I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 296 Incomplete Model (4500)

On ordinary visiting days, the areas of the Metropolitan Museum open to ordinary tourists are part of the underground floor, the first and second floors, the fourth floor restaurant, and the fifth floor sky garden bar.

The rest are closed administrative areas or art restoration, research, and storage areas that are not accessible to ordinary tourists.

On the day of the Met Gala, in order to ensure the safety of the collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will limit guests to visiting and activities within a specified range, and the range of activities is even smaller than that of ordinary tourists on normal visiting days.

The Temple of Dendur and the Charles Hall in the Miami Wing are the main venues for the annual banquet and cocktail parties, while the fashion showrooms are generally located in the Costume Institute showroom on the basement floor.

In addition, depending on the theme of the gala each year, some exhibition halls that match the theme will be open to these guests after taking security measures and undergoing special arrangements.

For example, this year's theme is fashion in the age of technology. Apple has booked the modern art hall and sponsored Vogue to display some new technologies that can be used in clothing design and modern fashion, such as 3D printers.

Last year’s theme, “Da Zhou: Viewing Flowers in the Mirror,” opened the second floor of the Yazhou Art Museum.

The Yazhou Art Museum is right above the Temple of Dendur and the Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibition Area, and can be reached via the stairs next to the Temple of Dendur.

As Fang Yu reached the stairs to the second floor, he was stopped by a security guard in a black tuxedo.

They are not employees of a third-party security company, but professional security personnel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have a stable job and a regular position.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a total of more than 600 security personnel, and at any time there are at least 150 security personnel patrolling this building of nearly square meters.

At large events like the Met Gala, the number of security personnel has more than doubled. Security staff who were originally on shift have to work overtime to deal with possible security issues.

The anti-theft measures in the museum, supported by various modern technologies, are world-leading. With multiple security measures, the daily work of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's security personnel is actually quite easy.

Since the museum was built, there have been very few theft incidents. The security personnel are more concerned with preventing tourists from bringing their own artworks into the museum for exhibition rather than preventing anyone from stealing the artworks.

They also stopped children from peeing on the collections, and prevented environmental organizations from pouring drinks and soup on the collections, or stripping and running naked.

Working as security guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they have met countless celebrities, wealthy businessmen and politicians. They have no psychological barriers at all to stopping guests from entering non-exhibition areas in accordance with regulations.

Besides, this guy looks no different from the big Zhou stars in the past two years. He should have just come to the red carpet last year, so there is no psychological pressure to refuse him.

"I'm sorry, sir, this place is not open to the public today. Please follow the Met Gala exhibition route." The security guard in a black tuxedo spoke politely but his attitude was firm. He did not flinch at all because he was blocking the Met Gala guests.

"Okay." Fang Yu raised his eyebrows, snapped his fingers, and went upstairs without stopping.

There was a hint of trance in the eyes of the two security guards in tuxedos, and Fang Yu swaggered past them and walked up to the Yazhou Art Museum area on the second floor.

There were about seventy to eighty security guards on the second floor, and at least seven or eight security guards patrolling each area of ​​the museum. However, when these people saw Fang Yu, they pretended not to see him. They just glanced straight at him without even asking any questions.

Fang Yu put his hands in his pockets and strolled leisurely through a courtyard that looked like a Jiangnan garden. He ignored the precious collections around him and walked straight to the deepest part of the Yazhou Art Museum.

"The fluctuation of faith seems to be coming from here, right?"

Fang Yu stood in front of a wooden statue, looking at it in confusion.

When he used the thread of mental power to form a channel of faith with almost all the guests, he suddenly found that one of his mental power threads tried to establish a connection with something several times in this direction on the second floor, but failed.

Now looking at it, it is actually a statue of a god?
However, I have never seen such a statue before. Why does it feel weird? And it is covered with a hood?
Most of the exhibits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art have no isolation wires or glass covers, but this statue is covered with a cover, which is a bit strange.

In the glass cover in front of Fang Yu was a god with a ferocious face and red skin. He wore a skull crown, had three eyes and six arms, white eyebrows, and was dressed in gorgeous golden decorations. He held a bow and arrow in his hand. He looked like a Buddha statue, but he was different from all the Buddha statues Fang Yu had seen.

These are not strange. The really strange thing is that the fluctuations of the power of faith emanating from this statue are greater than those of the more than a thousand people downstairs combined!
Fang Yu had thought about collecting some faith in temples or monasteries before, but after visiting several places, he did not feel any fluctuations of faith in the statues. Even when he went to Faning Temple last time, he saw the so-called remains of the ancestor, but did not feel anything unusual.

