting on trees.

tadadak-

I also saw a group of little monkeys jumping on the branches.

It was a squirrel monkey that lives in the Amazon jungle.

“There are many animals here.”

“It seems that the ecosystem of the underground space is being maintained with the power of the elixir.”

I used ＜Perception＞ to feel the energy of the animals living in the underground space.

‘many!’

The population was approaching 10,000.

It was an environment that would not be strange even if an Amazonian native suddenly jumped out of the dense jungle here.

But no one was there.

Anyway, we’ve had enough of the scenery, so let’s go find the gold.

Shuung-

It soared into the sky along with the golems.

As I climbed to a height of several hundred meters, I could see the underground space at a glance.

But the gold was nowhere to be seen.

Except for the golden road, everything was hidden by tall, dense trees.

hmm-

I recalled the layout of the second factory in my mind.

If the designer of that place and this place were the same person, the location where the gold was placed would be similar to Factory 2.

‘It’s probably around there.’

Shuung-

I moved to the place where the gold was inferred.

Then it lowered its flight altitude and entered the forest.

Then, the huge amount of gold hidden under the tall trees came into view.

‘I knew it!’

They were hundreds of huge golden birds.

At a glance, the amount of gold was similar to that of Factory 2.

Kim Seo-yeon looked at the golden bird and opened her mouth.

“It’s an Andean condor!”

An indispensable specialty of the Andes Mountains was the condor.

The natives called the condor, which spreads its huge wings and soars in the sky, ‘the messenger of God’.

Following the golden horse of the Mongolian steppe, he obtained the golden condor of the Andes Mountains.

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We were able to enter the building in the center in the same way as we did in Factory 2.

A large amount of elixir was stored inside the building.

‘nice!’

I got everything I wanted, including gold and an elixir.

This South American itinerary was a complete success.

And there is an additional fact that I found out.

The time when the underground space was created is also similar to that of the second factory.

It is highly probable that the same person traveled all over the world and built elixir extraction facilities in various places.

However, I couldn’t get any information about the ‘designer’.

It seemed that he was a person who did not leave a trace of himself.

‘A clue will come out someday.’

After a few days of sightseeing in Pucallpa, I took enough rest.

Then they moved south to Nazca.

This place is famous for the huge paintings painted on the ground.

I was looking down at the paintings from above with the golems.

There were pictures of various shapes such as spiders, hummingbirds, swirls, and triangles, each reaching up to 300 meters in size.

The painting was so large that you had to look at it from the sky to appreciate it properly.

In fact, the person who first discovered these paintings was also an aircraft pilot who was flying in southern Peru.

‘It’s really amazing.’

I couldn’t understand why the ancients drew such a big picture on the ground.

It could be argued that it was a sign for an alien spacecraft to land.

Anyway, the real purpose of coming here was not to see the paintings.

They came to collect Chairman Cheon’s slush funds.

Shuung-

He led the golems and moved into the sky above Nazca City.

“Where is Chairman Chun hiding the slush fund?”

Kim Seo-yeon pointed at her feet.

“It’s across from the yellow signboard Chinese restaurant over there.”

She memorized all the addresses written in Chairman Chun’s notebook.

Shuung-

The place where Kim Seo-yeon arrived was a detached house that Chairman Chun had purchased under a borrowed name.

The building is very old, so the real estate value doesn’t seem to be that great.

When I turned the doorknob, the door was unlocked.

creak-

I opened the door and stepped inside.

Niya Ya!

The two cats playing inside were startled and ran outside through the broken window.

‘He said he hid slush funds in a place like this?’

Only the address was written in the notebook, but the exact location where the cash was hidden was unknown.

But I had a rough idea of where it might be.

I know Chairman Chun’s habits well.

‘He liked to hide everything behind walls.’

Cheon had visited several safe houses while fleeing from Seoul to Hongcheon.

Every time he broke down the wall, he took out the water and emergency food he had hidden inside and ate it.

puck-

I started breaking down the wall.

Golems also roamed the house and broke the walls.

Then the manager shouted.

“I found it!”

When I went to where she was, there was a secret room behind the wall.

It was full of $100 bills inside.

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He traveled around South America for over ten days to collect Chairman Chun’s slush funds.

As a result, he got his hands on $1 billion in cash.

When converted into Korean currency, the amount was well over 1 trillion won.

It is difficult to earn 100 billion won by running a gold and silver store, but you can easily get a lot of money by robbing the pockets of bad guys.

‘Should I change my occupation again?’

food-

I laughed and shook my head.

I wasn’t making money because I didn’t have money to spend.

So how you make it is more important than how much you make.

‘If money is not enough, the story will be different.’

As originally planned, they moved to Nevis and handed the cash to James.

And while the money was being laundered, I stayed there and enjoyed the Caribbean Sea.

After fully enjoying the vacation, I returned to Peru and boarded a plane to Korea.

I asked Seoyeon Kim on the plane.

“Where are you going next?”

It was asking for an exploration area where the elixir extraction facility might be hidden.

“Antarctica!”

The next candidate Kim Seo-yeon selected was Antarctica.

she continued.

“But before going to Antarctica, I would like to go to India first.”

“Why India?”

“It is worth examining the ancient ruins sunk on the seabed there.”

“Are there abnormalities happening there too?”

“No, anomalies do not occur. But the ruins themselves are so special!”

Even now, explorers are exploring unexplored areas and excavating new ruins.

Some of these ruins shake existing theories to the root.

Stone dwellings, public baths, roads and sewage systems have been found on the Indian Ocean floor.

Thousands of everyday objects such as pottery were also found, and even stone tablets with incomprehensible hieroglyphs were found.

Traces of the city that existed in ancient times were evident.

But there was something surprising.

Carbon dating of the artifacts indicates that they were created around 7,500 BC.

Until now, the oldest civilization recognized by academics was the Mesopotamian civilization of 3,500 BC.

But it was 4,000 years ahead of that.

“There are scholars who claim that this is the trace of Atlantis.”

Atlantis was a legendary city that was said to have prospered with a high level of civilization and great wealth, but was sunk into the sea by Poseidon due to greed, extravagance and arrogance.

As the ruins of the Troy and Minoan civilizations, which were only thought to be myths, were actually discovered, numerous archaeologists are still conducting heated investigations to see if Atlantis also existed.

“It will be fun.”

Let’s find Atlantis before we float to Antarctica.

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belt ring-

When I arrived at Incheon Airport and turned on my cell phone, a text message came in.

It was a message from a French magazine.

This month’s magazine featuring Alchemy’s article will be published in three days.

Once issued, it is immediately sent by international mail.

‘I’m quite looking forward to it.’

It was then.

Kim Seo-yeon looked at her phone and shouted excitedly.

“president! Alchemy ranked #1 in real-time search terms!”