Moreover, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a collection of over three million items, and the dozens of Buddha statues on display are only a small part. Together with the ones in the warehouse, the total number is probably over a thousand. Yet, only this one can make him feel the fluctuation of faith. What's going on?

I took a look at the label. Huh? There's Japanese characters? Oh, it turned out to be borrowed from the Tokyo National Museum.

Aizen Myooh?

what?
Looking around, there are quite a few Japanese cultural relics, such as a 12th-century long sword and paintings from the Edo period, all of which are from the Tokyo National Museum. There is also a huge banner pulled down from the top next to it, with some things written in Japanese and Angu.

Oh, it turns out that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is holding a joint event with the Tokyo National Museum these days.

Looking at this strange wooden statue, Fang Yu had a feeling that if he used the divine crystal to touch this thing, there might be some strange changes.

But clearly, now is not a good time.

If there was any commotion today, causing the Met Gala to end early, or stealing Cindy Crawford's popularity, wouldn't all his previous plans for Lorraine Nouwen be in vain?

But... maybe it's possible.

Fang Yu pondered for a moment, then activated the Eseran Core in his sea of ​​consciousness to contact Yuzu.

"Yuzu, will stealing cause me to shift to the evil camp and not meet the entry requirements of the Lorin Tower?"

Youzi was watching Ode to Joy and immediately paused the show when she heard Fang Yu's question.

"The act of stealing itself will not cause your alignment to shift toward evil, but it will cause your stance to shift toward chaos."

"But after the theft is complete, if you use the stolen items for your own personal gain, it will shift towards chaotic neutral."

"If you use stolen items to do evil, to benefit yourself at the expense of others or to benefit yourself, then it will deviate towards chaotic evil."

"If your purpose is to rob the rich and give to the poor, like... oh, by the way, Robin Hood on Blue Planet or Liangshan Marsh, then your stance will lean towards chaotic good."

"Of course, in actual situations, it is much more complicated. It also depends on the target of the theft, the motive for the theft, and what camp or force the final result affects. Specific issues need to be analyzed specifically."

"By the way, what exactly do you want to steal?" Yuzu asked with great interest.

Seeing this ball's reaction, stealing doesn't seem like a big deal?

Fang Yu pondered for a moment and said, "I found a Japanese statue in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's called Aizen Myōō. I think there's something wrong with it, so I plan to take it away and study it."

"Aizen Myōō..." Yuzu immediately began to look up information.

"Found it!" Yuzu cheered. "Aizen Myōo is a Japanese esoteric deity. According to legend, it has the ability to transform human desires into spiritual power, so it is believed by many people."

That's it!

Fang Yu understood it all at once.

No wonder I didn’t feel any power of faith no matter whether I was in the temple, monastery or church before. It turned out to be because of the nature of faith!
The divinity in his sea of ​​consciousness is essentially a part cut off from the goddess of desire, Vernis. Therefore, he can only feel beliefs of the nature of desire, and it has no effect on beliefs of other natures!
In other words, as long as one can find a way to absorb the faith from the statues, one can travel around the world to see if there are similar sects of gods, find their objects of worship, and harvest faith from the objects of worship.

This statue of Aizen Myōo must have been worshipped for a long time, and the faith in it has long been gone after so many years of dissipation, but the total amount is still much higher than the total amount of faith provided to me by the following people in one night. If I find a statue that is still worshipped and absorb a few more, wouldn't the units of divine crystals rise like a rocket?
We must get it out and study it!

However, there don’t seem to be many legends about gods in charge of desires on Blue Star. I can only think of two gods, He and He, and it seems that not many people believe in them.

In addition, I still need to confirm with Yuzu whether the camp will shift.

After all, Lorinta is his greatest support now. If this matter really causes his camp to shift and he is expelled by Lorinta, it would be a loss.

After all, Lorinta does not accept chaotic neutral mages.

"Yuzi, analyze this now. If I take this statue away, will it cause a shift in camp?" Fang Yu transmitted the image of the statue to Yuzi through the Core of Eseran.

After talking to Youzi, Fang Yu realized that using divination should also be able to determine whether the camp will shift.

Forget it. Divination requires divination cups. My divination cups are made of gold and make too much noise. I have to use a silencing spell, which is too troublesome. I might as well let Yuzu take a look.

“Hmm…” After receiving the video data, Yuzu immediately analyzed the results.

"Master, since the owner of the collection is an opposing faction, as long as you don't use it to harm members and allies of your camp and faction, it won't cause a shift in your position."

Yuzu gave an affirmative answer.

Fang Yu asked suspiciously, "Opposing forces? You wouldn't have made a wrong judgment, would you?"

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After listening to Youzi's explanation, Fang Yu finally felt relieved, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.

So...

There is more than just this statue!
I can empty out the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art!
There is also the Louvre, the Grand Museum...

And... maybe it can be like this...

Fang Yu stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, then smiled with satisfaction.

What does it matter if the space of 1,000 cubic meters of the Unbounded Courier is not big enough? What does it matter if there are hidden positioning devices on some of the collections? It's just a matter of switching a few more times!
However, if we do this now, it will cause too much noise and the collection will be easily discovered to be missing. It will become big news and immediately steal the spotlight from Lorraine.

Large-scale action, wait a few days after the metgala ends! Get rid of this statue first!
Fang Yu first performed a detection technique to confirm that there was no GPS or other positioning device on the statue.

Then he cast a three-ring "Advanced Phantom" on the statue.

This spell, used on Yuzu before, creates an image of an object, creature, or other visible phenomenon no larger than a 20-foot cube. If the illusion is moving, it lasts two hours, and if it is a stationary illusion, it lasts two days. The illusion can be dismissed early at any time.

After performing the "Advanced Phantom", Fang Yu flew into the air, gently stroked a few times with his fingers, cut off the glass on the top, put it into the Boundless Messenger, then pressed his hand on the statue and put it into the Boundless Messenger.

This is the bad thing about the Borderless Messenger. If you want to put something that does not belong to the user into it, you must touch it with your hand before you can put it in. It cannot be put in like your own belongings, even if it is two or three meters away.

Fang Yu could understand this point. If there were no such restrictions, it would not be the era of the Great Arcane where Zheng Zhi was right.

I don't know how this thing determines whether the ownership belongs to the user.

Viewed from the outside and from the inside by camera, even using infrared sensing, laser or ultrasonic detection, the glass cover of the statue is intact and the statue is still inside.

Finally, Fang Yu set up a timed alchemical trap in the room of the statue.

The timer is also set to two days. When the time is up, the alchemical trap will release a large amount of smoke and then burn and self-destruct.

After looking around, there wasn't anything flammable. It was night time, so no one would be hurt.

People in the good camp are just worried.

Fang Yu sighed, thinking how difficult it was to be a good person. He immediately used the arcane map to teleport back to the basement of Hanning Mansion.

Fang Yu took out the statue from the Boundless Messenger and looked at it carefully.

It is indeed an ordinary statue. If there is anything special about it, it is that it is covered with all kinds of pendants and the eye between its eyebrows is a white gem made of unknown material.

Fang Yu opened the sea of ​​consciousness and urged the divine crystal to float towards the statue of Airen Mingwang.

The Sea of ​​Consciousness and the Divine Crystals are both illusory, at least they do not exist in the real three-dimensional space. But the moment the illusory Divine Crystals and the physical statue overlapped, both the statue and the Divine Crystals all burst into brilliant light!

what's the situation?
Fortunately, I didn’t act rashly just now, otherwise I would have been discovered!
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.

Before he could finish admiring his own foresight, the crystal of divinity disappeared into the statue of Aizen Myo-o and never came out again!
Nest grass?

No way?
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel very anxious. If this thing was lost, he would suffer a great loss.

Even the teleportation map is no longer usable.

But then he discovered that he could still sense the divine crystal in Aizen Myōō's body, but it seemed to be fusing something, so it did not respond to his control immediately.

Just a second.

Fang Yu suppressed his anxiety and simply began to meditate.

However, after twenty minutes, before Fang Yu's meditation was over, cracks began to appear on the body of Aizen Myowang. Then, with a loud bang, the entire statue shattered into dozens of pieces and scattered on the ground.

A point of starlight dragged a group of light spots and returned to Fang Yu's sea of ​​consciousness.

Fang Yu remained unmoved and continued to meditate until the end of one meditation ten minutes later, then he slowly opened his eyes.

"Let me see what changes you have made."

"Huh? Why is there an extra thing?"

"This thing? Why does it look so much like a spell model?"

Fang Yu touched his chin, looking at the ever-changing ball of light that was dragged back by the divine crystal, thoughtfully.

"It seems to be an incomplete model and needs to be supplemented with parameters."

"Yuzu, finish this model, hurry up, five minutes is enough?"

There is a detailed explanation for the deleted part in the middle, but it cannot be written.

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(End of this chapter)